Author: michele

I mostly blog in Italian here, but sometimes in English too, about all my interests: so there is education, specially non formal one, possibly done outdoors, in seminars and training courses I give all over Europe; there are technologies and the net, my beloved ones since a while, which continue to be the most interesting thing in our time – but you have to know how they work, and where to put your hands; there are stories, born some thousand years before the damn word storytelling and which luckily will survive it for many more years – told in old and new ways, from a circle around the bonfire to the last videogame. And then there are videogames, a lot of them, as I think they are the ultimate cultural production of our times, an amazing learning tool, a great storytelling experience and so much more.
smart youth work in tallin
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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…

videogame-based learning
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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…

minecraft
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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…

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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…

streaming
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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,…

notre dame
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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 podcast
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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…

bandersnatch netflix
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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…

Tool Fair
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Empowered to empower: a Tool Fair Talk… and more

The European tool fair was created 12 years ago already by Salto Youth Euromed and Good Practices resource centre, as a chance…

digital youth work
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Future forecast: digital youth work

Fortune tellers –  or future tellers, even worse, always struggle with that question: how everything will look like in some years? I wrote…