WEB-APP App Inventor

App Inventor Link: http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu

http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/app-building-guides.html

Essential Questions:

  • What is the role of creativity in designing an attractive, functional, and accessible graphical user interface?
  • What is the role of creativity in designing a mobile application to solve a problem?

Objectives:

  • Learn the mechanics of using App Inventor to build apps
  • Learn how to design an app’s user interface with the App Inventor Designer and its behavior with the Blocks Editor.
  • Understand that an app’s behavior consists of event handlers– blocks that specify how an app responds to each event.
  • Understand that an app can make decisions using a conditional (if) block.
  • Understand that a component has a set of properties and that a property is a memory cell that can be changed to modify how a component looks and behaves.
  • Learn how to test an app, how to deploy it to a device, and how to publish it on a portfolio and the App Inventor Gallery.

2023 Lessons:

  1. Pre-Assessment Mobile Development
  2. Unplugged Lesson/Videos
  3. Mobile Development Introduction
  4. App Inventor Introduction + 1st Tutorial 
  5. App Inventor Introduction Assignment (checklist)
    1. Link if needed -App Inventor Tutorials    
  6. Post-Assessment Mobile Development
  7. Create Your Own App Assignment

Chromebook

  1. Directions – App Inventor -Chromebook Set-up

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Designer and Blocks Editor http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/designer-blocks.html

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Understanding Blocks: http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/understanding-blocks.html

Introduction: What does this app do? https://sites.google.com/site/appinventor/lesson-introduction-to-app-inventor

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checklistApp Inventor Tutorials Checklistchecklist

  1. Talk to Me App:
  2. BallBounce Game App
  3. DigitalDoodle Drawing App
  4. PaintPot Part 1:
  5. Magic 8 Ball
  6. I Have a Dream Tutorial
  7. iTunes Tutorial
  8. Space Invaders
  9. Mole Mash:
  10. Malden Tour:
  11. Pick One:
  12. Pick One:

The completed Checklist will be graded.

Rubric App Checklist

App Inventor Tutorials Grade

19-10 1st semester

Completed 12 Tutorials 110
Completed 11 Tutorials 105
Completed 10 Tutorials 100
Completed 9 Tutorials 95
Completed 8 Tutorials 90
Completed 7 Tutorials 80
Completed 6 Tutorials 70
Completed 5 Tutorials 60
Completed less than 5 Tutorials 50

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Assignment:  Create Your Own App Project:

Essential Question:
Why is it important to plan out the development of an app before you create the code of it?

Objective:
Students will be able to create an app and tutorial of their own selection.

Additional Resources:

Intro Videos: