Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Comics in the Classrooms
I've just been confirmed as a speaker, part of a panel, at Comic Con on Saturday, July 23. I use comics, the planning, writing and illustration as a vehicle for digital citizenship education through a super-hero lense. Pretty excited about the possibilities, and, of course, being in San Diego for the greatest show in this genre!
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Hi Jeff. That sounds exciting! My dad is an art teacher with SF unified, working with various STAR schools and he also has gotten into comic books in the last year or so (partially my doing given my love of comic books growing up). He creates his own stuff as well. He wants to create his own portal online for his stuff and I have told him to start with linking some of his stuff to his own Facebook. Now that I am starting to get into blogging a little, I see that this may be another interesting avenue for him.
Hi Jeff, This is Vanessa Fadden from your iTec 601 class. I loved coming across this post. I just moved to the Bay Area from San Diego. Comic Con is definitely one of San Diego's biggest events, and it brings so much culture and excitment to the city. I have honestly never thought about using comic con for educational purposes. I think it would be awesome to connect this to obviously Art, but what about other subjects like Theater, English, Math, Social Science? I would love to connect it to PE as well. I hope to one day move back to San Diego and find employment down there and I think it would be so much fun to base a unit around this because all the students know about it and are usually big fans! Thanks for sharing.
I have been wanting to go to Comic Con for the past couple of years, but for one reason or the other I wasn't able to make it. How was your experience? Did you come home with lots of different ideas you can incorporate into the classroom? I can imagine how it can be incorporated from an Art point of view, but am not really sure how it can be linked to PE. Maybe sometime in the near future I can make it down there and experience it for myself.
-Zoila Marquez
ITEC 601 Fall 11
I have been wanting to go to Comic Con for the past couple of years, but for one reason or the other I wasn't able to make it. How was your experience? Did you come home with lots of different ideas you can incorporate into the classroom? I can imagine how it can be incorporated from an Art point of view, but am not really sure how it can be linked to PE. Maybe sometime in the near future I can make it down there and experience it for myself.
-Zoila Marquez
ITEC 601 Fall 11
Hi Jeff. Sara from your 601 class. I am really looking forward to using comics in my classes next semester, especially for my English Language Development students. I would really like them to read some graphic novels, but then create their own comics as well. Nice blog!
Hi Jeff, this is Mandy Rubin from ITEC 601. I was happy to learn that comics are effective in the classroom. I remember reading MAUS, a comic about WW2, that was a part of the reading assignments for a college course for Jewish History. I thought it was super interesting and effective. I'm working with second graders, and I think that a super-hero's view points and interpretations would be a fun strategy to engage the kids and teach with.
Hi Professor Brain:
I thoroughly enjoyed learning in your class, ITEC 601 this spring 2012. You made me reconsider how vast this world of technology and its usefulness in the classroom, really is. And I am now a true convert to the possibility that through this medium we help to create classroom community. Thank you...next step comics--or should I write, "the next frontier...comics". Thank you.
Respectfully Submitted,
~Bayinaah
Hi Professor Brain:
I thoroughly enjoyed learning in your class, ITEC 601 this spring 2012. You made me reconsider how vast this world of technology and its usefulness in the classroom, really is. And I am now a true convert to the possibility that through this medium we help to create classroom community. Thank you...next step comics--or should I write, "the next frontier...comics". Thank you.
Respectfully Submitted,
~Bayinaah
I love using comic strips in Spanish class. Some of them are great for explaining grammar points (I used one to show the difference between "ser" and "estar", the two verb forms of "to be" as part of PACT). It definitely helped my students get an idea of the difference. I use others to introduce topics or start conversations. I mostly have them projected as a part of a "Do Now" activity. I have gotten most of them from Facebook, I find them circulating in my news feed. I like the fact that they are current, so culturally speaking, they are a real contribution in natural Spanish, which is what they would encounter in a newspaper or magazine. Comics are a window into other languages, and one of the most difficult things to understand when learning another language. Many of them are iconic (in Spanish: Mafalda and Condorito, for example).
Hi Dr. Brain. I think it this is very relevant to the course modules I have completed today, as well as some of the conversations I have had. I was just talking with an English teacher friend of mine who is struggling with getting her middle school students interested in reading. I suggested comics and/or graphic novels, which relates to this posting, as well as the forum on collaboration I just posted to. Cheers!
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