Thursday, June 11, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Video Production Sessions
- The services offered by YouTube are:
- able to post own video clips, view others' video clips (broadcast yourself)
- access arrange of video clips from films and programmes' to educational clips
- can become a member
- YouTube Help Forum, a place where users can share questions, answers, and ideas
- advertisements: advertise brand channel
- Google business channel
- Google channel
- Google TV ads channel
- Movies
- music clips
- news
-shows
- YouTube Channel
- mobile upload service
- - My group produced a short film and used a number of techniques to plan the story line. These are so follows; brain-storming and storyboarding. Initially we brain-stormed our ideas and selected one that was appropriate and realistic in the time we were given to plan and produce a video clip. Our storyboard included a sequence of pictures given us a guideline to follow when filming. Because our film had no audio and only background music there was no need to write a script.
My group found having a storyboard extremely useful during filming as it gave us all an outline of what we should be filming. Another important part of our planning was delegating each team member a specific task/role, this organised us and we were able to work on different aspects of the video production and have a sense of contribution to the overall video clip. These roles were; camera crew, props, actors and director. Collectively we edited our video clip. - The video that follows is one my group produced, title: "Parking on Campus"
Assistive technology
- One particular piece of equipment that was talked about in the assitive technology tutorial was standard keyboard. This piece of technology allows for both one handed and two handed touch typing. By holding the space bar down accesses the alternative keys that mirror the other half of a standard keyboard. The one-handed typing capability can be switched on or off by the user, therfore can be used as a two handed keyboard- very useful in a working environment and within the home for those who have acquired an injury resulting in the loss of a hand extremity. USB connection for PC and MAC operating systems.
- One handed typing keyboard increases functional capacity by:
increases speed and decreases fatigue, for example could be used by a person with a CVA.
Give people independance who wouldn't nroamlly be able to use standard keyboards.
Internet and online communites
Online community: http://twitter.com
The focus of this community is networking and connecting people with one another.
The services Twitter provide are: messaging, activities- quizzing, finding people, connecting to twitter via cell phones, allows people to comment on others' pages, post photos, engage in conversation.
The site is very interactive allowing people to communicate with others, comment on photos and posts, updates people with what their friends are currently doing, and involves and keeps the person interested - by having quiz', games, and groups to join.
People choose to contribute to this community as it is a form of communicating and keeping in contact and updated with friends and family, especially if they live far away. This is also a community in which people meet, make new friends.
Potential ethical issues that may arise in this community are that people can access anyone's account, view their friend's account, limited privacy.
This community holds over traditional notions of community are:
- it involves all types of people
- geographical location does not matter
- can engage in conversation when it suits you - ie at night, in the morning and the person replying is the same
Although though this community has benefits, it lacks face to face communication that that of traditional communities can. In today's society people getting used to communicating with others via technologies.
Services Offered by Blogger:
The services offered by blogger are:
- opportunity to post blogs, which can range from updates to general information
- able to view others' blogs and comment on their posts
- post links to other websites
- post video clips
Another blog hosts are "The Onlice Diary" found on http://www.my-diary.org/, myspace http://www.myspace.com/.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Digital Camera use and applications
- "A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every feature"
Technology is in some respects superior in which it has allowed for improvement in living, efficient access to information and has increased our ability to keep in contact with loved ones around the world. However in view of the superiority of new technology there has been devastating affects on generation y and beyond as children in developed countries, especially western ones, are not learning basic motor coordination skills and balance.
A minus is some technologies are useless in relation to their intended function, design and the expectation of the user. Some technology only appear better than the one they have attempted to replace, but there has only been a change in appearance. For example the device is slimmer with a colour selection.
A plus in using new technology that has successfully been improved makes people's occupations easier and more inefficient. For example with the introduction of roaming internet has allowed people to work while traveling. - Digital images can be stored, transferred and manipulated using other communications technology, these are listed below:
- computers
- USB
- digital memory stick
- printed form
- photo shop (programe on computer)
- Ethical Issues that arise from the use of image capturing devices:
Digital cameras can go most places; in a variety of environments and can preform a range of tasks. For example zooming, taking out red eye and can change the colour tone of our photo. In photo shop people are able to change their appearances. This ability brings up issues of identity; ie the loss of identity.
The inability to control when and where an image is taken of you is becoming more and more prevalent is society. We especially see this with famous people and the media. The media produce thousands of copies of magazines which contain photographs of celebrities. These photos are not with consent. Celebrities are finding it harder than ever to keep their privacy and what they do when the movie camera is not on them.
Inclusion ethical issues are; lack of privacy, no informed consent of the photo taken and its intended purpose, and people's inability to control what happens to their photo- where it is stored and who views it. - The ways digital images are use or could be used in Occupational Therapy practice:
- videoing assessments
- including photos of clients and their environment in reports and applications. For example applications to ENABLE, contractors and other health professionals.
- Services offered by Flickr.com include:
- A site to store photos on
- able to share photos with others
- organise photo
- Another photo storage website similar to Flickr.com:
Facebook (www.facebook.com)
- The difference between digital and optical zoom:
Optical zoom occurs before the photo is take and digital zoom happens after the photo is taken. Geneally on the camera's screen or on a computer screen.
In optical zoom the lense changes focal length and magnification while the quality of the image stays the same. Whereas digital zoom crops the image to a smaller size, then enlargers the cropped protion to fill the frame again. This decreases the quality of the image. - Megapixel:
Megapixel is a name given to lots of pixels. Pixels are small squares that make up a picture. There are one million pixels in a magepixel.
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