How long’s your commute? What do you do when you’re doing laundry? Do you really LIKE the music they play in your local grocery store?
You could be using that time to LEARN.
What follows will be a list of places to find FREE educational materials that you can download and listen to at your convenience.
First off, you don’t need an iPod to listen to podcasts. You can download the MP3 files to any computer and play them easily with the installed player of choice (Windows Media Player or Quicktime or whatnot). If you DO have an iPod, you can Google podcatcher software and look for what works best for your machine (or if you’re lame like me, you can manually download new podcasts, copy them into your iTunes, and then force them down the throat of your iPod).
The List:(which is by no means conclusive. Add more in comments)
Learn Out Loud- These guys are the daddy of all places to find new and interesting educational podcast material. Also check out their list of free audio and video.
Stanford on iTunes – This one gets posted to del.icio.us all the time. It’s pretty good. There’s a huge listing of courses to check out.
LibriVox – This is a great project, where they are creating audio books from books that are now in the public domain. Lots of interesting reads here, and would make good fodder for long road trips like vacations.
Webcast Berkeley- HUGE ton of files here to check out.
University Channel- This site has podcasts all over the place, about various topics.
Feel free to add more great resources in the comments section.
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