Title: Work Plan: Let’s Get the Project Started
Course: Appdate yourself 4t ESO (in English) - Curs 2020/21 > Section: Topic 2. Let’s Get the Project Started: Organisation

Work Plan

What will you learn in this topic?

We start by considering the project we will work on throughout the course and which consists of designing a mobile App. First we will look at how to develop the project, what we mean when we talk about Apps and what to consider when designing them. The last thing we will do is create the workgroups.

The different sections are:

- Project Approach
- What are Apps?
- Forming the Workgroups

 Timing:

Total time spent on this topic is 3 hours distributed as follows:

- Project Approach → 30 min
- What are Apps? → 1.5 hours
- Forming the Workgroups → 1 hour

Proposed Work Sequence:

- Project Approach

What will you learn? | Resource or activity | Description
App Design Project Approach | Vídeo: Generació Digital | Video on the experience of students who have taken part in the App Education project.
Explanatory document: Introduction to the Project | Explanation of project basics and management
Assignment: Group Google Drive Management | Creation of the group's shared workspace
Explanatory document: Control of Hours worked and Resources used | Explanation of the need to control work hours and resources used by the group for subsequent App marketing
Assignment: Table of Hours Worked and  Resources used | Creation and updating of each group's table on hours worked and resources used

- What are Apps?

What will you learn? | Resource or activity | Description
Defining the characteristics of an App and its design | Presentation: What are Apps? | Description of the characteristics of an App and its structure.
Infographic: What should your App Proposal include? | Description of the steps to consider in the App creation process
Assignment: App Analysis | Analysis of the characteristics of an App taken as an example

- Forming the Workgroups

What will you learn? | Resource or activity | Description
Application of workgroup creation techniques | Explanatory document: Starting the project | Explanation of the topic’s work guidelines
Explanatory document: Creating the Group | The process to follow to create and save group work documents
Explanatory document: Creating the Group and Agreements Activity | Agreements on group work dynamics
Assignment: Creating the Group and Agreements | Handing in the agreements document
Explanatory document: Group Assignments | List of group assignments
Assignment: Group Assignments | Handing in the list of group assignments
Explanatory document: What Do I Know? | Reflection on the problems detected in daily environments
Assignment: What Do I Know? | Handing in the document on personal knowledge
Explanatory document: What Does Our Group Know? | Pooling problems detected by each member of the group
Assignment: What Does Our Group Know? | Handing in the group knowledge and ideas document