Case Study Description
Virtual Makerspace Workshops
Practice: Virtual Makerspaces
by ovos media Gmbh added on 13 Nov 2020
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ovos media Gmbh |
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Virtual Makerspace Workshops |
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Dates:
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Start date: 09 Apr 2020
End date: 30 Jun 2020
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Brief description:
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools in Austria were closed by mid-March 2020. This is why ovos and Otelo developed two Virtual Makerspace workshops. These kind of workshops could reach children who were being home-schooled. Otelo produced videos for an instructional step-by-step tutorial which ovos edited and uploaded to the COMnPLAYer app, adding fun pictures, emojis and additional content about science. Each instruction meeting took up to 15 minutes; the facilitator was available in the Zoom meeting for a few hours (2 hours in the first, 2-3 hours in the second); each presentation meeting took 15 minutes. The participants learned how to build a glass terrarium (First Virtual Makerspace) and how to programme a BBC Micro:Bit robot. |
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Objectives:
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Is a virtual makerspace a valuable alternative activity to reach children at home, and does it present an attractive format to motivate participants to engage with science? |
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Austria |
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Not taking place at a specific city |
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Participants
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Participants’ age groups:
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5 - 14 |
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File:
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Virtual Makerspace Workshops_Case Study ovos.pdf |
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