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May, 2014
- Comics in Education Presents: Shakespeare, the Animated Tales
- A Visual Intro to Sci-Fi and Satire: Adding War with the Newts to Your High School Reading List
- For Those Who Hate the Term "Graphic Novel"
- Looking for Graphic Readers to Build Numeracy?
- The Best Graphic Novel about the History of Mathematics
- Comics in Education Presents: English Reading Lists that Work -- Culture, Race and Identity
- The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, 2014 -- The Magic of a Gathering
- Should We Use Comics to Teach Shakespeare?
- Writing Graphic Novels for Young Readers -- Three Simple Rules
- Comics in Education Presents: Maker Kids -- Visual Literacy Meets Tactile Learning
- The Most Important Thing to Happen in Comics This Week...
- In Honour of Free Comic Book Day, Two Museums to Put on Your Travel List!
- Comics in Education Presents: The Visual Brainstorming Series: "The Road Not Taken"
April, 2014
- If There's Anything Better Than Comics, It's Free Comics!
- The Doodle 4 Google Contest -- Our Picks at Comics in Education!
- Comics in Education Presents: Graphical Text Meets Our Fascination with Top 10 Lists!
- Comics in Education Presents: Great Ideas for Teaching Graphic Novels from Colleen Graves!
- The Conference that Inspired Comics in Education (and the Workshop Handouts)
- The 10th Annual Doug Wright Awards -- A Kickstarter Project Worth Supporting
- Comics in Education Presents: An Extended Essay Map that Is Every Supervisor's Dream
- Comics in Education Presents: Shakespeare's Career as a Playwright
- Comics in Education Visual Brainstorming Series: Names and Naming in Jekyll and Hyde
- Margaret Atwood, Comics, and the Awakened Imagination
- Are You Still Fond of the Good Old Blackboard? For Visual Learners, the New One is Better!
- If You Weren't a Martian-Lover Before...
- A Visual Annotation of Sylvia Plath's "Morning Song"
- Poetry and Visual Annotation -- "The Cross of Snow" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The #edcomics Hashtag -- Comics in Education
- The Last Day... Noir City #2 Needs Your Support!
- Before Harley Quinn There Was... You Guessed It... The Harlequin!
- Q. Hey Comics in Education...Can You Visually Brainstorm Some Poetry? A. You Bet We Can!
- Comics in Education Visual Brainstorming Series: Teaching Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden
- Graphic Poetry by Rubicon/Scholastic
- Brainstorming Visual Media, Part 1
- Q. Do you expect us to believe that the Bayeux Tapestry is really just a comic? A. Yes...yes I do.
- CITE 2014 -- The Top 5 Things for Students to Look for After Turning Their Essay into a Wordle
- CITE 2014 -- Some Reflections on Graphic Memoirs, Travel Literature, and Visual Brainstorming
- Show Me What You're Thinking... Okay. Done.
- Wine and Reciprocity -- Etienne Davodeau's The Initiates and Graham Greene's Monsignor Quixote
- Stock Characters, Take 2 -- The Vice
- Visualizing Stock Characters, and Understanding Their Place in Drama
- Comics Rule the World ... and that Includes Sushi
- Three Visual Gems from the Past Week
- The Things We Carry -- Julie Delporte's "Journal"
- It's about Compassion: Sarah Leavitt, the Ricard Brothers, and the Metaphor of the Journey
- Visual Brainstorming and Othello, or Are Iago and the Joker really all that alike?
- Visual Brainstorming and Hamlet, or How the Key to the Play Is Its Very First Line
- So, I had this idea for a website...
- O Canada ... Again! For Comics and Education, it's Hard to Beat Happy Harbor Comics
- Okay, Here's What I Need... Books about Teaching Comics!
- Timeline -- A Story about Drawing Inspiration from Self-Directed Learning
- Celebrating Comics -- The Stan Lee Excelsior Award
- Visual Narrative Has a Tradition -- Let's Share It with Students!
- Q. What Do You Get When Graphic Travel Narrative Meets Visual Brainstorming? A. Tokyo on Foot
- What Did I Learn from My Students Today?
- How Do I Start My Shakespeare Unit? With Minecraft, Obviously!
- Everything You Want to Know about Comics so that You Can Teach Them
- The "Comics for Teachers" Series -- Book 1 -- The Initiates by Etienne Davodeau
- Why Teach Comics?
- Comics in Education is Calling All Guest Bloggers!
- What Makes Graphic Travel Writing So Great?
- Graphical Text: Series that Changed What Textbooks Looked Like
March, 2014
- The Best Piece of Visual Media to talk about Race in the Classroom
- This is Why We Should Teach Kids to Cross Out and Not Erase
- Comics in Education Would Like to Thank You... About 50,000 Times!
- Are You Teaching Comics in the Classroom? Are You Using Pinterest to Do It?
- Comics in Education 2.0
- This is what's in your student's head...
- If I'm Interested in Comics and Education, Who Should I Follow on Twitter?
- Great Resources for Comics Scholarship
- A Brief Timeout to Define the 22nd-Century Learner...
- "I Don't Teach Comics, I Teach the Canon." "Really? Why Not Teach Both!"
- Visual Brainstorming Isn't about Drawing -- It's about Brain Dumping!
- A Resource for Teachers and Writers You May Have Never Even Heard Of...
- Crash, Bam, Pow! -- How Comics Taught Me that Wordle Rules!
- Since You've Been Asking... Presenting, the Graphic Poetry series!
- Comics in Education Presents: A Variation on the "Cave Art" Activity
- Common Questions about Comics in Education, and Their Answers!
- Comics Terminology for Teachers, Part 5 -- The Language of the "Gaze"
- Comics Terminology for Teachers, Part 4 -- Filmic Language Continued
- Comics in Education Hits a Milestone Thanks to You!
- Comics Terminology for Teachers, Part 3 -- Filmic Language
- Comics Terminology for Teachers, Part 2 -- The Language of Comics
- Comics Terminology for Teachers, Part 1 -- Defining the Genre
- More than Words
- I Want to Read Great Graphic Novels, but Where Do I Start?
- The Inspiration of Visual Brainstorming in the Math Classroom
- "Graphic Poetry" Activity
- It's Hard Not to Love Kickstarter if You Love Visual Narrative
- "Wordless Narrative" Activity
- "Visual Note-Taking" Activity
- Thank You for Your Wonderful Support!
- The "Word and Image" Activity
- The "Cave Art" Activity
- I Witness: How Graphic Storytellers Are Teaching Us about the World & How We See It
- The Challenges of Getting Comics in the Classroom
- Visual Note-Taking Using the Plot Map
- A Rationale for Comics in Education
- Doing a Lesson on Etymology? Use the Visual to Give it Swag!
- Visual Narrative Meets Note-Taking, Again!
- Comics in Education Says Thank You!
- Visual Narrative and YouTube, Part 3
- It may take a village to raise a child, but...
- Visual Narrative and YouTube, Part 2
- Visual Narrative and YouTube, Part 1
- Canada: We Do Hockey and Comic Book Stores Awesome
- Visual Narrative Meets Note-Taking
- The Literary Features of Graphic Novels
- The Secret to the (Graphic) Universe is the Number 42
- Why Doing the Opposite is Attractive...
- Welcome to Comics in Education