Abstract
It is important for social workers to develop observation skills when they are in the field and when people come to their agencies for help. Practicing Social Workers enter client's homes for a variety of reasons: therapy, case management, child protective services, and/or home evaluations for school. While in a client's home, they may see items that are dangerous and need to be addressed. Due to the extremely sensitive nature of a home visit, it is not generally possible for undergraduate students to accompany social work professionals during actual home visits. Dr. Kelly Ward wanted to create an activity that wold offer students a realistic setting in which to practice observation skills. She worked with Instructional Support graphic/web designer Rupa DasGupta to develop a unique virtual site visit experience for students. Rupa used HTML5, CSS, PHP, Javascript and jQuery to create a website with a number of navigable, interlinked panoramas to represent different rooms in a client's house. Each room has a number of safety concerns; students are challenged to find all the items in each room by clicking hotspots hidden in the panoramas.
Students responded well to the exercise but had several suggestions on how to improve the application, as did social workers at the Social Work Distance Education conference. We're currently working on incorporating those changes and expanding the application.
This project highlights how web-based applications can be used to augment students' learning by replicating experiences that may not be possible otherwise due to safety concerns, geographic limitations, etc. This type of application could also be used to explore a variety of other scenarios - historic sites, museums, and archaeological digs to name just a few.
Students responded well to the exercise but had several suggestions on how to improve the application, as did social workers at the Social Work Distance Education conference. We're currently working on incorporating those changes and expanding the application.
This project highlights how web-based applications can be used to augment students' learning by replicating experiences that may not be possible otherwise due to safety concerns, geographic limitations, etc. This type of application could also be used to explore a variety of other scenarios - historic sites, museums, and archaeological digs to name just a few.
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Adult/Continuing Education, Higher Education, College, Educator
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2016-01-01
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