Provide the web adress and the name of the community you are investigating.
www.facebook.com
What is the brief or focus of this community?
* Focus of facebook is to connect people from all over the world. Individuals engage in instant chat, gaming , photo uploading and commenting on friends and families profiles.
What services are provided? How interactive is this site, How can people contribute?
* Instant chat, photo uploading, gaming and much more are provided by facebook.
* In my opinion facebook can be very interactive, as it has serveral gaming facilities that engage individuals different cogitive abilities.
Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment on why people choose to contribute to this community. What is it they are seeking??
* People contribute to this community because they are able to find friends and family. Groups can be made therefore opinions can be expressed. People can contribute by creating an account with facebook. If already a member contrbution can be achieved by commenting on another persons page as well as creating a groip or link.
Cut and paste an example of a type of topic being discussed to provide context to your excerpt.
* HideSimplyBhangra.com NeoDesi superstar, Raghav Mathur is back with a new track that is going to rock the music industry with his latest track, ‘So Much’ which is out now on iTunes.
This topic is about bhangra. The group is HidesimplyBhangra.com.
Source: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/SimplyBhangra.FanPage
Consier material presented during the course and make comment on the potential ethical issues that may arise in this community e.g. lack of identity and accountability.
* Peoples indentity may not be safe and a thrid part maybe able to access personal details such as someone's date of birth.
Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment on the benefits this community holds over traditional notions of community.
* The biggest benefit here is that people from all over the world can be apart of community, Geographic proxmity is no longer a factor in reagrds to joining a community. a traditional community would be seen as indivduals come together at a specific venue and discuss their related topics. Nowadays people can sit in front of a computer and be apart of a community regardless of there residence.
Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment what this community lacks or can not provide which traditional communities can.
* Online communities can not provide the social environment that traditional communities can. There is no social contact amoung any of the community members.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Tutorial Four and Five: Video Production Sessions
Task one, two and three were followed as required.
Task four: Provide a brief summary of the services offered by youtube
* Youtube allows people to upload videos that have been made at home or professional. Anyone can leave comments on video's on youtube.
Task Five: Blog planning:
* My group got together and brainstormed serval ideas that were related to overcoming adversity. we then put our ideas all together and came up with an idea.
We then made a storyboard to the best idea that was interpreted in out minds. Once this was done, we proceeded with the production of the video .
Task four: Provide a brief summary of the services offered by youtube
* Youtube allows people to upload videos that have been made at home or professional. Anyone can leave comments on video's on youtube.
Task Five: Blog planning:
* My group got together and brainstormed serval ideas that were related to overcoming adversity. we then put our ideas all together and came up with an idea.
We then made a storyboard to the best idea that was interpreted in out minds. Once this was done, we proceeded with the production of the video .
Tutorial Three: Blog Creation Task
Task One: Blog Created
Task Two: Set up of blog followed
Task Three: Started posting content on blog
Task Four: Provide a brief summary of the services offered by blogger.
* Blogger.com provides users with the following:
* Posting comments
* Uploading pictures and photos
* Connect with friends via google
* Allows people to follow other peoples blogs
Task Five: Upload 5 photos from tutorials 5 onto your flickr account
* I have uploaded five photos that have been taken at Avalon drive wintec campus grounds of both flowers and trees.
Task Two: Set up of blog followed
Task Three: Started posting content on blog
Task Four: Provide a brief summary of the services offered by blogger.
* Blogger.com provides users with the following:
* Posting comments
* Uploading pictures and photos
* Connect with friends via google
* Allows people to follow other peoples blogs
Task Five: Upload 5 photos from tutorials 5 onto your flickr account
* I have uploaded five photos that have been taken at Avalon drive wintec campus grounds of both flowers and trees.
Tutorial Two: Digital Camera use and applications
Briefly discuss this statement in relation to digital camera technology.
What would you consider to be asome of the pluses and minues digital camera technolgy holds in relation to more traditional film based camera's.
* Cheaper to operate then normal film, beause it is digital data and can be permantly stored and deleted whenever an indivdual wants.
* If sunlight comes in contact with a normal film, all data will be lost, However the same can happen with digital devices. A digital device can be damaged therefore all data can be lost, even from the hard drive.
List some of the ways that digital images can be stored transferred and manipulated using other communications technology.
* Photoshop is the perfect software for manipulate digital images. Photoshop has several tools that enables indivduals to change photos to their liking.
Given the prevalence of image capturing devices, and thinking about the issues discussed in tutorial one, condider what sort of ethical issues may arise with thenir use.
* Peoples images maybe manipulated without their permission.
* Someones image maybe manipulated and uploaded to internet sites without permission.
Briefly discuss some of the ways that digital images could, or are, being used in occupational therapy practice.
* Taking photos of clients homes for adaptaion, perhaps for funding reasons.
* Photos areb historical.
* Can be used as a training tool.
* Can also be used for storage purposes.
Provide a brief summary of the services offered by flickr.com
* Flickr.com is a webesite that allows individuals to store their treasured photos for friends and family to view all over the world.
Name one other photo storage website which offer a service similar to flickr.com
* Online communities such as facebook allow individuals to store their photos to share with friends and family.
Explain what the difference is between a digital and an optical zoom
* Optical zoom works just like zoom lens on a film camera, whereas digital zoom simply crops the image to a smaller size enlargens the cropped smaller pictured to fill frame again.
Explain what is meant by the term megapixel
* A megapixel(MP) is 1 million pixels and is a term used not only for the number of pixels in an image. But also to express the number of image sensor elements of digital camera's or the number of digital diplay.
En.wikipedia.org/wikipedia.org/wikimegapixel
What would you consider to be asome of the pluses and minues digital camera technolgy holds in relation to more traditional film based camera's.
* Cheaper to operate then normal film, beause it is digital data and can be permantly stored and deleted whenever an indivdual wants.
* If sunlight comes in contact with a normal film, all data will be lost, However the same can happen with digital devices. A digital device can be damaged therefore all data can be lost, even from the hard drive.
List some of the ways that digital images can be stored transferred and manipulated using other communications technology.
* Photoshop is the perfect software for manipulate digital images. Photoshop has several tools that enables indivduals to change photos to their liking.
Given the prevalence of image capturing devices, and thinking about the issues discussed in tutorial one, condider what sort of ethical issues may arise with thenir use.
* Peoples images maybe manipulated without their permission.
* Someones image maybe manipulated and uploaded to internet sites without permission.
Briefly discuss some of the ways that digital images could, or are, being used in occupational therapy practice.
* Taking photos of clients homes for adaptaion, perhaps for funding reasons.
* Photos areb historical.
* Can be used as a training tool.
* Can also be used for storage purposes.
Provide a brief summary of the services offered by flickr.com
* Flickr.com is a webesite that allows individuals to store their treasured photos for friends and family to view all over the world.
Name one other photo storage website which offer a service similar to flickr.com
* Online communities such as facebook allow individuals to store their photos to share with friends and family.
Explain what the difference is between a digital and an optical zoom
* Optical zoom works just like zoom lens on a film camera, whereas digital zoom simply crops the image to a smaller size enlargens the cropped smaller pictured to fill frame again.
Explain what is meant by the term megapixel
* A megapixel(MP) is 1 million pixels and is a term used not only for the number of pixels in an image. But also to express the number of image sensor elements of digital camera's or the number of digital diplay.
En.wikipedia.org/wikipedia.org/wikimegapixel
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