Discovering Graphic Medicine: Before and Beyond the Leopardskin Librarian and her Second Life AdventuresPF Anderson / Perplexity “Lexi” PeccableACRL/VWIG Joint Meeting with the ALA Virtual Communities in Libraries MIGJanuary 17, 2016

Once upon a time … A

Once upon a time …

… a somewhat interesting, well, slightly interesting woman wrote a book with some friends.

It was a big book.

A long book.

Actually, it was more than one book.

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Once upon a time …

It was not an interesting book.

Not a beautiful book.

Not a story book.

Not a funny book.

Not a spiritual book.

Not an important book.

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Once upon a time …

And that slightly interesting woman didn’t want the

BIG, long,

multi-volume book

to be any of those things,

because what it tried to teach WAS important.

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Once upon a time …

… a woman wrote a book with some friends.

It was a bo-o-o-oring book.

A boring book to try to help people who would never read it.

And that is how this story begins.

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The story begins

with imagining a different kind of book, different ways to teach, a different way

to tell stories for learning.

Instructional Design SIG

● Cognitive load theory (2009) ● Cognitive literacy● Advance organizers

○ Graphical organizers

○ Narrative organizers

○ Story grammar

● Storytelling ● Scenario-based elearning● The “science of surprise”

Digital Storytelling

StoryCenter http://www.storycenter.org/

My “StoryCenter Story > The Way to Cajun Country (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnQT7BKpz-g

Storytelling for Learning“There is consensus in literature that storytelling offers a highly natural and powerful means to convey, learn, and retain information. A variety of educational researchers offer learning

theories that support storytelling from a number of perspectives including brain-based learning theories, experiential learning theories, reflective learning theories and transformational learning theories. Several studies are available that underscore the ability of learners to learn, retain and retrieve information when presented in a story format.

Furthermore, neuroscience research reports that the human brain is naturally wired to receive and remember every human experience within a structure of a story.” (J. Eck, 2006. <http://www2.uwstout.

edu/content/lib/thesis/2006/2006eckj.pdf> )

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Visuals for Learning RetentionBruff D. Everyone’s a Visual Learner – A Conference Report. (2011) https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2011/11/everyones-a-visual-learner-a-conference-report/

Bulgatz MG, Lehman D. Visual Statement Learning: A Preliminary Study. National Social Science

Association (2007) http://www.nssa.us/journals/2007-28-1/2007-28-1-03.htm

Gutierrez K. The Power of Visuals in e-Learning. SHIFT - Disruptive Learning (2014) http://info.shiftelearning.com/blog/bid/350326/Studies-Confirm-the-Power-of-Visuals-in-eLearning

Kouyoumdjian H. Learning Through Visuals: Visual imagery in the classroom. Psychology Today (2012) https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/get-psyched/201207/learning-through-visuals

Majumdar A. Heightening Learner Engagement and Retention through Visual Learning. G-Cube (2015) http://www.gc-solutions.net/blog/heightening-learner-engagement-and-retention-through-visual-learning/

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Visuals for Learning Retention

Gutierrez K. The Power of Visuals in e-Learning. SHIFT - Disruptive Learning (2014) http://info.shiftelearning.

com/blog/bid/350326/Studies-Confirm-the-Power-of-Visuals-in-eLearning

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Combining Visual & Narrative Learning

Success Story, by Billy Burg http://www.peteburg.com/bill/comics/success.html

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The story continues

with discovering community around these imaginings.

DiscoveryComics & Graphic Novels Librarian & Libguide http://guides.lib.umich.edu/comics

DiscoveryOur institutional repository librarian writes comics? http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/hellpop = http://www.gt-labs.com/writers.html

Discovery

Storytelling for Health https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/storytelling-for-health/

Discovery

“How Many Hives?”: Social Media Can Prevent a Crisis with Storytelling, Engagement, & Training https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/how-many-hives-social-media-can-prevent-a-crisis-with-storytelling-engagement-training/

I Have Food Allergies: http://ihavefoodallergies.tumblr.com/

DiscoveryTransnational Comics Studies Workshop (University of Michigan) https://www.facebook.com/transnationalcomicsstudies/

Discovery

Cheap and Easy Ways to Make Comics or Cartoons for Digital Storytelling https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/cheap-and-easy-ways-to-make-comics-or-cartoons-for-digital-storytelling/ | http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscienceslibraries/cheap-and-easy-ways-to-make-comics-or-cartoons-for-digital-storytelling

The struggleTry. Fail. Try. Fail.

