Teaching classes is slowly finishing and conference season has begun!As educators we have a couple of mandatory requirements and one is to present our recent research activity at conferences. Coming up with amazing content seems to come in waves and right now we are riding a wonderful wave that formed gradually over the past 10 …
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Today I clicked on Facebook Ad for "Canadian Virtual Hospice". I was intrigued to see what types of information and services this site might offer and was genuinely impressed by how thorough this site is!There are three main areas: Topics, Support and For Professionals,Topics include:What Is Palliative Care?What Is Palliative Care?Emotional HealthTalking with Children and …
Interactive online technology has opened the world to our classroom through Skype™. I can now invite guest speakers and experts into the classroom. In one of my OT courses this year I interviewed two eminent occupational therapy authors using this approach and then watched the interviews in class with the students. I used eCamm recorder™ …
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This week my facebook status reads "Anita is a bit tired of thinking like a FB status update... I want to think properly again". I decided to call this Facebook Fatigue.I love the fact that I can constantly stay up to date with the day to day "doings" of friends and family around the globe, …
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This is the presentation that we gave at the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists' conference in Ottawa, May 2009. The presentation is about the results of our project where we taught 5 clients with ABI to bog, use iGoogle and Facebook, and we interviewed them before, immediately after and then 10 weeks after the program. …
Recently I have noticed that I feel lost when I cannot connect to my online world so I have decided to schedule a digital break every few weekends for a whole day! This is very challenging because the digital world is an integral part of my life and it crept in so quietly. I don't …
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Some people who are new to the online environment are concerned that others may use their content and not cite them, so they simply refuse to put any information online, keeping all their knowledge in the formal literature... inaccessible to the masses. The fear of having your work stolen is real and it happens! Many …
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Anita Hamilton ~ VirtualOT 