Now that the semester is coming to an end I have the chance to share a little more, and not like the presentation done in August, and posted only now soon, the poor sitting for all this time in the Drafts sections of the Skate.
This is a short list …
I have been following John Naughton’s blog Memex (the title being a link in itself to the mother of all hypertext machines) for a while, for his recommendations and acute, to-the-point observations, his articles on The Observer, and so on. …
In a recent post on his Half An Hour blog (which he declares to be “A place to write, half an hour, every day, just for me.”), Stephen Downes struck a chord with me, for …
Change the world? As many say, shall we move back to normality—the very normality that defined a world on the brink of disaster? What? No disaster in your perception-horizon?
Same with privilege, we don’t recognize or have perception of disaster before it happens. All seems to be well, for the …
Tell you something: I did no pivoting, when the remote ed pandemics struck. In fact, I seamlessly transited from face-to-face to remote and online teaching (and learning, ftw) in an easy way. Here is my experience after three full COVID-driven education months.
What has the pandemic meant to me? Well, …
Since the beginning of this blog, I have written in English, with just a few excursions to Spanish, the language I speak every day. Until recently I did not feel the need of using my native Italia, until now. I … Continue reading →
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Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity. –A. Flexner Abraham Flexner conceived and developed the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and was its founding director from 1930 to 1939. A unique place, that was able … Continue reading →
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Two episodes describe the magic that happens when you get inspired by something and rush to work on an imitation process—on something that you want to go after. Such episodes may change your life. In my case, there are two episodes plus one. Also, an homage to John Conway, mathemagician, …
Wrapping up a nice semester split in two with a great groups of students. New Media (inf115) is a course of Sagrado, set up with a connected an open strategy, which borrows from the syndicated content model as well as from other social and connectivist learning approaches.
But I am …
The long pronounced mantra of current economies is that to survive in the disruptive digital world, one would need to
Lower the number of workers Increase the content they produce.Or, maximize per-worker productivity.
“Die Presse” by Metro Centric is licensed under CC BY 2.0Which has a few corollaries: …
I was 17 and for the first time out of my own city and country. I was in London, summer 1976. I do remember Trafalgar and Soho from that stay. A month-long stay that my parents had planned to have me practice and better my English. Mind you, I didn’t …
I love wandering through the Web. And I have a pretty standard routine reading every day the mainstream press online. It’s basically four titles: El Nuevo Día (elnuevodia.com), Puerto Rico’s main newspaper; La Repubblica (repubblica.it), Italy’s most important (together with Il Corriere della Sera); Spain’s El …
Well, it’s a new year. I’ve been watching a few Woody Allen films, lately (on the home screen), and I shot photos at some frames worth remembering. Thanks to subtitles, I got a scene’s context and dialog.
I thought these two sequences were perfect as a new year’s best wishes. …
And they talk aimlessly about connection (quite rightly) and other high-level stuff.
Hello, planet Earth, do you hear? Instead of raising the bar, we have the lowest possible quality. Zero.But …
The weekly Instagram from avunque.
View this post on InstagramEarlier this summer: La Perla, Viejo San Juan. #summer19 #summer2019 #skate #sea #pastphoto
The post Weekly Insta Post appeared first on Skate of the web.…
Yes, it seems like the semester just started.
“New Zealand Media & Entertainment Branding” by Unordinary — is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
We had a suspension of disbelief due to the passage of storm Dorian, which was going to pass through half of Puerto Rico and moved easterly later …
I’m starting a weekly series of Instagrams, so to connect my photo interests to this blog. The idea is to post just one image per week. Not sure whether I’d post this with the “image” format or as a regular post. Trying out with “image”.
The Instagram comes …
Substack makes it simple for a writer to start an email newsletter. It’s free and you can add paid subscriptions whenever you want.
Wonderful generator of new-age bullshit.
Screenshot from inf103.com, sometime ago.
How to survive the hurricane and thrive on your course. A practical weather-proof introduction to build one own’s course portal #booc.This is the title of my fun workshop of today at EDMEDIA 19 + Innovate Learning in Amsterdam. BTW, it’s FREE (as in beer) …
I was talking to Alan, only a few days ago, for our infrequent conversations that get upgraded as episodes of our podcast The Puerto Rico Connection. In this case our conversation took longer than usual, and I was pleasantly immersed in something I don’t usually do on the phone–at …
I have been working pretty hard these weeks on my classes. Almost all feature a syndication hub built within a WordPress-based Web portal. I’m talking inf103.com (Computing fundamentals) and inf115.com (New Media and social networks) [both in Spanish]. Plus I’m doing a Web Content Management course where, you guessed it, …
This story has had some impact on me, both because of its grand love and its humility. It is a grand love story since it is the story of the love affaire of a past president of France, François Mitterrand, a very formidable, powerful politician and married man. The affaire …
A new year is on and my new semester has already begun. Actually, I have already two posts to show for 2019. My school-is-finished laziness comes after many classes and seminars and meetings around the semester, plus a lot that I demand of myself, like writing, keeping track of things, …
The little time left available after taxiing daughters around, improvising plumber and handyman, and other menial tasks, I experimented a bit.
One little idea I found is a slow OS X screensaver. It consists of a piece of software that get installed as a screensaver. The piece de resistance …
In December 2015 I read a stunning novel, Viviane, by the first-time writer Julia Deck. It was originally published by the most prestigious publisher of France, Éditions de Minuit. Viviane is the story of a madwoman, or not, in any case, a woman who is recently divorced, with one little …
I love cinema, and I am so happy for the opportunity to teach a class of Italian Cinema and Culture this semester. The class is ending now, and the last picture we watched and commented was Antonioni’s L’avventura.
I had watched this movie recently, courtesy of my friend John …
