Unplugged is being developed by many people throughout the world, in many different projects depending on the interests of the people involved and the needs of their communities.
It's easy to get involved! You're most welcome to join one of these projects by contacting the people responsible, or start your own project and let us know what you're doing so we can add it here.
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| Harold the Robot | ||
| Phylogenetics Unplugged | ||
| Simulation Task |
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| Class Simulation of a Computer | ||
| Intelligent Paper |
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| Unplugged Website |
Ongoing development of the website for Computer Science Unplugged |
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| Project for development of the site itself | ||
| Promotional Materials |
Development of promotional materials that can be used as giveaways at events |
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| Evaluation of Unplugged activities |
Tim Bell and Mick Grimley have performed some initial evaluations of using the Unplugged activities in a classroom. More extensive longitudinal studies are planned. |
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| Si Piuh Comics |
Comics that describe Unplugged activities as stories set in the world of Si Piuh. |
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| Children’s Edition |
Development of an edition written for children
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| Videos |
Production of videos associated with each activity |
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| Unplugged in Virtual Worlds |
Developing the kinaesthetic activities in Second Life to make the accessible, including for people with mobility disabilities.
Work is underway adapting the activities for people with mobility and visual disabilities, and a virtual world offers an exciting way to provide such an experience for those with mobility issues; it may also be suitable for students who are isolated for social or personal reasons. |
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| Unplugged and Robotics, Unplugged and students programming languages (Scratch, Alice) |
School curricula and special events often use robotics, or programming languages like Scratch and Alice, to expose students to computer science concepts. A project run by Tim Bell is planned to start soon combining these with CS Unplugged; for example, students could do a kinesthetic activity, and then implement the activity using a robot or programming language. |
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| Unplugged Training |
A project for training people to conduct Unplugged events |
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| School Programmes |
Development of programmes in schools |
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| Arabic Translation |
Activities 1 and 2 are available separately in Arabic on their respective pages, and together in a single PDF here |
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| Chinese Translation |
Menus for this website are available in Traditional Chinese. |
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| French Translation |
François Rechenmann at INRIA is working on a French translation for Interstices web site |
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| German Translation |
A German translation of the first 5 activities is available here, translated by Maexl Stege of Limburgerhof in Germany. |
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| Hebrew Translation |
A Hebrew translation of the Unplugged activities is in progress. The activities are being posted on a blog as they are completed. The work is being done by Shimon Schocken and Benny Chor |
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| Japanese Translation |
A Japanese version of the teachers' edition (Activities 1-12) is already available here |
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| Korean Translation |
Menus for this website are available in Korean. |
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| Spanish Translation |
A Spanish version of the teachers' edition is now available. A translation of the remaining activities (13-20) is underway. |
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| Swedish Translation |
Swedish versions of the videos are available here. |
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| Translation of new content back into English |
An ongoing project to make sure that the English language version is up to date with the other versions |