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February 28, 2005
Education through comics
Look, a fun post!
A friend of mine working as an assistant teacher in LA was complaining about the literature being taught to the students she works with, and is soliciting recommendations of "what did you read when you were 13-14"?
I gave her a few recommendations, including one of my pet literary loves, graphic lit. There's a lot to learn from graphic novels and comics. For instance, a big weekly favorite of mine is Shabot 6000, where the main characters are a pious Jewish man and a robot he bought to be his shabbos goy, but ends up thinking he's Jewish, too. The niftiest bit is that, with each comic, author/artist Ben Baruch adds an explanation for why the strip is so funny, with links to excellent Jewish religion and culture links on the web. A little bit of geek, a little bit of culture, a whole lot of fun.
How cute would it be to take tech tidbits and make them into daily or weekly web comics? They could be funny, serious, whatever, but they'd be visual representations of computer, internet, and general tech stuff people want to know. Or, it could be done with any area of specialty, really.
Nifty. If only I could draw...
February 28, 2005 5:47 PM