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Thanks to Rod Blitvich for permission to use this email which he posted to the echalk email list. Do you have information you would like to share with other teachers? Let us know via the comments button at the bottom of this post.

I am working on my new Human Biology Course Of Study and was looking for resources.

Last night I got onto the iTunes store

(You need iTunes installed on your computer – download iTunes here)

• Quicklinks on the right

• Power Search

• Under “All Results” select “iTunes U”

• Then type a few words in the “Description” column eg Biotechnology or Fertility or Reproductive Technology etc.

• Then check out the resulting finds

Some will be university lectures, may be audio only, some will be full featured short movies. After checking through you will find some useful stuff.
It is all FREE!!!
It seems many US Universities (and now some Australian unis) have put heaps of their lectures/course material onto iTunes U for free.

As a Human Biol teacher struggling to find new stuff for my new Course of Study, in the short time I spent looking I found and downloaded the following very useful movies/podcasts (see below)

“DNA”
Cassiopeia Project, Biology
3:24 movie
keywords: DNA, Molecule, Blueprint, Chromosome, Strand, Helix, Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine

“Genes Are Made Of DNA”
Biology 1A|Fall 2008|UC Berkeley
48 min movie
keywords: Crossing over, recombination, gene maps, sex linkage

“Cell To Embryo”
Cassiopeia Project, Biology
4:13 movie
keywords:  Cell, Embryo, Ovary, Egg, Fallopian, Fetus, Fetal, Blastocyst, Uterus, Placenta, Pregnant, Pregnancy, Fertilize

“Strategic Alliances in Biotech”
Texas A&M Faculty
41 min podcast audio file
Talks about the Biotechnology Industry

“Advances in Fertility”
Yale University audio podcast
9 min
Dr. Pasquale Patrizio, Director of the Yale Fertility Center discusses advances in egg freezing, male fertility and deciphering the genetic make-up of human eggs at various stages of maturity.

Remember – they are FREE!

iTunes is a free download for Mac and Windoze from Apple and runs on macs and PCs

Tunes U is a part of the iTunes Store featuring free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks, and more, that you can enjoy on your iPod, iPhone, Mac or PC. Explore over 100,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world. With iTunes U, there’s no end to what or where you can learn Here is a short trailer explaining iTunes U:
http://www.apple.com/education/guidedtours/itunesu.html

Perhaps you may experience some bandwidth/ Internet quota issues when downloading from iTunes.
My ISP is iiNet. Their iTunes downloads are free. Also they have an Off-Peak time between midnight and 8am which creates additional quota.

Regards
Blitto

And of course teachers in other Learning Areas will also find valuable resources here.

THANKS ROD