Tuesday, May 5, 2009 @ 3:35 AM
The End Product Of THE PLAYGROUND
@ 3:24 AM
Rock Climbing
Rope Climb
Slide 
Tyre Swing
Free Fall
Swing Entrance & Door Exit
Flying Fox
Monkey Bar 
Spinning Wheel @ 3:21 AM
Thursday, April 30, 2009 @ 7:56 AM
Materials Used
Paper
Colourless ice-cream sticks 
Yellow plastic board
Styrofoam board 
Penknife 
Tape 
Colourful ice-cream sticks
Thursday, April 16, 2009 @ 8:23 AM
--TOP VIEW OF PLAYGROUND--
Description of the playground:
There are 2 playground towers: the green tower (as high as 'orange free-fall platform) is higher than the red tower.
The 'free-fall' has different height stages (different heights of fall), according to the different shades. The orange is the highest, and the dark red is the lowest.The blue box on the right indicates the stairs to the playground tower.
Both yellow trapeziums indicates the rock climbing which is not so high, enabling the children to reach the playground towers.
The 2 holes in the 2 playground towers also allows the children to climb with their own body weight.
There are 3 normal seat-swings which are less challenging and for younger pupils, as well as 5 high rope swings, also climb ropes for practice which are much more challenging and for older pupils.
The zip line has a safety harness which will allow a promising safe and secure environment for the children.
At the entrance of the playground, there is a 'gully' where the children are suppose to swing across on a rope to get into the playground, similar to the rope swung by Leslie and Jess into Terabithia in the novel.
There are 2 slides which are different. The slide are positioned at a different angle as well as height. The maroon slide is longer and less steep while the purple slide is much shorter and steeper.
The circle in the picture is the controlled electronic spinning wheel, in which, when being sat on, the wheel would start spinning as the adult controller switches it on. The longer the time it is set to spin, the faster it gradually becomes, helping the children to get use to the 'air pressure' in the sky. The blue cross is the handle which the children can hold on to, for extra safety.
We have chosen to use different bright and contrasting colours as, just like the ray of hope, it would give the children more confidence in overcoming their challenges, presenting their bright future. It also looks like the rainbow in the sky. The flooring colour is blue (sky) and there would be cotton wool (clouds) hanging around, like in a dreamy, floaty dreamland.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 @ 10:28 PM
Treatment:
There have been a number of promising studies into using virtual reality as a treatment for acrophobia.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 @ 11:07 PM
Causes Of Acrophobia
Traditionally:
-->acrophobia has been attributed to conditioning or traumatic experience involving heights
Recent:
-->studies have cast doubt on this explanation fear of falling
Most Probable Causes:
-->dysfunction in maintaining balance
-->anxiety both well founded and secondary
-->the human balance system integrates proprioceptive,
vestibular and nearby visual cues to reckon position and motion
-->height increases, visual cues recede and balance becomes poorer even in normal people
most people respond by shifting to more reliance on the proprioceptive and vestibular branches of the equilibrium system.
