<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">me too<div>Maybe we could organise a group collaboration on creating a course and then all run it in our schools, feedback to each other and create apps we could all use!!</div><div><br></div><div>I would be happy to organise the collaboration if necessary - this woudl be an exciting project "going forward"</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On 23/05/2012, at 2:12 PM, Kent Beveridge wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Me too! 100% iPAD school here too now...plus PC's...<br>Count me in!<br>Kent<br><br>Sent from KB's iPAD.<br><br>On 23/05/2012, at 12:18 PM, "Travis Parker" <<a href="mailto:Travis.Parker@beaconhills.vic.edu.au">Travis.Parker@beaconhills.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Kevork,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The thing with Adrian (And myself) is that our schools have invested a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">large amount of time and money into iPad programs and I checked out<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">appinventor and it seems that they only export to android devices?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">There seems to be a text on "App inventing for iPhones" by Graeme<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Summers that I am ordering (Thanks Adrian) and a few of us are trying to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">organise a new year 10 iOS app development course. If anyone is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">interested please speak up!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Trav<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-----Original Message-----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: <a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Kevork Krozian<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:14 AM<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] App development Sorry for the x-posts!)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hi Adrian,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> This is all very useful to all of our colleagues.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I recently completed an Android app writing PD at Swinburne Uni Hawthorn<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">using appinventor ( see <a href="http://appinventor.org">appinventor.org</a> ) and found it very powerful and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">effortless in transferring to a phone or sharing with other phones. For<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">those who don't have a phone an emulator will still allow testing of the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">app on Mac or PC. The resources (software, textbooks, completed apps )<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">are free online. The programming environment is a "scratch" type with no<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">actual coding but a GUI to connect objects, add methods, change<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">properties and parameters. This would translate to a Yr 8 to 10 course<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">so much more easily than say writing code in XNA or in Objective C I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">feel.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> There are sections on using multi dimensional arrays, saving to a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">database and much more. Is it starting to look like it could slot into<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Software Development as a language ? Of course the coding would have to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">be done in Java for it to be acceptable. There are efforts to provide a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">java view of the Appinventor GUI see <a href="http://www.appinventor.org/roadmap">http://www.appinventor.org/roadmap</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">but that would need to be clarified for Units 3 and 4 Software<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Development purposes.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> An equally useful discussion would be to compare the competing app<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">writing and programming options. eg. Cost of registering as a devloper ?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">How much will students understand when writing code in a language like<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Objective C or C# for that matter ?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> One of the most useful apps in this series I worked on was "Find my<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">car" which allows recording of the current location using the GPS<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">feature in the phone and then after moving to another location<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">requesting a map showing how to find the car again. This interfaced with<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a voice feature where instructions are announced on how to find your way<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">back to the car or if they are in the same spot, the family members you<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">may have lost ......<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> All very exciting ...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Keep well<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Kevork<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Travis,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Apologies for the previous email - I have just transitioned to a new <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">notebook and I had not set up my email signature yet!<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I also hope I didn't get your hopes up! - basically what I wanted to <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">say is that I have been teaching myself x-code / objective c this year<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">and also plan to run an iPhone / iPad dev course in 2013 - I would <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">love to collaborate on something if you are interested?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Cheers,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Adrian<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Adrian Janson B.Sc, Dip.Ed, M.Ed<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">eLearning Coordinator<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Melbourne High School, Forrest Hill, South Yarra, Victoria 3141<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Australia.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Phone: 03 9826 0711 International: +61 3 9826 0711<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Fax: 03 9826 8767 International: +61 3 9826 8767<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">E-mail: <a href="mailto:janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au">janson.adrian.a@edumail.vic.gov.au</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Website: <a href="http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au">http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Blog: <a href="http://jansona.edublogs.org">http://jansona.edublogs.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">From: <a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">[mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au]<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Behalf Of Travis Parker<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Sent: Monday, 21 May 2012 1:56 PM<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] App development Sorry for the x-posts!)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Dear All,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Now that we have about 2250 iPads floating around the college, I was <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">thinking of implementing an "App Development" course at year 10 next <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">year that will run for a semester. We have also got a lab of 30 iMacs <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">and was going to use them to create iPad apps (Using XCode???). I was<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">wondering whether anyone does anything similar to this currently, or <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">has any ideas on what to include. I'd be happy to share and compare <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">notes and experiences with any interested parties.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Cheers<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Trav<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Travis Parker<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Head of ICT and E-Learning<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Beaconhills College<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">( 1300 002 225 ext 3016<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">or Direct Dial (03) 5945 3016<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Important - This email and any attachments may be confidential. 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