Flipped Prof is a disciplinary multimedia platform, curated by professor Marco Mellace. Teacher at the IIS Luca Paciolo in Bracciano (Rome), Mellace has created explanatory videos full of animations. He personally edited their illustrations, uploaded them to YouTube, and thus introduced the kids to literature in an almost playful way. Starting from Divine Comedy. The result? An overwhelming success that, now, has given birth to a paper book.
Flipped Prof, from YouTube to the library
Starting from the web, Flipped Prof toured Italy. And he has now translated his work into a paper book. "Divine Comedy - Full summary by Marco Mallace"Will arrive in Italian bookstores in February, and will constitute a unique of its kind: the professor's first literary work is also the first complete summary of Dante's masterpiece. A unique publication which, in verse and synthesis, summarizes the events of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. For this reason Mellace, who defines himself as a "digital teacher“, He said he was very excited about his work.
"This work it is the perfect demonstration of what I often say. Digital and paper must always go hand in hand, so as to be able to excite and at the same time give that overall vision effective in the learning processes " he said, interviewed by the local magazine Baraondanews. The Flipped Board book contains the optimized video summary of the Divine Comedy: the pages on the left host the summaries, the pages on the right the illustrations. An innovative way to read the work of the Somma Poeta, to fully understand its immensity (and its relevance). Because, for digital natives, it is essential to have hi-tech means to learn. And paper tools to learn more about what a video tells. This is what Marco Mallace tries to do every day: integrate the two publications, for a 360-degree involvement.
Featured photo from YouTube video
