Defintion of assitive technology:
"Any item, piece of equipment or product system whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified or customized that is used to increase or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities".
Assitive technology i chose:
Personal Listening Systems. DT-100 Directalk personal listener
for mild to moderate hearing loss.
The DT-100 is totally hands-free, it rests naturally and comfortably on your shoulder, nothing to hold or to hang onto your clothing. Proprietary High Definition Sound (HDS) technology delivers near-by sounds in panoramic clarity directly to your ears while suppressing background noise.
background noise.
Selectable Digital Tone Enhacement allows you to boost and enhance the speech frequencies that you can't hear well, making difficult-to-hear words intelligible again. Automatic Gain Control optmizes sound level for superior listening comfort; no more sudden blasts.
PRICE: $129.95
WEIGHT: very light
one year warranty.
Buy from: Serene Innovations
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Tutorial 6 Online Communities
Chosen Community: BEBO
Bebo web address: http://www.bebo.com
What this community is about:
"Bebo is a social media network where friends share their lives and explore great entertainment."
Bebo enables people who are signed up to it to contact friends from their childhood and link up with new friends. On Bebo you can share and comment on pages, photos, add videos and music, add blogs to your page, private message people, join groups and bands and lots more. Bebo is a very interactive social networking site - you add friends or friends add you, you can comment on your friend's page, blog, photos, - there is even a tally of how many people have visited your profile. You can create your own polls and quizzes, create a white board for people to add drawings to your page, even make your own group.
Bebo facillitates "socialability" to the extent that peopole who join have an easy way of communicate with friends, no matter where they are, as long as they have access to the internet. Social networks allow people to keep in touch with friends in other countries.
There are different types of Bebo pages and therefore different topics. There are the personal pages where you can decide who may view them. There are groups that you can become a member of. Some a funny and some are serious. Theres groups that are less disscusion and are a way of uniting with other people who believe the particular group.
Ethical issues include, people who make their pages public to anyone in the world tend to face strangers using their identities for their own Bebo pages. More recently, Bebo has had hackers who steal peoples identities and send rude messages to that persons friends. There is no way of stopping this- and it is a pain signing on to your Bebo and finding you have 7 rude messages which looks like they have been snet from your best friend. Any one can copy peoples photos. Anyone can comment.
Bebo is absolutely fanastic to keep in touch with friends and family who are scattered all over the world! Keep in touch with friends in Australia, you can send them a message and they can reply straight away... its free, no phone bills, you can send photos and know that the person is actually going to recieve them- as emails do not always work. However, this is not as good as actually being able to speak to these people who are far away or actually spend time with them. But is great to keep in touch between visits.
Bebo web address: http://www.bebo.com
What this community is about:
"Bebo is a social media network where friends share their lives and explore great entertainment."
Bebo enables people who are signed up to it to contact friends from their childhood and link up with new friends. On Bebo you can share and comment on pages, photos, add videos and music, add blogs to your page, private message people, join groups and bands and lots more. Bebo is a very interactive social networking site - you add friends or friends add you, you can comment on your friend's page, blog, photos, - there is even a tally of how many people have visited your profile. You can create your own polls and quizzes, create a white board for people to add drawings to your page, even make your own group.
Bebo facillitates "socialability" to the extent that peopole who join have an easy way of communicate with friends, no matter where they are, as long as they have access to the internet. Social networks allow people to keep in touch with friends in other countries.
There are different types of Bebo pages and therefore different topics. There are the personal pages where you can decide who may view them. There are groups that you can become a member of. Some a funny and some are serious. Theres groups that are less disscusion and are a way of uniting with other people who believe the particular group.
Ethical issues include, people who make their pages public to anyone in the world tend to face strangers using their identities for their own Bebo pages. More recently, Bebo has had hackers who steal peoples identities and send rude messages to that persons friends. There is no way of stopping this- and it is a pain signing on to your Bebo and finding you have 7 rude messages which looks like they have been snet from your best friend. Any one can copy peoples photos. Anyone can comment.
Bebo is absolutely fanastic to keep in touch with friends and family who are scattered all over the world! Keep in touch with friends in Australia, you can send them a message and they can reply straight away... its free, no phone bills, you can send photos and know that the person is actually going to recieve them- as emails do not always work. However, this is not as good as actually being able to speak to these people who are far away or actually spend time with them. But is great to keep in touch between visits.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Tutorial Five Video Production
The group planned the video "spooning around" addressing the issue of overcoming adversity they had to use a script to do so. A script involves everything that is heard, seen and done onscreen. A typical good script involves movement, expression, mood, interaction with others (optional of course), camera angles and shots...a script really involves everything that is going to be done. The use of the script was helpful to get a general overview of what they wanted to do and be done, although it was not quite as detailed as what a "good script" should be.
Also when videoing "spooning around" they had to use a story board, our story board consisted of nine simple scenes that they decided they wanted to shoot for the video. A story board is a illustration of what the video is going to be about in a logical order and where the scenes are going to be taken, this provides a overview of how the video will run before the actual filming stage begins.
Also when videoing "spooning around" they had to use a story board, our story board consisted of nine simple scenes that they decided they wanted to shoot for the video. A story board is a illustration of what the video is going to be about in a logical order and where the scenes are going to be taken, this provides a overview of how the video will run before the actual filming stage begins.
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