The Student Creative

The Student Creative
A Global Arts Challenge

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I hope to offer some inspiration and resources for your classrooms,
while at the same time invite you all to participate in this year’s challenge,
MyThology!

Matt Cauthron

Digital Arts Technology Academy,
Cathedral City High School

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e Student Creative is a collection of global art
challenges which invites secondary students from
around the globe to collaborate on a common theme.

Selected digital images, video, and animation are
arranged as a digital text and made available as a benefit
for the Jacaranda Foundation in Malawi.

StudentCreative.org


Do schools REALLY kill creativity?

Not in the arts!

I wanted to show HOW creativity was being taught, further emphasize
the importance of the arts, while at the same time answer my own
question of what WAS creativity


Over 12,000 members World Wide!

David Gran Mike Skocko Matt Cauthron
Shanghai Valhalla Cathedral City
American High School High School
School, China San Diego, CA Palm Springs, CA


www.carrotrevolution.com/rotoball

http://maclab.guhsd.net/

http://digitalartsed.ning.com/

Paint the World with Light


This was just getting started during CAEA, Los Angeles. What we noticed was
that we were doing the same thing on basically opposites sides of the world.
This commonality is what guides our projects

Inviting students to....
use light painting to suggest a story or
reveal something magical about the
places that they live.



We were certainly building the plane as we ﬂew it. And it was gaining
momentum...
When it hit the NPR photo blog it was that phone book moment from The Jerk!


From there, we produced the ﬁrst Student Creative book for print.
With all proceeds beneﬁting the Jacaranda Foundation, a school for children of
the AIDS epidemic in Malawi.


So, continuing with our common curriculum...
We went from SLOW shutter speeds to FAST based on Phillipe Halsmann’s
Jumpology

to use high speed photography to
capture an instance of magical realism.



During the production of this book, Blurb made the print version downloadable
for the iPad....

http://edexchange.adobe.com

Over 68,000 members world wide


Now the ball is getting rolling! We opened it up to all media and
also encountered the conversation of Creative Commons vs.
100% student created.

learn about Surrealism by creating a self
portrait that contains clues about their life,
dreams, culture, and community using
operational techniques for transformation.


For this, David put together a nice presentation on Operational
Techniques.
We’re also starting to see more resource sharing from
participants (Pintrest, etc)!


Now the ball is starting to roll! A little more coverage in
SchoolArts magazine....


... and we’ve got the ear of Adobe Education, and here they
come with a new tool
for digital book making....

http://edexchange.adobe.com/posts/04f00110ea


... the Digital Publishing Suite (DPS).
Download Adobe Viewer on the iPad and get a copy of
SurrealisticMe the AEE!

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Now we’re looking at THREE books for print and the iPad with over
20 schools from the US, Asia, the UK, and South America

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We now have a new website to support this year’s project, MyThology! We
actually tried several other sites encouraging interaction between schools, but
are seeing that ArtEd2.0 and the AEE are two sites where teachers live to
converse

investigate a modern interpretation of
classical and cultural myths.


For this, David put together a nice presentation on Operational
Techniques.
We’re also starting to see more resource sharing from
participants (Pintrest, etc)!

• Retell a classic myth that explains
something about the modern world.

• Create a work of art about a
mythical creature that lives in their
community.

• Create a work of art about a modern
god.


All media will be considered from traditional media, through
digital arts, and into animation and video.
Since we’ve gone from PRINT > CROSS MEDIA, we can include
MORE s t u d e n t c r e a t i v i t y!


Desert funky > Cahuilla Culture is how my students
may approach it

Please consider joining us on...

http://edexchange.adobe.com

http://arted20.ning.com/


Look me up!

Now lets look at some books...
(Don’t let me forget about the rafﬂe!)


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