[Air-L] Web Tools for Social Workers

[Neil Ballantyne]

Hi Dan,

If you're okay about including UK resources you might want to add the newish
social networking site offered by the UK social work magazine community
care: 

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/carespace/

Also, my organization offers over 70 high quality podcasts of research
seminars, conference inputs etc.

http://www.iriss.ac.uk/audio

These can be subscribed to within iTunes (search for the IRISS podcast).

We also operate an open access repository of social services related content
called the Learning Exchange - from simple information files to more complex
multimedia:

http://www.iriss.ac.uk/openlx/

We have some code where you can add our search box to your page:

http://www.iriss.ac.uk/openlx/portable.php

And there's a short video about the Learning Exchange:

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/iriss/video/x6a5q9_the-learning-
exchange_school

Our website includes eight Learning Technology information sheets that
includes simple explanations of blogs, RSS, flickr and wikis (all with a
social services slant) - these are all CC licensed.

http://www.iriss.ac.uk/publications

We also have a nice example of a social work related digital preservation
project featuring the story of the Victorian migration of 'orphans' from
Scotland to Canada.

There's a paper on the preservation project:

http://www.ucalgary.ca/SW/currents/articles/ballantyne_v6_n2.htm

And you can visit the actual site here:

http://www.iriss.ac.uk/goldenbridge/

If you're interested in hearing about our future work, including a soon to
be announced research unit on social services in the network society, feel
free to subscribe to our mailing list:

http://www.iriss.ac.uk/about/mailinglist

Hope some of this is of use to you.

Best wishes,

Neil
-- 
Neil Ballantyne, Learning Technology Manager, Institute for Research &
Innovation in the Social Services, Glasgow School of Social Work,
University of Strathclyde, 76 Southbrae Drive, GLASGOW G13 1PP.

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On 27/09/2008 20:07, "Dan Prives" <dprives at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for help in updating a lecture I give to some social work
>  students about blogging and other new web technologies.  I start out
>  with an overview of the blogging world and then turn to resources more
>  relevant to social workers.
> 
>  Here is my current page of references and examples (current as of last
>  spring, when I last gave the lecture):
> 
>  http://www.wheremostneeded.org/reference-new-web-tools-f.html
> 
>  Any suggestions for improving these examples and resources would be
>  appreciated.  Remember that the audience is undergraduate students in
>  a social work program at an honors university.
> 
>  TIA
> 
> 
>  Dan Prives
>  Where Most Needed
>  The Charity Industry Blog
>  http://www.wheremostneeded.org
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