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"Sparky Sweets' self-styled "gangster" approach to education is bringing books like Jane Eyre and To Kill a Mockingbird to new audiences. Miranda Dobson meets him For those students who hastily scan SparkNotes, Wikipedia or CliffNotes before a seminar, the latest comedy sensation to hit YouTube could be a godsend. Sparky Sweets PhD invites his viewers to join him as he gives the lowdown on the great and the good of literature, urging his Twitter followers to, "Educate yo'self, son", by using his Thug Notes. Hailing from the streets of L.A. and claiming to have a doctorate in Classics, Dr Sweets delivers literary summaries and analysis in his "original gangster" style, in a way that he hopes will both entertain book nerds and educate/enlighten those who aren't into their literature. With an unprecedented surge of YouTube fans, Sparky has over 99,000 subscribers to his channel, and counting, and nearly 506,000 views on his most popular "drop" on classic American novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Also included on Sparky's reading list are George Orwell's 1984, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, and popular culture's latest literary buzz courtesy of Baz Luhrmann's film, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Sparky tells me the idea for Thug Notes came about as a result of his "frustration with the world of academia." "In my opinion," he says, "an academic's job should be to utilise their passion for the classics to make the gift of literature available to everyone. Unfortunately, in my experiences, that is not the case." Sparky believes academia is "enshrouded by a veil of unnecessarily convoluted terminology and intellectual one-upmanship", which negates the whole point of education. "Instead of promoting the universality of these works, they are building them up to a virtually inaccessible plane and saying 'If you want to truly understand classical literature, you have to get on my level.' So Thug Notes is my way of tri

Il video che illustra l'articolo è quello delle Thug Notes per Hamlet.

"...Foglio elettronico Embed fatto secondo le indicazioni di: http://en.support.wordpress.com/google-docs/ http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55244 - in italiano: http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=it&answer=55244 (bello, "incorporamento" per "embed")"

Un'utilissima lettura per capire come il mondo editoriale, musicale, cinematografico si stiano ripensando in veste digitale. In altre parti del mondo questo è già realtà in Italia....La vedo un pò dura

"- Sicuramente un post per gli studenti di "Editing multimediale" della IUL ma anche per tutti quelli a cui capita di lavorare con le immagini - Grafica bitmap e vettoriale - Due o tre cose sui formati più noti, GIF, PNG e JPEG, sulla compressione delle informazioni, conservativa e non, e sui formati "dedicati" XCF e SVG - Gimp e Inkscape, due bellissimi software liberi per l'elaborazione delle immagini che girano su Linux, Mac e Windows - Elaborazione delle immagini in livelli" ---- [Titoli:] Primo fatto: software libero anziché proprietario Secondo fatto: distinguere fra grafica bitmap e vettoriale > Immagini digitali > dpi e risoluzione > Tipi di grafica > Grafica bitmap > Grafica vettoriale > Formati - compressione > Manipolando foto > Fabbricando immagini > Lavorare in grafica bitmap con Gimp > Lavorare in grafica vettoriale con Inkscape Terzo fatto: usare i livelli (layers) Coda Note

Corso interattivo, gratuito e completo di aritmetica (I, II, III) per la scuola media, con teoria ed esercizi

Programma per creare esercizi, anche insieme agli alunni.

"Why a supposed German breakthrough in e-book DRM is just as dumb as the old e-book DRM By Cory Doctorow | Jul 06, 2013 " > The idea that copyright owners might convince a judge, or, worse, a > jury that because they found a copy of an e-book on the Pirate Bay > originally sold to me they can then hold me responsible or civilly > liable is almost certainly wrong, as a matter of law. At the very > least, it's a long shot and a stupid legal bet. After all, it's not > illegal to lose your computer. It's not illegal to have it stolen > or hacked. It's not illegal to throw away your computer or your > hard drive. In many places, it's not illegal to give away your > e-books, or to loan them. In some places, it's not illegal to sell > your e-books. > > So at best, this new "breakthrough" DRM scheme will be ineffective. > But worse, what makes anyone think this kind of implicit fear of > reprisal embedded within one's digital library is acceptable, or, > for that matter, preferable to old-school DRM?

Questo post non parla di tecnologie ...ma di grande forza e speranza impresse a noi che abbiamo avuto la fortuna di assistere al concerto del Maesto Muti. RAI 1 trasmetterà il concerto giovedì 25 luglio in seconda serata, ne consiglio la visione. Il concerto è stato posticipato a giovedì 1 Agosto alle 23.15

Semplice tutorial per creare esercizi con Hot Potatoes

Applicazione gratuita Android che guida al riconoscimento delle stelle,costellazioni e pianeti.

Fantastico articolo che spiega alcuni segreti della ricerca on line, che noi dovremmo essere in grado di insegnare ai nostri studenti, anche fin dalla scuola primaria.

Molto utile, soprattutto nella "settimana della cittadinanza digitale", che quest'anno va dal 21 al 25 ottobre. Grazie Luisella per la segnalazione.

Come migliorare l'utilizzo dei prodotti creati con il software open source GeoGebra

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