Two years ago I said that I thought Twitter was taking it too far in the online world and I seriously couldn't see a role for it in my life... I have changed my tune! One year ago I tried to use Twitter more often, but found it daunting because I wasn't using an appropriate …
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Dr. Lincoln Bauer emailed to let me know that she is making professional development easier for OTs by putting a course about sensory processing disorder online. Visit this link to view the website.Here's what Lincoln wrote in her email to me:For families with Sensory Challenged children who live too far from the right occupational therapy …
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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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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 …
Lane and Ziviani (1999) state that technology access become an increasingly important Activity of Daily Living however I am not certain that occupational therapists think terribly deeply about the significance of computer access in daily life. It's probably not even a standard question in an ADL assessment!Using the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement …
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There's a new OT Blog aggregator that pulls together all updates on OT Blogs so that you can keep tabs on them in just one site. I'd definitely recommend this as a site to have as an RSS feed to your own home page! This site was put together by Joan, a student at the …
Anita Hamilton ~ VirtualOT 