Learning Experience: New Skills and Insights

During a Kids Make Dance program, children develop important skills and experiences related to digital production and social media tools and how to use them:

• How to use digital video and photo cameras for sharing, documentation and teaching
• Optimal approaches for capturing dance and “performing” for the camera
• How to edit videos and pictures using different software programs
• How to produce videos for almost real-time and real-time Internet publishing
• How to use a new generation of wireless and mobile multimedia recording and sharing tools
• How to conduct self and peer-based assessments using videos and images
• How to post videos and pictures to online social media websites
• How to engage online audiences in discussions and feedback
• How to create different types of multimedia content:

- Documentation of creative process
- Videos and pictures of performances and routines
- Instructional videos for online audiences
- Interviews with fellow students and others
- Explanation of creative process

• - How to create online videos that will inspire online audiences to create similar types of dance content