| Mona Acker |
| University of Regina Faculty of Social Work |
| Should we be teaching information technology competency in social work education? - A global view |
| Information technologies are undergoing a revolution in the complexity of the tasks they can perform going beyond the
collection, storage and retrieval of information to mimic sophisticated human activities. The Internet is adding a further
dimension in the amount of information that can be accessed in support of human service management, service delivery,
research and education. What role should professional education play in the service of this new context of human service practice? Will the new IT
developments serve to enslave us or be a liberating factor? Will they isolate us as home workers or connect us into a global
human service network? Will they increase the disparity among groups and nations in their access to resources or be an
empowering force promoting an equitable global society? Teaching human service workers and students how to use and manage IT, the issues and ethics involved in implementing IT in
organizations and the challenges of putting it in the hands of clients are the essence of a graduate course in the Faculty of Social
Work at the University of Regina. The above issues will be explored in this presentation. |
|
| Michelle Alvarez, Dana Willett, Kimberly Davis |
| University of Southern Indiana |
Design and Evaluation of a Creative Online Course
|
| This presentation addresses techniques for
creating an enjoyable online course. Topics will include: creation of a
syllabus, asynchronous learning, student web page design, development of an
interactive CD, course design evaluation, and content analysis of student
feedback on techniques presented . A roundtable presentation web site will be
created on Blackboard for participants. |
|
| Denise Anderson |
| Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania |
| Improving Writing Skills in Social Work and Human Services |
This paper presents a two-year study of the use of a web-based writing module in a social work practice course. The purpose of this
professional writing module is to enable undergraduate students in the human service fields to learn how to document more concise and
accurate information. While most institutions require at least one writing course, the specialized writing needed in the human service fields must be taught within the major courses. |
|
| Delphine Bauloye |
| FUNDP (Belgium) |
| ECHTP-net
European College for Hospital Teacher’s and Play Therapist’s Net |
|
Although
there are about 7.500 active hospital teachers in Europe, only a few among
them have received special and systematic training. Therefore, the present project aims at developing a
multimedia-based learning
and teaching program using the specially created network. This course
should be divided into different blocks : medical, psycho-sociological,
pedagogical and a special block concerning examples of good practice extracted from real cases at schools
in hospitals. The project’s partners should also analyse the
possibilities of research, work and
study at a distance between different countries and languages. We shall
present one of these blocks and explain different objectives : build a net supporting ; help students and already
working hospital teachers to develop special skills in how to work with the net,
how to find relevant literature
and how to produce their own ; stimulate participants to carry out their own research.
|
|
Geneviève Bazier
|
| University
of Namur |
| Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
within Handicapped People Services |
| The CRETH (Center of Resources and Evaluation of
Technologies for Handicapped people) is an expertise and consulting center, it
set up into the Faculty of Medicine of FUNDP (Namur, Belgium). The principal
aim of the CRETH is, in order to better serve humanity, we at first have to
better serve handicapped people. From the foreseen and intended ICT for the
general public, the CRETH have to collect the products which could be interest
disabled people and among them which could be adapted for such type of
handicap. |
|
|
|
Michael Berghoef |
| Ferris State University |
|
Cutting,
Bleeding or Dull Edge: Pushing the Toolbox
Envelope and Other Mixed Metaphors |
| Creative
alternative applications of software initially intended primarily for
classroom management and simulated situations can illustrate ways that social
work faculty can get the most value for the time and money they invest when
balancing issues of cost with the benefits of employing educational software
toolbox programs. Web based
classroom toolbox software can be used to explore ways to efficiently enhance
a variety of situations including: field work supervision, student
organizations and web sites, virtual office hours, remote guest lecturers and
faculty collaboration in addition to the primary course development and
management uses. Opportunities for addressing larger technological and social
issues can be augmented by these basic information technology applications.
