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Lesson 10. By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design.

Dec 31, 2015

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Page 1: Lesson 10. By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design.

Creating a Mobile Phone App

Lesson 10

Page 2: Lesson 10. By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design.

• By the end of this lesson you will: • Apply the feedback received last week (peer

assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design features

• Understand how apps can be published using QR codes. Published your own QR code and viewed your app on a ‘live device’

• Organise yourself into groups of 4 and select the best app produced within your group

Lesson 10 Objectives:

Page 3: Lesson 10. By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design.

What Makes a Good Phone App?

Its easy to use

Its free

It has good graphics and

images

Its useful

Its challengin

gIts fun

The information is always up

to date

Its colourful and eye-catching

Its quick

What Makes A Good App – design principles

Page 4: Lesson 10. By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design.

Completion of your app

• Use this time to complete your app and act upon the feedback you received last lesson to make as many improvements as you can.

• It is a competition, so do your best!

15 Mins

Page 5: Lesson 10. By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design.

QR Codes• A Quick Response or QR Code is a form of 2D barcode • Read by smartphones/ dedicated QR reading devices

30 Mins

• The barcode links directly to text, emails, websites, phone numbers, whatever you choose!

• Soon you will see them on product packaging, shop displays, advertisements as well as in emails and on websites!!

How are they used?

Page 6: Lesson 10. By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design.

Generate your own QR Codes

Click on Share

Select QR Code. This will publish your unique code. It will give you the option to edit your description. Make it personal to your App.

Page 7: Lesson 10. By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design.

Generate your own QR Codes Your QR code is generated.

If you have a smartphone, take a picture of it using your camera and hopefully your App will appear!

Page 8: Lesson 10. By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design.

Plenary - Group Work

• Over the next few lessons we are going to produce group presentations. Organise yourself into groups of 4 (max).

• Now review each of your apps and choose the best one in your group.

• Next lesson you are going to produce a professional presentation of your chosen app (as a group) – it is a competition so choose wisely!

15 Mins

Page 9: Lesson 10. By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design.

• By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer

assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design features

Understand how apps can be published using QR codes. Published your own QR code and viewed your app on a ‘live device’

Organise yourself into groups of 4 and select the best app produced within your group

Have we met today’s objectives?

Page 10: Lesson 10. By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design.

Additional/ Support Slides

Page 11: Lesson 10. By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design.

Recap - Creating a User Name and password• Follow the instructions on ‘Preparation sign

information’ accessible on Moodle from:

• Curriculum

• Year 9

• ICT

• Mobile App Development

MAKE A NOTE OF YOUR PASSWORD AND DON’T LOOSE IT – I cannot reset your password in AppShed

so you will loose your work!!

Page 12: Lesson 10. By the end of this lesson you will: Apply the feedback received last week (peer assessment) to improve your app in line with ‘good app’ design.

• Although you can use any image type you like, the best ones for use on your app will be PNG and JPEG files.

• Find an image you want to save Right click and

select ‘save image as’ Save as JPEG or PNG Image

Recap – Uploading Images