I heard about this initiative a while back, but noticed it mentioned again today on the open culture weblog.
Last April, UC Berkeley, one of the premiere schools in the country, announced its plan to put complete academic courses on iTunes. Fast forward nine months, and you can already find 59 full courses ready for your iPod.
Our latest EdTech Posse Podcast is up. Thanks Rob for doing all of the production work. Here’s a brief summary from the EdTech Posse site.
This took a while to get online, due partially to some weirdness at ourmedia. Finally, it is here – I hope it was worth the wait. This podcast was a conversation between Rob Wall, Rick Schwier, Alec Couros and Dean Shareski talking about some education technology touchdowns over the past year. The conversation was recorded on November 22, 2006 – just a few days before the University of Saskatchewan Huskies played for the Vanier Cup. Next year, we’ll get it.
You can download this latest podcast here.
I Bluedotted the popular Tony vs. Paul video a while back. I was very impressed, and thought I would use it as an inspiration for future student video projects.
At the same time, I knew that this particular stop-motion video looked very familar. And today, I noticed a post on BoingBoing that pointed to the likely inspiration, a National Film Board classic produced by Norman McClaren in 1952.