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Enthusing & inspiring with reusable kinaesthetic activities

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Peter W. McOwan,

Quintin I. Cutts,

Tim BellAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '09: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 94 - 98

https://doi.org/10.1145/1562877.1562911

Published: 06 July 2009 Publication History

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We describe the experiences of three University projects that use a style of physical, non-computer based activity to enthuse and teach school students computer science concepts. We show that this kind of activity is effective as an outreach and teaching resource even when reused across different age/ability ranges, in lecture and workshop formats and for delivery by different people. We introduce the concept of a Reusable Outreach Object (ROO) that extends Reusable Learning Objects. and argue for a community effort in developing a repository of such objects.

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ITiCSE '09: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

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DOI:10.1145/1562877

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