As seen from the classification above, two of the major uses of screencasting are directly related to education – tutorials and HOWTOs and instructional movies. Since a screencast is relatively simple to make and does not require significant resource and knowledge, it is not surprising that the Net is full with educational screencasts on most diverse topics – from teaching beginners how to perform basic operations in office packages, to explaining the intricacies of complex technologies. Although screencasting has not yet replaced human teachers, it can be of valuable help for self-learners and in e-learning because it gives the chance to view the movie at leisure at home and play it as many times as necessary to fully understand the concept or to memorize particular steps.
As I said, on the Net there are screencasts about almost any topic and technology one can think of. Among the links to sites with educational screencasts, I can name as one place where there are many screencasts divided into categories (concepts/ideas, software development, web stuff, Mac, Windows, Linux software, etc.) plus a section to request a screencast about a particular piece of software. Another site with general resources (although it seems that they are more Mac oriented) is an excellent place for Excel beginners is a place with more technical screencasts (actually targeted mainly to development with Microsoft products) is the links I quote are just to give you an idea about what is available on the Net and the list of interesting sites with screencasts can be endless and a simple search in Google is likely to lead you to the stuff you want but if you still cannot find the screencast you are looking for, why don’t you make it yourself?