Foundation notes

  • Project name?
    • SOS- Shred Our Stereotype
    • STS – Stop the stereotype
  • Elevator pitch
    • For group of schools from conflict and post conflict zones
      • Israel, Palestine, South Africa, Irish Catholics and Protestants
      • Pairing schools  where there was reconcillation in some, and ongoing conflict in others
      • share stories about the process of reconcillation so that those in the midst of it can pass on knowledge to those in need of starting the process
      •  develop the process model (bricolage, incrimental and agile development) so that it can be shared and adapted, and modified
  • Project description
    • Collaboratively created comics with shared narratives
      • 4-6 schools for grades 10-12
  • Project history/influences
  • Project influence (word?)
    • Pedagogy
    • History and social studies
    • language
    • Anthro (?)
    • Migrations and diaspora studies
    • art
      • production
      • visual analysis
  • Curriculum/
    • Introduction to the form and formal elements
      • McCloud, Lynda Barry, Eisner
    • Introduction to the narrative
      • Joseph Cambell or similar
      • Roger Schank (adapted for students or only for teachers)
    • Introduction to illustration
      • Possible use guest lecturers via Skype or Google Hangout
  • Assignments
    • individual 2-3 page comic, personal narrative of 1 event, using specified elements of narrative and graphic
    • collaborative effort/ 3 person groups with artist, writer, colorist. assigned event/genre/story
    • collaborative effort with 3 person groups where one of each group (for example the writer) moves to a different group
    • collaborative effort with this group where they do “turnkey”, meaning select their own story, develop and write.
    • replicated among the schools- where one specific contributer moves to a group in the next school
    • repeat second part of teh process
  • Draft reading list
    • Maus
    • Arab in America
    • American born Chinese
    • Understanding comics
    • The Shadow (Yang and Liew)
    • Market Day (Strum)
    • Arab of the future
    • Persepolis
    • A game for swallows
    • Rolling blackouts (glidden)
    • The best we could do (Thi Bui)
    • The great war (Joe Sacco)
  • Platform- plus and minuses
    • WordPress
    • Google exhibitions
  • Software/hardware
    • Comic life for computer and phone
    • presentation (Keynote, PP, etc)
    • Mac, PC, Smart fone, Cell phone

 

Idea #2- based upon ongoing conversations with Larisa 

  • target- 6-9th grade (or higher)
    • 6+ schools
    • Digital image wall
    • Shared coloring page images
      • basic shape (outline of a  gingerbread -like person)
      • distributed to each participant
      • need to do a “self portrait” in the template
      • decorate with traditional clothing
      • share images so that participants of distant schools add color
      • images are either digital, or scanned or photographed and added to the wall
      • names and locations of artists, colorists, creators, added to wall