[pliddle34]

11/11/2014 at 10:10 am

Hi,

Is anyone carrying out the Apps for Good program? If so how is it going? I am interested in running it next year.

[Marc McWhirter]

12/11/2014 at 3:20 pm

I am running it as an S3 course and so far I am enjoying it, but if you and running it “out of the box” you will find it works better as a cross curriculum project with business. I am making a lot of my own tasks and material up and not using all of their beginning topics.

[pliddle34]

17/11/2014 at 2:39 pm

Hi,

Thanks for this. Are you doing the full course or the mini project?

[Marc McWhirter]

01/12/2014 at 12:17 pm

Full course

[Chris Aitken]

13/01/2015 at 2:35 pm

Sorry I didn’t pick this up earlier.

We teach Apps for Good in Wick High and have seen a lot of success over the past two years.

We run it as an optional course in S3. We do the full course and try to add in Level 4/N5 content such as working in App Inventor.

The course works well for us, however, next session I hope to address the transition to N5 better as the course does take up quite a lot of time if you want to have a chance of making the finals. In my opinion there’s an awful lot of content in the course which can be slimmed down to the bare minimum competition entry. This gives a bit of scope for other things.

If you want a chat about this further, give me a call.

Chris