I’m headed to Baltimore to the 2nd annual Digital Family Summit. This interactive, hands-on conference is for young digital media creators and their families. If your tween is interested in blogging, entrepreneurship, creating videos, games or animations this conference will help build skills and make connections that will take him or her to the next level.
I was in attendance last year with my family and am headed back this year with a new alter-ego, the speaker wrangler. If I were to imagine what I should look like during Digital Family, I’d be wearing cowboy boots, spurs, and carrying a lasso to round everyone up in time for their sessions. What I’ll really look like is a busy gal, sprinting around the conference area in dress pants and a sweater, topped off with my ever stylish sneakers. (Hey, a gal has to save her feet.)
What is it about Digital Family Summit that caused me to attend the first year, and come back and work this year? Put simply, I believe in their mission. Digital Family Summit was created when co-founders Stephanie Schwab, Adam Gertascov, and Jennie Baird, realized that “many of our kids, nieces, nephews and friends’ kids were getting more and more engaged in creating blogs, digital video, Etsy storefronts, pinboards on Polyvore and Pinterest, and tweeting and Facebooking up a storm. These digital natives, meaning they don’t know a time without the Internet, seem to live and breathe on the Internet.”
The Digital Family Summit is a place where tweens/teens and parents at all levels of digital activity can come together to learn and grow as individuals and as a family. We’re as concerned as you are about digital safety, kids’ privacy, and online bullying, and we explore those topics at the Summit, but equally so, we are making digital creation and engagement a healthy, fun, expressive activity that encourages kids to share: with their parents as well as with their friends.
We hope parents as well as tweens and teens will learn new skills, explore new means of expression, and gain confidence in their online personas.
If you’re a parent, auntie, uncle, godparent, etc., check out Digital Family Summit. Some of us can keep up; others have tried, but thrown up their hands and cried “uncle.”
Who Should Attend Digital Family Summit:
Families with tween/teen-aged kids who are either already creating or interested in learning how to create digital media, including blogs and video, and who are engaging on social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Polyvore, etc.).
If your kids are digital creators and you’re not: please come!
If you’re a digital creator and your kids are not, but they’re interested: please come!
If you are all digital creators and want to learn more: please come!
If you want to learn how to make digital content a family affair: please come!
About Digital Family Summit (FAQS):
http://www.digitalfamilysummit.com/faq/
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