EMBRACING NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY:

FROM SOCIAL MEDIA TO APPS

Brock Cook

Adam Lo

Adult Acute Mental

Health Unit Townsville Early Intervention Team

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WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?

WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?

Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and

exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks.

WHY SHOULD WE CARE?

• Facebook gets almost as much traffic (individual users) as Google

• Mobile internet usage has overtake PC

• Mobile internet usage is growing 1.5x every year

• 1.1billion Facebook users

• 3.5bn tweets per week

• Avg tweets per second: 5700

OVERWHELMING?

FACEBOOK

TWITTER

EVERNOTE

TED TALKS

BLOGS

OCCUBUZZ

My Mood (Free)

SAM

- Developed by the University of the West of England (Bristol)

- Sam-app.org.uk

iSession

- The interface is designed to get you quickly to the point of scheduling a session with a client.

www.PaperRater.com

www.Grammarly.com

Massive Open Online Courses

MOOC - COURSERA

MOOC - iversity

SAMPLE: https://p2pu.org/en/courses/576/mental-wealth-know-it-and-grow-it/

MOOC – P2PU

MOOC - edX

DIY MOOC?

MOOC - Extra Tips

- Great for resources

- 2x Videos to save time

- “Try before you buy” when considering post-graduate education

- Identify potential mentors/supervisors/researcher

WANT MORE INFO??

Brock Cook

Adam Lo

www.brockcook.com

www.adamlo.com

Feel free to contact us!