News from June 2006

Last week saw the launch of Netskills training specifically for postgraduates. Twenty two postgrads from Newcastle University attended a two-day workshop titled Harnessing the Web for Researchers and left with skills for creating web pages and utilising the Web for their studies.

In early June Netskills delivered Web Development workshops for staff at Dundee University. Onsite workshops at Dundee have now been running for three years and continue to be hugely successful.

As part of the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006 held at the University of Bath last week Netskills staff presented current research work in to the potential of using web services to enhance e-Learning solutions.

Netskills have just released a wide range of exciting new training materials, with topics taken from popular new workshops such as e-Learning Design and Collaborative e-Learning, Online Assessment, Mobile Learning, Database Design, Cascading Style Sheets, Flash 8, Writing for the Web, Blogs and Social Networking and Searching Specialised Sources.

The September 2006 programme of Netskills regional workshops has just been released. A wide range of topics are being covered, including 'Web Pages from Scratch', 'Communication and Collaboration for e-Learning' and a new workshop, 'Blogs, Wikis and Social Networking: The end of the web as we know it?'. We will be visiting Nottingham, London, Manchester, Cambridge and Newcastle.

This summer Netskills is launching a new three-day training event that covers everything you need to create high-quality, professional web content. "Fundamentals of Web Design and Development" will run from the 12th - 14th July in the Netskills Training Suite at Newcastle University and you can book online now.