M4-5+App-tastic+Investigate

toc =** Introduction **= Explore the Apple app store, Android app store or other apps of your choice.

=** Guiding Questions **= Write the answers to each of the questions to help you organise your research phase.

// Is there anything you need to find out how to do? What research will you need to carry out? //
 * What do I need to know before I can begin to design a solution to the challenge? **

// Where can you find information to help you? Will you use books/websites/experts/surveys? //
 * What are some sources of information? Who/what can help me? Where can I find these? **

// Who is interested by and / or affected by the challenge? Who is the client? The users? //
 * Who are the stakeholders in the challenge? **

=** Research **= Once you have completed the guiding questions, think about the information you need to find to create your product. Perhaps you need to find information from people, books or the internet. Do you know which software you will use? Do you know how to use it? If not, how will you find out what you need to know?

Some app tutorials: Youtube (you need a VPN) App Inventor for Android manual Troubleshooting for AIfA Tutorials for AIfA (need VPN)

Interesting article about apps in developing countries

= ** Sources ** = Here are two websites that help you write your sources correctly. Easy bib and Bibme. For each piece of information, list the source correctly using APA referencing. You also need to explain how helpful it is, how reliable it is and summarise what you found from that source.

=** Overview **= Write a paragraph to summarise:
 * 1) what product you will create
 * 2) why you will create it
 * 3) who it is aimed at

For example a good overview (design brief) might look like this:

"Teenagers have very busy lives. School, family and social activities mean that being punctual is very important.

I will design and make a wall clock that will be appealing for teenage girls. It will be a modern design and will be suitable for a teenage girl's bedroom. Because the design will appeal to teenage girls, them they will be more likely to look at it, read the time and therefore not be late.

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=** Design Specification **= Once you have completed your research, use what you have found and the information from the context and challenge to write your design specification. You need to include:

__ Required __ __ Desired __ __ Test __ I will test my finished app by...
 * My app has to...
 * My app should be...

=** Testing **= You need to plan how you will test your app and get feedback. State this for each specification point in a two or three sentences - for example, who you will show, what you will ask them when you have shown it, how you will record what they say about the app, how will you know if their feedback means you have met the design specification, what you will do with the information they give you.

=** Assessment Criteria **= Here are the assessment criteria for this unit.