9:05 - 9:25 Welcome Dr. Vincent Alfonso, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Fordham Graduate School of Education
Opening Remarks Alan Brody White Shaka Boy& John Shableski Diamond Book Distributors
9:30 - 10:15 Keynote: James Bucky Carter Graphica as a Bridge to Literacy
10:30 - 11:45 Teaching Workshops - General Education Presentations
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures Jessica Abel, Author & instructor at the School of Visual Arts Hands-on workshop for teachers to use comics in the classroom. From how comics are created to three comics-creation activities to be used in the classroom. Making the Case for Comics in the Classroom Michael Schofield, Bradford County Public Library, Starke, Florida and Chris Wilson, Editor, Graphic Classroom Why comics should be used in the classroom at all levels. Introduces resources to help locate high quality comic literature for any grade, reviews of comic literature.
Elementary School Presentations Graphica: An Untapped Resource in Media Literacy EducationPeter Gutierrez, Skyline Publishing Solutions, LLC “What Makes a Superhero Super?” For fourth and fifth graders - strategies to leverage graphica’s unique characteristics for critical media analysis.
Strategies for using Multiple Literacies/Non-Print Media to Build Reading Competencies for K – 8 students Lynda Robinson, Cameron University, Show Mei Lin, Cameron University, Sherilyn Bennett, Bloomsburg University Definitions and descriptions of multiple literacies and strategies for use in the primary grades and upper elementary grades. Panel Track Panel One: Body & Self: The Internal & External: Construction of the Graphic Novel & How it Fosters an Understanding of Self Elvira Katic, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Graphic Novel Inkblot: Drawing Out Student Hopes and Fears about Technology
Examining student illustrations in a graphic novel that retold an ancient myth.
Transubstantiation on the Comic Book Page: Image Made Flesh, Sanctified and Defiled in Ink and Pulp Vasileios Sakkos, Birkbeck College
How the notion of skin (forms or deformities) are used as a countercultural metaphor
in underground comix; Wilson, Crumb, Burns, Joe Coleman & Blanquet.
Aesthetics of Action Heroes and Cultures of Comics: Gender Politics in Graphica Courtney Lee Weida, Adelphi University
Presentation examines recent
work in art education and gender studies concerning comic book
characters and figures from graphic novels.
Lunch 12:00 - 1:15
1:15 - 2:30 Breakouts
Top Billing: Incorporating Non-Fictional Graphic Narratives into Secondary English and Social Studies Classes Adrielle Mitchell, Nazareth College This interactive workshop will introduce secondary educators to the uses of graphica as primary foci in whole-class English/Social Studies instruction.
Critical literacy and Graphic Novels in the ClassroomMelissa Schieble, University of Wisconsin-Madison Workshop to present why and how to teach graphic novels based on principles of critical literacy instruction - with strategies to encourage critical classroom dialogue.
After Three Days Without Reading, Talk Becomes Flavorless Markisha Smith, Northern Michigan University Teaching demonstration with participant engagement connecting Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel American Born Chinese with Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club.
Using Graphic Novels to Improve Reading Skills and Teach Visual LiteracyGreg Van Nest, Indian Hills High School, Oakland, NJ Usingl the popularity of graphic novels as complex and sophisticated combinations of printed text and visual images as companion texts and study in their own right.
College Education Presentations
Comics in Composition: Variations on Traditional Narrative Assignments Kyle Bladlow, Northern Michigan University, Alison Spaude, Northern Michigan University, Ben Wielechowski, Northern Michigan University Exploration of the literary merits in reading and creating comics in the college freshman composition classroom to expand critical thinking skills.
A Composition Perspective: Using Graphic Novels to Teach Writing Meghan Dykema, Western Michigan University, Kim Ballard, Western Michigan University, Daniel Kenzie, Western Michigan University How graphic novel production assignments in first-year and developmental writing courses prepares students for future college and work-place writing.
Sequential Art, Writing, and Self: From Image to Text and Back Again Michael Gianfrancesco, North Providence High School, Providence, Rhode Island Jennifer Cook, Rhode Island College How images and autobiographical depictions in graphic texts leads students to make connections and discoveries about their own lives in high school and college English.
Teaching the Graphic Novel at the Undergraduate LevelKent Worcester, Marymount Manhattan College Constructing a syllabus and assignments for graphic novels at the four-year college level based on the presenter's experiences in teaching an upper-level course.
Panel Track Adult Comic Book Fans: What They Get Out of Reading Stergios Botzakis, University of Tennessee What adult comic book fans read when they were not required to and how their literacy practices may inform classroom practices.
Graphic Novels and Multimodal Literacy: A Reader-Response Study Heidi Hammond, Henry Sibley High School, Medota Heights, Minnesota Describing a reader-response and meaning-gathering study to the graphic novel American Born Chinese by Gene Yang in a 12th grade political science classroom.
Graphic Novels to Graphic Design: Connections and Relationships James Pannafino, Millersville University How visual relationships between graphic design and graphic novels. There will be a strong correlation made between page layout (composition), words (typography), and presentation (legibility). These topics will be examined and discuss in regards to the education field.
2:40 - 3:40 Panel: The Power of Graphic Literature - Multiple Perspectives Dr. Michael Bitz, Comics Book Project Jimmy Gownley, author, Amelia Rules
3:45 - 4:30 Keynote: Jon Sciezska
4:30 - 5:00 Fordham Graphics Excellence in Education Award
Closing Remarks & Program Evaluation
