Teaching Web 2.0 skills in the workplace

It's been Graft Central at my desk this week. Back from my hols for a week and (amongst other duties) I've...

Collated and considered feedback for our new look library homepage. Now written, waiting to be published. Now to sort out the rest of them. Stares blankly into the abyss.

Discussed tweaks to the new Internet Skills course. Which needs to be called something zestier than 'Internet Skills'. Mmmmm. Must work on that.

Also helping with the materials for a short interactive hour long Web 2.0 course, and a full 3 hour version of same. Yep. A 3 hour long webby course.

Staff want Web 2.0 tools. Glossing over the apparent demand for YouTube, it's clear there is a need for this. And more tools are being made available in our workplace to satisfy this expectation. So we really do need to show staff the most relevant. It will be interesting to see their expectations, assumptions and interest in these tools. Which ones will they want to use and why?

Anyway, all that left me so weak with effort that I'm on holiday. Again. This time there's no plan to do any work whatsoever.

Well...

Wot I did on my holidays...

Apart from lazing around, punctuated by moments of guilt that induces, I wrote the first draft of our Library Service's all new Advanced Internet Skills course. Yes. Be impressed. This will replace two previous courses we have been running on alternate months - Essential Internet Skills (EIS) and Advanced Internet Skills (AIS). EIS was pitched just a bit too low and undersubscribed as most folks opted to book on AIS. However, AIS course content was too broad.

The all new AIS will launch in October. I think (I hope) it will go down well with all concerned. More on this work in future postings.