Activity: Practice Body Language and Facial Expressions

You may not have thought about practicing body language or facial expressions before. You can practice body language to demonstrate you are a strong communicator just like performers practice body motions and expressions to help convey an emotion on stage or in a video. Review the tips for body language and determine which ones you feel comfortable with. Also, determine those you might practice. Discuss these tips with other Digital Ambassadors and determine how you, as a group, prefer to use some of these gestures. Which ones do you need to practice so you are convincing when you do use them?

One fun way to practice is to create cards that each have an emotion written on them. You can also have someone call out an emotion and act it out--either with your face or your entire body. You can also go the opposite way and act out emotions and have people tell you what they're seeing.

You can find facial expression charts online, or it can be a lot of fun to make your own!