Podcasts go to school :The Scientist [2006-06-01]


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	BY ISHANI GANGULI

Podcasts go to school Justin Gallivan was starting off the fall 2005 semester with his biochemistry course at Emory University in Atlanta when he noticed the front row of desks was covered with tape recorders and microphone-equipped iPods that students had brought to record his lecture. One coed even posted to the class website, offering five dollars for a recording. Earlier that summer, he had been reading about a