What is “ENRA”? “ENRA” is a series of visual dance performances from Japan. The members of ENRA are experts in activities such as martial arts, gymnastics, ballet, animation dance, juggling and street dance.. Basically, a guy by the name of Nobuyuki Hanabusa, the team supervisor, design an animation based on the choreography from the members which together create an amazing performance. OCTOBER 19, 2015 Today I went to see the members of ENRA perform at the Alys Robinson Stephens Center here in Birmingham. If you didn’t know, #BushHillsAcademy was in the building. This was my first time ever hearing about ENRA. After seeing that breathtaking performance I’m very interested in learning more about what goes on behind the scenes. I loved the way the performers were able to keep up with all the animations. It was pretty amazing and jaw-dropping. I told many friends and they were also very interested in ERNA.
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This weekend, over 100 students tuned in from the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center thanks to TEDxBirmingham! The TEDxBirmingham team of organizers, volunteers, and Educator Fellows made this a truly memorable event. In addition to all the volunteers who were there, local organizations were set up in the lobby to engage students in fun activities. Ed Fellow Javacia Bowser from See Jane Write & ASFA, and her husband Edward Bowser from Al.com helped students learn how to cover a TED-Ed event. Jan Mattingly, from Dynamic Education Adventures brought her pet snake. Red Mountain Park conducted interviews with students. Trent Knighton, yo-yo artist wowed students with his unique talent. And the list goes on of folks to thank for making the event so awesome.
Students from Birmingham City Schools, particularly a great turnout from Ramsay High (thank you Jessica Stephenson!) were in attendance. This was a unique opportunity for students from all over the city to gather and learn together. Most exciting was that students got to tune in to Sarah Parcak, local Egyptologist and Professor of Archaeology at University of Alabama-Birmingham. Sarah was the recent winner of the TEDPrize and will be speaking at TED 2016 where she will share her wish and her plans for the $1 million she was awarded to carry out her vision. Last year, some of our GATE students wrote about Dr. Parcak in their archaeology units! Last week's TED-Ed Tuesday was dedicated to a lesson about Sarah and her work. Check it out Here. For the first TEDxYouth@Birmingham event it was a great time. We can't wait for all of the videos from TEDYouth to get published so we can share those with the world and for those who didn't have a chance to tune in. My personal favorite, a ten-year-old girl named Ishita Katyal from India. She challenges us to think about asking students what they want to be when they grow up, because what if they get started on what they want to be... right now? I hope students who attended TEDYouth and TEDxYouth@Birmingham are excited to get started living their dreams today. Stone bird bath Open to the public Understanding of recycling The museum is built over a pool Has a cafeteria on campus Ecoscape Resourceful Nature Educational Nine planets and one comet Voluptuous atmosphere Interaction Rings made from wire Observed the garden kNowledgeable tour guide Mosaic on the ground Excellent food New things out the old Tours are appropriate for ages 4 and up Arts and crafts activity Located at Birmingham Southern College Creative exhibits Eradicate using so much water Nutrients Tall treehouse Educates you about trash Rode on a slide that sounds like a toilet Last year some students in Mrs. Waine's class wrote papers during their Archaeology unit about Dr. Sarah Parcak. I brought the papers to Dr. Parcak and she signed them- in hieroglyphics! This week, TED announced that Dr. Parcak is the winner of the TED Prize, a $1 million grant that gives Dr. Parcak a global stage for her work. Dr. Parcak is a space archaeologist, meaning she uses satellite imagery to view ancient civilizations from space. She is often called a modern day Indiana Jones. She is an Egyptologist, but also does work all over the world. And guess what? She works right here at the University of Alabama-Birmingham as a professor of archaeology. She will be speaking at TED Youth in New York City while over 100 students in Birmingham tune in from the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center where TEDxYouth@Birmingham will be held. In honor of Dr. Parcak's recent accomplishment, I've put together this TED-Ed Lesson so that students in Birmingham and beyond can learn more about Dr. Parcak and her work. I hope that all the kids out there in Birmingham City Schools who are interested in science & archaeology take a glance at this lesson and some time to learn more about this exciting field of work! Do you have an iPhone or iPod? Be amazed by this TED Talk by Marco Tempest "The Magic of Truth and Lies (and iPods). Gone are the rabbits and the doves when we have the power of a personal device! "So the type of magic I like, and I'm a magician, is magic that uses technology to create illusions. So I would like to show you something I've been working on. It's an application that I think will be useful for artists -- multimedia artists in particular. It synchronizes videos across multiple screens of mobile devices. I borrowed these three iPods from people here in the audience to show you what I mean.And I'm going to use them to tell you a little bit about my favorite subject: deception." -Marco Tempest Watch as Tempest creates magic with three iPods at TEDGlobal 2011-- Just think of what he could do with an iPhone 6! |
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