Instructional Video10:19
TED Talks

TED: How comic strips create better health care | Sam Hester

12th - Higher Ed
Comics creator Sam Hester is part of a growing movement within health care: graphic medicine. In short, literally drawing attention to a patient's needs and goals with pictures to foster better and more accessible caretaking. Hester...
Instructional Video18:39
TED Talks

Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist

12th - Higher Ed
This talk paints the funny and touching story of a little boy who pursued a simple passion: to draw and write stories. With the help of a supporting cast of family and teachers, Jarrett J. Krosoczka tells how he grew up to create beloved...
Instructional Video10:11
PBS

Are Graphic Novels... Novels? (Feat. Princess Weekes)

12th - Higher Ed
In the past few decades, literature has expanded to not only mean the “novel” but “graphic novels” as well. Today we are gonna break down how the graphic novel went from the comic book store to the classroom. Hosted by Lindsay Ellis and...
Instructional Video8:56
IT'S HISTORY

X-Men, Star Trek and Lord of the Rings - Cold War Culture I THE COLD WAR

12th - Higher Ed
What do Wolverine, Mr. Spock and Gandalf have in common? Their creators were all children of the Cold War during which arts and culture underwent a fundamental change. Comics, Science Fiction and Fantasy were born and became accepted...
Instructional Video12:57
Crash Course

Don't Reanimate Corpses! Frankenstein Part 1

9th - 12th
"Who is more human? Victor Frankenstein or the nameless monster he created?" This, according to the narrator of a two-part presentation on Frankenstein, is the essential question. The video begins with a summary of the action of the...