Workshops
In the spirit of sharing and collaboration, we are going to run a track of workshops.
Add workshops you are willing to give on creative topics such as:
* Internet and computing
* Cool stuff
* Hack (white hat only !) google, amazon, ebay or other popular sites
* Travel
* Art: photography, 3D, crafts , cooking, wellbeing,
And add your name to workshops you want to join below:
(Here's how to edit the wiki)
Would someone be interested this year in doing a 30 min/day Hebrew for beginners?
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Dynamic Painting
I really wanted to create paintings with kind of “aliveness” arising from them, and decided to take this opportunity for a little exploratory workshop.
I intend to combine paint and “hanged” fluids on a canvas.
You should bring: small canvases, paintbrushes, oil colors, metals and magnetic add-ons to the “painting”.
I will have a couple of each too some ferromagnetic fluid (- leftovers from geekcon :-) that will hopefully last for a few of us.
Arnon Yaar
arnon@telething.com
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The Art of the Ollie
Skateboarding Is Not a Crime! A "Learn to Ollie" workshop.
Oren Zuckerman and Rafael Mizrahi
If you're a skateboarder (or more relevant to us - was a skateboarder), bring on your boards, shoes, shirts (Vans/Vision/Airwalk ?), and lets celebrate the good old Bones Brigade days (and the first video below if for you).
If you're new to skateboarding, join us and learn the art of the Ollie, the essential skateboarding trick of them all (and the second video below is for you).
Interested? let me know at orenz@media.mit.edu
The original "Bones Brigade Video Show" video, part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9iROyjYnU
How to Ollie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3cJG6torT8&feature=related
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Phone App Development for the rest of us! --> Python for Series 60
Amnon Dekel
Python is a very powerful but also a very easy language to learn. Many big players use it in the back end (Google included). Over the last 2 years a new and powerful version of Python has been developed and released by Nokia that enables anyone to develop apps for Symbian Series 60 Phones in a very easy and quick fashion.
This workshop will show how easy it is to develop a mobile phone app using this technology and will show examples and tutorials for those who want more. I will bring 2 phones to play with, but anyone with a Nokia S60 phone is welcome to come and install the environment and play with it.
Extreme Balloon Art Workshop
Join the extreme Balloon Art workshop! If we would have enough people, we might be able to build a dangerous balloon dinosaur!!!
Anyway, I'm sure you'll enjoy each and every minute making balloons with me. I'm a chienese/Iraninan bald scary balloon mentor, raised in the ancient archipelago of Okinawa.
Either way, these aren't the balloons you all know...
Hope to have your lungs with us
Barak Dagan
Balloon Artist
Develop consumer electronics with BUG and its snapon modules - Saturday at 9:30 in Underground
This cigarette pack size Linux box has GPS, Camera, accelerometer/motinon detector and LCD snapons available now. More coming soon - and a great SDK - all open source incluing virtual bug. This workshop's on the SDK.
Robotic Drum Circle Jam
Join us, and play music (bring your own instrument) together with the automated drums. Write a score for the drums, or just play along, with these ass kick'n machines .
interested ?
Just check out for the sceduale and join us on the spot .
Results are planed to be shown (played live) on the Grand Finale !
video: http://www.roth-tevet.com/video/drums2.MPG
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Make Play Day - create contraptions from junk by Michael Shiloh
A version of the popular workshop presented at MAKE Magazine's Maker Faire
In this workshop you will take apart discarded electrical or electronic devices such as printers, tape recorders, elevator controllers, or automatic coffee makers. You will then construct a new contraption out of the salvaged parts. I can help you make motors turn and lights light up, but it's fine to make a static creation as well. You are encouraged to bring items that can be disassembled and recycled as new creations, made by you.
No prior skill is needed - I have been teaching children and adults how to do this for years.
If you have any computer interfaces for arbitrary electronics (e.g. MAKE Controller Kit, Teleo, Arduino, Phidgets), bring them along and we can control the contraptions via some clever program.
Interested? Please let me know so I can plan:
Please email me at michael at michaelshiloh dot com if you are interested in this workshop.
I need your help now, before camp:
We need discarded electronic and electro-mechanical devices of any sort, and any discarded items like ice cream sticks, bottle caps, pieces of wire or plastic, any scrap or surplus indistrial items you can find. I will be arriving from the USA and have no way to collect or transport these to Kinnernet, so I need help from locals in gathering and bringing these supplies. Please email me at michael at michaelshiloh dot com.
For many more examples, search flickr for "make play day".
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Star Geek Academy
Wish you were able to rock the dance floor? Want to learn the basic 1,2,3 of Salsa? Come and join this group for an hour every day and impress yourself and your geek friends in the extravaganza with your new moves. Easier than you think!
