Assignments due: Solution paper or URL emailed before 8May11 at Midnight:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. View social work as a profession where decision making can be supported by finding, collecting, manipulating, modeling, and presenting data, information, and knowledge.
2. Examine current human services software and telecommunications tools, such as an internet homepage & video meeting places, that can be used to support clients and human service practice.
3. Understand the process of applying computer-based tools to a human service decision or situation.
4. Critically examine the potentials and limitations of developing and implementing technology that supports a human service decision/situation of the student's choice.
5. Experience use of the internet as a tool for learning, problem solving, and supporting practice, e.g., chat, voice chat, video chat, blog, etc.
6. Assess the impact of information technology on social work values of social and economic justice, stakeholder participation, empowerment, and diversity.
Each student say where started in class, where ended up, what learned in the process and what expected to learn and did not learn, and what class activities worked for them.