Category Archives: Occupational Therapy
Crafty Charity Calendar Challenge to Celebrate World OT Day
Well Hello on this warm Summery October’s Eve!!
I have some very crafty friends and, inspired by them, I have just decided to set all my blogging readers a challenge to help me celebrate World OT Day (World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT)) which is 27th October 2011.
I would love everyone, OTs, writers, friends, bloggers etc to join in please – I will too.
The challenge is this:
1. To design an ATC that celebrates an aspect of Occupational Therapy.
If you don’t know what an ATC is please see my good friend Catherine’s blog post on ATCs (you can see some fantastic examples of ATCs on her blog too – Catherine hoping you take part – hint hint).
If you aren’t too sure what Occupational Therapy is check out my earlier blog post or any of the blog links under the Occupational Therapy category.
2. Once you have done this take as high a resolution photo as possible of your ATC and put it on your blog or on Twitpic or similar if you don’t have a blog (Please don’t use any Copyrighted images on your ATC otherwise we won’t be able to use them for the Calendar – see below)
3. Then comment on this post (I will add my ATC at the top when it has been completed) adding in the URL for your blog post as ‘your website’ so that when people click on your name they get taken to your post. Please do this by the end of 26th October 2011.
4. If we get enough of them my plan is for everyone to vote for the top 12 and to create an OT 2012 calendar to sell for charity (The top 12 will be featured pictures to be used on the front cover and 1 for each month of the year though I hope to use as many pictures as you are happy to let me to have around the featured pics).
I would be wanting to support the Friends of Forest Holme local charity who have been supporting my Auntie through her battle with cancer and who do fantastic work in our local community.
Please do consider joining in – let me know below if you plan to and please spread the word.
Thanks
Kirsty
(Please note that this activity is not currently endorsed by WFOT or Friends of Forest Holme but I am seeking their permission to use their logos on the Calendar – Update – I have permission from both to use their logos on the finished product and if the calendar goes into production I will sign a fundraising deed with the charity).
Here is my completed ATC (I need to take a better picture for the actual calendar) – check out the links in the comments below too and don’t forget to link to yours below & tell me if you plan to make one. I’ve received a couple of pictures via Twitter that hopefully will be added here in due course.
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COT Conference 2011 (#cot2011) – Brighton
COT Conference 2011 (#cot2011) – Brighton
Yes people it’s that time of year again. I went to my first COT annual conference last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. I presented a seminar on CPD and e-portfolios.
This year I am presenting a facilitated poster discussion (session 46) and in a session on creative occupations (session 53) both on elements of my early PhD literature research (I am currently suffering from severe information overload).
For your tweeting pleasure I present below a list of the sessions I am attending.
| Day/Time | Session No and Title |
| Wed (10.00-11.00) | Opening Plenary – Occupation, evidence and outcomes |
| Wed (12.45-14.25) | Session 7 – Life Stories: use of the Kawa model in a role-emerging setting |
| Wed (15.00-15.45) | Session 35 – Tribalism or collectivism: debating generic vs specialist OT and what this means |
| Wed (15.40-16.40) | Session 46 – My poster discussion – Occupational therapy in practice session |
| Wed (-18.00) | BAOT/COT Annual General Meeting |
| Wed (18.00-18.45) | Twitter Meet up |
| Thu (8.30-10.00) | Session 53 – Creative Occupations (Me) |
| Thu (10.40-12.20) | Session 77- Movies that matter: films as learning activities to engage student’s ethical reflexivity |
| Thu (12.30-13.30) | Kawa Pebble beach meet up |
| Thu (13.55-15.10) | Plenary – Elizabeth Casson Memorial Lecture by Prof Anne Turner |
| Thu (16.00-16.45) | Session 106 – Occupational Therapy Education: an appalling paradox |
| Thu (16.50-17.35) | Session 114 – Responding to reviewer’s comments: the final hurdle of peer review |
| Fri (9.00-10.40) | Session 122 – New Ways of thinking |
| Fri (11.20-13.00) | Session 144 – Occupation and Older People |
| Fri (13.00-13.40) | Final plenary – Occupational Therapy saved my life |
Here’s a link to the Conference programme for more information and to the COT’s annual conference page where there is even more detail of the sessions.
Now, I am going to try and live tweet during the sessions that aren’t too interactive and where I’m not presenting but we have a slight problem. The Brighton Centre doesn’t supply free wifi (I was spoilt at the UDMH conference as Bournemouth Uni has free wifi across both campuses) so I won’t be able to use my iPad to tweet (quick and easy) and will instead have to use my phone (currently slowish and with poor battery that gets eaten up by connecting to 3G). Now COT did kindly find out arrangements for purchasing wifi access but the cost is prohibitive as I am pretty sure I’ll need over 4 hours access across the 3 days (£9.99) and 24 hours access is £39.99 – eek. My hotel also has a similar pricing structure so you may have to wait until the evenings for some key points tweets as I did last year with some more substantial blog posts when I get back to wifi.
Now it’s late and I still need to read through my presentation in a dry run and pack.
Please take a look at the sessions I’m attending and if there is anything specific you’d like me to listen out for/ask add a comment below.
kirstyes 