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Twitter Twaddle?
Claire Hayward, Joaquim Faias and Heather Millar
Who we are
Joaquim Faias
(Educator, Portugal)
Heather Millar
(Clinician and inventor, USA)
Claire Hayward
(Clinician and student, UK)
What the heck is Twitter?
An example of a social network
A noisy conversation in a huge room….
….but you get to have selective hearing!
Ask not what you can do for social networking, but what social networking can do for you!
Lets think about this as occupational therapists…….
Doing, being, becoming, belonging (Wilcox 2006)
Why should you be interested?
Being
Developing (online) professional identity
Responding to the activities of the culture/day
Promoting a profession you value
Being true to ourselves, our nature or essence (Wilcock 2002):
A newly qualified OT
Students anxieties:
Doing
Searching out new information
Asking questions
Sharing information
Following conferences
Find a job (or getting a job to find you)
Improving practice standards
Up to date knowledge
Conference updates
Sharing of information will improve practice standards. For example, since I am certified in lymphedema treatments another therapist found me and I was able to offer advice to assist a client in Australia.
Heather
Belonging
Part of OT community: local, national and international
To a community: geographical, skills related (Bodell et al. 2008)
Global OT community
You can have info about how OT is being done in other countries and cultures coming from practitioners sharing their experience in real time. At some point, we may have OT practice being discussed by people from continents of the planet, sharing perspectives, cultural influences, links, approaches, methodologies, outcomes,... This idea is amazing.
Joaquim
What OTs say
Becoming
• Professional development (Erradi & Hartmann 2008)
• Service user engagement• Developing links to local
community• Advancing knowledge of
technology • Vision of the profession of the
future • Engaging with new groups• Mainstreaming of the profession
What consumers say
What consumers say
RT @kerrijack: friend's son was diagnosed with sensory integration disorder. Good news is occupational therapy did amazing things for him.
What OTs say
nabling: virtual participation
Social networking in the wider context of online tools
What opportunities for those we currently, or have potential to work with? (Verdonck & Ryan 2008)
Digital Divide and Occupational Justice (Goldfarb & Prince, 2008; Smedema & McKenzie, 2010)
Risky business?
Public nature of online media
Blurring the boundaries
IP and identity theft
Best practice and support options
Risk as a part of life!
Moving forwards
A “doing, being, belonging and becoming” challenge!
Support is out there: OT4OT
@enableot @jfaias @heatherot
Professional organisations (BAOTCOT)
OT4OT: online support network
References
Bodell, S., Penman, M., Hook, A., Wade, W., & Berry, N. (2008). Is social networking/websites bringing occupational therapists together? College of Occupational Therapists National Conference.
Erardi, L. K. & Hartmann, K. (2008). Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts: Broadening our Connections for Communication, Collaboration and Continuing Education. OT Practice, 13(9), 1-7.
Goldfarb, A. & Prince, J. (2008) Internet adoption and usage patterns are different: Implications for the digital divide. Information Economics and Policy. 20 (1) 2-15
Smedema, S. & McKenzie, A.(2010) The relationship among frequency and type of internet use, perceived social support, and sense of well-being in individuals with visual impairments. Disability and rehabilitation. 32 (4) 317-25
Verdonck, M. & Ryan, S (2008) Mainstream Technology as an OccupationalTherapy Tool: Technophobe or Technogeek? British Journal of Occupational
Therapy. 71 (6) 253-256Wilcock, A. (2002) Reflections on doing, being and becoming. Australian
Occupational Therapy Journal. 46 (1) 1-11Wilcock, A. (2006) Occupation: being through Doing in An Occupational Perspective
of Health. 2nd Ed. United States: Slack
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