The document discusses how occupational therapists are using social networking and websites to connect with each other. It provides examples of blogs and online communities that occupational therapists have created for sharing ideas, reflections, and debates. The document also explains how blogging can help occupational therapists meet continuing professional development standards through activities like reflection, extending knowledge, and networking.

1. Sarah Bodell Merrolee Penman Angela Hook Will Wade Natan Berry Is social networking/websites bringing occupational therapists together?

2. 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). Web 2.0/Social networking

3. What tools?

4. Web 2.0 “ created, shared, remixed, repurposed and passed along” (Downes, 2005, para. 1) What did the tools enable us to do?

5. 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”. What is a blog?

6. Salford Occupational Therapy Educators Meta OT Occupational Therapy Education Issues Occupational Therapy - a blog about OT Take a look

7. 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 Why Blog?

8. 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. Blogging and CPD www.hpc-uk.org

9. Blogging and CPD CPD via reflection Opportunity to reflect and get feedback Read other’s reflections and comment on them By writing in a public arena you develop honed skills CPD via peer discussion National and international debate Accessible Timely

10. Blogging and CPD CPD via extending knowledge Following links to articles/podcasts etc Introduction of new concepts Introduction of new way of approaching something CPD via networking Joint research opportunities Sharing experiences

11. HPC regulations for re-registration Standard 5 A registrant must present a written profile containing evidence of their CPD upon request. Blogging and CPD www.hpc-uk.org

12. Getting your hands dirty! Lets start simple! Blogging Commenting

13. 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! Why should you get involved?

14. Discussion http://del.icio.us/tag/web2-talk-cot-conf Sarah Bodell [email_address] frederickroad.blogspot.com Merrolee Penman [email_address] oteducation.wordpress.com Angela Hook [email_address] frederickroad.blogspot.com Will Wade [email_address] metaot.com Natan Berry [email_address] bloggingot.wordpress.com