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In Defense of Heavy Reading
Massiveness: an overlooked benefit of J.K. Rowling's achievement. (Image © BrokenSphere / Wikimedia Commons) As anyone who has ever moved can attest, books are the heaviest known objects in the...
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New NCTE Research Brief Aligns Perfectly with Pop Culture Fandom… and Libraries
Thank goodness for The Council Chronicle. This publication from the National Council of Teachers of English keeps me up-to-date on all the neat things that are going on in literacy/reading...
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Comics Creation Tools: Thoughts From ‘The Graphic Classroom’
First off, thanks for checking out the first post in this series, in which I launched things by reflecting on my experience scripting Doctor Who photonovels. (And if you haven’t read it, here you go.)...
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4 Questions for Richard Beach about Literacy and Digital Comics Creation
I first met Professor Beach, co-author of the recent Using iPad and iPhone Apps for Learning with Literacy Across the Curriculum, when we served on the NCTE Commission on Media several years ago, and...
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Teaching Genre Conventions From a Fan’s Perspective
Archetypes… or Clichés? Here’s a question that I rarely see asked at SLJ or in any of the circles in which I travel: are genres ultimately limiting to both creators and readers? Why or why not? If...
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BEA, Famous Authors, and Why We’re All Guilty of Promoting ‘Celebrity Culture’
Last Friday afternoon this was the only mention of a specific author on the front page of BookExpoAmerica.com. Disclaimer for the post you’re about to read: Maybe I’ve just attended too many BEA’s and...
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‘Tiger Eyes’ and Transliteracy: Confessions of Someone Who Hasn’t Read the Novel
There are a lot of things to like about the film adaptation of Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes, which opens in select U.S. markets today, and is also available via VOD and iTunes. Lawrence Blume, the author’s...
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Fanfiction: What Educators Really Need to Know
Guest Post by Drew Emanuel Berkowitz It wasn’t too long ago that educators believed writing stories based on television shows, movies, comic books, cartoons, and video games was “nonacademic”,...
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Informational Text: Recommended Books, Suggested Strategies
Probably my biggest regret over the course of my tenure at this blog has been that I haven’t written enough about the many excellent books I receive that relate to pop culture or transliteracy in some...
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