“Uses of Technologies at the University”

Without a doubt, technology in every area of our lives, plays an essential role. It has made our life much easier, and every new generation that is borned has get accostumed to it at the point that we can´t live without it, things such as television, computer and Internet have transformed in indispensable things in our day by day. But what I am going to write about today, is how and what role plays technology in the university, specifically in the career of Physycal Therapy. In this career the uses and tipes of technology are very varied, in every subject we use different things, common to other careers or stuff that only we, as Physical Therapists, use.


Use of technology in comunication
As students and as common people we need to be connected with our friends, with our classmates and teachers. The use of computers and Internet is indispensable. It is a need and an obligation to be informed about new experiments, new clinical cases and new papers related with a subject or just for “general culture”. At the university we have many computers, where we make all kind of works, from reports (use of Word office) to presentations (use of Power Point). And in the way we have to get connected with our classmates, we need Internet (it works a little bit show in the university library), to see our emails, that is the way we send the our works, both to teachers and classmates.

Use of technology in classes
In class, we use a varied technology, I can clasiffy it in technology use in theorical classes and the one is used in practical classes. Inside the classrooms, there are computers where teachers put their presentations, or a power in order to guide the materias that will be exposed in the class. This presentations or “powers” are proyected with a data in a big screen.
In practical classes we use microscopes to see differents samples of different tipes. For example in Histology, we used microscopes to see samples of body tissues. But there is a practical subject named, “Functional Anatomy”, where we use an instrument that is used only in Physical Therapy (and in Occupational Therapy ocassionally), the Goniometer. It measures osteokinematic movements and it is essential in every class of this subject and in every evaluation to a pacient with range of movement problems.


As you could saw, we use technology in every aspect of our life, specifically in university life, we use different type of things, with the object to make easier all the work we have to do. The technology used in here, can be classified in different ways, one of it, is classifying instrument we use like a common denominator, this is technology that every student use in different careers and universities, and technology or instruments that are own of Physical Therapy, like the goniometer. Of course, in this career we use more medical instruments, but the goniometer is the one used only by phisycal therapists.