A 3000 photograph mosaic celebrating the history of Rollins College on it's 125th anniversary. After working with the Alumni Relations Office, Archiving Department at Olin Library and collecting the most recent generation of Rollins students, the photo mosaic was displayed during Alumni Weekend corresponding with the 125th Anniversary.

https://tinyurl.com/RCmosaic

This was an article that the marketing and advancement office wanted me to tell some of my stories, experience and focus on learning. I've had lots of jobs, many different cultures, people and places that prepares me for lots of problem solutions.

Tin Tuc - School Feature: Cecil Mack

As we didn't have the ability to have new and existing parents come on campus due to COVID, we wanted to connect the school with the amazing things that were happening across divisions. The team build this amazing day of recording that showed how much is still happening in person even during the hardest time in a lot of our lives. After lockdown we wanted students to document learning with our AV Club.

AV Club Twitter Post

In collaboration with GEMS X and Dubai American Academy in November 2019 we will be opening the Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence, the first of it's kind for K-12 students to gain exposure and research the growing field of AI and Machine Learning.

Educating 100 students in the first year of the COE, beginning to advanced programmers will connect their learning to robotic arms, VR and autonomous cars.

https://vimeo.com/360792763

Capturing the innovation stories of Dubai American Academy, this session will visit the pathways developed for students to take classroom passion projects into viable global technological solutions. Disrupting traditional models of education and having fun in the learning process this collection of stories will be a glimpse of what the future holds.

https://www.gitex.com/foc-conference/presentation-future-focused-student-education

650 Middle School students spent 3 months researching various technologies, robotics, design and creative tools to design a purposeful solution. During the exhibition day, DAA community, parents, leadership and elementary students attended the innovation celebration.

Technologies Used: AR, VR, Arduino, SAM labs, 3d Doodler Pens, Pepper the Robot, Scratch Coding, Parrot Drones and much much more.

https://vimeo.com/309711083

The Global Innovation Challenge is an opportunity for students to take exponential technologies and apply them to problems that they care most about. This GEMS wide initiative partnered with Singularity University to determine the best candidates across elementary to high school students leading to a selection of the best in categories before selecting the best overall to support to workshopping their ideas into reality. As a committee member and coordinator, my role was to support student teams, schools, teachers, staff, events and awards process.

Events Page: https://www.facebook.com/GEMSGIC/

After their successes with the Global Innovation Challenge, a group of DAA Middle School students created a huge brain model inside Minecraft. Their problem was that many children diagnosed with brain diseases needed a safer environment to learn about the procedures and treatments they would undergo. After presenting to a panel of educators, they would continue conversations with Microsoft Education and local Children's Neurologist here in the UAE.

Link to Student Interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF_BCJ9dii4

This years Junior Middle East South Asia Conference was held at Dubai American Academy where students participated in Music, Choir, Art and Drama/Film. As the Drama/Film Coordinator, students from all over the UAE participated in a 48 hour film festival, writing, recording, editing and presenting their films for the entire conference. The films were outstanding in quality for the short amount of time the students had.

Link to Event Video:

https://tinyurl.com/y769bjyu

Sharing the story of the DAA Innovation program from curriculum, design, theory and practical application to technology based service learning.

Conference Website:

http://www.21clhk.org/presenters/

Link to Presentation: HERE

After weeks of focus on a single project, students in the middle school Dubai American Academy program created projects that would solve future problems for others to different degrees. Grade 6 would create future devices, Grade 7 would create future living spaces while Grade 8 would create future solutions for others.

Link to Student Presentations

https://padlet.com/DAAinnovate/2018Exhibition

A collaboration between Middle and High school students continue the tradition of the seasonal show with auditions, rehearsals, tech integration and more at the most professional level of production.

Production Website:

http://tinyurl.com/LSOH-drama

The "Power of You" conference visited students in Kilifi & Nairobi Kenya sharing drama, visual arts, games and empowering them to support their local communities.

Volunteer Reflection:

https://tinyurl.com/NA-Kenya2017

Dubai American Academy middle school students were trained and selected to be apart of the media press for the red carpet premiere of the movie "Ferdinand" during the Dubai Film Festival 2017.

Festival Website:

www.dubaifilmfest.com

Creating the curriculum, units and tech integration of the Innovate program in the Middle School at DAA, students design service projects to improve future living.

Event Preview:

http://tinyurl.com/DAA-FutureLivingVideo

With Necessary Arts, an outreach drama program that supports the education of those in need, young thespians wrote and produced a play sharing human stories of survival and recovery.

Performance Trailer:

https://tinyurl.com/NA-CMH

During a half day, students went through the solution fluency to connect the UN Global goals with a find meaningful change to to the world using rapid prototyping.

Video Reflection:

http://tinyurl.com/DAAinnovate2change

During the innovation showcase of many schools, contributed to planning, connecting and collaborating in great student driven project sharing of the region.

Event Twitter Feed:

http://www.nesacenter.org/events/fall-leadership-conference

During a shared block, 80 students create a theater company where the theater technology group learns about audio, lighting, special effects and stage management to produce a magical show of HAIRSPRAY in 2018!

Students were tasked with selecting an existing technology at Dubai American Academy they would like to learn about and produce a video making suggestions how they could be used.

Link to Video: https://youtu.be/ls68DbxhYIM

This teacher professional development workshop was designed to target schools in need of sharing students stories, finding the right technology to share and amplify their messages. In this interactive, fun workshop we learned how to be visual communicators while preparing our students as future storymakers.

