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GRAPHICA IN EDUCATION: Comics in the Classroom Conference (212) 624-9110 (800) 273-2832

Saturday, January 31, 2009 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (ET)

New York, United States

GRAPHICA IN EDUCATION: Comics in the Classroom Conference...

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
General Conference Ended $125.00 $3.12
Librarians & NYC Schoolteachers - Regular Ended $75.00 $1.88
Faculty Member Ended $75.00 $1.88
Student - Regular Ended $25.00 $0.99
Fordham - Faculty Ended $0.00 $0.00
Fordham - Student Ended $0.00 $0.00
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Event Details

 

Graphica in Education

Fordham University - Sat. Jan. 31

Graphica in Education

The Comics in the Classroom Conference



Jimmy Gownley Jimmy Gownley (Amelia Rules) •  James Bucky Carter • Jim Salicrup (Papercutz) •  Jon Scieszka (True Story of the 3 Little Pigs & The Stinky Cheese Man) • Michael Bitz (The Comics Project) • Jessica Abel (La Perdida) • Matt Madden (99 Ways to tell a Story)......

Graphica in Education at Fordham  -  January 31, 2009
 
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James Bucky CarterDr. Michael Bitz                   Jessica Abel
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Jimmy Gownley, author of the best-selling Amelia Rules and founder of Kids Love Comics and Jim Salicrup Editor-in-Chief PaperCutz and boardmember of the New York Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA) join Jon Scieszka, the best-selling author and founder of Guys Read, and other educational and creative luminaries at this innovative conference on Graphic Novels in Schools.

Educational Keynoter, James Bucky Carter opens the conference and Michael Bitz shares his insights from his long-running Comic Book Project in schools.

Authors Jessica Abel
(La Perdida) and Matt Madden (99 Ways to Tell a Story) will run a workshop while Ali Kokmen (Del Ray Manga) John Shableski (Diamond Comics) and Alan Brody (White Shaka Boy) join this innovative conference on the impact of Graphica in Education. Many more speakers, workshops, panels, papers and educators will be announced shortly as the response to this event grows.

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About the Conference
On January 31, comic books and graphic novels will be on the reading list when Fordham's Graduate School of Education (GSE) hosts "Graphica in Education: Graphic Novels come out from Under the Desk," the first conference to discuss the impact of graphic novels, comics, Manga and other graphica on K-12 classrooms.

"Comics Manga and graphic novels are swamping the reading attention of our youth, but educators are still grappling with a strategy to deal with it," said Marshall A. George, Ed.D., professor of education at Fordham and agenda committee chair. "We expect this conference to produce a solid pedagogical approach and an understanding of which graphic books to accept and how to use them in the classroom."

Event Details
Graphica in Education: Graphic Novels come out from Under the Desk
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Fordham University Graduate School of Education -
Lowenstein Center, Lincoln Center Campus, 113 W. 60th St., New York City

The conference will feature leading speakers in education, libraries and the graphic novel and comics industry. It will host a specialized educational graphica book fair and a new awards ceremony to recognize graphic novels that have made a positive impact in the classroom. The conference will cover issues facing the educators as Graphica in all forms have made a substantial impact on the reading choices of K-12 students.

Confirmed Speakers

James Bucky Carter, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of English Education at the University of Texas at El Paso. His work focuses on literacy issues and popular culture's connections to education. His work has appeared in Marvels and Tales, ImageTexT, and International Journal of Comic Art. He has taught middle school, high school, community college, and university courses. He is the editor of Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel, which advises middle and high school teachers ideas on how to use graphic novels in their classrooms.

Jon Scieszka
is the author of The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, The Stinky Cheese Man, the Time Warp Trio series, and most recently - the whole world of Trucktown.  Last January he was named the first National Ambassador of Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress and the Children's Book Council.

Dr. Michael Bitz, Ed.D.,
is the founder of The Comic Book Project and co-founder of the Youth Music Exchange is an internationally recognized innovator in education and is the first recipient of the Mind Trust fellowship in educational entrepreneurship. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Early Career Award from Teachers College, Columbia University and is the author of two forthcoming books: Manga High (Harvard Education Press) and When Commas Meet Kryptonite (Teachers College Press).

John Shableski Diamond Book Distributors

Jessica Abel is the author of the best-selling Graphic Novel La Perdida

Matt Madden
is the author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story

Ali Kokmen
is the head of marketing at Del Ray Manga

Alan Brody is the author of White Shaka Boy.

The Conference is co-sponsored by Random House Academic Marketing and Diamond Comics in conjunction with Fordham University Graduate School of Education. It is produced by ViziPress, a division of TECHmarketing under the direction of graphic novel author, Alan Brody.

For more information on speaking or exhibiting, contact Ellen Schaeffer: (212)624-9110 
        ellens@graph-ed.com        ·      info@graph-ed.com      ·        www.graph-ed.com
 
Fordham University
Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to approximately 14,700 students in its four undergraduate colleges and its six graduate and professional schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in Westchester, and the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y.
 
TECHmarketing - ViziPress
ViziPress is the imprint of TECHmarketing, a Business and Technology Education Conference Company and publisher of White Shaka Boy.