As a way to encourage collaboration and creativity, this project involves using classes (or teachers) from two different places. Each sends the other approximately 5 photos from their region. The other needs to make an interesting collage using 2 or more of the photos they were given to work with. Then they send back their creation and keep going. As an experiment, I tried this with fellow teacher and Adobe Education Leader, Ross Wallis. He edited the sailboat collage with my photos using Photoshop Touch, and I edited the crow collage with his photos using Photoshop CS6. Mine were taken in the San Francisco Bay Area, and his were taken in Cork, Ireland. Along with this lesson plan/project idea, I'm posting the results of our experiment to get an idea. I think this is a great way to motivate students on a global collaboration level. Students would enjoy the challenge of using someone else's photo, but it is also fun to see what others can do with your photos. It's also a great way to "gamify" the curriculum.

This is a unique 2 credit block Digital Media course designed for students interested in Indigenous Education. The focus of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to embrace, document, depict, digitalize all of our cultures while experimenting with digital media. The course is made up of two grade 12 MST courses. In addition to successfully completing this 2 credit course, student with an 80% (or higher) and who meet the articulation agreement, will receive Digital Media credits at the University of Winnipeg. Digital Voices incorporates a variety of materials, techniques, tools, technologies, and skills from various arts disciplines including dance, drama, music, and visual arts. The technologies/ processes used and adapted to create digital media art may be traditional, including, but not limited to, photography, film, sound, animation, and video. The technologies and processes may also be digital: computer software, blogging, networking, game development, digital imaging, digital sound recording, 2D and 3D animation, multimedia production, web 2.0, and web-page design. Two years ago I had a vision of the evolution of the classroom. An opportunity for 21st century learners to embrace their culture, their stories their past and their future through cutting edge technology and inverted pedagogy. Our project is called Digital Voices, please take a look around our site www.digitalvoices.ca, this is the future! I have learned so much from the current generation of digital students. I would like to thank the students for challenging me to change, it has been an honour to be educated by you through the integration mobile devices in the classroom, the collaboration with students around the world, how you challenge educators to examine the ethical and responsible use of social media. How you are demanding a change in how we, the educators, need to prepare future generations for a connected world. As we prepare for the future, it is obvious that next year will be even more revolutionary, exciting and cutting edge. Here is the answer for your demand for change. Our grassroots program is spreading, Digital Voices is going global! I am so excited about our new partnerships which have been formed. In June 2012, 8 educators from around the world have collaborated on the evolution of the Digital Voices platform. We have developed cross curricular activities, inverted resources for 21st century educators and the will for change. I would like to thank educators from the Winnipeg School Division for embracing Digital Voices and becoming a stakeholder in this 21st century pedagogy. I would also like to thank Mr. Marc Dubeau from Osgoode SS in Ottawa and Mr. Frank Machos from the School of the Future in Philadelphia for becoming stakeholders in the Digital Voices program.

Make an iconic graphic representation of yourself with visuals and text • Use your own photographs and manipulate it to make a portrait of yourself. • Create a portrait collage of yourself with scanned or stock images and text that represent you. • The final image should represent you. • Tell a story about yourself, what you are through this creative process. • Use creative solutions and design elements to create the portrait. • Keep the document resolution to 72 pixels per inch and document size to 3inch by 5inch Save the Final finished image to 1. Save the file to JPG format, GIF format, pdf, TIFF format and .png format. Keep the resolution to 72 pixels per inch. Note the file size for each format. Four files will be saved. Grading: 20 points 10 points for doing what is required 10 points for evidence of investigation in the topic, exploration in the software, creativity and aesthetics