Holiday work - Part 1: Understanding the ‘The Elderly Challenge’

Four key recommendation of the report:

1) Provide a Elderly friendly residence for the elders such as having different housing choices like the size, types, cost and where is it situated so as to offer the elderly people with more option to choose from to meet the needs of their requirement.

2) Have a barrier free community.Examples are providing the elderly people with an environment that will not impede them from traveling or access to some places. This will facilitate the elderly people and thus making their life easier. Making buses more accessible for the elderly by having no steps for wheelchairs and a low floor is also an example. This will not only benefit the seniors, but young parents, children in prams and people with physical disability.

3)Having more affordable healthcare and elderly care services.Top up the Medisave accounts of those who are not well-to-do when there are budget surplus, which means whenever the government have left over from the expenditure of the country development, it will go into the Medisave accounts and this will defray the cost of the healthcare costs.Family physicians also should take care of the elderly people more and look into their matters comprehensively.

4) Active lifestyles and well-being.Promote more programmes and services for the seniors so as to have them significantly contribute to Singapore, their family and the society.Build on family ties to ensure that the elderly people still have their family members as their front line of support.

One way the CAI report recommending to make our public housing more elderly-friendly
It says that HDB should work with market players to offer reverse mortgage schemes for elderly HDB flat lessees at commercial terms, to provide another option for seniors to derive some income from their homes to meet expenditure in old age, without having to move out of their homes.

TWO ways on how we can ensure that the quality of elderly care here in Singapore is affordable
1) The clinics can help them by providing subsidized fees for their services.
2) Give those elder people who do not have a income source a monthly allowance .

THREE things that I can do, as an SST student, to help overcome these elderly challenges
1) I can organize a fund-raising event to raise money for the Elderly.
2) I can design a machine which can allow the elderly person to walk or move across any surface.
3) I can assist a few elderly people with their needs.

LEAP week-NEWater visit

1) The 3 takeaways from today's visit is
We need to conserve water, the four national taps supply us with water and NEWater's method of supplying water.

2)

i) We need more water resources to ensure a constant water supply.

ii) The processes of how NEWater clean water.

3) I learned that NEWater is very safe for human consumption but yet NEWater does not advertise about their products and sell it to industries and commercial places instead and that NEWater undergoes 3 stages of cleansing.

4) By actively participating in conserving water, or if possible, improve the methods or even develop new methods.

Photography People

Friendship is very valuable and moments like this last for ever.

Even teachers need their quality time to socialize.

This picture shows a very cheerful SST student

When is the best time to take photos?

The best time would be early morning and late evenings(when the sun is at the lowest point)

photography-research and findings

Types of photography:

1)aerial

2)adventure

3)amateur

4)pet,animal

5)architecture

6)artistic

7)astrophotography

8)black and white

9)camera phone

10)commercial

11)digiscoping-taken through a binocular or telescope

12)documentary

13)event

14)forensic

15)infrared

16)large format

17)kirlian

18)macro

19)medical

20)nature

21)night

22)panoramic

23)people

24)pinhole-uses the most basic type of camera possible — a box with a tiny hole to let light in.

25)scenic

26)satellite

27)scientific

28)sports

29)stereoscopic-taking two photos to make 3-d image

30)stock

31)time-lapse

32)travel

33)ultra violet

34)underwater

35)urban ,industrial

sited from:http://www.mediacollege.com/photography/types/

Items for photography:

1)tripod

2)camera bag

3)lenses

4)flash

sited from:http://www.photographytips.com/page.cfm/30

sited from:http://photography.about.com/od/photographyequipment/a/basicequipment.htm

what is aperture?

Aperture is the diameter of the lens opening to take a photo.The larger the aperture, the more amount of light will reach the image sensor and the more the details in the photo will be.

sited from:http://www.photoxels.com/tutorial_aperture.html

what is focus?

focus is how far the camera can take clear photos

sited from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera

what is shutter speed?

shutter speed is how fast a camera’s shutter opens and closes.A fast shutter will freeze the entire scene and a slow shutter will make the background blurred.

sited from:http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Camera-Shutter-Speeds-explained-4794

What is ISO?

iso is the speed of the part in the camera which catches light to post on the photo and effects the exposure.

Sited from:http://www.photography-reviews.com/photography/81-Photo-Exposure-explained-histogram,-ISO,-shoot-speed,-aperture.html

what is metering?

metering is the process of taking the light reading to seth the correct aperture and shutter speed

sited from:http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Beginners-Guide-to-Photography--Metering-6351

What is white balance?

white balance is to take a photo its real colours intact

sited from:http://photocritic.org/white-balance/

what are the rules of photography?

1)diagonal lines

2)rule of thirds

3)golden section rule

sited from:http://www.colorpilot.com/comp_rules.html

techniques of photography

1)use natural or man made objects to make a frame around the subject

2)try to add the sun or some clouds in the picture for a nice effect

3)take action shots to freeze motion for the effect.

sited from:http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/how-to.html

Difference between Isometric, Oblique and Orthographic Drawing.

Isometric Drawings:sited from:http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/design/images/dt_g_dmi_tp6.gif

A form of three-dimensional projection in which all of the principal planes are drawn parallel to corresponding established axes and at true dimensions; horizontals usually are drawn at 30° from the normal horizontal axes; verticals remain parallel to the normal vertical axis.

Sited from:http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_isometric_drawing

Oblique Drawings:

photo from:http://www.ider.herts.ac.uk/school/courseware/graphics/images/oblique.gif

Oblique drawings are designed to show a three dimensional view of an object. It is a kind of a drawing that show

s one face of the object in true shape, but the other faces on a distorted angle. Oblique is not really a '3D' system but a 2 dimensional view of an object with 'forced depth'.

sited from:http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_an_oblique_drawing

Orthographic Drawings:

photofrom:http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/design/images/dt_g_dmi_tp9.gif

A drawing that communicates the shape and size of an object through a series of related two-dimensional views.

sited from:http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_an_orthographic_drawing

Definition of theme - Environment

ADMT Lesson 1: Personal Reflection

ADMT means making art such as drawings using technology which consists of design and media.An ADMT student should be hardworking and persevering.I aspire to be hardworking and persevering by doing my work with my best effort.


this picture shows a empty web browser as without ADMT,graphic designs would not be possible.