Thursday, May 28, 2009
Tutorial eight: Posting you tube videos and Flickr badges to blogs: Explaining the process
You tube Videos: Embedding you tube videos, this explains the process of how to embed a you tube video onto your blog
Friday, May 22, 2009
tutorial seven: assitive technology
On the Monday we had two guest speakers from Kimiora school in Wellington at Star Education. When they came they offered us a chance to have a turn with assistive technology and information during our tutorial session
Assistive technology is Any item, piece of equipment, or system, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals (Cook & Hussey, 2002)
The piece of assistive technology that was introduced during the tutorial was Go talk which is a piece of technology that assists someone who is unable to communicate or have severe deficits. GoTalks are battery powered devices that have pre recorded messages that another person has recorded for them that the person using this device may possibly need to say. This wil allow the person to communicate without assistance form others therefore giving them more independence. An example of this is if they are in a supermarket and are asking for some bread, they press the botton saying "could you please show me where I could fid the bread?" then push a button saying "how much will that cost" and then possibly a button saying "thank you and goodbye". all the user needs to do is press the correct button so they correct sentence is produced.
The piece of assistive technology that was introduced during the tutorial was Go talk which is a piece of technology that assists someone who is unable to communicate or have severe deficits. GoTalks are battery powered devices that have pre recorded messages that another person has recorded for them that the person using this device may possibly need to say. This wil allow the person to communicate without assistance form others therefore giving them more independence. An example of this is if they are in a supermarket and are asking for some bread, they press the botton saying "could you please show me where I could fid the bread?" then push a button saying "how much will that cost" and then possibly a button saying "thank you and goodbye". all the user needs to do is press the correct button so they correct sentence is produced.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Tutorials four & five: video production
Youtube services: Youtube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips from all around the world. Most of the content on youtube although some media corporations and organizstions offer material via this site. Other you tube members are able to comment and share their interest on your video. The home page is divided into videos being watched now, featured videos, most popular with entertainment, news and politics, sport and many more sub headings under it.
Use of planning in a short film: Storyboarding: are a series of illustrations displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualising an animated or live-action film. A storyboard is essentially a large comic of the film or some section of the film produced beforehand to help the directors and cinematographers visualize the scenes and find potential problems before they occur. Often storyboards include arrows or instructions that indicate movement
Scripting: A scrip is how an author get their thoughts and ideas out to the audience. In a video or film the author should include much more than just a dialog in the script or it will not gain the full benefit of the audiovisual. The script should be the basis for everything that is both heard and seen on the screen. A good script should include; moods and expressions, facial expressions, vocal expressions, movement, interaction with other characters, special effects, sound tract instructions, lighting, camera angles and types of shots, background sound and setting, on screen graphics and titles.
Use of planning in a short film: Storyboarding: are a series of illustrations displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualising an animated or live-action film. A storyboard is essentially a large comic of the film or some section of the film produced beforehand to help the directors and cinematographers visualize the scenes and find potential problems before they occur. Often storyboards include arrows or instructions that indicate movement
Scripting: A scrip is how an author get their thoughts and ideas out to the audience. In a video or film the author should include much more than just a dialog in the script or it will not gain the full benefit of the audiovisual. The script should be the basis for everything that is both heard and seen on the screen. A good script should include; moods and expressions, facial expressions, vocal expressions, movement, interaction with other characters, special effects, sound tract instructions, lighting, camera angles and types of shots, background sound and setting, on screen graphics and titles.
Tutorial three, setting up a blog
What is a blog: A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world. Your blog is what ever you want it to be. They come however the person wants them to be in and shape, colour, size and there are no particular rules. It is where you write stuff on an ongoing basis, other people can read them and comment on your posts. A blog offers a chance to connect with people, hearing from people who have read you post, you have the choice whether you want just a few friends to view you blog or anyone who is interested.
