“Second
Life”: Exploring the Potential of a Virtual World for Social Work
Education
PowerPoint handout from the CSWE-APM "Hot Topics" session
in San Francisco, 28 October 2007.
Bob Vernon, Darlene Lynch, Paul Freddolino, Lorrie Greenhouse Gardella,
and Susan Tenby
(Similar presentations at the Indiana Association for Social Work Education,
2007, BPD 2008.)
Click
here for BASIC VERSION WITHOUT MOVIES (Small file)
Click
here for COMPLETE VERSION WITH MOVIES (Large file)
If you view the "Movies" version, click on the
female "avatar" wearing a black skirt and wait for the movie
to play.
Movies are available for the "You and your Avatar" section
and "Communication: Type/Chat."
Interesting
Places to visit in SL for Social Work
SLURLS for social work-relevant sims in SL! Updated January 2009.
(You will need to be able to access Second Life to visit these places.
Open the Word document and follow the hyperlinks.
This will take you to the SLURL website. Then click the "Teleport
Now" button. If you are enrolled in SL follow the prompts.)
NASW-ASWB
Standards for Technology:Practicing what we preach?
Darlene Lynch and Robert Vernon
PowerPoint tutorial on the Standards with exemplary hyperlinks: Practitioner
perspective. Presented at NASW-Indiana, 6 October 2006
NASW-ASWB
Standards for Technology: Practice in Cyberspace
Robert Vernon, Darlene Lynch, and Peggy Pittman-Munke
PowerPoint tutorial on the Standards with exemplary hyperlinks, Student
perspective. Includes basics for finding and evaluating online
materials. 2006
Agency
Websites in a "2.0" World
PowerPoint tutorial on agency website design, similar
to below, including "Web 2.0" features. 2008
Beyond
the Mission Statement: Designing Your Agency's Website
PowerPoint tutorial on basic agency website design considerations. 2004
Web
Dangers for Social Workers
Darlene
Lynch and Robert Vernon
Problems and pitfalls when using the web in practice. Lecture outline.
2002
Social
Work on the Web: Tools for Cyberpractice
Darlene Lynch and Robert Vernon
Eleven articles originally published as a column in The Indiana Social
Worker.
1999-2001
"Social
Work and the Web"
Robert Vernon and Darlene Lynch
Textbook for social workers and students on how to use the web in practice.
2000
Using
the Web in Social Work
Darlene
Lynch and Robert Vernon
Basic approaches for finding and evaluating websites for social work.
(Old, evaluation links updated 2008)
Websites
for Social Work Doctoral Students
Robert Vernon
Presentation website, no date.