There is a new trend in online education: 60 second lectures or microlectures. They contain the essential message and go straight to the point without any excess of words, details or added concepts. Of course there is no room for a lot of depth and the lectures tend to be compact and dense.
I think they are ideal for you, interpreting students, to practise your note-taking skills.
Below is one I subscribed to via iTunes U. This microlecture is delivered by a professor of criminology and psychiatry, Adrian Raine Richard Perry. If you were given an interpreting job for such a professor, you would be advised to do research in those fields of knowledge. However, once you listen to this lecture, you will realise that interpreters must have a wide range of general knowledge (cultura general in Spanish) to better interpret it. The Merchant of Venice and some of its main characters are quoted to illustrate the main thesis of the lecture.
Listen to it once to get the gist of it. Listen a second and third time taking notes. If you find it very difficult, check this worksheet.
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