PowerCert Animated Videos offer clear and concise explanations of huge concepts in hardware and networking. I described them fairly often when I was teaching an intro to networking course last year..

As the title states, the video discusses what a MAC address is, how its composed, where to find it, and its function in networking. The video likewise does a fantastic job of explaining the crucial difference in between MAC addresses and IP addresses.

If you do teach networking, this video is one to bookmark and perhaps use as a review resource or video-based lesson in a tool like Edpuzzle.

Applications for Education.
Many readers of this blog will never ever need to understand what MAC address is or how it fits into the networking process. Nevertheless, it is great to know and can useful to know how to find it if your IT administrator ever asks for it.