A big thank you to everyone who attended this week’s K-12 Graphic Novel Book Talk and Sale!
All of us has a great time on Monday and everyone learned a great deal! We were lucky to have such engaging speakers in our company who are passionate about shedding light on the potential of graphic novels as teaching tools.
Andrew introduced us to a huge array of relevant titles with a particular emphasis on their multimodal nature and how the unique attributes of comic books can help us engage with students who have different developmental and learning challenges. Scott gave the audience an excellent synopsis of the historical context of comic books, particularly with respect to how the themes presented in the pages of these cultural texts are often a mirror of the times. It’s evident that comic books can be productively used to deliver learning objectives and reinforce the thematic content of your curriculum.
Thanks once again to Scott and Andrew!
To learn more about the OISE Library’s collection of diverse graphic novels, see http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/content.php?pid=469701&sid=4088613
