** *YouTube University: YouTube has struck deals with major universities, creating dedicated channels from which schools can distribute their media content. Check out the channels for UC Berkeley and University of Southern California. (HT: Joe Carter at evangelical outpost)
** While checking out the above, I came across the Open Culture website, with a number of fascinating posts:
-"Best Online Tool for Word Nerds" - "Lifehacker is running a good piece today that highlights a series of web-based language tools for anyone looking to figure out a word’s definition, translation, pronunciation, synonym, or antonym. Word nerds, this could be your lucky day…"
- Graduation speeches on video anyone? Click here. J.K. Rowling's speech at Harvard last week is here.
- "Wanting to learn a foreign language? "MSN-Sympatico has been running a piece that covers the ins-and-outs of learning a foreign language online. The piece highlights free resources that you can access on the web, including our collection of Free Foreign Language Lesson Podcasts, but also many other worthwhile materials. Free language dictionaries, flash cards, interactive games, language learning communities, international news and radio shows, formal university courses — they’re all listed here."