I use Skype almost every day in my personal and professional life. It's free and easy to use and so personal! My sister and I cook together with our laptops on in our kitchens, chatting while doing our "chores". She's in Melbourne and I'm in Edmonton! My nieces and nephews play imaginary games with me …
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Podcasting & Web 2.0: Implications for Health Care Education
Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Podcasting & Web 2.0: Implications for Health Care Educationhttp://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=podcasting-web-20-implications-for-health-care-education-9826&stripped_title=podcasting-web-20-implications-for-health-care-educationView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: podcasting web 2.0)
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Web 2.0 expoThe Power of Less "We do some of our best work when we’re constrained: by budgets, by headcount, by technology, by the economy. These are the times when bureaucracy and waste die by necessity. What’s left are ideas, and the muscle to make them real." 2009 will be a tough year in many …
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Barriers to Web 2.0 in OT education
I am passionate about linking occupational therapists in the online environment... however, right now my perceived barriers are these:1. Health care practitioners are people-people, therefore a computer is seen as a barrier to their ultimate goal of working with people (even though Web 2.0 IS so interactive!!!).2. The curriculum is so tight that it is …
The Networked Student
I followed a link from a blog called Wishful Thinking in Medical Education (a great blog!) to this YouTube clip featured on a blog called TechTicker. An excellent discussion follows below the YouTube clip and Mike Bogle discusses his post further in a video clip of his own! How Cool!
Occupational therapy groups on facebook
There is a rapidly growing number of OT groups on Facebook, that are both serious and social. Over the next few days I'm going to find them and list them here.This is a snapshot of what's happening in this corner of the Web 2.0 world for our profession.I'll list if it is an open or …
Another good e-health blog
I've just added a link to eHealth, a blog devoted to eHealth and Health IT. There are some excellent posts and also some excellent links.The volume of activity happening in the USA since Barack Obama was elected has been unbelievable. We're hopefully going to see rapid development of excellent online healthcare resources as a result …
Online Healthcare Gets Personal
Health 2.0 and the Healing Power of Supportive CommunitiesAs we know, social networks are gaining widespread acceptance, and people of all ages are accessing the internet not just to get information but also to find, give and receive emotional support.In a recent report from CarePages, they discuss that scientific studies provide evidence that such support …
TechnOT: Why OT’s need to be online
TechnOT: Why OT's need to be onlineThis earlier post on "Why OTs need to be online" links with today's post on "Web searches feed health fears" this article claims that we are becoming cyberchondriacs!If health professionals have a larger presence in the online world would this make this problem better or worse I wonder?
The future of online learning 10 years on
Stephen Downes, an educator and researcher in New Brunswick Canada reflects on his essay entitled The Future of Online Learning. In a recent post on his blog he has reviewed and updated this essay, finding that many of his predictions made ten years ago were quite accurate. Visit this link to read the essay in …
Anita Hamilton ~ VirtualOT 