QR Code Project – Week 2

I’m now at the start of week two of a four week project to introduce the use of QR Codes into our Creative Studies department.

The iPod Touches arrived on Monday and it was straight down to getting them on the network.

As we don’t want the students to have to enter user credentials before they connect to our Windows 2008 / Win7 network we’ve created a specific ‘iPod’ user account, with restricted network permissions, to automatically connect to our 3Com wireless network.

This took about 10 minutes to and we then got to play with the Touches. I must admit the iPod Touch blows me away and in my humble opinion is the best handheld device for educational use on the market today.

Tuesday saw the start of content creation… Period 2 meant a visit to one of our workshops to start filming the first two videos – training videos for the pillar drill and fretsaw.

Using just a humble Flip cam the filming went without a hitch and the Head of Creative Studies was an absolute star and pulled off both videos first take without any mistakes, stalls or drying up. A stunning effort!

Back in the office I started encoding the avi’s from the Flip to h264 mp4s ready to be uploaded to my IIS box and tested out on the Touches.

This coming week I’ll be filming the other two videos then the fun of preparing the php pages and back end content system begins…

I really can’t wait to get this project live!!