Teaching Literary Interpretation via Comic Strip Creation with Comic Life

Comic Life is an easy-to-use application for creating comic-themed media, ranging from brief comic strips to full-length graphic novels. In this lesson, students construct comic strip interpretations of Don Quixote in order to analyze the novel in a contemporary context.

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Teaching Students to Explore Their Environment with Omeka

Omeka is a web-based system for creating digital collections of media (especially images) and organizing them into exhibits. The Instructors, both from the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries, were invited by the Memorial Art Gallery to present a workshop as part of its Teacher In-Service professional development program, which is targeted towards K-12 teachers and library media specialists in the Rochester area.

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