The Top 25 Educational Podcasts on iTunes

in Uncategorized | February 22nd, 2007


ItuneslogoBelow, you’ll find iTunes’ rank­ing of the top 25 edu­ca­tion­al pod­casts. For your con­ve­nience, we’ve includ­ed links to the feed for each pod­cast so that you can access it any way you like. We’ll aim to
update this list twice per month and high­light what’s new and worth lis­ten­ing to.

#1. Cof­fee Break Span­ish  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#2. MyDai­lyPhrase Ital­ian  iTunes  Web Site

#3. Legal Lad’s Quick and Dirty Tips for a More Law­ful Life  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#4. Gram­mar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Bet­ter Writ­ing  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#5. Learn French with Dai­ly Pod­casts  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#6. The French Pod Class  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#7. Twelve Byzan­tine Rulers: The His­to­ry of the Byzan­tine Empire  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#8. Final­ly Learn Span­ish — Beyond the Basics iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#9. French for Begin­ners  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#10. JapanesePod101.com  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#11. MyDai­lyPhrase Ger­man  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#12. Man, God and Soci­ety in West­ern Lit­er­a­ture (Course at UC-Berke­ley) iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#13. Learn Span­ish Sur­vival Guide  iTunes  Feed

#14. Learn Ger­man with German-Podcast.de  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#15. LearnItalianPod.com  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#16. Let’s Speak Ital­ian  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#17. NPR: Satire from the Unger Report  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#18. Learn Man­darin Chi­nese with Chinesepod.com  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#19. Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy Tips from the Top Floor iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#20. Just Vocab­u­lary iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#21. Learn French by Pod­cast  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#22. One Thing in a French Day  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#23. TEDTalks (Video)  iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#24. LSAT Log­ic in Every­day Life (Prince­ton Review) iTunes  Feed  Web Site

#25. Life and Death in the USA: Med­i­cine & Dis­ease in Social Con­text iTunes   Web Site

See Open Cul­ture’s pod­cast col­lec­tions:

Arts & Cul­ture — Audio Books — For­eign Lan­guage Lessons — News & Infor­ma­tion — Tech­nol­o­gy — Uni­ver­si­ty (Gen­er­al) — Uni­ver­si­ty (B‑School)

 

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Open Culture Podcast Directories Viewable in Feed Readers

in Uncategorized | February 19th, 2007

The only down­side to using a feed read­er (Blog­lines, Google Read­er, MyYa­hoo, etc.) to access Open Cul­ture
is that you won’t be able to see our pod­cast direc­to­ries which reside
in our left nav bar. To assist you, we have past­ed links below that
will give you direct access to the pod­cast col­lec­tions. We’ll post this reminder from time to time.

If you like what we’re doing here, please email your friends and let them know about Open Cul­ture.

If you need a new/bigger iPod or iPod Gear to lis­ten to our pod­casts, vis­it our new Ama­zon store.

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A Mother Lode of Public Radio Podcasts

in Uncategorized | February 14th, 2007

This is a pod­cast com­pi­la­tion that we almost wish we had put togeth­er. The “Pub­lic Radio Pod­cast Cat­a­logue” amaz­ing­ly gives you access to over 900 pub­lic radio pro­grams pod­cast­ed from around the globe, all of which are bro­ken down into neat cat­e­gories – Busi­ness, Cul­ture, Lit­er­a­ture, Music, News, Pol­i­tics, etc. Quite con­ve­nient­ly, the orga­niz­ers of this col­lec­tion have pro­vid­ed a link to each indi­vid­ual pod­cast feed. So you only need to find the pod­cast you like – whether its Fresh Air, Car Talk, BBC News, or what­ev­er pod­cast exists in the pub­lic radio uni­verse – then paste the feed link into a pod­cast­ing pro­gram such as iTunes or Juice, and you’ll be on your way to down­load­ing, sync­ing and absorb­ing end­less amounts of enlight­en­ing radio con­tent.

See Open Cul­ture’s pod­cast col­lec­tions: Arts & Cul­ture;

Audio Books; For­eign Lan­guage Lessons;

News & Infor­ma­tion; Tech­nol­o­gy;

Uni­ver­si­ty — Gen­er­al; and

Uni­ver­si­ty — Busi­ness School.

 

 


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Open Culture on Future Tense (American Public Media)

in Uncategorized | February 9th, 2007

We have a short inter­view air­ing today on Future Tense, an Amer­i­can Pub­lic Media pro­gram host­ed by Jon Gor­don. This pro­gram offers a dai­ly jour­nal of the dig­i­tal age, and today we’re talk­ing about the past, present and future of audio books, par­tic­u­lar­ly the pod­cast­ed kind. The con­ver­sa­tion weaves togeth­er a few things that we’ve dis­cussed here this week — H.G. Wells, Cory Doc­torow, Cre­ative Com­mons, the skewed pric­ing of audio books sold to con­sumers, etc. If you don’t catch it on the radio, you can lis­ten in here: MP3 — iTunes — Blog.

