Dear Colleague
There are still spaces available on the following workshops that Netskills will be running in October:
1. Detecting and Deterring Plagiarism, 23rd October
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This practical workshop explores the impact of the web on plagiarism in education, and enables attendees to examine online and other methods of deterring and detecting it.
2. Web 2.0 Tools to Make Life Easier, 24th October
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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. From online post-it notes and to-do lists to personalising your own Google home page, the web is awash with tools and gadgets to help you streamline your working and home life.
3. Information Skills: Is Google Enough? 25th October
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This workshop will give you a greater understanding of how Google works and equip you to search it, and other sites, more effectively. The workshop also provides you with the opportunity to explore what else is out there, learn about new developments in searching and think about how to evaluate web sites for quality.
4. Accessibility, Usability & Your Web Site, 30th October
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The modern world now relies heavily on the web to deliver services and information directly to users, wherever they are and whoever they may be. The addition of legislation to ensure everyone can access and use important web content means that developers must have the skills to balance basic access to their web site with the ability for everyone to engage with it in a meaningful way.
Understanding the different ways that people interact the web is the key to being able to provide a better online experience for everyone - but there is still a tendency for developers to focus on solutions for users with visual impairment. This workshop will introduce a more holistic approach to making accessible, usable web content and key evaluation techniques that you can use on your own (and other people's) web sites.
5. CSS: A Complete Web Style Toolkit, 31st October
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The nature of the web today means there is an expectation for sites to deliver professional-looking, accessible and cost-effective content. Couple this with the need to provide easily maintained web pages - that also meet the current publishing standards - and you have just some of the reasons that make CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) into an essential toolkit that all web authors should have at their disposal.
By exploring the core concepts and techniques - and in some cases their limitations - you will leave equipped with a practical understanding of the most useful tools that CSS offers the web developer. You can then immediately start to use them to build creative, accessible, standards-compliant style into your own web sites.
Further details these workshops, including prices and booking forms, and of all future Netskills events are available from:
www.netskills.ac.uk/workshops
These workshops can also support our BTEC-accredited qualifications:
www.netskills.ac.uk/accreditation
Regards
Jamie Stogden
Netskills
University of Newcastle
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE1 7RU
tel: 0191 222 5000
fax: 0191 222 5001
web: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/
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