Occupational Engagement and SlideShare

Occupational engagement means to involve oneself, become occupied and to participate in an occupation. To participate requires the involvement of being, becoming and belonging, which includes performing or doing occupations.

Doing: includes purposeful and goal orientated activities striving for a sense of purpose and fulfillment (Hammel, 2004).

Being: is a very important aspect of living. it is taking the time to reflect, discover oneself, appreciating the self and others as well as being able to savour life's moments and to learn from experience (Hammel, 2004).

Belonging: the necessary contribution of social interaction, mutual support, and friendship. This takes into account that one able to perceive that one's life has value not only for themselves but for others around them (Hammel, 2004).

Becoming:is about being able to envision their future selves, and possible lives, exploring new opportunities and ideas (Hammel, 2004).

Slideshare is one of the many ways in which we can connect information from one website to another. This is known as embedding. In computing, embedding media into a text document, forming a compound document (Embedded, 2012). Embedding is great for video, music clips and powerpoints. One of our class objectives was to create a powerpoint using a variety of photos both original and from the internet. The next step was to upload the powerpoint to the Slideshare website then selecting the embed button, a code was revealed. This was then copied and placed into a blog posting. The end result (if all goes well) is this:

Baking

View more PowerPoint from whitetiger172

This slide was based on baking as it is something I love doing when I have the time and it was part of a range of activities that allowed staff and clients to interact with on a placement that I have done previously.

Doing: Baking tends to have purpose and an outcome, whether it be for children's lunches/snacks, special occasions or for the pure fact of being involved in something meaningful.

Being: Baking is something that one tends to learn through experimentation, trial and error as well as then evaluating how they thought the process went and whether the outcome was achieved to one's personal standards.

Belonging: some of the slides show the sense of belonging in which a few people are working together to create some baking.

Becoming: Before baking something, most people tend to have a 'plan' or envision the outcome they wish to create as a final product. There are a few slides in which the baking has been completed.


References:
'Embedded'. (2012). Retrieved March 9, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedding_%28disambiguation%29

Whitetiger172. (2012, March 8). Baking. Retrieved March 8, 2012, from http://www.slideshare.net/whitetiger172/baking-11929680