Karen Howie
After a conversation with Tracey Madden in the dim and distant past, I’ve been more and more interested in the impact our services have on the environment. Our Web and Communications Section in LTW have had some very talented ‘green’ interns this summer and I’ve been lucky enough to get a bit of time to … Read more
On the 19th of July (past Friday) we had a global IT outage which impacted hospitals, trains, air travel, supermarkets and many other businesses. It seems like it was caused by a small/inconspicuous update to a bit of anti-virus software for Windows operating systems which seemed to ‘break’ Windows. Although the issue has been fixed, … Read more
I’ve not blogged for a while but I went to an event today which has inspired me to write a post I’ve been wanting to write for a while. I’ve got another blog post coming about the event itself (which was run by JISC and was about Accessibility in Procurement – very thought provoking). One … Read more
Today I had an almost meeting free day. I spent it doing some short listing, catching up with emails, and for the last hour today I picked up where I left off with my AI dabbling/reading. As you can see, I’ve been playing with Adobe Firefly for 20 mins and it’s outputs are pretty good. … Read more
Do you know that today is Global Accessibility Awareness day, an annual event which began in 2015. It promotes and highlights IT accessibility for disabled users. Digital accessibility is about ensuring websites, applications, learning resources, social media postings and other digital products are accessible to disabled users. Accessible sites and content typically provide a better … Read more
My colleagues and I have been doing a lot of work to try and improve digital accessibility across the University. It’s important that we try to make everything we do as accessible as possible – we want all of our students to have the same access to our learning activities, content and systems. We can’t … Read more
This is a blog post that’s been brewing for a while. The landscape is changing so much that every time I go to write it, I’ve heard something new that has changed my perspective. So I’m writing this knowing full well that in a months time I’ll realise it’s a load of nonsense. Please … Read more
With my various discussions with learning techs and IT staff across the University, I’m aware that there is some confusion about data retention across our services so I wanted to provide a place that summarised where we currently are. I’ll try to reasonably regularly provide an update to keep everyone up-to-date going forward. We are … Read more
I was doing my usual scroll through Twitter one night last week and spotted this tweet: Just had the first in-person lecture with a 2nd semester cohort. 95% have never before been in a lecture hall. At the end of the lecture they waved goodbye – like in Zoom (@BueckerSusanne/Susanne Buecker) It got me thinking … Read more
We had our first hybrid DLAM team meeting on Monday (more about the ‘hybridness’ later). I decided I wanted to do something a bit different for it and so I roped in a couple of team members (Stewart and Myles) to help and we got to work planning. What I wanted to do was a … Read more