dicembre 13, 2008 – 1:51 pm
(Translation in Italian) While the poll on social networks is accumulating data, I invite you to read very, very, carefully this article. It is entitled Seven Habits of Highly Connected People and it explains in a very clear way that to be connected is not merely about staying in front of a computer or poking [...]
dicembre 5, 2008 – 4:59 pm
(Translation in Italian) In case someone did not follow the comments of the previous post: First we are going to write in this wiki page provided by Ilaria the social networking tools we are using, therefore go to that page and add the tools you are using … Successively, Matteo will send a form to [...]
dicembre 4, 2008 – 9:38 am
(Translation in Italian) Facebook is invading Italy too. I do not like very much facebook because it is a closed environment. More precisely, I do not like the fact that it is an environment that offers a whole set of web 2.0 functionalities and at the same time it is run by a company. I [...]
dicembre 1, 2008 – 7:51 pm
(Translation in Italian) Hating scholiness and loving learning (to use Clay Burrel’s words), a strong yearning for changing what is related to school and learning, the necessity, perhaps, to discover other ways to take care of learning, the difficulty to share new paths with colleagues in my environment, were all powerful reasons to be irresistibly [...]
novembre 28, 2008 – 1:38 pm
(Translation in italian, Translation booking) Before trying to outline a “final project” I would like to hear the voices of the students. Yes, because first of all, teachers must learn to hear the voices of their students, before applying methods, before thinking about theories, before outlining strategies. For me, it was not much about incorporating [...]
novembre 23, 2008 – 11:40 pm
(Both the foreground and the background images have been made with Wordle and processed with Gimp) (Translation in Italian) I went to explore the forest and I have found some flowers. Flowers are beautiful and it makes you feel good to find beautiful things. I didn’t pluck them because in my hands they would die. [...]
novembre 23, 2008 – 10:38 am
(Translation in Italian) In the last assignment we focused on the concept of intellectual property by reading the Bound by Law comics and, on the more technical side, we looked at the pdf file format, with which that comics is distributed online. The collection of contributions in a wiki page is very nice. It is [...]
novembre 19, 2008 – 10:58 pm
(For students: Translation in Italian) To learn means different things. Generally speaking, actual learning implies a change of the state of mind. It may imply a different mood that allows you to do something unexpected. I learned a lot of things in this course. Among these there is a fancy one, for me. Software coding [...]