Onsite Information Skills Training

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Information Skills: Is Google Enough?
Learn how to make the most of Google, and a range of other information sources, in order to find quality information quickly and effectively. Gain a greater understanding of how Google works and equip you to search it, and other sites and evaluate your results more effectively. Full Details
Blogs, Wikis and Social Networking:
Discover how easy it is to publish and access information online. This course will show you how to create, enhance and manage a blog for yourself. We will explain how blogs, wikis and other social tools can be used at home or in the workplace and explore the issues surrounding them. Full Details
Web 2.0 Tools to Make Life Easier
Are you drowning in information and wasting too much time trying to keep up? This workshop introduces a range of tools to help make the web work for you. Full Details
Writing for the Web
Explore and take away a range of proven practical techniques that you will be able to apply directly to your own web site. Writing for the web will help you to write and re-purpose content for the web, which is an important yet difficult skill to master. Full Details
Community Participation with Blogs and Social Networking
Use tools such as blogging and social networking to play a more active role in the global education community. Full Details
Digital Storytelling for Teaching and Learning
Explore creative ways of using digital media to create and share stories and build engaging and assessable activities for students. Full Details

Information Management

Exploring XML
XML provides a flexible, standards-compliant, framework for structuring and processing data to be delivered over the internet. On this workshop you will learn how XML documents are constructed and explore options for delivering and manipulating them using web-based technologies. Full Details
Creating a More Powerful Web Using RDFa
A workshop to explore the benefits of a more semantic web and how you can use RDFa to enhance the discoverability, usability and popularity of your online resources. Full Details
NVivo 8: Software for qualitative data analysis
A comprehensive two-day course demonstrating and explaining how to use NVivo to analyse complex (non-numerical) data. The course will focus on: how to classify, manage and analyse a range of data types including audio and video sources, pictures and transcripts. This course refers to NVivo version 8. Full Details

Customised Training

If the descriptions don't quite fit, the content can usually be tailored to better match you and your organisation. When you contact us, your consultant trainer will be able to advise you on the most suitable programme for your participants.


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