|
|
| Ray Carlson |
|
Dalhousie
University |
| Developing social work skills on-line through
purposeful practice |
| Research
on training suggests that the most effective means to develop expertise is to
purposefully practice specific skills while receiving feedback about the
impact of each. This presentation summarizes relevant research and one step in
a process to test use of this construct as a basis for developing interviewing
skills on-line. |
|
| Terry Carrilio |
|
San Diego State University School of
Social Work Social Policy Institute
|
| MIS Software for Human Service Quality
Management and Research |
| This presentation describes
core principles in the development of effective management information
systems for use in social service settings. The challenges of working with
end-users, identifying reports and processes which can be used at multiple
levels within an organization, and using the management information system to
assist with quality management will be explored. |
|
| Gordon Casebolt |
| Social Service Data Systems |
| Reed Henderson |
| Family & Children's Services |
| Building Agency Information Systems to Monitor Outcomes |
| The presentation describes the process of developing information systems for a variety of programs within an agency. Each new IS must include outcome
monitoring. Managers are trained to build and maintain their own databases. The session discusses successes and challenges in this rare opportunity to reconstruct
and modernize an agency. |
|
| Jeffrey Sze Ngai Chau |
| Desmond Dik Man Yam |
| Breakthrough |
| Promote People’s Participation in Internet through Enabling Platform |
| The essence of serving the community through internet is promoting people’s participation. The challenge of getting people’s active and continuous involvement can
be met by the concepts of enabling tool- enabling content- enabling platform, as illustrated in the experience of UZONE21.COM. |
|
| Gideon
Hayford Chonia
|
| University
Of Zurich
|
| Bridging the Digital Divide
In a Digital Society |
|
The
unstable world conditions, of wars, famine and natural catastrophes, economic
instability, have forced many to migrate to rich and industrialized nations
for economic reasons or seek refuge as a result of war. These immigrants
are exposed to a well-advanced digital society, in their place of work, home
and their environment, which they need to cope with and live within. Most
women from these countries have no provision to bridge this digital gap,
because of cultural, national and ethnical concepts. The
purpose of the paper is to communicate the experiences involved in an ongoing
initiative in closing the digital gap between foreigners from developing
countries living in Switzerland, and efforts to provide access to the Internet
and other information technologies, and tackle the difficulties and solutions
encountered in such a project and also provide a look into the future. |
|
|
Steven
Christian-Michaels and Marc Andrews
|
| Family
Services of Western PA
|
| Potential
of Technology to Support our Social Service Mission in the 21st
Century |
|
The
integration of Technology into a social service setting can be a challenging
proposition. This results
primarily from three factors: the low-tech nature of social service, the high
reliance on clinical knowledge, and finally the prohibitively high cost of
technology in a poorly funded sector.
The technology is only half the problem for most social service
organizations. This requires
fundamental changes in the roles and responsibilities of most social service
professionals. |
|
| David Colombi, Tom Hawkins and Julie Waldman |
| University of Southhampton |
| Virtually
Impossible? - Developing a Non-Linear Virtual Learning Resource for Research
Mindedness in Social Work
|
| In 1999 the UK Department of Health commissioned the
development of a web-based virtual learning resource (VLR) on
'Research-Mindedness', aimed primarily at the UK social work and social care
professional community. The aim of the project was to encourage practitioners
to make more conscious use of research, and particularly research findings, in
their everyday work by developing their capacity for research-mindedness. This
presentation recounts key aspects of the developmental process which led to
the launch of the Research-Mindedness VLR in the summer of 2001.
|
|
|
|
Paul
K. Dezendorf |
| Winthrop University |
| James P. Winship |
| University
of Wisconsin-Whitewater
|
| Enhancing
Homeless Shelter Workers' Skills and Knowledge Using a Collaborative Learning
Web Site
|
| Integrating
practice wisdom gathered from those directly working with homeless families
with the professional literature and then disseminating the results via
web-based "collaborative learning resource sites" appeared to be a
possible means to improve homeless shelters' effectiveness. As a result, such
a site was designed and a prototype launched in 2001. This presentation
identifies limitations of many existing web sites, training and staff
development needs of homeless shelters, conceptualization of a collaborative
learning approach for a web site model, development of a prototype, initial
results, opportunities, barriers, and implications.
|
|
| Moses Eben, Momula Kamara, Sharon Davies |
| Center for Environmental Education and Protection of Liberia, CEEP(Liberia) |
| User's view of information Technology in Liberia |
| This paper presents user's perspectives of Information technology in Liberia, including problems encountered. Information technology, a means of modern
communication is efficient and necessary for information sharing, hence, promoting development democracy etc. However, problems of access, illiteracy to
technology use, lack of technical support etc. exist. |
|
|
|
Christopher W. Flaherty, U.S.
