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SNOW is an online knowledge sharing platform launched by Sookmyung Women's University to help students overcome barriers to accessing educational content online, such as language difficulties and finding relevant materials. The platform provides video lectures with synchronized English and Korean transcripts. It also features a wiki system to allow cooperative translation and learning. SNOW's goals are to guide students to actively access and use global academic information, support professors in incorporating content into their lectures, and improve learning for both students and professors through their experiences on the platform.
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- 1. MOTIF Open Knowledge Share Dreams SNOW started as a way to promote the active sharing of intellectual contents online in knowledge-based contemporary society. As more and more high quality educational content Becomes available online for free at a rapid pace, We searched for the key factors on why Korean students had difficulties making use of this content. First, the barrier of language making them far from accessible. Second, the trouble of finding proper content among the immensely scattered material. Third, the lack of guidelines to find and to utilize the content. Now, we march to overcome these difficulties with sharing knowledge. Sookmyung Network for Open World Where Innovation Begins snow.or.kr
- 2. MISSON SNOW has launched a knowledge-sharing online service with the world-class intellectual and educational contents for broader world and audience We set our goal Helping our users surpass the language barrier Allowing them to study their research interests At their own pace To find with ease the lectures of world class scholars Providing a convenient channel of communication among users. We are trying to Guide SMU’s students to access and utilize global academic information actively, Support SMU’s professors in applying our Content in their lectures dynamically, Improve the ability and expectations of both students and professors from their new experiences. Ultimately, we will be the flagship site in the arena of global learning, By changing the intellectual culture of SMU, Becoming a model to follow in the future for Universities across the world.
- 3. Through this ‘information sharing network’, SNOW’s benefits is reaching a good number of people in a WE SHARE KNOWLEDGE wide range of fields, and SNOW brings us positive inspiration TOGETHER and motivation in diverse ways. Once you accumulate your own ‘snow’ points, this increasing amount would SNOW be your ‘real’ donation as a beneficiary. HOPE ECO SYSTEM WE GAIN SNOW This mechanism includes learning, empowering, and envisioning our users BUILDS NEW SNOW CULTURE FOR KNOWLEDGE SHARING TROUGH OUR and helps them become donators themselves within SNOW. COOPERATIVE LEARNING Above all, SNOW leads the new ‘SNOW culture movement’ YOUR SNOW POINTS BECOME OUR HOPE for “Open Knowledge, Share Dreams”. Women Technology Education SNOW transforms our user’s SNOW points saved by this Eco System into real fundraised money towards IT education support projects. SNOW donated notebook computers to a high school acting IT education volunteership. SNOW enables its users to participate and contribute in the process of making SNOW better, and to share with the society its intellectual resources through Open World. We, SNOW, will create a ‘SNOW knowledge community’ through activities driven by Knowledge Share Volunteers, who will translate information and knowledge in their own major subjects, helping the web-environment to be more accessible. Students as well as non-student users can participate in creating and storing “snow” points which are transmitted to fund this IT education. Through this self-sustaining eco-system, SNOW will pursue the goal of becoming the perfect ‘take-share-open’ learning platform, bridging together the goals of lifelong education and social dedication, transforming and enhancing the social responsibilities of the University.
- 4. 1 2 3 SNOW Wiki System for “Cooperative-Translation” Experience Video Lecture and other Interfaces and “Cooperative-Learning” The most frequent type of SNOW use would be ‘click and view’. 1 “New, creative wiki” for SNOW: Amazingly learning-friendly interface; It allows watching various video lectures which are on our unique interface. SNOW Wiki. Using SNOW wiki, users can participate in posting lecture Experience the following useful tools for your self-learning; materials and transcripts for each lecture. “Play and Read”: You can view video lectures without any particular player 2 “Visualize cooperative work”: Upload Korean scripts translated by yourself. or Active X. Simultaneously, you can refer to and read Korean and English After then, many other users can add or keep on your translation working script for each lecture. as wiki tasks go on. This creative multi-posting will gradually complete the Korean script on “Talk and Share”: Under play window, you can leave your own questions, SNOW. ideas and comments about the lecture. Then ‘your posted lecture talk’ will be shared with other users 3 “Browse what friends did; History tool”: Open ‘history’ window for checking and create brand-new ideas through users’ discussion. the history of transcripts under ongoing cooperation. Participate in this cooperative translation work by adding your own works or revising other’s works.
- 5. VISION SNOW : Open Environment for Creativity and Innovation in Learning. SNOW is an open platform for everyone who wants to share and gain great educational content. Users can share any types of video materials with educational worth in a handy way and provide English/Korean scripts Contact us for other users as volunteers. www.snow.or.kr / e-mail : info@snow.or.kr Moreover, users can communicate with others with various interests Call+82 2 -2077 –7312 / Fax+82 2-2077-7333 and backgrounds by managing their own “knowledge club”, Cheongpa-ro 47-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, 140-742, Korea a community for various fields. Ultimately, SNOW creation is on your hand.