Posts Tagged ‘ Educational Podcasts ’

Periodic Table Of Videos Uses YouTube To Make Chemistry Fun

Aug 19th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Educational Podcasts, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

The Periodic Table of Videos is site that uses YouTube videos to make chemistry interesting and even fun.
The site is organized around the periodic table of elements, and each element has a video that demonstrates its characteristics in visual ways.
It’s a great use of Internet video to deliver educational content in a compelling, on-demand way.



Microsoft Exploring Using Zunes In Education

Jul 2nd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Video Podcasts, iPods & Portable Media Players

Earlier today, we highlighted the expansion of Apple’s iTunes U into K-12 education. Now it looks like Microsoft wants to get in on the educational portable media player market, too.
Microsoft is working with Fort Sumner High School in New Mexico and South Valley Junior High in Liberty, Missouri to see how students use audio and [...]



Get K-12 Educational Resources Via iTunes U

Jul 2nd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Educational Podcasts, Internet TV, Video, iPods & Portable Media Players

Educators and home-schoolers interested in getting educational multimedia for K-12 students can now find it in Apple’s iTunes U.
While iTunes U originally was created to support the distribution of educational podcasts for colleges & universities, it’s been expanded to support elementary and secondary education as part of an initiative  by several state education agencies and [...]



Strange Podcast Alert: The What You Can Put In Your Luggage When You Fly Podcast

Jun 5th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, General, News Podcasts, Strange

A reminder that there’s a podcast for just about anything:
Flyers worried about being able to remember what they can and cannot take in and out of the UK have received aid in the form of a podcast.
Downloadable from the HM Revenue & Customs website, the free audio podcast sees customs expert Mark Fuchter detail which [...]



PodCamp NYC Organizer Promotes Education Focus

Apr 24th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Citizen Media, Educational Podcasts, General, Podcasting Events

I recently had a (way too brief) conversation with PodCamp NYC 2.0 co-organizer John C. Havens, VP of Business Development at Blog Talk Radio and fellow Advisory Board member of the Association of Downloadable Media. (He’s on the right in the photo, with Chris MacDonald.) John wanted to talk about this PodCamp’s wider appeal [...]



Podcasting in Plain English

Apr 22nd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Educational Podcasts, How to Podcast

Common Craft put together this fun and simple intro to podcasting.
The video is licensed with a Creative Commons license, so you can copy, distribute, display, and perform the work for non-commercial purposes.



iTunes U Gets PBS Educational Programming

Apr 12th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: How to Podcast

Kids just got a great justification for getting bigger iPods - PBS & Apple have added a large variety of educational programming to iTunes U:
From The War: A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick to The Jewish Americans: A Series by David Grubin to Meet the Author, featuring more than 40 interviews with top [...]



Video Podcast Turns 71 Year-Old MIT Professor Into Internet Rock Star

Dec 19th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Educational Podcasts, Video, Video Podcasts, iPods & Portable Media Players

The New York Times has an interesting profile of MIT’s Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor that has a new generation of fans thanks to his video podcast.
Professor Lewin delivers his lectures with the panache of Julia Child bringing French cooking to amateurs and the zany theatricality of YouTube’s greatest hits. He is [...]



University Opens Dedicated Podcasting Room

Oct 31st, 2007 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Educational Podcasts, General

Dayton, Ohio-based Wright State University is among the first schools to make available rooms dedicated to podcasting.
“We wanted to bring what’s up-to-date, fun and common for today’s students to the library here at Wright State,” says Sue Polanka, who is the head of references and instruction for the Dunbar Library. “Myself along with a few [...]



Berkeley Putting University Classes On YouTube

Oct 3rd, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Educational Podcasts

The University of California, Berkeley, announced today that it is making entire course lectures and special events available, free of charge, on YouTube.
UC Berkeley is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events. Topics range from [...]