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Putting the pod in podcastv- Christine Des Garennes, Champaign News-Gazette
"I love coffee, I love tea. I love the Java Jive and it loves me." As the song "Java Jive" faded in and out, plant pathologists Darin Eastburn and Cleo D'Arcy sat in front of a microphone and explained to listeners how people can spread plant diseases around the world. It was Week 3 of the University of Illinois course "Plants, Pathogens and People," and students would learn, among other things, Sri Lanka was a major coffee producer until a disease called coffee rust wiped out the island's crop. (Hence the coffee-themed music interspersed with study tips in the week's installment of the "PPPodcast.") Long gone are the days of mimeograph sheets and transparencies. Students can download the Plants, Pathogens and People podcast (dubbed PPPodcast) to their iPod when they want and listen to it when they want, whether they're walking to class, exercising at the gym or at home in front of the computer.
  posted by Ray at 12/07/2006 06:40:00 AM permanent item link   

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