Sign up- just do it! gisiger@unhcr.org
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Drum Circle
If you feel you have the beat, join our Drum Circle on Friday at 17:30 on the beach. You don't have to be a musician, just need a good sense of rhythm... If you have drums bring them with you, but even if you don't, we'll have plenty available. Initiated by Giory Politi. More details on the music page.
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Humanation – creating animation with, by and about people
Love animation? Would like to make your own short animated film?
Join Uri Shinar and Rony Oren at the workshop that was a huge success at the WPP camp.
In this workshop we will create animations using the Stop Motion technique.
With the Micro - Smotion, the human body will be the animated object,
it will become a participant in the workshop and the location of the animation is the environment in which it is made.
Special effects like hovering, quantum leaps or becoming a human cannon are possible using the Micro - Smotion.
When we are done, we will have produced incredibly funny animation clips which can be sent as gif files over the internet.
We will work in teams of 3-4 people, a laptop and a webcam are required.
Real-time Social Networking with Jeff Pulver
Jeff Pulver
I often spends time putting together hundreds of “Personal Social Networking Toolkits” seen in the pictures above.
You might be wondering why anyone would spend what has amounted to hours placing stickers, name badges, post-it notes and pens into ziplock bags preparing for a breakfast they are hosting. Me too. But I do this to prepare for the breakfasts he hosts because he recently discovered a way to make business networking events a truly fun experience.
I am someone who believes that the more virtual we become the more we need to have face to face meetings. So at the breakfasts I have been hosting, I have taken some concepts from social media which we typically experience when we are online and have brought the concepts to real life.
The moment my guests write their “personal tag line” on their name badges, they are ready to take place in a unique face-to-face social networking experience. An experience where guests use the stickers in the “Personal Social Networking Toolkits” to tag other guests. These tags are placed on each person’s “personal tag cloud.” And where guests take the supplied mini post-it notes to "write" on the walls of each of our guests.
Join me in a workshop about Real-time Social Networking where we will learn about moving from the virtual world to the real.
Here is an example of what some time happens in one of my events:
My Robot is a real Animal !
Shai Abramson, Roostam Tiger (we are looking for an art director for this workshop !)
A robotic lawnmower turned into an animal wondering in the garden.
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After :
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Reflections of 2007: Please add your 2008 stuff above
[Would someone be interested in doing a 30 min/day Hebrew for beginners - Gary Shainberg]
i can do it. but it will be a bit radical hebrew (rafram)
Martial Arts in theory practice and bits
Ola Ahlvarsson
An odysee in how Karate, Kung Fu, Thaiboxing, Tae Kwon Do, Kick boxing, Tekken 2 and other attempts to kick punch and wrestle are facinating people.
How to grow your company international?
Ola Ahlvarsson:
I want to sit down with those of you who have good, bad and ugly experience of going international and compare notes, draw conclusions and hopefully become wiser.
The Future of TV
Jeff Pulver:
We will take a look at the effects of the broadband internet on the future of TV, Film and Broadcasting. Difference between IPTV and TV over IP. Defining Unisodes and Episodes. Is RSS the future for TV Distribution? Who is producing for 320x240, for the 2" iPod and for the ten foot IPTV experience? Who happens when the traditional broadcasters wake up and try to apply legacy regulation to prevent Internet TV from happening? Does Long Tail TV have a future? How do we expect consumers to discover this long tail content? Why are we seeing an explosion of Long Tail Internet TV now? How do you join the Internet TV revolution?
Creating avant-garde artistic, silent mobile video
Gil Rimon:
Try to formulate a cinematic, artistic language for video on cellular cameras. Following the 90s "Dogma" movies, to the contemporary Avant-garde Dugma micro-movies. Some applicable rules: One session movies with only "pause" and "record" editing. Using hyper-realistic angles, a lot of close-ups and no soundtrack, for instance. I will upload a demo soon.
Fear Greed & Disruption - How to disrupt an industry and make $100 million on the way
Jeff Pulver
A look back at the past 10 years of the evolution of the IP Communications Industry. During the discussion I will be sharing some of the lessons learned which can be applied by others to disrupt other industry sectors.
Generating ideas upside-down
Not sure whether this is a discussion or a workshop, so putting it in both sections. This is kind of a pilot for an unconventional type of creative process – the reverted one. We will try to inhale a meaning into a randomly generated idea (much like Dilbert's Mission Statement Generator http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/games/career/bin/ms.cgi). I will collect some hot buzzwords (nouns, adverbs, adjectives) from different areas and we will try to interpret some ideas randomly generated in real-time from these buzzwords. Half fun - half brainstorm – be there!
