Thursday, August 26, 2010

iTunes U

You can now light up our visual podcast area in UCF's iTunes U service. The link is on the Webcourses home page, with the blue musical notes icon. It will light up your iTunes program, then direct it to our podcast area. When you see the 747 carrying the space shuttle, you'll be in.

Right now there are a few podcasts to help you study:
  • How to use a concept guide
  • How to correlate mini-podcasts to 7th edition.
  • Trajectories and instantaneous velocities
  • Roofer's nail
  • Granny car
  • baseball example from the problem solving manual.
If you get stuck trying to get in there, post a query in "General semester topics" in Discussions. We'll work it out. It can be a bit tricky for Windows users.

I will be loading in more mini-podcasts as we go through the semester.

Note: these are not videos. They are "enhanced audio" in .m4a format. All the diagrams and equations are in the artwork track, and you have to use the GET or SUBSCRIBE button of iTunes to actually see the visual content. Diagrams are worth a thousand words, especially in this course!