Air Force |
|
David
A. Patterson, The University of Tennessee |
| Predicting
Child Physical Abuse Recurrence: Comparison of a Neural Network to Logistic
Regression |
| The present study explored the potential of an
artificial neural network to improve prediction of recurrences of child
physical abuse. Conducted on electronic data file compiled by the U.S. Air
Force’s central registry of child abuse reports, selected variables
pertaining to all child physical abuse reports received from 1990-2000
(N=5612) were examined. Thirteen predictor variables and five interaction
terms were identified for analysis. The neural ultimately did not outperform
an alternative method, binary logistic regression. |
|
| Bruce Friedman |
| University
of Texas-Pan American
|
| Using adult learning techniques within a technological
teaching environment |
| Engaging learners has always been a concern for educators. This becomes a greater concern when integrating new technologies into the classroom. This session
demonstrates techniques to integrate adult learning principles into the new technology classroom environment. |
|
|
|
John
Gaudiosi |
| US
Dept. Health and Human Services |
| Technology Requirements for an Outcome-Based
Quality Assurance Program |
| This presentation describes the technology
associated with the development of a national quality assurance program in
child welfare, specifically, the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs). It
describes the quality assurance (QA) technology, database technology, and
statistical techniques for calculating and implementing performance standards.
|
|
| Leonard Gibbs |
| University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire |
Information Technology to
Support Evidence-Based Practice
|
| Participants will take 3 interactive measures
that demonstrate evidence-based practice and test practice reasoning.
They will also learn to pose specific practice questions and search
efficiently electronically in my web site for the current best evidence to
answer their well-built questions. We'll weigh evidence quality. |
|
| Agathi Glezakos and Cheryl D. Lee |
| California State University, Long Beach |
| Differences in Competencies and Course Preferences between On-Campus
and Distance Education Students |
| A survey of 100 MSW students assessed comparability of practice competencies and appropriateness of courses for distance education. There were no significant
competence differences (Mean 87.20 On-Campus, 88.82 DE). Practice courses were ranked more appropriate than thesis and research by DE students. The
findings challenge, support and augment existing literature. |
|
| Hein de Graaf |
| Acquest, OL2000 |
| Geert Maatman |
| Mininstry of Health, Welfare and Sport Social
Policy Department |
The
VRAAGWIJZER project: where people’s needs are leading
|
|
There
will be a moment in your life that you encounter a situation that you cannot
resolve yourself and there is nobody you know to turn to: a divorce and you
are out of your house, your income, your family and your mind; your son has
strange problems (physical, psychological, (ab)normal?); you elderly father is
living in your house and now things are going wrong (problems with your
children, forgetfulness or Alzheimer, climbing stairs, costs of care).