By: Roostam Tiger
Participants:
Lunch & Learn @ our Hummus 1.0 workshop;
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For years the Israeli Innovation phenomena has remained an unexplained mystery
for those outside of the country. We feel it is time to unfold the mystery and share with you
that Hummus is the source of the Israeli Genius.
Hummus is the secret weapon used by the Israeli High Tech industry for years to fuel
the brain cells of its' talents. Yet knowing the secret is not enough,
most important is how to apply this knowledge: it all about how to eat it!
At our Hummus 1.0 work shop - we will share with you (step by step tutorial) how to eat
this mysterious brain food as part of a nutritious and healthy lunch.
Date: Friday 16.3
Time: Noon
Location: Front balcony of the Ohalo dinning room
Who should attend: Kinnernet participants from abroad
Instructors: Gilli & Yariv
Hints:
1. It is NOT a DIP.
2. It is All in the wrist.
And... it's much more then anyone thought before
Notes:
1. A Hummus 2.0 advanced workshop might (or might not) be offered at Midnight
focusing on blind Hummus tasting. (Might delayed for Kinnernet 2008 because of delay in the final spec of Hummus 2.0)
Disclaimer:
Consumption of over 1/2 KG of Hummus a day may cause a severe appearance
change over time (mainly in the waste line area).
TechSpec:
Here is the complete Tech spec of Hummus (This list seems to be very professional but it lacks the real important info....)
Great Hummus explorrers:
A task to explore the best Hummus,
To those of you who stay in Israel a bit longer:
prefered Hummus places in Tel-Aviv (And i don't agree with the 1st one they choosed but the 2nd one is my favorit and it's 4 minutes walk from my office)
Hummus in Jaffa (The arbic part of Tel-Aviv and where i live (Yariv))
Hummus : Abu Adham
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(Please re-consider. Less Participants=more Hummus for the orgenizers. On the other hand you'll not understand the Israeli innovation phenomena so.......) |
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The Social Web
You're welcome to add topics here. This will be an open discussion with different leads, about the different
and practical aspects of social interactions and user generated content on the web
Derivative Viral Growth – Yael Givon
The pros and cons of riding someone else's tide wave or how can you enjoy the tide of Skype, YouTube Flickr etc.
PGUC - Passively Generated User Content - Davidi Silberstein
"wisdom of crowds" vs. user generated content
Flickr as a social tool – Yael Givon
How online pictures change the offline social scene
Social shopping: the future of e-commerce or a fad? - Alon Cohen
From Pareto to the Long Tail and back – Yaniv Golan
The power of aggregation – from small building blocks to the Eifel Tower
The Arab world is making its move – Idan Feigenbaum
Latest trends in the Arab online world
TalkBack – history, present and future – Amit Jurgenson
How to get your house filled with people by writing three words
Information consumption and people - Maya Lotan
Who we are vs. who we want to be vs.who they are vs. what we could do together
The Great Origami Workshop
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After the last year success of the Great Origami Workshop we are committed to continue with the tradition, and bring this exciting workshop once again to Kinnernet.
This year we will create only with papers:
Real Dragons!
Frogs!
Boats and Yachts!
One Humus!
Samurai!
Flowers!
And many more….
Wanted!!
Top models for the new paper collection.
Save your place in the workshop today!! (the number of papers is limited).
For RSRV please contact Arnon
Building a Tensegrity structure
Tom Sofer
Similar to Origami , These structures have been first used by Buckminster Fuller and others in the 1950's to create a lightweight , stable structure.
we will attempt to recreate these structures based on instructions I have found on MAKE magazine. The struts used will be broomsticks, so we should have a nice big installation. since my experience with these is limited to models , this will be a workshop for me too , and hopefully be left on the lawn to be played with throughout kinnernet.
anyone interested in helping should bring wooden broomsticks or anything similar , in multiples of 3 , and any 'stretchy' , flexible rope/cord you can obtain.
Fire Eating for Absolute Beginners
Itsik Orr
No previous knowledge is required, only guts (heh heh). Actually you don't realy digest the fire so you don't need guts. Just balls. Unless you're female. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that the only thing between being your old boring self and being a fire eater is a psychological barrier. You're welcome to come and overcome.
Cyclic breathing for Absolute Beginners
Itsik Orr
Ever wanted to play a didgeridoo? Or better yet - make an endless farting sound with your lips (go on, admit it, you always craved it)? The dij is the easiest musical melodic instrument I know - once you get the hang of cyclic breathing it's almost as easy as singing. Cyclic breathing can also induce a state of meditative high, almost, but not completely unlike hyper-ventilation. In other words - It's fun, not too hard, and requires no previous knowledge.
