Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tutorial eight
In this tutorial i learnt how to upload a flickr badge and youtube video onto my blog. Ive added short videos that give you step-by-step instructions on how to do this
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tutorial Seven: Assistive Technology
This tutorial focused on assistive technology and its uses. Assistive technology is "any item, piece of equipment, or product system that is used to increase or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities". (Cook, & Hussey, 1995)
An example of assistive technology equipment is the Go Talk. This piece of equipment comes in various forms such as the pocket Go Talk, The Go Talk 20+, and the Go Talk 4+. I'm going to focus on the Go Talk 4+. The Go Talk 4+ is a portable communications device that is battery operated. It has 5 recording levels, 20 messages recorded on 4 big buttons, and 4.5 minutes of memory. The size of the Go Talk 4+ is 23cm x 30.5cm x 2.9cm and it costs $229.
The Go Talk 4+ can be used for anyone who has a condition that limits speech. E.g Autism, down syndrome, and cerebral palsy. It enables people who struggle to communicate verbally to communicate with others.
An example of assistive technology equipment is the Go Talk. This piece of equipment comes in various forms such as the pocket Go Talk, The Go Talk 20+, and the Go Talk 4+. I'm going to focus on the Go Talk 4+. The Go Talk 4+ is a portable communications device that is battery operated. It has 5 recording levels, 20 messages recorded on 4 big buttons, and 4.5 minutes of memory. The size of the Go Talk 4+ is 23cm x 30.5cm x 2.9cm and it costs $229.
The Go Talk 4+ can be used for anyone who has a condition that limits speech. E.g Autism, down syndrome, and cerebral palsy. It enables people who struggle to communicate verbally to communicate with others.
Tutorial Six: The internet and online communities
The Tutorial for this week was about looking at online communities. The online community I'm going to focus on is facebook. Facebook is a type of social networking website where "users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college". Retrieved on 24, June, 2010, from www.wikipedia.org/wiki/facebook. Facebooks web address is http://www.facebook.com/.
The purpose of this site is to provide people with a social website that enables them to communicate and interact with others. The user can add friends, join groups, send both personal and public messages, upload pictures, upload videos, receive birthday notifications, and complete quizzes or games that are sent by other users.
I believe people choose to contribute to this community as its an easy to use website that enables them to communicate and stay in touch with friends and family no matter where they are around the world. I use facebook for this very reason. Facebook allows me to stay in touch with my family in South Africa and America. I can keep updated with their lives by looking at their wall posts and photos
Topics discussed on facebook are usually about whats going on in peoples lives but can be about anything the user feels like sharing or talking about. As peoples lives are consistently changing so are their profiles.
Ethics to consider when using facebook are:
The purpose of this site is to provide people with a social website that enables them to communicate and interact with others. The user can add friends, join groups, send both personal and public messages, upload pictures, upload videos, receive birthday notifications, and complete quizzes or games that are sent by other users.
I believe people choose to contribute to this community as its an easy to use website that enables them to communicate and stay in touch with friends and family no matter where they are around the world. I use facebook for this very reason. Facebook allows me to stay in touch with my family in South Africa and America. I can keep updated with their lives by looking at their wall posts and photos
Topics discussed on facebook are usually about whats going on in peoples lives but can be about anything the user feels like sharing or talking about. As peoples lives are consistently changing so are their profiles.
Ethics to consider when using facebook are:
- False facebook accounts of people - identity theft.
- Other facebook users can upload photos of you without your permission.
- Potential for cyber-stalking and harassment.
The facebook community has many benefits over traditional notions of community. Users are able to quickly share lots of information and stay connected with people no matter where they are geographically. Users can remain silently observant before participating and all users are able to have an equal voice.
However there are still things that facebook lacks. It lacks face to face communication, It has limited communication tools, and those without Internet are unable to access it.
Tutorials Four and Five: Video production Sessions
In these Tutorials we learned some basic film production skills and the importance of planning and preparing for video productions. Our task was to work in a small group to produce a short film and to then post our short film onto YouTube. "YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos". Retrieved on June, 24, 2010, from www.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube.
