WiiHab

Wii gaming appeals to people who are not tradditional gamers because it allows the participants to become more actively involved. Wii gaming is used as a therapeutic tool.


The Wii can be used in occupational therapy by helping clients with their range of movement, regaining their muscle strength etc.

The Wii is also an usefull tool not only as a intervention but also as a assessment. The Wii gaming can allow the therapist to observe the clients to see what their abilities are currently.

Overcoming Adversity

Here is my group’s video. The theme of the video is overcoming adversity. Get your popcorn ready and enjoy!

Tutorial Eight: Assistive technology

Assistive technology can be defined as "any item, piece of equipment or product sytem where acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized that is used to increase or improve the functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities." (Cook and Hussey, 1995)

Go Talk 20+ board reads out voice messages and replays them to the client. They are $500 and a bit larger than a A4 piece of paper. They help clients to remeber certain things, such as recipes, and they also help clients to sequence tasks. It requires two AA batteries.

Tutorial Seven: Blogging part two

How to post a video entry from youtube
1.) Go to the youtube website
2.) Find the video you wish to upload onto flicker
3.)Click on the embeded button
4.) Copy and past the code into a new post on your blog
5.) Publish your now post

How to embed a Youtube video into your blog




How to make a digital photo badge:

Digital photo badges allow for various digital images to be arranged together into a shape. An array of images can fit into the badge. In order to make a badge I went onto the photo sharing website "Flickr" (http://www.flickr.com). Once logged into this website I uploaded the photos that I wanted on my badge. I saved these photos and then clicked on the tools tab. Once on the tools page, I clicked the slogan that said "Hey! Where's the badge?" I then had the option to choose a HTML badge or a flash badge. Once I chose the format I wanted I chose how many items I wanted on my flash badge, what size I wanted the badge to be and the orientation of the pictures. A preview was then showed and a copy of the HTML code was also provided. I then copied this code onto my blogger page and the badage appeared.

Tutorial Six: The internet and online communities

The online community that I investigated is Facebook. The web address of Facebook is www.facebook.com. The focus of this online community is to connect friends, work collegues, family etc. It is a social networking website.

There are various interactive tools that can be utilised on this website. Facebook allows for users to instantly message their friends or family who are online. Members are able to join different networks, upload photos, put messages on their friends profile and play games on Facebook. People are able to contribute to this online community by creating their own groups, joining different groups, updating their profile and writing about their thoughts and feelings.

People who join this online community are generally seeking social interaction and they want to reconnect with the important people in their lives. This community may give them a sense of belonging.

On Facebook personal information is generally shared. People are able to put up their personal information, photos, thoughts, feelings etc.

Ethical issues may arise on Facebook such as identity theif, safety and privacy issues may also arise. However Facebook aims to keep all of their members safe. Their are restrictions of Facebook such as children under the age of thirteen can not sign up to have a Facebook account. There is also a list of saftey tips that are avaible for all the members to view.

This community allows for people to socially interact regardless of how far away they are from each other. It is convient for users as they are able to talk to their love ones easily.

This online community however does not offer face to face human inteaction. The traditional communities did offer face to face interaction. It may be possible that Facebook users become isolated from the outside world, especially if they spend a large amount of time on the website.

Tutorial Four and Five: Video Production Part one and two

Youtube allows for users to upload and share various videos. Television programs, movies, music videos as well as home made movies can be shared on Youtube.

Storyboards display what is going to occur throughout the movie. Storyboarding is a very important process when it comes to planning a movie. It allows for the sequence of events to be clearly stated. This helps to ensure that the film is well constructed. Movie scripts are another tool that is used in the planning process. These state what each of the characters are going to say in the movie.

Our group planned the sequence of events before we filmed the movie. We discussed what each of our roles were going to be, and we had a practice before we filmed it. We did not need a script in our film because there was no talking in it. If our film was longer it would have been very useful to use storyboarding and scripting to help us plan our movie.

Link to an Occupational Therapy blog

This is a link to a Occupational therapy Blog: http://occupationaltherapyreflect.wordpress.com

My pictures that are uploaded from Flickr

These pictures haven been taken in my backyard. These photos follow the theme of nature. They are also on my flickr account. Enjoy!

Tutorial Three: Blogging part one

Blogger allows members to create their own blogs. A blog can be defined as a website where journal like entries are made. Members can upload photos, videos and publish posts. Blogger also allows readers to leave comments underneath peoples blogs. Another blog host is Blogsome. This website is very similar to Blogger. The web address to Blogsome is http://www.blogsome.com/.

An individual blog can be set up by making a blogger account. Once this is made the user is able to personalise their own account.

Tutorial Two: Digital Imaging

"A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every feature". New technology never really replaces the older technology. Often the new technology is just an updated verison of the older technology.

Digital images can be stored transferred and manipulated using other communications technology. For example Photoshop alows fTuor images to be manipulated. The website "Flickr" allows for photos to be uploaded.

There are ethical issues involved with devices that capture images. Any person that is in a photo must give their consent to be in the photo. If the photo is uploaded so the public can view it the individuals in the photo must also have given their permission for the photo to be uploaded.

Digital images are being used in Occupational therapy practice. Digital images can be used to educate clients on the different ways to do a particular task.

Flickr.com is a website that allows people to upload their own photos and share them with other people. Both videos and photos can be uploaded to the flickr website.

Zoomr is another photo storage website that is very similar to Flickr. com.

There are different types of zoom on a digital camera. Opticial zoom is when the lenses change focal length and manification as its zoomed image quality stays high throughout the zoom range.

Digital zoom crops the image to a smaller size and then enlarges the croped portion to fill the frame again. This results in a significant loss in quality and is prety much a last resort. It can make the image eight to twelve times larger than the orginal image.

Photos are composed of millions of tiny spquares called pixels. A megapixel equals one million pixels.

Tutorial One: Information Technology and Ethical Issues

Information technology (IT) can be defined as technology that displays, stores and transmit information. IT is common in most settings. It is present in education insitutes, in the work place, in most peoples homes etc. Technology has become a normal part of society. I feel comfortable with using the computer as I have to use this peice of tecchnology regulary.

IT is used in Occupational therapy practice for writing reports, writing notes, for typing up intervention plans, for referrals and discharge forms.

There are ethical implications that may arise from the capturing, sharing and transferring or infromation via IT devices. Such as, the information may be personal or private. If this information gets out the provacy act will be breeched.

Computer ethics can be defined as " a set of moral principles taht regulate the use of computers".

"Intellectual property can be defined as a number of distonct types of legal monoplolies over creations of the mind both artistic and commerical and the corresponding fields of law." (wikipedia.org)

"Socail Justice can be defined as a fair and proper administration of laws conforming to the natural law that all persons, irrespective of ethic orgin, gender, possessions, race religion etc, are to be treated equally and without predjudice." (Buisinessdictionary.com)

Informed consent can be defined as " a legal condition where a person can be said to have given consent based upon a clear appreciation of the facts, implications and future consequences of a action." (www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consent)

First blog ever

I am a secong year Occupational therapy student, and I am required to make my own blog. I have never made a blog before so I am a bit of unsure on what to write. This blog is a requirement for the paper, Participation in occupation.