Workshop sessions

The dates for booking the workshop sessions are:

February:

13th Saturday monrings 9:30AM to 12:00PM - Session 1;

20th Saturday monrings 9:30AM to 12:00PM – Session 2;

27th Saturday monrings 9:30AM to 12:00PM - Session 1;

March:

6th Saturday monrings 9:30AM to 12:00PM - Session 2;

8th Monday evenings 6:30PM to 8:30PM – Session 1;

15th Monday evenings 6:30PM to 8:30PM – Session 2;

20th Saturday monrings 9:30AM to 12:00PM - Wrap-up Session,useful tips & networking

*[Attendees who need to arrange for child care to be able to attend workshop will be able to claim back the expenses if they keep the receipt/evidences.]*

Venue:

The Hope Centre (IT suite) in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

Workshop plans and content:
The sessions will be flexible, informal and hopefully fun too!

Session 1:

• House rules
• Introductions / icebreaker – what do you hope to get from the sessions?
• Confidence scales 1-10, 10 being v confident, 1 is not
• Aims for sessions
• Session plan
• Introducing the equipment
• Overview of blurb and creativelearning as examples WP [handout]
• Break into activity

—BREAK—

• What can you do within a social network:

–The dashboard!
–privacy settings
–Upload a photo

• Video
• Posting a comment
• Tagging
• Make friends and networking
• Showcase/discussion -

what have you done?
what issues did it raise?
Was it as hard as you expected?
What would you like to do next?
Anything we missed?

• ‘Learning Extension’ Write down some things you want to do between sessions.
• Evaluate the session

Session 2:

• House rules
• Reflection on last week’s session and inbetween activities
• Demonstrations:

RSS feeds
Monitoring mentions/profile
IP theft + creative commons
Research
Embedding
Social bookmarking
Realtime search
Data.gov.uk etc
Crowdsourcing

• Activity choice: presence development, research of networks and tools, network discussions

Additional sectors and contents would possibly be added when identified demands and discussed.
For people that only attend 1 session of choice, some of these contents will be altered as we go along.
Don’t worry if you can not make both sessions, as all the learning materials (tutorials, hand-outs,etc.) will be free for download on our website.
The aim is that everyone should be able to walk away with more skills and knowledge and have the ability to carry on developing these skills via online methods.
If you haven’t filled in the form for the workshop date and time preference, please do now HERE.

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