Tutorial Eight: Posting YouTube Videos & Flickr Badges to Blogs

Task One

Uploading a YouTube Video

Once you've finished editing your video, made sure it's less than 10 minutes, smaller than 2GB in size, and in an acceptable format, you're ready to upload it.

• Click the Upload link at the top of any YouTube page.
• Click the "Browse" button to browse for the video file you'd like to upload to our site. Select the file you want to upload.
• Click the 'Upload Video' button to start the uploading process.
• As the video file is uploading, enter as much information about your video as possible in the relevant fields (including Title, Description, Tags, and Category). You're not required to provide specific information, but the more information you include, the easier it is for users to find your video!
• Click the 'Save changes' button to save the updates you've made to the video file.

YouTube Help: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=57924

Embedding a YouTube Video

To embed a video from YouTube, just copy the code from the "Embed" box on the video's YouTube page. You can find the "Embed" box in the "About This Video" box when you're watching the video. You can also get the code from the "Embed HTML" box on the "Edit Video" page if the video belongs to your YouTube account.

To embed a YouTube video within a blog post, first click "Edit HTML" from within the post editor. Next, paste the video's code into the body of your post. That's it!

blogger help : http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=80767

Task Two:

How to embed a Flickr Badge into your blog

Flickr also has a similar method to post their images on your blog. Flickr is a photo sharing and hosting website enabling you to share photos with your friends and also put them in your blog. Go to Flickr.com and register to get a new account. Then click Upload photos to go to Upload window. Clickon Browse to locate the photos on your disk and then click open. Choose options to make them Public or Private and put tags on them and then click on Upload. Tags are words used to categorize and describe photos. After your photos are uploaded click on save after adding Title and description.

Click on the photo to open it and click on Blog This link on top of the photo. You will be asked to configure a blog to post to. Click that link. Choose your blogging application

Blogger/Beta Blogger. If beta Blogger Flickr will ask to have access to your beta account. Click the Head over to Google link. Click on Grant Access. Put in your Username and Password and then go through remaining steps to post the photo to your blog.

Read more: http://www.blogdoctor.me/2006/12/youtube-flickr-in-blogger-beta.html#ixzz0pYIH2DKO

You can also create your ownFlickr Badge of Photos by going to : http://www.flickr.com/badge_new.gne
Choose whether you want a Flash badge or a Html badge the former slows down your loading a bit. Go through a series of steps till you come to the code which you can copy and Paste

Read more: http://www.blogdoctor.me/2006/12/youtube-flickr-in-blogger-beta.html#ixzz0pYIebbFW

Tutorial Seven: Assistive technology

" . . .we shall use the term assistive technology to refer to a broad range of devices, services, strategies and practices that are conceived and applied to ameliorate the problems faced by individuals who have disabilities." (Cook & Hussey, 2000).

A piece of equipment introduced in the assistive technology tutorial was a 'talking tin'. It is a small, circular piece of plastic, that one can use to record sound onto, then play it back to hear it. Sound can be recorded for up to 30 seconds, then it can be played back to be heard each time the button on top is pushed down. These caps are smaller than the top of a can, and are very cheap. They can be purchased from Star - Educational- Special Technology and Resources. The link to look at these items is below

http://www.star-educational.co.nz/view_details.php?detail=true&cat=21&subcat=&id=33

Talking Tins YELLOW , 2 Pack


Yellow - 10 second version single message version.

Message can be re-recorded - reuse time and time again!

Features:
• Press the PLAY button to hear your message
• Two RECORD Buttons provide message protection
• Built-in magnets on underside - will attached to any steel tin
Fits all standard UK, US and Euro tin diameters, including Ring Pulls.

Adapters available for bottles, sprays and plastic storage containers.

Size: 79mm Diameter x 22mm.

Batteries are included, fitted and replaceable


These talking tins increase functional capacity for the user, particularly for people who have impaired vision. An example from the tutorial was that people can put them on their tinned food as a form of a label. They can record the name of the food inside the can, put the talking tin on top, then whenever they want to know what is inside a tin, they can simply push down the button on top, and hear their voice recording of what the contents are.

Tutorial Six: The internet and online communities

The community I am investigating is Trademe (www.trademe.co.nz). The focus of this community is buying and selling both new and second-hand products to online buyers. It is an internet auction website, with things selling with an auction system with online bidding, or buyers can "buy now" if the seller has listed that as an option. That means the buyer gets the product for a pre-agreed price, rather than bidding at the auction.

People can communicate on this website by using the general message board. Here, members can ask questions and seek advice. It is community moderated, which means that any posts which are considered offensive by other members of the community can be voted off. Potential buyers can also communicate with sellers on the page of the item being sold.

On this online community, people are seeking to buy and sell items online. There is communication between potential buyers and sellers. Members choose to contribute to this website because it is often a more convenient way of shopping and selling unwanted items, as items are purchased online, then posted to an address of the buyers choice.

Below is an example to some of the topics discussed on the general notice board. This one is where to get your stamp collections valued.

stamp collections...where to get valued??

• in northland???would love to get it valued and possibly sell it...who/where do i go to get it valued in northland?? prefer the far north if possible...thanks

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  turkey_foot (946 ) 8:07 pm, Fri 19 Mar #1

• Also in Wanganui.Have been left all my Dads collection and have no idea what to do with them, thanks.

