Festival Programme

In this session we will look at online assessments, and cover online interviews, video interviews, online assessment centre activities i.e. group exercises, observed role play etc, as well as online psychometrics/tests.The event is open to all students.

At University, you’ll be using a large number of documents in many different formats (e.g. journal article, book chapter, image, report, case law, conference proceedings etc.). Using a reference manager to collect, organise, annotate and cite these references can save you a lot of time, improve accuracy and help you structure your work.
This short session will introduce you to four reference managers: EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley and Citavi, all of which have free versions.

During this short session, you will learn about asynchronous teaching using lecture recordings in Zoom.

Are you manually entering citations and bibliography into your manuscripts? Attend a live demonstration of using EndNote 20 and see how to save time and avoid mistakes by collecting, managing, and citing bibliographies automatically!

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.

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.

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.

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.

During this short session, you will learn how to increase the interactivity of your Zoom sessions through the use of whiteboards and polling.

This session will discuss the outcomes from a recent Jisc review and survey of the higher education assessment and feedback landscape and how a principled informed approach can drive effective practice supported by technology.

In this short session, you’ll discover how to use Blackboard Collaborate’s breakout rooms and polls.

This hands-on session will look at some techniques and functionality of in-class polling systems that can help engage your students with your teaching and course material. The session will look at different question types, in-built functionality, and common techniques for encouraging peer and class discussion.

This short course will introduce you to the basics of Microsoft OneDrive – a simple and effective planning application available to all members of staff and students as part of the University’s Office 365 subscription.

Media Hopper Create is the University’s media asset management solution. It provides all staff and students with a space that they can use to create and upload media and then store or publish it to various places including VLEs, websites and social media channels. This webinar is designed to provide you with a basic overview of Media Hopper Create and some of its most useful features.

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.

Data Literacy for Beginners is a one-hour webinar designed to introduce staff and students to the concepts first published in a popular statistics pamphlet, entitled How To Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff in 1954.

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.

For this Digital Skills Festival session, we will introduce you to our latest offering “How to Create Videos for Online Courses” and empower you to create engaging videos to film on your own using tools you likely have to hand (i.e. a smartphone and/or tablet). You will hear from team members behind both short online courses and watch a demo on how you can turn your smartphone into a high-quality filming device for educational purposes.

This session will provide an overview of Mendeley as a research tool, to organise and manage reference material for research and for writing essays.

Students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level will benefit in particular from this session, as it will demonstrate how to organise their reading materials from their courses more effectively.

This online session looks at the techniques cyber criminals use to infiltrate organisations. A number of real world ploys are discussed along with advice on how to protect yourself from compromise

This hour long online session looks at social engineering, the manipulation of the natural human tendency to trust, and how cyber criminals use techniques to scam people out of credentials and data.

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.

This introductory session is intended for people with no or very little prior knowledge and experience of Excel. It covers the main characteristics of Excel, spreadsheet layout, basic formulas and formatting using Excel 2016 for the PC.

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.

Charts in Excel are a popular way to graphically represent data sets. This is a short introductory demonstration on creating charts in Excel.

Data Visualisations are a popular and effective way to graphically represent data sets. This is an short introductory presentation on why visualisations are useful and factors to consider when creating them. This course runs alongside the Basic Charts in Excel session which shows how to create visualisations in Excel.

This webinar is aimed at students intending to produce a thesis or dissertation using Microsoft Word. During the webinar, we’ll show you how to use Word’s advanced features to efficiently produce a quality document.

This webinar will introduce you to automated and manual methods you can use to add subtitles (closed captions) to video or audio files you have uploaded to Media Hopper Create, helping to make them accessible. We’ll also give advice on how to optimise your recordings to ensure the highest quality audio, and therefore the best possible automatic subtitles. 

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.

LinkedIn Learning is the world’s leading online learning platform, providing users with access to over 250,000 videos and 17,000 courses in business, creative and technical skills. During this short webinar, you’ll learn more about the service including how to create your free account, search for content and share with others.

During this session, learn how to use the advanced features within Adobe Creative Cloud Express to make your social media graphics and newsletters even more engaging. This course builds upon the knowledge and skills gained from the Adobe Creative Cloud Express Introductory course.

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.

This short course will introduce you to the basics of Microsoft Office 365’s Outlook for the web to help you work and study more effectively.

Introduction to Data Science is a short webinar designed to introduce the beginner to the exciting world of data science for staff and student learners.

This short course will introduce you to the basics of Microsoft OneDrive – a cloud storage solution offered to all staff and students as part of the University’s Office 365 subscription.

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.

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.

This hour-long session will introduce you to the short-form video format and its monumental impact on social media. Discover the perks of using short-form video in your marketing strategy, examples of how it has been used in the context of higher education, and most importantly – how you can use it to connect with “kids these days”.

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.

LaTeX is much more than a word processing tool. In this workshop, we will explore the potential of using LaTeX and Overleaf in typesetting and producing professional-looking high-quality documents in teaching and research, such as reports, dissertations, papers, etc.

This session will introduce the current position of digital capabilities and fluency in Higher Education and society as a whole and pull in data from the sector-wide Digital Experience Insights survey.

In this session, we will discuss the transition from University to hybrid or remote working. We will look at meeting etiquette, tools and techniques for building relationships, time management, work-life balance, wellbeing, tips on workspaces etc.

In this British Sign Language and deaf awareness session, learn how to make digital events and resources more accessible and inclusive for BSL users and deaf individuals.

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.

In this session, you will learn how to make accessibility improvements to Word documents in order to make them better for the author and the recipient.

In this session, you’ll discover how the updated University of Edinburgh Campus Map was created using the ArcGIS platform.

ThingLink is an authoring tool for creating immersive learning experiences. This session will provide an overview of ThingLink’s capabilities, how it works, how to create one, and how to make it open and accessible.

In this session, we will take some time to look at how to build our confidence to present online, from calming your mind and how to present yourself all the way through to how to reflect effectively after your event so you build on your skills for the next one.

This workshop will introduce you to the Academic Blogging Service and provide an overview of the benefits of professional blogging, writing for blogs, understanding privacy, copyright and open licensing, and how to amplify your blog with social media.

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.

In this one hour seminar, we will look at existing practices across the university adopting open education practices and resources to diversify the curriculum and encourage student co-creation and learning.

Calling all creative types, history nuts, graphic artists, animators, and lovers of the internet! Learn how to make your own gifs from openly licensed and public domain, museum, library, and archival materials.

Join Ariadne Cass-Maran to learn about making your digital content human-centred including how to get to know your audience and their needs and write content that is inclusive, accessible and task-focused.

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.

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

In this webinar we will explore how students can use LinkedIn and LinkedIn Learning to successfully find and develop skills needed in the new world of work, and to connect with job opportunities.

This session will cover the fundamentals of UX design, show you how to apply them, and illustrate the benefits of working in a user-centred way.

This session considers the security implications of the Internet of Things (IoT) and provides top tips to consider when connecting devices in your home.

This short talk will outline the progress over the past year to integrate the Noteable coding platform developed by EDINA, the centre for digital expertise and services within the Information Services Group, into Scottish schools.

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.

During this session, learn how to create rich multimedia content including social media posts, stories, and marketing materials with ease in only a matter of minutes with Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formally Adobe Spark).

This presentation and end of year CELEBRATION event discusses the efforts of the ScotWiki community and the Wikimedia residency at the University of Edinburgh; highlighting its efforts working with Wikipedia both as an ally in its mission to disseminate verifiable open knowledge and an important tool in its information literacy and digital skills strategy.