News from the Interactive Content team based within the Information Services group at the University of Edinburgh. Managed by Stewart Lamb Cromar (@stubot).
We are hiring an Edinburgh University undergraduate student to work this summer as a ‘Digital Accessibility Intern’.
Apply now, closing date is Wednesday, 4th of March:
https://t.co/zYSRvG3epO
#Edinburgh#Accessibility#Internship
‘Reflecting on a #Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 Migration’
#InteractiveContent developer Man Hin Chu blogs about the major challenges faced and reflects on what worked (and what didn’t). There is also advice for others performing similar upgrades.
➡️ https://t.co/P4kSrANQN1 ⬅️
On #AdaLovelaceDay, celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion in #STEM by taking a look at 9 Edinburgh-connected women who made an impact in a wide range of STEM fields.
Play our open-licensed #WomenInSTEM interactive game:
➡️ https://t.co/qmoyfT0W5v ⬅️
#H5P#ALD25#UKOER
‘In Their Own Time’ - Challenging conventional funding structures to include intersectionally underrepresented casualised academics. The #InteractiveContent team help launch a new #Digital Comic resource.
➡️ https://t.co/xInHfPrup2 ⬅️
#Accessibility#CreativeCommons#CcByNcSa
‘In Their Own Time’ - Challenging conventional funding structures to include intersectionally underrepresented casualised academics. The #InteractiveContent team help launch a new #Digital Comic resource.
➡️ https://t.co/xInHfPrup2 ⬅️
#Accessibility#CreativeCommons#CcByNcSa
‘Educated Prompting: Coding without Writing a Single Line’
In his 2nd month as our #DigitalAccessibility intern, David Buik has been contributing key #Accessibility and UX improvements to an open-source sheet music #Python application.
➡️ https://t.co/Fa32X9iPfv ⬅️
#InteractiveContent developer Jackie Aim blogs about her early experiments with #GenerativeAI when creating educational videos.
In particular, using #Adobe's commercially safe #Firefly to extend stock video footage and generate bespoke imagery.
➡️ https://t.co/pDPAuBqfmO ⬅️
We're excited for #pint25! Get your tickets for #divingintodata in #Edinburgh on Mon.19 May ! A fun night awaits with a pint and learning how data can assess commuting time/mode of transport and how that affects #nurses + #midwives choice of workplace. https://t.co/5kPMOOjiqO
Or, if you are more interested in users/people than system data, we have a really interesting internship for you which is about checking our services to make sure they are as accessible as they can be for all of our users: Digital Accessibility Intern: https://t.co/Np0WnHSAE0
Are you a student at Uni of Edinburgh? Are you looking for work this summer? We are now advertising our summer internships! Please apply! More information about some of them in this thread:
For 5 years I've written personal blogs detailing my traumatic #T1D#SightLoss journey.
To help others understand my vision changes I also created 17 #H5P interactives. I’ve now collated all 10 diary entries into 1 open-licenced educational resource #CCBY.
https://t.co/IDHOBnF8yh
The University's popular @UoE_Teaching blog was successfully migrated from a standalone #WordPress instance 2016 into the #AcademicBlogging platform. This blog post focuses on the technical challenges, new features and support/security benefits.
https://t.co/nHAper7mSq
We are recruiting! If you are passionate about media services like lecture recording and media streaming, come and join our lovely Media Team! https://t.co/JzT93CMUEW Closing date for applications 28th Nov!
It was our pleasure to help you find a new home. We hope you're very happy, the neighbours are all lovely!
https://t.co/K3DtTECyMq
#WordPress#Blogging#AcademicBlogging
Teaching Matters has a new website on the @EdinburghUni Academic Blogging Platform!Huge thanks to @UoEIS@stubot, James Slack,&Karen Howie in migrating over 1,200 blog posts&3,600 images totaling almost 4 GB! 💥analytics show 4,467,771 page views since it began!💥
Got a few mins to learn about the accused #witches of Scotland this #Halloween?
@EdinburghUni graduate Ruby Imrie has recorded a user guide to our NEW v2.0 Map of Accused Witches, showing how to use all the new features & different pages across the site https://t.co/IjRohPqwjo