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  knitwit4 (2393 ) 9:38 am, Tue 23 Mar #2

• try whangarei stamp club-if not in yellow pages--council or similar should know

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  donaldo (2530 ) 11:08 am, Tue 23 Mar #3

With this online community, as with any, there are some potential ethical issues. People may sell things that don't belong to them. Also, sellers must be accountable for reporting accurate information on the product they are selling. Because of the lack of identity, both of these scenarios are possible, but trademe attempts to solve this by giving buyers the opportunity to write feedback about the sellers and the products thay have bought. This is an attempt to enforce accountability.

Some of the benefits this community has over traditional buying and selling is that one does not have to be geographically close to the seller to buy an item. A photo of the item can be posted for buyers to look at, then the item can be posted to a location of the buyer's choice. People can both buy and sell items without leaving the comfort of their own home. This is very beneficial for people with mobility issues, or other factors that make it difficult to leave the house frequently and for long periods of time.

Because of the possible geographical difference between buyer and seller, along with the anonymity of both, buyers cannot physically inspect the item they are purchasing, so are relying on the seller being accountable for their product. This community also lacks face-to-face interaction, but attempts to make communication possiblle by providing a general message board

Tutorials 4 & 5: Video Production Sessions

YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005.^[1] In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated content video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, UMG and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.^[2]

Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users over the age of 18. The uploading of videos containing defamation, pornography, copyright violations, and material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited by YouTube's terms of service. The account profiles of registered users are referred to as "channels".^[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtube

For our short film, Monkey VS Kangaroo, we used planning to aid in the filming of it. To begin with, we had a group discussion on what we wanted the theme of our short film to be. We then tried to plan out the shots on a scrap piece of paper to ensure that our shots were concise and informative enough. Then, a member of our group took our planning and drew a story-board, showing how each shot would start, with a caption under each one, describing what would take place in the shot.

Once filming began, we referred to our storyboard to begin filming, but made a few changes as we went, once we realised how we could film it even more effectively. All things considered, mostly our short film went to plan, and was very similar to our initial plan in the first group discussion.

Tutorial Three: Blog Creation Tasks

Services offered by Blogger:

Blogger is a blog storage service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It is funded by on-screen ads. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003.The service itself is located at www.blogger.com. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at subdomains of blogspot.com. Until May 1 2010 ^[3] an FTP service allows pages edited through Blogger to be published to other hosts. If this service ceases, all blogger blogs will be hosted by Google, though domains other than blogspot.com may be used.

Blogger has imposed the following limitations on content storage and bandwidth, per user account^[11]:

• Number of blogs = Unlimited
• Size of pages = Individual pages (the main page of a blog or archive pages) are limited to 1 MB
• Number of labels = 2,000 unique labels per blog, 20 unique labels per post
• Number of pictures (hyperlinked from user's Picasa Web Album) = Up to 1 GB of total storage
• Size of pictures = If posted via Blogger Mobile, limited 250 KB per picture; posted pictures are scaled to 800px^{[citation needed]}
• Team members (those that can write to a blog) = 100

On February 18, 2010,^[12] Blogger introduced "auto-pagination", which limited the number of posts that could be displayed on each page, often causing the number of posts on the main page to be less than that specified by the user and leading to a hostile response from some users.^[13][14]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger.com

Tutorial Two: Digital Camera use and applications

"A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every feature."

Digital cameras have introduced the notion of 'disposable' photos, where 100's are taken and only the best ones kept. This is different to traditional film cameras, where usually every photo is valued and printed. They are more treasured because they are not so readily available. More time goes into taking a photo with a film camera, as there is often only one chance to get it right.
Digital technology also allows for photoshopping, keeping the best photos and having photos instantly without having to wait for film to be developed.

With digital cameras, photos can be stored on the infromation card with the camera, or on an external hard drive. They can be displayed using many methods and technologies such as webcams or websites such as flickr or facebook.

Photos are saved as JPEG files, which condense the information so it can be sent. This reduces the quality of the image, and the more you compress it and more data you store, the lower the quality.


Some ethical issues around digital cameras are photos being taken without knowledge, and the uses those photos may be used for. A photo of a person could be taken without their knowledge, then displayed on the internet without their consent. On some websites, once you upload a photo, you lose all rights to future uses of that photo to the owners of the website.
An ethical issue is that we all have a responsibility to those who's image is being used, to gain informed consent from them.

Digital images could be used in occupational therapy to capture specific positions of clients when completeing activities, to be sent to other health professionals to gain their opinion on any questions the OT may have.


Flickr.com is a website for storing and displaying photos. It also hosts videos. There are 2 types of accounts on flickr, Free and Pro. With a free account one has 100MB of image space per month, plus 2 videos may be uploaded a month. With a Pro account, one has unlimited images and video uploading per month. On this website you can share photos with others who also have a flickr account. Another photo storage website which offers a similar service to flickr is www.myphotoalbum.com


Digital zooms on cameras crop the image, then enlarge the cropped image to fill the frame again. This differs to an optical zoom, which keeps the clarity and pixel size and number the same as when you started. A megapixel is how many squares of an image that receive light per image. There are more green than any other colour becuase most things we see are in shades of green. 1 megapixel = 1 million squares.