How could screencasts be used in your classroom/department?

As my department, specifically the Hum 7 group (7th grade humanities teachers, that is), moves more and more to Panther Net as our online curriculum storage depot of choice, I think setting up a simple screen cast as in introduction to Panther Net would be great. Along those lines, I think that more and more, many of the tech sessions the school puts on could be captured and distributed to faculty, especially to new faculty. Sure, there is lots to be said about face-to-face sessions, but for many teachers these days, we don't need to sit through an exhaustive and lengthy training session about, i. e., how to enter grades on PowerSchool. Many of us have an innate awareness of the basic way computer applications function and usually with only a little nudge about getting started or maybe a few insider tips or tricks about a certain program is enough.

Something Kim said on Saturday's class resonated with me: the idea of not being afraid to push buttons or "see what happens if I do this" when interacting with software. Nowadays, seems like if something drastically bad happens when you're experimenting with software, that makes that software faulty, not the user.

Anyhow, a little screen cast to got on Panther Pops and upload a file to the teacher share section.