Wednesday, March 24, 2010


Photos uploading from FlickR

Work In Progress

Our short film is unable to upload onto the ULead programme.. but it is work in progress

Tutorial 3: The Services Offered By Blogger

Bloggerspot

BLOGGERSPOT is a website that allows you to design and create your own individual blog. You can add photos, links to your favorite sites, badges and have your own person diary!!

Engage your friends
Creating a blog is about sharing thoughts and ideas with your friends and family. With bloggerspot you can control who you can read and write to your blog.

Design your Blog
You can choose from a range of different fonts and coulours, you can ra-arrange your blog the way you like and choose from a selection of different templates.

Go Mobile
Blogger mobile ables you to send blogs and pictures straight from your mobile phone when your on the go. All you need to do is send a message to go@blogger.com from your phone. The message itself is enough to create a brand new blog and post whatever photo and text you've sent.

Remember
Bloggerspot is completely free!!!!!!!!!!!

A simliar sight to Bloggspot is Blogsome
Blogger www.blogsome.com/

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Tutorial 2: Digital Imaging

Digital VS Film based cameras


Digital Camera-pluses

-Uploads photos onto computer straight away
-Uploads photos to Facebook, flickr, on emails etc
-Ability to delete unwanted photos of camera straight away
-Can take 100+ photos

Digital Camera Minuses
-Lower quality of picture
-Keep photos on computer without getting hard copy.
If computer breaks can loose them all.
-Expensive Cost



Digtal images -Storage/transferred/manipulated
-Facebook, twitter, flickr, bebo
-Camera cellphone
-Photos can be edited easily - lighter/brighter,take out flaws

Ethical Issues
-Privacy Issues
-Technophobes
-Cost (Some people cant afford them)

Digital Camera used in OT
-To help prevent the therapist to remember what the clients house looked liked that needs equipment put in place or homing modifications
-Sends pictures to Enable NZ


FlickR
-lets people store as many pictures as you want on the internet privately or open
-can view photos as a slide show

Digital VS Optical Zoom

Digital
Simply crops image to smaller size then enlargers the cropped portion

Optical
Works like zoom lens on film camera. Lens changes focal length and magnification as it is zoomed in. Image quality stays high throughout zoom range.




Tutorial 1: Information Technology and Ethics

Information Technology (IT)
"the study, design, development, implementation, support or management if computer based information-system particularly software applications and computer hardware." (Wikipedia, 2008)

Devices and Systems i use..
Computer/printer
mobile phone
Ipod
USB

IT is been used in Occupational Therapy practice all the time. In my fieldwork experience my OT used the computer to type up reports on clients, to research different diseases or treatments,to upload photos and to organize her information.

DEFINITIONS

Intellectual Property
"An umbrella term for various legal entitlements which attain to certain types of information ideas, or other intangibles in their expressed form." (Wikipedia, 2007)

Social Justice
"An ideal of society where justice refers to economic status rather than to the administration of laws. Based on an idea of society which gives individuals and groups fair treatment and a just share of the benefits of society." (Wikipedia, 2007)

Informed Consent
"Legal condition whereby a person can be said to have given consent based upon and appreciation and understating of the facts and implications of an action." (Wikipedia 2007)