Screencasting: We're really cooking now !!

 As I have stated before I am a Lead Chef for the Young Chefs Academy in Kalamazoo. We hold summer cooking camps at our facility. The Kellogg Foundation provided a grant that allows KPS and KRESA students who receive free or reduced lunches to attend our camp free for one week. Part of the requirement for receiving this money is that we need to not only cook but relate the camp to their educational experience as a support for making academics relevant. 
Screencasts could be used as a way to have the students learn new computer skills while also learning and demonstrating for others their new found cooking skills.  It would reinforce the fact that computers can be used for something other than a social media network among friends to find out who is dating who or who is wearing what.
In our summer camps we have students from the age of five to fifteen.  This age range could be used to our advantage in the fact that the younger students could be actually doing the demonstrating while the older students are hacking on the computers.  Some skills that we could demonstrate would be proper measuring techniques for solids and liquids. Different cutting techniques such as dice, chiffionade, julienne, peeling, just to name a  few.  We could make a YOU TUBE video and post it to a Young Chefs Blog that we could establish or make a link to our website. 
All of our summer camp weeks have different themes. One of the themes is Celebrity Chefs.  I could have some of our employees or myself go to the websites of different Chefs such as Emeril, Guy, Paula Dean, etc.
Once we have downloaded the video of them demonstrating either kitchen safety rules or a special cooking technique we  could over dub with our audio to customize the lesson for our audience.
I also see this as a way for our former or future students to have a place to go to ask questions or learn a particular technique as a preview before attending a cooking class or camp.   Students who have missed some of the lessons or would just like to review the techniques again could do so without the whole class having to review the lesson again.  A more informed student always make for a more enjoyable and productive class.