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Karen Tal: Thriving On Turmoil

natalie — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:34:03 +0000

In this talk School Principal Karen Tal shares how to create an educational miracle – academic success in the most unlikely school. Watch as she takes us on a virtual tour of the Bialik-Rogozine School, with 800 students from 48 different nations, many refugees without legal status, and explains how to navigate through the turbulent waters of social and political unrest to steer the school towards remarkable success.

5 Days To Go…Ask Questions

natalie — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:40:41 +0000

Have a question for TEDxTelAviv Speakers?
With just 5 days to go … now you can easily post your TEDxTelAviv questions here in the comments or via twitter.

To ask your questions via twitter:
Add @TEDxTelAviv #Q +Initials of speaker, venue (optional), + your question

e.g @TEDxTelAviv #Q BG What is TED going to be like in 10 years from now?

Looking forward to your questions!

7 Days To Go…TEDxTelAviv Simulcast Events Map

natalie — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:35:17 +0000

We’re sorry that Nalaga’at is full BUT don’t worry…

Attend TEDxTelAviv live via one of the many simulcast events happening around Israel.

Find a event near you

Find detailed directions via the google map

You can also watch live via iphone, ipad and ipod touch – download our app here

10 Days To Go…Sylvia Earle’s Wish To Protect Our Oceans

natalie — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:27:26 +0000

With 10 days to go to TEDxTelAviv and a volcano erupting off the coast of Iceland, it seemed to be timely to share TED Prize winner Slyvia Earle’s wish to protect our oceans – because “health to the ocean means health to us”.

11 Days To Go…TEDxTelAviv 2010 Program & Speakers List

natalie — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:17:46 +0000

11 days to go to TEDxTelAviv 2010…browse below for a taste of what’s to come!

TEDxTelAviv 2010 Program & Speakers list

Happy to Announce our Partnership with Better Place

maya — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:17:13 +0000

TEDxTelAviv attendees at Nalaga’at will get to go on a special ’switching’ experience during breaks and take the Better Place electric vehicle on a test drive through the streets of Jaffa. All this and Better, on April 26th…

Natalie Merchant Sings A Poem To Life

natalie — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:35:55 +0000

And now, some music.
Here, Natalie Merchant sings a near-forgotten 19th-century poem to life:

How To Start A Movement In 3 Minutes

natalie — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:12:57 +0000

Watch Derek Sivers & learn:

Especially like the focus on nuturing your followers!
And of course, Happy holidays!!

Shekhar Kapur: How To Unleash Your Inner Storyteller

natalie — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:22:52 +0000

“We are the stories we tell ourselves”
“Where does inspiration spring from”

Watch as Hollywood/Bollywood director, filmmaker and storyteller, Shekhar Kapur, shares his story at TEDIndia:

LXD: The Next Evolution of Dance

natalie — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:15:16 +0000

“No special effects. No wires. Real people. Real powers.”
“Dance has never had a better friend than technology…”
- John Chu

Start this week with a buzz with this TED ‘talk’ on the LXD: The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, filmmaker John Chu…and the next evolution of dance.

TEDxTelAviv 26.4.10 – Attend A Simulcast Event

natalie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:59:34 +0000

TEDxTelAviv ‘Thriving on Turmoil’ is a one-day Spring celebration of imagination and inspiration combining local zest with the TED tradition of ideas worth spreading.

Due to overwhelming response, registration for the main event in Tel Aviv is now closed. But you can still be a part of the day!

We invite you to join us at one of the TEDxTelAviv simulcast events.
Attendees of official simulcast events will be invited to join TEDxTelAviv pre and post conference events, including the great after party at Nalaga’at and enjoy priority registration to TEDxTelAviv 2011.

Learn more and register here >>

Keep updated with TEDxTelAviv by signing up for updates on the right.

Bill Gates’ Vision for Zero Emissions

natalie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:32:12 +0000

Arguably one of the most important talks from TED2010, watch as Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future: Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.

