Explore MIT App Inventor - Workshop

Magic 8-ball & PaintPot Slides

joanie — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:46:02 +0000

MIT Students Tony Chen, Mitchell Kates, and Marcus Lowe created these slides for an App Inventor hackathon at a local community center. These slides include great images, descriptions, and helpful gifs.

Magic 8-Ball: Link to Google Slides
PaintPot: Link to Google Slides

Grade Level:

6-8
9-12

Difficulty Level:

Basic

Subject:

Computer Science

Resource Type:

Tutorial
Workshop

Empowering educators with Google's Android App Inventor: An online workshop in mobile app design

shay — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:58:25 +0000

Authors: Yu-Chang Hsu, Kerry Rice, Lisa Dawley
Published: British Journal of Educational Technology, Volume 43, Issue 1, pages E1–E5, January 2012

Abstract:
Mobile devices, such as smartphones, are vastly gaining popularity (Johnson, Levine, Smith & Stone, 2010) because of their relatively strong computing capability built into small sizes, their Internet connectivity and the availability of various types and easy-to-use mobile software applications (“mobile apps”). It is estimated that by 2015, 80% of people accessing the Internet will do it through cell phones (Johnson, Smith, Willis, Levine & Haywood, 2011). Mobile technologies are now gaining increased attention and popularity across education sectors, which have led to innovation in mobile app design (Johnson et al, 2010).

Android OS has now caught up and led the mobile OS market within the US with 38.1% share (Haselton, 2011). Android OS has the advantage of being open-source, customizable and allows for multitasking. As of July 2011, there were 250 000 Android apps on the Android Market, with a total of 4.5 billion downloads (Wikipedia, 2011a). With the public release of App Inventor, building mobile apps without prior coding experiences is now a possibility.

In this report, the authors describe an introductory-level mobile app design workshop developed and offered over 6 weeks in Summer 2011. We also discuss the challenges and instructional implications derived from our experiences with this workshop.

Resource URL:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2011.01241.x/abstract

Grade Level:

9-12
Undergraduate
Master's and Above

Difficulty Level:

Basic

Subject:

Computer Science

Resource Type:

Paper
Workshop

App Inventor Training for the Kentucky Academy of Technology Education

Sat, 12 May 2012 13:39:22 +0000

In response to interest in App Inventor from Kentucky’s Students Technology Leadership Program, the Kentucky Academy of Technology Education (KATE) hosted two, two day, App Inventor trainings. To demonstrate a range of App Inventor’s features in a manner inclusive to teachers of a variety of subjects and grade levels, I selected two topics that arise in all classrooms: classroom management and vocabulary building.

On day one a slight tweak to the Hello Purr app, commonly used as an introduction to App Inventor, enabled educators to build a basic classroom management application within an hour. From there participants were introduced to several common CS concepts and App Inventor features to enhance their classroom management applications.

The following day educators built an application that helps students keep track of new vocabulary words and definitions. Participants learned how to store and retrieve data with a TinyDB component, as well as how an activity starter can link an app directly to a website, such as an online dictionary.

Participants left the conference with at least three functional apps for their Android phones. Perhaps more importantly, they returned to their sites with ideas on how to utilize App Inventor to engage students and assist teachers.

Resource URL:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L7PEy_NdiiRTfIIEADHTBTMYO-ifHIPD-WkzgvabaEk/...

Grade Level:

Master's and Above

Difficulty Level:

Basic
Intermediate

Subject:

Computer Science

Resource Type:

Workshop