This is the presentation by Karen Jacobs and Anita Hamilton at the AOTA conference at Orlando, FL, May 1, 2010.

4. (Kamel Boulos & Wheeler, 2007; Potts, 2006)

5. Phase Feature
Web 1.0 One‐way web
Web 2.0 Interactive web
Web 3.0 Immersive web

7. Knowledge retrieval, storage, generation & transfer
Evidence-Based Communities Client Resources and
Information of Practice opinion & ideas information

12. Get ready to board the train!

15. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging

17. Can be used by one or more people in real time or
asynchronously.
Groups can work on a document, spreadsheet or presentation,
overcoming the need to keep track of different versions.
Appealing to healthcare workers, as they can be used to
organize meetings, take notes or create joint documents
Each document is web based, and has its unique URL
Where to start:
Google Documents
Zoho Writer

18. Text
Text

19. A message board or online discussion site, equivalent to former
“bulletin boards”
Replaced List‐Servers via email
Manage user‐generated discussions
Usually moderated by a group/team
Social bonds and interest groups for a topic may form from the
discussions
Where to start:
phpBB (Kawa forum and “Occupational Therapy Forum” use
this program)
UltraBB

22. Online citation managers combine social networking
with citation management and give greater access to
knowledge through collection of like minded folk
Where to start
CiteULike
bibsonomy
connotea
2collab,
Mendeley

24. Freely accessible Web search engine that indexes the
full text of scholarly literature across an array of
publishing formats and disciplines.
Where to start
Pubmed
BMJ
Google Scholar

26. Cost‐effective way for delivering surveys, collecting
results, and then analyzing the results all through one
central system.
Fantastic tool to collect opinions and information to
enhance practice
Where to start
Survey Monkey
Zoomerang

28. Your own homepage/start‐page that uses RSS feeds
to obtain information (e.g. news, weather, stock
market info etc…) using widgets and gadgets
Widget: a piece of reusable code that you can plug into
virtually any website.
Gadget: like a widget, but it is proprietary & only works
on a certain website or a specific set of websites
(About.com)
Where to start
iGoogle
MyYahoo

30. A series of audio or video digital‐media files that are
distributed over the Internet by syndicated download
(RSS), through Web feeds, to portable media players
and personal computers
Where to start
CNET Podcast Central
PodcastDirectory.com
YouTube
Talkshoe

34. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary or
RDF Site Summary (McLean et al. 2007).
You can subscribe to alerts from Internet news services, blogs or
podcast updates, journal table of contents or Pubmed searches
You no longer have to visit your favourite websites or blogs for
updates; rather you are informed of updates.
It is simple to subscribe to any site that has the RSS symbol
To start receiving RSS feeds, you will need to set up a reader or
an aggregator to receive subscribed updates.
Where to start:
Google Reader
Bloglines

36. Provides the ability to save your web browser's
bookmarks on a website
Allows you to take your bookmarks with you.
This type of bookmarking system is usually public but
can also be saved privately or shared with specified
people or groups
Where to start
Delicious
Diigo

38. Support maintenance of existing social networks, or connect
people with shared interests
Sites vary in the types of applications and communication tools
they offer, such as mobile connectivity, blogging and photo‐ or
videosharing (Kamel‐Boulos et al. 2007)
They make a user’s network visible to others, opening up the
possibility of new connections and new networks
There are over 40 major social network sites on the Internet
today, with the two most popular in the English‐speaking world
being Facebook and MySpace (Junco & Cole‐Avent 2008)
A different type of social networking site is Ning, where users set
up their own social networks based on special interests

42. Multiuser virtual worlds are computer‐based, simulated
multimedia environments that are designed to enable users to
interact with each other using digital objects.
Each user has a customizable graphical self‐representation
known as an avatar, which has its own name and can be adapted
to have unique features (Kamel‐Boulos et al. 2007).
Currently the most popular virtual world is Second Life, with 8.9
million residents in 2008 (Seeman 2008).
Where to start
Second Life
Croquet project

44. VoIP services convert voice into a digital signal that
travels over the Internet to a computer or a phone or
another computer
Some programs can be added so that you can record
online calls (e.g. Ecamm Network)
Skype
iChat
Google talk
Wimba

47. (Bray & Boufford, 2006; Samarawickrema, 2007)

56. AOTA Living Life to its Fullest Podcasts: http://www.aota.org/Consumers/Podcasts.aspx
Cathy’s EC Café: http://www.eccafe.org/
CiteULike: http://www.citeulike.org/
Delicious: http://delicious.com/
Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/index
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/
Google Docs: http://docs.google.com
Google Reader: http://reader.google.com
Healthskills Weblog: http://healthskills.wordpress.com/
iGoogle: http://www.google.com/ig
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/

57. Mediawiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Occupational Therapy Forum: http://www.occupationaltherapyforum.com/
PBWorks: http://pbworks.com/
Podcast directory: http://www.podcastdirectory.com/
Pubmed Central: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
Second Life: http://secondlife.com/?v=1.1
Skype: http://www.skype.com/
Survey Monkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/
Twitter: http://healthskills.wordpress.com/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/
Zoomerang: http://www.zoomerang.com/