Launched in 2008, Zappiens ' main goal was to aggregate educational, scientific, cultural or artistic multimedia content produced, preferably in a school environment and in Portuguese, for easy dissemination to a wide audience through the Internet.
The provision of educational videos produced by and for the school community aimed to encourage the creation, publication and viewing of more and better content.
Zappiens was thus divided into the following thematic areas: Arts and Humanities, Exact Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Education and Competitions -, each subdivided into different branches.
For technical and resource reasons, it will no longer be possible to update and maintain the service, so it will soon be discontinued.
The trust placed in Zappiens during the period of its existence has allowed the gathering of around 2500 contents created by the school community. All these videos uploaded to Zappiens by users of the service over the last 10 years will be migrated to an alternative content sharing platform - the Educast portal. The content transfer will respect the copyright, categories and metadata of the content.
the new destination for Zappiens content - Educast - is a video management service for simple registration and distribution of educational content, and can be used to make new videos available. If you are interested in continuing to provide this type of videos you can contact our team.
Any further clarification on the discontinuation of the service may be obtained through the contact: c.imagem@fccn.pt.
