Welcome to My Learning Curve: Apps: Applying Applications

In the fourth week of our Mobile Learning course, we were asked to build a mobile application for our mLearning Project. Yes, an App!

At first, I was a bit concerned about creating an App for my project but then our instructor Ben shared numerous links to App Builder sites with us.

So, this made things a lot easier!

Then we were asked to present our project's App as if we were on Dragon's Den, a Canadian TV show where inventors go to pitch their product(s) to potential investors, the hosts.

Below, Steve Jobs Pitches iPad on Dragon's Den (British version)

As for our class, we pitched our ideas to each other via AdobeConnect to have a synchronous experience. While we did not record our presentations, I have placed a link to my PowerPoint to share my App-- eStory Helper.

http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/logungbemi-1760762-creating-estories-ml-presentation-loj0402-2013-rev/

What you will see are six slides with screen shots of my App. Basically, I pitched to the Dragons, my virtual classmates, about the type of information an online user would get if they visited my app, such as links and videos to amazing resources! And the bonus is the blog series that you are reading right now.

NB. I am currently trying to place a good audio track to accompany my short presentation, so please visit this post again to 'hear' those changes :)

My Experience using Apps.com

So, I went to www.appsbar.com to create my app which took about a week to be accepted for publication. Unfortunately, I have to pay $25 to Google Play to host it for me. However, I haven't paid yet...

On the upside, the site was quite user friendly once you understand that there are four 'page' types which only accept 'information' in certain formats.

For example, in the Page Manager, the user can select these page types:

URLs to enter one link per file;

VideosList to embed numerous videos;

Contents to enter text, including links; and

Contact to enter 'contact' information.

Links to App Builders

Our instructor, Ben, provided us with some amazing links "for developing mobile apps that are ready to be used almost immediately and that require little to no knowledge of programming". (Thanks again, Ben!)