Review of Teaching & Learning in Social Work Blog Posts for 2016

Posted By Laurel Hitchcock on Dec 28, 2016

The end of a year is a natural time for reflection, and this year I offer a review of all the posts that appeared on Teaching & Learning in Social Work Education during 2016.  My goal for this blog is to write or publish at least two posts a month, which happened more months than not.  I also recruited other social work educators to write about their own experiences in the classroom or with scholarship, and also write about about all of my presentations, either at conferences or as a part of a workshop.  This year, I published a total of 25 blog posts, representing work with numerous collaborators and good colleagues.  Below is a list of this year’s post grouped around the topics of assignments, projects, guest educator posts, and conference presentations.

Assignments:  These blog posts provide information, how-to tips, and ideas about different types of technology-based assignments for the social work classroom:
– Job Shadowing on Twitter with Joy Jones on 1/8/16
– Tweet, Tweet!: Using Live Twitter Chats in Social Work on Education with Dr. Jimmy Young on 1/29/16
– Using #MacroSW in the Classroom with the @OfficialMacroSW Partners on 3/14/16
– Using Pinterest in Undergraduate Social Work Education – #BPDTX16 with Dr. Lisa Baker on 3/31/16
– Revised Technology-Based Learning Task List for Social Work Education with Drs. Melanie Sage and Nancy J. Smyth on 6/13/16

Review of #BPDTX16

Posted By Laurel Hitchcock on Apr 9, 2016

I spent five days in Dallas last week (3/30/16-4/3/16) at the 2016 Annual Program Meeting for the Association of Baccalaureate Program Directors, one of my favorite social work conferences.  My good colleague, Dr. Jimmy Young of California State University – San Marcos, wasn’t able to attend this year’s conference, but wrote a blog post about the pre-conference workshop we worked on with Dr. Stephen Baldridge of Abilene Christian University.  As a member of the BPD Technology Committee, I spent most of my time at sessions from the Technology Track.  Here are some of the sessions I attended and tweeted about during the conference:

– Dr. Becky Anthony & Ms. Jennifer Jewell from Salisbury University presented on A Social Media How-To Guide for BSW Educators – This interactive workshop explores research and best practices to help educators understand how to utilize social media in their courses and departments.  Pros, cons, and goals will be discussed. Also, a student perspective will be reviewed.  Attendees are encouraged to share their own experiences and strategies.

– Dr. Thomas Felke from Florida Gulf Coast University presented on Revealing Patterns, Improving Service Delivery, and Empowering Communities: GIS for Social Work – Social work students and practitioners armed with GIS technology can better understand community needs, measure environmental forces, and improve service delivery. However, few social work departments nationwide offer GIS courses. This session introduces participants to GIS uses within social work and provides real-world examples of social work applications of GIS.

– Dr. Melanie Sage & Mr. Todd Sage from the University of North Dakota presented on Professional Online Identities for Students and Faculty – In today’s internet-reliant culture, a prospective meeting with a social worker or faculty member is often preceded by an internet search.  Social workers have the opportunity to shape their professional online identities. Tools and resources are presented to help social work educators support students in developing online identities.  Here is a link to a blog post about their presentation.

Here is a link to a Storify transcript I created of tweets from the conference.  You’ll see my tweets about each of these sessions as well tweets from other social work educators.  Also, here are links to blog posts about my three presentations at the conference:

Social Media and Technology Basics for the Social Work Educator

Using Pinterest in Undergraduate Social Work Education

Service Learning Labs: Integrating experiential learning across a BSW Curriculum

How to cite this post:

Hitchcock, L. I. (2016, April 9). Review of #BPDTX16 [Blog Post]. Retrieved from https://laureliversonhitchcock.org/2016/04/09/review-of-bpdtx16/.

Social Media and Technology Basics for the Social Work Educator – #BPDTX16

Posted By Laurel Hitchcock on Mar 30, 2016

Welcome to #BPDTX2016! Stephen Baldridge of Abilene Christian University and I are facilitating a pre-conference workshop about social media basics for the social work educator on 3/30/16 from 1:00 – 4:00 PM.  We originally created this workshop with Jimmy Young of California State University – San Marcos, but he won’t be making it to BPD this year.

Our goal for the workshop is to introduce social work educators to the world of social and digital technologies that can be effectively incorporated into the classroom. We will help bridge the gap between understanding and best practice by demonstrating how to use some of the social media platforms. Upon completion, participants will have several practical, “usable” tools to immediately implement in their courses.

Learning Objectives for the workshop include:

1. Understand how a minimum of 3 social media platforms can be incorporated into assignments for social work courses.

2. Recognize/identify a minimum of 2 ways using social and digital media can promote professional development among social work educators.

3. Appreciate the role of collaboration to support the development and implementation of technology-based assignments.

Slides for the presentations can be accessed here: http://www.slideshare.net/secret/CSjdjAcaZ9UYHo 

Here is a link to my blog post about My Guidelines for using Digital & Social Tech in the Classroom and Beyond.