Tutorial Seven

Step by step process to embed You Tube videos onto my blog.

Step 1- Log onto You Tube and look up the video you would like to embed onto you blog.
Step 2- The video will have a URL that you now need to copy.
Step 3- Log onto your blog page
Step 4- Click on customize.
Step 5- Click on posting
Step 6- Paste URL in posting box
Step 7- Write a heading and description and save.

Step by step process to embed a Flikr Badge

Step 1- Log onto your flikr account
Step 2- click on tools at bottom of page
Step 3- follow step by step instructions until end where the URL comes up
Step 4- Copy the URL
Step 5- Open Blog account
Step 6- click on customize
Step 7- click on add elements
Step 8- Click on script
Step 9 - Paste URL in box provided
Step 10- Name badge e.g. my photos
Step 11- save

Task Three

Provide a brief summary of the services offered by Blogger. In addition to this name one other Blog host.
A place to write or attach pictures/videos of anything you wish to share with others.
These can be updated, changed or deleted as you please.
You can also design and decorate your blog as you wish.
Another blog site is 'Blogster'.

Tutorial Task Four and Five

Task Four (Blog Posting): Provide a brief summary of the services offered by U Tube. Information can be drawn from the week five tutorial hand out.

YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid-February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Unregistered users can watch most videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Some videos are available only to users of age 18 or older (e.g. videos containing potentially offensive content). The uploading of videos containing pornography, nudity, defamation, harassment, commercial advertisements and material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited. Related videos, determined by title and tags, appear onscreen to the right of a given video.
Retrieved May 20, 2008, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

Task Five (Blog Posting): Provide a brief account (1-2 paragraphs) on how the use of planning (story boarding and scripting aided your groups short film).

The story board was a useful visual aid of all the photos/video shots that we wanted to use in the film. It was a good way to get our ideas for the film in order. The theme was, what did being a student in Dunedin mean to us and how could we show it in a 30 second video clip we used the story board as a reference to keep us on track and make sure we were not taking footage that we did not need.

We did not have very long to come up with the basic idea and then design our story board, get organized and take the photos/video, and return to the classroom to edit the shots into the 30 second video clip. Our video clip is made up of scenery around the Otago Polytechnic campus, the things that we see everyday. While we were editing the video clip we decided to call it O.T. World.

OT World

Short film

Tutorial Six

Provide the web address and the name of the community you are investigating:
www.thelowdown.co.nz


What is the brief or the focus of this community?
It provides information on depression.
It involves people sharing information on their personal experiences of depression.
It provides information on other available 'help' sites/agencies.


What services are provided? How interactive is this site? How can people contribute?
A self test on depression
Self help strategies
Chat
Free text and phone services to 'The Low Down Team'.
Details on other organisations - Helpline
Kidsline Buddies
Whats Up
Youthline
One Stop Shop
Counsellors
Information on other health professionals : Doctor, psychologist and psychiatrists.
It also provides a multimedia option and chat rooms.
People can contribute by going online and chatting to one of the team.



Consider material presented during the lecture and make a comment on why people choose to contribute to this community. What is it they are seeking?
Equality, the acknowledgement that they are not alone. Having someone to listen to them who understands what they are going to and may be able to give some helpul, realistic suggestions.
This is a place where contributers can just write how they feel and this can be a great way to 'unload'.


Cut and paste an example of the type of topics being discussed (you may have to provide a context to your experpt).
I am unable to cut and paste from this site, however, participants are talking about relationship difficulties, feeling inadequate, feeling sad, tearfullness, lack of understanding from others and difficulty with everyday activities.


Considering material presented during the course and make comment on the potential ethical issues that may arise in this community e.g. lack of identity and accountability.
People are able to say exactly what and how they feel and may make judgements/comments on others who are involved in the chat.
Participants may name people either correctly or incorrectly.
Participants may add information that is totally fictitious.


Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment on the benefits this community holds over traditional notions of community e.g. communities reliant on geographic proximity.
It doesn't matter where in the world participants are, they can join in the 'Low Down Community' whenever they wish. Unlike an actual geographic community where they are living, they do not have to be so conscious of what they say, who to, and when an appropriate time may be.
Also, it is likely to be much easier to cease contact with someone in the on line community than what it may be in a face to face communication with someone in the geographic community.


Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment what this community lacks or can not provide which traditional communities can.
The online community can not provide access to everyone - eg those who do not have a computer or the skills to use one.
It is not necessarily a valid source of information and can abused by people.
It also lacks the personal interaction as it any information can be viewed by thousands of people - the writer does not have control over who reads their information and what others do with it.