Wherever you decide to go turns out to be the wrong place, because you’ll
meet somebody specialised, even at the ‘front office’: family doctor,
social worker, police, priest, family councillor etc. Without knowing
it you have already chosen a specific service area and alternatives are from
that moment on out of reach. The solution to this problem is a
place (called VraagWijzer in The Netherlands) where you will meet somebody who
is a generalist regarding the service provisions but an expert on your
problematic situation. He or she and also you will get access to information
and communication using new technology to shed some light on your
predicaments, called KennisRing and Electronic Counter:
KennisRing is a combination of Internet based applications using
existing technology and new user interfaces where the users are the afore
mentioned ‘generalist experts’. The Electronic Counter is the same,
but to be used directly by the end-users. The first module of this
KennisRing (and Electronic Counter) will be ready the end of this year. I will
be able to bring along the prototype version. The technology used is SmartSite
and AcquaBrowser. KennisRing is developed by the Netherlands Institute for
Social Services and Care (NIZW). |
|
| Karl Heinz Himmelmann |
| Fachhochschule Lausitz |
| Types and Pictures - Producing sense when learning
digital picture processing |
| Students learn the technique of digital picture processing in combination with producing sense. They can reflect the role and the image of social workers by
constructing types. Cultural functions and the language of pictures are discussed. A scenario for working with pictures in Social Work Education. |
|
| Gary Hough |
| RMIT University |
| Customers, students, citizens, consumers: Mapping the
service ideologies encoded in SIM based management systems in the human services |
| This paper will focus on the theme of education as a business and the use of ‘off-the-shelf’ software to replace sophisticated analytical work formerly carried out by
academic and administrative staff in Universities. While such software programs can powerfully confer both task and conceptual expertise and functional assistance,
they also bring sets of beliefs and assumptions underpinning the software and written into its operation. These beliefs relate to dominant modes of management in the
wider societal and business culture. To a significant extent the enlistment of this software, and its associated business reengineering processes, necessitates radical
(or discontinuous) rather than evolutionary change within the university. |
|
| David Katz |
| Michigan State University |
| An experiment in distance education |
|
Distance education (DE) promises to revolutionize the delivery of higher education, not least in the area of social work graduate studies. This paper provides an
in-depth assessment of one such DE experiment, a social welfare policy course, developed for delivery to MSU MSW candidates in Marquette, Michigan.
Basic course content was incorporated in ten Power-Point based modules covering key aspects of social welfare policy, such as the the dynamics of racism and
poverty, as well as managed care, especially behavioral health care, since this topic is necessarily of special interest to future social workers. Each module was
designed as an authentic multimedia product insofar as it included graphics and short videos, as well as text materials. The modules were posted to the course web
site, maintained by the MSU Virtual University (VU) unit, and were available on a 24/7 basis to all enrollees.
Additional course features of interest included use of three asynchronous videotaped lectures, likewise posted to the site and likewise available at any time for
student viewing. Lectures were supplemented by several "live" interactive video sessions, in which students had the opportunity to comment or ask questions about
the materials. These sessions, too, were posted to the VU site, as were another innovative dimension of the course: a set of six one hour videos featuring interviews
with leading Michigan policy practitioners, including the NASW – Michigan legislative lobbyist. Three of the interviews were taped in the studios of MSU
instructional television, which also processed them for prompt posting to the VU site. The remaining three interviews were taped by an experienced videographer
on-site in the intervieweess’ offices, and then digitally processed by the MSU Instructional Media Center (IMC) for VU posting. The interviews were a crucial and
especially well-received course feature because they provided a linchpin between academically conventional text/module materials and the realities of policy practice
at the state capital level. The presentation itself will include a selection of module materials, sufficient to familiarize attendees with the quality and scope of the overall production. Also
included will be a discussion of the logistical and creative dimensions of the project, and the results of a student evaluation of its effectiveness. Although both a
technical and pedagogical success, the project also revealed some of the difficulties likely to be associated with complex, multi-unit productions of this type, as will
also be discussed. |
|
|
Christine
B. Kleinpeter and Marilyn K. Potts
|
| California
State University, Long Beach |
|
TEACHING
PRACTICE METHODS USING INTERACTIVE TELEVISION:
A PARTIAL REPLICATION STUDY |
| This study compares 52 on-campus and 26 distance
education (DE) MSW students enrolled in two practice methods courses.
This is a partial replication study, describing the results of the
evaluation of the second cohort of a large DE program.
The results from the first cohort are reported elsewhere (Kleinpeter
& Potts, 2000). Results indicate that no significant differences were
found between on-campus and DE students in grades, faculty evaluations, or
field instructors’ evaluations. This supports the findings of the first
cohort, despite a reduction in faculty visits to off-campus locations, a
greater use of ITV instruction, and an increased reliance on the use of local
site coordinators as assistant instructors in the classroom. |
|
| Eugene C. Kortee |
| Information Technology for All (ITA) |
| Closing The Gap Between Technology and Poverty in
Multi-culture Third-World Nations |
| In this twenty-first century when computers are fast dominating almost every sector of life in developed nations, developing nations are behind in technology. With
the gap between technology and poverty in multi-cultural developing nations, technological advancement isn’t having a global impact. There’s a need for sharing
solutions for technology literacy. |
|
| Larry W. Kreuger, John J. Stretch and Michael J.
