UoE IC Team

News from the Interactive Content team based within the Information Services group at the University of Edinburgh. Managed by Stewart Lamb Cromar (@stubot).

[UoE IC Team @tweelearning]

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

[UoE IC Team @tweelearning]

‘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 ⬅️

[UoE IC Team @tweelearning]

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

[UoE IC Team @tweelearning]

For #AdaLovelaceDay, download and colour-in our hand-drawn illustration of Moira Dunbar (1918-1999), the pioneering Scottish-Canadian glaciologist and Arctic sea-ice researcher.

➡️ https://t.co/y9QtfCSOYP ⬅️

#AdaLovelace #ALD25 #WomenInSTEM #UKOER #CreativeCommons #CcBySa

[Karen Howie @karenhowie2008]

We have a great programme lined up for our 10th celebration of Ada Lovelace Day on the 14th of October. Book your place now! https://t.co/XpgR5IxM5J

[UoE IC Team @tweelearning]

‘Making an impact with #ThingLink’ – #InteractiveContent developer Jackie Aim blogs about creating student-focused #Infographics for 2 Careers Services projects: ‘Skills For Success Framework’ & ‘Riding the Wave’.

➡️ https://t.co/9Hknxryikz ⬅️

#GraphicDesign #Accessibility

[UoE IC Team @tweelearning]

‘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

[UoE IC Team @tweelearning]

‘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

[UoE IC Team @tweelearning]

‘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 ⬅️

[UoE IC Team @tweelearning]

In his first blog post, our #Accessibility Intern David Buik writes about what #DigitalAccessibility is, how we can make digital content more accessible, and why all of this matters in the first place.

➡️ https://t.co/UzbJL3SH48 ⬅️

#ISGInternships #EdSummerInterns #Internship

[UoE IC Team @tweelearning]

#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 ⬅️

[ADR Scotland @SCADR_data]

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

[Karen Howie @karenhowie2008]

Just a reminder about these internships! Tell your friends! Closing date, 23rd of March.

[Karen Howie @karenhowie2008]

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

[Karen Howie @karenhowie2008]

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:

[Stewart Lamb Cromar @stubot]

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

[UoE IC Team @tweelearning]

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

[Karen Howie @karenhowie2008]

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!

[UoE IC Team @tweelearning]

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 @UoE_Teaching]

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!💥

[Ewan McAndrew @emcandre]

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