Social Worker, Recovering Academic, Rebel Scum
In Boston, it's currently snowing sideways so hard I can barely see across the street. It's reasonable to expect at least one or two snow days during the school year in these parts and, having grown up in Buffalo, NY, I enjoy them greatly. A Twitter conversation with a colleague prompted me to compile resources …
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Written communication skills are so important for students to learn. As a social work instructor for nearly 10 years, I often gave students feedback and guidance to improve their writing. The following list contains the most common writing mistakes I encountered and suggestions for how to fix them. This list is geared toward social science …
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I created the following Sway presentation for both the Teaching & Technology Center as a Teaching & Technology Faculty Advisor and Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), a  "faculty development program that holds workshops, hosts guest speakers, runs retreats, awards grants, provides faculty time and space for their own scholarly writing, and supports faculty in their endeavors to …
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This podcast contains follow-up conversation from our CSWE 2015 #swtech session! Listen to the podcast here: inSocialWork Podcast #199 - Karen Zgoda, Dr. Melanie Sage, Dr. Jonathan Singer, and Dr. Lauri Goldkind: Technology-Mediated Assignments for Real World Learning Have you considered incorporating technology or social media into your courses? If you have, then you are …
Here is information on the panel I will be participating in at CSWE. It is called: Integrating Theory and Practice: Meaningful Technology-Mediated Assignments for Real-World Learning. To get there, follow directions to the fitness center. It is NOT accessible by easy to find elevators in the Tower building. I found it by going to …
Karen Zgoda, LMSW 