SPARKY Awards: student videos to promote information sharing)

Attention, student video producers!

April 30, 2008
Welcome to the 2008 SPARKY Awards. Now accepting entries.

STUDENTS: tell us the way it should be. Is open sharing of ideas and information important to you? Form a team or go it alone and make a video to demonstrate the value of information sharing as you see it. Win great prizes!

EDUCATORS: a great assignment to design into your fall curriculum

LIBRARIANS: an excellent way to engage others on campus

See the Winning Videos from the 2007 Sparky Awards

First Place
“Share”
http://blip.tv/file/488550
Written and directed by Habib Yazdi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

First Runner Up
“Pri Vetai: Private Eye”
http://www.blip.tv/file/512440
Directed by Tommy McCauley and Max Silver, Carleton College

Second Runner Up
“An Open Access Manifesto”
http://blip.tv/file/517300
Written and directed by Romel Espinel and Josh Hadro, Pratt Institute