Workshop App Inventor - PDW Braga

Marco NevesBraga, 5th-7th May - 2016

PDW Coding and Robotics – The Future is Now!

App Inventor - Workshop

Marco Neves

● Science Computer Teacher at Agrupamento de Escolas da Batalha - Portugal

● An eTwinner (Master Thesis about the “Impact

of eTwinning in Portuguese Schools)

● Member of the Google Earth Outreach Trainers Group

● Teacher Trainer (LE – Creating Apps for eTwinning Projects)

Who Am I? 2

Twitter: @mbrasneves Facebook: facebook.com/marco.bras.neves Email: [email protected]

● …gain a deeper and more complete understanding of the logic;

● …advanced thinking behind programming;

● …integral thinking and problem solving skills that will be valuable for learning;

● …millions of computing jobs will go unfilled;

● …highly valued technology skills will have the opportunity to work in any field they want;

Why Coding? 3

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● Scratch - https://scratch.mit.edu/ ● Code.org - https://code.org/educate

● Touch Develop - https://www.touchdevelop.com/

● Tynker - https://www.tynker.com/

● AppLab - https://code.org/educate/applab

● App Inventor – http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/

● … and they are free.

Tools for Coding… 5

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● Is an open-source web application (Google - MIT);

● Allows to create mobile Apps for Android;

● It uses a graphical interface, very similar to Scratch;

● Allows users to drag-and-drop visual objects to create the code of an App;

● Transforms the complex language of text-based coding into visual, drag-and-drop building blocks;

● Tutorials: http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/tutorials.html

7What is App Inventor?

● A “gmail account”;

● A computer with Internet Access;

● An Android device (Phone or Tablet);

● Install the AI2Companion App on your device;

● No Android device (use the simulator);

● …and some ideas and lots of imagination and creativity

8To use App Inventor…..

Magic Trick

9Hands On (1/3)

bit.ly/pdwbraga

Magic Trick 2

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Hands On (2/3)

bit.ly/pdwbraga

A quiz…..

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Hands On (3/3)

bit.ly/pdwbraga

Questions?

[email protected]