There is no scheduled #OTalk chat this week. The OT 24 Hour Virtual Exchange (#ot24vx14) will be running from 8pm GMT on Monday 3rd November until 8pm on Tuesday.

The Virtual Exchange is a free online occupational therapy conference, and this year it’s running in collaboration with the World Federation of Occupational Therapists. This year’s theme is ‘A World of Health and Wellbeing’.

• Conference programme
• Session times and links to live presentations
• ot4ot website

Things you can do to get ready for the OT24Vx 2014

1. Follow link for orientation to Webinar system Blackboard Collaborate. http://tinyurl.com/3m8n9zz

This link to the Blackboard Collaborate support portal is especially useful for first-time users. http://tinyurl.com/3gotox5

2. Visit the “Participants Practice Room” to check that your computer system is working and maybe even meet an international colleague! When you go to this link – follow the prompts to download and launch Blackboard Collaborate. http://tinyurl.com/OT24Vxparticipantroom

You may like to check out some previous #OTalk transcripts that link to themes in some of this year’s presentations:

• ‘The dark side of occupation‘ #occhat (13/03/12) in preparation for Rebecca Twinley’s presentation at 8pm GMT ‘Everyone is a moon: the dark side of occupation’ (session 3)
• ‘Occupational therapy and the fire service‘ (19/08/14) #OTalk in preparation for David Marsden’s presentation at 8am GMT ‘Using MOHO to improve fire safety’ (session 14)
• ‘End of life care‘ #OTalk (24/09/14) in preparation for Joanna Beveridge’s presentation at 4pm GMT ‘Occupational therapy and health promoting palliative care’ (session 21)
• ‘Sleep as an occupation‘ #occhat (27/03/12) and ‘Restorative occupations‘ #occhat (31/07/12) in preparation for Sophie Faulker’s presentation at 5pm GMT ‘Sleep and occupational therapy’ (session 22)

See you next week, when we’ll be chatting about equipment training for mental health occupational therapists.