Using a podcast in the classroom

Podcasts are so useful in th elcassroom. In the world of art videos there are so many that are old, and unfortunelty, boring. It is really great to find a resource that can provide podcasts and vidcasts that can show and tell students how to do a specific procedure. The podcast that i found is based o na vermeer painting it is produced by the National Gallery of Art. The vidcast show how Vermeer used a paint layering technique to gain depth and color concentration in his painting "Girl with the Red Hat". The narrator along with the video show exactly how he accomplished the final effect of a lovely girl with a blazing red hat.

This specific vidcast is extremely useful in the classroom because in order to show paint layering techniques you either have to layer wet paint on wet paint or you have to wait a day in-between each layer. Now as a teacher I would be showing a live example no matter what but having a video that shows the entire process at once shows the students the final product. Vermeer and the girl with the red hat