A step by step process to place a youtube video on your blog:
From the post editor (that is the 2nd to last box on the far left)
Thne click the add video icon from the toolbar
Next, click browse to find the video you want to upload to your blog from your computer
Keep in mind your video must be one of the listed formats and under 100mb
Add a title to your video and accept the terms and conditions checkbox
Click upload video
You will then see the upload progress below the post editor
When your video is finished uploading you will then see the words 'processing video'. You will not be able to publish your post until this processing has finished. Processing of your video may take several minutes depending on the size of the video. Once loaded you will be able to see a picture from the video in your post.
If you would like to post a video from youtube rather than from your computer, you can do that too
You just visit the youtube video page and copy the link in the 'embed' box.
while your on your blogger post then paste the code you copied from youtube into the post where you want it to appear.
Click the preview link to ensure you have copied the link successfully.
A step by step process to embed a flickr badge into your blog:
To start with you have to have an account with yahoo id
Once you have loged into flikr account you click on the button "YOU" and your flickr I.D will pop up above this and you will use this for the badge template.
Take a copy of your flickr i.d
Then in www.blogger.com add your newly created flickr badge to the side links (on the left)
The flickr badge is nothing more than an HTML
Click into your flickr bade and then look for "person i.d" and this is where you paste your flickr i.d
Now go back to your main page on your blog and click template and you choose your own spot where you want the badge.
Copy and paste all the HTML infomation into this template.
Then press preview to see if your o.k with what the pictures look like.
When happy press save my template.
Then when you go online to your blog your pictures will be there.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tutorial Seven: Assistive technology
Assistive technology is a peice of equipment that helps an individual with an impairment/disability to function more independently.
A recordable voice device is one example of assisstive technology- cost $326.
This device enables individuals freedom to choose between two activities, such as listening to music or a story. It asks questions, and making comments in social situations.
Features: 2 min recording time
crystal clear voice quality at all volumes
easy to program
good volume control
This peice of equipment increases functional capacity for the user by engaging it in activities such as listening to storys or songs. Its enabling the client to do functional meaningful activitys. It also enables the individuals to think about the task that they are carrying out.
A recordable voice device is one example of assisstive technology- cost $326.
This device enables individuals freedom to choose between two activities, such as listening to music or a story. It asks questions, and making comments in social situations.
Features: 2 min recording time
crystal clear voice quality at all volumes
easy to program
good volume control
This peice of equipment increases functional capacity for the user by engaging it in activities such as listening to storys or songs. Its enabling the client to do functional meaningful activitys. It also enables the individuals to think about the task that they are carrying out.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Tutorial Six: The internet and online communities
www.facebook.com
Facebook is a social networking site.
You can add people as friends
send friends messages
chat to them (when both are online)
update your personal relationship and even join networks like schools and work.
notifications- a little red flag letting you know if someone has commented on something of yours
news feed- this appear on everyones homepage. This lets them know what other people have been doin on facebook
upload photos and videos and share them with friends by tagging them in it
satuts- letting your friends know what your thinking, what your doing etc
People decide to contribute to this online communite becasuse its a way of comunicating with friends and family. I am a member myself and I am able to communicate with old primary school friends who I have lost contact with over the years. Im also able to contact family memebers who are overseas where it is too exspensive to ring them.
Types of topics being discussed on facebook are how people have been, what have they been doing with their lives, what are they doing on the weekend etc etc. For example my friends stautus update "yay i got a new car today!! EXCITING"
There are many ethical issues that can arise on facebook such as:
creation of fake profiles ( this can be to stalk people)
data theft
people are able to stalk other people and look at their profile and pictures
you can be tagged in a photo without your permission
viruses
Some benifits this community holds over traditional notions of community are as follows:
Being able to monitor users
participants are able to have equal voice
infomation can be easy spread within a short amount of time
informtion can be sent privately to other users
There are areas in which this online community can not provide which other communitys can. These are as follows:
not every individual is able to have acesses to a computer
there is no face to face communication
not all content is followed so allegal stuff can be on this community.
Facebook is a social networking site.
You can add people as friends
send friends messages
chat to them (when both are online)
update your personal relationship and even join networks like schools and work.
notifications- a little red flag letting you know if someone has commented on something of yours
news feed- this appear on everyones homepage. This lets them know what other people have been doin on facebook
upload photos and videos and share them with friends by tagging them in it
satuts- letting your friends know what your thinking, what your doing etc
People decide to contribute to this online communite becasuse its a way of comunicating with friends and family. I am a member myself and I am able to communicate with old primary school friends who I have lost contact with over the years. Im also able to contact family memebers who are overseas where it is too exspensive to ring them.
