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Discovering Graphic Medicine: Before and Beyond the Leopardskin Librarian and her Second Life AdventuresPF Anderson / Perplexity “Lexi” PeccableACRL/VWIG Joint Meeting with the ALA Virtual Communities in Libraries MIGJanuary 17, 2016
Once upon a time … A
Once upon a time …
… a somewhat interesting, well, slightly interesting woman wrote a book with some friends.
It was a big book.
A long book.
Actually, it was more than one book.
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Once upon a time …
It was not an interesting book.
Not a beautiful book.
Not a story book.
Not a funny book.
Not a spiritual book.
Not an important book.
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Once upon a time …
And that slightly interesting woman didn’t want the
BIG, long,
multi-volume book
to be any of those things,
because what it tried to teach WAS important.
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Once upon a time …
… a woman wrote a book with some friends.
It was a bo-o-o-oring book.
A boring book to try to help people who would never read it.
And that is how this story begins.
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The story begins
with imagining a different kind of book, different ways to teach, a different way
to tell stories for learning.
Instructional Design SIG
● Cognitive load theory (2009) ● Cognitive literacy● Advance organizers
○ Graphical organizers
○ Narrative organizers
○ Story grammar
● Storytelling ● Scenario-based elearning● The “science of surprise”
Digital Storytelling
StoryCenter http://www.storycenter.org/
My “StoryCenter Story > The Way to Cajun Country (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnQT7BKpz-g
Storytelling for Learning“There is consensus in literature that storytelling offers a highly natural and powerful means to convey, learn, and retain information. A variety of educational researchers offer learning
theories that support storytelling from a number of perspectives including brain-based learning theories, experiential learning theories, reflective learning theories and transformational learning theories. Several studies are available that underscore the ability of learners to learn, retain and retrieve information when presented in a story format.
Furthermore, neuroscience research reports that the human brain is naturally wired to receive and remember every human experience within a structure of a story.” (J. Eck, 2006. <http://www2.uwstout.
edu/content/lib/thesis/2006/2006eckj.pdf> )
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Visuals for Learning RetentionBruff D. Everyone’s a Visual Learner – A Conference Report. (2011) https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2011/11/everyones-a-visual-learner-a-conference-report/
Bulgatz MG, Lehman D. Visual Statement Learning: A Preliminary Study. National Social Science
Association (2007) http://www.nssa.us/journals/2007-28-1/2007-28-1-03.htm
Gutierrez K. The Power of Visuals in e-Learning. SHIFT - Disruptive Learning (2014) http://info.shiftelearning.com/blog/bid/350326/Studies-Confirm-the-Power-of-Visuals-in-eLearning
Kouyoumdjian H. Learning Through Visuals: Visual imagery in the classroom. Psychology Today (2012) https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/get-psyched/201207/learning-through-visuals
Majumdar A. Heightening Learner Engagement and Retention through Visual Learning. G-Cube (2015) http://www.gc-solutions.net/blog/heightening-learner-engagement-and-retention-through-visual-learning/
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Visuals for Learning Retention
Gutierrez K. The Power of Visuals in e-Learning. SHIFT - Disruptive Learning (2014) http://info.shiftelearning.
com/blog/bid/350326/Studies-Confirm-the-Power-of-Visuals-in-eLearning
Images: https://openclipart.org/detail/3455/hands | https://openclipart.org/detail/167173/ear | https://openclipart.org/detail/181455/eye |
Combining Visual & Narrative Learning
Success Story, by Billy Burg http://www.peteburg.com/bill/comics/success.html
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The story continues
with discovering community around these imaginings.
DiscoveryComics & Graphic Novels Librarian & Libguide http://guides.lib.umich.edu/comics
DiscoveryOur institutional repository librarian writes comics? http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/hellpop = http://www.gt-labs.com/writers.html
Discovery
Storytelling for Health https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/storytelling-for-health/
Discovery
“How Many Hives?”: Social Media Can Prevent a Crisis with Storytelling, Engagement, & Training https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/how-many-hives-social-media-can-prevent-a-crisis-with-storytelling-engagement-training/
I Have Food Allergies: http://ihavefoodallergies.tumblr.com/
DiscoveryTransnational Comics Studies Workshop (University of Michigan) https://www.facebook.com/transnationalcomicsstudies/
Discovery
Cheap and Easy Ways to Make Comics or Cartoons for Digital Storytelling https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/cheap-and-easy-ways-to-make-comics-or-cartoons-for-digital-storytelling/ | http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscienceslibraries/cheap-and-easy-ways-to-make-comics-or-cartoons-for-digital-storytelling
The struggleTry. Fail. Try. Fail.
