Week 2 : Monday - 17 Nov 08
Recap of 'ideas' and the stages.
Lesson 2
Lets look at the meanings of these 4 words,
( * all the meaning were referred in Macmillan English Dictionary For Advanced Learners )
Novelty :
i) something new and unusual
ii) the excitement of interest that something new or unusual creates
Example:
I have been surfing around the net and i found out something interesting and unique that i am very impressed when first i laid my eyes on it.
Can you determine what is this?an arch? a sculpture? No.It is a piece of cake.I found it from the webpage where they sell a cake with a different and unique design which i found it very impressive!It looks so discrete.They are calling themselves as a Novelty Cakes.
Creativity :
i) the ability to create new ideas of things using your imagination
Example:
A dress made by condoms by brazilian artist adriana bertini
is on exhibit at the international aids conference in toronto.
(source from www.designboom.com/)Innovation :
i) a new idea, method, piece of equipment etc
ii) the invention or use of new ideas, methods, equipment etc
Example:
Garry Erickson was an avid bike rider. On a 175 mile ride and using Power Bars for food with 50 miles to go, he couldn't face the thought of eating the last of his six Power Bars. The thought occurred to him that he could make a nutritional bar that was better tasting. Gary was the owner of a small bakery that was not profitable.Erickson acted on this impulse. He developed the Clif Bar, which rose to $1 million in sales in the first year and to $30 million only 5 years later.
Employees suggested that the Clif Bar was too high in calories for women, and this led to the design of Luna Bars, lower in calories and with added calcium and nutritional foods. Luna Bars went on to be more successful than Clif Bars.
Invention :
i) a machine, tool, or system that someone has made, designed, or thought of
for the first time
ii) a story, excuse etc that is not true
iii) the ability to think of new and original ways of doing things
Example:
In 1937, the process called Xerography was invented by American law student Chester Carlson. Carlson had invented a copying process based on electrostatic energy. Xerography became commercially available in 1950 by the Xerox Corporation. Xerography comes from the Greek for "dry writing".In class activity:
Creating image of public figure.
To describe any of the 3 person ( i chose Bill gates) by just using a picture,text and some drawings by cutting the pictures from the magazines.
(Picture taken from loot-ninja.com)
This is my work of describing Bill Gate's.Please click on image for a larger view.Mr Radzi told that if we need to spell a word, it it not necessary to use a letter, but we can also use a picture that look alike a letter.Therefore, in spelling bill gate's name i was using a various pictures that looks alike a letter b i l l g a t e s.
He is conquering the world with Microsoft and that is why i use the hand shows that the computer's industry is in his hand and making billions of dollars.
This class was fun and i was enjoying every bits of it :)
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