Conference Presentation: Developing a Professional & Ethical Online Presence for Social Work Practice
On Thursday, October 3rd, I will be at the Alabama/Mississippi Social Work Education Conference presenting with Allison Curington, Field Director at the University of Alabama, about best practices for social workers in the use of social and digital media when working with clients and communities. During this workshop, we will cover the basics of social and digital technologies as well lessons learned from experience with training students and social work practitioners. Additionally, we will be sharing how to access the Social Media Toolkit for Field Educators, a free resource with educator’s guide and a PowerPoint slide deck.
If you won’t be at the conference, I am including all the important details about the presentation in this blog post.
First, you can access your own free copy of the Social Media Toolkit for Field
Educators here:
https://laureliversonhitchcock.org/2018/11/05/revised-social-media-toolkit/
Second, here is a link to a worksheet from the presentation: Develop your Professional Social Media Policy Worksheet
Archive
2021
- Using LinkedIn for #SWVirtualPal (9/8/21)
- Writing your values-based teaching philosophy (8/5/21)
- How to define your Teaching Values (7/30/21)
- Developing a Personalized Social Media Policy for Social Work Practice (7/14/21)
- Internet Survival Guide for Social Workers (5/6/21)
- Introducing our new @SWVirtualPal student co-hosts (4/11/21)
- Ten Ways COVID-19 Created the Perfect Storm for Social Worker Burnout (and why I still have hope) (1/20/21)
2020
- Pinterest Assignment for the Social Work Classroom (9/16/20)
- Professional Collaboration Networks for Social Work Practice (8/26/20)
- Actions that White Social Work Educators can do now for Racial Justice (8/16/20)
- Virtual Volunteering for Social Work Education during COVID19 (7/22/20)
- Book Group Discussion Guide for Teaching Social Work with Digital Technology (7/2/20)
- The unprecedented shift into teleworking; a personal story about working remotely in social work education (6/15/20)
- Fostering a spirit of collaboration with Social Work Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic (6/8/20)
- Virtual Field Education: Harnessing Technology and Campus Partnerships to Provide Learning Opportunities (5/14/20)
- Academic and Professional Blogging (4/24/20)
- A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19 (4/10/20)
- Tech-based Assignments for Remote Teaching & Learning in Social Work (3/24/20)
- Being a Social Work Student in the times of COVID-19: One way to share, document & support (3/20/20)
- Social Work in the Times of COVID-19: One way to share, document & support (3/20/20)
- The Power of Lighting in a Virtual Classroom: Tips on Improving Webcam Lighting for Online Educators (3/16/20)
- Using Twitter at a Professional Conference (3/12/20)
- How do you do relational Twitter?: Developing your Professional Collaboration Network (2/14/20)
- A Collection of Resources for New and Emerging Field Directors (2/7/20)
- Twitter for your Professional Collaboration Network (PCN) (1/31/20)
- Podcast Assignment for the Social Work Classroom (1/15/20)
2019
- Review of Teaching & Learning in Social Work for 2019 (12/26/19)
- What is a Professional Collaboration Network (PCN) & why do you need one? (12/17/19)
- Reflections from the Summer 2019 Institute on Pedagogy and Technology for Online Courses (11/19/19)
- #APM19 – Building Capacity for International Field Placements: A Program Development Checklist (10/24/19)
- #APM19 – Evolving the Signature Pedagogy with the Social Media Toolkit for Field Educators (10/22/19)
- #APM19 – Changing Teaching Practices for Technology: Using the SAMR Model for Technology Integration (10/22/19)
- #APM19 The Flip(grid) Classroom: Utilizing the Microsoft app Flipgrid to promote student learning (10/21/19)
- Conference Presentation: Developing a Professional & Ethical Online Presence for Social Work Practice (10/2/19)
- Teaching Social Work with Digital Technology Book Group (9/23/19)
- Three Ways to Model Good Boundaries with Technology in Social Work Ed (9/2/19)
- Tips for New Online Social Work Educators (8/21/19)
- #SWTech – An Introduction and History of the Online Group (8/15/19)
- Digital Advocacy in the Social Work Classroom: Students speaking out online (8/7/19)
