MOTIF

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.

snow.or.kr

Open Knowledge Share Dreams

Sookmyung Network for Open WorldWhere Innovation Begins

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.

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.

Through this ‘information sharing network’, SNOW’s benefits is reaching a good number of people in a wide range of fields, and SNOW brings us positive inspiration and motivation in diverse ways.

Once you accumulate your own ‘snow’ points, this increasing amount would

be your ‘real’ donation as a beneficiary.

This mechanism includes learning, empowering, and envisioning our users

and helps them become donators themselves within SNOW.

Above all, SNOW leads the new ‘SNOW culture movement’

for “Open Knowledge, Share Dreams”.

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 ECO SYSTEM

Women Technology Education

YOUR SNOW POINTS BECOME OUR HOPE

WE SHARE KNOWLEDGE

TOGETHER

WE GAIN SNOW TROUGH OUR

COOPERATIVE LEARNING

HOPE BUILDS NEW SNOW CULTURE

FOR KNOWLEDGE SHARING

Experience Video Lecture and other Interfaces

The most frequent type of SNOW use would be ‘click and view’. It allows watching various video lectures which are on our unique interface. Experience the following useful tools for your self-learning;

“Play and Read”: You can view video lectures without any particular player or Active X. Simultaneously, you can refer to and read Korean and Englishscript for each lecture.

“Talk and Share”: Under play window, you can leave your own questions, ideas and comments about the lecture. Then ‘your posted lecture talk’ will be shared with other users and create brand-new ideas through users’ discussion.

SNOW Wiki System for “Cooperative-Translation”and “Cooperative-Learning”

“New, creative wiki” for SNOW: Amazingly learning-friendly interface; SNOW Wiki. Using SNOW wiki, users can participate in posting lecture materials and transcripts for each lecture.

“Visualize cooperative work”: Upload Korean scripts translated by yourself. After then, many other users can add or keep on your translation working as wiki tasks go on.This creative multi-posting will gradually complete the Korean script on SNOW.

“Browse what friends did; History tool”: Open ‘history’ window for checking the history of transcripts under ongoing cooperation. Participate in this cooperative translation work by adding your own works or revising other’s works.

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Contact uswww.snow.or.kr / e-mail : info@snow.or.kr

Call+82 2 -2077 –7312 / Fax+82 2-2077-7333

Cheongpa-ro 47-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, 140-742, Korea

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 for other users as volunteers. Moreover, users can communicate with others with various interests and backgrounds by managing their own “knowledge club”, a community for various fields. Ultimately, SNOW creation is on your hand.