3. Overview
• Introduction to UoE Academic
Blogging Service
• ISG Student Employee Blog
• Benefits of blogging
• What should I write about?
• Writing for blogs.
• Finding and using open
licensed images.
Photo by Mael BALLAND on Unsplash
5. blogs.ed.ac.uk
• Centrally supported
WordPress multisite.
• Set up a blog easily
• Standalone service for
staff/PGR students.
• University branded theme.
• Single sign on.
• Bespoke plugins.
6. ISG Student Employee Blog
• https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/isintern/
• Group blog by and for ISG
interns.
• Share your experiences and
reflections.
• Share tips and information.
• Just for fun!
10. share your ideas
connect with
like minded people
wocintech stock – 65, CC BY 2.0. https://flic.kr/p/ER8m2S
11. disseminate & amplify your
research
increase exposure
& impact
Pixabay, no attribution required,
https://pixabay.com/en/laboratory-analysis-chemistry-
37. don’t worry about typos
you can go back & change
them
blogging is an informal
medium
Public domain image on pxhere
38. if you’re struggling with a
post, try a different approach
blogging shouldn’t be a chore
most bloggers will have
several false starts
don’t worry!
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash
39. find your own voice
experiment with differen
writing styles
let your blog evolve
Photo by Jason Rosewell on Unsplash
45. use images & media
create a strong visual
identity
Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash
46. Dos and Don’ts
Do:
• Get into the habit of only using open
licensed content.
• Use Google search tools to find open
licensed images for reuse.
• Use free image sites e.g.
WikiCommons, Unsplash, Pixabay.
• Double check the licence.
Don’t:
• Assume you can reuse any content
you find on the internet.
• Use material unless it is explicitly
licensed for reuse or in the public
domain.
RRZEicons, CC BY SA, Wikimedia Commons
48. CC BY-SA 2.0, ricardo56, https://www.flickr.com/photos/48305871@N00/33350050260
49. Attribution
Good: CC heart cupcakes, CC BY 2.0,
David Kindler, https://flic.kr/p/dzSp17
Average: CC BY, D. Kindler
Incorrect: Creative Commons / CC
Incorrect: D. Kindler
64. Lorna M. Campbell
OER Service
Information Services Group
University of Edinburgh
lorna.m.campbell@ed.ac.uk
https://open.ed.ac.uk/
http://lornamcampbell.org/
@LornaMCampbell
CC BY, Lorna M. Campbell, University of Edinburgh, unless otherwise indicated.
Editor's Notes
KH
Staff and PGRs can create blogs standalone.
Single sign on
LTI integration with both of our VLEs - UG/PGT students use it via this (can do individual student blogs for all students on a course, group blogs, or a single course blog)
Bespoke plugins to help manage the WP site but also versions of plugins that behave better in terms of setting cookies from a GDPR perspective. One of our aims for our bespoke work is to make as much of it as possible available as open source code.
Branded bespoke theme which uses our university branding so people can choose for their blog to be branded or quite different
KH
Staff and PGRs can create blogs standalone.
Single sign on
LTI integration with both of our VLEs - UG/PGT students use it via this (can do individual student blogs for all students on a course, group blogs, or a single course blog)
Bespoke plugins to help manage the WP site but also versions of plugins that behave better in terms of setting cookies from a GDPR perspective. One of our aims for our bespoke work is to make as much of it as possible available as open source code.
Branded bespoke theme which uses our university branding so people can choose for their blog to be branded or quite different
KH
Staff and PGRs can create blogs standalone.
Single sign on
LTI integration with both of our VLEs - UG/PGT students use it via this (can do individual student blogs for all students on a course, group blogs, or a single course blog)
Bespoke plugins to help manage the WP site but also versions of plugins that behave better in terms of setting cookies from a GDPR perspective. One of our aims for our bespoke work is to make as much of it as possible available as open source code.
Branded bespoke theme which uses our university branding so people can choose for their blog to be branded or quite different
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.
Here are three examples of attribution. We have a picture of a plate with iced cupcakes topped with a CC inside a circle. And here are three possible attributions. The first, or Good, attribution is how I prefer to do it. It has the title, the authors name and which platform the work is from, and the licence information. The title and the licence have been hyperlinked through to the source of the image and the source of the licence, but if we saw this on a poster where we couldn’t click on a link, there’s enough information here that we could go online ourselves and find the original image and the authors other works.