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...
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 for exchanging Learning Tools and practices and reflecting together on the potential of non formal education. It generated...
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 an article for issue #26 of Coyote magazine, starting exactly from here, and talking digital youth work. Coyote is the webzine...
Retro computing is not retro
Retro as I was 11, maybe 12, at the time. It was Italy in the glittering 80’s. Maybe it was for a long and suffered adolescence about to come, but the worst decade ever in my life, I swear — except for...
Games for a better world: a training course
Games. I wish I could count how much time we spend on them in our life. In my life, surely a lot – and I do not regret a single minute of that time. While I am going back home after...
VR : virtual reality in a cardboard box
VR [as in Virtual Reality] is the new big thing, they say. Honestly, the idea of a 3D computer-generated reality has been a key aspect of cyberpunk culture, back in the 80s, and Wikipedia says the concept could even date...
Digital Youth Work: Dig-it Up!
Digital Youth Work: Dig-It up! is the booklet I wrote together with Joanna Wronska and Raphaela Blassnig in 2017. It tells what we discovered, studied and learnt during two editions of our training course aimed at youth workers / educators /...
