Comics Rock: Comics and Education
Peter Wilkins' tweets from The Third International Comics Conference: Comics Rock, Bournemouth University, for The Comics Grid. Comics and Education (Thursday 28 June 2012) Storified by Ernesto Priego
Comics Conference 2012: Comics Rock - Bournemouth UniversityBournemouth University Comics and Education (Thursday 28 June 2012) Keynote speakers: David Lloyd (Kickback, V for Vendetta) and Steve Ma...
Comics Conference 2012: Comics Rock - Bournemouth UniversityHi everyone We're very much looking forward to welcoming you all to Bournemouth this week. Please see link below for the final version of...
#comicsrock First up: Comics and Education. Paul Fisher Davies to start on Comics Creation as Enrichment in 6th form college.- Davies: students took 24 hour comics challenge from Scott Mccloud for activities week. #comicsrock
- Davies: introduced students to comics theory to get them started. McCloud mostly #comicsrock
- Theorizing and choosing example texts was canon forming: McCloud, Ware, Thompson... #comicsrock
- Superheroes were almost completely missing from students' comics. Only one autobiography example. #comicsrock
- Stephens: Comp theory is boring. But social justice as a theme can make it interesting. #comicsrock
- Comics verbalize and give images to social injustices. Transmediation forces reader to construct new meanings. #comicsrock
- Comics give immigrant students, for example, a double way into the topics. #comicsrock
- Students were asked to provide a script for a six panel strip for a comic to make their point. #comicsrock
- Students who use comics in comp classes begin to see themselves as story tellers, not just uninvested writers. #comicsrock
- Comics as resources for research and life. First up Ian Hague on the plan for the Comics Forum. #comicsrock
- Ian is talking about comics scholarship in the UK and elsewhere. Doing well generally. Much to be proud of. #comicsrock
- This year's comics forum conf. will be on Multiculturalism and Representation. #comicsrock
- Comics scholars should get to the Comics Forum website for free, open-source resources #comicsrock
