Unit 6
MAD-LEARN 2021
Mobile App Development

Discovery
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https://mad-learn.com/

Steps to a Mobile App using MAD-Learn Software

​Part 1: Login, Index Card Layout, and Outline
STEP 1. LOGIN. Get your Login Name and Password from your EMAIL.  Please do not bother Ms. Lembach for your password. Go look again in your emails.

To get to MAD-Learn, visit Clever and scroll down to "DISCOVERY -- Mobile App Development.  Find "MAD-Learn Mobile App Dev. icon and sign in. 

Save your login and Bookmark this page so you won't need to go to CLEVER to get here again. CHECK YOUR EMAILS FOR YOUR LOGIN INFORMATION.
STEP 2. GRID (Index Card) Layout (virtual index cards or real index cards). Write on an index card, the name of every column title on Ms. Lembach's grid page.  Also write the menus in bold below, and include Miss Lembach's 26 Content items on an index card.  Keep your index cards someplace safe after you're done with this outline.  
  1. Each topic or number you have needs one index card, or 1/6 of a sheet of notebook paper. (This is about the size of an index card). You will take each column and write an index card. 
  2. Write an index card for "Landing Page Main Menu"  This will eventually be your main menu.
  3. Then on a large space, lay out all your cards.  Organize them into 4 or 5 clusters according to your logic.  Snap a picture of the layout of your cards.  You will use this in your app. Go ahead and upload the picture to your Chromebook account.  
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Ms. Lembach's List of Items. There are about 26 of them. You may have fewer items. You also might have a few more items, if you have interesting information about your animal.
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Real Index cards laid out into piles, organized into categories. Your categories may be a little different than other kids.' This organization will become your menus and submenus.
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A student's "virtual" Index cards. These are copied and pasted line-items from Ms. Lembach's List. Each item gets its own Index card, The Index cards are sorted into logical categories. Each person's categories might be a little different than another kid's list.
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I grouped the cards and circled them with colors, making these my menus. I have one main menu (in pink) with 5 "buttons". Each button is my next sub-menu (read, yellow, green, blue, teal colors). Each index card in the sub-menu represents information that I will organize at a later date. Some of it will make sense to go on one longer slide. Other information will make sense to be grouped in some other way. Think of the user experience. How do you think they will want to experience your information?
STEP 3. OUTLINE.  You will create an outline FRAME in Google Docs.  Use this template (LINK) as a starting point.  

​This is where you will type out your information. Right now, just create the FRAME.  You will fill it in later. Everything on your App must be typed to get it into the mobile app. It is easier to type on a platform like Google Pages than it is to type on the MAD-Learn Platform. You have spell checker for one on Google.   

On your index card layout, notice how many clusters you have. You should have between 3 to 5 clusters of the by the numbers categories.

 The Purple words below will become menus, buttons and sub-menus.
  1. Landing Page Main Menu
    1. Menu By the Numbers sub-menu   (These are your clusters of index cards. If you have more than 3, that is fine.)
      1. Body Numbers Menu ​
      2. Quantity Numbers Menu
      3. Dates Numbers Menu 
    2. Images 
    3. Videos 
    4. Choose Your Own Adventure Code Story More info to come on this feature.
    5. Collaboration Map You will link to the Collaborative Map 
    6. About Menu
      1. About the Author 
      2. About the App 
      3. Collaborative Umbrella App You will link to the Collaborative App
      4. Collaborative Umbrella Website Link You will link to the Collaborative Website Link

STEP 4. MAD-Learn Mind Map

Create your Mind Map in MAD-Learn. You need your LANDING PAGE and your Main Menus. You will have between 4 and 8 Main Menus.


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If you missed Ms. Miller's LIVE Instruction on creating your Mind Map, watch the Video to the Right.--->
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Where it says "Click Here +" is your "App Name." For the Discovery students, this is your animal's name. Each Sub-topic A, B, C, D, E is going to be a sub-menu or a content page. Whether or not it is a sub-menu or a content page depends on your app design. You can also think of this as your non-linear outline.
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This mind map has 4 menu buttons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Then, each Menu or button will have 3 months off of each one.
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Manatee has 7 main menus. By the Numbers, Non-Number Things, About, Vocabulary, Maps, CYOA, and Media.
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Narwhal has 4 main menus. Number Things, General, About, and Media.

​STEP 5. Watch a few more MAD-Learn videos below.

MAD-learn Tour (3:01)   
     We already did a Mind Map.
        We are NOT doing IDEAS.
 
MAD-learn Dashboard Tour for Students (1:28)
​Guide to MAD-store (2:25)  and Preview Codes
Mind Maps and Information Gathering Tips

STEP 6. Tech Specs Sheet & Outline. (OPTIONAL)

  1. Download and Define your Technical Specifications on your Tech Specs. (TECH SPECS  LINK ). Focus on downloading the sheet for now and you will customize it later, after you have a handle on the basics.   
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