Training
seminar: Florence, 5-7 May 2004
Target
group: Public Administration staff
Level: advanced and
specialised
This training
seminar improves the skill to select relevant and significant information.
The participants will learn to do searches on the Internet as key issue
in order to satisfy complex information needs.
In order to improve search, analyse, organization, management skills, and the
ability to transmit and communicate information, problems related to the
terminological control are examined.
Finally, the seminar aims at promoting a reflection about the legal and
ethical issues surrounding the net and its use.
Didactical
methodology
The seminar includes:
·
traditional didactics;
·
assisted exercises;
·
comparison of experiences.
The
participants are guided toward the conscious and deliberate use of the web
sources and tools through 4 knowledge areas:
1.
Knowledge and use of the most important search engines
2.
Knowledge and use of the most important libraries available online
(structured searches)
3. Knowledge
and use of the sites and the databases available online, the most useful
for the Public Administration operators
4. Knowledge
and use of the most important sites in order to retrieve legal
documents;
and 5
specific core competencies:
1.
Competency in recognizing own information needs
2. Competency
in choosing and using search cognitive strategies
3. Competency
in analysing and evaluating found resources
4. Competency
in recognizing possible legal, social and ethical problems
5. Competency
in synthesizing and organizing information.
Main contents
·
The new
professional competencies for Public Administration
· Information
searching on the Internet
· MindManager:
a software for organizing knowledge
· Searching
for online legal information
· Knowledge
representation through concept maps
· Assisted
exercises and self-evaluation tests
Keywords: information literacy –
Internet information literacy – use of web sources – use of web tools – legal
documents – information searching on the Internet – information sources –
information needs – search cognitive strategies – evaluation of information –
legal, social and ethical issues – information management – information
organisation – knowledge organisation – knowledge representation – concept maps
– terminological control - public administration
