Dear All,

Thank you for all your work this week.

A warm welcome to Jordan Ferguson who has joined us from UWS as our new Service Manager for Media Hopper Replay Lecture Recording.

Congratulations to Charlie Chu and Fiona Buckland on passing  ITIL exams this week.

Thank you to Julie in the graphic design team for making me a lovely set of botanical slides for a presentation I gave in Dublin on how to grow online learning this week.

Thank you to everyone who has been interviewing interns for the summer.

If you have ideas about what we might include in a new LTW colleague intranet, let Fiona Hendrie know. Would you like to have social areas online for sharing recipes, tradespersons recommendations, sporting achievements? Do you have an up to date photo in your outlook profile to help new people find you? What would your action figure have as accessories?

Your Easter reading might include:

• Ellie Kerr, one of our captioning interns, wrote a lovely blog post – https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dlam/2025/04/14/captionediting/
• Satu on why it is important to know your audience Who attends digital skills training – and why does it matter? – Digital Skills, Design and Training
• Paula’s reflections on migration Reviewing the EdWeb Migration: A Transformation Beyond Content Transfer – Website and Communications Blog
• Our Principal on BBC news Funding warning from Edinburgh University principal Mathieson – BBC News
• The new AI course from Bayes https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com:443/fscmUI/redwood/learner/learn/redirect?learningItemId=300001942780783&learningItemType=ORA_COURSE

Travel to international conferences will be restricted next year, but luckily some of our most popular events like Alt-C are coming to Glasgow Join us for ALTC25 in Glasgow | Association for Learning Technology

If you would like to nominate a colleague for a  Chancellor’s award The Chancellor’s Awards | The Principal’s Office

Get well soon and best wishes to Mary.

I hope you have a Good Friday,

-Melissa

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