Coral Reef Video Cast

Video casts are a new thing to me. I really have never explored all the features available through iTunes. It is amazing at the number of video casts that are available to watch. The types and topics are abundant. Of course, the educational ones are the ones that we have been looking at and they are great. These videos are of very good quality and information and would be suitable to be shown in the classroom as an educational tool.

The one that I watched was "Energy in the Coral Reef" by WGBH. It was really a good video cast. It was really similar to a documentary type film. It talked how the coral provided energy to the reef. The sun gives energy to the coral, the fish eat the coral and the food chain continues. The light energy provided form the sun is converted to chemical energy. The video did a great job of laying out the entire process pf how the reef gets energy. It was very detailed and fun to watch.

These video casts are pretty cool. They are short for the most part and very good. The broad base of topics makes these very useful to teachers. It gives the teachers one more resource to use in the classroom. It is always nice to have something else that backs up what you have taught.

I have never made a video cast, but I am left wondering how hard they would be to make. I know in the field I am going into that it would be pretty cool to make instructional videos and post them. It would be neat to show proper technique and form in different exercises and drills.