The internet is a great place to keep in touch with others. Whether you exchange thoughts with strangers about your favourite season finale on social media, play and chat while at home during a global pandemic, or like in my case, get to talk to friends and family living in another country – technology enables our need to socialise. However, the way we form connections online, and the tech we use to do so, also comes […]
Happy Birthday Wikipedia! Read more about Wikipedia’s 25 year history, covering its early days with a ‘then and now'(and what lies ahead), at the link below: https://wikipedia25.org/en At 25 years old it may be the olddddd man of the old Internet but Wikipedia still remains the largest reference work on the Internet and is now a […]
2025 was an interesting year for the OER Service, especially with the range of new queries that arose from increased use of Generative AI tools across numerous new technologies, tools and services.
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 […]
Over half a year has flown by since I joined the Information Services Group, and I cannot believe that my internship has come to an end. I have had the opportunity to help get the Open Textbook Creation Service going from its initial stages, and seeing the fruits of my labour has been particularly exciting recently.
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 […]
