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I use Spiegelman’s succinct definitions for key comics terms: panel, balloon, border, gutter, bleed, and chapter opener. For example, the term bleed, which refers to text and illustrations that run to the edge of a page, prompts an excellent discussion on the pun in Spiegelman’s subtitle for the first volume of MAUS: My Father Bleeds History.

The most effective way of guiding students toward insights on the visuals in graphic novels is to allow them to brainstorm out loud about the details on one page.

Often, merely cataloging details encourages students to analyze more deeply.

Learners are more the Curious George than the manipulated donkey. Badges can be the prompt of curiosity but they can equally serve to recognize the learning to which the curiosity gives rise, and that recognition in turn becomes encouraging of continuing to develop.

Badges in short are a means to enable and extend learning.