Event Website:

http://fit2017.weebly.com/

In this demo presentation, using the Do Ink Green Screen app, I share stories of multi-layering chroma key videos, pictures and live camera feeds to create awesome videos quickly.

Presentation:

https://tinyurl.com/doinkDEMO

Student interactive workshop that researched big questions concerning the care, protection and growth of bee populations in communities.

Project Notes:

https://padlet.com/cwmack3/keepingbees

Hosted by SWIS, schools brought their band and choir students to perform a concert in the Poly Theater of Shenzhen April 2017.

Event Video:

https://youtu.be/xU9LyxIQn18

An annual gathering of school leadership, educators and innovators to share creative ideas for learners. Presenting on the importance of real and memorable experiences when producing student led video productions, it should always connect to an intended audience.

Event Flyer:

https://9thannual21stcenturylearnin2017.sched.com/speaker/cecilmack

An opportunity for future filmmakers to have workshops and awards sponsored by the American Consulate of Guanzhou, China. In our first year we had over 50 films, 30 schools and hundreds of future filmmakers share their digital stories.

Event Website:

http://www.scsfilmfest.com/

A professional development opportunity ACAMIS teachers to learn about creating classroom videos.

http://tinyurl.com/ACAMIStech

An environmental conference composing of guest speakers, workshops and discussions on earth-friendly initiatives by schools in China.

http://www.ecoedchina.com/

An article profiling Cecil Mack and his contributions to the Dongguan community. In the article he shares his professional educator philosophy and experiences at ISD. Article is written in Mandarin.

http://bit.ly/2mlgnGA

ACAMIS hosted cultural convention is a variety of workshops building to a showcase after two days of learning and producing. Hosted by Suzhou Singapore International School.

https://tinyurl.com/ACAMISanimation

An article profiling Cecil and Irina about their meeting in Dongguan China and the benefits of living and learning internationally.

ISS Global Educator Website

An article documenting the student journey of producing an original theatrical play turned video production. In a matter of months, students learned to adapt the script from page to stage then to screen.

https://tinyurl.com/zslzd8t

Seeds for Hope is a UNESCO style conference held in Dongguan bringing awareness to social issues effecting children. Keynote speaker: Kim Phuc. Hosted by the International School of Dongguan.

http://tinyurl.com/KimHubHao

Professional development opportunity for the most innovative teachers, students and leaders to share with the edTech community. Hosted by the American School of Bombay.

http://www.asbunplugged.org/unplugged2016.htm

An article published by the International School Services newsletter on the production of the ISD Blackbox "Dream" Theater.

https://tinyurl.com/newslinksBB

A service learning workshop facilitated by Cathryn Berger Kaye and the importance of modeling real service learning in education and globally.

An art exhibition from Africa hosted by the International School of Dongguan for the community in the form of charity auctions, workshops and art viewings.

http://tinyurl.com/DGtingatinga

A Rollins College news article on a 1:1 elementary class at Audubon Park Elementary. In the article it shares the observations of what it takes to have a balanced technology classroom, how much is too much and how student advocacy can be the most powerful tool in the room.

Link to the Rollins Article:
https://tinyurl.com/y9x7v7tx

A reality tv show where artists and engineers design motorcycles, cars and vehicles for celebrity guests such as 50 Cent, Jon Cena, Battleship Movie and Susan B. Coleman charity foundation. Under the leadership of the Syfy Channel, the show was produced in Florida with the indent of bringing the most talented fabricators, mechanics, artists, designers, engineers, special effects artists and video production crew to make the most amazing program in this single season show run.

Link to the SyFy Television Program:

https://tinyurl.com/syfydream

A community building project where the Rollins College community submitted content to a Time capsule to be opened every 25 years. As a means of collecting current student, teacher, staff and alumni stories it encourages participation in the great school who prepared us for the future.

Link to the Rollins News Article:

http://tinyurl.com/RCcapsule

An article written on the Field study to Guatemala where Rollins students and staff assisted in Eco-Tourism Coffee farm of ex-guerillas looking to preserve their culture, traditions and peaceful coffee farming.

https://tinyurl.com/RCguatemala

This annual forum for social issues for communities located in the USA, the Rollins students volunteered their time to act as documentary photographers and video producers to Urban Gardening, beekeepers, gender equality and more.

http://r-net.rollins.edu/news/2010/06/ussf.html

An article profiling Cecil Mack and capturing his reflections on becoming a 21st century learner and global citizenship. It even shares my dreams of becoming an international teacher. In the article, Cecil explains the important balance of traditional learning methods, the most current technologies and best classroom practices to ensure genuine student growth in learning.

https://tinyurl.com/cmWalkrc

A commissioned 5000 photograph mosaic celebrating the growth of the Community Service program at Rollins College. After the 10 years of successful community service, service learning, advocate and support programs were initiated to bring the wider Winter Park Community together, the Community Service program's photographs across 10 years were celebrated in the making of this photo mosaic.

Quote was inspiration for the 2007 Honda Element Brochure. After spending 7 Years meeting people, trying foods and collecting people stories this goal of visiting all 50 states was completed.

A 3000 photograph mosaic celebrating the history of Rollins College on it's 125th anniversary. After working with the Alumni Relations Office, Archiving Department at Olin Library and collecting the most recent generation of Rollins students, the photo mosaic was displayed during Alumni Weekend corresponding with the 125th Anniversary.

https://tinyurl.com/RCmosaic