Looking to kick-start a career in science media?  The Naked Scientists have an opening for an intern to join their award-winning team this summer.

The successful applicant, who will also receive a cash award of £1000, will spend a period of 8 – 10 weeks gaining experience in making science radio programmes and podcasts, web development, science writing, video editing and production.

Sign-tube

www.sign-tube.com is a video sharing website that is dedicated to videos that are of interest to the Deaf community.

Promoting the science and engineering of timber to children through online video and games

Dr Dan RIDLEY-ELLIS, Centre for Timber Engineering, Edinburgh Napier University

Summary

Using new media approaches to engage with a hard-to-reach audience. These experimental (and inexpensive!) initiatives are fully detailed in these papers:

A rough guide for making video interviews

Dan Ridley-Ellis, Edinburgh Napier University

I could share my key messages (CONTENT) with my target AUDIENCE using...

Edinburgh Beltane February theme – Video and Podcasting

Our NEW monthly themes are an initiative to encourage you to join in and share your experience on the Beltane website, learn from other expertise within the partnership and together we can build a bank of collective wisdom!

This month - every contributor is in with a chance of winning their choice of a Podcasting Kit OR a HD Flipcam to help get research out on to the web!*
*T&C below

Shoogleit.com: Create engaging interactive animations of your own short videos or pictures

Sometimes images are not good enough, have you ever asked yourself these questions when browsing the Internet:

• Can I see the back of that object, product , dress?
• How do I engage people more effectively with my website?
• How do I explain my work in an easier, more interactive way?
• How can I show my items in more complete manner so my customers will not return them?

Our NEW monthly themes are an initiative to ensure that www.edinburghbeltane.net is THE comprehensive online resource for public engagement.

We hope you will join in and share your experience, learn from other expertise within the partnership and together we can leave a useful legacy of collective wisdom!

Some of you may have seen some familiar faces on the Big Screen in Festival Square recently!

The BBC Big Screen is a unique opportunity to reach a whole spectrum of the public. We want to let people know that the culture change is happening, and that there has never been a better time to engage with the big research ideas developed in their community.

Vidiowiki

Vidiowiki (vidiowiki.com) is a project based in the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics which aims to help academics distribute research in an engaging format without miscommunication and is also used to identify potentially useful cross-overs between disciplines.

Users can navigate a mind map on Vidiowiki to identify links between research, then watch short 'research trailers' on subjects which interest them.