MIT App Inventor Classic RIP (Jan. 2012 - Jul. 2015). Today, July 15, 2015, we’re shutting down MIT App Inventor Classic. It’s been a great run. Even at the end, the system has been hosting 3000 active users a week. That’s down from 6500 in May, and vastly down from the peak of 30,000 active users a week in January 2014, when we first began encouraging people to move to App Inventor 2.
The 1st International Conference on Mobile Learning and Computational Thinking Education, based on App Inventor was held from June 13th to June 15th, 2015, in Guangzhou, China.
Members of the Mobile CSP team traveled to Philadelphia on Sunday, June 28th, to host a workshop at ISTE 2015 (International Society for Technology in Education) on building socially useful apps in App Inventor. The workshop was attended by 30+ teachers, all of whom seemed to go away happy.
It’s exceedingly gratifying to learn that App Inventor has been honored with a 2015 Classics Award, presented by MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) Editorial and Professional Development Services.
On November 22, the 2014 China National App Inventor Contest for High/Middle School Students, which kicked off last June, held its final round competition at the Google office in Shanghai.
Here is a report by Kathy Deng of Google University Relations Education, China:
