UK

Wowsers. So the OT blogosphere has really taken off over the past few months. Without a doubt this is pretty much down to Merrolee's group in New Zealand but also to student's and of course a few bods like James Lamport Housing-OT Blog and Chris' ABC Therapeutics Blog in the States.

Merrolee and I were talking on GTalk just the other night and discussing ways on broadening the blogosphere / getting methods on us all talking to each other. Then something struck me. In a lot of other communities on the net these various bloggers and community members get together once in a while - yes, actually get away from a computer! Call it a meetup, blogmeet - whatever. I can't accommodate the world (although hey, your all invited!) so I have setup a upcoming group for anyone to join titled "OT's On The Net - UK" and in the upcoming future (like it?) I will organise a suitable venue/date to have a beverage and a chat. So, if your in the UK and reading this.. thinking of starting a Blog, contributing to the net in someway and your an OT (or student OT) then add yourself to the group to be informed of when/where!

Update I stupidly forgot to post the URL in the first revision of this post. To add yourself go to : http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/3203/ (It's a yahoo application so you will need to join yahoo )

(Thanks Merrolee)

UPDATE (2) See the forum on the meetup page for some inital thoughts of this meeting and please give me your feedback! http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/topic/1716/

Please find on this site a concise listing of all Current OT Courses as of August 2006. These course listings are different from those listed as on the various country OT associations websites/publications however they are far easier to navigate and with the option to provide feedback on the courses. We welcome feedback from ex-students and the like and moderate all comments. Please realise that courses are constantly changing and are updated frequently.

UK Courses http://metaot.com/ot-courses-uk
USA Courses http://metaot.com/ot-courses-usa

The good thing about OT is that its actually quite a small world. The bad thing is its actually quite a small and hard-to-find-any-information world. Really as a test for future, much more useful and intresting "things"that I have planned, I have created a database of all OT Courses from around the world. Currently data is viewable for the UK only but USA and Australia are just around the corner (If you are from the USA, Australia or New Zealand please contact me to help me out!!). Here are the UK courses:

http://metaot.com/ot-courses-uk

I am keen for students to write comments on courses from their institution - but please note the comments are moderated so be nice! Also please be aware that courses are constantly changing so take anything that may be written with a pinch of salt. I remember when I was fist looking into the world of OT and it was quite frankly a nightmare to find any information about the courses apart from the universities own literature and the QAA site*. I hope this may be useful to you if you wonder which courses to go for.

Any problems with the data then drop me a line.

*Only useful for UK courses.