Doodling Information + About Comics
I wrote this book for Dodo and for me and for anyone else who ever got in trouble in school (or church or anywhere) for doodling, drawing, writing, knitting, drumming, or daydreaming. Although I consider myself a smart, focused person, it has always been IMPOSSIBLE for me to sit still and I KNOW, I ABSOLUTELY KNOW, that I learn better when I am allowed to move, sit on a stool, stand, or when I can be productive with my hands while listening or taking part in a discussion.
In Doodlebug: A Novel in Doodles, Dodo is asked why she became the Doodlebug in her new school. Her answers come right out of my own experience.
What I think is most important is that each person figures out what he or she needs to do to create, and learn, and then becomes a good advocate for defending that need in a way that is considerate and respectful to others. Only then will we have schools and workplaces that are environments that let each of us grow and work.
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Doodling, Doodles, and Learning
CELEBRATIONS!
Skywriting (just because I like it. It's my website!)
The Cartoon Art Museum (in San Francisco, appropriately enough)
DOODLING, DOODLES, and LEARNING:
- Do your doodles mean something? Interpret your doodles!
- Does doodling affect learning? Here are three articles reporting on one study.
- "Bad News for Teachers: Research Says Doodling Boosts Concentration", Discover Magazine, February 27, 2009.
- "Doodling Primes a Wandering Mind, Study Says" CNN, February 27, 2009.
- "Doodling and the Wandering Mind" by Susan Smalley, Huffington Post, February 12, 2009.
- Where does Google get all those doodles? Enter the Doodle 4 Google contest for K–12 students!
- Here is another article on the importance of distractions: "Bother Me, I'm Thinking", by Jonah Lehrer, Wall Street Journal, February 19, 2011.
PRESIDENTIAL DOODLING
- Does the president doodle?
- President Obama makes bank on his doodle.
- Presidential Doodles: Two Centuries of Scribbles, Scratches, Squiggles, and Scrawls from the Oval Office – squiggles & scrawls from the Oval Office from the Creators of Cabinet Magazine, with text and introduction by David Greenberg
VISUAL BOOKS AND COMICS
- Why are visual books (picture books, comic books, and doodle books) good for kids?
- Comic Books Are Good for Kids' Learning.
- About comics and visual books: – Chris Wilson's blog, The Graphic Classroom: Best Comics for Your Classroom.
- Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital Age by Eliza Dresang
- Comics Studies: Resources for scholarly research, The Association of College & Research Libraries.
- Some of my favorite visual books for kids and kid-like people – Kid stuff:
- The Curse of Addy McMahon by Katie Davis.
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney.
- Babymouse by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm.
- Tibet, Through the Red Box by Peter Sis.
- Max Makes a Million, by Maira Kalman.
- Adult stuff:
- Fun Home: Family Tragicomic by Allison Bechdel.
- The! Greatest! of! Marlys! by Lynda Barry
- Maus by Art Spiegelman.
- Plus, Time's Top 10 Graphic Novels:
