A flurry of excitement

Next time I am getting worn down with working on academic texts I will remember my feelings of delight and elation when the book cover appears online! This happened today and the authors who are contributing to the book I am editing on social media in social work education were tweeting happily. It certainly gave me the final push to complete my work on the introduction and conclusions. Watch this space :-)

Lots of progress in social media and socia work

There's been a lot going on behind the scenes in the last few months. Amanda, David and I have just about finalised the work we carried out using twitter in social work education. I'm delighted that some fantastic authors and social media advocates have contributed to a new book I have been editing all about using social media in social work education which is going to be published later this year. One of the authors wrote an App (https://sites.google.com/site/socialworksocialmedia/) and my review of this has just been published in the Journal of Social Work Education. I really did enjoy using the Social Media in Social Work App : http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SPvkUjNG4mNjpNfd9ZNx/full and I would encourage academics and practitioners to  engage with these types of approaches to teaching and learning in social work.