MOBILE APP DESIGN Dan Gardner (@englandraider) [email protected].

MOBILE APP DESIGN[A KEY STAGE 3 ICT CURRICULUM PROJECT]

Dan Gardner (@englandraider)

[email protected]

Contents

How to Make an App

• Why make mobile apps?

• Tools & Technology

• Creating an App

• Customising your App

• Limitations

The Classroom Project

• Blogging with Posterous

• Extending the Project

• Your own School App?

• The future for App making

Apps are…

1. Current2. Relevant3. Creative

Tools & Technology

Creating an App

1. Sign up at AppMakr.com (free)

2. Locate an RSS feed (a what?)

3. Customise appearance with icons, splash screen, header (and more)

RSS Feeds

Creating…

Customising…

Icon Design

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).

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

Example Posterous Blog…

Peer Feedback

Extending the project…

“I liked having the freedom to develop an app for my own topic.”

“I enjoyed building something myself... It

was rewarding.”

“Blogging with Posterous is a fun & easy way to record evidence of my

work.”

“Learning about RSS feeds will be really useful in later life.”

“I think that blogging skills will be useful to

me in the future.”

Your own School App?

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

Google “Android App Inventor”

Q&A