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DOTs head for Athens
Posted on 16 January 2012 10:57
The 2nd DOT study visit will be to Athens from January 16-20th 2012. The purpose of the visit is to look at Employability Support Programmes in the host country, see whether they can be transferred to the UK and what lessons we can learn. Over the three days we plan to look at: the overall [...]
DOTS head for Gdansk!
Posted on 21 October 2011 09:05
Five members of the ESF-funded ‘Making IT Personal: Joining the DOTs’ scheme went to the ‘Innovation for Digital Inclusion’ conference in Gdansk, Poland, to let the rest of Europe know about our project and to see what we could learn from projects in other European countries. Martin Cantor from Barnsley Council, Val Petersen and Paul [...]
DOTs participating in Go On Barnsley month from October
Posted on 07 September 2011 15:44
Taking place for a month from the end of October, Go On Barnsley, devised by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and UK Online, is a “high profile, high octane, highly visible and widespread activity to help people get online.” Go On Barnsley will call on local DOTs to get involved in exercising their mentoring skills to those [...]
Sheffield Online College DOTs creating knowledge in their communities
Posted on 03 August 2011 16:56
Sheffield College is a national leader in developing online courses and training resources. Students on the college’s three-year iMedia course have become digital outreach trainers, volunteering their computer skills to those who need it in their homes and communities. Jamie Jackson, right, aged twenty, has shown his father, the owner of a guitar shop, how [...]
DOTs Recognised at 3rd Making IT Personal Awards Evening
Posted on 15 July 2011 16:48
Digital Outreach Trainers, their e-mentors and Making IT Personal project partners returned to the Source Meadowhall in Sheffield for the 3rd DOTs awards on the evening of Tuesday 12th July. Nick Jeans, from managing agency Sero, outlined how the event was not only for newly qualified DOTs to receive their certificates, but also ‘a chance [...]
