M&M Podcast: Discussions from Edinburgh at the Intersections of Education and Technology The University of Edinburgh

The twenty-seventh episode of the Michael and Myles (M&M) podcast sees us talking with Dr Tracey Madden about her really important work at the university on accessibility, universal design and more. Tracey is a Learning Technology Advisor in the Educational Design and EngagementLearning, Teaching and Web Services department at the University of Edinburgh. It is hard to overstate how good Tracey is at what she does and to what range she does her work. In this particular episode, we talk about accessibility with educational technology but we could easily have her on to talk at length about any number of subjects, universal design included. 
Thanks so much Tracey! If you are interested in speaking with us, please do reach out to michael.s.gallagher@ed.ac.uk. Otherwise stay tuned as we explore some of the themes that recent events have surfaced and accelerated in all this digital migration back and forth. Here is hoping this podcast finds you well. 

The twenty-sixth episode of the Michael and Myles (M&M) podcast sees us talking with Dr Glaire Anderson about her incredible work at the intersections of the digital, history, art and architecture. Dr Anderson is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art, History of Art at the Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh and just an all around really really interesting person. Some of Dr. Anderson's projects, which we discuss a bit in the podcast, are below. all of which are worth looking into in greater depth than we could gather in the 30 minutes we chatted. Digital Lab for Islamic Visual CultureThe Digital Munya ProjectHistory and Games Lab at the University of Edinburgh and on FacebookPlease do give them a look (and purchase the upcoming game called Viking in the Sun (preview image below but do check out the Facebook page to learn more). Thanks so much Dr Anderson! If you are interested in speaking with us, please do reach out to michael.s.gallagher@ed.ac.uk. Otherwise stay tuned as we explore some of the themes that recent events have surfaced and accelerated in all this digital migration. Here is hoping this podcast finds you well. 

The twenty-fifth episode (we think) of the Michael and Myles (M&M) podcast sees us talking with Ewan McAndrew (Wikimedian in Residence) and Clea Strathmann (Open data and knowledge equity Intern). A really good discussion around the role of entities like Wikipedia in knowledge equity in HE and beyond. Some more information about some of the activity happening at the University of Edinburgh around this below. Wikimedian in ResidenceWikipedia:University_of_EdinburghVideos and video tutorialsWikimedian in Residence channelNew booklet of UK Case Studies
If you are interested in speaking with us, please do reach out to michael.s.gallagher@ed.ac.uk. Otherwise stay tuned as we explore some of the themes that recent events have surfaced and accelerated in all this digital migration. Here is hoping this podcast finds you well. 

The twenty-fourth episode (we think) of the Michael and Myles (M&M) podcast sees us talking with the exceptionally gracious Lorna Campbell. Lorna has a long standing commitment to supporting open education technology, policy and practice; she founded the Open Scotland initiative, co-chaired the OER16 Open Culture Conference, and is the driving force behind the Scottish Open Education Declaration. 

Lorna is also a Trustee of Wikimedia UK. Lorna’s blog, Open World, can be found at lornamcampbell.org. A few of the initiatives that Lorna mentioned are:

Open.EdWikimedian in ResidenceAssociation for Learning Technology
Please do give them a look. Thanks so much Lorna! If you are interested in speaking with us, please do reach out to michael.s.gallagher@ed.ac.uk. Otherwise stay tuned as we explore some of the themes that recent events have surfaced and accelerated in all this digital migration. Here is hoping this podcast finds you well.

The twenty-third episode (we think) of the Michael and Myles (M&M) podcast brings us back after an unintentional six month hiatus to lay out the themes which we will explore in subsequent episodes. If you are interested in speaking with us, please do reach out to michael.s.gallagher@ed.ac.uk. Otherwise stay tuned as we explore six very important themes that recent events have surfaced and accelerated in all this digital migration. Here is hoping this podcast finds you well. 

On the twenty-second episode of the Michael and Myles (M&M)
podcast we are revisited by India Somerside who is a 4th year student at the University of Edinburgh.
We discuss the pandemic pivot impact on student life, hybrid learning
and the realities of how the semester unfolded. A very insightful conversation
and many thanks to India for guiding us here.

As always, this episode is hosted by Michael Gallagher, a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education, and Myles Blaney, a service manager in Digital Learning Applications and Media both of the University of Edinburgh.