Tutorial Seven: Posting You Tube Videos and Flickr Badges to Blogs: Explaining the process

Tutorial Seven: Posting You Tube Videos and Flickr Badges to Blogs: Explaining the process

Task One: Explain the step by step process required to embed You Tube videos into your Blog . Consider using screen captures to provide a visual representation of these steps.

Step 1: Go to www.utube.comand borrows and pick a video you what to post to your blog.
Step 2: Log into your blog site, so your ready to copy and paste the video in.
Step 3: Copy the embed code that is located on the right hand side of the page.
Step 4: Then paste this code into a new post on your blog site and give it a title. Step 5: Save the post and then press publish. Now view your blog and the video will be their.

Task Two: Explain the step by step process required to embed a Flickr Badge into your Blog . Consider using screen captures to provide a visual representation of these steps.

Step 1: Log into you blog account.
Step 2: Log in or make your flickr account.
Step 3: Click on the tools/buttons at the bottom of the Flickr page.
Step 4: Follow the instructions until the URL codes pops up.Step 5: Copy the URL code use the keys ctrl C
Step 6: Click on customize tab in your blog page.
Step 7: Click add element.
Step 8: Click on scriptStep 9: Paste the URL code into the element box.
Step 10:Give the badge a name
Step 11: Save the badge.

Tutorial Eight: Assistuve technology

Tutorial Eight: Assistive technology

Provide a definition of Assistive technology (your Cook and Hussey reading may be helpful with this).

“Any item, piece of equipment or product system whether acquired commercially of the shelf, modified, or customized that is used to increase or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities”. From the public law Technical Assistance to the state Act in the USA.

Describe one piece of equipment introduced in the assistive technology tutorial. Provide information on size, cost and functions.

Blink Switch

Size: Small clip pad with small black box with a sensor light in the black box.

Function: Switch that controls radios, tv and any other device that plugs into power. The blink controls the use other that device such as turning it off and on.

Cost: Fibre-Optic Eye-Blink Switch with Power Control Module (PCM-2) $1,068.00 +$133.50 (from spectronics web site).


How does your chosen piece of equipment increased functional capacity for the user? Provide examples here from the tutorial and lecture.

Gives the user more independence and more control over what they want to do. For example turn the radio off and on using the blink switch.

Tutorial Three: Blog Creation Tasks

Tutorial Three: Blog Creation Tasks

Task Four: Provide a brief summary of the services offered by Blogger (this will be your third posting. Information can be drawn from the attached hand out). In addition to this name one other Blog host.

A blog is a space which is your own where you can post comments and have discussion with other people on all sorts of things. It’s kind of like an online diary. You can chat with friends and family and it is away to communicate.

You can create your blog how ever you want it by choosing colours pictures and pages that you want.

Other types of sites are bebo, myspace, and facebook.

Tutorial Six: The internet and online communities

Tutorial Six: The internet and online communities

Either search online for a community which interest you or choose one of the provided online communities to investigate. Make sure your selected a community that comprises some form of online forum, discussion page or chat room. You may also wish to see if your community has a Wikipedia entry.

Provide the web address and the name of the community you are investigating

www.myspace.com
Name of community is my space.

What is the brief or focus of this community

What services are provided? How interactive is this site? How can people contribute?

This is an online community which is kind of like blogger and bebo. People have their own sites and post things on and other people can look at them. The site is very interactive and you can put anything you want on your site, post comments to other people, chat and online, which videos and movies. You can also listen to music. People contribute these ways.

The service provides:

Friends who want to talk Online, Single people who want to meet other Singles, Matchmakers who want to connect their friends with other friends, Families who want to keep in touch--map your Family Tree, Business people and co-workers interested in networking , Classmates and study partners and Anyone looking for long lost friends.

Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment on why people choose to contribute to this community. What is it they are seeking?

For all the reason the service provides is the reasons people use my space. Such has meeting up with friends and find along lost friends. These reasons we discuss in class also its gives people more opportunities to be more social and met and make friends.

Cut and paste an example of the type of topics being discussed (you may have to provide a context to your excerpt).

Considering 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.

People shacking identities, then using the as their own.
Lack of privacy!
People knowing exactly where you live eg the town/city. This could be very unsafe.

Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment on the benefits this community holds over traditional notions of community e.g. communities reliant on geographic proximity

You can communicate all over the world. For example be on the top of the Southern Alps and be online and posting comments, chatting to people in other parts of the world. It is faster then sending a letter and opens up options to people in very remote places. Its also away of letting people know all is well and every thing is fine.

Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment what this community lacks or can not provide which traditional communities can.

You can’t talk face to face, as you can’t see the person, unless you have access to a camera. You can’t talk verbally to a person. But this opens up options for people to my be non-verbal as they can type (chat) on line.