Last Task! Tutorial Seven ...

The last task for this blog is to find 5 other blogs related to OT practice. We are also asked to show that we can comment or contribute to other blogs by showing what we have written on them. I went a little blog crazy so I'm going to list more than 5, because all are interesting, insightful and completely relevant to OT:

http://meaningfuloccupations.wordpress.com/

“The meaning of occupation shows itself … in what matters most … what matters most is what we care about and what concerns us … this reveals itself in the occupations we choose or choose not to engage in … the meaning of occupation is therefore at the heart of who we are … meaning is circumstantial and is shaped by the dynamics of the interaction and interplay between people, competing demands and possibilities.” Source: Reed,K., Hocking & Smythe, 2010.

This blog set up by the New Zealand Association of Occuptional Therapists  to ask the question: “What are the world’s most meaningful occupations?” I love it, because core to OT practice is occupation, and core to occupations is their meaningfulness to those individuals engaging in them. I am very interested in this fundamental aspect of practice, so I have left my own thoughts on this blog... here's a link to the page where I posted a comment...
http://meaningfuloccupations.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/what-occupations-are-meaningful-to-you/#comment-17

http://occupationaltherapyotago.wordpress.com/
This blog is written by someone who works at Otago Poly!!! (weeee!) it caught my eye because of the beautiful photograph of Harbour Cone and Hoopers Inlet (from around where I grew up) and has an abundance of information and reporting on everything from Therapeutic use of Self to Hip Replacements. I'll definately be spending more time later on going through who this mystery educator has to say.

http://www.nzaot.com/resources/specialist.resources.php
The above website actually has a list of numerous OT blogs. I thought this was worth linking to for future reference.

http://otstudents.blogspot.com/
This woman is amazing and inspirational, she has documented her entire lot of adventures and experiences of studying to become an OT right through to graduating and now looking for a job. I'm impressed!!! I'd love to see more blogs out there like this one. Have a read, leave a comment! (I did and here's what the computer had to say "Your comment has been saved and will be visible after blog owner approval. Follow-up comments will be sent to redshl1@student.op.ac.nz"

http://oteducation.wordpress.com/

The above blog is another by an academic situated at Otago Poly. It's really interesting to see how effective this particular blog has been for the blogger, as it has assisted her in her Doctor of Education Research at the time. Have a sqizz!

http://otexperiment.wordpress.com/
This blog is expired, but what I found interesting was the fact it was purely set up to see if the internet could help OT practice in anyway. Here's the introductin for the blog: "Welcome to my site. I'm an occupational therapist working in neuro rehab, and I started this blog as an experiment I guess. I want to see how we can use the internet in different ways to help with professional development. It's slow to start with, but hopefully others will catch on to the idea and we can learn more and help each other out." I guess they decided not to keep up with it.

http://jess-practice-reasoning.blogspot.com/

Have a look at this one too; really cool to see new grads using blogs to share and reflect upon their experiences! It's really helpful reading through this blog because it gives insight into the 'real' world of OT practice after graduation.

http://abctherapeutics.blogspot.com/

This blog is written by Christopher J. Alterio, Dr.OT, OTR. He says: "I am an occupational therapist and own a private practice in Western New York. Thanks for reading... This blog represents an ongoing experiment in a mostly open-source exploration of occupational therapy. I am a street-level health care provider and amateur anthropologist with a post-professional clinical doctorate in occupational therapy. That makes me a pragmatic guy who gets confused with my transcendent training. Or something like that. This blog chronicles my personal experiences as an occupational therapist and general-systems thinker. The people and events described herein all share the essence of Truth, except where I have made things up. In other words, sometimes names and details have been changed. Also, every story continues - even after the last page is turned. So, this product is sold by neither weight nor volume; there may be some settling of contents after shipping. Please shake well before using."

http://hosmerot.blogspot.com/

Really, really cool blog; visually effective and informative!

OK I better stop stalking OT bloggers and get on with some other meaningful occupation! TATA!