Tool 8 Video Resources

The following is a video I found doing a search on Google Videos that depicts the daily life of a white blood cell. I use it during the second semester, after students have learned about parts of a cell and cell processes such as transcription and translation. It was designed by several graduate students at Harvard University and it is brilliantly made with a complicated, but gorgeous animation to show the processes. The following is called Inner Life of a Cell and it is large file.

http://aimediaserver4.com/studiodaily/videoplayer/?src=ai4/harvard/harvard.swf&width=640&height=520

The video above is a short biography about a woman who believed she had a brain tumor and how her family and her had to prepare for surgery. However, the surprising discovering was made that during surgery it was not actually a tumor, but a worm, probably injested from contaminated food. It is a cool video for students to see, and it really sends a message home about how important washing hands are to human hygiene.