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  1. To insert your company logo on this slide • From the Insert Menu • Select “Picture” • Locate your logo file • Click OK • To resize the logo • Click anywhere inside the logo. The boxes that appear outside the logo are known as “resize handles.” • Use these to resize the object. • If you hold down the shift key before using the resize handles, you will maintain the proportions of the object you wish to resize. www.vega.org.uk

  2. This attitude is the most serious problem in educating the young to appreciate and understand science and technology. Science is the the dominant culture of the 20th century and will dominate the 21st even more. To survive we shall need all those in positions of responsibility to understand the way that science works, something of its methods its achievements and why in some cases of importance to society answers may take a long time. BSE – which is a long term inductance disease - is one such case; Politicians needed to take decisions long before scientific research could yield reliable results.

  3. The First Revolution in Education The printing press enabled anyone - not just monks - to create books and read something other than the bible Thus education was democratised

  4. The Internet is set to bring about the Second Educational Revolution

  5. Anyone can make programmes • Anyone can broadcast • The media no longer control broadcasting • At last broadcasting is an educational medium • The Internet has democratised broadcasting

  6. Vega Aim To develop Internet and TV platformsfor scientists and engineers to communicate directly

  7. There are several key points: • Flexible • Experimental/developmental • Synergistic • Networking • Enabling • Democratising • Growing organism

  8. There are 3 crucial concepts to be born in mind: The web is extremely flexible facilitating the broadcast of material – of all kinds (written, audio, moving images –wami ) Thus encouraging the creation of “ wami programmes” by individuals who are prepared to experiment and develop new ways in which the medium might be used for communication-education purposes Enabling individuals and groups of individuals to create “programmes” data bases accessed on demand in a synergistically growing organism

  9. Japan The Japanese Government, through the JST (Japanese Science and Technology Agency), inaugurated a pilot Science Channel in September 1998 Six hours of Science Programmes Saturday 10am - 4pm Repeated Sunday 10am - 4pm From 2001 the Channel will broadcast every day VEGA is working tocreate a similar initiative in the UK

  10. GM Foods Part 2 Vega has pioneered a new concept in scientific debate on TV All participants should actually understand the subject!

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  12. GM Foods – Safe?Lord Jenkin Chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology:“I watched with complete fascination. It was by far the best discussion of the issues that I have seen or heard”

  13. Financial Times 16th August 2000“The most enthralling programme I saw on television last week – in fact I have seen nothing so fascinating for months – was called The Next Big Thing: Nanotechnology”Vega OU co-production for BBC2

  14. Vega aims to encourage the Government to put high speed internet access into every school

  15. Strands • Science Discussions (The Next Big Thing) • Scientific Lectures • The Young Scientist’s Day (Snapshots) • The Science Archive • Reflections on Science Workshops • Science workshops for very young children

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  17. To insert your company logo on this slide • From the Insert Menu • Select “Picture” • Locate your logo file • Click OK • To resize the logo • Click anywhere inside the logo. The boxes that appear outside the logo are known as “resize handles.” • Use these to resize the object. • If you hold down the shift key before using the resize handles, you will maintain the proportions of the object you wish to resize. The Vega Science Trust www.vega.org.uk vega@sussex.ac.uk 44 1273 678726

  18. TheScienceNightNight Science Night 3 hours every Thursday night - BBC2/OU 00.30 - 3.30 (after midnight!) Audience 100,000 – 300,000 VEGA/OU co-productions

  19. The Vega Team

  20. Gill Watson Manager

  21. Chris Ewels WebWiz

  22. Jon Hare Vega’s scientist in the Rough

  23. The Vega Team

  24. Public • Appreciation and • Understanding of • Science and • Engineering

  25. Science consists of three facets • The store of knowledge • The application of knowledge • Methods of discovery

  26. www.vega.org.uk Click on <Now showing> Need DSL or T1 connection • To insert your company logo on this slide • From the Insert Menu • Select “Picture” • Locate your logo file • Click OK • To resize the logo • Click anywhere inside the logo. The boxes that appear outside the logo are known as “resize handles.” • Use these to resize the object. • If you hold down the shift key before using the resize handles, you will maintain the proportions of the object you wish to resize.

  27. I Make and broadcast SET programmes Vega has made 45 and broadcast 35 on BBC2  IIInaugurate a SET Night on TV OPEN SCIENCE has now started IIIStart a channel devoted to SET “TV-SET” IV Catalyse the development of a SET Web “IN-SET”

  28. The Science Night Programme Strands The Next Big Thing (Science Forum) Snapshots The Revolutionaries of Science

  29. Snapshots A Vega initiative with ScreenhouseProductions* for • “Open Science” on BBC2* • Internet Educational Broadcasting • and BBC OnLine “Local Heroes” is a Sreenhouse Production *10 x 15’ TV programmes

  30. Create new science programmes Sciencelink database Streaming eScience programmes TV broadcast Archive GM Food debate 45 programmes broadcast on BBC2 45 Archival programmes Database now has 20 links eg Chem Heritage etc 5 New Formats Lectures Workshops Discussions Interviews

  31. New programme initiatives Sciencelink database Streaming eScience programmes TV broadcast Archive GM Food debate 45 programmes broadcast on BBC2 45 Archival programmes Database now has 20 links eg Chem Heritage etc 5 New Formats Lectures Workshops Discussions Interviews

  32. New Science initiatives Sciencelink database Streaming eScience TV Science broadcast Science Archive Lectures Workshops Discussions Interviews Snapshots 20 links Chem Heritage GM Food debate The Nexr Big Thing BBC2/OU Science Night 45 programmes

  33. VEGA New science programmes Sciencelink database Streaming eScience TV broadcasting Archive creation Build up many more links, international Lectures Workshops Discussions Interviews ScinceLight All Vega programmes to be made accessible on line Continue to catalyse terrestrial TV initiatves 4Build up a major Vega archive

