BNT Education Officer, Jonisha Cartwright showing the prop roots of a red mangrove during filming.
New Educational Video Series Underway!
Inspiring the caretakers of tomorrow in an online world.
Trust Notes | October 2020 Issue
The way BNT delivers quality education content has evolved tremendously in the last decade, and has perhaps been further propelled in 2020 with the need for online classrooms. Videos have become an important part of modern-day education. Because of you, we’re now in the process of creating new, exciting, quality educational videos for students, educators, and the general public.
Our brains process visual information much faster than text. There are lots of reasons why video is a great educational medium and can be more memorable than traditional presentations or text-based mediums. Videos can keep audiences engaged and entertained while educating them. It’s a medium that lets you capture people’s attention and one that helps improve their learning retention.
Video is quickly becoming the most popular content on the internet. Cisco predicts it’ll make up 82% of all internet traffic by 2021.
Your support has allowed us to utilize videos in most of our education programs and projects. When lockdowns were implemented earlier in the year, we released our first-ever virtual learning center, which used videos as the primary content.
Snapshot of the videos used in our Virtual Learning Center
Because of your ongoing support, The BNT is now in the process of creating new quality environmental education videos for students, educators, and the general public.
This video series, titled Ecosystems of The Bahamas, will take viewers on virtual tours of critically important ecosystems throughout the archipelago.
Some of the key topics will include:
- National Parks
- Marine Protected Areas
- Bahamian Fisheries
- Mangroves
- Coppice and Pine Forests
- Rocky Shores
Filming in the Blackland coppice | An often overlooked and underappreciated habitat in The Bahamas.
One of the main objectives of these videos is to support national high school curricula and also serve as a resource for educators and students. Furthermore, we hope this video series can raise awareness about the ecosystems that are so important to us and integral to our everyday life.
After the videos are produced, a special space will be created on our website to host them and make them easily accessible to BNT Members like you, educators, and students. It’s something you, your family, and friends can all look forward to!
Adapting to a world that is rapidly conforming to virtual learning out of necessity and preference, we will be looking at different ways in which The BNT can deliver environmental education through quality video content.
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