Category Archives: Peace

Travels with David, or the good neighbor policy in action

Posted on August 5, 2018 by admin

I grew up on the east side of Los Angeles, in a town called Montebello, a pretty cool place to grow up. It was primarily a middle-class town, filled with working class people. There were attorneys, carpenters, carpet people, clerks, … Continue reading →

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Comics and Educational Technology?

Posted on July 15, 2018 by admin

That was the gist of question that a friend asked me this week. A meandering conversation at a cafe led to me THE question: What’t the connection between my professional activities as an educational technologist, and my dissertation about teaching about … Continue reading →

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Comix, kids, trauma, and war

Posted on July 18, 2017 by admin

Graphic novels are a great way to read and learn about history. Not so much the grand narratives in history books and textbooks. These books describe big events, and as described by Wikipedia “as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, … Continue reading →

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