Stories

Stories about using App Inventor for educational purposes.
App Inventor Edu Story Thumbnail The Voting App at Wellesley College In Fall 2009, the CS department at Wellesley College was offering for the first time a new introductory course for non-majors, titled “CS 114 The Socio-Techno Web: Technologies for Communication”. We weren’t planning to teach programming skills in that course, our focus was in critical thinking...
App Inventor Edu Story Thumbnail App Inventor Course at the University of San Francisco (USF) At the University of San Francisco, App Inventor is taught as a core curriculum course to non-computer-science majors. Many of the students take the course because they hate Math and the course covers this dreaded requirement.   Despite the non-technical background of the students, they’...
App Inventor Edu Story Thumbnail A Young Adult's Reflections on App Inventor Ever try teaching computer science to a group of teenagers right after they get out of a long day at school? I would expect it to be remarkably difficult and frustrating. But that’s just what I did last week, and it was great. When I enrolled at Youth Radio three years ago as a 16-year-old...
App Inventor Edu Story Thumbnail Teacher Stories: Youth App Lab, Uplift Inc. Leshell Hately talks about how she uses App Inventor to introduce computer science to African American youth from Washington DC.
App Inventor at Boise State University Story Thumbnail Teaching Mobile App Design with App Inventor at Boise State University At Boise State University, we offered an online workshop in summer 2011 and an online graduate course in fall 2011 on mobile app design for teaching and learning using App Inventor. The workshop was offered through Extended Studies, and the course was offered through Department of Educational...
App Inventor Edu Story Thumbnail After School with App Inventor in Ireland Last May I started playing around with the idea of doing some sessions on Google App Inventor in my kids' Primary (K-12) School. I'd had great success trying it out with three of my own kids aged 12 to 7. I am a member of the school's Parent's Association and I pitched the idea of after-school...
Hartford area students I'll Write That App for You My name is Pauline Lake and I am one of two Trinity College students whom was chosen to work with Trinity College's Humanitarian Free Open Source Software (HFOSS) during the summer of 2010. That summer I worked with another Trinity College student and two high school teachers to learn and evaluate...
Feral Hog in Alabama Tracking Wild Hogs App Wins $100,000 Award! Lawrence County High School students in Alabama have taken third place in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest! As one of the top 5 grand finalists in the nation, our school won $100,000 in tech prizes. The contest required us to select an environmental problem in our local area and use STEM to...
App Inventor Edu Story Thumbnail Relevant and Real World Computing in the UK In August 2011, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Computer Society asked Jeremy Scott to exemplify the teaching of Computing Science to Scotland’s junior high school students. Here’s his App Inventor story… For over twenty years, desktop operating systems were the basis of most...
My Papp Inventor Stacy Christensen An App for Women's Health I have been a women’s health Nurse Practitioner for 23 years. As part of my doctoral capstone project at Regis College I decided to develop a mobile app to educate women about the Pap test. Working closely with Professor Ralph Morelli at Trinity College, we met weekly for several months to build...