157 – Lessons I’ve Learned Pushing OT Into The Digital World

Absolutely honoured to be asked to deliver the keynote for the Wisconsin OT Association virtual conference. This is that presentation as well as the Q&A; at the end of it for your consumption. 

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Transcript

Brock Cook  0:00  

Hi, and welcome to another episode I got asked, and still can't believe that I got asked to give the keynote presentation at the Wisconsin State ot conference a couple of weeks ago. And they asked me to give some lessons that I've learned in Korea that has involved a lot of empowering OTS to use online technology and an online space. So this is the presentation that I gave you guys also get the discussion towards the end of it, as well as the actual PowerPoint from the presentation and everything. So you'll have everything as if you were there. So I hope you get something out of it. I hope you enjoy it. Please do let me know either way. And let's roll it. Welcome to occupy plus the Patreon exclusive podcast for those supporters looking to inject some extra value into their practice. Thank you for your support, and enjoy.

Host  1:11  

Good morning and welcome to our 2021 Virtual World Conference. My name is Laura souls today and I am the VP of professional development in honor to kick off a two day agenda of expert speakers to set the tone and celebration of our professions. 100 years of resilience. today's keynote speaker comes to us all the way from Australia. Brock Cook is a seasoned occupational therapist with experience in working in acute mental health rehabilitation, delivering his expertise through innovating, approaches of podcasts and webinars. Currently, Brock is an associate lecturer for James Cook University, and will be presenting on the topics of lessons I've learned pushing ot into a digital world. Welcome, Brock.

Brock Cook  1:59  

Thank you very much very kind. Just give me one second while I work this shared screen thingamajigger me out. There we go. Hopefully people can see that. Cool. So yeah, hi, thank you for asking me to come and speak to you today. I'm flattered, honored. And hopefully, I can bring something that is of interest to a range of people I was asked to I've been involved in this world of OT and how its uses online technologies and social medias and that kind of thing for a very long time now. So I'm gonna go through a bit of my history with, I guess, technology in general, and how that led me into that space of being able to try and adapt it and use it for how I've used it within OT. And I'm hoping at the end, if we can, if there's questions, and I'm very much more of an interactive kind of person than just me speak to people through a screen kind of person. So I'd like to field some questions and try and explore I guess the future where to from here in that sort of question time towards the end of it, if we can so. So if I press the right button, that'll help. So having a look at my technological journey, so that not there we go. All right, I'll just do it this way. Sorry. where it started. So I was born in 1985. I my family we got our very first home computer. So one thing I will preface because I know this people have a whole wide range of ages in this room is I am of the generation that saw the start of pretty much all of the internet, that type of thing. So I remember a time before the internet, I remember a time before social media.