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. T: +44 (0)141 950 3373 | M: +44 (0)7970 001042 | F: +44 (0)141-950-3311 W: http://www.iriss.ac.uk/ Map: http://tinyurl.com/2pkdow On 27/09/2008 20:07, "Dan Prives" <dprives@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
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