SAWBO Publications
SAWBO has multiple documents available for download and print. Please visit SAWBO's Documents page where you can access this educational material.
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SAWBO Collaboration Document
Scientific Animations Without Borders™ (SAWBO) is a Michigan State University based program. SAWBO transforms extension information on relevant topics such as agriculture, health and women’s empowerment, into 2D, 2.5D and 3D animations, which are then voice overlaid into a diversity of global languages. All SAWBO animations are made freely available to anyone wishing to use them for educational purposes. Animations can be downloaded from a variety of SAWBO channels and accessed via computers, tablets, cell phones, TVs, and overhead projection systems. Animations are vetted by global experts to ensure scientific accuracy of content and have been used in communities across the world to spread knowledge that improves people’s lives.
SAWBO One-Page Brochure
Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO) transforms expert knowledge into educational animations, which are then translated into multiple languages from around the world. We use a rigorous co-creation and review process to create highly accurate content.
Breaking out: the turning point in learning using mobile technology - 2021-03-23
Despite considerable research on YouTube as a digital media platform, little research to date has quantified the device-type used to access that online media. Analyzing access-device data for videos on one YouTube video channel—Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO), which produces educational content specifically accessible to low- or non-literate, poor, or geographically isolated learners in less developed areas of the world—the results identify the historical moments between 2015 and 2017 when mobile/smartphones, both globally and by region, crossed a tipping point to surpass all other ICT devices (including desktop PCs, laptops, and other Internet-accessing technologies) as the primary device-type for accessing SAWBO videos. Specifically, data from January 2013 to June 2018 obtained for SAWBO's YouTube channel were sampled to capture and distinguish the access device-type used and then summarized in broad global and regional categories. The tipping point, as the date where the percentage of views from mobile phones was equivalent to the percentage of views from computers, were also calculated globally and by region. Besides documenting this critical global-historical moment, the results also have implications for mass digital-messaging generally and mobile-based public service learning specifically.
Keywords: YouTube, SAWBO, History of ICT, Public service learning
