We are excited to announce there are some changes coming in Media Hopper Replay, which will improve usability and make it easier for students to find specific lecture content. We are introducing a new player for the start of teaching. This is a new user interface for students to use viewing content and will be […]

There are some exciting updates coming to Media Hopper Create, the University’s portal for creating, uploading, sharing and editing media content. The update will come with new features designed to enhance the user experience and streamline media management to make it more efficient.    Some of the new features to look out for will include: Homepage Refresh: The […]

The most recent Scottish Blackboard User Group (ScotBUG) was hosted by The University of Edinburgh at Argyle House. Bringing together members from across Scottish and Northern Ireland further education institutions to discuss all things Blackboard related. A very good turnout for this ScotBUG user group with 36 participants in attendance across a hybrid setting.   […]

On the 19th of July (past Friday) we had a global IT outage which impacted hospitals, trains, air travel, supermarkets and many other businesses.  It seems like it was caused by a small/inconspicuous update to a bit of anti-virus software for Windows operating systems which seemed to ‘break’ Windows.  Although …

I’ve lived on cake for the past two days including a cake fuelled breakfast yesterday, and lunch today.  It’s all about eating a balanced diet (one of the cakes had apricot in it, surely that counts?). What would drive Karen to eat so much cake I hear you ask (although anyone who knows me will […]

I’ve not blogged for a while but I went to an event today which has inspired me to write a post I’ve been wanting to write for a while.  I’ve got another blog post coming about the event itself (which was run by JISC and was about Accessibility in Procurement …

Our Digital Humanities award-winning interactive map (witches.is.ed.ac.uk) caught the public’s attention when it launched in September 2019 and has helped to change the way the stories of these women and men were being told with a campaign group, Witches of Scotland, successfully lobbying the Scottish Government into issuing a formal apology from the former First […]

Edinburgh Award 2023/4 Blog This year I had my first experience helping with the Edinburgh Award Wikipedia project. The Edinburgh Award is a scheme which encourages students to volunteer in various projects that are happening around the University whilst undertaking their studies, with the ultimate aim of improving employability and graduate outcomes. Having undertaken an […]

Since January 2016, I have worked as Wikimedian in Residence with the University of Edinburgh’s course teams to quickly generate real examples of technology-enhanced learning activities appropriate to the curriculum. As a result, students from diverse learning communities and a variety of disciplines benefit from learning new digital and information literacy skills appropriate for the […]

A Wikipedia assignment has been part of Translation Studies MSc since 2016 when I first met with Dr. Charlotte Bosseaux and convinced her to try a new approach to a pedagogical problem they had; getting the students to have meaningful, published translation practice that they would be motivated to complete. Course leaders were keen to […]