Teachers K-16 need to integrate the new digital literacies into their teaching. Screencasting is one of these new literacies, and we believe it offers special appeal for engaging and motivating students in learning. This paper provides a rationale for integrating the new digital literacies into classroom teaching, discusses how the new literacies differ from conventional ways of reading and writing, provides examples of screencasts that our own students and their pupils have authored, and concludes with step-by-step procedures for creating screencasts. Throughout the paper we argue that all teachers need to be teachers of the new digital literacies, and these literacies must be integrated with conventional ways of reading and writing. (Contains 1 figure.)