You can also read Bill’s reflections on the experience of talking at TED here

TEDxTelAviv In Globes Today

natalie — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:20:22 +0000

If you want to read more about TED and TEDxTelAviv (in hebrew) you can read it in today’s Globes article online. You can also see the real thing (ie the non-digital version), on our flickr page.

Click here to apply to TEDxTelAviv 2010
Please note: Registration to TEDxTelAviv 2010 closes on February 20th.

TED at 25: A Brief History

natalie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:00:20 +0000

Last year, I.D. Magazine created a brief history and timeline of TED.
Whether you’re familiar with TED or not, it’s a great way to explore just some of how the TED conference changed the face of invention:

Mid-1990s: The dot-com bubble balloons; venture-capital cash and lucrative stock options flow like cheap champagne.
1994: Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, a regular TED fixture, founds Amazon.com.
1995: Journalist Louis Rossetto and publishing partner Jane Metcalfe receive seed money to launch their European publication, The Electric Word, in the U.S. under the new name of Wired.
1999: Chris Anderson launches Business 2.0; he credits the title to a conversation he had in a bathroom during a TED conference
2004: Feminist writer and activist Eve Ensler talks vaginas and describes her unhappy childhood
2005: Fourteen-year-old composer Jennifer Lin brings the TED audience to tears with a piano performance that redefines the meaning of “child prodigy.”
2006: Jeff Han demonstrates a multi-touch interface that lets you manipulate objects onscreen with your hands, an invention that foreshadows the iPhone
2008: TEDTalks receives its 50 millionth video view in June.
…

2010: TEDxTelAviv takes place, April 26. You can apply here.

Read the full article from I.D. Magazine

Best of The Web: Taylor Mali on What Teachers Make

natalie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:05:22 +0000

One of our favourite TEDtalks here is on School Kills Creativity.

In a similar spirit, watch this slam poetry “talk”, by Taylor Mali on “What Teachers Make”:

This talk is part of the new TED collection “Best of the Web”.

You can submit your own suggestions by emailing contact@ted.com with “Best of the Web suggestion” in the subject line, and a link to where the talk can be seen.

Alain de Botton: A Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success

natalie — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:42:06 +0000

In a career mini-crisis? In need of instant pick-me-up? Or just want to view a new way to look at work?

Watch one of our favorites from TEDGlobal 2009: Alain de Botton builds a witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.

TEDxTelAviv Press Release

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:39:26 +0000

TEDxTelAviv 2010: Registration Close Feb 20th

maya — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:14:20 +0000

TEDxTelAviv ‘Thriving on Turmoil’
– a one-day Spring celebration of imagination and inspiration which will take place at Nalaga’at Center in Tel Aviv on April 26, 2010.

The event will feature profound thinking, jaw dropping demonstrations and sprinkles of entertainment, combining local zest with the TED tradition of ideas worth spreading. Register Now >>
***Please Note: Applications Close This Week, February 20th

TEDxTelAviv will also be streamed live on the web for free. Groups of TED fans have already started to form to watch the stream together. Keep updated with TEDxTelAviv and these events via our blog RSS and twitter, on Facebook or sign up for updates on the right.

The TEDxTelAviv Team

P.S. Spread the word about TEDxTelAviv by posting this:
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Dance & Tales To Change The World: Mallika Sarabhai

natalie — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:06:57 +0000

It’s common for TED to be about stories, but in this TEDIndia talk, Mallikka starts with a traditional tale & dance to tell a seemingly harmless story to open our eyes to who gets justice…And shows us how art is the language for changing the world.

Powerful and moving!

I invite you to watch and listen for yourself:

Elizabeth Gilbert On Nurturing Your Genius

natalie — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:09:36 +0000

“What is it specifically about creative ventures that seems to make us really nervous about each others mental health in the way that other careers kinda don’t…”

Writer Elizabeth Gilbert explores why is it that creativity and suffering must be linked? What is another way of exploring genius and nurturing our creativity? Like her book Eat, Love, Pray, this is a funny, personal and satisfying talk: