A Rapidly Growing Website
Welcome, I'm Josh Sheldon, an educational technologist and research & communications professional who's working on planning and building MIT's App Inventor Edu site. Currently, the site is mostly brochure-ware, though we do have our first two feature stories of successful use of App Inventor in educational settings ready for your viewing. You'll see video of Dave Wolber and his students at USF and the work they've done, as well as read about Eni Mustafaraj and the voting app she built and used with students in what was originally intended to be a "non-programming" class. Over the coming weeks and months, you can expect:
- frequent updates to the FAQ on the transition of App Inventor to MIT.
- bi-weekly stories such as Eni's and Dave's along with a central sortable repository of these stories.
- a Resources section that aggregates links to external resources for learning with App Inventor. (You can get a special behind-the-scenes peek at a one of our first resources and learn about a great book on App Inventor by some names I'm sure you'll recognize. Just don't expect the page to look the same when you go back to it.)
- An evolving design for the site.
- A featured educators section, where we'll first feature some of the people that were at the App Inventor Summit at MIT in early October, and mentioned in the email chain started by Mark Friedman from Google. In the longer term, we'll open up the featured educators section to the broader community.
- Forums on the App Inventor Edu @ MIT site where you'll be able to post questions and get responses from the team here and broader community of educational users of App Inventor.
So, if it gets quiet for a little while, it just means we're working on getting things together as fast as we can, and you can expect more very soon.
