Nanopolis releases new publication protocol for authors

Nanopolis, the e-collaborative multimedia producer exclusively dedicated to nano-bio-technology, has released a new protocol that easily guides the scientific contributors through the editorial tool. It makes possible the creation, follow up, validation and publication of multimedia animations in the nano-bio-technology field.

This tutorial called "How to publish with Nanopolis" explains in a very descriptive way how to communicate -at no cost- the results of a scientific nanotechnology work in just seven steps. The procedure is explained using texts instructions and short demo clips, which present the progress of the creation process of a multimedia animation.

The scientific community is warmly invited to contact the Nanopolis team in order to get further information about this interactive publication process. Authors have now a fast tool to transpose the results of their research in a multimedia format and make them accessible to the Nanopolis and general audience.

Advantages for Authors

1. Nanopolis Authors receive a copy of the Nanopolis Multimedia Presentation for personal, non-commercial use.
2. Their Institute/University of origin becomes an Academic Partner of Nanopolis and get special discounts when ordering the Nanopolis educational products.
3. Nanopolis Authors are mentioned as a reference in the Nanopolis Multimedia Presentation they collaborated for as well as at the Nanopolis portal.

Online format and new CD-ROM edition of Synchrotron multimedia encyclopedia

Nanopolis, the e-collaborative multimedia producer exclusively dedicated to nano-bio-technology, has announced the release of the new online format and third CD-ROM edition of its “Exploring Matter with Synchrotron Light” multimedia encyclopedia.

The Synchrotron encyclopedia comprising of over 600 multimedia pages was the first volume of the Nanopolis series and it was widely recognized by specialized entities. The software was thoroughly analyzed and approved by world renowned specialists in the field. The previous two editions have demonstrated to teachers and users that the Synchrotron Light CD-ROM meets the criteria of pedagogical quality, pertinence in usage and simplicity.

Nanopolis has decided to convert the whole Synchrotron multimedia encyclopedia into an online accessible and downloadable application format, adding the latest information regarding Synchrotron facilities around the world. This project is within the framework of the main Nanopolis objective for 2008: the launch of the Online Visual Course Generator which will be integrated to the Online Multimedia Library, a service very good accepted within the academic environment.

Highlights of “Exploring Matter with Synchrotron Light”

• The encyclopedia is structured in five main sections: Light & Matter, Technology, Methods, Applications and Facilities.
• The 1st edition was released in 2001, 2nd edition in 2004 and the 3rd and online edition will be released in April 2008.
• "Exploring Matter with Synchrotron Light" is the first and only multimedia encyclopedia dedicated to the world of synchrotronics.
• Prizes received: IAMS (International Association for Media in Science) prize for multimedia (2001), and the logo "R.I.P." (known as "Reconnu d'intérêt pédagogique) by the French Ministry of National Education, (2003).

Objectives for 2007 - Achievements in 2006

The Nanopolis Team wishes you a Happy New Year 2007 and with this occasion would like to announce the plans for the year to come as well as to summarize achievements in 2006.

Creating slides illustrating scientific or technological concepts is a long and difficult process. Keeping such presentations up-to-date as well as putting everything together in a graphical manner is also complicated. Furthermore, dissemination of this material is almost impossible because most tools for slide editing are offline. Each time the slides are updated they should be re-sent to the intended audience.

Considering all these reasons, the main Nanopolis objective for 2007 is the creation of the concept of online visual course generator which will be integrated with the Nanopolis Online Multimedia Library, launched this year.

How will this work?
With only a few mouse clicks any Power Point presentation could be uploaded online and converted into graphical Flash content – online accessible. Even more, the content of your course would be instantly enriched with animations from the Nanopolis educational content. Class management and online quizzes for your students will also be available.

In 2007 Nanopolis will continue being the leader provider of the first and the only complete online e-learning platform for nanotechnology, absorbing the scientific content from more than 200 research groups around the world and transposing in real-time their know-how into up-to-date multimedia interactive explanations!

Nanopolis continues developing the fourth tome of its encyclopedic series: “Exploring Nano-Biotechnology”, a representation of life sciences from the nanotechnology point of view, explaining nanoscale processes supporting life; mechanisms of diseases; use of nano tools and technology in life sciences; biotech specific tools; applications and prospects, among others. Visit our website www.nanopolis.net to participate or to benefit of the 50% pre-release discount (available in 2007).

