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UPDATE: Comic-BEE will be presenting on a National Cyberwatch Center VBBL Webcast – Nov 13th

2021-04-26T09:28:07-04:00By |Categories: Events|Tags: , , , |

VBBL (Virtual Brown Bag Lunch) topic title: Comic-BEE - An education technology for developing interactive, graphic cybersecurity stories and web comics. The VBBL is scheduled to be on November 13, 2019 starting at 2:00-2:45PM Eastern Time. In this VBBL, Laurin Buchanan will discuss and demonstrate the use of Comic-BEE, a novel cybersecurity education technology designed to support the rapid creation of interactive, graphic stories–web comics–that align with cybersecurity curricular goals. By making choices on behalf of a character in the [...]

How do you create a branching web comic with Comic-BEE?

2021-04-07T20:39:00-04:00By |Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The process of creating a published comic or graphic novel like those you buy at a bookstore typically begins with developing the story details and characters, then creating the visual presentation. This latter step is often a two part process: first creating a quick pencil sketch of word and pictures called a storyboard, and then using that storyboard to guide the creation of final, full color comic panels.

Why use branching web comics for cybersecurity education?

2021-04-07T20:40:04-04:00By |Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Nearly a decade ago, the Secure Decisions team created branching, graphic comics by hand for a cybersecurity education research project. The resulting web comics were well received but fairly expensive to create: each one took about a man month of time, and required both a graphic artist and a computer programmer to put together. Why did we spend all that time creating web comics for cybersecurity education? Stories are how we pass all kinds of knowledge on to children. And [...]

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