JISC

Date: 11th December 2007

Venue: Lakeside Conference Centre, Aston University, Birmingham

Programme

Introduction

For some projects, the first and only contact with the community is a final report. However, a project is more likely to be successful if it engages with the community throughout its duration, promoting ongoing reflection and allowing audience feedback to direct the project.

Emerging web technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and social networks can provide an effective way to do this. This event will consider best practice in using such technologies in the context of communication and dissemination for your JISC project.

By the end of the workshop participants will have created an action plan for how technology can best support their project communication and dissemination activities.

Timings

• Registration: from 9.30am
• Start: 10am
• Coffee / tea: 11.15am
• Lunch: 1pm
• Coffee / tea: 3pm
• Finish: 4pm

Topics Covered

• The role of communication & dissemination in a project
• The technologies and their effective use
• Analysing your audiences
• Choosing the right tools for your project
• Integrating the tools with your project web site

Outcomes

By the end of the workshop participants will have:

• Evaluated a range of web technologies for project communication
• Gained practical experience in using such technologies
• Discussed the issues raised by adopting such technologies
• Created an action plan for the use of technology to support their project

Materials

All resources from this workshop are available at: http://www.pageflakes.com/s.p.boneham/

There is also an event wiki, available from: http://jiscprojectcomms.wetpaint.com/

The slides are available on Slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?q=jiscprojectcomms&what=tag), search by the tag 'jiscprojectcomms' to locate them.

Workshop leaders

This event will be facilitated by Steve Boneham and Will Allen of Netskills. Both are professional trainers with expertise in the design, development and delivery of web technologies training. They have also worked together on a number of Netskills projects, utilising a range of technologies and online tools for planning, collaboration and dissemination.

Further information about Steve & Will is available from:

http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/about/staff/steveboneham.html

http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/about/staff/willallen.html