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- treehead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5;this is brilliant. i found some at MIT:
http://web.mit.edu/ist/podcasts/
;and harvard:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cscie1/?page=podcast&type=static
;they need a central repository at harvard though. - deckardrun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Berkeley pwns.
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"protest de jure?"
'Jour' is a french word that means day. and that would be 'du', not 'de'.
"Who cares what you learn at Berkley. If you have a degree at Berkley and are up against someone who listened to the lectures online, I would be on bet on a job offer."
I think most people listnening to these don't expect them to count for anything in their life, but view it as enrichment. I know I do. - Timjacobs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Let's get SMAAAAATTTTTT
- ha$$le, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heh, I go to berkeley and one of the classes I take is also webcasted (video). As far as I concerned, it just means I don't have to go to lecture and I can watch the lecture when I want to. Lectures are boring and an inefficient method of learning something in person or on the net regardless.
Now let me clear up some misconceptions about Berkeley that I have read on this thread:
I have attended a wide range of classes and no "ultra-liberal" professor ever tried to cram anything down my neck. Actually, last week in a polysci class, a Republican professor urged us not to protest because "protesting doesn't work" despite the fact that protest and dissent has lead to the greatest changes in American government. Dont believe me? Listen for yourself. Check out the 2/14 webcast for polysci 179.
Which leads me to the next misconception. UC Berkeley is not a protest campus anymore, maybe in the 60s and 70s but nowadays everyone on campus is too busy trying to get their bussiness degree from HAAS or law degree from Boalt to care about social issues. In all the years I've been there, there has been one protest on campus and it was so small, I can't even remember what it was about.
I still love UC Berkeley but they are trying too hard to be a sports school and as a result, the fine academic reputation they have is starting to crumble away... - JPhilipson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dupe
- rocketryguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey folks, the server is getting totally hammered, check it out in a day or two. (I run the network it's on actually, as soon as I saw this, I called the trouble desk to let them know it wasn't DDOS...)
Thanks- - MyDiggIsBig, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1idiot.
- daltwisney, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Apart from the girls, beer, pizza, dorms, midterms, big game and degree, it's practically identical.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/index.php
webcasting available via real - Scair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Somehow I doubt you've had any first-hand experience with Bob Jones...
Please, until you've actually heard it first-hand and not from the media, give them a break. It's only fair to ask that, since you would want the same treatment yourself. - rajkalex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anybody can listen to a lecture. It's the application of the concepts in a test or real world environment that show whether or not the material has been learned. Without that, and the resulting degree, you might was well be watching the history channel. However, as far as it being a method to learn about some subject you are interested in, it's a great concept.
- vibri2001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anybody have any others?
- Slacktivist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I go to Purdue. They started podcasting back in August, there have been some articles in the paper about it, as to whether it's a learning aid or a way to skip lectures.
Boilercast: http://boilercast.itap.purdue.edu:1013/Boilercast/
Newspaper Article: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051218/LIVING/512180362/1007 - coonzel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wonder how worthwhile it will be to listen to these? Lets say if I upload these to my Zen, start listening to these, would I gain any worthwhile knowledge to use? If so, these podcasts are an awesome idea!
On the other hand, I wish I could download these awesome podcasts, seems like they are deaddddd - shamilton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This has been around for a couple weeks, but it's cool. More and more schools are doing it, including MIT and Harvard, U Michigan School of Dentistry (wtf?), et al.
http://knowsomethingcool.blogspot.com/2006/01/itunes-u-new-community-college.html - history1me, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The history 5 p-cast sucks... or is not well done. The lecture, Mr. Laqueur, has too "hmm" and jumps around everywhere in time and locations, back and forth. There's no logic or it is loosely strung together in a "oh yeah" sequence. It doesn't get better until the last p-cast, that's because it was a guess lecturer.
Anyway, I was disappointed with it, but it's still great to get classes for free! - coonzel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0These podcasts downloaded fine at first, now they are deaddddddddd.... digg effect anybody?
- Nobi-Wan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Smat?
- Pogue_Mahone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This has been submitted at least 3 times before.
http://digg.com/search?search=webcast.berkeley.edu%2Fcourses&submit=Search&area=all&type=both&age=60
Its interesting - don't get me wrong. But been there, done that. - flex411, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Who cares what you learn at Berkley. If you have a degree at Berkley and are up against someone who listened to the lectures online, I would be on bet on a job offer.
- Superfluous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ clickwir, day late and a dollar short my friend. that topic is done being discussed.
- Adorism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how do i listen to them via the rss feeds? im sort of new to rss feeds, and i dont have an ipod, just mp3 player
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Almost as good as actually attending Berkeley...?"
most certainly cheaper - jmansor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have enjoyed the ones I have heard.
- JasonPrini, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1But when will Devry have podcasts? They'd be shorter...
- Memx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1that's great, but you still need video on non-theoratical lectures
- Vryz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What's nice is that they have full video on most of the lectures.
If anyone wants a quick intro to functional programming, you could do a lot worse than the intro CS class which uses Scheme. It will help you understand how Ruby on Rails works, for example. - Cornbread, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This would be sweeter if it was working, cool though. I hate how Apple gets the credit for Podcasts even though they didn't come up with them.
- noisynarrowband, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0stanford professor robert harrison host a weekly talk show called 'entitled opinions about live and literature'. not exactly lectures, but one hour discussions whit world class scholars about a certain topic or book.
http://french-italian.stanford.edu/opinions/
its a wonderful and enlightening broadcast that can be found as a podcast on itunes too! - burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@adorism
The RSS feeds are used to tell a podcasting client (for example, bashpodder or iTunes) where to get the files. You don't really need a program to do this for you though, you can just open up the RSS feed and find any links, then point your browser there and download them manually. They're just regular mp3 (or in this case, RealAudio files).
I can't really recommend a podcasting client to you though. Maybe iPodder? I think it was renamed to something else... Juice, is it? - Falcorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Please stop! We need to get to those and you're destroying Digging the page! :(
Oh what the hell, I don't need to get to the webcasts today... - just2fatty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I do.! Not making up that comm lecture today I guess.
- acidronin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A lot of the links for the lectures on the Berkeley site were dead. At least the physics podcast link worked.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Definitely better considering the cost they charge to attend that school.
- TPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My school needs this...
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How on Earth did we bury a major university?!
- kramer3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is INCREDIBLE
- ahmerhussain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LOL! WE TOOK DOWN A SCHOOL!
- foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this again? meh.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I listened to a cs podcast about hash algorithms and heard the following words: Bush (4 times), Iraq (2), hegemony (7), queer (37), bitwise (1).
- demps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wonderful, great job on flooding a website that really isn't anything that special (Purdue was the first to do this), and then limit the actual students who NEED the lectures not be able to download them.
Wonderful. - gamonal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"You certainly don't want to go to an institution that teaches you to think for yourself, and not whatever tripe it's ultra-liberal professors cram down your neck."
Well don't forget about John Yoo! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i got in =) Good ol' firefox auto-refresh =)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0but i want my lectures now =(
- jamsea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Think about how much extra effort it would take to MAKE a video feed though, not really that much if it wasn't live...
Spend like 20 bucks a month for lectures to your PC compared to the thousands it actually takes to go there, now that's an idea. - caldroun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0When I listen to these, I keep having to fight the urge to down a Keg, and pledge DIGG house.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0not there yet, but if there was a video feed, then that would be a different story
- chewbaccapits, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0nice
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"Bay Area = Way too cold"
Hahaha lmao
I live near Winnipeg, Manitoba ;) -
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