Dear All,

Thank you for your work this week.

Apparently today is Employee Appreciation Day Employee Appreciation Day | Awareness Days But I hope you know that Every Day in LTW is Employee Appreciation Day.

Do take advantage of your 15% staff discount for visits to the light show at McEwan Hall.

I look forward to seeing you at Kings Buildings for International Women’s Day. It’s going to be all about building bridges. Celebrating Women, Championing Change: ISG Marks International Women’s Day 2026  Thank you to all the naming spaces team and especially to Gill who has produced fab massive graphics again.

Tracy has blogged: Digital Research Conference 2026 at EFI: From Big Questions to Responsible Practice

Gareth has blogged: Finding My Feet with AI and Finding ELM

Karen has blogged: My new pal Claude… – The witterings and musings of a learning technologist

Delia has blogged: Badges with Backbone @ Canvas UK Spring meeting – A foray into Delia’s world

Cassie has blogged: Make It Irresistible: The Science of Strategic Storytelling | LinkedIn

You’ll have seen cheery news from Blackboard It’s time for transformational teaching and learning | Blackboard They have a new name, which is the same as their old name, which is some kind of flex, but I am not sure which one.

Colleagues are off to Digifest in Brum.

Thank you in advance to everyone involved in selecting our summer interns.

Billy begins his new role this week, he and Stratos will be out and about Inside The Uni of Edinburgh’s Blueprint for Web Architecture at Scale

You should all be ready to know the company line on the move away from Zoom Transition from Zoom to Teams – Home ISG have had special consultants in to help people see the benefit of this move.

Speaking of moving away, now that our address is no longer in Argyle House, remember to update your web profile  https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk

And you’ll all be looking forward to the new office opening New Forest Hill Office Opening – Monday 16th

Fingers crossed for a sunny weekend.

-Melissa

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