Category: Speaking and Teaching
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Teaching Comics, Zine-making and Visual Literacy at OSF
In autumn 2017, I taught a four week comics course at the Oasis Skateboard Factory, an alternative highschool within the Toronto District Schoolboard. OSF has a project-focused curriculum, so our comic project was multifaceted, to approach multiple curriculum aspects. Over the course of the four weeks, we read Emily Carroll‘s Through the Woods, and Mike Mignola‘s…
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Teaching the Shahnameh via Dungeon World
In July 2016 I spent a week running a Dungeon World campaign as part of summer camp for 16 kids, aged 9-12, at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. This program made use of the museum’s collections in combination with crafts, storytelling and the tabletop role-playing game Dungeon World to teach campers about ancient Persia through the epic poem The…