The use of planning specifically storyboarding and scripting really helped make our short film possible. Storyboarding is the use of a sequence of pictures to tell the plot of the film as it will appear on screen. The storyboard is a plan of the end product. Our storyboard was made up of 10 pictures (scenes) and enabled all the members of my group to know exactly what was going to happen before we began filming. It was good because when we got stuck whilst filming or forgot a scene we could go back to our storyboard to help us remember what to do. The use of scripting enable the actresses in our short film to know everything they had to do and say. The use of a storyboard and of scripting enabled my group to make a great short film and made me realize how important good planning is to all films.
The use of planning specifically storyboarding and scripting really helped make our short film possible. Storyboarding is the use of a sequence of pictures to tell the plot of the film as it will appear on screen. The storyboard is a plan of the end product. Our storyboard was made up of 10 pictures (scenes) and enabled all the members of my group to know exactly what was going to happen before we began filming. It was good because when we got stuck whilst filming or forgot a scene we could go back to our storyboard to help us remember what to do. The use of scripting enable the actresses in our short film to know everything they had to do and say. The use of a storyboard and of scripting enabled my group to make a great short film and made me realize how important good planning is to all films.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Tutorial Three:Blog
This tutorial was were we set up out blog and learnt how to use it.
"a blog is a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and web links". Retrieved on June, 23, 2010, from www.markitingterms.com/dictionary/blog. A blog is like a diary with all a persons thoughts, ideas, opinions recorded down on a website for people to share with others. Blogger is a website in which peoples blogs are able to be recorded down.
"a blog is a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and web links". Retrieved on June, 23, 2010, from www.markitingterms.com/dictionary/blog. A blog is like a diary with all a persons thoughts, ideas, opinions recorded down on a website for people to share with others. Blogger is a website in which peoples blogs are able to be recorded down.
Tutorial Two: Digital Camera use an applications
This Tutorial was about digital Cameras and the various applications they have.
"A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every feature" this quote is true for digital cameras.
The benefits of a digital camera are:
"A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every feature" this quote is true for digital cameras.
The benefits of a digital camera are:
- You can delete a picture right away after taking it
- Digital Cameras have a range of settings for different conditions. eg. Sunny setting for a sunny day.
- Its easy to share photos with a digital camera as you just upload them onto your computer and can then email photos to friends.
- You can process digital images your self
- Digital camera images have better storage capabilities.
- Most digital cameras have a film option.
- Doesn't cost as much to print digital images.
however the quality of some images on a cheap digital camera don't often have as good a resolution as on a film camera. On some digital cameras there is a slight delay after pressing the button to take a picture. Some photographers still prefer to use film cameras as they like the quality of the images better.
Digital Images can be stored in a wide range of ways. they can be stored onto a memory stick, on your camera, on a cellphone, on a ipod, on a CD, on your computer, and they can also be stored on websites on the Internet such as facebook. Digital images can be sent any where around the world using communications technology such as email, facebook, flickr, and bebo. this can cause some ethical issues though as to if you have consent to take or send a picture.
Occupational therapy has a wide range of uses for digital images. Some major benefits of using digital photography are that you can take pictures to record a clients progress or to enable a therapist to complete better housing modifications as taking pictures of/in a clients house will help.
Flickr.com is a online community that enables the user to upload digital images or videos which can then be shared with others around the world. people submitting photos put tags on them and this enables others to conduct searches for photos that are related on a particular topic. www.facebook.com is another online community and it offers similar services to flicker.
Digital and Optical zoom are the two different types of zooms on a camera. Optical zoom is often called the true zoom and is better then digital zoom because it produces better quality pictures. Optical zoom is where the camera acts like binoculars and zooms up on the image using the camera lens. Using the optical zoom results in good quality images that have not been stretched like in the digital zoom. Digital zoom is where the optics of a camera stay the same. So the image looks like it has come closer but i actual fact has been stretched which results in reduced image quality.
Mega pixel is often a measurement used in a camera. A mega pixel is equal to one million pixels and pixels are the tiny squares that make up an image. The more pixels a digital camera has the better quality images it can produce.
