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Grades 6-12. This transformative experience places a strong emphasis on online safety, responsibility, and positivity, as participants collaboratively develop personal brands rooted in authenticity, honesty, and relatability. Explores copyright laws, content categories, niches, and analytics; activities include hands-on video production and scriptwriting. Encourages participants to embrace challenges and improve their digital skills. Comes with curriculum and materials for up to 30 students.

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Chart Your Course in the Digital World
Grades 6-12. Journey into the digital world with Influencer Camp. This transformative experience places a strong emphasis on online safety, responsibility, and positivity, as participants collaboratively develop personal brands rooted in authenticity, honesty, and relatability. With hands-on video production and scriptwriting, the program encourages participants to embrace challenges and continuously improve their digital skills. It also fosters cultural awareness and social-emotional learning, equipping individuals with the knowledge and creativity needed to navigate the digital landscape responsibly. Explore copyright laws, content categories, niches, and analytics while nurturing a growth mindset to become a mindful digital trailblazer.

Product Features

• Complete program includes materials and curriculum
• Designed for up to 30 students
• Everything needed to run the program included in the kit
• Refill kit (item #315502R, sold separately) allows year-to-year reuse of the kit

Curriculum Topics:
1. Influencer Overview
2. Personal Brands
3. Speaking to an Audience
4. Copyright
5. Video Genres
6. Script Writing and Storyboarding
7. Camera Shots and Angles
8. Reaction Videos
9. Screencasting
10. Influencing for a Cause
11. Culminating Videos
12. Video Showcase

Each Activity Includes:

• Schedule
• Materials list
• Topic background information
• Optional extension activities

Recommended Settings:

• Summer camps
• Classrooms
• Out-of-school time programs
• Libraries and makerspaces

Tech Requirements:

• 10 laptops or Chromebook® computers with Internet access

Professional Development:

• Includes a free half-hour webinar orientation when your purchase totals $500+
• Includes a free 1-hour webinar orientation when your purchase totals $1,000+
• Additional training available for purchase by special request

21st-Century Skills:
Helps students develop a set of widely applicable abilities essential for success in the information age:

• Communication and collaboration
• Creativity and innovation
• Critical thinking and problem-solving
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Information, media, and technology literacy
• Leadership and responsibility
• Productivity and accountability
• Social and cross-cultural skills

Standards Alignments:
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.5: Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6: Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.2: Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.8.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.2: Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source.

International Society for Technology in Education Standards

• Empowered Learner: Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.
• 1.1d: Technology Operations: Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations; demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies; and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
• 1.6a: Choose Platforms or Tools: Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
• 1.6b: Original and Remixed Works: Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
• 1.6c: Models and Visualizations: Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

National Core Arts Standards

• VA:Cr2.1.6a: Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design.
• VA:Cr2.1.7a: Demonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design.
• VA:Cr2.2.7a: Demonstrate awareness of ethical responsibility to oneself and others when posting and sharing images and other materials through the internet, social media, and other communication formats.