Thing 17 One New Thing

I recently learned about iTunesU at the iTunes store. Personally I don't use iTunes much but I saw a news article about Podcasts of lectures from colleges being available in the iTunes store at iTunesU. To get there simply click on the iTunes logo on your laptop. In the iTunes store there is a menu at the left and at the bottom it says iTunesU (new), click there. Apparently sometime in the last year apple approached a number of universities and asked them if they would give them the podcasts they were doing of classes on campus for free, and apple offered to store and catalog them and make them available to the public for free. There is an amazing array of subjects from universities across the country available for free. A few months after apple started offering the podcasts online one of the lectures had 50,000 downloads. As high school teachers we can certainly make use of some of these lectures as resources for our students. Anyway, have fun exploring "The Mind of Einstein" or an environmental series from Yale or philosophy lectures from UC Berkeley.