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Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Tutorial 2

Hardware is the general term for the physical artifacts of a technology the hardware that i am familiar with is USB which is a flash memory data storage, it is typically removable and rewritable when studying occupational therapy you need one of these we film videos for assessment and having a usb helps you to transfer the video or photo's from one computer to another. Another Hardware is a external hard drive this stores you valuable data and adds a considerable level of safety and security. Software is digitally stored data, such as written programs or procedures, the software that i am familiar with is iphoto - this is an image management application, it allows the user to import photographs from camera, or disks and edit them. photo booth is another software i am familiar with this allows you to shoot videos and clips and send and upload them, you can add effects and backdrops to the photos. Another software is adobe photoshop this allow you to edit photo's

The use of digital imaging to provide information and recording would be that allows to to take still or moving pictures of your life that you are able to look back on when you are older or even the next day, it allows you to store memories, another use is for media information such as the newspaper people are able to take photo in completely different countries, cultures, religions and we are able to view them and get information about what is happening around the world. You can also use digital imaging to make website with pictures, writing and links about what you website is about and you are able to put this information on the internet and share it with everyone.

' New technology is rarely superior to an old one in every feature'

With technology changing constantly new versions are coming out constantly this statement as an element of true and false because they are developing more and different technology everyday sometime an upgraded camera only has one feature that is different or even just a different style and all the software is the same, also some people have these expensive cameras will all this software on them and they don't even know how to use it, but other times they change altogether a digital camera that i brought 5 years ago is so out of date it's chunky and there are no fancy software pretty much just takes a photo, my friend now has a camera where you can see the photo that is being taken from the angle that the person who is getting their picture taken view.
The pluses and minuses of digital versus film camera are that digital you can get more pixal's so you can blow up the photo bigger as well as a zoom in and out option, you can change the background such as black and white or sepia, as well as you are able to view the photo that you have taken to see if it is any good or now the only thing is that they often break easily and are expensive. With film you get a chance to development and the thrill of not knowing what the photos look like this can also be a negative but people who enjoying being in a red room and developing themselves are able to, you can disposal cameras that are film which i buy sometimes when i am going somewhere and i want to take photos but i'm scared that i might loose my camera so i buy a cheap disposable and take photos and it doesn't matter if i break it or loose it.

Ethical issues are that people upload video's or photos without people permisson and they are posted all over the internet such as website like facebook and youtube. Other example would be people like celebrities they get followed around by people who take photo's of them such as when they get out of a car they take photo up there dresses for a story, and google earth people went around and took photos of peoples houses and streets without the peoples knowledge. This can also be good though for example at my cousins 21st she has it at a tennis club and some people came and crashed it and a picture that was hanging on the wall ended up being taken. This person who stole the picture was stupid enough to take it to a concert and got snapped in a picture taken by an event photographer and the they were able to find her and the picture was returned.

digital images can be used in OT for home visits such as taken pictures of the layout of the house and the entry, as well as taking pictures of clients with there permission, on my placement we had one client that had family overseas and they expressed that they would like a picture of this client so we took a picture and sent it to her family. Also when you are looking at buying adaptive equipment for a client you can look at manuals and see what kind of equipment you want and what it looks like you can also show the client to see if they like it and they are able to get a better understanding of it.

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