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9780205297351

The Social Worker's Guide to the Internet

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  • ISBN13:

    9780205297351

  • ISBN10:

    0205297358

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-10-01
  • Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Summary

Teaches both students and professionals to navigate and to find resources specific to the social work discipline on the Internet and the World Wide Web. The text covers the development of the Internet and its growing applicability to the discipline of social work. It discusses various ways to connect to the Internet, how to use electronic mail, and definitions of forms of electronic communication, such as listservs, news groups, and chat groups. Chapter 8 offers a tour of various websites of specific interest to the profession of social work. Chapter 9 provides instructions for authoring personal or professional Web pages. Subsequent chapters teach specific methods for attaching and downloading documents, and how to download specific programs for social work practice. Examples of social work resources, vignettes, and Web summaries are included throughout the book.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
What Is the Internet and How Is It Applicable to Social Work?
1(8)
Major Professional Social Work Associations and Activities
2(1)
Social Workers on the Internet: A Natural Extension of Generalist Practice
3(1)
Historical Development of the Internet
4(1)
Clarification of Terms
4(1)
What Can the Internet Offer Social Work?
5(2)
Summary
7(1)
Discussion Questions
7(1)
Works Cited
8(1)
Connections to the Internet
9(4)
Types of connections
10(2)
Summary
12(1)
Discussion Questions
12(1)
Electronic Mail
13(12)
E-Mail Defined
14(1)
Anatomy of an E-Mail Address
15(1)
Demonstrating Netscape Mail
15(2)
Creating Messages in Netscape Mail
17(1)
Demonstrating Internet Explorer Mail
17(4)
Demonstrating Pine E-Mail
21(3)
Summary
24(1)
Discussion Questions
24(1)
Internet Discussion Groups
25(16)
How to Subscribe
26(2)
Where to Find Listservs
28(2)
Subscription Demonstrations
30(5)
Listserv Summaries
35(5)
Summary
40(1)
Discussion Questions
40(1)
Newsgroups
41(7)
Moderated or Unmoderated Status
42(1)
How Newsgroups Are Organized
43(1)
Reading and Posting to Newsgroups
43(3)
Archives
46(1)
Where to Find Newsgroups for Social Work
46(1)
Summary
47(1)
Discussion Questions
47(1)
Real Time Communications
48(8)
mIRC
49(3)
WebChat
52(3)
Summary
55(1)
Discussion Questions
55(1)
The World Wide Web
56(10)
Web Addresses
57(1)
Web Browsers
57(5)
Using Internet Explorer
62(3)
Summary
65(1)
Discussion Questions
65(1)
Social Work Web Tour
66(19)
Authoring Web Pages
85(10)
Authoring World Wide Web Pages
86(1)
Learning HTML Tags
87(3)
Practice Example
90(1)
Using Netscape's Built-In Editor to Create a Web Page
91(3)
Summary
94(1)
Discussion Questions
94(1)
File Transfer Protocol
95(8)
Full-Service versus Guest FTP
96(1)
What Is an FTP Address?
97(1)
Using File Transfer Protocol
98(1)
Unix FTP Demonstration
99(1)
Using FTP Windows
100(2)
Summary
102(1)
Discussion Questions
102(1)
Works Cited
102(1)
Telnet
103(9)
``Guest'' versus ``Full-Service'' Telnet
104(1)
Using Telnet
104(4)
Introduction to tn3270
108(1)
Freenet: A Special Type of Telnet Session
109(2)
Summary
111(1)
Discussion Questions
111(1)
Appendix World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers 112(63)
Diversity
112(6)
Promotion of Social and Economic Justice
118(5)
Field Practicum
123(8)
Social Work Practice
131(8)
Research
139(6)
Social Welfare Policy and Services
145(7)
Populations at Risk
152(8)
Social Work Values and Ethics
160(7)
Human Behavior and the Social Environment
167(7)
Works Cited
174(1)
Index 175

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