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Saturday, November 22 • 3:15pm - 4:15pm
Teaching Visual Rhetoric with the ComicLife App

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The word “comics” conjures images of Spiderman in the minds of most. But comics are not just texts that entertain. The complex interaction of words, images, sound, and space in comics makes them a rich site for the study of visual rhetoric in the classroom. The iPad app ComicLife allows students to practice principles of visual rhetoric to create their own comics, regardless of artistic ability. Using technology to create multimedia texts like comics cultivates the kinds of 21st Century literacy skills that scholars and organizations like the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) have stressed that students need.
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Emily Wierszewski

Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Writing Program, Seton Hill University
Emily Wierszewski is an Associate Professor of English with a background in writing assessment. She was one of the key faculty members who helped to develop the assessment instrument, and she recently took leadership of the project as part of her new role as the Director of the Undergraduate... Read More →

Saturday November 22, 2014 3:15pm - 4:15pm EST
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  Content Creation, ELA