Tuesday, January 3, 2012

assitive technology

1 Jonty is a paraplegic from the neck down when he gets hurt in a industrial accident. He spent a year in the New Zealand spinal recovery unit when he was finished he was introduced to a headmaster which is like a mouse for people who cant use there hands and have good head control such as Jonty. he has then got a Bachalor degree in science majoring in marine biology.
2 harald is from sacratmento california and has had polio ever sense he was born.He had that technology called keystroke which usees common words to create sentences. it helped him publish his own book.
3 jean marc was in a car accident and was left paralized from the neck down. he now uses both of the headmaster and teh keystroke to help him comunicate.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Online A Reflection

Technology is very important to me and I use it every day. I don't just use it at school but I also use it at home or anywhere I'm at because technology is always with me. I always have me phone with me when I go out to eat or just go for a bike ride. I get on my computer in my house and I watch TV or listen to music. I don't know what I would be doing without technology. Technology has really changed in the past couple years for example, the TV makers have came out with a new type of television and its 3D. Five years earlier the only way you could see things in 3D would be to go to the movie theater but now you can watch any movie in 3D or sports in 3D. Technology is also changing everyday so in the next five years I think they will make a phone that is better than the phone 4S. They will also make tiny flash drives smaller than what we have today and make them hold more too.
The technology at school is similar to the technology I use at school. I use computers to take online experience classes and to look up information for projects. I use TVs to watch movies in whatever subject I’m in. but some of the things I use at school but not at home is an overhead. Even if I did have one I probably would never use it because I would have no reason for it.
Some of the tools in online experience that I would use in the future would be blogging, PowerPoint, and I would defiantly use typing. Some other things I would use would be the glister if I ever had to do a project in a future class. The tools that I learned in computers that I would never forget would be typing, PowerPoint, and publisher. These ones you will probably use for the rest of your life. Some of the tools I won’t use again are probably be blabberize and voki. Those were fun and all but I won’t use them ever again. My favorite tool to create would be the igoogle account. It was really fun to customize and find a funny banner and cool gadgets for your igoogle. And my least favorite would be the RSS feed. I really didn’t know how to do it and it still doesn’t make since to me. 


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