Teacher Comics: My Heinous Master Plan

I get this reaction at least once every time I do this activity.

Teacher Comics: Big Question

Teacher comics: Progress

Teacher Comics: What they think we do

 

This is the very thing I worry about the moment I slide a DVD into my laptop for something in class, even if I am secure in the knowledge that I’ve built a solid bridge toward showing a film clip through instruction. I hate to say disparaging things about the people in my profession, but truth: There are some teachers who will play a 120 minute long movie in its’ entirety over several days of instruction… just ’cause.

It drives me crazy when I see that happening. Film can be an uplifting an sometimes critical part of education, but when teachers crutch out on them, it brings the entire profession down a peg.

Teacher comics: Parts o’ the project

Teacher Comics: Final project!

We’re in the home stretch, people!

Teacher Comics: The Shakespeare Code

Questions from readers: Best doc?

I stand by that first panel: Season 5 is the best season of NuWho overall, but Ten is the better version of The Doctor. I don’t know if that’s a controversial position or not.

More Who stuff tomorrow.

Questions from readers: Fav media?

So, a couple of notes about this one. Obviously, I drew this well in advanced of the end of How I Met Your Mother and… yeah, while there’s something to be said for a group of creative people “sticking to their guns” insofar as their preconceived end to the show, the finale of HIMYM, overall that last episode made me feel icky.

Secondly, well after drawing this comic, I realized: I ripped off the general structure of this strip from a very talented cartoonist named Melinda Boyce! It’s one of those thing where I read that comic like three or four years ago, forgot about it… and then ran across it again a few days after I drew this thing. Her version of this strip is a muuuuuuuch better version of this kind of thing (obviously) and you all should follow her comics at wherever they’re being posted right now.

Finally, you’ll notice no Doctor Who on those screens, but I am wearing a DW tee shirt. If you’re a fan of the doctor, the next few days will be your cuppa.

Questions from readers: Teaching abroad?

I wish I had a better answer for this one! I would be a horrible teacher abroad, I so like the creature comforts of home. Would that I were more adventurous.