Watch the experts. Try again. And again.

Foot of the MountainDigital Storytelling https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/teach-feast-engaged-learning-through-internships-badges-e-portfolios-storytelling/

Teach Feast 2015: integrative tools for engagement at Michigan http://www.slideshare.net/umhealthscienceslibraries/teach-feast-2015-integrative-tools-for-engagement-at-michigan

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Foot of the Mountain

A Wrinkle in Time, a Graphic Novel, by Madeleine L’Engle and Hope Larson: http://www.hopelarson.com/portfolio-item/a-wrinkle-intime/

Foot of the MountainOn Purpose, by Vic Strecher: http://www.dungbeetle.org/

Foot of the Mountain

Graphic Medicine http://www.graphicmedicine.org/

The Bad Doctor https://thebaddr.wordpress.com/

Comic Nurse http://www.comicnurse.com/

Foot of the Mountain

Comic Reviews: Oh Joy, Sex Toy (by PF Anderson) http://www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-reviews/oh-joy-sex-toy-2/

Foot of the Mountain1) REAL, by Takehiko Inoue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_(manga)

2) Graphic Medicine Manifesto, by by MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J.

Green, Kimberly R. Myers, Scott T. Smith http://www.graphicmedicine.org/book-series/graphic-

medicine-manifesto/

3) The Bad Doctor, by Ian Williams http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06754-4.

html

4) On Purpose, by Vic Strecher http://www.dungbeetle.org/

5) Neurocomic, by Hana Ros, Matteo Farinella http://www.neurocomic.org/

6) Epileptic, by David B. http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/books/reviews/10851/

7) CancerVixen, by Marisa Acocella Marchetto http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/14/books/a-

vixen-cartooning-in-the-face-of-cancer.html

8) Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant, by Roz Chast http://www.nytimes.

com/2014/06/01/books/review/roz-chasts-cant-we-talk-about-something-more-pleasant.html

9) Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas, and Dealers Plotted Against the Plague, by

Joyce Brabner and Mark Zingarelli http://boingboing.net/2014/11/30/second-avenue-caper-

when-good.html

10) Diary of a Teenage Girl, by Phoebe Glockner http://www.npr.

org/2015/08/13/431997207/a-diary-unlocked-a-teenage-coming-of-age-story-put-on-film

11) The Spiral Cage, by Al Davison http://the-toast.net/2014/11/03/disability-and-the-work-of-

al-davison/

12) Understanding Comics, by Scott McCloud http://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/

13) Oh Joy, Sex Toy, by Erika Moen http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/

14) Chop, Sizzle, Wow, by The Silver Spoon and Adriano Rampazzo. https://www.

forewordreviews.com/reviews/chop-sizzle-wow/

The breakthrough

Making a story with meaning AND purpose.

BreakthroughThe Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture https://www.edx.org/course/rise-superheroes-impact-pop-culture-smithsonianx-popx1-1x-0

Breakthrough

Inspired by Seshat …

Breakthrough

The Leopardskin Librarian is born http://leopardskinlibrarian.wordpress.com/

And she even teaches information lessons & skills along the road!

Breakthrough

First, as Stella River, public librarian …

Breakthrough

Later, as Madrigal …

Breakthrough

I got to be a TA for the second run of “The Rise of Superheroes

and Their Impact On Pop Culture”!

Breakthrough

The world of the Leopardskin Librarian grows to include new heros …

Breakthrough

… and new villains.

And leads to new opportunities …

A new mountain

When the student becomes a teacher.

Progress

Comics, Graphic Medicine, and Creating Stigma Awareness https://etechlib.wordpress.com/2015/10/12/comics-graphic-medicine-and-creating-stigma-awareness-a-panel/

ProgressGraphic Medicine Interest Group

Emergency Medicine

Nurse Training

Outreach / Patient Education Materials

Student Projects

Libguide

Contact: @pfanderson<pfa@umich.edu>Patricia F. AndersonPerplexity Peccable