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My blog software has been complaining that my page of\u00a0Friday messages<\/a>\u00a0had been going on too long.<\/p>\n

I know how it feels.<\/p>\n

I’m blogging my Friday messages this year on a different site in an attempt to better facilitate a feed going into the LTW Community HUB sharepoint.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a new page for 2025.Friday message \u2013 Melissa Highton<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Friday 10th January<\/h2>\n
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Dear All,<\/p>\n

Welcome back, and thank you for your work this week.<\/p>\n

The heat in Argyle House is thankfully on.<\/p>\n

For the new year we welcome\u00a0 our new Digital Safety Intern, Aysha Sohail and Liz\u00a0Dickie, who some of you may know as a Learning Technologist from COL in Moray House, is working with us two days per week\u00a0 to ensure we get the best alignment for our Short Courses Platform implementation.<\/p>\n

I hope you all managed to get some rest and festive elements during the break. For those who celebrate Christmas this week it\u2019s been Orthodox Christmas, Old Christmas, Little Christmas and Women\u2019s Christmas. Little Christmas – Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

Coming up in January\u00a0 (to combat any symptoms of Blue Monday Blue Monday (date) – Wikipedia<\/a>) we have our foodbank collection launch, our digital skills tutors party and Lunar new year events at St Cecilias St Cecilia’s Hall, The University of Edinburgh Events – 7 Upcoming Activities and Tickets | Eventbrite<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are interested in presenting at the University of Edinburgh Teaching and Learning Conference, the CfP is now open Call for Proposals | Institute for Academic Development<\/a> Let you manager know what you would like to do. Satu and Katie will be presenting\u00a0 posters at 2025 Digital Research Conference<\/a> if you need inspiration.<\/p>\n

Nice to see online learning featured in the THE Rethinking online learning to tackle global injustices | THE Campus Learn, Share, Connect<\/a><\/p>\n

And women in AI on linkedin Women in AI at EDINA | LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n

Great to see colleagues gaining post-nominal letters. Marcello has\u00a0completed the Edinburgh Teaching Award and is now a fellow of the higher education academy (FHEA) and \u00a0both Andres \u00a0and Delia have been awarded their CMALTs (with minor corrections). Well done , All!<\/p>\n

If you all have a bit of time for some life-admin, please do go into People and Money and update your personal details. If you have a disability, or no known disability, please do update that so that there is something showing in that field, and add your qualifications etc to make sure we can keep up to date with our data and demographics.<\/p>\n

Thank you again for coming back.<\/p>\n

Best wishes,<\/p>\n

Melissa<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Friday 31st January<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dear All,<\/p>\n

Thank you for your work again this week.<\/p>\n

It seems like the ISG and Library buildings mostly survived the storm. The Library have launched an exhibition in the ground floor public space called \u2018Rooting\u2019. I suspect they did not test that name on anyone from Australia, or perhaps they did, and it is a comment on the wider context of the state of higher education funding. You will have seen news reports of big job losses at\u00a0 more universities this week.<\/p>\n

If the news is too grim and you are retreating into a good book, you can catch our Fiona on the Radio 2 Book Club this week and \u00a0she managed to sneak in a recommendation for Andres\u2019 book, \u2018How we named the stars\u2019\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0kmhzdr<\/a><\/p>\n

Thank you to those doing ITIL training this week and well done to everyone presenting papers and posters at conferences.<\/p>\n

Due to popular demand Bart has scheduled more dates for ELM training for staff, book your place now \u00a0Learning Item Details – Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications<\/a><\/p>\n

The LTW SMT are away today for a full day\u00a0 working on our teamwork and \u00a0strategic digital leadership skills, let me know if you can spot the difference when we get back.<\/p>\n

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I hear rumours of a pot-luck picnic lunch for the wing being organised\u2026 get your favourite recipes from home ready.<\/p>\n

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Have a good weekend,<\/p>\n

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-Melissa<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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