Inclusion and how to host online youth work / 4
4th episode of the series of posts about online youth work: let's talk about inclusion and how to host online sessions.
Digital storytelling online workshop: this is a first!
Digital storytelling explored and explained during an online workshop, where yours truly will be hosted by my friend and colleague (and master storyteller) Carmine Rodi Falanga.
Online interaction: online youth work tools and tips / 3
More online interaction: games and videogames in online activities with youth
Online youth work tools and tips / 2
Online youth work tools and tips / 2 - more reflections and ideas about designing #online #youthwork activities in times of #covid19: what about #INTERACTION? #digitalyouthwork #smartyouthwork
Online youth work tools and tips / 1
part 1 of a series of posts dedicated to sharing tools and tips to do online youth work in coronavirus times (and maybe, also later...).
A Darksaber in The Mandalorian: a convergent item
There is a Darksaber appearing at the end of first season of The Mandalorian, the new Disney+ Star Wars series set just after Episode VI, and it is just perfect to explain the power of convergence culture once again. If...
The Witcher on Netflix: convergence culture strikes back
From the Netflix series to the videogame franchise, The Witcher is a good example of the power of convergence culture. Let's see how.
Smart youth work, green screen and slippers.
SomeCamp EU is a training event for youth workers and people active in the youth field, organized by ENTK – the Estonian Youth Work Center, and Verke, in Tallin, Estonia to discuss and share the concept of smart youth work....
Videogame-based learning on tour
In the last weeks, I was invited to host two workshops about videogame-based learning. The first one was in Pisa, inside the Italian Internet Festival, and the second in Lucca, inside Lucca Comics & Games, the biggest “nerd culture” gathering...
Minecraft in education: 10 engaging activities for your kids
Minecraft is still a very successful game after almost 10 years, and this alone is already enough to consider it worthy to be used as a tool for engaging kids in many possible activities. Moreover, Minecraft is so relevant as...
Convergence culture, Umberto Eco and Star Wars :)
Convergence culture is the key-concept explored by Henry Jenkins in his crucial book dating back to 2006. Jenkins finally helped a lot to explain why popular culture (as in comics, fan fictions, blockbuster movies etc… and videogames, of course) is having such an impact in...
Streaming videogames are in da house!
I have seen the future of videogames, and it’s streaming 😀 There has been a lot of buzz online about it lately, after the announcement of Google game-streaming service Stadia. Among the other big players, Apple still seems to be...
Notre Dame of the Assassin’s Creed
Notre Dame could be rebuilt using 3d mappings from videogames - meanwhile gamers worldwide pay tribute posting Assassin's Creed Unity Notre Dame screenshots. Art, landscape and videogames have just started working together.
HOP Online learning: I am on podcast again!
HOP Online Learning is a platform created by the European SALTO Eastern Europe and Caucasus Resource Center. HOP is all about online learning, e-learning and the likes of it: they promote online learning in many different ways and are very...
Bandersnatch: a real storytelling revolution?
I had just finished to write a post in the Italian section of the blog, about the interactive cartoon Minecraft: story mode on Netflix, and the streaming platform started promoting nothing less than a Black Mirror interactive episode: Bandersnatch. Even...