Animation in Therapy Website

Animation Therapy offers Health Professionals pioneering intra-disciplinary therapeutic opportunities using the medium of animation to work with issues affecting families, adults, young adults and children.

Animation Therapy Ltd was set up following the receipt of an award for Innovation in Mental Health from the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA).

Map your run

Here's a site for all the runner, bikers and walkers out there. You can measure the distance of your run, bike, walk on google maps even working out how many calories you may have burnt along the way.

http://nz.mapometer.com/en/

James

On line Help for Depression

This is the link to the new website launched by the Ministry of Health staring John Kirwan. I've also included a link to the tevevision segment on the news June 2nd.

www.depression.org.nz

Television One Story June 2

TechnOT by VirtualOT

TechnOT by VirtualOT

An occupational therapy blog about the role of online technology in OT education and practice. This blog contains some OT student work from the University of Alberta, Canada. There are some interesting blog links and articles.

Talking of assistive technology here's an OT blog....

Not all assistive technology need to be pricey. After all humans are very inventive! Check out this blog

Health Skills

Weeeeee!

Here an article from today's Stuff website about the Wii game console. Nice to see OT getting an mention. Some nice potenetial justifications here for assignments.

Ulead titles and audio

This one covers titles and audio for Ulead movie making. Hilary.

Unilead version 10 introduction

This is a an introduction to Ulead Movie Maker Version 10. Approx seven minutes long. There was permission to copy the link, but not embed it at the time of viewing . Hilary.

Need your PIO1 Hamilton links please!

All was going sort of well, then the screen froze while attempting to put in your links under the Hamilton section. Aah... technology... don't you just love it. Please resend your link by email to Hilary if you are not there or the link won't open.

Well done on your progress with the movie making. OK so we are doing a lot of bush wacking (thank you Phillipa et al!) to get to where we want to be. It's worth it... honest!!

Photo: Bush clearance 2010! Source: Hilary Blamires

The usefulness of video methods for occupational therapy and occupational science research

Here's an article link to a 2005 article from The American Journal of Occupational Therapy that looks at the use of video for research purposes.

The usefulness of video methods for occupational therapy and occupational science research

'Methods that use video or other visual data offer occupational therapy and occupational science researchers great potential for the study of occupation in all its contextual complexity. Video methods are used across disciplines in both quantitative and qualitative designs. They are most developed within the subdiscipline of visual anthropology...'

How to upload a video to YouTube

How to Embed a You Tube Video into your blog

Here's how you add a video from YouTube to your blog. Remember to focus of your blogs. We don't want to see lots of videos about dancing cats on your blogs.

WiiHab

Technology Pros and Cons

Here's a comment piece on the role OT can play in the implimentation of technologys for students with disabilities. It makes good points around what technology offers both in terms of access as well as in terms of barriers. What do you think?

Addressing Technology Pros and Cons

Setting up a blog... we did it!

Well, we have just completed our first setting up a blog activity here at the Hamilton Occupational Therapy School. Next step to create links with other useful websites.

Photo: Creating links. Source: Hilary Blamires

The Zone

Here's a link to The Zone. This is a online video analysis tool developed by Silicon Coach a Dunedin based company. This is a tool that is currently being used in Sports and Education. The company is looking to market its use in rehab setting working with physio and ot. This site is worth a look and could be pasrt of the technology package you could apply for in your assignment. Kev used parts of Silcon Coach last year to help explain body movement.

Are you addicted to online gaming?

Here's an article from the Stuff website where you can test your possible addiction to online gaming.

An interesting Article about the value of social networking

Here's an interesting article which looks at the value of social networking. Have a look at the comment section to see what people are thinking. The article is from the New Scientist website.

Occupational Therapy in Second Life

Here's a video of an American University who is using Second Life as a meeting place, and a source of information and collaboration. The post below explains what Second Life is.

Second Life Explained.

In the online package for week three we mention Second Life. What is Second Life? Why do people participate? What does it offer embedded communities? Should we be interested? This video might explain a few things. Part of me can see the possibilities and part of me finds it all a bit weird!

