SPEAKER INTERVIEW: Sami McGraw

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Sami McGraw is 13 years old and in the 8th grade. Sami loves taking video anytime she can and often uses video as her tool for school projects. She contributes videos to her mom’s blog. Sami has been taking dance for many years and would like to do something with dance and video as a career.

website: Scraps of My Geek Life
session: The Family That Blogs Together , Saturday, June 30, 11:15 AM 

How did you get involved with blogging?
My mom blogs and sometimes she has me help her with reviews and posts.

What’s your favorite technology to help you blog/write/tweet/edit?
My iPhone, because it’s portable and can hold everything!

If you could travel back in time and send yourself a message, what would it be?
I would give myself the advice to stay focused in school to get a better education.

What are you going to talk about at the conference?
Families using vlogging.

What’s next for you after the Digital Family Summit?
Going back to school and starting a new dance season.

Anything else you’d like to tell us?
I am a dancer and my mom likes to take pictures and videos of the dance life of my sister and I.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 Adam Gertsacov is the co-founder and co-organizer of Digital Family Summit.  He wears many hats, including those of a professional clown, an author and publisher, an artist/educator, a non-profit administrator, a P.T. Barnum impersonator, a flea circus impresario, and the esteemed hat of the Clown Laureate of Greenbelt, Maryland.