Do you ever use comics in the classroom? I often see people using comics as part of their slides—depending on your topic, there might be the perfect XKCD or PhDComics for your situation—but making ...
Most teachers would agree that teaching is one of the most exhausting jobs to love. Between meeting the individual needs of our students, keeping up with the latest initiatives and completing the ...
There was once a time not so long ago when the only way comics made their way into classrooms was surreptitiously—hidden in backpacks or behind the textbooks of daydreaming students. But in many ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As a lifelong, self-described comic-book nerd, Charlie LaGreca remembers first grappling with the concept of antimatter when he was 8. And it ka-blew his ...
A few years ago, Wissahickon High School social studies teacher Tim Smyth, a by-the-book AP instructor who had earned himself a reputation among students for being “very challenging,” did something ...
The recent innovative methods of teaching promote an effective learning through comics in classrooms. Numerous educational institutions across several countries are ready to adopt this new methodology ...
Kids don't have to sneak their favorite comics inside their school literature books anymore. Despite severe budget cuts, creative teachers are getting comics and graphic novels in the hands of ...
It has been Bleeding Cool's thesis for several years that the bookstore boom in the sale of graphic novels for kids, with books like Investi-Gators, Dog Man, Cat Kid, Best Friends and the work of ...
In a district beleaguered by budget cuts and underperforming students, Deborah Ford is hoping to bridge the achievement gap through the use of comic books. “They are easy to use and kids want to read ...
MULTIMEDIA: The Students Speak (Requires Flash 5. The plug-in is available from Macromedia.) and the fervent interest in the medium from young artists, academe does ...
When he first saw The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, the “comic book version” of the almost-600-page 9/11 Commission Report, on a bookstore shelf, Dan Tandarich was shocked. After flipping through ...