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As you've read before, Pima Community College's Community Campus conducts free lectures "about the peoples, history, cultures and places of Southern Arizona" through its Community Education Lecture Series. Thanks to Dr. Jana Koii, President of PCC's Community Campus, and Anne Warner, Advanced Program Coordinator, (not to mention the Community Campus' media services staff) we are receiving DVDs of these lectures.

Here are the new tracks added to Through Our Parents' Eyes on iTunes U.

• Buck Ryberg of the Desert Sons performing Cool Water and Man Walks Among Us
• Bill Kalt and Richard Dick's histories of the railroad in Tucson
• Diana Hadley's lecture on 300 years of ranching in Southern Arizona
• Casey Dennis lecture about the Riggs family and its involvement in cattle Ranching in Southern Arizona

If you have iTunes installed on your computer, follow this link to open iTunes and go to the UA's Through Our Parents' Eyes iTunes U site. Once there, you can click on GET MOVIE to download individual videos or click on SUBSCRIBE to being a podcast subscription.

The LTC's media services unit will take these videos and encode them for QuickTime streaming making them available from links on webpages.

BTW, I you don't currently have iTunes on your computer I highly recommend that you download and install it. The only caveat is that you have a relatively recent computer and a highspeed Internet connection. Download Apple's free iTunes. Need help understanding any of this? Send an email.

screenshot of the UA's main page iTunes U

Are you subscribed to our Through Our Parents' Eyes podcast series available on the UA on iTunes U? We currently have nine tracks featuring a mix of MP3 audio from Tucson Meet Yourself Festivals and short videos of Dr. James S. "Big Jim" Griffith telling us about southern Arizona traditions. In the most recently added Arizona Illustrated video, Big Jim tells sings a Halloween song -- enjoy!

How to Get These Tracks

1. Open iTunes on your personal computer > click on iTunes Store > click on iTunes U > click on University of Arizona > click on the Through Our Parents' Eyes icon in Featured Programs (see above image)

click on University of Arizona in the institutions list

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2. Follow this link to go to Through Our Parents' Eyes main page on UA on iTunes U. Of course, you need Apple's free iTunes software on your computer to go there.

If you need to download iTunes, it is available on Apple's iTunes download page on the Web. If you need help, send an email and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Have you subscribed to Through Our Parents' Eyes' podcast? There is a link on the upper right hand area of this blog page and on the upper right hand area of the homepage. Just click the 1-click button and automatically start the subscription in your own iTunes.

So far there are four episodes, the most recent of which includes two songs performed by Lalo Guerrero at the 1994 Tucson Meet Yourself Festival. Podcasting is a great way to enhance the visual experience garnered by reading Through Our Parents' Eyes' websites with audio and video delivered to your desktop.

If you are new to iTunes and podcasting, we have a Flash movie guiding you through subscribing to podcasts using Apple's iTunes