We know that many students are involved in activities alongside their studies such as volunteering, part-time work, and getting involved in the University community. To help these activities to stand out from the crowd, our University has had an Award for “Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia” to sit beside other available Edinburgh Awards for the last […]
Over the years, I have tried more productivity systems than I can count. Todoist, Notion, NotePlan, markdown files, plain text files, and plenty of others. I tried free versions, paid versions, systems I was curious about, systems I wanted to love, and systems I convinced myself might work if I just used them properly. I […]
On Tuesday 21st April 2026 our Digital Skills Specialists Edinburgh Award students celebrated and toasted their success. Over the past 6 months they have thrown themselves into the depths of the digital unknown with hope that they’ll come out the other end with a working project that not only gives back to the community but […]
This month’s digital safety theme is ‘kind online communication’. At the University we expect everyone to treat each other with dignity and respect, both offline and online. At the University we expect everyone to treat each other with dignity and respect, both offline and online. The University’s Policy on Employee Use of Social Media highlights […]
Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.
Reading Time: 4 minutesChanging the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.
Video presentations by our 2025/26 students who completed the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia – Edinburgh Award. The Edinburgh Award is […]
Claude and I have been working together to do more stuff since my first blog post about Claude. We’ve added a whole lot of new things to our prototype Survey of Scottish Witchcraft site including a chatbot to ask questions about the data (a challenge received by Lesley Greer), ‘stories’ …
After almost 22 years working in a variety of different roles at the University, I’ve made the decision to leave. It’s been a hard decision as there is so much I love about my job but I need a chance to catch up with myself. I’d like to have a …
It’s been a year since Instructional Designer Andrea Watkins Pérez at UiT The Arctic University of Norway reached out to me after she came across my University profile. Their Learning Design team was facing some challenges with running ABC Learni…
