Information Skills Workshops

Single-day Workshops

Embed metadata in your web content using RDFa
Enhance the discoverability, usability and popularity of your online resources by learning how technologies such as RDFa can unlock the benefits of a more semantically organised web. Full Details
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Exploring Digital Storytelling
An opportunity to explore the use of simple web-based tools to communicate engaging messages through images and sounds. Full Details
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Getting the most from your Google Analytics
Everyone with a web site wants to keep track of how effective it is and who is viewing the content. This workshop shows you how to use Google Analytics, the leading free tool, to find out. Full Details
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Location Location Location: How to Harness and Use Online Mapping Tools
Understand how location aware technologies are changing the way we use the web and learn how to harness them for your own purposes. Full Details
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Making WordPress work for you
Learn the practical skills needed to install, maintain and customise WordPress. Participants will build their own fully functional installation of WordPress on a USB drive, which can later be published or used for ongoing development. Full Details
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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
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Podcasting - A Practical Guide (delivered online)
An online workshop providing a practical guide to the planning and production of effective podcasts that will engage listeners. Participants will have the opportunity to evaluate a range of podcasts, as well as record, edit and publish their own. Full Details
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Podcasting: A Practical Guide
Learn how to plan and produce more effective and engaging podcasts, that that people will really want to listen to. Full Details
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Writing for the Web
Master the skills you need to write and re-purpose content for the web and explore proven, practical techniques that you will be able to apply directly to your own web site. Full Details
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Half-day Workshops

Ask the audience: how to design and deliver engaging activities using electronic voting systems
A half-day workshop on using electronic voting systems across educational contexts. This hands-on workshop teaches you how to design, develop, deliver and evaluate engaging activities using this technology. Full Details
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Classroom Technologies: How to use Interactive Whiteboards effectively in learning and teaching
A hands-on approach to the features, functionality and benefits of using interactive whiteboards and audience response (or voting) systems in an educational environment. Full Details
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Multi-day Workshops

Maximising Online Resource Effectiveness
A two day workshop addressing the range of strategic and tactical considerations that determine effectiveness of online resources and activities. It includes: how the internet is evolving, the role of search engine optimisation, social networks and the relevance of smart technologies. Full Details
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