News from July 2006
Does your training have the desired effect?
Monday 31 July 2006 by Will Allen
The Netskills/BTEC Professional Certificate in Training Design and Delivery is the latest addition to our highly-successful accreditation programme. The first event will run from the 11th-14th September in Newcastle. Full Story...
Preliminary CPD Survey Results Presented at UCISA Conference
Monday 10 July 2006 by Carl Vincent
Initial results from a survey of IT services staff were presented at the 2006 UCISA TLIG Conference. Netskills is currently conducting the study, investigating professional development and accreditation in the sector. Full Story...
October Workshop Programme Released - with discounts for Early Birds!
Sunday 16 July 2006 by Carl Vincent
The October 2006 programme of Netskills workshops has been released. A number of new workshops will be launched including: 'Effective e-Learning with Moodle', 'Accessibility, Usability & Your Web Site' and 'Problem based e-Learning'. Book early to secure a place! Full Story...
Double Up on Dreamweaver
Sunday 23 July 2006 by Will Allen
This autumn you can get to grips with the world's favourite web authoring software on the two-day Netskills workshop "Dreamweaver: The Essentials". The first workshop will run in Glasgow on the 10th-11th October and costs just £330 (or £260 for attendees from the education sector). Full Story...
Summer Success with Suffolk Adult and Community Learning
Saturday 15 July 2006 by Lucy Keating
Netskills recently worked with Suffolk County Council to deliver two days of onsite training to tutors in its Adult and Community Learning (ACL) section. Full Story...
Keep up with our Workshop Programme using RSS
Monday 24 July 2006 by Will Allen
More RSS feeds have been added to our web site - now you can have latest information about our workshop programme delivered direct to your desktop or web site. Full Story...
Netskills Trainer Delivers Database Design Training at UCLA
Wednesday 26 July 2006 by Paul Trueman
Paul Trueman, Netskills Consultant Trainer, has been away in July 2006, delivering a week of training at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). As a qualified SQL instructor, he led 23 UK HE and FE teachers through an intensive database design and SQL programming course as part of the annual International Oracle Academy training programme. Full Story...
JISC digitisation web sites get the once over from Netskills
Thursday 27 July 2006 by Will Allen
A team of Netskills staff recently completed a review of web sites from the JISC digitisation programme. Six web sites were evaluated for their technical structure, usability and accessibility and quality of written content. Full Story...
The End Of The Web As We Know It?
Sunday 30 July 2006 by Lucy Keating
The media is awash with stories about blogs, wikis and social software tools such as MySpace and Frappr. But is it all just another craze, or do these services really have the potential to revolutionise online information and mark a new era for the web? Full Story...
