{"id":976,"date":"2016-01-20T20:02:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T20:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seriousplaylab.com\/courses\/edu3770\/?page_id=976"},"modified":"2016-01-27T21:46:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:46:58","slug":"serious-comics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/seriousplaylab.com\/courses\/edu3770\/?page_id=976","title":{"rendered":"Serious Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Serious Comics &amp; L2 Multimodal Graphic Texts <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\">(minimum length 4 pages \/ no maximum length)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1)<\/strong> Based on readings our in-class discussions, create a <strong>Serious<\/strong> <strong>Comic<\/strong> that tells a story or explores an issue or key ideas from ANY the readings (or related course themes). While this is an open-ended, creative application of ideas, some of the topics you may address or expound upon include thematic threads like&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Digital Storytelling: Create a graphic text that tells a story in any genre (an original short fiction, a story about learning with new media, a non-fictional essay that explores a serious topic, a story about an educational theory or theorist you interesting, etc, etc etc&#8230;.Be as creative as you want to be&#8230;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Using Serious Comics in your content area&#8230;(reflecting on how you might employ this tool\/media for student-research or presentation of knowledge, etc)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do a meta-comic about graphic novels\/serious comics (e.g., a comic about how serious comics might support learning, creative production, engagement in participatory cultures)&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Serious Comic<\/strong> does <strong>not<\/strong> mean you have to be grim, humorless or dourly solemn in your approach. Serious Comic means that you simply take the communicative possibilities of multimdodal\/graphic texts (as a genre) seriously in conveying ideas, meanings, and\/or narratives&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkib.net\/englishalanglit\/page\/13891\/graphic-novel\" target=\"_blank\"> Nuts &amp; Bolts of Graphic Texts <\/a>(resource can be applied to digital graphics texts, and search web for graphic texts\/comic models).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Please use an iPad\/Android comic-book maker (ComicBook! or HalftTone) or check out <a href=\"https:\/\/plasq.com\/apps\/comiclife\/macwin\/\" target=\"_blank\">ComicLife<\/a> (30-day Free Trial). Please try to avoid browser-based cartoon makers that do not enable image integration, or that constrain design options (as discussed in class). Please try to <strong>avoid<\/strong> browser-based cartoon makers that do not enable image integration, or that constrain design options (as discussed in class).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>L2 Multimodal Serious Comic:<\/strong> If your first language is not English, this is an opportunity for you to mobilize your <span class=\"_Tgc\"> L1<\/span> (language\/cultural-capital) as a semiotic resource in conjunction with images, graphics, pictures, etc. Create an L2 dual-language comic that integrates L1 and L2 (English in translation) that tells a story about culture and identity. If English is your first language, but you speak (or are learning to speak) a second language, you may create a dual-language serious comic where you can express yourself across (in both) languages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you choose option 2, ensure that the text is <strong>dual-language<\/strong> (both languages appear together, somewhat like a polyglot text, though in serious comic form).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Serious Comic<\/strong> does <strong>not<\/strong> mean you have to be grim, humorless or dourly solemn in your approach. Serious Comic means that you simply take the communicative possibilities of multimdodal\/graphic texts (as a genre) seriously in conveying ideas, meanings, and\/or narratives&#8230;Remember, too, some of the multimodal and knowledge visualization strategies from last week&#8230;<strong>AND LOOK AT MODELS<\/strong> &gt;&gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkib.net\/englishalanglit\/page\/13891\/graphic-novel\" target=\"_blank\"> Nuts &amp; Bolts of Graphic Texts <\/a>(resource can be applied to digital graphics texts, and search web for graphic texts\/comic models).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If possible, use an iPad\/Android comic-book maker (ComicBook! or HalftTone) or check out <a href=\"https:\/\/plasq.com\/apps\/comiclife\/macwin\/\" target=\"_blank\">ComicLife<\/a> (30-day Free Trial). 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