Edutopia, a project of The George Lucas Educational Foundation, has announced that it’s now offering free downloadable video podcasts on iTunes U (iTunes link), a dedicated area of the iTunes Store that offers free education audio and video. Here, Lucas discusses his thoughts on visual learning and education: Edutopia is now offering on iTunes U its […]

  Students at the University of Western Sydney are circulating a petition asking for cuts in their fees, as the university uses podcasts to extend it “virtual classroom”. Some students, though, like Tammy Lawlor, are not impressed with the University’s podcasts.  “The isolated learning experience is not satisfying for me,” says Ms Lawlor. Lawlor said that in […]

If Lord Vader, the dark lord of the Sith, were a high school math teacher, this is probably how he would explain the Pythagorean Theorem. Via learnmegood – a third-grade math teacher in Dallas, TX.

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 to […]

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.

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 […]