Information Security: The evolving threat landscape 2022

Information Security: The evolving threat landscape 2022

This presentation discusses the threat landscape for 2022, providing an overview of attack trends and what we may expect to see over the coming year.

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Enhancing your workflow with the new Web of Science platform

Enhancing your workflow with the new Web of Science platform

This session will cover some of the new features that have been introduced to the new Web of Science interface in the last year. We will focus on how some of these can help you to carry out more efficient research and manage your personal profile in the platform.

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Assessed blogging ideas in PebblePad – from the simplest to the very complex

Assessed blogging ideas in PebblePad - from the simplest to the very complex

The session explores different workflows for tutors interested in introducing assessed blogging for their students: from the most basic “learning diaries” to the heavily scaffolded blog entries with template-based feedback.

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Digital safety and citizenship for students

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As we’re all spending more time online in the new hybrid learning environment, it’s more important than ever to take ownership of your digital safety and use technology responsibly. This one-hour webinar introduces you to the concept of digital citizenship and takes you through steps you can take to keep yourself, and those around you, safe online.

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Digital Strategy – Developing a vision for the University of Edinburgh’s Digital Future

How Digital Skills will underpin University Digital Strategy

This will be an interactive session to discuss how Digital Skills will play a key part in the delivery of the University’s Digital Strategy.

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Excel: Selected Functions

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This session is intended for people with some prior knowledge and experience of Excel. It comprises a demonstration on the If (logical function), Round and vlookup functions using Excel 2016 for the PC.

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Introduction to Audacity: Audio recording and editing

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Audacity is an easy to use, free, open-source audio editor you can use to produce high quality, consistent, voiceovers for videos and presentations, create podcasts and much more.

In this webinar, you’ll learn learn the basics of using Audacity to capture and edit voiceovers.

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Office 365 Essentials: Notetaking made easy with Microsoft OneNote Online

Office 365 Essentials: Notetaking made easy with Microsoft OneNote Online

This short course will introduce you to the basics of Microsoft OneNote – a free-form digital notetaking and information gathering tool that allows you to keep all your notes in one handy digital notebook, accessible anytime, anywhere via Microsoft’s web, desktop and mobile apps.

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Vlogging & YouTube Marketing

Vlogging & YouTube Marketing

In this session, Ritwik Arya shares his journey of starting a vlogging channel on YouTube and how he achieved 1 million views and 60,000 watch hours within one year of launching the channel.

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Misinformation, disinformation and fake news: What is it all about?

Misinformation, disinformation and fake news- What is it all about?

This session will look to define disinformation, misinformation and fake news, and introduce attendees to some tools and techniques to help identify and assess such information.

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Managing your references using Zotero

Managing your references using Zotero

During this session, you will be guided through the process of adding references quickly from a variety of sources, organising and adding them automatically into your work using Zotero – a popular free open-source reference management tool.

This short 30 min session will guide you through adding references quickly from a variety of sources, organising and adding them automatically into your work.

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Data Skills workforce development – Upskill in the field of digital data

Hosted by the Bayes Centre, the Data Skills Workforce Development portfolio is a collection of short courses aimed at training the Scottish workforce looking to upskill, or those seeking a return to work in a new area. This session will advertise a snapshot of some of their courses to staff as well as encourage those who might be interested in offering a course to the portfolio.

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Navigating UoE Digital Research Services

Navigating UoE digital research services

In this short session, colleagues from the Research Office, Data Curation Centre, and Research Data and Research Support Services will deliver highlight talks on data and computing services, tools, resources and skills development.

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Orientation to Learn Ultra Based Navigation

Orientation to learn ultra based navigation

This summer will see a change to the way staff and students access their content in Learn. Although courses themselves are not changing at this point, the new Ultra Base Navigation provides a lot of new functionality. This session provides an opportunity to view a walk through of these new features in Learn.

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Virtual Classroom: real world examples. Session 2: Collaborate- Interactive teaching with shared files

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In this short session, you will learn how to improve the interactivity of your teaching with shared files in Blackboard Collaborate.

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Teaching and learning programming more collaboratively with Noteable

Teaching and learning programming more collaboratively with Noteable

In this session members from the Noteable team in EDINA, ISG will provide an overview of available platforms for programming using Jupyter notebooks in Noteable and enabling access to Python, RStudio and other programming languages and touch on upcoming features for the new academic year that will make Noteable more collaborative.

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2022 Festival Programme

Our 2022 festival programme is now live so head to our main Festival Programme page to view and book your space on our 2022 events.