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 ...

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 ...

In lesson author Tim Smyth’s book, “Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels: Fun and Engaging Strategies to Improve Close Reading and Critical Thinking in Every Classroom” (Routledge 2022), he discuss ...

When I was younger, my dad gave me the graphic novel “Welcome to the Jungle,” the prequel to Jim Butcher’s novel series “The Dresden Files.” “It’s about a detective who’s also a wizard,” my dad told ...

They measured that the average reading age of the schoolroom class involved in the comics intervention rose by 18 months in the year after the workshops started, in contrast to a rise of 11 months in ...

After visiting 1,000 Maryland classrooms, State Superintendent Nancy Grasmick noticed a trend: comic books peeking out of book bags and tucked under textbooks. Noticing how enthusiastic young children ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. CBC’s Storytelling Through Comics is a standards-based curriculum focused on literacy and arts skills created ...

Denver Pop Culture Classroom is what the folks behind Denver Pop Culture Con do the other 51 weeks of the year. Pop Culture Classroom was started as Comic Book Classroom in 2010, alongside what was ...

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 ...