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The Sprites in the web
The journey of the Sprites between Latina and Soave...
on the road of the house of Arts and Games of Mario Lodi



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Once apon a time…

Last summer some teachers of Latina and Soave started to belive at a possible trip of the Sprites in and out of the web. The idea was formed by a few spirits, born before by child hands in a creative laboratory, with the help of recycled materal: http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/percorso_folletti.htm

Introduction

In the reality of this "fantastic" story, the journey was untied, with an intense exchange of e-mails, using roads and roads, paths and planes, but always accompanied by strings of silk. http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/fili_seta.htm

Some times the shortcut of the phone call was chosen, other times the longer way taken by the various boxes sent by mail: http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/follparole_arrivo.htm

General Information

All the "potential" hypothized with the heat of summer, between a mail box and another, it started to become possible with the fall, specially thanks to the meeting solutions proposed by the boys and girls of Latina and Soave.

The two distant geographical areas, tiny points on the map of Italy, became slowly closer every time that a story, photo or websites like http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/index.htm reached, in Latina, the attention of the childhood school and , in Soave, those of the first elementary section involved in the trip.

Paths and activities

The first small creature to start the voyage was the Sprite of Words, "all blue like the sky", born from the medieval town of Soave www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/due_castelli.htm

Arrived in the city, he immediately started the game of the words: beautiful, ugly and happy http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/parole.htm

From the counting games made every day on the blackboards placed on the walls of the class for the children of section G of Latina was born the Sprite of the Numbers… a bit ill but immediately cured by the teachers of the classes in Soave, thanks to the trip assured by the italian mail.

The arrival of the Sprite of the Numbers in Soave was announced by the children
of the Childhood school of Latina with e-mails written with the computer in the class

In their exploration of the woods "inside" the class, after the Sprites, the boys and girls also met other gnomes, tiny friendly creatures to play with at searching their identity in the space of desguises:

www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/gnomi.htm

Some times, drops of rain, first only a few then many more, http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/percorso_acqua.htm
made their games very wet, making possible the discovery of new knowledges and of places far far away
http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/progettoafrica.htm

Other times the sun illuminated the path and then it was easier to explore new routes to understand complexed languages, made of numbers, words, sounds, colors and linking them all up in the "lowerwoods" looking for the path of memory.
http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/fi_cartolina.htm
http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/roma_281102.htm


Its like the story of "Pollicino" in the ancient story he counted small rocks to find the safe road home, the child-sprites experimented the use of the language of numbers playing counting and counting each other:

http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/conti.htm

In the telemathic web "Briciole" poked out, a journal made of large paper, that contained the thoughts, the experiences and the discoveries of the boys and girls of the first grade class in Soave:
http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/briciole.htm

In the routes, more or less fantastic, were involved the parents of both of the schools, that gave tips and added up suggestions even with the internet mail http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/percorsi_insieme.htm

In some occasions they shared with the teachers, boys and girls, on-line programs, involving in the common route not only the sprites, but even some "hairy" friends that ran around the monitors or on the tables of the class:


Avatars and 3D worlds became part of the real-virtual-fantastic world of Latina thanks to the chat of Active Worlds and the help of Albert, an old friend of boys and girls, that once again took our hand even if stll remaining in Reggio Calabria. Who knows if we will meet him really? After Albert other friends much more further away added up, but they were the same very close with the on-line meetings

http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/zap.htm

With Jenuary some students of the Tecnological-Industrial Institute "Marconi" of Latina added up in the journey with the boys and girls reading to them "The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe" (an incredible book, that is part of the collection of fantastic stories dedicated to the youngest readers from the english writer C.S. Lewis): "Entering the big wardrobe, four brothers discover the entrance to the enchanted world of Narnia, where a witch has cast the spell of eternal freeze… http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/narnia.htm

The whole thing will also count the confrontations inside the forum IRARN: International Education and Resource Network http://www.iearn.org/home.html and also the documentation of the on-line activities.

 


5. Bibliografy

E.K.Ackrmann (2002) La programmazione come "specchio" e "finestra" per entrare in relazione con gli oggetti e le persone, TD n° 3 p. 48-55

A.Calvani (1995), Manuale di tecnologie dell’educazione, Ed. ETS 1995- p. 89 scheda "Multimedialità, interattività, riflessività"

E.Gombrich (1997), Breve storia del mondo, Salani Editore

A.Kaye (1990), Apprendimento collaborativo basato sul computer TD n° 4 p. 9-21

G.Trentin (1998), Insegnare e appendere in rete, Zanichelli

H.Reindermann (2003), Mente & Cervello, n° I p. 58 Creativi si diventa

L.Sarti (1998), Nuove prospettive per un uso didattico di Internet, TD n° 14 p. 40

 

[1] http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/parole.htm description of the experience with the transcription of the thoughts in class
[2] http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/follemat.htm boys and girls of the the childhood school "build" the sprite of the numbers with recylced material and then draw with the computer the friends of the sprites.
[3] http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/gnomi.htm short sequence of photos refered to the desguise moments.
[4] http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/percorso_acqua.htm the rest of the journey of the water untill now documented on-line
[5] http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/conti.htm on-line documentation of some experiences of logical-mathematical activities
[6] http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/briciole.htm frist numbers of the "Briciole" journal
[7] http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/percorsi_insieme.htm some examples of encounters with the families
[8] Learning with Virtual Worlds http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/practices_/content.cfm?ov=20380&lang=en and http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/myEurope_News/content.cfm?ov=20379&lang=en Learning and cooperating on line
[9] Signs de-signs: online documentation of paths with and for ITC: a kind of Zibaldone of "Learning and co-operation on line" è stato premiato all'interno del Netd@ys2002 http://www.descrittiva.it/calip/0203/firenze.htm


Translation edited by student for tecnological
class 3 B
(Marconi Secondary School),
Piccinini Marco
Special thanks to him

© Linda Giannini calip@mbox.panservice.it 2002-2003
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