Twitter Project for HBSE Course
Dr. Becky Anthony
Ms. Bobbi Arrington
Dr. Becky Anthony (@becky_anthony) is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Work at Salisbury University and Ms. Bobbi Arrington (@bobbielle) is an instructor at School of Social Work at Monmouth University. In this blog post, they write about how they developed and managed an assignment using Twitter in their Human Behavior and the Social Environment Courses. In another post, Ms. Arrington interviews Ms. Nadia Jeter, a BSW student who completed the assignment.
As professional users of Twitter, we understand how social media can be utilized to share knowledge, resources, and information. As professors, we wondered would students be able to gain similar professional benefits if they utilized social media, specifically Twitter, in the classroom. To help us answer this question, we created the “Twitter Project” for our Human Behavior and the Social Environment (HBSE) students.
Based on the course design where the content of each week is about a specific diverse community, we assigned students into groups and gave each group a specific diverse community. These communities included: religious communities, people with disabilities, social classism in the United States, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and LGBTQ populations. Each student was asked to post, using our classroom hashtag, two tweets per week about their assigned community. They were encouraged to post about news, current events, and advocacy opportunities, focusing on examples of social and economic injustice. Learners were graded based on writing two posts (or tweets) per week. The assignment was worth eight points. A student received a point each week they posted two tweets that advocated on behalf of an issue that affected their particular population.
Follow-up to 10/28 #MacroSW Twitter Chat
How do you get social work students passionate about policy issues? Jimmy Young and I have an answer for you – live Twitter chats! We were overwhelmed with the response from social work educators and students to our live Twitter Chat last Tuesday, October 28th. My best estimate is that close to 200 people, mostly students from at least six universities across the country, participated in our one-hour chat about income inequality. You can read a copy of the transcript from the chat here. What I observed during the chat was that students were engaged in open, thoughtful and respectful conversations about the problems in our country due to the wide income gap between the rich and poor.
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The chat was hosted by the #MacroSW Chat folks who graciously allowed Jimmy and I to co-moderate a discussion about the film Inequality for All. When organizing this event, we targeted to social work students in social welfare policy and macro practice classes. Click here to read about how we set up the chat and developed an assignment using Twitter.
Many thanks to #MacroSW Chat, especially Pat Shelly (@PatShellySSW) of the University of Buffalo School of Social Work and Karen Zgoda (@karenzgoda), Instructor at Bridgewater State University, who sponsored and promoted our chat. And a big thanks to everyone who participated in the chat – including social work students and educators from Appalachia State, Bridgewater State University, California State University – Long Beach, Tarleton State University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Buffalo School of Social Work, and the University of Nebraska Kearney.
How to cite this post:
Hitchcock, L. I. (2014, November 7). Follow-up to 10/28 #MacroSW Twitter Chat[Blog Post]. Retrieved from https://laureliversonhitchcock.org/2014/11/07/follow-up-to-1028-macrosw-twitter-chat/.
AL/MS 2014 Social Work Education Conference
This October day finds me in Tuskegee, AL presenting at the 2014 Alabama-Mississippi Social Work Education Conference. The purpose of this post is to provide supplemental information for today’s presentation. My session will focus on how social work educators can incorporate social media into their pedagogy.
Here is a link to the Prezi that I will show during the presentation.
#MacroSW Live Twitter Chat on 10/28/14
Jimmy Young (@Jimmysw) and I (@laurelhitchcock) have designed a social media assignment for social work students that involve students watching a documentary and then participating in a live Twitter chat. The assignment is meant for a policy or macro class and involves students watching the documentary Inequality for All, and then participating in a live Twitter chat on October 28th at 9pm Eastern Standard Time. We have partnered with the wonderful folks that conduct the #MacroSW chat for this special event and will be using their hashtag #MacroSW to facilitate the live chat.
We are interested in piloting this assignment in classrooms across the country and hope that other social work or human service educators might participate by including the assignment in class and providing feedback. Of course if you would rather just join the Live Chat only, that would be wonderful as we hope to have many individuals participate.
Videos as Tools of Advocacy in Social Work Pedagogy – BPD 2014 Conference
This is my third and last day at the 2014 annual meeting for the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors in Louisville, KY. Today, I’m presenting with Dr. Andrew Battista with the University of Montevallo about a video assignment we developed for a social work policy course, and the purpose of this post is to provide supplemental information for today’s presentation.
#BPD2014 Presentation on Teaching Professional Social Work Skills with Twitter
I am attending the 2014 annual meeting for the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors in Louisville, KY. Today is Day 1 of the conference for me, and I’m presenting with Dr. Jimmy Young of the University of Nebraska at Kearney (@Jimmysw) about using Twitter in the classroom. We presented this information at CSWE’s annual program meeting back in October, and the purpose of this post is to provide supplemental information for today’s presentation. If you are attending the conference, please join us in Room Kentucky D at 11:15 AM in the conference venue. Or follow our live demo on Twitter starting at 11:45 AM EST with the hashtag #swktweets.
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