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Resources | Rhonda Altonen
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Autodidactic, librarian, geek, bibliophile, and agape. Literacy Conference: Comics in the Classroom. Comics in the News. Free Comics For Educators. What I am reading. 20 Books for Irish-Americans. Books About Librarians & Libraries. Comics in the Classroom! Comics in the classroom. Wright, G., and Sherman, R. B. (2006). Comics Redux. Reading Improvement, 43(4), 165-172. Wright, G., and Sherman, R. (1999). Let’s create a comic strip. Reading Improvement, 36(2), 66-72. Http:/ www.hooverwebdesign.co...Http:...
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Spin, Weave, and Cut: SpinWeaveandCut Site!!
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Lots of new reviews and other things as Unflattening. Is getting out into the world. I've got all of that stuff plus my archives up at www.spinweaveandcut.com. Please join me there. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Please join me at my new site www.spinweaveandcut.com. All new content, resources on comics and education, and archives are there. Comics Classroom (course i'm teaching at TC). Conference on Creativity, Play, and the Imagination 2011. Game Show NYC (2011).
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Spin, Weave, and Cut: Threads: a spinning fable
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010. Threads: a spinning fable. Anyhow, this riffs on my method of spin, weave, and cut, and takes that approach to discuss modernism and the turn to the postmodern through myths, fairy tales, and similar literature all “mashed up” with philosophical and scientific notions. Often given the referential nature of my work, I feel like providing a key to all the imagery. (I did this once with the Rabbit page from Possibilities. Threads – the Key. And A Cosmology of Ideas V2. Piece, t...
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Spin, Weave, and Cut: Thanks NYC hello Calgary + Maxine
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014. Thanks NYC hello Calgary Maxine. UPDATED with more info about my presentation at Genres of Scholarly Knowledge Production. In Umeå, Sweden (below). Organized by Ben Katchor - check it out if you haven't! To all the friends and neighbors we've met along the way, New York has been good to us. It's hard to move on from such a supportive and dynamic home, but we're excited for the journey ahead - which is taking us far west and north to Calgary! See an interview with Bart here).
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Spin, Weave, and Cut: Cover, Reframing Inquiry
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015. Cover, Reframing Inquiry. About a month to go to the release of Unflattening. While I've yet to see all of it bound in one piece, I was pleased to get my hands on the proof of the cover and test prints for the interior pages! More info on Harvard UP's site here. Preorder available at places like. In Canada - or from your local book store or comics shop! In other news, an article I co-authored with professors Anna Smith and Matthew Hall, ". In the journal Literacy. And simult...
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Spin, Weave, and Cut: January 2015
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015. In Print: Threads Postmodern Fable. With less than two months to go, I'm eagerly counting down to March 9 and the release of my comics dissertation-turned book Unflattening. See more details on Harvard University Press's site here. And if you can't wait, I see it's up for preorder at places like Amazon. In the meantime, an essay I made in comics form before the dissertation. And shared on my site here. The Shape of Our Thoughts. You can view the piece in the journal online here.
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Spin, Weave, and Cut: Arrival! PW Podcast - NEW site
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Sunday, April 12, 2015. PW Podcast - NEW site. While I've moved my updates, archives, comics, and comics and education resources over to their new home, www.spinweaveandcut.com. I know people are still showing up here - so I'm posting a little update and asking visitors to migrate over to www.spinweaveandcut.com. A longer version of this post is here. My copy of Unflattening arrived! Nearly a year ago, I defended the dissertation, just after we welcomed our daughter. For their More to Come audio podcast.
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Spin, Weave, and Cut: April 2015
http://spinweaveandcut.blogspot.com/2015_04_01_archive.html
Sunday, April 12, 2015. PW Podcast - NEW site. While I've moved my updates, archives, comics, and comics and education resources over to their new home, www.spinweaveandcut.com. I know people are still showing up here - so I'm posting a little update and asking visitors to migrate over to www.spinweaveandcut.com. A longer version of this post is here. My copy of Unflattening arrived! Nearly a year ago, I defended the dissertation, just after we welcomed our daughter. For their More to Come audio podcast.
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Spin, Weave, and Cut: Unflattening Harvard UPress
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014. I'm pleased to announce that my comics dissertation will be published by Harvard University Press in March of 2015. Check out HUP's catalog here. To see all the specifics about Unflattening. This has been in the works for over a year now and I'm thrilled to be able to officially share the news! And features the outlines of feet from people around the world. Upcoming: I'll be a featured speaker. At the International Visual Literacy conference. The Chronicle's recent profile.
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Spin, Weave, and Cut: In Print!: Mind the Gaps
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Thursday, March 10, 2011. Another piece sees print this month, this time "Mind the Gaps" (which I first posted here. Specifically created for my advisor Ruth Vinz's (and co-author David Schaafsma's) text Narrative Inquiry: Approach to Language and Literacy Research. But more than a powerful tool for juxtapositions, comics are a place where the visual and the verbal exist side by side. In comics, the visual is equal partner to the verbal, not illustrative of the ‘real’ thing or mere decora...Please join m...
