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Gas prices are up. Most sectors of the economy are down (see this WSJ bit) as a consequence. The exceptions? Apparently hybrid cars and online courses, according to this piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Feeling the pinch, students are skipping the drive to campus and taking courses online. The net result: many schools [...]
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In case you haven’t been watching … Apple’s iTunesU has started striking out in new directions. When it launched a little more than a year ago, iTunesU served up free educational content exclusively from universities. Now, it has gone “beyond the campus.”
With this move, Apple is now featuring edifying material from such institutions as The [...]
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Earlier this week, Travel Hacker posted this collection of tutorials explaining how to maximize the use of your iPod. And it happens to include one of our earlier posts: Turn Your iPod into a Travel Guide: 20 Travel Podcasts.
Travel Hacker could have just as easily included some of our other popular pieces. Take for example:
10 [...]
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The New York Public Library doesn’t need any introduction. But it’s new page on iTunes perhaps does. It went live yesterday (access it here), and it gives you access (all of it free, of course) to many great cultural productions staged by NYC’s foremost library. You’ll find an extensive collection of “conversations” with some of [...]
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Here’s a quick note for anyone looking for free online courses: The University of California - San Diego now gives you free access to more than 80 courses. (Access the full list here.) The courses, mostly rooted in the sciences, can be accessed via iTunes or rss feed. We’ve integrated some of these courses into [...]
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Every now and then, we like to make new readers aware of our extensive Podcast Library that includes 100s of cultural and educational podcasts that will make you smarter. We guarantee that. And the best part is that they’re completely free — perfect for a recession. We’ve lost count of how many podcasts we have [...]
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Every now and then, we like to list the top ranking educational on podcasts on iTunes. No matter how much time goes by, one thing seems to stay the same: people like podcasts that teach foreign languages, particularly Spanish, above all else. Have a look, and if you want to learn more foreign languages, visit [...]
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For those who use their iPod to take advantage of our copious podcast collections:
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Over the past year, we’ve seen a steady supply of new travel podcasts coming online. Some are produced by the publishers of major travel guides; others by passionate individual travelers. Many are in video, some even in HD. These podcasts will generally help you travel much more knowledgeably. And, in most cases, they’ll say something [...]
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One of our pieces from 2007 — 25 UC Berkeley Courses Available via Free Video — wound up on the homepage of Digg.com today, bringing an avalanche of users to our site. For those wanting more free educational materials, let me recommend some other useful resources on Open Culture (oculture.com):
Free University Courses via Podcast
University Podcasts [...]
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The New York Times has a nice piece today on university podcasts and how they’re turning some professors into international stars. The article gives special attention to Walter Lewin, an MIT physics professor, and highlights courses that you’ll find in our listing of free university courses. Just as an aside, the article mentions at least [...]
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Lifehacker has assembled a great list that will help you maximize the use of your iPod. Here, they point you to free software that will let you 1) rip a DVD to your iPod, 2) copy music and videos to and from your iPod, and also from and to any computer, 3) load videos [...]
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The answer is simple: Handbrake. This free, open source software (which works on MacOS X, Linux and Windows) makes it simple to load and watch DVDs on your video iPod. Here are some helpful instructions to get you started.
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Times Online (the large UK-based news website) has posted today a feature that offers an introduction to podcasting. It explains the whos, hows, whats, etc. and provides some helpful links, including one to our collection of Foreign Language Lesson Podcasts.
Podcasting offers an amazing way to access free, high-quality media, across many topics, wherever and whenever [...]
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Today, we have a guest feature from Don from Classic Poetry Aloud (iTunes - Feed - Web Site), which offers a great lineup of poetry podcasts. They have just kicked off a week dedicated to war poetry, which includes pieces by Shakespeare, Coleridge and Melville, among others. Below, Don offers a very helpful survey of [...]
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Yesterday it was science podcasts; today it’s podcasts that encourage better, deeper thinking.
The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has posted a feature that highlights podcasts (scroll down the page) that will take you beyond sound bites and into the realm of deeper thinking. The list, which has a noticeable Canadian bent, mentions programs that are certainly [...]
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Grammar is in vogue. The statistics don’t lie. The Grammar Girl (iTunes - Feed - Web Site) remains one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes, and The Grammar Grater (iTunes - Feed - Web Site) is holding its own. From grammar, it’s just a short step to words, to etymology. And, today, we want [...]
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That sounds like a strange proposition. Podcasts are inherently mobile, so what can make them more mobile? Apparently myPodder can. It’s a free, cross-platform software package put out by Podcast Ready that has two notable advantages. Once you register and install their free software, you’ll no longer need to download podcasts first to your computer [...]
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RadioLab, a science radio show created by WNYC in New York, is a little unusual for a public radio show. It comes out in short seasons of about five episodes. Each episode addresses a particular question in science through a wide lens–I found their most recently podcast show, on Morality, to be particularly fascinating. We’re [...]
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Recently Merriam-Webster announced that they’re adding “ginormous,” “speed dating” and a few other gems to the latest edition of their dictionary. In their honor, we present ten podcasts to help you expand your vocabulary. Enjoy!
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day (Feed, Site)
Podictionary (Feed, iTunes, Site)
The Word Nerds (iTunes, Site)
NPR: On Words with John Ciardi (iTunes, [...]
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We haven’t visited the list of iTunes’ top educational podcasts since April. So it’s time for another look…What we’ve got here is pretty much a case of “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Or, put differently, even though two months have passed, it is still foreign language lesson podcasts that are ruling the [...]
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We talk about podcasts a good deal around here. But given that only 12% of internet users have ever downloaded a podcast, and only 1% does so daily (see this Pew Research Center study), we wanted to provide an overview of podcasts and how to use them. In a few minutes, we want to get [...]
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For every university that has started podcasting lectures or courses, dozens have proved slow to take this step. If you’re an educator who thinks that your university should go digital at long last, you’ll want to take a look at this article appearing in The Chronicle of Higher Education. How to Podcast Campus Lectures overviews [...]
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During a radio interview yesterday (iTunes - mp3), Jon Gordon, the host of Future Tense, asked me
whether universities will continue pouring content into their iTunes troves in 2007. The answer boiled down to this: Podcasting stands poised to proliferate in ‘07, much like the web did back in ‘95 and ‘96. Just a year [...]
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With all the recent talk about podcasts, you may have wondered how you can create your own. How can you record and distribute via podcast whatever valauble things you have to say? We have recently come across some helpful material that seemed worth highlighting for you.
Podcast Academy
At Boston University, Podcast Academy recently held a two-day [...]
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Alan Watts Podcast iTunes Feed Web Site
Alan Watts helped interpret and popularize Asian philosophies/religions for Western audiences. These podcasts give you access to his archived talks/public lectures.
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Big Ideas offers lectures on a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science. [...]
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Download complete university courses on this specialized page.
American University - Washington College of Law iTunes Feed Web Site
An eclectic collection of legal podcasts.
Boston College iTunes Feed Web Site
A diverse collection of lectures from across the BC campus. Just load onto your iPod and you’re good to go.
Bowdoin College iTunes Feed Web Site
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Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast iTunes Feed Web Site
Terry White teaches you how to unlock the power of Creative Suite with visual examples. Emphasis gets placed on inDesign and Photoshop.
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