Watch the experts. Try again. And again.
Foot of the MountainDigital Storytelling https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/teach-feast-engaged-learning-through-internships-badges-e-portfolios-storytelling/
Teach Feast 2015: integrative tools for engagement at Michigan http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscienceslibraries/teach-feast-2015-integrative-tools-for-engagement-at-michigan
Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/evdg/9727111416
Foot of the Mountain
A Wrinkle in Time, a Graphic Novel, by Madeleine L’Engle and Hope Larson: http://www.hopelarson.com/portfolio-item/a-wrinkle-intime/
Foot of the MountainOn Purpose, by Vic Strecher: http://www.dungbeetle.org/
Foot of the Mountain
Graphic Medicine http://www.graphicmedicine.org/
The Bad Doctor https://thebaddr.wordpress.com/
Comic Nurse http://www.comicnurse.com/
Foot of the Mountain
Comic Reviews: Oh Joy, Sex Toy (by PF Anderson) http://www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-reviews/oh-joy-sex-toy-2/
Foot of the Mountain1) REAL, by Takehiko Inoue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_(manga)
2) Graphic Medicine Manifesto, by by MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J.
Green, Kimberly R. Myers, Scott T. Smith http://www.graphicmedicine.org/book-series/graphic-
medicine-manifesto/
3) The Bad Doctor, by Ian Williams http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06754-4.
html
4) On Purpose, by Vic Strecher http://www.dungbeetle.org/
5) Neurocomic, by Hana Ros, Matteo Farinella http://www.neurocomic.org/
6) Epileptic, by David B. http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/books/reviews/10851/
7) CancerVixen, by Marisa Acocella Marchetto http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/14/books/a-
vixen-cartooning-in-the-face-of-cancer.html
8) Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant, by Roz Chast http://www.nytimes.
com/2014/06/01/books/review/roz-chasts-cant-we-talk-about-something-more-pleasant.html
9) Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas, and Dealers Plotted Against the Plague, by
Joyce Brabner and Mark Zingarelli http://boingboing.net/2014/11/30/second-avenue-caper-
when-good.html
10) Diary of a Teenage Girl, by Phoebe Glockner http://www.npr.
org/2015/08/13/431997207/a-diary-unlocked-a-teenage-coming-of-age-story-put-on-film
11) The Spiral Cage, by Al Davison http://the-toast.net/2014/11/03/disability-and-the-work-of-
al-davison/
12) Understanding Comics, by Scott McCloud http://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/
13) Oh Joy, Sex Toy, by Erika Moen http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/
14) Chop, Sizzle, Wow, by The Silver Spoon and Adriano Rampazzo. https://www.
forewordreviews.com/reviews/chop-sizzle-wow/
The breakthrough
Making a story with meaning AND purpose.
BreakthroughThe Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture https://www.edx.org/course/rise-superheroes-impact-pop-culture-smithsonianx-popx1-1x-0
Breakthrough
Inspired by Seshat …
Breakthrough
The Leopardskin Librarian is born http://leopardskinlibrarian.wordpress.com/
And she even teaches information lessons & skills along the road!
Breakthrough
First, as Stella River, public librarian …
Breakthrough
Later, as Madrigal …
Breakthrough
I got to be a TA for the second run of “The Rise of Superheroes
and Their Impact On Pop Culture”!
Breakthrough
The world of the Leopardskin Librarian grows to include new heros …
Breakthrough
… and new villains.
And leads to new opportunities …
A new mountain
When the student becomes a teacher.
Progress
Comics, Graphic Medicine, and Creating Stigma Awareness https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2015/10/12/comics-graphic-medicine-and-creating-stigma-awareness-a-panel/
ProgressGraphic Medicine Interest Group
Emergency Medicine
Nurse Training
Outreach / Patient Education Materials
Student Projects
Libguide
Contact: @pfanderson<[email protected]>Patricia F. AndersonPerplexity Peccable