Online – Making WordPress work for you
25th February, Online,
An online workshop covering the practical skills needed to install, maintain and customise WordPress.

Exploring Digital Storytelling
28th February, Netskills Training Suite, Newcastle
Explore why stories are a powerful and effective way of communicating with an audience and how the technique can be used effectively for a wide range of purposes; learning, publicity and marketing, community engagement and more.

Online – An Introduction to Instructional Design
5th March, Online
Get to grips with the methodologies and practical applications of effective Instructional Design in this online workshop. You will learn how to use specific development tools, strategies and techniques to support the interactive process of Instructional Design.

e-Learning Essentials: BTEC Certificate
12th – 14th March, Netskills Training Suite, Newcastle
This intensive workshop teaches comprehensive techniques, methodologies and tools to enable you to confidently design, develop, assess and evaluate e-learning.

Online – Podcasting: A Practical Guide
19th March, Online
An online workshop providing a practical guide to the planning and production of effective podcasts that will engage listeners. Participants will have the opportunity to evaluate a range of podcasts, as well as record, edit and publish their own.

Designing Websites – Foundation for Success
20th March, Kings House, Manchester, Book Now: http://bit.ly/12pG221
Explore how the key principles of good web design, information architecture and usability, plus effective collaboration between technical and non-technical roles, combined to create successful websites.

Project management for the education sector
21st March, Kings House, Manchester, Book Now: http://bit.ly/UrRc0s
This workshop introduces a project management methodology that can be adapted for any size of project and is specifically tailored to the needs of the education sector. The day is interactive, providing a structured approach to project management and investigating a number of examples.

HTML5: Evolution or Revolution
27th March, George Square Edinburgh University, Book Now: http://bit.ly/ZqefQ3
A comprehensive introduction to the benefits, possibilities and practical implementation of HTML5.

Getting the most from your Google Analytics
28th March, George Square Edinburgh University, Book Now: http://bit.ly/WbIAxa
Everyone with a web site wants to keep track of how effective it is and who is viewing the content. This workshop explains how to get the most from the web’s most popular visitor analysis tool.

Early bird prices are still available for all workshops. For full details, visit our workshop programme page: http://bit.ly/V39fh9

February 27th : The future of copyright in the digital age, Elisabeth Goodhand and Charles Oppenheim, London (see above)
March 21st : Social media for organisations – the basics, Megan Roberts and Ned Potter
March 26th : Making Google behave, Karen Blakeman, Manchester
April 24th : Search usability, Tony Russell-Rose, Edinburgh
May 21st : Digital marketing toolkit, Ned Potter, Edinburgh
May 22nd : Collaborative working, Dion Lindsay, London
June 12th : Getting to grips with developing and managing e-book collections: an introduction, Chris Armstrong and Ray Lonsdale, London
June 19th : Getting better at everything you do: optimising the way you work, Elisabeth Goodman, London
June 27th : Anything but Google, Karen Blakeman, Newcastle
July 2nd : Digital workplaces, Martin White, London
July 4th : The future of copyright in the digital age, Elisabeth Goodhand and Charles Oppenheim, Manchester
July 16th : Social searching, Karen Blakeman, Bristol
September 10th : Change management and marketing, Shaida Dorabjee and Elisabeth Goodman, London
September 25th : Enterprise search, Martin White, London
October 22nd : Getting the best from virtual teams, Martin White, London
October 30th : Making Google behave, Karen Blakeman, London
November 19th : Anything but Google, Karen Blakeman, London
November 20th : Search usability: filters and facets, Tony Russell-Rose, York

Watch out for further details as we move into 2013.

Trainers: Emily Goodhand and Professor Charles Oppenheim
When: 27th February 2013
Venue: London

Course Outline:
This one day, highly interactive course will bring attendees up to date on recent developments in UK copyright law, explaining the implications for all who use information resources in their day to day work, and what they need to tell colleagues. You will gain the confidence to deal with the practical issues which they might encounter, and to answer questions from colleagues on topics as wide ranging as orphan works, licences (including Creative Commons licences) and the significance of proposed legislative changes (including Hargreaves Review, Digital Economy Act and EU legislation) and recent key legal cases.

Who should attend:
This course is aimed at all those who undertake library and information work that involves the use of copyright materials and who are keen to learn about recent developments in copyright law and practice. Knowledge of copyright principles and law is assumed.

Course Presenters: Emily Goodhand and Professor Charles Oppenheim
Emily is the Copyright Compliance Officer at the University of Reading. She has a strong online presence as @copyrightgirl on Twitter and represents the lis-copyseek community as Vice-Chairman of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA). Charles was until he retired in 2009 Professor of Information Science at Loughborough University. He is now a copyright consultant, a frequent contributor to lis-copyseek discussions and is both a member of LACA and of the team that advises the JISC on IPR matters.

To register your interest in this meeting, reserve a place, or request further details, please email meetings@ukeig.org.uk
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Reading lists are a perennial issue in the academic Library. Resource lists, book lists what are they in the first place? How do you ascertain what the academics are recommending to their students and what is the process of the Library finding this out? Is the Library being bypassed by the process? How do you meet the needs of students and staff in the reading list process? How do the reading lists systems relate to other library and university systems?

Further details

These and a range of issues will be explored at this cpd25 event. Speakers from a number of institutions will be discussing the issues and explaining how they have dealt with them.

Software suppliers from some of the major reading list products will also be attending.

Speakers confirmed so far include:
Gary Brewerton (LORLS)
Hannah Young (RefWorks and Moodle – building on Telstar)
Richard Cross (TalisAspire)
Anselm Nye (TalisAspire)

Registration 9:30 – 10.00am; Finish 4pm
Cost: £90 for members and £135 for other institutions.

Venue:

The Hardy & Burnside Rooms at the London Mathematical Society, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS; Website: www.lms.ac.uk

More details available from http://tinyurl.com/boyczde