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1. Slide 1: Is social networking/websites bringing occupational therapists together? Sarah Bodell Merrolee Penman Angela Hook Will Wade Natan Berry
2. Slide 2: Web 2.0/Social networking Web 2.0 tools enable building of networks which provide a natural framework for participation, collaboration and sharing amongst a community of users (O’Reilly, 2005).
3. Slide 3: What tools?
4. Slide 4: Web 2.0 What did the tools enable us to do? “created, shared, remixed, repurposed and passed along” (Downes, 2005, para. 1)
5. Slide 5: What is a blog? • A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. • Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. • Individual articles on a blog are called “posts” or “entries”. • A person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”.
6. Slide 6: Take a look • Salford Occupational Therapy Educators • Meta OT • Occupational Therapy Education Issues • Occupational Therapy - a blog about OT
7. Slide 7: Why Blog? I’m talking about the communities we currently have, when we’re scattered around the country, unable to communicate face-to-face, but still connected, still intellectually intimate, because we’ll still regularly be engaged with each other’s thoughts. Scott Eric Kaufman
8. Slide 8: Blogging and CPD • HPC regulations for re-registration • Standard 2 • A registrant must identify that their CPD activities are a mixture of learning activities relevant to current or future practice. www.hpc-uk.org
9. Slide 9: Blogging and CPD • CPD via reflection • CPD via peer discussion • Opportunity to reflect and getNational and international debate • feedback • Read other’s reflections and• comment on them Accessible • By writing in a public • Timely arena you develop honed skills
10. Slide 10: Blogging and CPD • CPD via extending • CPD via networking knowledge • Joint research opportunities o Following links to articles/podcasts etcexperiences • Sharing o Introduction of new concepts o Introduction of new way of approaching something
11. Slide 11: Blogging and CPD • HPC regulations for re-registration • Standard 5 • A registrant must present a written profile containing evidence of their CPD upon request. www.hpc-uk.org
12. Slide 12: Getting your hands dirty! Lets start simple! 3.Blogging 4.Commenting
13. Slide 13: Why should you get involved? • OT’s are experts at communication right? • Conversations need people! • The web can be used as a reflective tool but itself provides tools to help do many more things. • If you don’t feel you have anything to contribute at first then standback but please comment! If something is written you disagree with SAY IT! The web gives you this voice!
14. Slide 14: Discussion Sarah Bodell S.J.Bodell@salford.ac.uk frederickroad.blogspot.com Merrolee merrolee@tekotago.ac.nz oteducation.wordpress.com Penman Angela A.Hook@salford.ac.uk frederickroad.blogspot.com Hook Will Wade willwade@gmail.com metaot.com Natan Berry aishel@gmail.com bloggingot.wordpress.com http://del.icio.us/tag/web2-talk-cot-conf