This Disability History Month (20 November – 20 December 2025) we reflect and learn how to be more inclusive as digital citizens and shape an accessible future for technology. During December, we encouraged students across campus to reflect on their online accessibility basics and take digital citizenship seriously with the latest digital safety info poster (poster text […]
Nicky’s Highlights An Insider’s Guide to InDesign and What’s New Presented by Vinay Pahlajani and Pranjal Bhatnager from Adobe’s InDesign product team, this session showcased the latest InDesign features and shared best practices for improving workflow efficiency and supporting stronger team collaboration. I particularly enjoyed learning about placing images in grids on a layout, the […]
It is International Human Rights Day, so we are exploring what human rights have to do with digital safety, wellbeing and citizenship. Are the articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sufficiently covering a changing digital world? How can we use human rights to become better digital citizens? And is digital inclusion a human […]
If you’re anything like me, as the dark days bed in I start to look for treats and sparkles of all kinds to brighten up the winter days and nights. One of my favourite places to explore this time of year are the recipe sections on Wikibooks. Wikibooks is one of the Wikimedia sister projects, and is about collaboratively writing open-content textbooks that anyone (including you) can edit.
I recently attended the ALT Annual Conference in Glasgow from October 23rd – 24th and I was particularly looking forward to the theme of ‘Stronger Foundations, Broader Horizons’. In our ever fast changing landscape we need to adapt, show resilience and support the evolving foundations in learning technology.My main focus with the Association for Learning […]
On November 24th, 2025, four enthusiastic members of the University of Edinburgh’s Digital Skills Training Team spent a rewarding half-day volunteering at Fresh Start Edinburgh. Fresh Start is a charity devoted to helping people in the city who have experienced homelessness and are now transitioning to their new homes, typically social housing. With its hallmark […]
As someone who started experimenting with LLMs early, back when they were much simpler than what we have now, I’ve always been fascinated by what they can do. Over time, my curiosity turned into a habit of trying out small, practical tasks just to see how well an LLM could handle them. This blog is […]
Data used I looked at bookings made in Event Booking for Digital Skills courses that ran from 1/9/24 to 1/9/25, where the person either attended or did not attend the course. Cancellations and bookings where attendance was not recorded were not included. I only included bookings that were made at least 1 day before the […]
Today, the 25th of November, is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. This marks the start of 16 Days of Activism – a campaign to end gender-based violence. Over half of all women and girls world-wide have experienced some form of harassment online. The United Nation’s theme for 16 Days of Activism in […]
Created by Katherine Martinkevich as part of the Digital Futures course for the MSc in Digital Education, ‘ELT Ecotone – […]
