[Yr11 Information Technology] (no subject)

Mon Jun 21 10:37:12 EST 2010

Hi Laurie,

We only made webApps. Which are essentially web pages that are formatted to look like native app. Look to http://touch.facebook.com or Qantas.com on an iPhone or iPod for what I am talking about.

We used PHP to detect which browser viewers were using and then redirected users to two different pages, one formatted for a large screen and one for the iPhone screen.

The main parts are simple HTML which scale page to fit the screen properly.

<meta content="minimum-scale=1, width=device-width, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no" name="viewport" />

Another handy part is making an icon so that when people ‘add a link to homescreen’ they get a proper icon on the homescreen on the iPhone rather than a small screen shot.

<link href="images/logo.png" rel="apple-touch-icon" /> <!--this adds icons to homescreen-->

Other items that students need to consider is designing the page to function properly on the iPhone.

If you are looking for a template, these guys and gals and make a great free open source template and have heaps of resources for you. http://iwebkit.net/

I will upload some examples to my website tonight.

David Howard
ICT Learning Mentor
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From: yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Laurie Savage
Sent: Monday, 21 June 2010 10:14 AM
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Can you point me in the right direction for creating iPhone apps. I thought you needed the Apple approved SDK and I’m running Linux and Windows.

Laurie Savage
Pascoe Vale Girls College

From: yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Howard, David
Sent: Monday, 21 June 2010 8:08 AM
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VITTA has been advertising one for AGES. We do webapp programming for iPhones with the year 10s and Software Development class. I found heaps of online tutorials. The drawback with doing native apps is that they require development on macs and our kids have PCs.

David Howard
St Michaels Grammar School

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On 20/06/2010, at 5:57 PM, "Roland Gesthuizen" <rgesthuizen at gmail.com<mailto:rgesthuizen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>From memory, there was a great iTouch training workshop run by VITTA at their 2009 conference, this may represent better value for money. The subject associations are gearing up for this kind of PD.

Regards Roland
On 20 June 2010 10:49, Chattrath, Divinderjit S <chattrath.divinderjit.s at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:chattrath.divinderjit.s at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
Hi All
G' Day
How about a PD on iPad/iPhone/iPod touch programming!
How to develop and deploy your own applications on iPhone/iPod touch

Importance:
This will become crucial in future as you can make application, write
books, make and play podcasts and videos as per the needs of your
students.

Is there any Vic Teacher/Dept./group out there who is already doing
this? I would like to join that group.

At this time I am only interested in number of teachers who would like
to do this. I will take it further if I get good response. I would
like feedback on duration and cost of this PD that teachers would
prefer. I have seen many high priced good PD sessions which are beyond
the reach of most teachers in state, because schools can not afford
the cost.

Keep the format of reply as follows

Interested in iPD = yes/no
If No then reason =
If Yes then
duration =
Cost = AUD

Regards
Divinderjit Singh Chattrath
IT/Maths/Physics/Syst-Engi Teacher,
Craigieburn Secondary College
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