Showing posts with label information skills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label information skills. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Term Three Theme - Innovators, Inventors and Entrepreneurs

We are comparing, contrasting and studying Innovators, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs.
Our goal will be to become innovative, inventive and entrepreneurial.
This post and the next two will be relating to the three concepts listed above.
Let's begin by investigating INNOVATION:



Why have I chosen this image to represent an innovator? What is the unspoken message? Use your powers of inference and PPK to answer this question then read on...

Here are some potentially useful websites. Please analyse them and add any useful information to your own understanding of the term. Good luck!

Google's "defining engine"

WikiAnswers defines the term

An interview with an expert

YahooAnswers has people responding to questions

Ezine article on "Every Person is an Innovator"

Wiktionary has a very basic definition


Thursday, February 12, 2009

Bush Fires result in Drop Bear casualties in City Parks...


Due to the devastating bushfires in South Australia, native marsupials like the dreaded drop bear are losing their habitats and moving into city parks where they and the local humans are at risk.

Australians are rallying together to support each other in this time of need. New Zealand is also helping by sending medical and firefighting experts. I wonder how the native animals could be saved? You may have seen the poor koala on the news with the bandaged legs.

This might give us cause to wonder if what we read is always reliable information. As it turns out, the koala in question was filmed a week before it was sent around the world as a "breaking story". You might also want to research the existence of drop bears and critically analyze your sources of information.