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The best free cultural & educational media on the web
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Earlier this week, one of our readers, Scott Dumont, offered up some excellent thoughts on a few podcasts that we’ve previously overlooked. Since he put things so well, I figured why not pass along his thoughts directly to you. Here they go, and thanks Scott …
I’d like to make three suggestions for additions to your [...]
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This podcast (get it here) presents the thoughts of Scott Sigler–media maven, NY Times Bestselling Author of INFECTED and CONTAGIOUS (both available free as podcasts), podiobook dynamo, and social networking mastermind–on none other than ”how will people read books in the near future?”
In this repodcast of his keynote speech at this year’s Balticon conference, Scott talks about [...]
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Here’s an interesting factoid reported by The New Scientist… A study coming out of The State University of New York ”measured the performance of 64 students, half of whom watched a lecture via podcast and the other half who attended the live lecture. Students who used the podcast averaged a 71 out of 100 on the follow-up test [...]
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Two of England’s oldest universities, Oxford and Cambridge, have taken the leap into the digital age, recently launching their own podcast channels. Now, no matter where you live, you can experience the intellectual world that has given us William Gladstone, Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking (Oxford alums) [...]
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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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