This document summarizes a collaborative project between high school students at Cathedral City High School's DATA Digital Imaging program and elementary students at Rio Vista Elementary. The project involved high school students editing an ancient Greek myth into a story suitable for elementary-aged children, working with elementary students to illustrate the story, and then digitizing the illustrations into a video and ebook. Both high school and elementary students found the collaboration engaging and beneficial. The finished project was shared globally online and submitted to a competition.

1. C re at i n g
PSUSD Board Presentation
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2. Creating Pandora’s Box
Matt Cauthron
DATA Digital Imaging,
Cathedral City High School
http://data-di.blogspot.com/
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3. The Big Idea
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This project was designed in the Challenge Based Learning format. I was lucky enough to be
selected as 1 of 18 educators from across the country to work w/Karen Cator and the Apple
Education team on the curriculum design side of the CBL project.

4. To provide a collaborative learning
experience between elementary
and high school students which
focuses on the arts and
emphasizes a variety of technology
and 21st Century skills.
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5. Inspired by the art work of Yeondoo Jung
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It is very intriguing how truly pure the creative mind’s of young children are and how
important it is to provide learning experiences that exercise their creativity.

6. The Process
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It is more about the “Village” and the process vs. the product!
-working together collaboratively with a visual arts & technology focus was the foundation
***When I pitched it to my students they were VERY excited by the possibility of working with
young students in the schools they attended.

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I really want to emphasize the inspirational work of the elementary students and the pure
excitement the students had working together!

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I really want to emphasize the inspirational work of the elementary students and the pure
excitement the students had working together!

9. Di sophomore Taylor Burns edited a 21 segemnts of
the myth suitable for elementary students
also a Spotlight award finalist!
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*The story was selected by Mr. David Vogel, ex-President of Buena Vista Pictures.
I worked with Taylor for several weeks storyboarding and breaking down multiple
versions of the story to accommodate the age group. I honestly lost track of how many
versions we wrote... luckily we had access to Acrobat.com so typing could occur in ‘the
Cloud.’

10. Di students visited Joel Bible & Sabrina Molhoekeʼs
Rio Vista classrooms to read the story
& sketch the segments w/3rd graders
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Sometimes elementary students are the tuffest audience! I’ve had kids up speaking in public
before, but this time it was interesting to see them more nervous then when speaking to
adults.

11. VPA specialist Louisa Castrodale created
watercolors with the 3rd graders from the drawings
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Without the coordination & assistance of Louisa as the Visual & Performing Arts specialist,
this project may not ever have gotten of the ground.

12. Di students shot, edited, and/or composited their
interpretation of the 3rd graderʼs paintings
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After the water colors were brought over to CCHS, Di students began the re-creation part of
the process

13. Di students returned to Rio Vista to present their
digital imagery to the 3rd grade students
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We could very well have been showing them rocks! They were so genuinely enthusiastic
merely about having the high school students returning to interact, that the art was
secondary.... it was again more about the process and peer relationship.

14. Di students made further edits to their work in
preparation for publishing
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15. RV 3rd grade teacher Joel Bible worked with his
student Fayth Clayton on narration for the video
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16. RV 3rd grade teacher Joel Bible worked with his
student Fayth Clayton on narration for the video
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17. Di senior Ben Nickerson created motion graphics,
compiled media, and edited the video
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18. Di students Caroline Parra & Jocael Suarez
complied the text / imagery and edited the digital book
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Available soon to purchase online via Blurb.com....
***Free in digital formats through issuu and hopefully the ADE channel on iTunes U!

19. The Solution(s)
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1. Presenting their work at Rio Vista
2. Sharing their work with a local AND global community
3. Publishing their work for students and the world to see in a professional manner

20. sharing w/a global education community
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Leading by example in communities of educators who are also doing great things....
sharing student talent, providing wonderful examples for others to learn from.
As of 4/12/11...
AE20 = 8800 members
AEE = 12,300 members

21. sharing w/a global education community
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Leading by example in communities of educators who are also doing great things....
sharing student talent, providing wonderful examples for others to learn from.
As of 4/12/11...
AE20 = 8800 members
AEE = 12,300 members

22. sharing w/a global education community
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Leading by example in communities of educators who are also doing great things....
sharing student talent, providing wonderful examples for others to learn from.
As of 4/12/11...
AE20 = 8800 members
AEE = 12,300 members

23. sharing w/a global education community
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Leading by example in communities of educators who are also doing great things....
sharing student talent, providing wonderful examples for others to learn from.
As of 4/12/11...
AE20 = 8800 members
AEE = 12,300 members

24. authentic media publishing
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Always reinforcing the celebration of our student’s talents!
*It REALLY raises the bar when they know that their work will be seen by a global audience.
**I often think that our work is more ‘known’ across global educational communities then
here at home.

25. authentic media publishing
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Always reinforcing the celebration of our student’s talents!
*It REALLY raises the bar when they know that their work will be seen by a global audience.
**I often think that our work is more ‘known’ across global educational communities then
here at home.

26. authentic media publishing
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Always reinforcing the celebration of our student’s talents!
*It REALLY raises the bar when they know that their work will be seen by a global audience.
**I often think that our work is more ‘known’ across global educational communities then
here at home.

27. authentic media publishing
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Always reinforcing the celebration of our student’s talents!
*It REALLY raises the bar when they know that their work will be seen by a global audience.
**I often think that our work is more ‘known’ across global educational communities then
here at home.

28. authentic media publishing
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Always reinforcing the celebration of our student’s talents!
*It REALLY raises the bar when they know that their work will be seen by a global audience.
**I often think that our work is more ‘known’ across global educational communities then
here at home.

29. Our collaborative DigiCom submission
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Not only will this be viewed on the DATA websites, it will be submitted as a collaborative
project for DigiCom. The

30. Our collaborative DigiCom submission
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Not only will this be viewed on the DATA websites, it will be submitted as a collaborative
project for DigiCom. The

31. Reflections
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I would really like to find further opportunities to establish a peer system for projects like this
to continue in Cathedral City schools or PSUSD.

32. "Editing Pandora’s Box was definitely difficult. It
took a lot of storyboarding and thinking. I tried to
put my words in a child’s brain so they could
understand the meaning of the whole story."
-Taylor Burns, DATA Di Sophomore
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33. “The experience with the 3rd graders at Rio vista
was interesting. Communication was majorly
important, listening to the kids and providing input
for their sketches, while explaining to them what
they needed to draw was challenging. My word was
"Fear" and explaining what the word meant to them
and how to draw it out on paper took a lot of
thinking and brainstorming. It was fun listening to
the kids and all their amazingly creative ideas.”
-Kimberlyn Gonzalez, DATA Di Junior
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34. "My students were so excited about teaming with the
high school students for this project. They asked me
everyday when they were coming back to share their
pictures. My class discussed the types of jobs that
someone who had these technical skills might aspire
to in the future. It was a great time of collaboration
and mentoring!"
-Joel Bible, Rio Vista 3rd Grade Teacher
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35. “My students were very excited to work with DATA Di
students and many of them told me that they "felt like
real artists" afterwards. In fact, it was great to see some
of my less-academically successful kids really shine. They
were so proud of the way that the high school kids picked
up on their unique ideas and included them. When the
project was finished many of my students told me how
excited they were to be able to take art classes "when they
grew up" (in High School).”
~Sabrina Molhoek, Rio Vista 3rd Grade Teacher
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36. Learn more
http://data-di.wikispaces.com/Pandora’s+Box
Visit DATA-Di @
http://data-di.blogspot.com/
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Thank you for supporting the arts, technology, and creativity in our schools!