Avatar and the Information Society

Submitted by dsduffy on Feb 05, 2010, 02:53 PM

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

Submitted by dsduffy on Nov 24, 2009, 02:46 PM

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

Submitted by dsduffy on Oct 25, 2009, 12:12 AM

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.