Kelly |
| University of Missouri-Columbia |
| A Model for Predicting Hypertechnology Acceptance and Use Among Human Services Workers |
We have been rapidly moving in the human services, as elsewhere in post-industrial societies, toward ever-more non-traditional methods of producing and distributing knowledge, joining what Wise (1997) called the "hypertechnology assemblage". The terms hypermodern
technology (or hypertechnology) refer to "...not just one piece of equipment, but the entire globally interconnected assemblage of new communication, transmission, and information technologies...which share a formal resonance or common episteme" (Wise, p xvi). In this
paper the authors report data which test components of their model of hypertechnology acceptance and use among human service workers. Finally, the authors discuss a set of ten issues that the profession should attend to that users are beginning to report. |
|
| Lars Krogh |
| Maximite Alta Ltd/NORUT Research |
| Changing the Rules: Broadband Communication in the
Home Care Services |
| Use of broadband communication in the home care sector, and in the society in general, makes new perspectives for the future health
care system. It could empower nurses and enable them to deliver more qualified health care services in the patients homes, but how
will the patients situation change? |
|
| Jack Loudermilk |
| Families First |
| Using Your Website for Research and Program Development |
| This presentation describes using an Internet website to determine the information and services most sought after by potential
clients; then produce this information in a CD-Rom orientation for mail distribution. This medium eliminates the need for
classroom orientations and saves potential clients travel time and expenses.
|
|
| Michael Lyman |
| Graduate School of Social Work, University of Utah |
| Providing Internet-based Seminar Courses Using Live
Videoconferencing Tools |
| This presentation describes a model for teaching seminar-style courses over the internet using state of the art videoconferencing
tools. For internet-based distance education to be successful, it is imperative to develop such methods for teaching live seminar
courses using internet technology.
|
|
| Mary McKeon Stosuy |
| EverCare Opportunities, Inc. |
| Joining-up Community Services: A Framework Utility
Approach |
Recent developments in Internet technology now provide "thin-client" services that host and distribute software applications to
users. This combination of Application Service Providers ("ASPs") and Management Service Providers ("MSPs") provides a
low-cost information utility option to provide secure inter-agency collaboration. This approach provides the opportunity to
provide seemless end-to-end Community Services by linking up all the agencies in the client service supply-chain. This
adaptation of e-commerce principles provides the basis for service optimization whilst maintaining necessary confidentiality of
sensitive information and operational autonomy for the agencies involved.
|
|
| Mario Maier |
| Dipl. Sozialpädagoge (FH) Steinbeis-Transferzentrum MediaKomm |
| Youth Parliament Esslingen – Living E-Democracy:
First binding Election to Public Office over the Internet worldwide |
| In Esslingen, we have been doing multiple projects of increasing participation of young people at local politics, e.g. live
broadcasts and the first legally binding election over the Internet - using electronic signatures - to the Youth Parliament in July
2001.
|
|
| Robin Mama |
| Monmouth University Department of Social Work |
| Using Technology in International Field Internships |
| Students in a graduate MSW program concentrating in International and Community Development use the internet and
Web-CT to complete their coursework while finishing their field internships overseas. This session will detail how these
arrangements were developed, will demonstrate the Web-CT page used and will discuss accreditation standards and
international field. |
|
| John McNutt |
| Boston College |
| Goutham M. Menon |
| University of South Carolina |
|
Teaching
Internet-Based Social Work Advocacy Practice in Cyberspace: A Course Example
and Conceptual Framework |
|
Virtual practice (e-therapy,
electronic advocacy and so forth) is an undeniable part of the new social work
practice. This paper discusses
the issues involved in teaching virtual practice through virtual educational
methods. The major issues are
discussed, educational concerns are examined and a framework for practice is
developed. |
|
| Gareth Morgan |
| Ferret Information Systems Ltd. |
| The development of electronic information and advice
services for use by professionals and the public |
Many situations require personalised information that is not appropriate for leaflet style presentation material, yet may not
require the skills of a specialist worker or agency if the information needs can be met by an interactive ICT system. The session
will look at the types of information and advice where such systems are appropriate, the types of systems which may be used
and the processes for defining, developing and maintaining such systems.
