Fabulous Secrets 02 - Evaluating Students' Work

 

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Today I share some ways I think about evaluating students' work in my comics classrooms, how we teachers are a combination of salespeople, entertainers, and instructors, and a strategy I've used to drive students to try harder.

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Fabulous Secrets 01 - Starting

 

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In this first episode I take the opportunity to talk a little bit about starting projects and why it can be such a hard part of the process (though no harder than continuing and finishing, sadly), along with some ways of thinking I use to get me to leap off that ledge and find out what happens next.

 

 

 

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Polytechnicast - Building the Making Videogames from Comics Presentation

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In this episode I share some thoughts that went into making the presentation Making Videogames from Comics (as presented at the Nordeast Comics Summit on August 4th 2011).

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Recent Workshop Sampler: Joke Comics and Comic UI

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In this episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect on two workshops I presented recently, share a sampler of each, and delve a bit into why I chose those the topics behind each workshop. The titles of the workshops are:

  • Using Storytelling to Make Your Comic User Interface Awesome
  • Turning Jokes into Comics: Laughing Yeti Monkey Spaghetti

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