Tutorial One: information technology
In this tutorial we discussed to uses of Information Technology (IT) and some ethical issues that can occur with IT. IT is "a term that encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange, and utilize information in its various forms including business data, conversations, still images, motion pictures, and multimedia presentation". Retrieved on June, 23, 2010 from www.entrepreneur.com/encyclopedia/term/82268.html. Basically IT refers to anything that's to do with computer technology. IT is very prevalent in society today as it deals with computers and computer software. Lots of people use IT as it encompasses anything from email accounts, social networking sites, mobile phones, ipods, and search engines. One of the IT devices i feel very comfortable with is my email account as Ive had one since i started college so Ive grown up with it and its easy for me to understand.
Occupational therapy uses a lot of information technology for example the last fieldwork placement i was on had an intraweb in place at the hospital. This enabled all staff including Occupational therapists to access the necessary client notes, upload information onto client files, and even make referrals for a client. When information is shared in this way some ethical implications arise, such as patient confidentiality. it is not always certain who receives client information when using things like phones or email so a breach in patient confidentiality could occur. another ethical dilemma that can occur within IT especially in things like the intraweb at my hospital is that even though staff were not allowed to they could gain access to their own files.
Computer ethics can be defined as "a set of moral principles that regulate the use of computers. some common issues of computer ethics include intellectual property rights (such as copyrighted electronic content) privacy concerns, and how computers effect society". Retrieved on June 23, 2010, from http://www.techterms.com/definition/computerethics. Intellectual property can be defined as "a product of the intellect that has commercial value, including copy righted property, such as patients, appellations of origin, busness methods, and industrial process". Retrieved on June, 23, 2010. Social Justice is defined as "fair and proper administration of laws conforming to the natural law that all persons, irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, possessions, race, religion, etc., are to be treated equally and without prejudice". Retrieved on June, 23, 2010, from http://www.buisnessdictionary.com/definition/social-justice.html. Informed consent "can be said to have been given based upon a clear appreciation and understanding of the facts, implications, and future, consequences of an action. in order to give informed consent, the individual concerned must have adequate reasoning faculties and be in possession of all relevant facts at the time consent is given". Retrieved on June, 23, 2010, from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/informed_consent.
A good understanding of IT and the issues surounding it, is important for OTs. Understanding the uses of IT would enable OTs to increase their area of knowledge and as mentioned above IT will be used in lots of services so a good understanding will increase an OTs knowledge of how to use it.
Occupational therapy uses a lot of information technology for example the last fieldwork placement i was on had an intraweb in place at the hospital. This enabled all staff including Occupational therapists to access the necessary client notes, upload information onto client files, and even make referrals for a client. When information is shared in this way some ethical implications arise, such as patient confidentiality. it is not always certain who receives client information when using things like phones or email so a breach in patient confidentiality could occur. another ethical dilemma that can occur within IT especially in things like the intraweb at my hospital is that even though staff were not allowed to they could gain access to their own files.
Computer ethics can be defined as "a set of moral principles that regulate the use of computers. some common issues of computer ethics include intellectual property rights (such as copyrighted electronic content) privacy concerns, and how computers effect society". Retrieved on June 23, 2010, from http://www.techterms.com/definition/computerethics. Intellectual property can be defined as "a product of the intellect that has commercial value, including copy righted property, such as patients, appellations of origin, busness methods, and industrial process". Retrieved on June, 23, 2010. Social Justice is defined as "fair and proper administration of laws conforming to the natural law that all persons, irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, possessions, race, religion, etc., are to be treated equally and without prejudice". Retrieved on June, 23, 2010, from http://www.buisnessdictionary.com/definition/social-justice.html. Informed consent "can be said to have been given based upon a clear appreciation and understanding of the facts, implications, and future, consequences of an action. in order to give informed consent, the individual concerned must have adequate reasoning faculties and be in possession of all relevant facts at the time consent is given". Retrieved on June, 23, 2010, from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/informed_consent.
A good understanding of IT and the issues surounding it, is important for OTs. Understanding the uses of IT would enable OTs to increase their area of knowledge and as mentioned above IT will be used in lots of services so a good understanding will increase an OTs knowledge of how to use it.
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