Reading Time: < 1 minute In brief WCAG 2.2 introduced nine additional success criteria (since WCAG 2.1) in October 2023. These relate very specifically to webpages, especially interactive elements (e.g. buttons, text entry, security features). At Edinburgh For those limiting themselves to making Office-based resources …
Reading Time: 3 minutes If a change in your teaching would benefit only those already privileged, would you make it? Attending a very engaging scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) session on flipped learning and the published research into it, I started thinking about …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I am indebted to my colleague Ed for making me aware that today (February 19th) marks Prevent Plagiarism Day. How sad but how predictable to find that the piece starts by casually linking plagiarism with technology, in particular “…the rise …
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is text to speech? The purpose of text to speech (TTS) is to take written text and reproduce it as a voice that is both intelligible and natural, that is, human-like. However, there is a perceived lack of diversity …
Reading Time: < 1 minute This example illustrates Herr taking the development of his prosthetic limbs through the four stages human-machine relationships (Grey et al, 1995 in Miller, 2011): restorative, normalising, enhancing and reconfiguring. The issue of when bionics moves beyond normalisation has been raised …
Reading Time: < 1 minute Patchwork Girl (1995) is a piece of electronic literature rendered in hypertext by Shelly Jackson. Composed by piecing together original text and images, along with quotes, borrowed fictional characters, fictional lives of real people, and stories, it gives life to …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m listening to the Coronavirus Spike Protein… Stern’s main point is to make us think more fully and more critically about “…what counts in the domain of cyberculture studies…” which he does “…by exploring some aspects of contemporary media culture …
Reading Time: < 1 minute I was delighted to be invited to take part in a conversation as part of a podcast this week, but a bit worried too, I have to admit, as it was my first time doing anything like this. Nevertheless, thank …
Reading Time: < 1 minute After starting this blog, quite confident that I would be making regular posts, I found myself studying two intensive courses* which required me to blog, and I found myself unable to keep this blog going too. However, I’m back now! …
Reading Time: < 1 minute ‘Can subtitles be turned off? They get in the way of the text on the slides.’ How we think about things, depends on our perspective: what do we think is the priority, what is getting in the way ? There …
