Information Skills news from Netskills

Online delivery enabled The University of Limerick to receive two onsite workshops last week, without the need for either trainers or attendees to travel.

Bookings are now open for our autumn programme featuring four brand new workshops.

Today the Netskills team says goodbye to one of our longest serving trainers, Helen Blanchett, who is leaving to take a leap back to her roots as a librarian.

The Netskills summer programme is now open for bookings and features two brand new workshops – Making WordPress Work for You and Web Design: Involve everyone!.

An exciting range of topics are available for bookings now, including 3 of our newest workshops: 'Collaborative web tools to support the student learner experience', 'An Introduction to Instructional Design for e-Learning' and 'Exploring Digital Storytelling'.

Netskills Director Dave Hartland has shared his memories of meeting some of the internet's early pioneers in an interview for a regional news website.

A new Netskills workshop is set to help staff in higher and further education get to grips with social networking tools, demonstrating how to get the best out of them.

Research staff at Newcastle University were inspired by Netskills to embrace web technologies during an internal one-day conference last month.

To extend the reach of Netskills' training, we're experimenting with new methods for online delivery and support. From live streaming of presentations to online practicals and remote support, there are more ways than ever to get the training you need.

During 2009 Netskills delivered a UK-wide series of workshops to increase the awareness of JISC's Effective Practice with e-Portfolios publication and the e-Portfolios infoKit from JISC infoNet. Resources used during the workshops, including presentations, links, activities and discussion feedback are now available on the Netskills website.