  34. VEGA Archive programmes Streaming eScience Sciencelink database New science programmes TV broadcasting Lectures - 12 RI, 2 RS 1 Workshop 4 Master-classes 9 Reflections 11 (10) Discussions 4 Interviews 10 snapshots 3 Science Archive GM Debate Vega excerpts 20 links, 10 UK 10 international 35 direct 2 indirect 40 programmes

  35. VEGA Archive programmes Streaming eScience Sciencelink database New science programmes TV broadcasting Lectures - 12 RI, 2 RS 1 Workshop 4 Master-classes 9 Reflections 11 (10) Discussions 4 Interviews 10 snapshots 3 Science Archive GM Debate Vega excerpts 20 links, 10 UK 10 international 35 direct 2 indirect 40 programmes

  36. PHASE I Make and broadcast SET programmes Vega has made 45 and broadcast 35 on BBC2  PHASE IIInaugurate a SET Night on TV OPEN SCIENCE has now started  PHASE IIIStart a channel devoted to SET “TV-SET” PHASE IVCatalyse the development of a SET Web “IN-SET”

  37. Vega Internet Aim Network of science programme websites Campaign for sponsorship and support from Universities, Government and research based Industries

  38. Royal Institution Discourses (1hr) VRI1 The Origin of Life : John Maynard Smith VRI2 The Chemistry of Interstellar Space : William Klemperer VRI3 C60, Buckminsterfullerene, the Celestial Sphere that Fell to Earth : Harold Kroto VRI4 Electron Waves Unveil the Microcosmos : Akira Tonomura VRI5 Nuclear Power Plant Safety - What’s the Problem? John Collier VRI6 Science and Fine Art : David Bomford VRI7 Tick, Tick, Tick Pulsating Star : How we wonder what you are : Jocelyn Bell Burnell VRI8 Self-Assembly: Nature’s Way to do it : Kuniaki Nagayama VRI9 Carbon Nanotubes: The Tiniest Man-made Tubes : Sumio Iijima VRI10 The Epidemic of Mad Cow Disease (BSE) in the UK Roy Anderson VHS Copies of all our programmes are available

  39. Vega Science Programmes Reflections on Science (1 hr) Nuts and Bolts of the Mind, Susan Greenfield On the Air, Mike Garrett There Ain’t Nothing Nowhere, David Miller How to be Right and Wrong, Sir John Cornforth In the Oceans Jacqui McGlade How X-rays cracked the structure Amand Lucas of DNA Electricity, Magnetism and the body Tony Barker Creativity and computers Margaret Boden Chemistry; Architecture of the Harold Kroto Microcosmos Science Masterclasses (1/2 hr) States of Matter, John Murrell Life in Space, Helen Sharman Bernal & the Social Function Chris Freeman of Science Flight in Birds and Aeroplanes, John Maynard Smith

  40. Financial Times 16th August 2000“If opting for a Reithian 4-network scheme is the only way to get back to a service with serious current affairs, proper arts coverage and programmes at reasonable times about such matters as nanotechnology, then so be it”

  41. A Second Revolution in Education Now anyone can create programmes and broadcast them on the internet so that everyone has access to them The media no longer has control of information and so the Internet has democratised broadcasting and given birth to a second revolution in education TheScienceNightNight

  42. Shortlisted Chemical Industries Association Presidents award: 1998, 1999“Prix Leonardo”2000

  43. Financial Times 16th August 2000“The Building Blocks of the BBC”A (Vega)/OU programme causes Christopher Dunkley to rethink his views on the corporation’s plans to stream its TV programmes

  44. Financial Times 16th August 2000“The Building Blocks of the BBC”“However, I have not changed hats. The point is that this programme was made by the Open University (and Vega!!!) and shown on BBC2 at 12.30 at night. It will have been seen by only a tiny handful of viewers”

  45. GM Foods Part 1

  46. Production Style The young scientists and engineers featured will be ‘letting us in’ on their lives, recorded in‘fly-on-the-wall’style They will speak directly to us, explaining what theyare trying to do from their personal viewpoint Importantly, they will help us to understand how science works and why they find it so engrossing Personal stories, ideas and ambitions areimportant and will give the programmes shape

  47. Who/what will be featured? The all-round expertise needed by a young universitychemistrylecturer conducting research, teaching tutorials, giving seminars and carrying out administrative roles The medicalchallenge needed to uncoverthe genetic basis of illness The problem solving ability needed by a young CERN physicistto tune a detector for highest sensitivity The genius needed to win the Formula 1 championship resides as much in the mechanical engineeringas the driving skills of Michael Schumacher The imagination needed by a heating engineerto combine green energetics with aesthetic architectural design as well as a satisfying workingenvironment in a modern hi-tech buliding

  48. The Purpose of the Series The main purpose of Snapshots is to inform school students and potential university students,who are contemplating studying science and taking it up as a profession, about the world of ‘real’ science Our belief is that if school pupils and others knew more about the everyday world of science, more would choose it as a career and thus our programmes are aimed at reversing the recent trend away from the sciences As well as the key transmission slot on BBC2, Snapshots will be made available to schools and others on videoand eventually on DVD and by broadband streaming

  49. In his book “A Healing Family” Oe Kenzaburo writes about his disabled son Hikari: “Sitting nearby with a book, listening to his piano lessons, I can feel the best, most human things in his character finding lively and fluent expression… I feel in awe of the richness of his inner life. Yet this is a life that, were it not for music, would have remained hidden, would have been utterly unknown to me, to my wife, and Hikari’s younger brother and sister.” A Healing Family Kenzaburo Oe Illustrated by Yukari Oe

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