writing | Liam O'Donnell

Alternative Texts in Schools: Future of Videogames = History of Comics

by liam | Jun 29, 2013 | comics, education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, literacy, media, Teacher's Guide, video games

I spent much of June talking to teachers and other folks about video games in schools. I spoke about play and alternative texts with amazing educators at the recent 2013 COCA Retreat. And I had a blast at the Academy of the Impossible talking digital learning and...

Text Hunter: Tech Tales #2 now available (and why my new story got a new title)

by liam | Jun 2, 2013 | education, gaming, literacy, media, Teacher's Guide, video games, writing news

The past few weeks have been very busy around here. As a teacher, I’ve been working to land a position for next school year. That all turned out well. More on that soon. As a Minecraft-teaching GamingEdu, I’ve been organizing our upcoming talk at the...

Writing Comics Workshop for Kids Session 2: Creating Characters

by liam | May 11, 2013 | appearances, comics, education, literacy, Teacher's Guide, writing news

I recently ran a four week Writing Comics Workshop for young writers at the amazing Toronto Public Library. Each Saturday, I met with 25 creators aged 8 – 12 years and we went through the steps to writing our own comics. We focused on using words to create story...

Writing Comics Workshop for Kids Session 1: Brainstorming & Story Seeds

by liam | Apr 14, 2013 | appearances, comics, education, Teacher's Guide, writing news

Last week, I ran the first session of my four week Writing Comics Workshop for Kids aged 8 – 12 years, at the Toronto Public Library. It was a lot of fun meeting the kids and discovering all the great ideas they had for comics. As I promised in previous blog...

Introducing Tech Tales

by liam | Apr 2, 2013 | education, literacy, media, video games, writing news

Digital Stories for Digital Readers I’m excited to announce the arrival of Tech Tales, a brand new series of short stories for middle grade readers available exclusively as digital downloads. Written for Reluctant Readers, Designed for Teachers Reluctant readers...