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Follow, Follower & Unfollow:

  • Twitter Help Center: https://support.twitter.com/
  • Nany Smyth's Blog Post on Twitter 101:
  • http://njsmyth.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/twitter-101/
  • Social Work Helper: http://www.socialworkhelper.com/
  • Social Work/Social Care & Media:
  • http://swscmedia.wordpress.com/
  • Mental Health Chat: https://twitter.com/MHchat
  • Resource for Top Social Work Professors on Twitter:
  • http://www.onlinemswprograms.com/top-social-work-professors-on-twitter.html
  • Special Thanks to Deona Hooper, MSW for help with the live chat.

#SWKTweets

Live Twitter Chat

  • Twitter conversations happen in real time
  • Follow the conversation using the hashtag #
  • #SWKTweets
  • #SWunited
  • Use a social media tool to follow the stream
  • HootSuite
  • Tweetchat.com
  • Twubs.com

Examples of Twitter in Courses

References

Resources

Council on Social Work Education. (2008). Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Washington, DC: Author.

Davidson, C. (2010, December). Twenty First Century Literacies. Retrived from http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/twenty-first-century-literacies

Getz, L. (2012). Mobile App Technology for Social Workers. Social Work Today, 12 (3), 8 -10.

Greenhow, C. & Gleason, B. (2012). Twitteracy: Tweeting as a new literary practice. The Educational Forum, 76(4), 464-478.

Hitchcock, L. & Battista, A. (2013). Social Media for Professional Practice: Integrating Twitter with Social Work Pedagogy. Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, Vol 18 Special Issue.

Jarvis, J. (2011). Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.

Jenkins, H., Clinton, K., Purushotma, R., Robison, A. J., Weigel, M. (2009). Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century [white paper]. Retrieved from http://digitallearning.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7B7E45C7E0-A3E0-4B89-AC9C-E807E1B0AE4E%7D/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF

McNutt, J. G. (2008). Web 2.0 tools for policy research and advocacy. Journal of Policy Practice, 7(1), 81-85.

NASW (National Association of Social Workers)/ASWB (Association of Social Work Boards).

(2005). NASW & ASWB Standards for technology and social work practice. Retrieved on July 30, 2012 from http://www.socialworkers.org/practice/standards/NASWTechnologyStandards.pdf.

Perron, B. E., Taylor, H. O., Glass, J. E., & Margerum-Leys, J. (2010). Information and communication technologies in social work. Advances in social work, 11(2), 67-81.

Rheingold, H. (2012). Net Smart. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Richardson, W. H. (2006). Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for

Classrooms. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Creating Public Lists of Twitter Users

Weekly Tweets on specified topics

In class Q & A

Live Twitter chats

Blog Post Containing these resources and more:

http://jimmysw.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/social-work-skills-and-twitter/

Connecting Media Literacies to Social Work Competencies

CSWE Core Competencies

  • EPAS 2.1.3 - Critical Thinking
  • EPAS 2.1.5 - Social Justice
  • EPAS 2.1.6 - Research-Informed Practice
  • EPAS 2.1.9 - Context that Shape Practice

NASW & ASWB Standards for Technology and Social Work Practice

What are Media Literacies

NASW Code of Ethics

Competencies that enable people to analyze, evaluate, and create messages in a wide variety of media forms.

Digital Know How

Examples

-Attention

-Collaboration

-Critical Consumption

-Network Smarts

  • Jenkins 12 New Media Literacies
  • Rheingold's Five Social Media Literacies
  • Davidson 21st Century Literacies

The Basics

21st Century Literacies

What is a Tweet?

Mention:

-Participation

-Design

-Narrative, storytelling

-Digital Divides, Digital participation

-Ethics and Advocacy

-Learning, Unlearning, & Relearning

New Media Literacies

Retweeting (RT)

Retweet:

  • A Retweet is a re-posting of someone else's Tweet. Twitter's Retweet feature helps you & others quickly share information & resources with all of your followers.
  • Typing "RT" at the beginning of a Tweet also indicates that they are re-posting someone else's content.

-Play

-Performance

-Simulation

-Appropriation

-Multitasking

-Distributed Cognition

-Collective Intelligence

-Judgement

-Transmedia Navigation

-Networking

-Negotiation

-Visualization

@replies

@replies are public and visible to all Twitter users from your Twitter page, but they are directed specifically to one Twitter user.

@ Reply:

How to do it:

An @reply is posted by clicking the reply button

When to do it:

to send someone a tweet in reply to a specific tweet. Your message will then be automatically linked to the tweet you responded to.

What is Twitter

#Hashtag

Direct Message (DM):

#Hashtag:

Hashtags are represented by the pound sign (#) and denote a message that is relevant to a particular topic (often an abstract concept), including political or social movements (#kony2012), conferences (#2013APM), places (#Dallas), or knowledge bases (#womenshealth).

#SWKTWEETS

Direct Message

(DM)

A private message sent via Twitter to one of your followers. You can only send a direct message to a user who is following you; you can only receive direct messages from users you follow.

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and colleagues to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People write short updates, often called "Tweets" of 140 characters or less. These messages are posted to your profile or Twitter feed, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search.

Timeline or Feed:

Twitter Statistics

40% of all Americans see tweets or hear about Twitter on a daily basis.

There are 500 million Twitter users globally.

Overview

An average of 400 million tweets are sent out per day.

5,700 Tweets per second

  • What is Twitter
  • What are Media Literacies
  • Connect Media Literacies to Social Work Competencies
  • Examples of Twitter in Social Work Courses

Objectives

  • Recognize how using Twitter can promote the professions core competencies & practice behaviors & the NASW code of Ethics
  • Understand how Twitter can be incorporated into Assignments for social work courses
  • Appreciate the role of collaboration to support the development and implementation of technology-based assignments

Teaching Professional Social Work Skills with Twitter

Laurel Hitchcock, PhD, LCSW @Laurelhitchcock

Jimmy Young, PhD, MSW @Jimmysw

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