Category Archives: Learning

Update and Catch Up

Posted on February 22, 2024 by admin

It has been a while since I posted here. For the past year and a half I have been exploring other platforms for this blog and without mentioning names or details (except that I was rather disappointed with the results and support). … Continue reading →

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A Case Study About Creating Graphic Novels in the Classroom

Posted on February 24, 2021 by admin

Thinking about problems arising from the lack of understanding about the very real trials and tribulations caused by forced migrations, and trying to adjust to a new land, new customs and new ways of living, I thought back to this … Continue reading →

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Dispatches from the Hunker Bunker #3: Sox, comix & education

Posted on April 5, 2020 by admin

These are my work-out socks- I am training for Themed Sox Week, a celebration of victory over the sock elves, those little mischief makers who steal and then return single socks. Starting tomorrow I will celebrate with a different theme, … Continue reading →

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Dispatches from the Hunker Bunker #2: Interesting and fun websites for the quarantined

Posted on March 29, 2020 by admin

Over the past three weeks, I’ve gathered some websites that are interesting, engaging, and fun. I’ve assembled a list of some of these sites- taken mostly from the arts, with a few other subjects thrown in for good measure. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Dispatches from the hunker bunker #1- Empty Shelves and Graphic Medicine in comics

Posted on March 20, 2020 by admin

Day 12 of hunkering in the greenfield bunker, 5 days since my last journey to hunt for provisions. Being a little short of water in mi casa de los dos gatos, I made my way to wild lands of a … Continue reading →

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There and here: Diaspora communities in graphic literature and comix, Part II

Posted on February 16, 2020 by admin

One of the first examples of a graphic narrative about an immigrant’s experience is literature is The Four Immigrants Manga (1931), written and illustrated by Henry Kiyama, 1885-1951). The book went out of print and was lost until it was translated … Continue reading →

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There and here: Diaspora communities in graphic literature and comix, Part 1

Posted on February 2, 2020 by admin

From Wikipedia: “…diaspora is used to refer to the involuntary mass dispersion of a population from its indigenous territories, most notably the Jews who were dispersed from the Land of Israel in antiquity” So I am a member of this … Continue reading →

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Connections, creativity, the stars, myths and the Black Death

Posted on March 8, 2019 by admin

My recent work blog about collaborative learning http://bc-tipd.net/blog/?p=190

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View from the blog, looking at a sad couple of weeks

Posted on October 8, 2018 by admin

To say that the past two weeks have been an emotional roller-coaster is a bit of an understatement as I watched and listened to a litany of people (mostly old, white men) in their heads-down rush to strangle, or at … Continue reading →

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Comics against Hitler

Posted on September 23, 2018 by admin

How Jewish comic book artists led the fight to break the silence on the Holocaust https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-jewish-comic-book-artists-led-the-fight-to-show-the-holocaust-1.6462797

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