• By the end of this lesson you will: • Create a prototype of your home page in PowerPoint –
identify colours, images and draft layout
• Know how to access AppShed and set up a home page
• Understood the different Operating Systems available and selected one for your app
• Extension: start to source JPEG and PNG images for your app
Lesson 3 Objective:
• Using AppShed create an app for young people in the age range 11-16
• Its main purpose should be for information
• Design your app for one of the following 3 scenario’s:
1. Yeovil Town Football Club2. Sherlock Holmes3. Glastonbury Music Festival
Recap - Creating your app – the Design Brief
Recap - Creating your app – the detail!
• As a minimum your app should include:
• A home screen or main menu
• An information screen with text and images (on your topic)
• A map screen showing points of interest/ location
• A gallery of images (of points of interest or people etc.)
• A contact option
Activity 1 - Designing your prototype• Using your work from last lesson (mind map and
mood board) create a presentation (ppt) of your app homepage, including:
• What it will look like
• What information you intend to include
• Images you intend to use
30 Mins
Activity 2 – Accessing AppShed - Creating a User Name and password:
MAKE A NOTE OF YOUR PASSWORD AND DON’T LOOSE IT – I cannot reset your password in AppShed
so you will lose your work!!
5 Mins
Activity 3 – Accessing AppShed – The basics!
10 Mins
Tutorials available from the ‘App Development Walkthroughs’ folder on Moodle
Extension – Sourcing and Saving your images - JPEG/PNGAlthough you can use any image type you like, the best ones for use on your app will be PNG and JPEG files.
1 – Create a folder called ‘images’ in your ICT folder
2 – Find an image you want
3 – Right click and select ‘save image as’
4 – Save as JPEG or PNG Image
Create a prototype of your home page in PowerPoint – identify colours, images and draft layout
Know how to access AppShed and set up a home page
Understood the different Operating Systems available and selected one for your app
Extension: start to source JPEG and PNG images for your app
Have we met today’s objectives?
• Ok, so AppShed is not responding - don’t worry! Instead develop your app using PowerPoint. Create a presentation of what your app would look like.
• Download an Image for a phone of your choice from Google Images and use that as your template.
• Your finished design will look just as good as those in AppShed if you use hyperlinks to move between your screens … and remember, be as creative as you can!
Plan B – break glass in case of emergency!
AppShed – Tutorials• Available from the ‘App Development Walkthroughs’
folder on Moodle, file path as follows:
• Curriculum
• Year 9
• ICT
• Mobile App Development
• App Development Walkthroughs