|
|
|
|
Mihail
Niscii and Mihail Peleah, National
Social Insurance House |
|
Tatiana
Mishova,
Academy
of Economical Studies |
| Perspectives
of IT implementation in social sphere in the Republic of Moldova
|
| Current IT
usage in the following areas of social sphere is described: pension system,
labor market and unemployment service, social assistance. User requirements
and ways of their satisfaction are analyzed. Special attention is paid to
increasing of quality of service of different groups of users and perspectives
of IT implementation in the social sphere.
|
|
| Philip Ouellette |
| University of South Florida |
| Walking the Walk of Instructional Technology in Social
Work Education and Practice: A "live" demonstration |
Participants will experience a “live” demonstration of an actual training session that infuses several technology-supported
teaching and learning mediums to train social work practitioners working with out-of-control youth and their families.
Opportunities to witness the teaching and learning experience from both an educator’s and a student’s perspective will be
provided.
|
|
| David Patterson |
| University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
Predicting Child Physical Abuse Recurrence: Comparison of a Neural Network to Logistic Regression
|
This presentation summarizes a study comparing an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to logistic regression for prediction of
recurrences of child physical abuse from a racially diverse sample of U.S. Air Force families. Case files were used to explore
correlates of recurrence, and to build models capable of predicting re-abuse.
|
|
| Susan Sarnoff |
| Ohio University Department of Social Work |
Development of a University Social Work Department Field Office
Website
|
|
This roundtable will discuss the development and demonstrate a beta version of a multi-featured website created for a university
field office. The university is in a rural, isolated setting, and field sites span 20 counties in three states, making field visits and
travel to attend trainings an other meetings time-consuming, and occasionally impossible due to weather and road conditions.
The website is not designed to replace field visits, but to supplement them and create a back-up if a scheduled visit is
impossible to keep and must be rescheduled. The website will link field instructors, faculty, students and community social workers via e-mail, a listserv and a discussion
board, increasing contact between face-to-face meetings. It will also incorporate links to relevant external sites, a feature that
was obviously unavailable before the creation of the site. All participants will be asked to share favorite links, so the site will
benefit from the input of all users. In addition, the website will enable users to fill out evaluation forms and submit their contents online and print PDF versions of
forms that require signatures. This will reduce mailing costs and the time involved in mailing and processing
forms. Training materials, handbooks, course syllabi, training and meeting calendars and a searchable data base of field agencies will
also be available on line. The training materials will enable users to access updates in a more timely manner, with fewer mailing
and processing costs; and to make up missed training or refresh themselves on training concepts they apply infrequently at anytime. Two of the most innovative features of the website will be meeting calendars which will enable field instructors to slot
themselves into times that the field coordinators will be in their geographic regions; and the field data base which will enable
students, who select their field placements in conjunction with field instructors following interviews, to search for placements by
primary service or location. Sources of funding for the project and agency infrastructure that facilitated project development and staff and user training will
be outlined. In addition, planning and design decisions, troubleshooting, staff and user training, beta testing and user feedback
leading to design and training changes will be addressed. The beta version of the site will be demonstrated, along with screen
shots and prototypes of functions that are still in development. The demonstration will be made in the context of various uses for
each function. Finally, anticipated and possible add-ons to the website and the project will be discussed.
|
|
| Joe Sanchez |
| Center for Instructional Technology/U. of Texas Austin |
| Development of an online collaborative learning model
for social work education |
|
An online collaborative learning model, developed from an analysis of student perceptions of an introductory social work class
piloting Blackboard 5 in Fall, 2000, suggests establishing trust, empowerment and modeling social work values of cooperative
relationships promotes receptivity to learning from others with improved outcomes of participation and knowledge. The model
also suggests access and technological barriers do not affect outcomes for marginalized students if there is an atmosphere of
worth. |
|
| Janaki Santhiveeran |
| California State University, Long Beach |
| Tracking User Trends in a Class Website: An Explorative Study |
To evaluate whether or not a class website presence has met the objective of serving students 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
and to understand popular days, times and content areas for the virtual learners. Study findings has implications for distance
learning in social work.
