Video can inform, document, entertain, and instruct. Like paint, clay, or language, video can be a medium for creative expression and communication. VidKids exposes students to a whole new world-one beyond that which they see on television. Students get to see a variety of innovative and unique videos made by artists and other young people, and participate in a series of activities designed to help them articulate their own visions. VidKids encourages creativity and exploration in the video medium.
Video is a part of everyday life for today's kids.
Some families own camcorders, and most schools use this equipment every day. Children are also familiar with video through television. Yet while kids are well aquainted with video, their relationship to the medium is most often passive in nature-as television viewers or as the objects of their parents' video footage. VidKids seeks to change this by putting kids on the other side of the camera. VidKids activities are designed to put the camera into kids' hands, and to give them the opportunity to discover first-hand the technical and creative possibilities of video.