What Else is New on the UA on iTunes U and YouTube

Last week more new content was added to to iTunes U and the UA's YouTube Channel.

Physics Colloquium Series [view in iTunes U]

Heather encoded and added the UA branding to nine of the Physics Colloquium DVDs and I set up the site in iTunes and uploaded the videos. More will be added in the coming week as the time-consuming process of encoding and branding is completed. This is excellent content to get out to the public and further enhances the UA's sciences section in iTunes U. Dr. Elliott Cheu, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Physics, wrote: "Thanks so much for pursuing this. We really appreciate it and will continue to work with you on expanding this."

SIROW [view in iTunes U]

Last Tuesday I met with Bridget Ruiz, Associate Research Professor in the University of Arizona's Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW), about adding a video SIROW produced (and staff starred in) about the importance of sleep. The video is produced with students as the intended audience. In addition to creating a SIROW site in the iTunes U's SBS section, I made a featured page for the video in the Students section. Heather re-encoded it because the version provided skipped on a number of PCs due to the bit rate used when the video was created. The new version works nicely and is available in iTunes U and also YouTube.

Dr. Andrew Weil [view in iTunes U]

We also got a video up in iTunes U of Dr. Weil's talk at the November 20th WellU program. Since Dr. Weil didn't use any visuals, I opened the video in QT Pro, converted it to a WAV audio file, brought that into Audacity, edited out the first several minutes of introductions and uploaded an MP3 audio version in addition to the video version. Good talk to sync to one's iPod and listen to in the car, while taking a walk, or working out.

Revised Main Page Features

Thurdsday, I revised the UA's main iTunes U main page to feature Dr. Weil, Snooze Fest and Brad Casper's Eller lecture (see Dec. 4 entry).

Coming later today Arizona Wet/Dry

Erin Westfall, a GIS Analyst at the UA's Water Resources Research Center, dropped off a DVD called Arizona Wet/Dry that was produced for the Arizona NEMO project. I used HandBrake to convert it. It was pretty big and Heather showed me a couple things to change that made the file size reasonable. This one will go up on YouTube and I'll set it up as a featured video on iTunes U as well.