Dear All,

Thank you for your work this week.

Various data stewards enquiries are ongoing to investigate the MTD completion stats. If you wish to appeal your result, see Kevin Brogan.

Well done to  Andrew, Nikki and Lauren in the EuroVision Sweepstake.

If you like  a bit of gamification in the workplace, you’ll be pleased to know that we are part of a new research project looking at Playful engagement The case for playful leadership | Wonkhe

It will soon be time to welcome all our new summer interns, our new Napier placement interns and our Career Ready school work experiencers.

This week we wave goodbye and thank you to Mustafa Tene Nzokou, one of our longest standing student trainers. Mustafa has been our Python trainer for more than two years and is now graduating with plans for further study at the place with the big red triangle. He has blogged about his experience Intern Reflection: My Journey as a Digital Skills Trainer – Digital Skills, Design and Training

Also on the blog, Catherine Koppe  has looked back on one of our longest running courses, about to celebrate its silver jubilee Producing a thesis or dissertation using Word – Celebrating one of our longest running courses! – Digital Skills, Design and Training  and the UX team posted multiple blog posts about how people use their Edweb profiles https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/tag/staff-profiles/

It was lovely to see so many of you on World Bee Day to re-open the newly re-vamped  Eleanor Ormerod Training Room.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/university-of-edinburgh-information-services-group_the-eleanor-ormerod-training-roomreopens-activity-7330977866504982529-hBx7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAEcKs8B0sjwDFwVM5qMc-JgbweCVL4SJkc

If you have ideas about people we can name more rooms after, please volunteer to be part of the  Ada Lovelace Day organising committee. ALD is not until October, but it’s never too early to start planning! See Karen Howie.

If you would like to nominate yourself (or others) for awards at the ALT conference, the time is now. ALT conference is in Glasgow this year so if you get shortlisted I may be able to approve travel for you to attend. Launching the ALT Awards 2025 | Association for Learning Technology For help in writing a snappy entry, see Fiona Hendrie.

If you are a commuter, be alert for hallucinated trains and destinations ‘Give it time’ – ScotRail defends AI announcer Iona – BBC News

Ongoing get well soons to Karen, Mary and Lorna.

Best of luck to all running the Edinburgh Marathon this weekend.

-Melissa

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