On blog you can do:
Blogger Comments let anyone, anywhere, offer feedback on your posts. You can choose whether you want to allow comments on a post-by-post basis, and you can delete any comments you don't like.
Access Controls let you decide who can read and who can write to your blog. You can use a group blog with multiple authors as an excellent communication tool for small teams, families and other groups. Or as a single author, you can create a private online space for collecting news, links, and ideas, to keep to yourself or share with as many readers as you want.
Blogger Profiles let you find people and blogs that share your interests. Your Blogger Profile, where you can list your blogs, your interests, and more, lets people find you (but only if you want to be found).
There are many different options when you are designing you blog, you can choose your own template, customise colours and fonts, and also choose where about on the page you want your posts to sit or anything extra. You are able to past photos onto blogger
On blog you can do:
Blogger Comments let anyone, anywhere, offer feedback on your posts. You can choose whether you want to allow comments on a post-by-post basis, and you can delete any comments you don't like.
Access Controls let you decide who can read and who can write to your blog. You can use a group blog with multiple authors as an excellent communication tool for small teams, families and other groups. Or as a single author, you can create a private online space for collecting news, links, and ideas, to keep to yourself or share with as many readers as you want.
Blogger Profiles let you find people and blogs that share your interests. Your Blogger Profile, where you can list your blogs, your interests, and more, lets people find you (but only if you want to be found).
There are many different options when you are designing you blog, you can choose your own template, customise colours and fonts, and also choose where about on the page you want your posts to sit or anything extra. You are able to past photos onto blogger
tutorial two: Digital camera use and applications
What would you consider some of the plus and minuses digital camera technology holds in relation to more traditional film based cameras?
Pluses:
Pluses:
- Cost of film is reduced
- you can choose what pictures you want to keep or take another if it isn't good
- you can view pictures straight after they have been taken
- are able to take numerous amounts of pictures on one camera without having to develop films
- photos can be stored digitally, therefore photos wont deteriorate
- can buy a camera to suit you
- pictures can be displayed for free
Minuses:
- inappropriate use of cameras
- heavily relies on user having a computer to store photos, this is an extra cost to the user
- quality of photo is deceased
- have take away the use of photo albums that have sentimental meaning
- they are less durable and more susceptible to damage
- skill of photography has decreased
Ways the digital images can be stored transferred and manipulated using other communications technology. Photos can be stored in numerous places such as on computers, on i-pods, in memory sticks, in the camera and in hard copy, this could cause photo to be transferred onto the internet with ease as it can be stored in so many different ways, such as being put onto Facebook. With or without permission from others. They are also able to be transferred onto electronic devices or hard copies through scanning, emails, faxes, photo coping and many other ways Photo's can be manipulated very easily when they have been put onto a computer system such as using photo shop to change anything about the picture take things out or add them in.
What ethical issues may arise with use of digital cameras: Informed consent for clients if you take pictures of them or are planning to use them for any purpose. Photo shopping images can create the impression that things that aren't real exist or paint people in compromising positions that never happened.
Ways that digital images are used in Occupational therapy practice: Photo's are used when you go on home visits when you are a community occupational therapist or in a acute or rehab occupational therapist. It is also used when taking part in group activities.
Services offered by flickr: Flickr is a website that provides a way to manage photos and allows people to share their photos, anywhere in the world that has access to internet. Retrieved on the 15 May 2009 from http://www.flickr.com/about/ it offers
Other storage website which offers a service similar to flickr.com: Bebo, Facebook, twitter, you tube and myspace
The difference between digital and optical zoom: Optical zoom works like a zoom lens on a film camera. The zoom changes focal length and magnification as it is zoomed. Image quality stays high. Digital zoom simply crops the image to a smaller size, then enlarges the cropped portion to fill the frame again. This results in significant loss of quality.
Explain what is meant be the term megapixel: a megapixel is 1 million pixels which are made up of small squares. The more pixels there are the higher quality the picture is
Tutorial six: The internet and online communities
In this weeks tutorial we looked at online communities, I looked into facebook as my online community
The web adress is: www.facebook.com
This website is known as facebook
The focus of this is a free-access social networking website that is users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.
