Putting the pod in podcast
By Christine Des Garennes
Sunday November 26, 2006
John Dixon
Cleo D'Arcy, a University of Illinois professor of crop sciences, explains one of her motives for providing a podcast as part of her class every week at a CITES Ed Tech brown-bag discussion of podcasting.
"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.
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