Blog creation Task (Tutorial 3)

What is blogger?
Blogger is a social network site similar to my space. Blogger allows open access to the public to make comments. Blogger's intention is to be a open forum where people can post comments about a topic.

Posting You tube and flicker badges (Tutorial 8) continued

Posting You tube and flicker badges (Tutorial 8)

Assistive technology (Tutorial 7)

Assistive technology

• Special Technology to assist students with a physical disability
  
• Special Software to assist students with a learning difficulty
  
• Special Toys to assist in the learning process and help make learning fun
  
• Special Resources to assist in the teaching process and help make learning fun
  
• Support for the Educational Stars who work hard with students
  
• Training for the Educational Stars who are using the special technology and software
  
• Repairs and servicing for when that piece of technology fails to deliver any more
  

For a wide range of assistive devices available in NZ visit https://www.star-educational.co.nz/index.php

Nintendo Wii
This is a gaming system that i am going to hypothetically apply for, for a acute pediatric hospital.
http://www.nintendo.com/wii

Video production (Tutorial 5)

How to make a movie!
To help make a movie on 'imovies' visit this site that has a free tut. http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/imovie08.html#tutorial=create

The internet & online communities (Tutorial 6)

My online community is the NZAOT values exchange website (see link on the side).

What is it?
The website is a place where, practicing OT's, student OT's and the general public can submit situations they have been in that they want to reflect on and get others points of views.

Purpose?
This site helps to enhance your reflective skills as an OT.

Topics discussion example: Equitable funding? The right to equal access to health & disability funding.

A good member: To become a member you need to sign up and have a login to be able to contribute to the discussions.

Ethical issues

• Presenting a public knowledge case
• NZ is a small country you could know who is being discussed.
• Client privacy

Benefits over traditional community

• Allows more people to access because of the technology age, the web is becoming the easiest form of communication and getting your point across.
• Allows people in remote area who have the internet to join the community.
• Its fast, simply, provised stat's
  
• well managed

Disadvantages ever a traditional community

• No face-to-face discussion.
• No further background info about the cases, its just what your given.
• Decreased socail interaction and relationship building.
  

Video production (Tutorial 4)-Vertical limit

You tube
This is a site where you can view movies that have been added by the public, there is also an option of becoming a member where you will then be able to add your own movies onto the youtube data base.

Digital cameras (Tutorial 2)

How much do you know about digital cameras?

Take the quiz to find out!

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/digital-camera-quiz.htm

Positive aspects of digital cameras over film based:
Camera size, checking photos after taking them, cheaper to develop.

Negatives aspects of digital cameras over film based:
not produce clear photos, at start digital had very low pizel so photos turned out boxy, very expensive to buy.

Ethical issues with Digital cameras:
OT practice: confidentiality, informed consent (why, where and what purpose).
Day-to-day: control, distribution and informed consent.

OT's & digital cameras:
Using them as a source of evidence
Clarification ie, set up of a specific wheelchair
As an assessment tool
As an activity of daily living

Flicker
Flicker is a website where you can add photos and store them. Other websites that offer this is facebook...

Information technology and ethical issues (Tutorial 1)

Information technology: the total knowledge and skills available to any given society. It allows for interaction within and mastery of environment (Colins consis dictionary. 1989)

Its very hard to find an area of our lives that are not connected to a system comprising some form of technology ie, as an object, knowledge, activity, process and as a sociotechnical system.

Examples pf technology used in everyday life and OT work place settings could be:

• Ipod
• Facebook
• Laptops
• Mobile phone
• Digital camera
• Printer
• Electric wheelchair
• Video conferencing
• Nintendo Wii
• Interanet
  

Santa Clara University presents articles regarding 'Information technology ethic'.

The link below has articles relevant to;

• The internet
• Databases
• Communication
• Gaming
• The IT industry

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/technology/articles.html

Computer ethics: is the branch of practical philosophy which deals with how computing professionals should make decisions regarding professional and social conduct (Retrieved Feb 14, 2007, from http://enwikipedia.org/wiki/computer_ethics)

Intellectual property: Umbrella term used for various legal entitelmants which attach to certain types of information (retrieved feb 14, 2007, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/intellectual_property)

Social Justice: Society develops policies and practices to more fully include people who in the past have had limited access to computer resources (retrieved feb 14, 2007, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice)


Informed consent: is a legal condition whereby a person can be said to have given consent based upon an appreciation and understanding of the facts and implications of an action retrieved feb 14, 2007, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/informed_consent)

Being aware of different technology allows a greater range of treatment options and other services that can be utilised by the client. You need to understand basic ethical issues to ensure you not just using any old technology.

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welcome

Hi there,

I am a second year Occupational Therapist at the Otago Polytechnic. I am doing this blog for my course Participation in Occupation.