Tvoparents (audio)

Students at the Toronto District School Board's Joyce Public School shared their family's respective immigration story in digital comics or graphic novels. The project was part of a collaboration between Joyce PS and the Emergent Multiliteracies Project led by Heather Lotherington in York University's Faculty of Education. Joyce PS is an inner city school in a highly diverse neighbourhood. The children's families are originally from India, Eritrea, Greece and the former Yugoslavia. They use technology in the classroom like document cameras, MacBook laptops, Front Row systems and SMART Boards. One of the teachers at Joyce PS for this project was Andrew Schmitt, who a Premier's Award for Teaching in 2007-08.