{"id":235,"date":"2014-09-08T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T12:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=235"},"modified":"2014-10-10T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T21:22:39","slug":"stand-up-and-be-counted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2014\/09\/08\/stand-up-and-be-counted\/","title":{"rendered":"stand up and be counted"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/0025027c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-236 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/0025027c-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"University of Edinburgh Digital Image Collections CC BY-NC-ND 3.0\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/0025027c-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/0025027c-763x1024.jpg 763w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/0025027c.jpg 1145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Student newspaper. University of Edinburgh Digital Image Collections CC BY-NC-ND 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is no secret that I was born and raised in Scotland* and that my return home to work here co-incides conveniently with the opportunity to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Our &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/indyref\">Towards Scottish Independence? Understanding the Referendum<\/a>&#8216; MOOC is well underway and on Wednesday evening this week I&#8217;ve been invited by Elize to chair our\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ISdecides?src=hash\">#ISdecides<\/a> event. The assembled staff of University of Edinburgh Information Services\u00a0 will hear the options weighed in the balance and decide which side is wanting.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be bringing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/information-services\/learning-technology\/survey-tools\/electronic-voting-system\">MOOC-style voting and polling<\/a>\u00a0 into the debate chamber. It&#8217;ll be a lively evening and no mistake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* you can tell by my accent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is no secret that I was born and raised in Scotland* and that my return home to work here co-incides conveniently with the opportunity to vote. Our &#8216;Towards Scottish Independence? Understanding the Referendum&#8216; MOOC is well underway and on Wednesday evening this week I&#8217;ve been invited by Elize to chair our\u00a0 #ISdecides event. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25,22],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eople-place-work","tag-stand-up","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}