The Vanguard, Bentley’s student newspaper, has a story this week about how some of my students volunteered to work with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of New England to record their annual research briefing event.

Lauren Shields, public outreach manager for JDRF New England, found me five years ago through an article in the Bentley Observer about my IT 101 class. Her husband is a Bentley alumnus, and she was reading about how my class at the time was learning to create podcasts.  She wondered if we might help JDRF podcast the event.  The idea of podcasting was very new then, and I was teaching students to make podcasts in my Technology Intensive IT101 class.  We have been doing it ever since.

The first few years, we recorded the presentations with audio only, and then posted the presentations online.  More recently, as web and video technology evolved and it became easier to create and share video online, we started recording videos of the presentations, and posting it online along with the presentations. Watch for their videos on the JDRF New England Blog (http://jdrfne.blogspot.com) along with the speaker’s presentations.