A Public Service Announcement! ;)

A Public Service Announcement! ;)

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Graphic Novel Reporter Has Been Bringin' It

While I was traveling, GraphicNovelReporter.com kept working hard to bring the world comics-and-education-related journalistic goodness. To wit:

Allen Porter, a high school teacher in Michigan, discusses his recent "Graphic Novels as Literature" course at Skyline High. Dore Ripley from Cal State-East Bay talks more about using comics in her intensive writing courses. Sari Wilson is profiled for her work as a comics consultant and an education consultant. Uber-sessy librarian Jordan Boaz talks about the graphic novel workshops for teens at her Avondale, Arizona book-slinger's.

Good readin' all around!

2 comments:

Dore' Ripley said...

Congratulations on publishing Teaching the Graphic Novel! Sounds like a must read for instructors using graphic novels in their classrooms.

I'm looking forward to attending a Humanities conference hosted by UTEP in March 2010 (www.h-e-r-a.org). --Maybe there will be some graphic novel presentations.

Bucky C. said...

Thanks, though I only have one chaper in there. The book "is* still a major accomplishment, though, and editor Stephen E. Tabachnick should be very proud of his efforts.

Are you attending the Sun Conference? Feel free to look up my office phone number in the online UTEP directory. I'd love to have you drop by the office to say "Hi!" or talk "GN's." As for representation at the conference, I'm not sure. Sometimes UTEP seems behind the times regarding sequential art, but I have efforts underway to change that, assuming the university leadership lets them develop. Right now, I'd say its 50-50 whether there will be anyone talking on GN's at the conference.