News from the Interactive Content team based within the Information Services group at the University of Edinburgh. Managed by Stewart Lamb Cromar (@stubot).
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Feb 27
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
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9 Dec 2025
‘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.
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14 Oct 2025
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.
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14 Oct 2025
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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UoE IC Team retweeted
3 Oct 2025
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.
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18 Aug 2025
‘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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11 Aug 2025
‘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
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31 Jul 2025
‘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
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1 Jul 2025
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
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17 Jun 2025
#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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UoE IC Team retweeted
13 May 2025
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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UoE IC Team retweeted
14 Mar 2025
Just a reminder about these internships! Tell your friends! Closing date, 23rd of March.
25 Feb 2025
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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UoE IC Team retweeted
25 Feb 2025
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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UoE IC Team retweeted
25 Feb 2025
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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UoE IC Team retweeted
24 Jan 2025
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…
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21 Nov 2024
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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UoE IC Team retweeted
13 Nov 2024
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!
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20 Nov 2024
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
20 Nov 2024
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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UoE IC Team retweeted
31 Oct 2024
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…
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