- 360-degree immersive video apps: Why you should create meaningful research-based digital resources to engage learners (7/31/19)
- Preparing social work students for the licensure exam: An online intervention (7/24/19)
- Your Devices are Welcome!: How to Handle Technology in the Social Work Classroom (6/26/19)
- Sharing power with students by seeking their input on a grading rubric (6/19/19)
- Consciously Connecting and Proactively Collaborating: The CoActEd Learner Mapping Tool in #SocWorkEd (6/11/19)
- ‘App’- lying the digital in social work… Or why we should not be teaching the same way for 20 years (6/4/19)
- Reviewing my 2019 grading practices for #SocWorkEd – Part 2 (5/27/19)
- Becoming an awesome adjunct professor in social work (4/23/19)
- #SWDE 2019 – Imagining Social Work Education into the Future: Skills for Social Justice in a Technology-Mediated World (4/13/19)
- #SWDE2019 Keynote – What role will Social Workers choose in shaping the digital future? (4/13/19)
- #SWDE2019 – A Toolkit for Social and Digital Media Policies in Field Education (4/11/19)
- #SWDE2019 – Incorporating Technology into Social Justice Assignments for Social Work Education
- #SWTech: The Beginnings of an Online Community (3/31/19)
- Using Rubrics to provide Strength-based Feedback for Social Work Assignments (2/4/19)
- List of Podcasts for Social Work (1/30/19)
- Changing my grading practices in 2019: Tips for #SocWorkEd (1/11/19)
2018
- Review of Teaching & Learning in Social Work for 2018 (12/29/18)
- Using an Interprofessional Perspective for NASW’s Technology Standard for Social Work Education (11/10/18)
- #APM18 Teaching with Technology using the SAMR Model (11/7/18)
- #APM18 Helping Social Work Students develop a Professional Online Presence for Interprofessional Communication (11/6/18)
- Second Edition of the Social Media Toolkit for Social Work Field Educators (11/5/18)
- Teaching in the open: How I published a free textbook (11/1/18)
- BPD Technology Committee’s Technology Assessment Checklist for Social Work Practice (10/30/18)
- Using Mobile Apps with with Social Work Students (10/26/18)
- Creating an Infographic in a Social Work Course: A Student’s Perspective from Danielle Davis (10/9/18)
- Social Work and the Open Education Movement (10/1/18)
- Student Placement Software for the Social Work Field Office: Goodbye Post-it Notes! (9/7/18)
- #husITa18/#SWSD2018: Sustaining lifelong learning through the use of Technology-Mediated Professional Learning Networks (7/6/18)
- #husITa18/#SWSD2018: A Connected Community of Learning for Practice: Social Work Virtual Pal (7/5/18)
- #husITa18/#SWSD2018: Visualizing Data: Infographics for Teaching and Learning about Social Welfare (7/4/18)
- Reflection Questions for Digital Literacy in Social Work (7/2/18)
- Social Work Virtual Pal (#SWVirtualPal)… a very ‘real’ connection! (6/29/18)
- Incorporating Flipgrid into the Social Work Classroom: Tips for #SocWorkEd (6/4/18)
- Three things I learned at #IPECSpring18 (5/16/18)
- #SW2018 Visualizing Data: Infographic Assignments across the Social Work Curriculum (4/13/18)
- #BPD2018 Harnessing Technology for one’s own Good: Professional Learning Networks in Social Work (3/16/18)
- Course Mapping for Online Social Work Courses (3/8/18)
- Social Work Educator Tips: Guidelines for Online Discussion Forums (2/20/18)
- Social Work Distance Education Assessment of Readiness Checklist (SW-DEAR) (1/17/18)
2017
- Review of Teaching & Learning in Social Work for 2017 (12/26/17)
- Technology in Social Work Education: Educators’ Perspectives on the NASW Technology Standards for Social Work Education and Supervision (11/30/17)
- Using Technology for Social Work Scholarship: Creating and Sharing your Work (11/8/17)
- #APM17 – Harnessing Technology for one’s own Good: Professional Learning Networks in Social Work (10/21/17)
- Using Technology for Collaboration: Virtual Communities of Practice (10/20/17)
- #APM17 Day 1 – Infusing Policy Practice into BSW Service Learning Courses (10/19/17)
- The Flipped Classroom: Harnessing technology to teach clinical skills to MSW students (10/13/17)
- Using Technology for Productivity: Managing the Academic Workload (10/6/17)
- Harnessing Technology for Social Work Scholarship: #CSWResearch Day at Ohio State University (10/2/17)
