http://ways.org/en/topics/online_video The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://ways.org/en/blogs/2008/aug/30/educational_video_contest <p>Everybody is invited to submit educational videos to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/group/watchknow">WatchKnow</a>, an educational online platform due to be launched September 20 (preview <a href="http://www.watchknow.org/">here</a>) which strives to collect videos, lectures and animations suitable for kindergartens, primary and secondary education, much like <a href="http://www.world-lecture-project.org">WAYS partner wlp, the world lecture project</a> does it for university-level education. Materials correctly submitted to WatchKnow until September 26 will be eligible for a prize draw.</p> <p>It does not matter whether you created the video yourself or just found it on the web, but you should be able to provide the data relevant for copyright, and give an explanation why that video is particularly suited for educating children or teenagers. Watchknow is headed by Larry Sanger who also founded <a href="http://www.citizendium.org">Citizendium</a>, an educational <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a> offspring directed at university students, researchers and adult education.</p> http://ways.org/en/blogs/2008/aug/30/educational_video_contest#comments citizendium educational video eLearning online learning online video Open Education open learning Prize watchknow WAYS partners wlp world lecture project http://ways.org/en/crss/node/3150 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:19:19 -0400 daniel 3150 at http://ways.org http://ways.org/en/2008/jun/16/%5Bhour%5D%5Bmin%5D/%5Buser%5D/science_tv_ways <p>WAYS has long been offering tools for social interaction between young scientists - every registered user can blog, announce science events like conferences, or comment on what others have written. Now we have started a collaboration with <a href="http://www.wisskomm.de/">the German science news channel Wisskomm</a>, which will bring you science news in video format on a weekly basis. For the moment, the service is in German only, but an English version is being planned. To get an idea on how this will look like, take a look below:</p> <p><embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AwGHqw4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="360" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></p> http://ways.org/en/2008/jun/16/%5Bhour%5D%5Bmin%5D/%5Buser%5D/science_tv_ways#comments online video open science science blog science blogging science communication science news science tv science video TV video Wisskomm http://ways.org/en/crss/node/1109 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:58:03 -0400 daniel 1109 at http://ways.org