On a relat­ed note, we also talked with Future Tense not too long ago about what uni­ver­si­ties are doing on the pod­cast front. If you want to give it a lis­ten, you can access it here: Mp3 — Blog.

Final­ly, see our col­lec­tion of audio book pod­casts as well as Jon Gor­don’s blog, wavLength.


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Open Culture Podcast Directories Viewable in Feed Readers

in Uncategorized | January 17th, 2007

The only down­side to using a feed read­er (Blog­lines, Google Read­er, MyYa­hoo, etc.) to access Open Cul­ture is that you won’t be able to see our pod­cast direc­to­ries which reside in our left nav bar. To assist you, we have past­ed links below that will give you direct access to the pod­cast col­lec­tions. Book­mark & enjoy.

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Harvard Now on iTunes: A New Model for University Podcasts?

in Uncategorized | January 14th, 2007


HarvIt was only a ques­tion of when, not if. Har­vard has final­ly carved out a space, albeit a rather small one,
on iTunes. Estab­lished by the Har­vard Exten­sion School, the iTunes site cur­rent­ly fea­tures one free, full-fledged course called Under­stand­ing Com­put­ers and the Inter­net, which had pre­vi­ous­ly been issued in oth­er dig­i­tal for­mats. (See our pre­vi­ous arti­cle.) In addi­tion, you can notably access out­takes from 30 com­plete cours­es that the school will offer online for a fee dur­ing the spring aca­d­e­m­ic term. (See press release.) These cours­es fall into three neat cat­e­gories: lib­er­al arts, man­age­ment and com­put­er sci­ence.

Har­vard’s iTunes strat­e­gy is rather unique. While most major uni­ver­si­ties are sim­ply giv­ing away podcasts/information, Har­vard Exten­sion is evi­dent­ly using the Apple plat­form more for busi­ness pur­pos­es than for pub­lic ser­vice. In a vac­u­um, it’s not a bad idea. In fact, seen in a cer­tain light, it’s innocu­ous, even savvy. Why not offer teasers to gen­er­ate more sales for sophis­ti­cat­ed online cours­es? Why not give cus­tomers a real sense of what they’re get­ting into? If there’s a prob­lem with these ideas, it’s sim­ply that they risk clash­ing with exist­ing expec­ta­tions — expec­ta­tions that uni­ver­si­ties offer pod­casts for free and for the pub­lic good. And there’s the risk that iTunes users will fail to make a crit­i­cal dis­tinc­tion between your aver­age free pod­cast, and a pod­cast that’s real­ly meant to be part of a very well round­ed, fee-based online course. One way or anoth­er, the busi­ness motive will like­ly raise some eye­brows. But, our guess is that Har­vard will be able to clar­i­fy the rea­son for the new mod­el, and they’ll find in iTunes, as oth­ers will too, a new and poten­tial­ly pow­er­ful way of giv­ing vis­i­bil­i­ty to cer­tain forms of online edu­ca­tion­al con­tent.

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Open Culture Podcast Collection Gets Some Play on Diggnation Podcast

in Uncategorized | December 27th, 2006

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Since we’re talk­ing a lot about pod­casts these days, it seemed rea­son­able to men­tion that our for­eign lan­guage les­son pod­casts got a lit­tle men­tion on the lat­est episode (#77) of Dig­gna­tion, the week­ly pod­cast put out by Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, and Alex Albrecht. Our pod­cast col­lec­tion now has 1877 “dig­gs,” and so it got their atten­tion and gave them a good plat­form to goof on Kev­in’s com­mand of Ara­bic. You can check out the episode here — iTunes, Rss feed.

See Open Cul­ture’s for­eign lan­guage les­son pod­cast col­lec­tion.


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Free Audiobooks for Your iPod

in Uncategorized | December 26th, 2006

This is just a quick heads up that we have added audio­book pod­casts to our larg­er pod­cast col­lec­tion. You’ll find here 40+ major lit­er­ary and philo­soph­i­cal works. Mark Twain, Shake­speare, Jane Austen, Friedrich Niet­zsche, Franz Kaf­ka, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe — they are all here, and the list will con­tin­ue to grow. In the mean­time, if you would like to see a par­tic­u­lar text added to the list, feel free to let us know.

Audio­book Pod­casts
Com­plete Pod­cast Col­lec­tion


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