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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:
portal.unitemps.com/Search/J…
#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.
➡️ blogs.ed.ac.uk/dlam/2025/12/… ⬅️
ALT Illustration of three people engaging with digital technology at a desk, featuring a computer monitor displaying coding icons and messages.
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:
➡️ edin.ac/stem-game ⬅️
#H5P #ALD25 #UKOER
ALT Map showing 9 scientists and 3 different timeline routes: 1780-1943, 1889-2001 and 1914-2011.
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.
➡️ stubot.me/moira-dunbar ⬅️
#AdaLovelace #ALD25 #WomenInSTEM #UKOER #CreativeCommons #CcBySa
ALT Colourful illustration of Moira Dunbar standing behind a desk with maps of Arctic sea-ice, Canada and Scotland surrounding her.
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We have a great programme lined up for our 10th celebration of Ada Lovelace Day on the 14th of October. Book your place now! blogs.ed.ac.uk/ada-lovelace-…
ALT Ada Lovelace Day poster with QR code and drawing of Ada. Celebrating women in STEM.
‘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’.
➡️ blogs.ed.ac.uk/dlam/2025/08/… ⬅️
#GraphicDesign #Accessibility
ALT Laptop and phone screens showing 'Skills for Success Framework' and 'Riding the wave' projects
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‘In Their Own Time’ - Challenging conventional funding structures to include intersectionally underrepresented casualised academics. The #InteractiveContent team help launch a new #Digital Comic resource.
➡️ stubot.me/in-their-own-time/ ⬅️
#Accessibility #CreativeCommons #CcByNcSa
ALT In Their Own Time
‘In Their Own Time’ - Challenging conventional funding structures to include intersectionally underrepresented casualised academics. The #InteractiveContent team help launch a new #Digital Comic resource.
➡️ stubot.me/in-their-own-time/ ⬅️
#Accessibility #CreativeCommons #CcByNcSa
ALT In Their Own Time
‘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.
➡️ blogs.ed.ac.uk/dlam/2025/07/… ⬅️
ALT Post author asking Gemini to add a dark mode switch to Talking Scores
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.
➡️ blogs.ed.ac.uk/dlam/2025/07/… ⬅️
#ISGInternships #EdSummerInterns #Internship
ALT Laptop showing In Their Own Time website
#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.
➡️ blogs.ed.ac.uk/dlam/2025/06/… ⬅️
ALT Photographs of 7 different people – various ages, ethnicities and genders. One person is highlighted in yellow.
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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. edin.ac/4jugNbc
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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: portal.unitemps.com/Search/J…
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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:
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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.
stubot.me/five-years-of-sigh…
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.
stubot.me/teaching-matters/
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We are recruiting! If you are passionate about media services like lecture recording and media streaming, come and join our lovely Media Team! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/… 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!
blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matt…
#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!💥
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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 youtube.com/watch?v=jwM-n-or…