A film crew on a Siem Reap street: a camera on a tripod, two people filming on phones, and a presenter speaking

Social Media School · SMS

Tell the story. Where they already are.

រឿងរ៉ាវ

Storytelling and digital ministry, for the generation already living there.

Running now

Craft and calling, on the same screen.

Students in a bright classroom looking up at a lesson

The Social Media School is three months of training young Cambodians to use their creative gifts to teach others about God and reach their communities in new ways. Cambodia is one of the youngest countries in the world, and its young people live online. This school exists to educate Cambodian youth and equip them to share the gospel through media.

It is a secondary school of the University of the Nations, taught in Khmer and English, with real projects for real ministries. You leave with skills, a portfolio, and a clearer sense of what you have to say.

What you learn

01

Storytelling

How to find the story, shape it, and tell it honestly — in a post, a reel, a short film.

02

Camera & sound

Phones, cameras, lenses, light and audio: enough craft to make the story look and sound the way it deserves.

03

Editing

Cutting video, colour, captions and graphics with the tools your audience already scrolls past.

04

Platforms & strategy

What works where, when to post, how to read the numbers, and how to stay sane doing it.

05

Digital ministry

Carrying the gospel into the place a generation actually lives, with integrity and without gimmicks.

06

A real project

Students produce work for YWAM Siem Reap and partner ministries during the school — the portfolio is the coursework.

A media class in the studio: students at white desks listening to a teacher beside the lights and a camera rig
A teacher at his laptop in the studio, studio lights and a gimbal behind him
SMS students editing together at a desk of monitors in the media room
A student working at his laptop by the window
A student at his desk by the window, grinning at the camera
A student standing to share, a book in his hands

SMS information

Dates

Next school
To be announced
Length
Three months

Cost

Fees
To be announced

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Details

Location
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Prerequisite
None, no DTS needed
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Campus life

Where you will live while you train.

One campus, Khmer and international, shared meals, our own café, and Angkor twenty minutes down the road. Here is what living here is actually like.

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Say something true. Say it well.

Tell us a little about yourself and what you already make, and we will let you know when the next Social Media School opens for applications.

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