The Mathematics of Juggling
Itsik Orr
Warning: Super ultra geeky workshop!
The workshop will start with a brief introduction to juggling. Knowing how to toss 3 balls (and to catch them of course) is not a pre-requisite, but note that Segev and Ofek will be conducting a "how to juggle" workshop prior to this one, and it's recommended that you take it if you're interested in redundant, frustrating and useless activities of this kind. The core of the workshop however will deal not with juggling itself but rather with the mathematics governing it, namely the Siteswap System and how useful it has been since its invention (by three separate people independently, around 1985) for communicating juggling patterns, inventing new ones, and writing realistic simulators for juggling. I'll try to do as little lecturing and as much demonstrating as possible, to minimize the percentage of participants falling asleep before we're over.
Build Your Own Atlas Gloves
by Mushon | language: hand-gestures | url: www.atlasGloves.org
Tags: DIY, hack, interface, controller, Google Earth, Processing, cheap
You are only 10 minutes and $8 (=2 keychain LEDs 2 pingpong balls) away from having your own 'Minority Report'-ish hand-gesture controller (for Google Earth and other apps)
Participants:
Augmented Reality vs. Real Reality
Tal Muskal, (Jan Wieghardt)
In a world where wireless internet connection everywhere, head mounted displays, and visual recognition is not sci-fi anymore, Some very cool applications may be in reach.
In this workshop i am going to introduce Mixed/Augmeneted Reality, a technology which has been around for several years, and i think will become more and more practical over the next few years.
We are going to play with one Augmented Reality Toolkit, and discuss some interesting applications (mainly, applications that you are going to suggest...)
and we will also talk about what the Semantic Web has to offer in this field.
In a second step we will be looking at some applications (such as a ar-based navigationsystems - in simulation) that will be part of consumer products in the near future. We will discuss how to realize the necessary context awareness for such systems and how to sidestep current blocking points.
see you there...
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Superstitious? Innovative?
Either way, you'd want to join this!
Help us create a better world, by inventing gadgets that help the superstitious:
- avoid misfortune
- keep themselves and their family safe from the evil eye
- bring luck to everything they do
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Mountain Biking in Israel: the People, the Places, the Passion
Shimon Schocken
After biking in Turkey, Bulgaria, France, Greece, New England, Australia, Costa Rica and Equador, I am now convinced that Israel is the #1 place in the world for mountain biking. Come see why, and learn how to meet beautiful and powerful women in the trails. By Shimon Schocken, author of the first blog-based book published in Israel.
Back To The Future: Technology in Science Fiction Movies
Ofer Gadish and Gil Shai
What futuristic technologies that were science fiction in the 80s, are feasible today, and how?
If you are intrigued with this question, and want to help answering it, join this workshop.
In order to foster a productive discussion, we reviewed 5 technology-oriented, popular and influential Sci-Fi movies made in the 80s, and classified the innovative technologies by feasibility. We intend to present our analysis results to the audience and trigger a discussion about how to implement those Sci-Fi devices today!
Who sold the Internet and why do weirdos rule?
Alon Cohen
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The Internet, Virginity, a wedding dress and other weird stuff sold at online auctions
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The weirdos economy
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eBay hacks: How to get the best deals and not get ripped, hacks for sellers and the eBay API (web services)
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e-commerce at 2010, or: what would you do if you were running eBay, Amazon or Walmart?
Feel free to add more stuff here
Hacking-the old fashion
Eli Shraga
Locked yourself outside of your house? locked your key inside your car? this is the workshop for you! we will lern and demonstrate the principles of padlocks. we will dismantle and analize some kind of padlocks and will lern many ways of cracking them. You may also bring your own padlocks and we will (hopefully) cracke them.
A Very Slow Liquid Indeed
Melting glass is exciting! One moment you're holding a rod of solid stuff, and the next one (well, a torch is involved) you have this honey-like liquid to play with! It's simply magic!
In this workshop we will learn the basics to understanding glass and safe lampworking.
Phone App Development for the rest of us! --> Python for Series 60
Python is a very powerful but also a very easy language to learn. Many big players use it in the back end (Google included). Over the last 2 years a new and powerful version of Python has been developed and released by Nokia that enables anyone to develop apps for Symbian Series 60 Phones in a very easy and quick fashion.
This workshop will show how easy it is to develop a mobile phone app using this technology and will show examples and tutorials for those who want more. I will bring 2 phones to play with, but anyone with a Nokia S60 phone is welcome to come and install the environment and play with it.
