Long after the school year ends, students will still think about their Civil War-reenacting history teacher or their librarian who enters poetry competitions.
Ways to Welcome Fanfiction in Schools
July 18, 2013 by
When it comes to fanfiction and academics, there is a long history of non-fans writing and doing things that fans don’t particularly like, so you should be extraordinarily careful when you introduce fanfiction-based exercises to wary young fans.
Fanfiction: What Educators Really Need to Know
July 17, 2013 by
Do young fanfiction authors seek the kind of feedback that educators would find “useful” in K-12 settings, and are fanfiction communities really the nurturing environments of peer-critique that some make them out to be?
In Honor of Baseball’s All-Star Game, A Book to Pre-Order
July 16, 2013 by
Student sports fans (in this case, baseball fans specifically) can leverage their outside-of-school literacies to comprehend and appreciate the sophisticated cartoons and high-level text.
Confessions of a Cosplaying Librarian
July 15, 2013 by
“The key idea is actually a media literacy one related to representation: no one in real life actually looks like an anime or manga character.”
Book Giveaway: Informational Text Par Excellence… ‘American Comic Book Chronicles’
May 22, 2013 by
So does this sound like something that could get the teen and tween comics fans you know into nonfiction? Sure it does.
Jane Austen, Edtech, and the Promise of ‘Theatrics’
May 16, 2013 by
“A narrative experience like ‘The Lizzie Bennet Diaries’ is compelling in part because of the great bones of Austen’s story and characters, for sure. But equally compelling is the story form, the opportunity for consumers to engage deeply with those characters…”