I’ve been keen to talk more with occupational therapists about the value of web 2.0 tools. In late May I presented at the European Congress/German conference in Hamburg. In this presentation I discussed the outcomes of a research project I completed last year with occupational therapists and learning to use web 2.0 tools.
Coming up is the College of Occupational Therapists conference in Harrogate, England where a team of us are due to present on how social networking tools (ie blogs) have bought us together. Perhaps if you are reading this message, you may have attended either the European Congress, or the British conference. If you did…. what did you find useful in the presentations? what did they get you thinking about? Can you see the possibilities????? Are you more confused, or less confused?
If you attended the British Conference, then Will will have finished the presentation with a challenge to leave a comment on a blog. So please,…. leave me a note, perhaps with a reflection or two (remember you can count this CPD activity)…. I’d love to have more conversations with OT’s about what the tools have to offer. I’m also happy to help anyone get going as well if they want!
And to those who have already left a comment, I’ve been away from Aotearoa/New Zealand for about four weeks now…. so I will be back both to leave more posts… and ….. to follow up links people have given me… and to update my Web 2.0 tab with occupational therapy blogs.. and just maybe… to take the 31 day challenge as Angela is doing….
Hello Merrolee
I have just finished reading your paper from the COTEC CD-ROM. (We met in Hamburg but I wasnt able to get to your presentation). I found it fascinating and inspiring. Although I am currently a remote student and did a lot of my masters work remotely, I was not aware of all the tools and applications.
Blogging is completely new to me, but I can see how useful it might be for me in building up a community of fellow OTs/researchers.
Thankyou for a motivating paper – I really enjoyed meeting you and wish I had seen your presentation. Hope your work in England goes well
Ann
PS
I have followed up your tip re LJ Millers “How to develop a standardised assessment in 23 000 easy steps” and am definitely going to suggest to my group that we use google documents.
By: Ann Kennedy-Behr on 4 June, 2008
at 4:39 pm
Hi Ann
Thanks for stopping by and I’m glad you enjoyed reading the presentation that was on the CDRom from the European congress.
It is interesting that there are a number of tools that could really help distance students but as many academics (thus supervisors) don’t appear to know about them, then the use of the tools are not shared! We are trying to use the tools more with our hons/masters students to support their learning of research.
Look forward to hearing more about how your group finds the use of the tools.
By: Merrolee on 9 June, 2008
at 9:13 am
Hi Merrolee!
This is a quick message – just for testing my screencast! Looks like you got back well – speak properly sooon
Will
By: will wade on 9 June, 2008
at 9:23 pm