Here is a Facebook site which allows people to talk about autism, and different aspects of this condition
This is Partricks success story. He is a child with Autism and it shows how he how he has learnt to deal with his autism at the Dan Marino Centre. Check it out!
Provide description of each community. What services are provided on sites, how interactive are they, and can people contribute to them?
Shaping behaviour secrets blog:
This blog is as you can imagine by the title all about autism and talks about some of the different aspects of autism and how we can help shape an autistic persons behaviour.
Blogs are a great way of communicating information to the public about any topic you would like to share and it also enables people to ahare their own experiences of the different topics as well. It is a great way of informing people about topics and also learning more from others about it.
Patrick's Youtube video:
Youtube is a site on the internet which enables people to share photos, movie, and music clips with the public. These can be made public so everyone can see them, or they can also be private so only those you want to see them can. In Patrick's video clip it shows him hard at work learning new skills at the Dan Marino center, where an Occupational Therapist is working with Patrick to help him learn how to do these new activities.
These youtube clips are usually not able to be changed, or contributed to, but people can make comments on the bottom of some of them.
Facebook site - autismspeaks:
This is a site that enables people to communicate, share information and ideas with others, and is also a great way to support other people, who we may not be able to visit in person, or communicate with on the phone. Facebook is also a great site for gaining more knowledge from other people about topics of interest because everyone is able to make contributions, and share their opinion.
Consider material presented in the online package. Why do people choose to contribute to communities, what are they seeking, and is information shared one way or reciprocal?
In each of these communities people are wanting to share with others their experiences of the topic which is being talked about because they want to inform others and also gain more information back through chatting with others. In most of these sites information is reciprocal and people are able to share and receive information back. Youtube is more a one way site as it informs people but most of the time is not able to be replied to.
Considering material presented during the course and comment on the potential ethical issues that may arise in this community e.g. lack of identity and accountability:
There are many ethical issues to take into consideration when you are going to use one of these internet sites to share information. Some of these are respecting peoples privacy and making sure you get their consent before using any pictures, or information about them on the internet. Something a lot of people forget I think is once your information is on the net anybody can see it and do anything with it, including making changes to it. It can also allow access to personal information sometimes that people may not want everyone knowing. These are just a few of the issues which need to be taken into account when using the internet.
Consider material presented in the online package and comment on the benefits these communities provide over traditional geographical communities:
The benefits of online communities over geopraphical communities are massive, because a geographical community only allows you access to information from a given area, whereas when you go online you are able to access information from around the world on any given topic. It also allows you to get more information and help from a much wider array of people, both from professionals in the topic and also other people with an interest in the topic.
Consider material presented during the lecture and make comment what this community lacks or cannot provide which traditional communities can?:
Online communities are great because they enable use to gain so much more knowledge, but that information will never be quiet the same as getting it firsthand from the original source.
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