Thursday 12 May 2011

Tutorial Eight

This post will introduce Assitive Tachnology (AT), what these are and how much they cost to get for the department you may be working for. What is Assistive Technology??? Cook and Hussy (1995) define assistive technology as "any item, piece of equipment, or product system whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized that is used to increase or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities" (Cook & Hussy, 1995, p.5). My understanding of this definition is that assistive technology is anything that enables and enhances a person’s ability to perform necessary and meaningful occupations. I will now introduce a piece of equipment I learnt about in the assistive technology presentation. During this presentation I found the assistive switches very interesting because of the verity of applications you could use them for. The prices range depending on there capabilities the cheapest and simplest switch is the Jelly Bean prised at $70 and the most dearest switch being the Jelly Beamer SLAT twist switch at $430. These switches can be used with any pre adapted toy or appliance and depending on the capabilities of the switch, it can allow the user to have three different modes of control over the toy or appliance. This device was introduced to us with the example of being used with children who have limited strength, ROM and mobility. With the use of this device they are able to play with electric toys or remote controlled toys like anyone else is able to, with a switch of a button. Because this device has the capacity to be attached to any pre adapted electric deviece, it means that most people’s capabilities can be allowed for. Here are some you tube clips that shows the switch beinging used.



References Cook, A., & Hussey, S. (1995). Assitive Technologies (pp. 4-44). Missouri, AL: Mosby.

Tutorial Seven

During this tutorial we learnt how to link to other Blogs that are of interest to us and how to have them appear on our blog sites. These can be found on the right hand side of my blog under Occupational therapy Web pages. We have also been asked to link to fellow classmates blogs and comment on a piece they have blogged. Here is ‘snip’ of a comment I made.





Tutorial Six

Here are three online communities for my personal occupations that were introduced in tutorial five.


Te Awamutu football club    Te Awamutu football culb facebook page    New Zealand Wakeboarding website


The Te Awamutu football club site is about keeping players and members informed about what is going on within the club, teams, and events. It also has photo albums of recent games that have been played by all teams.


The Te Awamutu fooball club facebook page is a social site where players and members can keep in touch outside of games and trainings. They can make postings and links with interesting sites or clips that might be interesting or of value to other people.


The New Zealand wakeboarding website allows people to become members with WNZ (wakeboarding new zealand) as well as providing information about events, sponsers, retail specials, coaching the list goes on.


Why do people contribute to online communities?

First i think i should define what an online community is. Online communities also known as 'Virtual communities' as defined by Ridings & Gefen (2004) "have been characterized as people with shared interests or goals for whom electronic communication is a primary form of interaction" this is where people gather to share interests, knowledge and their lives. 

What people are looking for is social contact with people from different areas of their community or even parts of the world. They want to be able to give and recieve support form others to give them a sense of belonging (Online conference on networks and communities, 2010).

As for the communities i have chosen above, people want to contibute to these because they have a passion or interest for the activities that these sites are based around. They can not only contribute to these sites but they can get responses from them too eliciting a two way form of interaction.

Ethical issues


References:

Ridings, C. M., & Gefen, D. (2004, November). Motivations to Join a Group . In Virtual Community    Attraction:. Retrieved April 5, 2011, from http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue1/ridings_gefen.html#s2

Ellison, N. B., Steinfield, C., & Lampe, C. (2007, August 23). The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(4), 1143-1168. Retrieved April 5, 2011, from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00367.x/full

As for the Te Awamutu website and Facebook page there are ethical issues that are present here. For example informed consent and this may or may not have been obtained when photos are being taken at a game and put on either of these sites. Though I don’t think this is a major issue within this club it is still a very valid concern to think about.

What are the benifits?
There are several benefits of online communities as opposed to the traditional geographical communities in other words physically meeting up with people. These are having access at any time of any day. Being able to contribute from the comfort of your own home. And the ability to stay in contact with friends and family “when life changes move you away from each other” (Ellison, Steinfield & Lampe, 2007, pg. 1165).


Tutorial Five

Summary of the services offered by YouTube:

YouTube is a popular video hosting and sharing service that was purchased by Google in 2006. The service lets users view and upload video files. In addition to hosting videos, the service lets users rate videos, add comments, and subscribe to their favorite producers (Karch, 2011).

Here are five links to personal occupations of mine:

Soccer step over    Corner kicks  Top ten best soccer goals  Wakeboarding tricks   Wakeboarding falls

Tutorial Four: Video production session

During this session we were asked to make a short film  about the letter of our choice. The focus of the session was on planning in the form of story boarding and scripting.  Scripting is a guide for what the actors will say and do while the video is rolling. It tells them what expression is needed in a scene, who they are talking to (if anyone) and where to move on set. Scripts are not only for the actors, they are also used for the lighting and special effects technicians aswell. Story boarding is an illustration of the scene that will take place of a set or cartoon. This is where the writers collaborate with illustrators to make a sequence by sequence depiction much like a cartoon book. The advantage of having a script and story board is so that everyone involved is organized and knows where they need to be, when they need to be there and what they have to do once they are there.

we were ment to make a video in small groups of any letter of out choice and up load it to our blogs but i was not there the day our group uploaded our video so missed out on a copy. here is a link to the video. can you guess the letter????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=&feature=player_embedded

The aim for the session was to show that we could up load videos and post them on our blogs. so here are some videos for things that interest me






Tuesday 10 May 2011

Tutorial Three

During this session i learnt how to make a blogger account and began posting information from tutorial 1 and 2. I also learnt how to up load photos by creating a flicker account.

how to make a blogger account: click here

how to creat a flickr account: click here


Tutorial Eight

This post will introduce Assitive Tachnology (AT), what these are and how much they cost to get for the department you may be working for.
What is Assistive Technology???

Cook and Hussy (1995) define assistive technology as "any item, piece of equipment, or product system whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized that is used to increase or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities" (Cook & Hussy, 1995, p.5).

My understanding of this definition is that assistive technology is anything that enables and enhances a person’s ability to perform necessary and meaningful occupations.

I will now introduce a piece of equipment I learnt about in the assistive technology presentation.
During this presentation id found the switch controls very interesting because of the verity of applications you could use them for. The AbleNet Switch Latch & Timer- Dual was one of these controls and it is priced at $270.00 NZ. This controller can be used with any pre adapted toy or appliance and allows the user to have three different modes of control over the toy or appliance. It also has the ability to control two toys or appliances separately.

This device was introduced to us with the example of being used with children who have limited strength, ROM and mobility. With the use of this device they are able to play with electric toys or remote controlled toys like anyone else is able to, with a switch of a button. Because this device has the capacity to have any type of assistive switch attached to it, it means that most people’s capabilities can be allowed for. 

Her is a you tube clip a women explaining the use of a control switch.  


here is another you tube clip that shows the switch contol beinging used as well as giving a GREAT example of they type of person that would use/need this device.




References

Cook, A., & Hussey, S. (1995). Assitive Technologies (pp. 4-44). Missouri, AL: Mosby.