Saturday 15 August 2009

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...

3 comments:

  1. Sounds like the place has really gone to pot since I moved on!

    Are you getting Digital Comms involved in development of the Web 2.0 course at all?

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  2. We hope to, yes. I think it's important we do. Yep, we've got a fairly ambitious plan for the Oct-Mar course programme:

    Internet Skills
    Information drop-ins
    Information into Evidence
    Web 2.0
    Web 2.0 for Policymakers

    Check the eLibrary when I return from leave for details :-)

    Oh, and the hour long Web 2.0 'taster session' at LAW week in Glasgow...

    Interesting times...

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  3. If I can be of any assistance, let me know. Have lots of thoughts on Web 2.0 for policy makers in particular. :-)

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