- Modeling Social Justice through Innovative, Low-Cost Textbook Options for Social Work Students (9/27/17)
- Harnessing Social Media for Social Good at #CG4SW (5/5/17)
- Day Two of #SWDE2017 – Professional Learning Networks for Social Work (4/15/17)
- Day Two of #SWDE2017 – Integrating Technology-rich Assignments in the Curriculum (4/13/17)
- #BPDNOLA17 – The Social Media Toolkit goes on the road (3/4/17)
- #BPDNOLA17 – Road Map for Success: Incorporating Social Media in the Social Work Classroom (3/4/17)
- #BPDNOLA17 – Visualizing Data: Infographic Assignments across the Social Work Curriculum (3/3/17)
2016
- #APM16 Day 4 – A Toolkit for Social and Digital Media Policies in Field Education (11/6/16)
- #APM16 Day 3 -Incorporating Digital & Social Technologies into Social Work Education (11/5/16)
- #APM16 Day 2 – Learning about Poverty through Interprofessional Simulations (11/4/16)
- #ESCUNO2016 Annual Conference – 10/12/16
- #ESCUNO2016 Annual Conference – 10/11/16
- #SWDE2016 Teaching & Learning Professional Social Work Skills w/ Twitter (4/14/16)
- #SWDE2016 Incorporating Digital & Social Technologies into Social Work Education (4/13/16)
- Service Learning Labs: Integrating experiential learning across a BSW Curriculum – #BPDTX16 (4/2/16)
- Using Pinterest in Undergraduate Social Work Education – #BPDTX16 (3/31/16)
- Social Media and Technology Basics for the Social Work Educator – #BPDTX16 (3/30/16)
2015
- Social Work Scholarship in the Age of Social Media (12/8/15)
- #APM2015 Using Documentaries and Twitter to Meet Macro/Policy Objectives in Social Work Education (10/17/15)
- Fall 2015 Live Twitter Chat Assignment for Social Work Students (10/2/15)
- Implementing Service Learning Labs across a Social Work Curriculum (9/29/15)
- Online Toolkit for developing a Personal Learning Network with Twitter (9/3/15)
- Call for Contributions – Assignment Compendium for Book on Teaching Social Work with Digital Technology (7/14/15)
- Personal Learning Networks for Social Workers (7/1/15)
- Financial Social Work: An Emergent Macro Practice Discipline #MacroSW 6/11 at 8 PM CST (6/5/15)
- Taking a Media Savvy Social Work Course: A Student’s Perspective from Dottie-Jean Turenne (5/27/15)
- Media Savvy Social Work Course (5/19/15)
- Career Building Skills for Social Workers: #MacroSW Chat 5/14 8 PM CST (5/5/15)
- Making Social Policy Relevant Through Social Media (5/1/15)
- Lessons Learned from #SWDE2015 (4/26/15)
- Follow-up to Live Twitter Chat on March 12, 2015 (3/16/15)
- Using Social Media to teach and assess Macro/Policy-based Social Work Competencies – #BPD2015 Conference (3/6/15)
- Podcasting with Social Work Students – #BPD2015 Conference (3/5/15)
- Workshop for Alabama Conference on Social Work – 2/27/15
- Using Google Plus Hangouts in Social Work Education (2/23/15)
- Spring 2015 Live Twitter Chat for Social Work Students & Educators (2/1/15)
- How to participate in a Live Twitter Chat – Tips for Social Workers (1/8/15)
2014
- Q & A: Student Perspective on Twitter Assignment (12/12/14)
- Twitter Project for HBSE Course (12/12/14)
- Follow-up to 10/28 #MacroSW Twitter Chat (11/7/14)
- Is social media “creeping” into field education? (10/22/14)
- Using Innovative Content to Tell the Social Work Story by Chris Ingrao (10/13/14)
- AL/MS 2014 Social Work Education Conference (10/10/14)
- MacroSW Live Twitter Chat on 10/28/14 (10/3/14)
- Twitter for Social Work Student Organizations (9/11/14)
- AL Fall Child Welfare Conference 2014: Professional & Ethical Use of Social Media in Social Work Practice (8/28/14)
- Feedback from the summer on Remind, a free messaging service (8/21/14)
- When Technology and Social Work assemble in Higher Education – Using Remind 101 by Dr. Nathalie P. Jones (6/10/14)
- Remind 101 – Free Texting App for Educators (6/3/14)
- Videos as Tools of Advocacy in Social Work Pedagogy – BPD 2014 Conference (3/22/14)
- BPD2014 Presentation on Teaching Professional Social Work Skills with Twitter (3/20/14)
- Using Storify in the Classroom: A Student’s Perspective from Natalie Savoy (3/10/14)
- Podcasting for Social Work Students, Part 3 – Advice for designing the assignment from Jonathan Singer (2/14/14)
- Podcasting for Social Work Students, Part 2 – Why use podcasting in the classroom (1/31/14)
- Podcasting for Social Work Students, Part 1 – Describing the Assignment (1/16/14)
