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The annual "What's Your Story?" international video contest that empowers youth to be leaders in educating others about being safe online.

"We're excited to announce the Grand Prize of the 2011 What's Your Story? Internet safety video contest!"

This is Google's contest to introduce pre-university students to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible. It runs from November 21, 2011 to January 16, 2012. We invite students worldwide to produce a variety of open source code, documentation, training materials and user experience research for the organizations participating this year. These tasks include:

Online hosted storyboard maker by Current TV. Pitch story ideas and share and collaborate on scenes. Advertising contests may discourage school use.

Blubbr is a free, website that lets you create and play quiz games from YouTube videos. The site calls these "Trivs". You can play trivs in different categories, from celebs and music to sport and education. These trivs can then be shared with anyone across the internet. You sign in with Twitter or Facebook.

This could be used for neighbors to comment on homes with good or poor landscaping. Or who should win holiday lights contest.

Using the medium of dance to explain the complex concepts in PhDs.

How well would you need to understand a topic in order to be able to explain it through a completely different medium?! That's the underlying principle of John Davitt's Learning Event Generator (http://www.newtools.org/showtxt.php?docid=737), which in this site we see writ large.