A Cartoon from Hamilton

Here's a cartoon that Phillipa sent me from WINTEC. It made me laugh.

Why use a tripod with digital cameras?

Here's a video which provides some basic tips on why, and when, you should use a tripod. We will be making use of tripods for our still and video digital images (tutorials 2, 4 and 5). Basically put a tripod allows you to get a shot where blurring is reduced to a minimum and esp with video the viewer is not distracted by uncontrolled camera movement.

Who's using the Internet

As we will talk about in the first tutorial the internet provides many powerful tools and has changed the way many of us communicate with each other. In many ways we are in the middle of a communication revolution. But who's using this technology to connect with others. Here's a short video from YouTube of an older gentleman who has become a Youtube sensation simply through sharing his thoughts and experiences. Almost 3 million people have viewed this video and the subsequent videos he's posted. Why do you think this is?

Creative Commons

This video explains creative commons. Basically put this is a medium through which people can share their created information on the internet without having to work within strict copywrite laws. A lot of the videos on this site are from creative commons sources. Most creative commons sources are free many only want acknowledgement of the source of their work. See what you think....

Ever wondered how a digital camera works?

Here's a short explanation which might fill in a few gaps in tutorial two.

Movie Making (one to look at later)

Here's a tutorial on useing windows movie maker. Students at Wintec will be useing this later in the course so you may want to refere back to this after completing the tutorial. Don't look now if the thought of it sounds a bit scary.

Getting started with Blogger

Here's the step by step instructions for setting up your blogger account. We will be doing this in tutorial three but if you want to get a head start watch this. You should make careful note of your login and password as well as your created blog address. Trust me you don't want to be locked out when your finishing up your blog.

Getting started on Flickr

For those who want to get ahead of the play or need to catch up here's a video on setting up your Flickr account and posting photos.

A regular in site into human occupation 'the things we use and consume'

This is a link to 'This Way Up' podcasts. 'This Way Up' is a programme on New Zealand National Radion, Saturday's 12-2pm. Avery interesting programme that covers a wide spectrum of human occupation!

http://www.radionz.co.nz/podcasts/thiswayup.rss

Radio NZ - This Way Up with Simon Morton


This Way Up is a weekly two-hour radio show broadcast on Radio New Zealand National Saturdays from 12pm-2pm - it explores the things we use and consume.

Things we use and consume..what on earth does that mean?

Go on have a taste - we've covered superstitions, the history of scrabble and monopoly, ethical tea, how deodorant works, fair trade chocolate, hitchhiking in Cuba, jetlag, the laws of beachcombing, global butler shortages, tartan, the largest Swiss army knife, supermarket food labeling, homebrew, energy saving light bulbs, getting kitted out for the duck hunting season, the physics of toilet paper, why your urine smells funny after eating asparagus, how to buy a bra, the history of chewing gum, what makes camouflage so fashionable, using mobile phones on planes, things you'll find on your keyboard and why people eat together....and that's just for starters!

Give us your ears..go on, we'll give them back, promise! You might even enjoy it. Sign up to our weekly show preview by emailing thiswayup-join@lists.radionz.co.nz

what's a Wiki!

You may have been introduced to Wiki in some courses already. Why are they useful in a work or education environment? Or are they? You decide....

Who Tweets and what is Twitter?

What is twitter and does it offer more than just catching up on celebrity gossip? Maybe and maybe not. This video might help you make up your own mind.

What is the Web any how?

This video helps explain how the web works for those of you who want to know a little more about the environment we'll be working in.

Blogs what are they and how are they used

Here's an older video which looks at how blogging developed and the effect it has had on the mainstream media. This video is from 2007 and things have developed since then.

How does social networking work?

Some of you, maybe the majority, may haveexperience using social networking sites such as Facebook. This video explains how social networking works and what it has to offer uses.

What is an RSS feed

This is one term you might start hearing in this course. Basically put an RSS feed is a tool for bringing information to us rather than us spending a lot of time hunting the internet or regularly checking sites of interest. The following video provides a really nice explanation.