Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2011 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Learning Event was about podcasting, I was very
excited! It was not easy, at first, I kept sending
mails for more explanations, but little by little I
understood how it worked! I did not give in,
because I wanted to learn! After that, I participated
in many labs, I knew people who had much
experience and shared a lot of their knowledge this is the most important thing for me: share and
create and always get better!
After all that, changes in my life came one after
another!
As a Greek ambassador, I try to inform new
colleagues about the eTwinning action, we started
the Francophone Group, which is very important to
me, I communicate with many people in Europe, I
participated in a PDW and in the 2011 conference in
Budapest!
I am also very happy when I visit Teachers‘ Rooms!
As you can see, my everyday life contains a great
‗dose‘ of eTwinning! I am really addicted to it, and I
want to transmit this enthusiasm of mine to other
people!
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Originality and Standard
By Massimo Presciutti
Massimo Presciutti works at Istituto Comprensivo
Centro Storico in Florence, Italy. He is an Italian
eTwinning ambassador and a contributor to national
and international newspapers and magazines, as
well as a book writer and musical CD producer.
Rimini is the standard holiday, but it is also Fellini
and De André, the artists, the ones who do not
understand the standard, but can understand what
others cannot understand. There are not big artists
and small artists, you can be an artist, or not.
Society makes classifications, that is true, but only
in order to find a way to standardize what stays
away from it, flies or appears inexplicably. ―Life is a
giant Ministry full of bosses, offices, promotions,
punishments. An artist cannot be part of this order,
cannot recognize the authority of anybody, an artist
can only destroy the coordinates, pull the carpets
under people and stop pulling also after a big fall‖
(Saul Steinberg, in Berlinghiero Buonarroti, ―Saul
Steinberg: l‘assassino delle illusioni del realismo‖,
Fiesole Democratica anno VII – Maggio 1983, n.3).
About the relation of the artist and the moral
Thomas Mann reminds us, citing Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe: ―A work of art may have a moral
effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist
is to make him ruin his job‖ (Thomas Mann, ―The
Artist and Society‖, in ―7 Arts, Painting, Sculpture,
Music, Dance, Theatre, Literature, Architecture‖,
edited by Fernando Puma, Copyright, 1953, by
Doubleday & Company, Inc, Printed in the United
States). We can add that, while innovation is a
qualitative increase of the standard, originality is
singleness creating an amazingly tickling stupidity.
Stupidity is related to the reality that we face,
nobody is free of it, it looks like astonishment. Only
to boast about it is true stupidity. Boasting is stupid
because it excludes each unlikeness a priori without
imagining how many unlikenesses exist: physical,
space – time, cultural, contingent, seeming and, in
the end, it erases the more living reality that could
be fruitful only when it meets unlikeness. That is
the Lifelong Learning Programme, this inclusion
where everyone follows their path, or their orbit,
becoming part of the Knowledge‘s harmony, infinite
like the Universe.
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