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,...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...