I've been working on an Education related SharePoint solution and came across this  

It is a sample site using Windows Live Messenger IM Control and Silverlight to display multiple videos coming from Silverlight Streaming on Windows Live.

This is the kind of front end I would like to see on SharePoint!

You can see this running live at http://contosouniversity.mslivelabs.com and download from http://www.codeplex.com/wlquickapps