May 02 2008
Kiosk Technology
LG sent me this the other day, and asked “any ideas? I had thought that we might use it for real in the MS Office in view of SH coming over to the twisted dark side…..”
So, this lead me to think about how we could achieve this. The Hardware side of things is easy, though we’ll have to get a Touch Screen from somewhere. How best do we get our students to come up with a solution to this. The biggest issue is making it stable, and easy to restart in the possible event of a crash or freeze.
My first thoughts were these:
There are 3 ways that come to mind that this could be done.
- PowerPoint based application – probably a bit flaky
- Web page shown in Kiosk mode – better option + easy to set up
- Flash based using “Swish” or Adobe Flash (if it can be accessed). Swish is on the College Computers and I have flash on my Macbook. Also very easy to run as a Kiosk style appliance.
Yes, I think we could put one in MS. Would be a good demonstration tool of what we are about, using Technology created by our students in a “real world” situation.
How would you do it? What other options can you come up with? Lets see where this discussion can get us?
