Title: Work plan: Let's get organized
Course: Appdate yourself 4t ESO (in English) - Curs 2016/17 > Section: Topic 3 Starting the project: Let's get organized!

Work plan

What will you learn in this unit?

 We begin to think that the project will work throughout the course, which consists of designing an app for mobile devices. First we will see how to develop the project, what we mean when we talk about apps, what to consider when designing it and end up creating work groups.

 The different sections are:

- All about the project
- What are apps?
- Let's create work groups

Timing:

 The time dedicated to this unit is 3 hours, distributed in the following way:

- All about the project  → 30 min
- What are apps?  → 1,5 h
- Let's create work group → 1 h

Suggested work plan:

- All about the project

What will you learn? | Resource or Activity | Description
Presentation of the project on creating an app | Informative document: Project introduction | Fundamental explanations about the project and managing it.
Informative document: Control of hours and resources | Explanation about the necessity to control the hours worked and all the resources used in order to be able to work out a marketing plan for their app later on in the course.
Task: Control grid: hours worked and resources used | Creation and updates of their control grid (one per group).

- What are apps?

What will you learn? | Resource or Activity | Description
Define the characteristics of an app and its design. | Presentation: What are apps? | Description of the characteristics of an app and its design.
Task: Analysis of an app. | Analysis of the characteristics of an example app.

- Let's create work groups

What will you learn? | Resource or Activity | Description
Application of techniques for setting up work groups. | Informative document: Let's start the project | Explanation of the steps for working on this topic.
Informative document: Setting up the group | Agreement of group members to manage the group well
Template document: Setting up the team | Template to sign the agreement of group
Task: Set up group | Handing in group agreement
Informative document: What do I know? | Personal reflection based upon knowledge about different areas of applying apps.
Task: What do I know? | Handing in of document of group's knowledge
Informative document: What does our group know? | Reflection based on knowledge and ideas to develop by the group.
Task: What does our group know? | Handing in document
Informative document: Group tasks | List of group tasks
Task: Group tasks | Handing in list of group tasks