Impressioni di Settembre

Impressioni di Settembre

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
February 19, 2012

Oh, if there’s one song that means to me being 15 it’s PFM’s Impressioni di Settembre, the Impressions of September with Moog and pop bursting from all pores. Originally from PFM (=Premiata Forneria Marconi, which goes more or less like … Continue reading →
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My view of NMC Horizon Retreat 2012

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
January 27, 2012

Share photo instagram Fri, Jan 27 2012 07:06:26 Share “ NMC 10-year Horizon Report (@ Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa w/ 5 others) 4sq.com/wELYeX Antonio Vantaggiato Fri, Jan 27 2012 14:55:21 ReplyRetweet Share Lev Gonick NMC http://instagr.am/p/kXtCh/ Antonio … Continue reading →
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Stats and Myths: Car accidents

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
January 22, 2012

To all those who say in Italy we drive like crazy I say, yes, true. Crazy like whom? Apparently, not crazier than the USA automobile killing club, according to Wolfram Alpha: Enjoy the stats, folks. Law-abiding citizens and lane-followers of … Continue reading →
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Europe and its sovereignty

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
January 16, 2012

It’s late to talk about European decisions not being taken in Europe. The battle for the Euro, and for European unity is being fought today in the stock exchange bureaus and within the ever powerful financiers. We know that. More … Continue reading →
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Travel through iTunes Stores

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
January 14, 2012

I love traveling. Even when I do in the virtual space of the Internets. I love browsing the iTunes stores of remote countries, and see what treasures they hide. Sometimes it is disturbing to realize one cannot get the free … Continue reading →
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Under Suspicion, Old San Juan and daughter

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
January 10, 2012

I wanted to do this for a long while. You see, while they were shooting Under Suspicion in Old San Juan (it must have been the year 1999) we were living in the old town and enjoyed watching the crew … Continue reading →
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Book publishing via WordPress

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
January 7, 2012

A tool I’m looking into for my project of Zen of Teaching is PressBook, a WordPress-based solution to author, produce and distribute books. PressBooks lets you and your team easily author and output books in multiple formats including: epub, Kindle, … Continue reading →
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The mimics of Mr. Bean {and copyright}

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
January 7, 2012

Truth is, I was not fair to Rowan Atkinson in my post of yesterday. In it I wanted to raise the spirits with Trenet’s La Mer, sung while Mr. Bean ends up his vacation on a hilarious staircase improvised as … Continue reading →
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Happy New 2012 with La Mer and Mr. Bean

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
January 5, 2012

What better way to salute the new year than with a blog post? And what better than celebrating it with the beautiful “La Mer” song by Charles Trenet? A song which has been played all over the world and is … Continue reading →
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Some myths in education 2.0

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
December 28, 2011

Some myths in education 2.0 (that I’ll need to address asap). Socrates: “I cannot teach anyone, all I can do is make them think”. The myth of the relativist. But my definition of teaching is to make somebody think. Duh? … Continue reading →
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Learning without studying

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
December 27, 2011

Welcome to Popling – The Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Anything Without Studying App Of course one can learn without studying. Running a bike, skiing, talking. But this, I cannot believe. A spamming window that interrupts you while working/studying (sic!) … Continue reading →
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delicious Zeitgeist December 2011

by Antonio Vantaggiato
December 26, 2011

Sixpence None The Richer – There She Goes – YouTube SideVibeOur “Active Bookmarks©” turn Web content into rich, formative and blended classroom lessons. These bookmarks, called Vibes©, automatically build interactive lessons on top of your favourite Web pages. It’s that … Continue reading →
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Standardized Testing: What (Low) Scores Mean

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
December 13, 2011

An article on standardized testing (Revealed: The school board member who took standardized test, by Marion Brady) was published a few days ago on The Washington Post and raised my eyebrows, for it denounces a real scandal but, at the … Continue reading →
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Programming Things to Talk

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
December 7, 2011

Supermechanical : Tableau physical email Imagine one common object from your physical close world communicating with you or other objects. Not a new idea: There has been talk about the Internet of Things for some time, but this time some … Continue reading →
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“Copyright-infringing” downloads held legal in Switzerland: Go Swiss!

