Lesson 1Launch and Team Building

OPEN YOUR LEARNING BLOG

in today's lesson we are going to start our crash course in phone apps. You will get an understanding of the type of apps you could make and how you could work together as a team.  

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

You will learn to:

Describe different types of phone apps

Describe what it means to work together in a team

TASK 1

If you haven't already sorted yourself into teams do so now and one of you reply to this post with the following information:

A) Your team name

B) The first and last names of your team members

REMEMBER YOUR TEAMS MUST HAVE NO LESS THAN 3 MEMBERS AND NO MORE THAN 5.  

CLASS ACTIVITY

Let's look at the following video about APPS FOR GOOD.  I will get get you thinking about what YOU can get out of the process. Try to identify the problem that the team tried to solve and sk yourself whether or not it was an effective solution.

http://www.appsforgood.org/educator/delivery/crash-course-in-app-development/launch

TEAM ROLES

The team roles activity will get students thinking about what role they might be best suited for and what role they are most keen to try out.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&srcid=0ByGWyKe-Ivm7SkVuUldTOUExY2s. You need to save this in your area.

CLASS ACTIVITY

Let's look at different types of APPS.

http://www.appsforgood.org/educator/delivery/crash-course-in-app-development/launch

Try to decide which category of app you would like to work on.

Final Task 

For today's lesson write a post about what you have learnt today and the progress you have made.