What services are provided? how interactive is this site? how can people contribute?
Services provided on facebook are having your own page that allows you to add friends and send them messages, and update your personal profiles to notify friends about yourselves. Users can upload videos, pictures and send messages both publicly and privately. Publicly means that anyone who has access to your page can see what has been written. Privately is more like sending an email, it goes into the inbox where only you or the person receiving the message can see it.
On facebook people can contribute in many different ways, there are walls, this is a place on your page that is visible to anyone who is able to see that user's profile, depending on privacy settings which explains what activity has been happening on your page such as if you have added photos, commenting publicly to others and them to you, which new friends you have recently added and any other public information that you wish to share.
There is live feed which appears on every user's homepage and highlights information including profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays of the user's friends.
Photos are where users can upload albums and photos. Facebook allows users to upload an unlimited number of photos, this allows you to contribute your picture so you can share them with you friends.
This site allows people to contribute instantly to talk to their friends and family and also view pictures and see what they have been doing recently on facebook, this site allows peopele to be as interactive as they want.
The sorts of topics being discussed of face book primarily involve whats happening in their lives, social events, activities, what they are going to do in the weekend, where the are going etc, people are constantly updating their profile as their life events change or occur and conversations between friend. Then when other friend come online users are able to chat instantly.
As a facebook user myself, I use it as a means of communication between friends that I haven't seen in a long time and those close, I also use it to share photos and thoughts about what has been happening recently with my friends that are on facebook.
Material that is published may raise potential ethical issues such as false identity, someone going on facebook and pretending to be someone their not or pretending to be other person that they know without permission. There are many groups among facebook this may raise ethical issues as others may not agree with these groups as it is against their beliefs or values.
The benefits of this community are that it offers instant communication and people to become open about their different beliefs and values. It also allows people to connect over long distances instanly, and it can foster understanding and unity.
This online community doesn't offer face to face interaction such as a tradition community would. With this online community not all of the population on Facebook have similar cultural, religious and other charcteristic, the only similarity that everybody on facebook have an interest in this online community.
The web adress is: www.facebook.com
This website is known as facebook
The focus of this is a free-access social networking website that is users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.
What services are provided? how interactive is this site? how can people contribute?
Services provided on facebook are having your own page that allows you to add friends and send them messages, and update your personal profiles to notify friends about yourselves. Users can upload videos, pictures and send messages both publicly and privately. Publicly means that anyone who has access to your page can see what has been written. Privately is more like sending an email, it goes into the inbox where only you or the person receiving the message can see it.
On facebook people can contribute in many different ways, there are walls, this is a place on your page that is visible to anyone who is able to see that user's profile, depending on privacy settings which explains what activity has been happening on your page such as if you have added photos, commenting publicly to others and them to you, which new friends you have recently added and any other public information that you wish to share.
There is live feed which appears on every user's homepage and highlights information including profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays of the user's friends.
Photos are where users can upload albums and photos. Facebook allows users to upload an unlimited number of photos, this allows you to contribute your picture so you can share them with you friends.
This site allows people to contribute instantly to talk to their friends and family and also view pictures and see what they have been doing recently on facebook, this site allows peopele to be as interactive as they want.
The sorts of topics being discussed of face book primarily involve whats happening in their lives, social events, activities, what they are going to do in the weekend, where the are going etc, people are constantly updating their profile as their life events change or occur and conversations between friend. Then when other friend come online users are able to chat instantly.
As a facebook user myself, I use it as a means of communication between friends that I haven't seen in a long time and those close, I also use it to share photos and thoughts about what has been happening recently with my friends that are on facebook.
Material that is published may raise potential ethical issues such as false identity, someone going on facebook and pretending to be someone their not or pretending to be other person that they know without permission. There are many groups among facebook this may raise ethical issues as others may not agree with these groups as it is against their beliefs or values.
