Enthusing & inspiring with reusable kinaesthetic activities

Authors:
Paul Curzon;Peter W. McOwan;Quintin I. Cutts;Tim Bell
Affiliations:
Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom;Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom;University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom;University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Venue:
ITiCSE '09 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2009

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Abstract

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.