Onsite Information Skills Training
Working Online
- 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
- Fundamentals of Flash 8
- A workshop to you and your organisation harness the power of information by raising awareness of the importance of information skills ('i-skills') in the workplace, helping individuals and organisations assess their own information skills, identifying strengths and weaknesses and developing strategies for improvement. 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
- Professional Development Workshop for External Engagement: Legal Issues Focus
- This workshop is the second in a series of Professional Development Seminars aimed at people working in the Business and Community Engagement field in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Full Details
- Professional Development for External Engagement: Focus on Web 2.0
- This workshop is the third in a series of Professional Development Seminars aimed at people working in the Business and Community Engagement field in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Full Details
- Professional Development Workshop for External Engagement: Information Management Focus
- This workshop is the second in a series of Professional Development Seminars aimed at people working in the Business and Community Engagement field in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. 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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