|
|
| Janaki Santhiveeran |
| California State University, Long Beach |
| Blackboard.com’s Course Info 5.0: Take a Test Drive
To Take Your Discussions Online |
| The participants will learn about special features of Course Info and their applications in social work classroom. The session
will highlight on how to use digital mail box, chatrooms, bulletin board, to promote interaction and to support speed of
information transmission. |
|
|
|
Brett
Seabury |
| University
of Michigan, School of Social Work |
| Building
Multicultural Content into Interactive Video Simulations
|
| This
workshop will demonstrate two interactive video programs, which are designed
to teach social work students basic assessment skills; how to incorporate
multicultural content into video simulations; and how to develop and construct
video simulations as instructional tools. More social work educators need to
be creating effective educational tools that use existing Information
Technology.
|
|
| A.
V. Shoshmin, N. V. Martinova
|
St. Petersburg scientific and
practical center of medical and social expertise, prosthetics and
rehabilitation of disabled n. a. G. A. Albreht
|
I.V. Shoshmina Institute
of High-Performance Computing and DataBases
|
| The social transformations in
Russia have required the introduction of new technologies. Information
technologies (IT) result in tremendous social and economic achievements. We
have developed and approved a new technology of work with the handicapped that
makes it possible to react promptly to the changes in the legislation,
organise the process of their rehabilitation on the spot and manage the
rehabilitation process generally at the country level.
|
|
| Nancy Francisco Stewart |
| The University of Texas at Austin |
| Becoming an Advocate: Integrating Policy Practice, Collaborative
learning and Web Technology |
| A recent phenomenon in social work education is the use
of technology as part of experiential learning of social work skills and
values. Using collaborative learning as a teaching method, Blackboard 5 as a
class tool and four qualitative studies of vulnerable populations in poverty,
undergraduate students explored social policy and social work advocacy.
Students developed multimedia presentations and an interactive web site
to teach themselves and others about a vulnerable population, current issues
and influence policy and impending legislation. Highlighting these
presentations, implications for continuing education and community practice
are also discussed.
|
|
| Jane Swett |
| South Mississippi Regional Center |
| Bringing the Information World to Life |
|
Innovative use of computer and telecommunications technology is generating new ways to provide training and consumer services in a
rural southern state. South Mississippi Regional Center is a regional service agency for
citizens with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. Creative applications of desktop videoconferencing have proved
the catalyst for reinventing the way the agency works. |
|
| Yu-cheung Wong |
| University of Hong Kong, Dept. of Social Work & Social Adm. |
| Online Counseling for the Youth in Hong Kong: A Synchronized Approach |
Online counseling opens new possibilities for counseling service. A project using ICQ as a means to reach out and provide
synchronized counseling service is launched in an Asian city by the social work department of a university. Response is very positive.
Service statistics and related issues is reported and discussed.
|
|
| Andrea Yip |
| City of Seattle, Aging & Disability |
| The Home Care Referral System: Using technology to
improve home care service coordination |
The role of technology is changing the way social service and healthcare professionals coordinate client care. Learn how theCity of Seattle has applied innovative technology to enhance service delivery and support clinical decision-making in home and
community based care.
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| Karen Zgoda |
| AmeriCorps *VISTA |
Bridging the Digital
Divide: The AmeriCorps *VISTA Program
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| Best practices and programmatic details of
AmeriCorps *VISTA, PowerUP and the CTC VISTA Project will be discussed as they
apply to closing the digital divide. The PowerUP ePals project, an
online collaboration project between PowerUP sites, will also be discussed. |
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| Douglas Zimmerman |
| VisionLink, Inc. |
| Building Community-Wide Delivery Systems |
| Community-wide delivery systems are becoming more and more in demand, yet the challenge of divergent needs remains.
How do we respond to these needs while building more efficient and coherent delivery systems? This workshop will help
identify, analyze, and replicate innovative models. |
