On the internet you may find Blogs. These blogs are other people that they make to share and record different things. In this class we are making blogs which are recording our progress and understanding of the content that is covered in our classes.
On the internet you also find Facebook. Facebook is a social networking site which is also another form of sharing information. This information may include photos, videos or messaging. This is where people may post things on other people’s profiles or even just upload photos on their own profile for others to visit that persons profile and view them.
YouTube is a site that allows everyone all over the world to upload and to view videos of all kinds of things. It is free to have an account but it is not necessary to be able to view the videos.
‘A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every feature’
When relating this statement to digital camera technology it is all different. With cameras for instance years ago they would take the photo and that was it. It would be put onto the negative and then printed off. With digital cameras today you can put it on the computer and play around with it, you can edit it on the camera and even delete the ones that you don’t want right there and then. But when you compare the different quality of the photo a lot of people might stick with the older methods of photography in the dark rooms for instance.
Ethical issues that arise from capturing and distribution images could be privacy, so what you take the photo of. A photo might be taken of a person who does not want to be taken photos of which would invade their privacy. Another issue is ownership, so ownership of the photo for instance you couldn’t get a photo of the internet and then claim it as your own that would be stealing. You wouldn’t steal a TV, stealing a photo off the person who took it could be just as wrong.
Digital images are being used in a number of different occupational therapist practice. Such as housing modifications, the occupational therapist may want to take photos of what they may be modifying and take them back to the office to look over while planning the modification. Also photos of clients. On my placement an occupational therapist took photos of a boy in a hoist as he sat in it to see his posture and to work with him to design another hoist to improve his posture. Occupational therapists also may use videos to video client sessions to then review at a later date to maybe look at the progress that the client has undertaken. Also wee is becoming popular as a type of therapy that might be used and that is all to do with cameras and videos.
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