January 24th, 2010 by Andrew

As promised, though a cou­ple days late, I’m post­ing the lat­est UNC-Asheville Human­i­ties 324 lec­ture from this week. The topic was The Enlight­en­ment, and you can read the lec­ture out­line [pdf]. Dr. Rizzo was the speaker. We watched some clips of a movie about this guy to the left, Olau­dah Equiano.

For the com­plete pod­cast series, check this post: http://blog.afletcher.net/2010/01/humanities-324-lecture-podcast/

January 18th, 2010 by Andrew

As promised, the record­ings of the the Human­i­ties 324 lecture’s have been pod­casted and were just accepted into the iTunes store. Here are all the links.

  • Sub­scribe in RSS reader
  • View and stream on the web
  • Sub­scribe in iTunes
  • New episodes should post Fri­day afternoons.
  • I’m using an iPod Touch 2nd gen. with head­phones and included mic. The record­ing qual­ity will get bet­ter as I exper­i­ment with where to sit and where to set the mic (I’m try­ing to be unobtrusive).
  • Also, some­body told me that UNC-A did or per­haps still does offer a pod­cast of these lec­tures. I couldn’t find it on their web­site, can any­one con­firm or deny?

I really think that these lec­tures are valu­able and infor­ma­tive and should be avail­able to the pub­lic. Many of the top tier col­leges like MIT, Har­vard, Yale, Colum­bia, et cetera offer pod­casts of their classes to the pub­lic. After all, schools are in the busi­ness of sell­ing degrees, not infor­ma­tion. Let’s eman­ci­pate the infor­ma­tion from the lec­ture hall. Enjoy!

January 15th, 2010 by Andrew

Well the semes­ter has just started and I’ve been try­ing to think up new ways to stay engaged and moti­vated in school, so I’m going to syn­the­size school with the geeky things that I love to do like blog­ging. With that in mind, I’m going to (attempt) to record and post every HUM 324 lec­ture this semes­ter here on. You’ll find them all under this cat­e­gory, and if you want to sub­scribe in your RSS reader, here’s the feed. And Com­ing Soon: This will be a pod­cast, which you will be able to sub­scribe to in iTunes. The lec­ture out­lines are posted as well.

Oh, and while you’re at it, if you use this, add me on the book­Face.

Yes, I’m boot­leg­ging acad­e­mia and pod­cast­ing it. ZOMG! Tech­nol­ogy FTW!