I'm always on the lookout for good quality lectures wherein the lecturer has a good radio voice, can speak with out a ot of pauses and throat clearing and knows how to use a microphone. I've found some good ones on Itunes, the Pritsker Military Library, CBC Ideas, and The Learning Co. Right now, I'm particularly looking for material regarding the Seven Year's War (The French and Indian War).
Thanks.
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As promised, here's a list of my TTC, TMS and related lecture series. I was a bit off in my estimate of the course count. It's actually something over 300. :>) The total size is about 80 GB, plus another 50 GB in supporting material (audiobooks, charts, figures, maps, e-books, etc) and 4 GB in Guidebooks.
BTW, Peter tells me that he has a "few" that he hasn't put on the server yet, so the list will expand ...
The list of the actual lectures is attached below. Have a look and we'll discuss the best way to distribute them without calling unwanted attention to our efforts.
Bob
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Now, that's a list!!!! Wow.
My interests at the moment would lean towards the art, music and history sections.
As to how to proceed; I find most lectures are about increasing or augmenting one's appreciation of a particular person, place or event. With that in mind I can see where many of the items on your list can be distributed throughout the many groups and even buried within specific discussions. For example, a while back you posted readings of Chaucer's work in the Poetry group. To my way of thinking, that discussion would be a great place to also find a link to the lecture on Chaucer, Bard of the Middle Ages. I can see where there's other existing discussion threads on the go that would easily accomodate most of the TTC topics.
I'm not concerned with WHERE to post them, If need be, i'm sure that Robert and Rick would accommodate a new subgroup. I'm concerned with WHETHER to post them at all. I'm not sure of the membership at Ning (or TP in particular) and these are a bit more likely to attract outside "attention" than the odd BBC radio show.
RICK: What do you think?
Victor (Semoshorts):
I pulled out my DVD library of these courses. I have several generic US history courses and several that focus on such topics as Native American history and pre-Revolution history, but nothing specific to the French and Indian Wars.
To give you an idea of the scope of this library, the course handbooks in PDF occupy 1.5 DVDs! The reading material, as audiobooks, takes ELEVEN DVDs. It may take a while to load all the backup DVDs and pull a course list. "By Monday" may have been a bit optimistic. :>)
Bob
Not a problem. Take your time-especially if I'm the only one who's expressed an interest in this sort of audio presentation. I just came across a series of lectures from Oxford University: Oxford Short Introduction to... some 30 different topics. This should keep me occupied for a while.
But I can't help thinking that lectures and lecture-podcasts would make for a group unto itself.
Do you want the lectures because of the content, or do you use them for English listening and speaking?
If it's the latter, the #3 & #4 practice TOEFL tests contain mp3 lectures on various college subjects embedded in the PDFs. They include transcripts.
http://www.ets.org/c/17722/index.html
Content and presentation. I find a well produced and presented lecture to be the equivalent listening experience as that of a novel being read by a professional reader - and its always a lot more informative.
I have over 200 sets of "The Teaching Company" college lectures. Each one ranges around 15 to 30 hours of material. The subject range would satisfy the most eclectic mind. :>)
I also have the complete set of Smithsonian lectures from about ten years ago, although i don't recall one on the French and Indian Wars.
I'll look through my database and see what i can find.
I enjoyed the few Teaching Co. lectures I have. Very well produced.
As to the French and Indian war I did find a lecture years ago given at the Boston Anthenium in which a historian claimed that this war and the larger 7 years war was in fact the first global war in history. It sparked an interest. Before that the only thing I knew about the French and Indian War was from the Spencer Tracy movie, Northwest Passage.
I did a quick Google search for "French and Indian War" + lecture and came across quite a few YouTube videos of college lectures , including Yale, Harvard and UVA. There were also references to a C=SPAN series on American history which included a lecture on the subject.
Bob
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