Below is an instructional video to embed flickr badges to your blog
Friday, June 5, 2009
Tutorial Eight: Embedding youtube video onto your blog
Below is instructions to embed a youtube video to your blog.
Tutorial Seven: Assistive Technology
In tute seven we were introduced to assitive technology used in Occupational Therapy.We had two guest speakers from Wellington Kimiora School and Star education to talk to us.
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)
We were introduced to the assistive technology trackerpro. The trackerp is a mouse replacement device thast enables people with little or no hand movement to perform all mouse functions by moving their head.Plug Tracker Pro works by plugging the mouse/USB port (instead of a mouse) and mount it on top of a computer screen, laptop, or augmentative communication device. Tracker Pro’s high-resolution intelligent camera – in a solid aluminum enclosure – then tracks a tiny reflective dot worn on your forehead or glasses. When you move your head, Tracker Pro elegantly converts that into computer mouse movement, and you move your mouse cursor. Clicking can be accomplished by using ability switches
As explained above, the trackerpro allows a person with limited or no hand movements can use a computer using the trackerpro to click and move the mouse on the computer.
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)
We were introduced to the assistive technology trackerpro. The trackerp is a mouse replacement device thast enables people with little or no hand movement to perform all mouse functions by moving their head.Plug Tracker Pro works by plugging the mouse/USB port (instead of a mouse) and mount it on top of a computer screen, laptop, or augmentative communication device. Tracker Pro’s high-resolution intelligent camera – in a solid aluminum enclosure – then tracks a tiny reflective dot worn on your forehead or glasses. When you move your head, Tracker Pro elegantly converts that into computer mouse movement, and you move your mouse cursor. Clicking can be accomplished by using ability switches
As explained above, the trackerpro allows a person with limited or no hand movements can use a computer using the trackerpro to click and move the mouse on the computer.
Tutorial Six: The internet and Online Communities
Tutorial six investigates online comunities, I will be looking at the online community face book.
Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook. 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.
The services facebook provide a profile page for each user, where suers can display a profile picture, users can post information about themselves, what they ahve been doing or thinkings. Users can add friends and look at their profile pictures and photos and videos aswell. People can send private messages that no one else can read, or public wall to wall messages that can be displayed on the home page and anyone can read. Users can also play games, do quizzes and faciiate with the programme skype (where people can communicate like talking on a phone using the computers microphones and cameras).
The type of topics discussed are predominantly to do with social activities such as what people do in the weekend, where they are living, how they are, what they are doing. People upload photos and videos to inform people of what they are doing in the weekend!!
As any photos can be uploaded on facebook albums ethical issues with people putting photos up without permission, or photos that may have been taken without people knowing. People can log into other peoples accounts and privacy issues such as people adding you as a friend and looking at their profile and pictures.
Facebook however, has many benefits being an online community such as allows for people to communicate with family and friends, displays photos and videos and allows
It also allows people an opportunity to chat and make connections with common interests.Also allows for social networks such as re-connections with old school friends.
Online communities lack compared to tradtional comunities becasue there is no face to face talking, people can misread what has been written, only people who use the internet can be apart of the online community.
Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook. 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.
The services facebook provide a profile page for each user, where suers can display a profile picture, users can post information about themselves, what they ahve been doing or thinkings. Users can add friends and look at their profile pictures and photos and videos aswell. People can send private messages that no one else can read, or public wall to wall messages that can be displayed on the home page and anyone can read. Users can also play games, do quizzes and faciiate with the programme skype (where people can communicate like talking on a phone using the computers microphones and cameras).
The type of topics discussed are predominantly to do with social activities such as what people do in the weekend, where they are living, how they are, what they are doing. People upload photos and videos to inform people of what they are doing in the weekend!!
As any photos can be uploaded on facebook albums ethical issues with people putting photos up without permission, or photos that may have been taken without people knowing. People can log into other peoples accounts and privacy issues such as people adding you as a friend and looking at their profile and pictures.
Facebook however, has many benefits being an online community such as allows for people to communicate with family and friends, displays photos and videos and allows
It also allows people an opportunity to chat and make connections with common interests.Also allows for social networks such as re-connections with old school friends.
Online communities lack compared to tradtional comunities becasue there is no face to face talking, people can misread what has been written, only people who use the internet can be apart of the online community.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Tutorial Four and Five: Video production sessions
YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. Videos can be uploaded and shared from all over the world, which makes it excellent to share videos with friends and family dispersed around the world. Youtube provides entertaining videos, where people can express their unfound talents, skits, plays, adentures ANYTHING they want really. Viewers can post comments and rate videos.
Our group got together and planned a short 30 second video following a theme to overcome a problem!!!!
Together, we did a little planning using the technique scripting.Scripting is where we got together and brainstormed any ideas we had, it helps to create a theme, storyline and structure to the film.
Storyboarding was also a useful tool when creating our video as it enabled us to plan the shots we would use. It adds structure to the film by drwain the shots in the correect sequence, this makes it much easier when it comes to shooting the film. It also creates flow when filming as the shooting is pre planned and ready to go.
Our group got together and planned a short 30 second video following a theme to overcome a problem!!!!
Together, we did a little planning using the technique scripting.Scripting is where we got together and brainstormed any ideas we had, it helps to create a theme, storyline and structure to the film.
Storyboarding was also a useful tool when creating our video as it enabled us to plan the shots we would use. It adds structure to the film by drwain the shots in the correect sequence, this makes it much easier when it comes to shooting the film. It also creates flow when filming as the shooting is pre planned and ready to go.
Tutorial Three: Blog Creation Tasks
Todays Tute invloved setting up a google account and a blog.
Blogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google Blogger. A blog can be changed to suit each individual, such as the layout, font, colours and displas can all be edited. You can change each template, add posts, gadgets, videos and photos
Blogs can be used as online journal for people to share their interests, thoughts with their family, friends ot publicly if they wish.
I added the gadget pacman and added posts including the content covered from the previous tutes.
Blogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google Blogger. A blog can be changed to suit each individual, such as the layout, font, colours and displas can all be edited. You can change each template, add posts, gadgets, videos and photos
Blogs can be used as online journal for people to share their interests, thoughts with their family, friends ot publicly if they wish.
I added the gadget pacman and added posts including the content covered from the previous tutes.
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