Presents the Internet learning guide EDSITEment that provides links to educational sites on the Web in the core humanities subjects. Identifies the process for selecting EDSITEment websites by using the following criteria: intellectual quality, website design, and website impact. Offers the 20 websites for history/social studies and suggestions…

Contends that the real problem in using the Internet is information evaluation and validation. Identifies three types of websites that cause social studies teachers concern: Hate Sites, Dumb Sites, and Conspiratory Sites. Provides guidelines that students can use when evaluating these types of online information. (CMK)

Describes the collaboration between the social studies and technology methods courses as they created a technology-based learning community at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Provides rational for creating a learning community, presents the different obstacles during the course, and finally discusses the needed refinements. (CMK)

Describes how two social studies teachers designed a website in order to grant the other teachers in their school district access to the field trip database for the Washington-Baltimore area; furthermore, the idea for an elementary social studies website expanded into other projects that were also timesaving resources, such as the Electronic…

Considers the advantages of online journals, such as wider access to new knowledge and increased availability of research findings. Describes one specific electronic journal, "Meridian: A Middle School Computer Technologies Journal" and discusses the five aspects of the inaugural edition that demonstrate how online journals can exemplify the…

Presents a lesson that focuses on specific places in Chicago's Black Metropolis and examines the process by which buildings become historic structures. Explains that the lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration file, "Black Metropolis Thematic Nomination," and could be used in a unit on 20th-century urban history.…

Argues that the values of the research university should not have a decreasing emphasis in social work education equivalent to its decreasing proportional numerical status. Argues that the distinctive values of the research university are particularly good for social work education, the profession, and clients, and that recognizing, articulating,…

This exploratory study shows that the following types of scholarly publication are most desirable for obtaining tenure in social work education: (1) work printed in peer-reviewed publications; (2) publications that focus on social work rather than non-social work scholarship; (3) single authorship or lead authorship of collaborative work; (4)…

Reports on the aggregate analysis of scores generated by a standardized instrument, the Teaching Evaluation Form (TEF; Hudson, 1982), at the College of Social Work, University of South Carolina. Data included more than 11,000 completions of the instrument in 508 class sections offered during a 4-year period. Analysis revealed a severely negatively…

A sample of 71 psychopathology course syllabi from 58 different graduate schools of social work was analyzed to determine whether different viewpoints and the concomitant empirical evidence were presented regarding 4 significant mental health topics: concepts of mental disorder, reliability and validity of psychiatric diagnoses, biological…

Examined social work students' initial attitudes toward learning research and identifies associated characteristics. Found that women and students with less statistical knowledge are more fearful of research courses, while older students and those with greater levels of social work empowerment find research courses to be more appealing. (EV)

Determined which Web-assisted teaching strategies social work students experience and perceive as valuable. Demonstrated that most faculty use e-mail, post grades online, and give out student e-mail addresses to the class. Students perceive e-mail communication with the instructor and online provision of course information as most valuable.…

Discusses how women's issues, domestic violence, aging, and elder abuse all relate to social work education and then suggests how they can be integrated together into the social work curriculum through teaching about elder domestic violence. (EV)

Using a modified labor market analysis, examines the impact of growth of social work programs on educational standards, the human services labor market, and the salary structure of graduates. Suggests that a perceived surplus of social work education programs has been detrimental to the income potential of entry-level social workers, to the…

Explores the educational metaphors of the melting pot (immigrants must assimilate into the mainstream culture) and the cultural mosaic (immigrants should retain their cultural identifies). Focuses on such issues as multiculturalism and justice for immigrants, social cohesion, the notion of cultural relativism, and differing conceptions of culture.…