The benefits of this community are that it offers instant communication and people to become open about their different beliefs and values. It also allows people to connect over long distances instanly, and it can foster understanding and unity.
This online community doesn't offer face to face interaction such as a tradition community would. With this online community not all of the population on Facebook have similar cultural, religious and other charcteristic, the only similarity that everybody on facebook have an interest in this online community.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
tutorial one: Information technology
The first tutorial was based on information technology and ethical issues around these.
A definition of information technology is: The production, storage and communication of information using computer and microelectronic.
Hanks, P. (ed). (1989) Collins Concise Dictionaries. Glasgow: Bath Press.
IT is certainly prevalent in our society and commonplace. It is used in almost every setting you are part of, even in the open cameras may be operating such as down main streets in towns.
IT devices I feel comfortable using: Telephones (mobile and landlines), computers - internet (general browsing, internet banking, search engines etc) word possessing, music and games. Television, DVD players cameras etc
How IT is being used in Occupational Therapy practice: Able to save notes electronically, which makes it easier to read and backed up. Use phone and email for communication to clients and around staff to clarify appointments
Ethical implications: Security - the display if personal information such as photo. May breech humans privacy as it is easily accessible once it is on the internet or been recorded in some form.
Defintion of computer ethics: A set of moral principles that regulate the use of computers.Retrieved from http://www.techterms.com/definition/computerethics
Definition of Intellectual property: Intangible property that is the result of creativity (e.g. patents or copyrights)
Compact Oxford English Dictionary. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.askoxford.com:80/concise_oed/intellectual property?view=uk
Definition of social justice: The virtue which guides us in creating those organised human interactions we call institutions.
Center for Economic and Social Justice. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/economicjustice_defined.htm
Defintion of informed consent: Consent by a patient to undergo a medical or surgical treatment or to participate in an experiment after the patient understands the risks involved.
Retrieved from http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=informed%20consent
Summeries why it a great understanding of ITC and the ethical issues it encompases will help us in our practice and daily lives: It is important or us as OT's to have a great understanding of ITC and the ethical issues as it has the potential for such good and such harm, understanding ITC will make for safe, sound and ethical practice as an OT.
A definition of information technology is: The production, storage and communication of information using computer and microelectronic.
Hanks, P. (ed). (1989) Collins Concise Dictionaries. Glasgow: Bath Press.
IT is certainly prevalent in our society and commonplace. It is used in almost every setting you are part of, even in the open cameras may be operating such as down main streets in towns.
IT devices I feel comfortable using: Telephones (mobile and landlines), computers - internet (general browsing, internet banking, search engines etc) word possessing, music and games. Television, DVD players cameras etc
How IT is being used in Occupational Therapy practice: Able to save notes electronically, which makes it easier to read and backed up. Use phone and email for communication to clients and around staff to clarify appointments
Ethical implications: Security - the display if personal information such as photo. May breech humans privacy as it is easily accessible once it is on the internet or been recorded in some form.
Defintion of computer ethics: A set of moral principles that regulate the use of computers.Retrieved from http://www.techterms.com/definition/computerethics
Definition of Intellectual property: Intangible property that is the result of creativity (e.g. patents or copyrights)
Compact Oxford English Dictionary. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.askoxford.com:80/concise_oed/intellectual property?view=uk
Definition of social justice: The virtue which guides us in creating those organised human interactions we call institutions.
Center for Economic and Social Justice. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/economicjustice_defined.htm
Defintion of informed consent: Consent by a patient to undergo a medical or surgical treatment or to participate in an experiment after the patient understands the risks involved.
Retrieved from http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=informed%20consent
Summeries why it a great understanding of ITC and the ethical issues it encompases will help us in our practice and daily lives: It is important or us as OT's to have a great understanding of ITC and the ethical issues as it has the potential for such good and such harm, understanding ITC will make for safe, sound and ethical practice as an OT.
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