Message: “Christy Blanch and Teaching with Comics”
Christy Blanch, professor of the SUPERMooc talks how she’s innovating in the classroom using popculture and comics, plus what it’s like to write for Thrillbent!
In this Episode:
0:00 – Where’s Matt?
4:00 – Meet Christy Blanch
10:00 – Using Comics to Teach
23:00 – The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood
38:00 – SuperMOOC: Teaching with Comics in the Digital World
47:00 – Teaching Gender with Comics
The StoryMen welcome author and podcaster Matt Mikalatos to the show to discuss his new book Into the Fray. A sequel to The First Time We Saw Him, Matt reimagines the book of Acts, setting the stories of the early church in a contemporary context. Matt shares what he learned writing the book, reads one of his favorite parts and we dream about what the Church can learn today.
The StoryMen make the push for episode 100. We have more guests, bigger episodes and plenty of fodder for the most piercing investigations of history, pop culture and theology yet!