QRizing the University

Recently we've been involved in a project to help the students know the timetables of the classrooms in situ and other info on other university services. We decided to put a QR code for each item (classroom, library, secretary, service, etc.) with and url encoded. This url redirects the petition to a proxy web application that  depending on the type of the item shows a mobile adapted web site. For example, if a student scans a QR code placed in a classroom, the web shown will display the timetable of that classroom. Another example could be scanning the QR code of the university restaurant. It could display the timetable and the menu for that day. This method can be applied to many purposes and it's easy to generate QR codes and put them in whatever you want.

Joan Molina

IT Developer

Joan Molina

joan@uic.es Ext. 4403 Blog: Unobtrusive Javascript Applications

«I've been working for the web since 1995, when Mosaic was on stage. Since then, It's been a great experience to have undertaken the development of the complete academic and economic management information system (MIS) of our university with open source technology. I also like making play-dough figures tosoothe the spirit. »

Carles Rius

IT Developer

Carles Rius

crius@uic.es 

«My professional background has always been related to education and innovation. In the past I worked as an engineer in a public university research group but also in private multimedia R+D departments. I’m an enthusiastic of the new technologies and how they can improve my personal and professional environment. Apart from this, I like playing the violin and the guitar, collecting old and rare books and jogging or doing other fitness stuff.»

Groupware with Google

Analysis of different collaborative software. The project is conceived to help people involved in a common task achieve their goals in a collaborative way using online tools. We'll test some  Google Tools for a Groupware solution.

Google forms

Google Forms is a tool contained in google docs. It can help you easily gather information from a large number of people without having to send and receive multiple emails. 

With Google Forms you can create a form and keep track of the answers. All the answers are added to the results spreadsheet.

Interactive data visualizations

In this project we analyze more convenient ways to transmit a message effectively through non conventional data representations. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years. Mind Maps, Tree maps, Hyper Trees, and other will be examined to exploit its practical usefulness. View Demo.

Add voice to a web page

VozMe is an utility you can add to your browser that reads any selected text in a web page aloud. You can select male or female voice. The installation of this utility (technically called bookmarklet) requires one step: drag the male or female link to your browser bookmark bar.

The most amazing thing is that this service has a gadget for iGoogle, even a plugin for WordPress so that our users can listen to our posts. It also includes an API for use in our websites and convert text into voice.

http://vozme.com/bookmarklet.php?lang=en