Bringing Concepts to Life: Using Analogy-Based Stories and Cartoons in Teaching (Online Workshop)
Have you ever used analogy-based stories or cartoons in your classes? Have you ever created any stories or cartoons for teaching? Are you interested in learning more about how to create stories in your discipline? Then this is the right workshop for you.
We are proud to share our latest cartoons with you and excited to introduce the Cartoon Creation Centre, an international network where we collaboratively develop stories and cartoons alongside academics and students from around the world.
What to expect from this workshop:
– Learn how to construct analogy-based stories for teaching and learning
– Discover how this method can be applied across various disciplines
– Explore how students and academics from UK-based and international universities can voluntarily collaborate to create stories and cartoons for educational purposes
Have you ever imagined a story where Harry the Bunny, about to buy a coach ticket to Paris for a blind date, helps illustrate the relationship between variance and risk in the teaching of Economics?
Or considered how the university clearing period could be transformed into a cartoon to explain how market-clearing price functions in an economy?
These are just a few examples of how analogy-based stories and cartoons can bring abstract concepts to life and enhance understanding across disciplines, including the Social Sciences, STEM fields and Health Sciences, making complex ideas more accessible and engaging for students.
If you’d like to learn more about our cartoons and this exciting initiative, please complete the registration form linked below to reserve your place by Friday 23 May:
https://forms.office.com/e/gFmEWHcCi4
If you have any questions or queries, please contact us at cartooncreationcentre@gmail.com.
Venue: Online
Date: Tuesday 27 May
Time: 3 to 4 pm
Best wishes,
Erkan, Bee-Yen and Becky
Dr Erkan Demirbas, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Lincoln,
Founder of the Cartoon Creation Centre (CCC).
Dr Bee-Yen Toh, Senior Lecturer (Education), School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast
Rebecca Midgley, Student, BA Business and Finance, Bishop Grosseteste University
Story submitted by Erkan Demirbas
Edemirbas@lincoln.ac.uk