app inventor – Dr. Ray Pastore's Instructional Technology Blog

Are you using MIT App Inventor?

admin — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:11:21 +0000

This is what I recommend for K-12 educators who want to have their students create apps in their classes. The tool is free and geared towards the classroom.

Check it out here

Educator page

An example tutorial

App Inventor College Course part of curriculum at the University of San Francisco

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:48:05 +0000

This is very cool. USF has created an App Inventor course that is part of their curriculum. It is designed for non-computer science majors and counts towards a math class. This is a great idea because it exposes students to programming logic and lets them create a mobile app.

Check out the article here: http://teach.appinventor.mit.edu/stories/app-inventor-course-university-san-francisco-usf

App Inventor Beta now available from MIT

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:44:32 +0000

Well it looks like MIT has officially made App Inventor available for Android based phones!

Here is the link: http://appinventor.mit.edu/

I have yet to try it out to see how it compares to the older version.

App Inventor Survey

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:31:30 +0000

Google app inventor is now in the hands of MIT. For those who use this product, especially my gaming and simulation students who took 595 last spring, please fill out the following survey to help MIT make app inventor better:

Help MIT Study and Extend App Inventor