January 27th, 2022
Today was another work day in the Comics class. The students were finishing up a project from Monday where they kept track of their day by doing a panel an hour of a comic. According to Cameron, it is a way to see what the students want to accomplish with their comics making progress and how close they are to achieving it. It’s a way of creating a benchmark moving forward. One theme that I feel like comes up often throughout Cameron’s classes that I really appreciate is the “Showing vs. Telling” discussion. I notice it both in the discussion about the way the art functions, but also in his teaching method. I liked hearing the way that certain phrases for redirecting discussion were used. “What do you notice?” “I like that you mentioned...” “This example demonstrates this...” At one point, Cameron had a student work through the process of scanning and editing in photoshop while attached to the projector. It was a way to show how to do the process, but also to show that sometimes you have to go through a bit of trial and error. By having the student “jump in” and “be bold” and work through issues on her own while also demonstrating that the troubleshooting process was really valuable and unique.