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The original scripts for Doctor Who, including for the recent 60th Anniversary Specials, and many more, are now available to download for free as an educational resource on the BBC Writers Room site This includes the scripts for the hilarious 5-minute "Children in Need" mini-episode and the 5-minute script that showrunner Russell T Davies wrote[...]

Take your preschooler on a wildlife tour of the world, stopping off at all 7 continents! They'll discover pandas in Asia, lions in Africa, deer in Europe, an alpaca in South America, a bear in North America, a koala in Australia, penguins in the Antarctic… and lots more! With a sound brick to play animal[...]

Who's She? is a new educational tabletop board game for two players, with the goal of teaching about mighty women who changed the world! Guess their identity by asking about their accomplishments, not their appearance, with questions like: Did she win a Nobel Prize? Did she make a discovery? Was she a spy? Who's She? features stunning watercolor artwork from[...]

I hope fans of Glenn Howerton and NBC's A.P. Bio are taking notes because there will be a quiz at the end of this. Making a small tweak to their Thursday night programming line-up, A.P. Bio will be moving an hour earlier to 8:30 p.m. ET/PT on Thursday nights beginning March 1.

Described by the artist as a comic taking in many elements of his own experiences with the education system and how it's often difficult for anyone who doesn't fit the strict mould set out by it The story of Oink is obviously very personal to the artist as it uses the extended allegory of the[...]

I would certainly recommend booking her and her workshop if you are a school or a library in Birmingham, as she did really well with the kids and included everyone and their ideas in some way or form. There was also a good array of old-school computer games on offer, from the Nintendo 64's Mario Karts,[...]

By now, they have all graduated, and while I’m very happy for them, I know that a certain percentage will leave New York, taking their talents with them

educational activities and presentations, and expanded the area to 9,000 square feet in the very center of the show floor. We're the only convention in the country to have such a focus on kids programming and activities – and it shows: DCC has a far larger percentage of kids and families than any other event of[...]

And if you'd like to make suggestions to improve the system being pioneered, you can do that, too here: info@cbldf.org. The Comics Connector is a centralized list that can act as a resource facilitating more comics presence in classrooms and educational events All in all, a great idea that could help spark big change[...]

By Michele Brittany, West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent You have come up with a fantastic comic book idea (or some other product equally cool), but

That sort of thing that feels as if there's an invisible hand pushing your hand to turn the page as soon as you're done, to keep going, to propel you forward, to lock you into the world; that was job number one. CH: What's next for you after the 13-city national author tour? Or will you[...]

By Olly MacNamee With the ever-present problem of boys' literacy levels being below those of girls in schools up and down the country, for many of us in the educational profession who also hold a fondness for comics, it comes as no surprise that graphic novels for many young lads is often their passport to reading[...]

We take games likes Dungeons and Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, and Chess, and infuse an educational curriculum into them, so our kids are having fun and learning at the same time We have launched an Indiegogo campaign to help us raise funds that will allow our program to grow and serve more kids over the[...]

By Olly MacNamee Released for free and online on the 8th of every month, Nottingham's Dawn of The Unread is a brave venture into webcomics with a simple mission statement: get more people reading, encourage better literacy levels. Created by James Walker, supported by Nottingham Trent University and illustrated by established British artists (Eddie Campbell illustrates Charlie[...]

John Odum writes for Bleeding Cool: Anybody who thinks the future of comics is to be relegated to Hollywood R&D market testing wasn’t in the teacher’s

By Olly MacNamee When first I drank from the Bleeding Cool-Aid fountain back in January as a roving reporter covering conventions in the Midlands area of

Comic books, therefore, became our vehicle for talking about politics, education, sexuality, gender roles, labor relations, religion, anti-Semitism, racism, environmentalism, technology, and even business strategy. Admittedly, the students who enrolled in the class – roughly fifty in two sections – are not a random sample Yet as I've mentioned in an early Bleeding Cool contribution, there[...]

If anything, I'm probably a little too idealistic about education, but it's a world where idealism is needed to get you through the difficult aspects and challenges facing educators right now. Here are a few excerpts, and you can go along to see the full post if you want to read more here: I have a lot[...]

Yes, you can take continuing education courses and those are really important but for many people, when 'real' life starts and you have a spouse, a job or kids or whatever, not everyone has the money or the time to take courses This is a great alternative You can spend as much or as little[...]

Brian M. Puaca writes for Bleeding Cool: A recent article on Bleeding Cool by Joe Mulvey discussed the need of the comics industry to advertise. I, too,

There's even a free e-book Ten Tips for Comics Creators and video content with instructional focus on different skills like "How to Write For Comics", "Layouts and Sketching" and "Character Design". Needless to say, I was very impressed by the mission of the site, its educational focus, and all the resources present to keep comic creators[...]

Christina Blanch, the organizer of the massively successful free open-access online comics course "Super MOOC": "Gender Through Comic Books", will be

I was delighted when we struck up a correspondence by Twitter and e-mail about his experiences using comics in education at the university level, since I'm also an educator He expressed his varied impressions of using what are now becoming canonical texts when using comics in college classrooms, from Maus to Persepolis and Watchmen, but[...]

The California College Of The Arts unveils its July guest speaker programming for its Comics MFA course... The Speakers: Cathy Malkasian, Friday, July

It would have to be San Diego State University's Professor of Education wouldn't it? Professor Diane Lapp, along with a number of researchers, have surveyed all manner of teachers regarding their use of comics and graphic novels in the classroom. They found that most teachers never use them, but those that do value their use[...]

  Sisner Award winning Lynda Barry is to be the University of Wisconsin-Madison's spring artist in residence with the Arts Institute and Department

An Education You won't get this going to the Twilight panel Nor the Walking Dead panel Not even at Big Bang. But from 10.30 to noon on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, you can attend three sessions of Comic Book Law School with IP attorney Michael Lovitz, each eligible for 1.5 credits of California MCLE.) The first lesson, is[...]