Dear Colleague
Netskills will be running the following workshops at Nottingham University in January 2007:
1. Communication and Collaboration for e-Learning, 9th January
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Are two heads really better than one? Discover how to use online communication and collaboration to enhance learning and teaching. Topics covered include designing collaborative e-learning, using tools such as blogs, wikis and podcasts and effective group moderation.
2. Problem Based e-Learning, 10th January
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Delivering higher order e-learning requires the application of thinking skills. This workshop introduces these concepts through the application of problem solving scenarios.
3. Effective e-Learning with Moodle, 11th January
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The Moodle learning environment is becoming increasingly popular in the UK education sector. It is free to use and is designed using sound pedagogical principles. This workshop introduces Moodle, its main features and demonstrates why Moodle is different from other learning environments.
4. Information Skills: Is Google Enough? 16th January
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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.
5. Blogs, Wikis & Social Networking, 17th January
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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.
6. Surviving Web Overload, 18th January
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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.
These workshops also support our BTEC-accredited qualifications:
www.netskills.ac.uk/accreditation
Further details these workshops and of all Netskills events are available from:
www.netskills.ac.uk/workshops
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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