{"id":1081,"date":"2016-03-11T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T13:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2016-03-11T14:21:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T14:21:04","slug":"iwd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2016\/03\/11\/iwd\/","title":{"rendered":"my week as an international open education woman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is a source of great pleasure for me that in recent years the celebrations of International Women’s Day <\/a>have co-incided nicely with Open Education Week<\/a>. This makes it easy for me to find authentic and useful things to do as my contribution.<\/p>\n

This time last year I was visiting a number of tech partners in California and the theme was #makingithappen\u00a0<\/a> This year the theme is #pledgeforparity<\/a> and I’ve stayed at home.<\/p>\n

I don’t find it difficult to see connections between feminism and open education movements. Both seek to give equality of access, challenge traditional structures and ways of doing things; and involve a diverse community of people in thinking about the greater good. Both also have outspoken advocates with strong opinions and sometimes end up arguing amongst themselves. Nonethless it’s been a fun week.<\/p>\n

Saturday: A lovely day doing pleasant writing tasks at the Modern Scottish Women wikipedia editathon #artandfeminism<\/a>. Working towards parity of coverage and parity of esteem with Jo, Gill, Sara and Mary.<\/p>\n

Monday: I ate retro sweets with Charlie and Susie near our #OpenEducationWk display stand and attended the launch of Jo and Peta’s Dangerous Women Project <\/a>to which I have contributed a blog post to be published later in the year.<\/p>\n

Tuesday: On IWD2016 I spent some enjoyable time searching the digital archive of Spare Rib at the British Library<\/a> to find images to use in my OER16 keynote<\/a>. I was surprised to find that Spare Rib<\/a> itself is not particularly well described in Wikipedia, so I spent some time on that too. I added a section on design to continue the #artandfeminism theme.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that the big libraries are missing a trick if they are spending time making digitised collections open to the public and not taking a moment more to get a good article on the topic in Wikipedia. They probably need a Wikimedian in Residence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wednesday: While my teams were launching our new University of Edinburgh Open Educational Resources policy<\/a>\u00a0 to #OEPS in Stirling, I was presenting online in Croatia <\/a>for Sandra. Our policy is largely based on one crafted by Rebecca for Leeds.<\/p>\n

Thursday: I worked with Dominique, our ISG gender equality intern<\/a> to refine once more our ISG gender equality plan and with Sonia, Yujia, Susan and Lauren to edit the ’embracing openness’ double page spread for our upcoming BITS magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Friday: Today I am working from home, fortified by jam by Anne-Marie and coffee warmed by Maggie’s bespoke knitwear.\u00a0 I see that all but one of the women artists we were editing on Saturday now have their own wikipedia page, and Lorna, Viv and Catherine are giving it a bit of welly in an ALT OER-SIG webinar<\/a> to promote our April conference.<\/p>\n

A good week’s work all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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