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Here’s the slidecast of the presentation I did in Second Life today at the “Mini-Morph: A Second Life Web Comics Comic-Con and Conference.” Presentations were focused on comics in the classroom and comics courses. So I made this presentation about using transformative constraint to get non-drawing students creating comics. I recorded this audio the evening before the presentation as a practice session, so it differs from whatever I said at the actual event.

I’m going to be presenting in Second Life again (see my presentation from October). Here’s the official announcement, though my presentation topic has been changed: Mini-Morph: A Second Life Web Comics Comic-Con and Conference. March 18, 2009, 9:00 – 1:00 SL/PST We’re proud to present a special half-day conference devoted to discussing the comics survey [...]

Besides all the other things I do, I also am a member of a group librarian blog called In the Library with the Lead Pipe. My post today makes a connection between slide-speech interaction in presentations and image-text interaction in comics: “Presentation = Speech + Slides.” It might be of interest to readers of this [...]

I spoke in Second Life at Met@Morph, the first annual Web Comics Comic-Con and Conference, on Friday October 3rd (today). My presentation was called “Freedom within Boundaries: the Theory and Practice of Constraint in Comics.” I only had 20 minutes so it’s a fairly shallow look at the topic. You can see the slides here [...]