Tutorial Seven: Linking to blogs of interest and exchanging comments

I posted on Katy's blog. I used the snipping tool to cut and paste the conversation.

Tutorial Six: The internet and online communities

Facebook is an online social networking site shared around the world. Facebook connects people everywhere; it is used to keep in touch with family and friends, business networking and bringing to light current issues around the world. Membership is required in order to create a profile and connect with others. You are able to upload photos and videos of interests.

 Here is a link that shows statistics of this site: Statistics: Facebook

Flickr is an online photo storage, sharing website that lets you upload your photos, share it and post it to facebook, blogs and any other websites. It also lets you comment, tag or make notes about your photos and others.

Here is a link to the Flikr Blog which posts lots of photographs and imagery: Flickr Blogs

Twitter is a social networking and micro blogging website that lets its users send out text-based posts called tweets that is made up 140 characters. The tweets show up in the user’s profile and are visible for all to see. Members can subscribe to other members’ profiles and this is called “followers”. A user can restrict their visibility of their tweets to just their followers or for everyone to see.

Below are example of tweets:

Facebook is very interactive. Once you set up your profile, you can comment on other people’s profile wall vice versa. It also lets you update your status that is visible in the home page of all your friends. They can comment or click the ‘like’ button. It also has a chat room for a one on one chatting sessions; you have the option of clicking offline if you don’t want to be seen.

Tutorial Five: Video Production Sessions

Youtube is an online video community that lets its members upload and view videos. Membership is free; To upload a video you have to sign but to view majority of the videos does not need membership. Videos consists of personal diaries, music videos, animations, information clips etc. Youtube is a community in that it lets its members not only upload videos but also rate and comment on videos such creating a sense of community. Youtube also creates instant sensations when a video is seen all over the world accumulating millions of hits/views. Below is a video of some of the most popular videos compiled together.

In my fieldwork, I worked in a pediatric setting. One of the children I worked with had autism and I did not know much about that. One of the first things I learnt was about sensory integration. The video below explains children and sensory integration.

Video 1:

Video 2: Gymnastics as sensory integration

Video 3: Weighted Belts and Sensory Integration

Video 4: Demonstration of an Autistic child feeling sand as a way to calm his senses.

Video 5: Information on Sensory Integration Disorder, which is helpful for people to understand.

Informing Practice

Chronic Pain blog discusses life with chronic pain. It gives tips on how to live your life with such condition, from healthy diets to having the right attitude. The blogger named Sue Falkner-Wood is a retired registered nurse living in Astoria, Ore., with her husband, who is also an R.N. Sue left nursing in 1990 due to chronic pain and other symptoms related to what was eventually diagnosed as relapsing polychondritis/mixed collagen disease, a progressive inflammatory condition involving the cartilage and connective tissue and leading to degeneration of the joints.

You can register to this bog and recieve newsletters. It also gives opportunity to its readers by the comment section. Most of the people that are commenting on the blog posts are people who live with chronic pain.

The information posted in the blog is from a proffessional and personal view of Sue. On the left side of the blog there are heaps of links to helpful sites about chronic pain and recommended other blogs. 

I think this blog is of great value, because of the blogger's experiences with chronic pain both on a professional and personal level. Readers are able to connect and identify to her postings.