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"If you're a teacher, what are you doing to foster collaboration among your students? And I'm talking more than putting them into groups of four and having the students create a PowerPoint presentation together. What are you really doing to fundamentally change the structure of your classroom from one of isolation (do your own work), to one of collaboration (work with others)? What are you doing to build their skills to succeed in a corporate environment that requires them to collaborate on a global scale? If you're a student, what are you doing to improve your own collaboration skills - and those of your peers? What are you demanding of your schools, your teachers, your administrators to help prepare you for the collaborative marketplace that is your future?"

In the midst of explaining my decision to Jim Bouchard, Senior Program Development Specialist & OLLI Coordinator at CSUDH, the creative light bulb went off in my head and electrified my brain with a solution. I pitched Jim on the idea of letting the Crenshaw High School Digital Media Team teach the class.