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Mobile App Design

Dan Gardner (@ englandraider ) gardner@perins.hants.sch.uk. Mobile App Design. [A KEY STAGE 3 ICT CURRICULUM PROJECT]. Contents. How to Make an App. The Classroom Project. Blogging with Posterous Extending the Project Your own School App? The future for App making.

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Mobile App Design

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  1. Dan Gardner (@englandraider) gardner@perins.hants.sch.uk Mobile App Design [A KEY STAGE 3 ICT CURRICULUM PROJECT]

  2. Contents How to Make an App The Classroom Project Blogging with Posterous Extending the Project Your own School App? The future for App making • Why make mobile apps? • Tools & Technology • Creating an App • Customising your App • Limitations

  3. Apps are… Current Relevant Creative

  4. Tools & Technology

  5. Creating an App • Sign up at AppMakr.com (free) • Locate an RSS feed (a what?) • Customise appearance with icons, splash screen, header (and more)

  6. RSS Feeds

  7. Creating…

  8. Customising…

  9. Icon Design

  10. Limitations of AppMakr • Limited to the presentation of data from RSS feeds. • Require an Apple Developer account to publish to the iTunes App Store ($99).

  11. Recording Student Progress • Students record progress on posterous.com • Media (such as screenshots) can be included • Students can use “like” and comment features for peer evaluation

  12. Example Posterous Blog…

  13. Peer Feedback

  14. Extending the project…

  15. “I think that blogging skills will be useful to me in the future.” “Blogging with Posterous is a fun & easy way to record evidence of my work.” “I enjoyed building something myself... It was rewarding.” “Learning about RSS feeds will be really useful in later life.” “I liked having the freedom to develop an app for my own topic.”

  16. Your own School App?

  17. The Future? • AppMakr is simple, but limited. • Other tools are becoming available…

  18. Google “Android App Inventor”

  19. Q&A

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