Types of topics being discussed on facebook are how people have been, what have they been doing with their lives, what are they doing on the weekend etc etc. For example my friends stautus update "yay i got a new car today!! EXCITING"
There are many ethical issues that can arise on facebook such as:
creation of fake profiles ( this can be to stalk people)
data theft
people are able to stalk other people and look at their profile and pictures
you can be tagged in a photo without your permission
viruses
Some benifits this community holds over traditional notions of community are as follows:
Being able to monitor users
participants are able to have equal voice
infomation can be easy spread within a short amount of time
informtion can be sent privately to other users
There are areas in which this online community can not provide which other communitys can. These are as follows:
not every individual is able to have acesses to a computer
there is no face to face communication
not all content is followed so allegal stuff can be on this community.
Tutorial Four and Five: Video Production Sessions
Youtube was founded in 2005 and is known to be the most popular online video community. It allows millions and millions of people around the world to view videos. Youtube allows people to upload their videos by computer, cell phone, blogs and emails. Some service offered by youtube are public or private videos, number of views a particular video has had, a list of similar videos, subscriptions (users are able to keep track of thier favourite users) and video embedding (users are able to insert a youtube video either on their facebbok, email, blogs or other websites.
Scipting is: a series of of shots which tell us a story. By putting together a vaiety of shots with different angles and sizes it enables us to have lots of different details in our short film. This enabled our group to have a varity of shots and sizes to make the film interesting for the viewers.
Storyboarding is a series of drawings that an individual is putting togther before the film is made. It plans the end and start of a film and is always refered to when producing the film. Its a very helpful tool which helped our group for whn we forgot what the next scene was about.
Scipting is: a series of of shots which tell us a story. By putting together a vaiety of shots with different angles and sizes it enables us to have lots of different details in our short film. This enabled our group to have a varity of shots and sizes to make the film interesting for the viewers.
Storyboarding is a series of drawings that an individual is putting togther before the film is made. It plans the end and start of a film and is always refered to when producing the film. Its a very helpful tool which helped our group for whn we forgot what the next scene was about.
Tutorial Three
Blogger is a free service offered to anyone in the world who wants to start their own blog. It enables people to connect with others, share thoughts, pictures and videos. You are also able to upload pictures and videos from your mobile phone onto your blog. Blogger allows open access for you to comment on other people blogs.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Digital Camera use and applications
“A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every feature” Some of the pluses and minuses that digital camera technology holds in relation to more traditional film based cameras are as follows:
Digital cameras: enable you to check photos when you take the (are able to delete them if you do not like the photo), hold photos in memory card, easy to transfer onto a laptop and digital cameras are seen as a cheaper option.
Film cameras: enable us to more storage, normally bulky in size, better quality pictures, have more features and are more durable.
Ways digital cameras can be stored, transferred and manipulated using other communication technology are cell phones (also the new iphones), web cameras (found on your laptop), general hand held cameras and security cameras.
Ethical issues that would arise when these digital communications are used are having informed consent of taking images of an individual. Telling the individual the pure purpose and reason why their photo has been taking and who is going to see it.
Some ways that digital images can be used/ or being being used in Occupational Therapy practice are for house modifications. For example taking photos of your client’s front entrance for building modifications. Taking photos can save you time and help with justification in writing reports for funding.
Flickr is a website that enables us to upload photos to share with other people joined up to flick. This can allow us to communicate and explore the world with photos that other people have uploaded.
Another website similar to flickr is http://www.fotki.com/. Fotki is a thriving online community of photo fans who share their work online. Fotki offers a low-cost and easy way to share your photos - and offers a printing service too.
The difference between digital view and optical view is as follows:
Optical zoom: image quality stays high (throughout the zoom range) and it works like a zoom lens on a camera film.
Digital zoom: crops images into a smaller size and then can enlagen the cropped picture. This would mean that there will be a loss of quality and the picture is not as clear.
The word pixel meaning the computer logo “dot”. These little dots store colour and information. Depending on how their number per square will determine the quality of the picture. The more pixels per square inch is better than having a less number of pixels per inch.
Digital cameras: enable you to check photos when you take the (are able to delete them if you do not like the photo), hold photos in memory card, easy to transfer onto a laptop and digital cameras are seen as a cheaper option.
Film cameras: enable us to more storage, normally bulky in size, better quality pictures, have more features and are more durable.
Ways digital cameras can be stored, transferred and manipulated using other communication technology are cell phones (also the new iphones), web cameras (found on your laptop), general hand held cameras and security cameras.
Ethical issues that would arise when these digital communications are used are having informed consent of taking images of an individual. Telling the individual the pure purpose and reason why their photo has been taking and who is going to see it.
Some ways that digital images can be used/ or being being used in Occupational Therapy practice are for house modifications. For example taking photos of your client’s front entrance for building modifications. Taking photos can save you time and help with justification in writing reports for funding.
Flickr is a website that enables us to upload photos to share with other people joined up to flick. This can allow us to communicate and explore the world with photos that other people have uploaded.
Another website similar to flickr is http://www.fotki.com/. Fotki is a thriving online community of photo fans who share their work online. Fotki offers a low-cost and easy way to share your photos - and offers a printing service too.
The difference between digital view and optical view is as follows:
Optical zoom: image quality stays high (throughout the zoom range) and it works like a zoom lens on a camera film.
Digital zoom: crops images into a smaller size and then can enlagen the cropped picture. This would mean that there will be a loss of quality and the picture is not as clear.
The word pixel meaning the computer logo “dot”. These little dots store colour and information. Depending on how their number per square will determine the quality of the picture. The more pixels per square inch is better than having a less number of pixels per inch.
Blog 1, Information Technology and Ethical Issues
Information technology is “the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware".
IT (Information technology) has become a common thing in many households in todays society. At least 365 million people have computers in their home. All used for communication, storage, calculate data, and entertainment etc. Cell phones (also known as microelectronics is very popular). Also purely for the purpose of communication to family/ friends, production and storage.
IT devices that I am comfortable in using are computes, cell phones and iPods. This is because I have been bought up my whole life with these devices and have spent many hours practicing to use them.
On placement the main IT device we used was the computer and cell phone. We used the computer for communication with other health professionals around New Zealand as the town I was in was isolated. The computers were also used in research for looking up medical conditions/disease that some of our clients were diagnosed with. Cell phones were used in emergencies and keep in contact with the other O.Ts if you were going to be late back from a Home visit etc.
Ethical implications that could arise in sharing and transferring information via IT devices are confidentiality in talking about clients, using work cell phone for own personal use and incorrect use of using the internet for data collection on a client.
Computer ethics has been defined as “a branch of practical philosophy which deals with how computing professionals should make decisions regarding professional and social conduct”
Intellectual Property has been defined as “is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which property rights are recognized--and the corresponding fields of law”
Social Justice means ”Treat the equal equally, treat the unequal unequally” -Aristotle. Social Justice is based around human rights and equality.
Informed consent means 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”
Having an understanding about all the definitions above will help us in practical and in our daily lives in many ways. By being aware of ethical implications we can be aware on what we can and can’t do or what we can improve on for future practice. ITC helps us in communication with clients, other O.Ts and other health professionals around New Zealand or even the world. ICT will always help us in growing our knowledge in practice to make us be the best O.T to our potential.
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (2010). Computer ethics. Retrieved 29th May from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_ethics
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (2010). Information technology. Retrieved 29th May from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (2010). Informed consent. Retrieved 29th May from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consent
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (2010). Intellectual property. Retrieved 29th May from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property
IT (Information technology) has become a common thing in many households in todays society. At least 365 million people have computers in their home. All used for communication, storage, calculate data, and entertainment etc. Cell phones (also known as microelectronics is very popular). Also purely for the purpose of communication to family/ friends, production and storage.
IT devices that I am comfortable in using are computes, cell phones and iPods. This is because I have been bought up my whole life with these devices and have spent many hours practicing to use them.
On placement the main IT device we used was the computer and cell phone. We used the computer for communication with other health professionals around New Zealand as the town I was in was isolated. The computers were also used in research for looking up medical conditions/disease that some of our clients were diagnosed with. Cell phones were used in emergencies and keep in contact with the other O.Ts if you were going to be late back from a Home visit etc.
Ethical implications that could arise in sharing and transferring information via IT devices are confidentiality in talking about clients, using work cell phone for own personal use and incorrect use of using the internet for data collection on a client.
Computer ethics has been defined as “a branch of practical philosophy which deals with how computing professionals should make decisions regarding professional and social conduct”
Intellectual Property has been defined as “is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which property rights are recognized--and the corresponding fields of law”
Social Justice means ”Treat the equal equally, treat the unequal unequally” -Aristotle. Social Justice is based around human rights and equality.
Informed consent means 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”
Having an understanding about all the definitions above will help us in practical and in our daily lives in many ways. By being aware of ethical implications we can be aware on what we can and can’t do or what we can improve on for future practice. ITC helps us in communication with clients, other O.Ts and other health professionals around New Zealand or even the world. ICT will always help us in growing our knowledge in practice to make us be the best O.T to our potential.
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (2010). Computer ethics. Retrieved 29th May from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_ethics
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (2010). Information technology. Retrieved 29th May from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (2010). Informed consent. Retrieved 29th May from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consent
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (2010). Intellectual property. Retrieved 29th May from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property
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