Dear Colleague,

Places are still available on the following Netskills workshops running at the Belfast Institute in February:

1. An Internet Highway Code (February 15th)

   Despite the protection offered by institutional systems and
   procedures, both providers and users of web services can still face
   real risks when online.  New evidence suggests that it is people, as
   much as technology, who compromise security and that many are not
   aware of the legal, moral and ethical implications of being online
   and how their actions can have serious repercussions for themselves
   and their employers. 

2. Detecting and Deterring Plagiarism (February 16th)

   This is a practical workshop aimed at staff in further and higher
   education institutions who wish to find out more about the impact of
   the web on plagiarism, and how to deal with it. As well as gaining a
   thorough understanding of issues concerned with plagiarism,
   participants will also explore essay banks, online plagiarism
   detection services, and, through discussions and scenarios, consider
   different approaches to deterring plagiarism.

3. Web Pages From Scratch (February 17th)

   A practical workshop for those who are users of the web and wish to
   start creating and publishing their own web pages. It includes an
   introduction to XHMTL (the markup language behind the web) and 
   simple CSS style sheets for formatting, using graphics, lists and 
   tables, plus an investigation of key design issues and the use web 
   authoring tools.

Full details of these workshops, together with booking forms are available from our events web-site:
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/workshops/forthcoming.html

Regards,

Steve Boneham.

Netskills,
University of Newcastle,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
NE1 7RU. 

Tel: (0191) 222 5000 
Fax: (0191) 222 5001
Web: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/