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What is App Inventor? Ask Hal Abelson
Hal Abelson, the MIT professor who took a sabbatical at Google to develop App Inventor, wrote a recent piece for EDUCAUSE Quarterly. Not surprisingly, Hal’s article deftly characterizes the great...
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USF App Inventor Students Become App Inventor Teachers
USF Student-Teachers at the Technovation Pitch-Night No women in computer science? Not so fast! The University of San Francisco’s App Inventor class is helping to encourage more women into the field....
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Youth Radio’s Mobile Action Lab
Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab Youth Radio is an Oakland, CA organization which promotes young people’s intellectual, creative, and professional growth through education and access to media. They’ve...
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USF students create App-Inventor-Compatible Yelp API
App Inventor provides a component, TinyWebDB, which can be used to talk to web data sources (APIs) that follow a specific protocol. You can use APIs bring in book data from Amazon, stock information...
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Android Games Built by Middle School Students at BAYCAT SF
App Inventor was used in the summer program BAYCAT–The Bay View- Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology in San Francisco. In just a few weeks, these students learned the basics of app building...
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Video: University students interviewed about App Inventor
This video was created by University of San Francisco student Angelo Taylor. A longer version is coming soon. Do you have video of students working with or talking about App Inventor?
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App Inventor students, professors, and Googlers discuss their experience
Angelo Taylor is a University of San Francisco student who took my App Inventor course last year. He has created this video about our App Inventor course. Great work Angelo!
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USF students to pitch MS app in Cape Town, South Africa
Two humanities students took an App Inventor course and built a prototype; two graduates in computer science pushed the project along by building a more complete version using Java. Together, this...
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Mr. President: App inventing and what our schools can be
AMSA tacher Padmaja Bandaru with her students at the MIT App Inventor summit They take a computer science course each and every semester. They build mobile apps. They learn using a visual language, App...
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BusinessWeek.com on University of San Francisco and App Inventor
Andrea and Kelly building an app USF students Andrea Conway and Kelly Lazzara are featured in this BusinessWeek.com video report on App Inventor and our course at USF.
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Super-Teacher Kelly Powers Teaching High schoolers!
Want to see a successful STEM program in action? Check out this video of Kelly Powers, the Mass. STEM teacher of the year, teaching students to be creative, solve problems, and build their thinking...
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App Inventor Workshop in Doha, Qatar
Photo Credit: Hamda On March 7, 2017, I was invited to speak to students and teachers at the UNESCO YouthMobile event in Doha Qatar. YouthMobile was part of TumuhaTEC’s Digital Youth Festival at...
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