Creative Science 2
Following last year, several more fun DIY toys, from day to day materials, which demonstrate physics principles (taken from a course for kids I have developed)
Shai Abramson
Voice Osciloscope The Magic Tube TV pendulum
Say: NO MORE to the domination of the eye in our interactions with technology.
A KINNERNET 2007 WORKSHOP proudly offered to you by Michal Rinott
Begins: THE AGE OF THE EAR. The age of interactive sound.
This workshop will be divided into two parts:
1/ An expo of the funkiest, coolest, smartest interactive devices that use sound in innovative ways.
A blender you shout at, an audio shaker, finger puppets that howl, things that tap on pizza boxes & more.
2/ How to actually make this stuff (or at least prototype it)
A hands-on intro to MAX / MSP - an exciting environment for creating sound interactions quite easily.
You will make your own personal sound interaction! We will hook up some sensors and such so you can get
input form the real world and use it as input to your interaction.
Hope to see you there, Michal.
Quick Guide To Microsoft Open Source Web Platform
By Shahar Nechmad.
Yes. I know. It's really not cool to develop on the Microsoft platform. Yes. I should be ashamed of myself even mentioning the possibility of using Microsoft technologies. But for those of you, who are willing to listen, I will try and show you how much change Microsoft has gone through in recent years, and why you should take a good look at the new offering such as the new Ajax Platform and ASP.NET.
How to approach and sell your company to Yahoo/Google/Microsoft
Moderator: Gil Ben-Artzy (Yahoo Corp Dev)
Panel members: Mike Marquez (CBS, ex-Yahoo Corp Dev), Nir Bar-Lev (Google Mobile PM), Anil Hansjee (Google Corp Dev), Barak Shein (Microsoft)
Discussion points:
o Process of interacting with corporates
o What the corporates are looking for (technology, talent, etc) current areas of interest
o Thoughts on Israeli start-ups and their specific challenges
o Common mistakes & success stories
The new fundraising ecosystem
Moderator: Simon Levene (Accel)
Panel members: Jason Harinstein (Google Corp Dev) entrepreneur (tbd) VC (tbd)
Discussion points:
o The entrepreneur’s perspective: pros & cons of fund raising vs. selling out earlier
o How VCs and corporates can collaborate or co-exist/benefit from each
Who is the WWW
In the last few days i wondered who is the Web. No. It's not a typo. It's the big question. The Web replaced God but there is something there. Right now i search for the ultimate tool to find the thing inside the Web.
So bring your laptops and i'll bring the software and we'll look into the WWW via the......
by: Yariv Nachshon
Participants: ________________
Paper Hot Air Balloons Workshop!!!!!
By: Yuval Kedem
In around one hour you can build your own hot air balloon to fly that very evening (weather permitting...)
Made entirely of simple materials you will get in the workshop.
claymation characters workshop!
Join animation leader Uri Shinar, Claymation animator Rony Oren for what promises to be a lot of fun.
Everybody can do it: participants will have a chance to really get their hands on the plastalina (molding clay) and learn how to create a frog, a Penguin and a mexican in an easy step-by-step way. (1 1/2 hours)
The workshop will be guided by:
Uri Shinar served as CEO and President of Keshet Broadcasting (Israel) for 10 years until 2005. During that period he also helped create the original comedy channel for cable as well as media companies such as Keshet Interactive and Keshet Formats. Since 1979, Mr. Shinar has worked as an executive producer in an independent production company that has developed among other projects globally distributed animation. Currently Uri Shinar is the founder and CEO of Aniboom.com
Rony Oren has been producing animation since 1975. Since 1978, he has run his own independent studio, which has produced over 500 short animation films. He has won awards and achievement-medals in festivals and advertising competitions. His television shows for children have been broadcast in over 80 countries and have been bought by the Disney Channel, ABC, PBS in the United States, BBC and Channel 4 in Great Britain, and other networks around the world. He has also illustrated 25 children's books. Since 2000 Rony Oren has been head of the Animation Unit at Bezalel Art and Design Academy in Jerusalem, as well as serving as a professor. His specialty is stop-motion.
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Martial Arts and the Zen of Startups
This is going to be a talk about the inspiration for entrepreneurs from martial arts. We will touch or not, Karate, Judo, Sumo, Kyudo and Tai Chi. Martial arts are derived from spiritual sources within Zen culture and are very relevant to the day to day work of creation in startup and entrepreneurship activity.
Those who expect very little from this talk – will not be disappointed :-) … those who expect nothing…
By Ron Yachini
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Paint With Light
Barak Berkowitz
Learn how to paint with light. Bring your DSLR or compact digital and flashlight (torch).
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