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Melissa Highton

Melissa Highton

Assistant Principal and Director of Learning, Teaching and Web

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Friday 15th May

Dear All,

Thank you for your work this week.

Canvas have apologised for the trouble they caused. Always exciting to see learning technology in the news Canvas hack: Company pays criminals to delete students’ stolen data – BBC News

We wave goodbye to Emily, our Captioning Consultant intern from Informatics, who has been seduced away by an offer from ‘industry’.

Congratulations to Lauren, who has successfully gained one of our internal job opportunities and will be moving to lead a new team in DSDT.

Bart and Pragya delivered some very successful training to support the sale of ELM to University of Birmingham, and Bart has written a comprehensive post on choosing the right model for your needs in ELM: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dsdt/digital-skills/a-guide-to-elms-generative-ai-models-how-to-choose-the-right-one-for-your-tasks

Next week is National Learning at Work week Home. In celebration of learning at work we will have our mandatory training day on Friday. Remember to let us know if you are coming in to the offices. I’ll order lunch Staff Development Opportunities .

We will enjoy the many blog posts written by you to reflect on the staff development you have enjoyed. Staff Development Opportunities

Scott will also be hosting online sessions to attract new students to study at PG level online.  Many of our online students study while working and it will be our 21st birthday for online Masters delivery.

Stewart has created a lego coo https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stewartcromar_legoideas-lego-legoart-ugcPost-7460247724018417664-gGS…

Katie and Dodo will be presenting  Web going Green – from Edinburgh Uni, Mon, Jun 8, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup

A tense green and maroon weekend ahead in the Scottish men’s football…

 

-Melissa

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