A pronunciation guide for film/TV studies has just been released.

ScreenLex contains pronunciations of key phrases and people's names from the disciplines of film studies and television studies.  Its items are available in three ways:

1. As a podcast.  Download them to your iPod or other mobile-audio device.
2. Online:  Listen to them online at screenlex.org using a Flash-based player.
3. As a downloaded MP3 file.

Finally, some good news on the fair-use front.

The U.S. Copyright Office has just announced six new exemptions to copyright law. One of them permits professors to break copy protection on DVDs in order to make compilations to use in class.

An interesting pedagogical discussion popped up on Slashdot (a discussion forum that focuses on tech news) yesterday.

A user posted the question, "If lecture podcasts are available, will students skip class?" The ensuing discussion -- mostly from college students -- had little in it about podcasts, but, rather, debated whether or not attendance is beneficial or necessary. For me, it was an interesting glimpse into how students view professors and the lecture process.

Podcasts of University Lectures?
Posted by Cliff on Monday September 04, @09:09PM
from the not-a-bad-idea dept.

theslashdot asks: "I'm working at a major university in the US, and have been charged with posting pod-casts of class lectures on the internet. The problem is whether or not posting the videos would allow students to skip class and just download the lecture, instead. . . .