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Connecting Beyond the Conference: #MacroSW Chat 10-24-19

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Reblogged from https://macrosw.com/2019/10/21/connecting-beyond-the-conference-macrosw-chat-10-24-19/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For this week’s #MacroSW chat, Stephen Cummings and Pat Shelly will be hosting, direct from the Council of Social Work Education’s 19th Annual Program Meeting (#APM19) in Denver. Yes, Stephen and Pat will be chatting about the conference while at the conference. #APM19 will host thousands of CSWE members, including social work professors, program members, and graduate students. The event is a way for research to be shared, missions and philosophies to be discussed, and to meet people to add to our networks. We invite all those #NotAtAPM19 to join in with your questions and comments.

We’ll be using #MacroSW and #APM19 hashtags for this chat.

Some questions for discussion:

1. What benefits have you experienced attending a professional or academic conference?
(This can be any conference, whether it’s local, state, national, or international).

2. What are the major concerns with large-scale conferences like the #APM?

3. CSWE APM Theme for 2019: Social Work Education: Looking Back, Looking Forward –
What do you see when you look back at #SocWorkEd? What do you see looking forward?

4. Attendees of #APM19: What are you excited about this year? Please post your own
presentations.

5. Those #NotAtAPM19 – what questions do you have?

Join us at 9 p.m. EDT / 7 p.m. MDT for the #MacroSW Twitter chat, live from Denver, Colorado.

Sustainability and Social Work: Earth Day 2017

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by Pat Shelly

Sustainability and Environmentalism

“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.” This is an old Yankee/New England proverb that resounds with our more environmentally-conscious society today.

Sustainability is  a word that appears more frequently in the press around Earth Day, which is observed on April 22 in the US. Many slogans address environmental issues. Some instruct: “Reduce, Reuse, Recyle,” or humorously inform: “Recyclers do it over and over again,” or recommend:

 

Smiling man in baseball cap with arms hugging a big tree. Only one arm is visible as tree's circumference is too large to encircle with his arms. is too big to get

Photo: Carolina Hoyos Lievano / World Bank

 

 

 

 

 

“Hug a tree, they have fewer issues than people.”

 

 

 

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Live from #2014APM! CSWE’s Tech in Social Work as Told in Tweets

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by Pat Shelly  @UBSSW

 

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) 60th Annual Program Meeting (APM) – one of the largest conferences for social work educators. (CSWE is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education – BSW and MSW – in the U.S., and sets the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) for all social work schools).

 

 

At the APM, there are 40 tracks which attendees can follow throughout the four days of events. Track topics range from Addictions, African Americans and the African Diaspora, or International Issues  to Technology in Social Work, Values and Ethics, or Violence Against Women and Their Children.

 

 

Dr. Jimmy Young presenting in SW and social media. @JimmySW #2014APM http://t.co/l1LlpwBJio

Dr. Jimmy Young presenting in SW and social media. @JimmySW #2014APM pic.twitter.com/l1LlpwBJio
Laura Nissen@lauranissen

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