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Day 177 (of 2024/25) I’m too tired for a good/full reflection of our school comic con… so here is our Comic Kahoot -Answer addition Or try the quiz first: https://kahoot.it/challenge/05364865?challenge-id=b978468e-141e-4f58-88fb-042949de96a9_1750307089654 In 1933, a premium not sold on newsstands, “Famous Funnies, A Carnival of Comics” was printed by Eastern Color Printing and put out by Delacort,…

Day 176 (of 2024/25) #booktok a history of comics in the classroom…and library Year one. Stash of comics in library. Reading them and sharing them. Coming out of university where one of my education papers was “Comics to Classics” a look at scaffolding comics to get into more traditional literatures. Year three. Small stack of comics…

Day 175 (of 2024/25) do people who hate its #pridemonth and #indigenouspeopleshistorymonth root for the sentinels when they read x-men? #tcaf #tcaf2025  Loved the time I had at #tcaf. Some great panels that still have me thinking about diversity and inclusion and who the content creators have always been… and how comics have been reflective…

Day 174(of 2024/25) #fathersday thinking I always like to give shoutouts to dads (and the many people regardless of gender who do the ‘job’ of dads) as so often Mother’s Day gets a bit more attention in schools – because “we” so often work with moms more than dads… not always, I have more than…

Day 173 (of 2024/25) with a fortnight to go… the days are just packed… We still have two weeks plus an admin day for the 24/25 school year. And the days are packed… I could use an additional 4+ hours … but not 5pm-9pm, 4 hours compacted between 10 and 11… I wish I was…

Day 172 (of 2024/25) Are these neurologies common? Or rare…? Been doing some thinking about thinking and two neuro tendencies have come up… cuz the brain is wonderful making us think they all work the same for so long, when the reality is the more we study it, the less it lets us know… Aphantasia.…

Day 172 (of 2024/25) banned books & #tcaf panels pages and protests (oh my!) Getting ready for our comic con and after a trip to Toronto comic Arts Festival, I’m still thinking about banned books – and comics. It is easy to dismiss and challenge some because of the artwork – mind you the same…

Day 171 (of 2024/25) synthesizing some thinking about  focus groups thinking about AI… Preamble… Especially reflecting on how Steve Jobs and Henry Ford viewed focus groups… not fondly as so often people/groups want ‘more of what we had/have’ and need to be shown ‘different’. Good starting points for some airing of grievances, wishes, and hopes for…

Day 170 (of 2024/25) #tcaf education & libraries day… 

Day 169 (of 2024/25) I might be getting too old for some of this… A long while back I was asked to put forward a proposal to talk about how our school leveraged some connections via our comic book library and (now annual as we prep for #2) year-ending comic con (a better strategy for…