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Understanding and Creating Comics with Seventh Graders
Full text linkDuring the spring semester of 2010, as part of my graduate program in English Education, I took a class titled American Comic Book. I took what I learned there, turned around, and immediately applied it to my own teaching. I teach 7th grade language arts and developed a unit on understanding and creating comics, pulling from what I was learning in the class at the University of Iowa, and utilized some other resources including Great Source's Daybook of Critical Reading and Writing, and ideas from other books on using graphic novels as a teaching tool. The unit was taught during April and May of this year. I have collected my lesson plans, examples of student work, and much, much more on a website, http://sites.google.com/site/7thgradecomicsunit/
An Introduction to the Graphic Novel
Full text linkThis is a slide show from a presentation, "An Introduction to the Graphic Novel." The presentation covered the definition of a graphic novel, how to read a graphic novel, the history of graphic novels, and suggested further readings
Raising the Bar in Public Libraries: Literacy, Adolescent Development and Young Adult Services
Full text linkThis article takes a close look at teenage education and development with the intent of discovering ways in which public libraries can be of better service to a currently underserved population. The research in the area of literacy and learning reveals that over time adults and educators have begun to expect teens to develop a certain skill set. While helping teens to develop skills is of great importance, some expectations are unnecessary and potentially very damaging. Educational theory relates that the educational mold in the United States, while helping many, is not right for all people and a number of the ways teenagers learn (their intelligences) are not being catered to. Here public libraries have a distinct advantage and opportunity to fill some of the gaps. The research in adolescent brain development is also analyzed to the benefit of better understanding the teenage population. This increased understanding can help Young Adult Services Librarians cater their collections and programming to better suit and assist the teens being served
"Reading Rants!": Exploring the Design and Implementation of a Social Cataloging Tool for Teens
Full text linkIn this paper we explore the possibility of creating and implementing an interactive library OPAC interface, called Reading Rants!, that would be designed for and used exclusively by teens. An interactive interface such as Reading Rants! would allow teenagers to interact with their library catalog by contributing content to bibliographic records. Content creation is an integral aspect of the Web 2.0 experience; it transforms the user's experience with the catalog into a dynamic conversation. By providing this highly valued service for teenagers, public libraries would elevate their worth to future library supporters and become more essential to and embedded in the community
Learning Between Borders
Full text linkDwelling in a "Borderland" between academic and narrative writing, and drawing from the work of Gloria Anzaldu'a, bell hooks, and Michel Foucault, this essay critically confronts and transgresses the disciplinary structure of information production, both inside the Academy and out. Scholars of Hip-Hop will be especially interested in the author's analysis of Hip-Hop as a scholarly discourse, and her argument that different genres of scholarly discourse, such as Hip-Hop and MLA-style English, can and indeed should be blended within the Academy to stimulate new ways of thinking
Digitizing Vaudeville
Full text linkUnseen version of my poster for graduation from the University of Iowa's SLIS program
Learning from the Past: Digitization and Information Loss
Full text linkThe increased use of the Internet for research, as well as the desire to preserve information, has necessitated the digitization of library materials. This paper seeks to draw a comparison between the challenges of microfilming and digitizing, and what can be learned from previous formatting efforts to reduce data loss during current endeavors
