Avatar and the Information Society
Biases on the table: I did not like Avatar, at least not as a film. As a demo reel for the next generation of CGI, I think it's excellent, but as narrative, it's both just a
Popular culture and STEM pedagogy
Earlier today I was incorporating copy edits into an essay-in-comics thats being published in a book called Critical Pedagogy and Library Instruction .The essay is about intersections between comics (considered both as a mode of communication and as a form of cultural discourse) and critical pedagogy. Part of this involved looking at how popular culture and critical pedagogy intersect more generally.
Better Learning Through Hypercomics: Pedagogical Marks on the Infinite Canvas
Let's talk about hypercomics, and then, let's talk about e-learning.
People (and by "people," I of course mean Wikipedia) credit the concept of hypercomics to Scott McCloud, which is sort of true, in the hazy version of truth you expect from a Wikipedia article with the sweeping broom icon up at the top.
McCloud actually came up with the concept of the Infinite Canvas.




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