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Writing Graphic Novels for Young Readers -- Three Simple Rules
Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com Teaching comics and graphic novels in the K-12 classroom is one thing. Writing them, however, is quite another. Here are three helpful tips...
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Should We Use Comics to Teach Shakespeare?
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com There are very few English teachers out there in the K-12 education system who haven't come across this question, thought about it, and...
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The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, 2014 -- The Magic of a Gathering
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com The Toronto Reference Library provides an intimate environment for the TCAF When I want a full-on, comic convention experience, the...
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Comics in Education Presents: English Reading Lists that Work -- Culture,...
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com This is the first in a series of posts that are intended to give English educators some new ways of thinking about how to incorporate...
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The Best Graphic Novel about the History of Mathematics
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com If you're thinking that comics and graphic novels are only for the English or Social Studies classroom, think again. One of the best...
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Looking for Graphic Readers to Build Numeracy?
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com Boldprint Kids Graphic Readers Help K-3 Students Learn Math Math is one of those subjects that students will make judgments about pretty...
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For Those Who Hate the Term "Graphic Novel"
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education,www.comicsineducation.com Why having some (etymological) perspective is a good thing... A subject that rears its head from time to time in the world of comics has a...
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A Visual Intro to Sci-Fi and Satire: Adding War with the Newts to Your High...
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com (c) 2014, by Hannah Kahn, All rights reserved. Work published with the permission of the artist. A nice way to acquaint your students...
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Comics in Education Presents: Shakespeare, the Animated Tales
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com From the BBC 2 series, Shakespeare: The Animated Tales. This is a still image from A Midsummer Night's Dream Don't underestimate the...
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Comics in Education Presents: Resources for Teaching Art Spiegelman's Maus
Even if you're teaching Maus for the first time, there are more resources out there than you might think... It can be both an exciting and daunting task for teachers if they're teaching a graphic...
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How to Think About the "Death of the Book"
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com Every once in a while I have my students participate in an experiential activity whose purpose is to teach them just how much information...
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Wordles as Visual Narratives -- Can You Identify These Famous Works of...
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com At Comics in Education, we conceptualize visual narrative as a broader category than what we think of as traditional comics and graphic...
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Comics in Education Presents -- Literature in Translation: Going Graphic in IB
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com Three Great GNs for Teaching Literature in Context This coming year, I've decided to do something rather bold. Now to me it doesn't seem...
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How Do I Teach Students That Visual Narrative Has a Tradition? (Part 1)
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education,www.comicsineducation.com A Checklist of What to Cover We've discussed at some length on this forum the approaches one can take to introducing visual narrative to...
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The Coolest Activity You Can Do with a Comic Book
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com We're not kidding ... it's the coolest Now that my summer of writing, editing, and reviewing has ended with two weeks of eating...
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Using Comics in the ESL Classroom
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com The more you look into what is happening with comics in education, the more likely you are to find great things. Carlos Salazar is...
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Thanks a Million!
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com Although we've only been around a short time, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the thousands of you interested in comics and...
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Oh, the Humanity! -- Fan Expo 2014
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com This year's Fan Expo was fantastic, with hundreds of people to see, places to go, and things to do. We went on the Saturday, and after...
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Why Cave Art Isn't Just Ancient History!
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com In the "Hands" of Students, it's so much more! Recently, Erlynn Kirsch and Amanda Helfrich got in touch with Comics in Education about a...
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William Blake and Visible Thinking -- "Infant Joy"
by Glen Downey, Comics in Education, www.comicsineducation.com Expressing Enduring Understandings with Word and Image If you're one of those people who think there's something particularly awesome...
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