Watch the following video and then try to escape from the virtual room...
martedì 22 dicembre 2020
mercoledì 11 novembre 2020
venerdì 11 settembre 2020
martedì 9 giugno 2020
venerdì 5 giugno 2020
domenica 22 marzo 2020
COVID-19 - ALL CLASSES
Dear students, this is a very difficult period for everybody, but I'm sure we will survive in one way or another! Your teachers are by your side with online lessons everyday and thanks to the ICT. Of course it's a bit different from when we are at school and share opinions, feelings, emotions and knowledge in the real life! By the way the virtual life is helping us to get in touch and to learn new things. Today we're going to learn something about COVID-19.
IQ/IIIH
1st task: write how you usually spend your day in this difficult period on your class' padlet.
IIQ/IIL/IVJ/VJ
1st task: write your emotions and feelings about this difficult period on your class' padlet.
All classes:
2nd task: Record a podcast or shoot a video about "Ten tips how to spend your day during the COVID-19 pandemic" and post it on classroom.
All classes:
2nd task: Record a podcast or shoot a video about "Ten tips how to spend your day during the COVID-19 pandemic" and post it on classroom.
Now let's learn something about the virus!
All classes3rd task: watch the videos and answer the questions:
To be updated on COVID-19 with reliable sources (be aware of the fake news) you can read The New York Times page dedicated to it.
4th task - team working: read the basic protective measures against the new coronavirus on the following websites and then create an infographic of them, using CANVA or PIKTOCHART. You can also add links to your infographic, using THINGLINK. Post them on your class' padlet.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
5th task - team working (IQ-IIQ-IIL-IIIH): write a fairy-tale for children who are alone and bored at home, using BOOKCREATOR and the voice-over tool in order to create an audible book and post it on your class' padlet.
mercoledì 4 marzo 2020
A Recipe Video - 1Q
Here are two ways of creating a recipe video. Choose one and make your own recipe video. If you choose the first one, add a voice over to the subtitles, please!
mercoledì 19 febbraio 2020
Romeo and Juliet - IIQ
Romeo + Juliet Worksheet
The masque 1
The masque 2
Fakebook
The masque 1
The masque 2
Now choose one of your favourite Romeo and Juliet's character and create his or her Fakebook page, using the following webtool (you can also work in pairs):
Fakebook
domenica 2 febbraio 2020
The Game - Part 3 - VJ
This learning path was inspired by the book "The Game" written by Alessandro Baricco.
2010 Instagram - The American engineer Kevin Systrom - It was sold to Facebook in 2012
2008-2016
From App to Alpha Go
The Game
The world where we live
2008 Financial crisis started. The Lehman Brothers collapse.
2008 Spotify - Daniel Ek from Sweden - 9,99 € a month access to 30 millions songs
2008 Apple Store - 500 Apps They cost no more than 10,00 $ or they were even free. In four days people downloaded 10 millions Apps. Nowadays the Apple Store has 2 millions Apps while Google Play has three millions Apps.
2008 Airbnb (San Francisco)
04/11/2008 Barack Obama was the first Afro-American to become the President of the United States of America
2009 WhatsApp - Jan Koum from Kiev arrived at the Silicon Valley when he was 16; he was very poor and worked at Yahoo together with Brian Acton. They were the second generation of The Game inventors. It was sold to Facebook in 2014 for 19 billions dollars. It is a free App.
2009 Uber (San Francisco Taxi)
4/10/2009 the 5 Star Movement was founded by Beppe Grillo and an Olivetti programmer Gianroberto Casaleggio - The Digital Democracy through Rousseau started
2010 Instagram - The American engineer Kevin Systrom - It was sold to Facebook in 2012
2011 Apple Cloud
2011 Snapchat - Three Stanford students (Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown)
2011 People used the Apps more than the Web.
2012 The Digital TV
2012 Tinder
2016 A software developed by Google called AlphaGo (A.I.) played Go and defeated Lee Sedol who was Go World Champion (A software developed by IBM won at chess against Kasparov in 1996)
The Game - Part 2 - VJ
This learning path was inspired by the book "The Game" written by Alessandro Baricco.
From Napster to the iPhone
1999-2007
The Settlement
Conquering the Web
Conquering the Web
In 1999 a 19-year-old American student programmed a software which made your computer to share your music with other computers for free. The boy's name was Shawn Fanning and the software's name was Napster. The Napster adventure taught people what the radical wing of the digital insurrection could do.
2000-2001 the dot.com bubble
2000 Stephen King published his book "Riding the Bullet" on the internet only.
2001 - Wikipedia - An Encyclopedia made by its users (Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger; the latter was one of the few revolutionary men of the Silicon Valley to be graduated in Philosophy instead of Engineering).
2002 - Linkedin - Reid Hoffman was the first one to think about Social Networks, in this case for jobs.
2002 - 50% of data + I were digital.
2003 BlackBerry Quark was on the market. Fhe first smartphone was created and even the first wearable computer (The word crackberry was coined meaning the phone addiction). In 2016 the BlackBerry, a sort of phone Gorbačëv, died, because it started the revolution.
2003 - Skype
2003 - Myspace
4/02/2004 - Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg
2004 - Flickr
2004 - Tim O'Reilly, an Irish Publisher, coined the phrase Web 2.0 (the passage from consumer to prosumer)
2004 - The TV series "Lost" was broadcast on the ABC channel (that was the turning point in the TV series history)
2005 - YouTube (400 hours of video a minute are uploaded on YouTube) - Chad Hurley and Steve Chen
2006 - Twitter
2006 - YouPorn
2007 - Amazon launched the KINDLE, an ebook reader
9/01/2007 Steve Jobs showed the first iPhone to the world on the Moscone Center stage in San Francisco. It was something new and very different from the other mobile phones just like space invaders was very different from the table-football. It was a small computer which pretended to be a toy. It had the first touch screen of the history.
In 2007 there were 1 billion and 500 million Internet users, namely 23% of the human beings.
In 2007 there were 172 millions of websites.
In 2007 there were 88 millions of Amazon customers.
In 2007 72% of Americans had a personal computer at home
Social networks and the iPhone changed everything and turned the world and everyday's life into a big game.
venerdì 24 gennaio 2020
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