[Music] [Music] [Music] I always say about kids this age that I want
to teach them to utilize their iPhones iPads all this technology as a tool as creators
not just as consumers and so giving them the space and the tools to explore that
whether it's cultural their connection to place their connection to each other it
just it helps them build confidence [Music] we are focusing on Lingít language learning
through stop-motion animation and short form podcasting I think it's really amazing to w
atch
them go from I have an idea to developing a story creating a storyboard drawing the images and
then animating it and then they add the audio and they're like oh my gosh I just did this so
it's that's the best part for me is seeing that light in their eyes and they're like this is my
story and now everyone gets to see it so sharing their stories is kind of the the final piece
of what they get to do culture Camp I have been making friends while being able to do stop motion
animation wel
l I love all the people here and the arts and projects are really cool they've
helped me understand like what I can and can't do with all this stuff here and like what I can add
and maybe take away when these uh kids came here um I didn't know in when I met them they're
now just my friends and a lot of them well you should come here because you love arts
and crafts and um you've always wanted to learn um like Lingít language and stuff coming back
to this as kind of somebody who's more on th
e teaching side of things which is really
cool but it's just like such a reminder of like how important like culture
is to like kids confidence [Music] I think again it's it's really that it's not
about making one defined product it's really about making this atmosphere of exploration
where kids can really experiment and and take risk in a safe way and and try something out
it's exciting to see what they're interested in and let that student voice and student
interests lead the way and I f
ind if you do that then you excite them even more and then
at the end they feel really empowered so my hope is they'll take their skills that they've
learned and they'll continue to tell their stories and they'll learn more about animation
and it'll be exciting to see what they do [Music]
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