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?
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.
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!