Lessons Drawn

David D. Seelow is the founder of the Revolutionary Learning Initiative, the Center for Game and Simulation-Based Learning, the Online Writing Lab and the former Director of Field Experience for State University of New York Old Westbury. He teaches in the English department at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York and presents and consults nationally and internationally on curriculum design, pedagogy, culture and learning.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Foreword by James Sturm

Introduction: Enjoyment and Learning (David D. Seelow)

Part 1. Leaping Tall Buildings: Comics and Literacy for a New Century

Teaching the Mythic with Pop Culture and Graphic Novels (Christina Angel)

Your Brain on Comics: The Graphic Novel in the College Classroom

(Carly L. Cate and Marck L. Beggs)

Comics and the City: Writing and the New American Student (Stafford Gregoire)

Viewing Comics as Education Through Art (Kerry Freedman)

Death in Ancient Philosophy and the Sandman Series:

A Case Study in Inquiry-Based Learning (Gerol Petruzella)

Reading Right to Left: Manga in the Classroom, at Fan

Conventions and Online (Derek McGrath)

Saving the World One Class at a Time: Teaching Superhero

Comics (David D. Seelow)

Interlude: The Infrastructure of Learning Building Institutions: Comics Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a North American Case Study (Leah Misemer)

Comics Studies at the University of Dundee: A Transatlantic

Case Study (Chris Murray)

Comics in the Community: Opportunities for Creativity and Collaboration in Community-Based Settings (Michael Bitz)

Reading and Writing Comics and Graphic Novels: Collaborative Best Practices Between School Librarians and Teachers (Karen W. Gavigan)

Part 2. Transformative Teaching: Creativity, Technology and Comics for the Future Using Comics Storytelling to Engage Innovation and Transform ­Education: The “Writing with Pictures” Case (Lida Tsene)

Beyond Hair Bows and Cleavage: Helping Women Draw

Their Iconic Selves (Jessica Baldanzi)

Teaching Comics from Constraints: Oubapo and Other

Experiments in Form, Style and Technique (Chris ­Reyns-Chikuma)

ComicCrafting: Approaches for Working with Technology

and Creating Comics in the Classroom (Keith McCleary)

Technology and Comics Art: An Interview with Dave Gibbons (Phillip Vaughan)

Choose the Format of Your Destructor: Design Choices for Comic Creators in Print and Digital Media (Daniel Merlin Goodbrey)

Conclusion: Learning In and Around Education (David D. Seelow)

About the Contributors

Index