Workshop schedule

DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: Digital labs open afternoon

Organiser: Academic Skills
Open to: Everyone

3D Selfie: Scan yourself

Organiser: Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/103 Creativity Lab
Open to: staff/Students

DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: An introduction to useful digital tools available at York

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Seminar Room
Open to: Everyone

Explore in Virtual Reality

Organiser: Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/103 Creativity Lab
Open to: staff/Students

The Distractibles Meetup

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Students/staff

DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: Some weird and wonderful websites to explore

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

How to make a website

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Critical Thinking: what it is and how to do it

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Returning to Education

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Note-making for Reading: what it is and how to do it

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Learn to code: Introduction to coding

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Introduction to Lectures, Seminars and Tutorials

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS goes to the Library: Everything you wanted to know about using academic libraries but were afraid to ask

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Essential Podcasting

Organiser: Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/103 Creativity Lab
Open to: staff/Students

Academic Reading: what it is and how to do it

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Using Academic Sentences

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Time Management

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Designing presentations in PowerPoint and Google Slides

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Learn to code: Introduction to programming with Python (a 2 week course)

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Assignment Planning

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Seminar Room
Open to: Everyone

Learn to code: Coding music using Bespoke Synth and Sonic Pi

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Strategies to Increase Reading Speed

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Scan & animate a toy

Organiser: Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/103 Creativity Lab
Open to: staff/Students

Academic Googling: Getting the internet to give you what you need

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Effective Listening and Note-taking

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Numerical Reasoning for Employability

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: virtual event
Open to: Everyone

Confidence to Present

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Seminar Room
Open to: Everyone

Master Mind-Mapping

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Seminar Room
Open to: Everyone

Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Seminar Room
Open to: Everyone

DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: What is generative AI and can you trust it?

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Essential Podcasting

Organiser: Creativity Lab
Location: LFA/103 Creativity Lab
Open to: staff/Students

Academic posters: Designing posters in PowerPoint

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Academic Grammar and Vocabulary

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Credible sources - evaluating what we see online

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Numerical Reasoning for Employability

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: virtual event
Open to: Everyone

Study Smarter Not Harder

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Academic Writing: what it is and how to do it

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: An introduction to useful digital tools available at York

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Critical Thinking: what it is and how to do it

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Structuring Paragraphs Effectively

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Essential Spreadsheets (a 5 week course)

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Study Smarter Not Harder

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Seminar Room
Open to: Everyone

Writing and Citing

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

The Distractibles Meetup

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Students/staff

Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Seminar Room
Open to: Everyone

DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: Writing effective prompts for generative AI

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Essay Writing

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Finding the right reading

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Academic Language

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Enhancing Reading Efficiency Using AI

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: YorCreate: tips and tricks for 3D printing

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: Harry Fairhurst Building
Open to: Everyone

Microsoft Word for dissertations and theses

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

How to read an academic article

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Writing in an Academic Style

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Critical Thinking: what it is and how to do it

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Seminar Room
Open to: Everyone

Academic Grammar and Vocabulary

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Reference management

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Power of Punctuation

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Academic Reading: what it is and how to do it

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Confidence to Speak and Listen (COSAL)

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: LFA/144 Seminar Room
Open to: Everyone

DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: Creating data dashboards with Looker Studio

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Designing surveys

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Making Procrastination Work for You

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Editing and Proofreading

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Strategies to Increase Reading Speed

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

The Distractibles Meetup

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Students/staff

Academic Writing: what it is and how to do it

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

An intro to NVivo

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

PGT Dissertation Writing: an introduction

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Postgraduates

Enhancing Reading Efficiency Using AI

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

DIGITAL WEDNESDAYS: Data visualisation: All I got for Christmas was this stupid graph

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

Exam Revision: Science/Maths

Organiser: Academic Skills
Location: online
Open to: Everyone

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