Title: Instructions for the Teacher
Course: Appdate yourself 4t ESO (in English) - Curs 2020/21 > Section: Topic 3. First Contact with App Inventor

Teacher

Please consider:

Regarding the Video:

The video reviews the entire process the students carry out throughout the project. It is important to display it so that the different elements and programs to be worked on can be seen and to obtain a global view.

Regarding the Material:

Initially a book will be provided where the App Inventor environment is defined and explained with screenshots to make the information clearer, along with the connection needed to move the Apps from the computer to the smartphone. It is a way of introducing the environment and is needed to be able to follow the subsequent activities.

The idea is to teach the students to use App Inventor on their own, based on the material provided. That’s why the assignments either stem from tutorials from App Inventor itself and are explained step-by-step or include documents with screenshots to guide them.

Regarding the Activities:

Each activity includes a statement about the activity and the possibility of expanding it with supplementary exercises. The students must be capable of doing all the activities, as they are well explained and include detailed support material. Students who finish all the activities in time can move on to the supplementary exercises. This will make it possible to cover different paces of learning.

It is important to consider that each of these hands-on classes feature areas that can potentially be leveraged later on when the group has developed their App. It has been established with this intention so that, with a few small adjustments, some parts of the App will be ready to go. The concept of leveraging (linked to the backpack icon on the App Inventor design interface) should make the students see that it is a process which saves them considerable work, as they start from standard modules.

There are two ways to assess its functioning:

·         Open the source code from App Inventor and check the proper functioning with the teacher’s Android device or the emulator.

·         Open the apk file on the teacher’s Android device and check it is running properly.

To check authorship, unzip the .aia file (source code) and open the "youngandroidproject" folder. Inside there is a text file with the name "project.properties" with the user name and project name on the first line:

main=appinventor.ia_UserName.ProjectName.ScreenName