Happy New Year 2007!
The Nanopolis Team

Nanopolis achievements in 2006
Nanopolis is now an independent entity – the leading producer of multimedia content for nanoscience and technology, benefiting from the experience, resources and personnel of the iMediasoft Group. Spinning off from iMediasoft gave Nanopolis the chance of further refining the e-tools that cover the needs of our collaborators. We’re renewing all of our electronic platforms and websites, the most notable example being the Nanopolis Integrated Online Editorial System available online at www.nanopolis.net/nanoedit Buying online from Nanopolis is now easier and more affordable. Order page is simpler and clients can buy online Nanopolis content in a pay-per-view concept (http://online.nanopolis.net)

The Scientific and Graphic Teams continue working on the “Exploring Nano-Biotechnology” multimedia encyclopedia. The content is complimentary to the content of the previous 3 Nanopolis encyclopedic volumes: “Exploring Matter with Neutrons”, “Exploring Matter with Synchrotron Light” and “Exploring Nanotechnology”, more than 3,000 multimedia pages in total, creating a valuable e-learning resource for the non-specialists, for its simple visual language, and also for the specialists of its wide scope.

A Supportive partnership between TNTG and Nanopolis

This week The Nanotechnology Group and Nanopolis World of Knowledge (www.nanopolis.net) have established an agreement to offer special discounts to TNTG visitors on all Nanopolis products. The deal is based on a 10% off regular prices of the multimedia encyclopedia series of Nanopolis, an interactive multimedia producer dedicated exclusively to nano-bio-technology knowledge.

Every TNTG visitor may get now this discount when accessing the Nanopolis portal from www.tntg.org. The price reduction applies for the following multimedia encyclopedias (available in CD-ROM or downloadable format): 

Exploring Matter with Neutrons is a tool dedicated to neutron, resources and science, while offering numerous applications and facilities.

Exploring Nanotechnology provides an in depth understanding of nanostructure, nanofabrication, instruments, as well as many applications and head figures.

Exploring Matter with Synchrotron Light comprises light and matter interactions, exploration technology, and analysis methods. It also includes many applications and facilities.

Nanopolis Trilogy is a special package that contains the three multimedia encyclopedias already described.

Both companies are confident this strategy will motivate the interest for the nanotechnology key technical concepts while learning with multimedia animations.

Nanopolis has built a large collection of more than 3,000 e-learning pages, annotated color graphics and accompanying text, with buttons that adds labels to the graphics. The combination of color and movement with both text and optional labels helps in making these complex concepts easier to understand and a lot less boring to learn.

Students, professors, researchers, nanotechnology oriented companies and general public tempted by the nanotechnology area are invited to explore these websites and take advantage of this unique opportunity.

Online University License now available

Nanopolis - World of Knowledge is ready to start a new academic year in your University!
Yes, Nanopolis, the most updated Multimedia Distributed Knowledge Network in Nanotechnology, offers the opportunity to all the professors, teachers, trainers and students to access at any time the Online Multimedia Library content.

This license offers the opportunity to all users connected to the institute's network to learn while having fun with the multimedia animations, instead of the conventional books and papers. The content of this new Nanopolis service is based on the recently released Online Multimedia Library which brings more than 3,000 ingenious and explicit multimedia animations and pages of nano-biotechnology concepts and methods.

Ready to start a new academic year with Nanopolis?

Nanopolis has conceived the University License to allow access to unlimited number of academic users for a complete year. With this annual package designed to educational institutions all the computers connected to the university/institute network may have full access to the online Nanopolis content. Users get direct access without filling in forms, usernames, or passwords. See here the complete educational content list.

Advantages for Educators

1. Shorten the initial phase of your students learning nano-bio concepts by at least one year, by allowing them to have visual explanations of the most of the concepts involved (more than 3,000 multimedia screens).
2. Easily guide students through new concepts.
3. Explain physical phenomena with interactive graphics.
4. Pause and play presentations at any moment for detailed descriptions or questions.

Are you a student? See what could you get

1. Have access to a complete and easy to understand overview of nano-biotechnology before embarking into deeper study.
2. See how nano-biotechnology impacts various fields of application.
3. Decide which domain of nano-biotechnology suits you best and choose appropriate courses.
4. Find out how will technology and society change in the next 5 to 10 years.

Please let us present you more details about the Online University License when visiting us here.
Do you want to see an example of the multimedia animations? see here please.

online.nanopolis.net is ready!
Nanopolis - World of Knowledge has launched the Online Multimedia Library, the newest e-tool that provides live access to the Nanopolis content. It brings more than 3000 ingenious and explicit multimedia animations and pages of concepts and methods used by emerging scientific and technological trends on the atomic scale as well as topics from many other fields of physics, chemistry, biology etc.

The content of this online platform is based on the subjects offered in the Nanopolis Multimedia Encyclopedic series: “Exploring Matter with Neutrons”, “Exploring Nanotechnology”, and part of “Exploring Matter with Synchrotron Light”.

Easy to use…
The Online Multimedia Library is open to every visitor, offering direct access to all the free of charge materials. However, it is required to create an account at the moment of purchasing any item. In that case, the new user must complete and submit a form. After that, the Nanopolis system generates an e-mail message with the link that activates the new personal account. Typing the e-mail address and password is required to enter the personalized Online Multimedia Library account.

Visiting online.nanopolis.net you can

• Have online access to the most advanced knowledge dissemination platform in the field of nano-biotechnology.
• Select only the subject you are interested in, at any moment, from any location, saving time and shipping fees.
• Be introduced to various subjects and find concise explanations accompanied by smart multimedia descriptions, which together encourage you to learn more by yourself, and teach you in a friendly way.
• Save time when ordering the Annual Package of Nanopolis Lessons. The Nanopolis team has chosen for you 12 predefined items taken from the Nanopolis World of Knowledge educational content. A different lesson will be available for one complete month. By ordering the annual package you will be offered an extraordinary promotional price!

Nanopolis courses now downloadable !

As promised to our valued customers downloadable multi-media editions (20% cheaper with no shipping fees) of "Exploring Nanotechnology" (already available) and "Exploring Matter with Neutrons" (to come in a few days) are available starting from February 2006. It has never been easier to access the content of the Nanopolis educational series !

Also coming in March:
- University / Corporate license consisting of packages of site licences of the Nanopolis Trilogy
- the 300 existing Institute/University partners will be provided with a non-transferrable, site specific licence at no additional cost
- Downloadable "Exploring Matter with Synchrotron Light"

 

World of Knowledge platform soon available - subscribe now!

”World of Knowledge” is the Nanopolis e-collaborative ecosystem connected to the world-wide Research Network and offering online access to up-to-date multimedia materials on nano-biotechnology, online student evaluation, class management and course editing tools. Just imagine yourself creating lectures and training programs based on your PowerPoint slides and Nanopolis animations!

Should your university or company be interested in creating online nano-bio courses or training programs write us as soon as possible to obtain SPECIAL PRICING!

View the "Nanopolis World of Knowledge" content

View Nano Quizzes for student evaluation

 

 

Nanopolis World of Knowledge platform presents recent scientific and technological breakthroughs in the field of matter exploration at atomic scale in a widely accessible manner. The core of the educational content (~ 2500 multimedia animations) comes from the Nanopolis encyclopedic series (http://nanotech.nanopolis.net, http://synchrotron.nanopolis.net, http://neutrons.nanopolis.net ).

Additional materials will be added through the development of the "Exploring Bio-Nanotechnology" encyclopedia and through the Nanopolis real-time conversion engine. They will be accessible to users worldwide following the pay-per-view philosophy. Universities and learning groups benefit of special accounts allowing them to organize the existing multimedia materials into online courses, to assign students to the courses and to evaluate them by online quizzes.

To find out more

          The "Exploring Matter with Neutrons" encyclopedia - second edition - was presented to a select audience of 750 researchers involved in neutronics research during the "International Conference on Neutron Scattering" which took place in Sydney, Australia between 27th and 2nd December 2005.

Here is an excerpt from the encyclopedia's presentation:

"When consulted in 1998 about the teaching of neutron science, the main claim from teachers was "we need up-to-date educational material!" One of the consequences was an ambitious CD-ROM project intended to cover almost all aspects of neutron science and techniques. We will present the outcome of this initial project, the CD-ROM "Exploring matter with neutrons" v2. Let us summarize it in few numbers: […] 1700 pages, 3000 images, animations and movies, and more than one hundred contributors from the worldwide neutron community. The targeted audience is mainly students, teachers, or scientists but not experts in specific domains of neutron science, although it will prove useful in neutron summer schools and to widen the general knowledge of specialists in a different neutron area."

The winner of Round 1 - Award of the Round: "Exploring Matter with Neutrons" multimedia encylopedia

Ovadia Abed

Ph.D. Student in Prof. Israel Rubinstein's Group at the Department of Materials and Interfaces Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel "Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to participate in the quiz and winning the first prize. From viewing the sample slides of the three encyclopedias one can appreciate its appealing design. The reader is introduced to various subjects using concise explanations accompanied with very aesthetic graphical descriptions, which together provide basic information and encourage the reader to learn more by himself [...]. Me and my friends in the group will be happy to look at it."

Try out yourself, you could be the winner of Round 2! Go and participate!

The "Exploring Nanotechnology" competition began on the 16th of October 2005 and will end on the 17th of December 2005. The contest comprises a quiz each week, each quiz having questions related to nanotechnology, treating subjects like exploratory techniques used in nanotechnology, nanomaterials, nanostructures, nano-applications and more.

The contest is organized in three rounds, each round consisting of three consecutive quizzes. For more information, please visit the contest's webpage.


The exclusive sponsor of the competition, NANOPOLIS^TM, awards the winner of each round with special prizes:

For the winner of the 1st Round: "EXPLORING MATTER WITH NEUTRONS" multimedia encyclopedia - educational version (show details)

For the winner of the 2nd Round: "EXPLORING MATTER WITH SYNCHROTRON LIGHT" multimedia encyclopedia - educational version (show details)

For the winner of the 3rd Round: "EXPLORING NANOTECHNOLOGY" multimedia encyclopedia - educational version (show details)

Test your nano-knowledge, now! Go and take the quiz!

Good luck!

Steven Adams
Contest Administrator
Nanopolis