 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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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.
REGISTER BY FOR THE EARLY BIRD RATE!
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
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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 - ViziPressViziPress is the imprint of TECHmarketing, a Business and Technology Education Conference Company and publisher of White Shaka Boy.
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