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
December 5, 2011

Swiss gov’t study: downloading leads to sales, so we’re keeping it legal This nice post by Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing reports on a Swiss government study which was recently used by the Swiss to keep holding legal any “copyright-infringing” download … Continue reading →
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The Skin I Live In

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
December 4, 2011

The doctor watches the woman in a wide-screen TV, as it were a movie. The doctor has assembled and directed the woman’s life as a film director would with his actor. We have already seen this many times, also from … Continue reading →
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Thanksgiving cooking

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
November 26, 2011

Yes, I really had my hands dirty yesterday while dressing our little beastly turkey. The story is, this is my second turkey ever. My daughters convinced me we needed to have a nice Thanksgiving dinner, so we went out and … Continue reading →
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Involve parents in students’ learning

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
November 24, 2011

Tom Friedman just published an interesting article on the New York Times: “How About Better Parents?” In it, Tom briefly shows how OECD‘s PISA testing results seem positively correlated to parental involvement with reading books to children. This finding doesn’t … Continue reading →
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5-minute University

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
November 23, 2011

Just a quick post with a video from a character of TV stepping, I believe, from the late 70′s NY: Father Guido Santucci preaching about his concept of a 5-minute University: After all, he says, his $20 admission fee covers … Continue reading →
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Myths of Teaching & Learning: What have you learned today?

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
November 7, 2011

A little method common in the academic area known as “assessment” is to ask students, at the end of a class the question: What have you learned in the class? This is the latest myth I’m covering, in the series … Continue reading →
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Zombie Map of the World, anyone?

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
November 5, 2011

What happens if you search for zombies on Google Maps? This is what some researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute asked, reported some time ago The Guardian. And this is the result, which, according to one of the study’s authors, … Continue reading →
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The 72 Names of Qadafi, Gadafi, Gadhafi?

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
October 24, 2011

Czar or Tzar? Asked Woody Allen, or The 72 Names of God Gaddafi. The Kabbalah (Or Qabbala?) tells about the 72 names of God. From varios US-Canada-UK Press we infer there must be at least so many names for Col. … Continue reading →
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Loud Prayer

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
October 24, 2011

While watching for the nth time The Last Waltz (at least the song segments that I love most), I remained in awe while Lawrence Ferlinghetti came up on the stage to read his poem Loud Prayer. It reminded me of … Continue reading →
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Freudian lapsus? No title for this post!

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
October 23, 2011

I recently watched Bergman‘s Persona (1966). Here is a segment of the movie, which is entirely available (divided in parts) throught YouTube. In it, the Nurse (Bibi Andersson), reads a letter from the Patient (Liv Ullman) who is waiting at … Continue reading →
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Totò, Miseria, Nobiltà e Malafemmena

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
October 23, 2011

Unified Italy is brought together by few things: No doubt spaghetti are one of such things. Second comes only (at least in baby boomers and the like) the genius comic mime Totò, the illustrious, improvisation and laughter master of the … Continue reading →
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The Times They Are A-changin’

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
October 10, 2011

Herbie Hancock plays (with Tal Wilkenfeld and Kristina Train) the Dylan tune, The Times They Are A-changing. Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be … Continue reading →
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Chicken, Chicken, Chicken: Mother of all Presentations

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
September 30, 2011

Everyone was laughing, except me. Since 2007, when Doug Zongker, a software engineer at Google, published a seminal paper honoring those who had suffered going through an inscrutable scientific talk, and made a memorable presentation. I mean, how is it … Continue reading →
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Storytelling (Or, Why I loved Forbrydelsen – The Killing)

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
September 27, 2011

Making remakes of successful movies is certainly an art. Some are even better than the original, many are not. It is nevertheless a treat and a hazardous business at the same time for the newer version’s director and crew. Sometimes, … Continue reading →
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delicious Zeitgeist 26 Sep 2011

by Antonio Vantaggiato
September 26, 2011

join.me – Free Screen Sharing and Online Meetings tags: tools screen sharing meetings online web2.0 delicious cc:to me With cc:to me it’s super simple to email yourself notes from anywhere. tags: tools notes email delicious If This, Then That (ifttt): … Continue reading →
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Decline of an Empire

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
September 25, 2011

The recent reporters “discovery” of Amazon’s third-world human-labor practices in the civilized USA prompted a lot of disdain. The New York Times wrote about The Fraying of a Nation’s Decency, issuing the thesis that the US is at a low-point … Continue reading →
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