Making history interesting for reluctant readers!
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- Chester Comix began in 2003, but the character has been around since Earth Day in 1995! www.chestercomix.com
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- Colonial Williamsburg book sig...
Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center
Sunday, February 17 at 3:00pm - Author's Purpose talk in Virgi...
Kempsville Elementary
Wednesday, February 13 at 8:00am
Chester Comix was supposed to sign books and hang with Santa at the National Museum of the Marine Corps today -- but DC is in the middle of getting 24 inches of snow and the Quantico base is on red alert and everything there is shut down. Santa might be able to make it in, but not me and the crab!!!!!!!!
Chester Comix Here's the line at the POffice at 2 p.m. today -- 45 minute wait, but I got a lot of comix shipped out and had some great conversations in the line (the woman in the photo used to teach kindergarten in Wmsbg and her husband was a principal here - she said she loved Chester Comix when it was in the paper!).
Chester Comix A Time Inc. tablet?? Rumors of an Apple tablet?!? This is a good look at why I'm scrambling to get Chester Comix onto the iPhone -- and why I no longer work for a newspaper.
michaelhyatt.com
A few days ago, I watched a video demo of the “SI Tablet,” a new eBook device developed by Time, Inc. and The Wonderfactory. It demonstrates how a touch screen, portability, and the convergence of text, audio, and video can create unprecedented opportunities for content providers. ...
Chester Comix is looking for a developer to work with on cocoa software to get Chester Comix onto the iPhone. Anybody know anybody??
Chester Comix FINALLY!!! After years of disappearing interns, the sea change of NCLB, web glitches, and a distracted owner, the Chester Comix website can at last show you how my books match a specific state's social studies standards! First up: North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania. MORE SOON!!!
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"Thank you so much for making a comic that children WANT to read and learn from."Niesa Wilhelm, 2nd grade teacher in Virginia
Chester Comix HA! I talk about this all the time in my literacy/author's purpose presentations to schoolkids. I use Egyptian writing and Dr. Seuss' forgotten classic "On Beyond Zebra" to make the point: we should not be afraid to make new pictures to communicate -- this is how culture and language grow.
Alphabet Updated With 15 Exciting New Replacement Letters | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
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NEW YORK—Dynamic, sleek, and sexy is how a panel of typographic and marketing experts described the 15 new replacement letters they unveiled Monday in an effort to reinvigorate the faltering English alphabet.
Chester Comix Here are rough draft pages for another comic I am drawing for release in 2010: THE WORLD WAR I WEB. And I'm inviting any teacher to let their class EDIT these pages to help me make the book better! I think this interactive project will help classes across the country build their writing skills by helping improve mine. ;-)
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Chester Comix yesterday got the first advance copy of the Homeschool All-Stars comic! My first hardcover looks GREAT!!! (Now you all know what you're getting for Christmas . . . )
Chester Comix Many educators see comix as a faster way than a textbook to get info to kids, but here is a great blog from an educator about using drawing to get kids to slow down and relate more deeply to a book. Kids love to draw! We can use that love to boost comprehension.
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Some see ‘comprehension’ as an old fashioned term that has lost its relevance in the ‘digital age’. I don’t see it this way. Helping children to comprehend better involves ...
Chester Comix A set of signed history comix make a unique holiday gift! A mom in Louisiana just got hers and then wrote me: "Thanks you so much for taking care of this for me. I know your books will be one of Laurance's favorite Christmas presents."
I’ve been blessed to meet most of my cartooning heroes in the past 20 years, but I never got to meet Charles “Sparky” Schulz. Until two nights ago. I ha...
Chester Comix is thankful for Amazon! We just got our biggest weekly order ever in the middle of our biggest month for Amazon orders ever! Whooo hoooooooo! (now off to pack up 293 comix . . .)
Chester Comix Finally, Chester Comix is on Twitter! Connect! or Link! or Friend! or whatever they call it over there . . .
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A series of educational comics about history for elementary students and reluctant readers
Woah, there are a lot of librarians on Twitter!!! And plenty of other cool people, too. So now ChesterComix will be a Tweet you can follow as I hack my way through history. I remember hearing about Twitter for the first time on an NPR talkshow in 2007...