- Explore Theory in the MSW Classroom by Dr. Jamie Mitchell (1/5/14)
2013
- Twitter Learning Activities for Social Work Competencies (12/8/13)
- Twitter: The Educational Commons By Justin Vest (12/9/13)
- Low-Stakes Twitter Assignment for Social Work Educators (11/21/13)
- Tweeting Is Not Just For The Birds… By Natasha Langner (11/5/13)
- How I learned to stop worrying and tweet, Part 2 (10/30/13)
- How I learned to stop worrying and love Twitter, Part 1 (10/10/13)
Review of Teaching & Learning in Social Work for 2019
It is that time of year again – the annual review of the Teaching & Learning in Social Work Blog. This will be my fourth year reflecting on the work of this blog; the first end of the year post was in 2016. This year, I am thinking more about my motivation for starting and maintaining this blog for the past seven years. As I think back on why I started Teaching & Learning in Social Work, I’d have to say I wanted to be a more confident writer. Academic writing is not easy. This blog helped me to find my academic voice while allowing me to experiment with writing. I try to be personable in the posts I write, using plain language and concise phrasing. While I can say I am more comfortable with my professional writing, the greatest benefit to this blog is having space to share my work and the work of others in a very non-traditional space. Publishing is a peer-reviewed journal is currency for academics, and it is a narrow, rigid, and polished way to share one’s work. By writing blog posts about my work early in the process, I can share with a wider audience including students, social work practitioners and professionals from other fields. I can also as publish work that may never find a home as a journal article, but is still of value to others. For example, I write frequently about my assignments and classroom activities on this blog. I also post information about my conference presentations here so others can easily reference the materials. Overall, I can say with confidence that writing and publishing Teaching & Learning in Social Work has truly be beneficial and motivating for my academic writing.
For 2019, I had three goals for improving the blog:
#APM19 – Evolving the Signature Pedagogy with the Social Media Toolkit for Field Educators
On October 27, 2019 at 8:45 AM, during the Annual Program Meeting for the Council on Social Work Education in Denver CO, Mary Jacque Carroll, Allison M. Curington, Robyn V. Snider and I will be presenting on information and tools that field directors can use to guide curricular development and assessment strategies around interprofessional communication with digital and social technologies. If you are still in Denver, please come find us in Governor’s Square 11 – Plaza Building of the conference hotel. We’ll also be sharing how you can develop your own professional social media policies to support communication with students and field agencies as well as how to create activities for students in field to increase understanding of the ethical use of social and digital media in social work practice.
You’ll also learn how to access the Social Media Toolkit for Field Educators, a free resource with educator’s guide and a PowerPoint slide deck.
#APM18 Helping Social Work Students develop a Professional Online Presence for Interprofessional Communication
On Thursday, November 8, 2018, I will be presenting with Allison Curington and Mary Jacque Carroll, both field directors extraordinaire, at the Field Education Institute at the Council on Social Work Education’s 2018 Annual Program Meeting. As part of the institute, we are facilitating a one hour on how field educators can help social work students develop a professional online presence for interprofessional communication. We will be sharing information and tools that field directors can use to guide curricular development of learning approaches and assessment strategies to achieve practice outcomes around interprofessional communication with digital and social technologies. One of the tools we will be sharing is the second edition of Social Media Toolkit for Social Work Field Educators, which has been revised with content based on the 2018 NASW Code of Ethics.
You can access your free copy of the toolkit here: https://laureliversonhitchcock.org/2018/11/05/revised-social-media-toolkit/