Summary
Tuesday the 13th of October was the inaugural Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) at the University of Edinburgh. The Interactive Content (IC) team were responsible for the design, development and facilitation of 5 key workshop activities. Not only did registered University students and staff enjoy the day, but so did a significant number of guests from the Edinburgh community.
OERs
All the team’s deliverables and handbooks were Creative Commons licensed (CC-BY-SA) for easy distribution and maximum reuse. N.B. This is Free Culture Licence.
Merchandise
In addition to the digital OERs published, the IC team designed a broad-range of ALD themed promotional materials including:
- pull-up banners
- tote bags
- t-shirts
- posters
- cardboard cut-out
Social media statistics for the w/c 12OCT2015
- 1K+ page views on the Ada Lovelace Day WordPress site
- 1K+ votes and 13k+ page views for the LEGO ‘Lovelace & Babbage‘ project
- 71 favourites and 48 retweets from the IC @Tweelearning Twitter account alone
- Impressions: 9,447 (times people saw these Tweets on Twitter)
- Total engagements: 665 (times people interacted with these Tweets)
- ~400 unique Tweets using the official event hashtag #ALD15EdUni (via Topsy)
Guest Speaker
Katya Krasnopeeva from Pilizota Lab, within the School of Biological Sciences, very kindly gave an inspirational overview of her current research post. She even had a short video demonstrating how LEGO was used to help them out with a rather repetitive laboratory procedure.
I see @LegoLovelace‘s spanner in Katya’s lab pic.twitter.com/eRN7VVBbso http://t.co/kGWZF0cIN0 pic.twitter.com/AbCiPbFnrd
— Marshall Dozier (@mafrado) October 14, 2015
Activity A – ‘Garden of Ada’
- ‘Garden of Ada’ adult colouring-in illustration (.PDF + Flickr + Wikimedia Commons)
- In addition to the standard A4 version given away, an A0 version was printed for a collaborative drawing exercise
- Hand drawn by Interactive Content team member Jackie Aim
Many hands make light work! #ALD15 #ALD15EdUni pic.twitter.com/TtFVtxploU
— Ada ‘LEGO’ Lovelace (@LegoLovelace) October 13, 2015
Activity B – Sonic Pi music compositions
- Sonic Pi workshop handbook (.PDF)
- ‘An introduction to Sonic Pi’ written by Interactive Content team member Stuart Brett
Official tweet
Check out this lovely @Sonic_Pi introductory worksheet for #AdaLovelaceDay http://t.co/rXhg6tSOjk #ALD15EdUni — Sonic Pi (@Sonic_Pi) October 13, 2015
Activity C – LEGO® Raspberry Pi enclosure
- LEGO Raspberry Pi enclosure workshop handbook (.PDF)
- Written by Jackie Aim
- LEGO Raspberry Pi enclosure photographs (Twitter + Flickr)
The Winners of our #lego #raspberrypi case entries! #ALD15EdUni #ald15 #adalovelace day #universityofedinburgh pic.twitter.com/rt6NxvHaly — UoE IC Team (@tweelearning) October 13, 2015
Activity D – Cardboard Raspberry Pi enclosure
- Ada Lovelace Raspberry Pi cardboard enclosures (Purple .PDF + Blue .PDF)
- Designed by Stuart Brett
Official tweet
Secret soft spot for paper craft cases. Lovely job! https://t.co/jm1FQ5r1EW — Raspberry Pi (@Raspberry_Pi) October 13, 2015
Activity E – Ada selfies
- Ada Lovelace cardboard cutout
- Designed by Stuart Brett
Celebrating #ALD15 #ALD15EdUni with my #adaselfie pic.twitter.com/TpRb6USljx
— Andreea (@c_aramelle) October 13, 2015
Update 10NOV2015 – Wikipedia Contributions
- With help from the very generous Sara Thomas (Museums Galleries Scotland – Wikimedia in Residence), one University of Edinburgh student made substantial additions to the Ada Lovelace Wikipedia page (Persian)
For #ALD15EdUni, one of our students updated the #Persian #AdaLovelace @Wikipedia page – https://t.co/p0cKBKJcXr pic.twitter.com/3I85IBGwDV
— UoE IC Team (@tweelearning) November 10, 2015
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