I worked with Jessica Labbe
Title: Susan the Symbiotic Sloth
Audience: High school science students
Instructional model: The ARCS model focuses on motivation, with the four categories corresponding to Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction. Jessica and I were able to develop our graphic novel after analyzing the needs of students and selecting proper motivational elements and tactics. For example, the use of a graphic novel in ecology class has a higher variability and is therefore more likely to grab student attention. Because many students already enjoy fictional graphic novels, students are more likely to receive intrinsic reinforcement that increases satisfaction.
Lesson: This graphic novelette would be part of a bigger lesson on ecological interactions. It will be expanded to include predation and competition.
Importance: Symbiosis is a concept that is taught in several different high school science courses, so it behooves students to learn the concept well and retain the information. If this format does increase motivation, students are more likely to retain the information.
Principles: We used a green background to tie in to thoughts of the jungle. There is a lot of repetition of elements, with consistent font and different text boxes for the different characters. Similar elements are grouped together, and empty space was pushed to the outside.
Definitions: I tend to define cartoons, comics, and graphic novels by size/length. Cartoons are a single panel, or potentially a few panels (see: political cartoons). Comics run from a strip to several pages that tell one story. Graphic novels are collections of comic stories. All three feature text and images, and the images are not photo-realistic. The text tends to be embedded or very close to the images, which distinguishes them from storybooks/picturebooks.
Reflection: This was an awesome assignment. The software wasn’t that difficult, all things considered. I definitely plan on expanding this to use it with my class. Susan the Sloth may end up having several series!
Title: Susan the Symbiotic Sloth
Audience: High school science students
Instructional model: The ARCS model focuses on motivation, with the four categories corresponding to Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction. Jessica and I were able to develop our graphic novel after analyzing the needs of students and selecting proper motivational elements and tactics. For example, the use of a graphic novel in ecology class has a higher variability and is therefore more likely to grab student attention. Because many students already enjoy fictional graphic novels, students are more likely to receive intrinsic reinforcement that increases satisfaction.
Lesson: This graphic novelette would be part of a bigger lesson on ecological interactions. It will be expanded to include predation and competition.
Importance: Symbiosis is a concept that is taught in several different high school science courses, so it behooves students to learn the concept well and retain the information. If this format does increase motivation, students are more likely to retain the information.
Principles: We used a green background to tie in to thoughts of the jungle. There is a lot of repetition of elements, with consistent font and different text boxes for the different characters. Similar elements are grouped together, and empty space was pushed to the outside.
Definitions: I tend to define cartoons, comics, and graphic novels by size/length. Cartoons are a single panel, or potentially a few panels (see: political cartoons). Comics run from a strip to several pages that tell one story. Graphic novels are collections of comic stories. All three feature text and images, and the images are not photo-realistic. The text tends to be embedded or very close to the images, which distinguishes them from storybooks/picturebooks.
Reflection: This was an awesome assignment. The software wasn’t that difficult, all things considered. I definitely plan on expanding this to use it with my class. Susan the Sloth may end up having several series!