Web 2.0, multimedia & presentation skills: empowering IT competences for today's job market

The main objective behind this workshop is to give the participants a decent training on how they can use computers to enhance their chances for a job. The focus will be on various web 2.0 applications, presentation tools & digital audio and video.

Thanks to the Grundtvig programme of the European Commission and the Flemish National Agency, vzw Let's Learn IT can offer this workshop completely for free (flight ticket, hotel, breakfast lunch & dinner will be paid by us) to 20 unemployed candidates. If you are interested in attending this workshop, you can send us a letter (or email) of motivation in which you tell us why you would like to attend this workshop. You will need to prove that at the moment of applying you are officially unemployed.

Archive February 7-13, 2010, Ghent, Belgium

Target group Unemployed nationals of the EC
Workshop Reference number 2009-1-BE3-GRU13-01100
Number of participants Max. 25
Date February 7-13, 2010
Venue Ghent (Belgium)
Number of sessions 1
Session duration 5 days
Syllabus Book & online manual
Tutor Geert Bonamie / Bart Bonamie
Objectives Participants will have learned the following how to use computers & peripherals in order to create a multimedia presentation; how to use modern communicative platforms such as wiki's, blogs and social community sites; how to work with digital video & audio; how to adequately deliver presentations.

Prior knowledge, while not really required, will come in handy while working with the Windows operating system.

This course follows a very practical approach. There are few or no ex cathedra moments during which theory is explained. Instead, everything is demonstrated step by step, and participants get plenty of time to work out these steps themselves and at their own pace, supervised by the tutor. Participants can choose to work alone, or in small groups.

Day	Date	Programme of learning activities
Arrival	07/02/2010	If different from day 1
1		Arrival + welcome + information about the programme + getting to know each other. Afternoon: brainstorm about contents in subgroups & formulation of expectations
2	08/02	Powerpoint I: basics (entire day) (creating a slideshow; adding sounds & pictures; using templates)
3	09/02	Morning: Working with Audio in Audacity Afternoon: Working with Video in Moviemaker
4	10/02	Morning: Web 2.0 (Youtube, Odeo, video, podcasts,...) Afternoon: Powerpoint II: advanced (integration of previously learned audio & video skills in PowerPoint)
5	11/02	Parallel activities: - Presentations in host schools (morning - afternoon - evening, depending on availability & arrangement with host school) - blog & social community websites (setting up a blog with online CV & personal profile - slidecasts)
6	12/02	Parallel activities: - Presentations in host schools (morning - afternoon - evening, depending on availability & arrangement with host school) - blog & social community websites (setting up a blog with online CV & personal profile - slidecasts)
7	13/02	Presentations in host schools (morning - afternoon - evening, depending on availability & arrangement with host school) Afternoon: official ceremony + departure

Participants are entitled to one month of full support via the Let's Learn IT website. An access code, valid for a whole year, will be sent via email. Using this code, all participants get access to the online course material. Apart from this, every participants can ask the tutor questions after the workshop, using the "Submit a ticket" form (in the user menu). It goes without saying we will try to answer your questions as soon as possible!