Occasional Observations of Traveling Technology Coach

View of the Show Floor at NYCC

I went to New York Comic Con yesterday at the Javits Center in Manhattan. It is a four-day event and Thursday was educators day.

As you might expect, there were numerous booths and stands with vendors and publishers, people mulling around in their pop-culture costumes; contests; competitions; classes; panels; movie stars and more.

I attended two panels. The first was on Jewish identity in comics outside the Holocaust, which was sponsored by JewCE (the Jewish Comics Experience) of the Center for Jewish History.

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The second panel I attended was on Kids as Content Creators: Engaging Media Savvy Students. This panel was hosted by teachers from Concourse Village Elementary School PS 359 in district 7 in the bronx. The three panelists discussed the comic books, stop motion videos, LEGO robotics, and video games their students made, and showed samples of each. (BTW – It is the same Stop Motion Studio app that we use as well)

P.S. I am now officially a New York Comic Con Educator!