• 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