A somewhat productive meeting. Micah was very helpful as he shared with us how to update the iOS on the iPods without having to use iTunes. To do so you can use xCode a free download that can be found here. You can register to become a developer and pay $99 a year, or just sign up, confirm your email address and after the confirmation scroll to bottom right of the verification screen and download xcode 3 for free or you can buy xcode 4 from the App store for 4.99. We were told this is a temporary solution and only a temporary solution. From what I have seen from Apple, don't get comfortable with it!
Please be advised, YOU WILL have to sync the content back to the iPod. As this virtually does a wipe of all settings and content. It formats the iPod and installs the new iOS.
The interface seems to be a mix between how the devices are viewed in iTunes with an iPhone configuration workflow. I haven't went through the steps yet but this is what I gathered from our brief introduction.
1) Run xCode
2) Click Organizer on top
3) Plug the cart in
4) select the iPod to restore
5) Click restore (name of button could be wrong, will update after I get to work)
6) Go to the next iPod/iPad click restore, while the other one is doing its thing.
7) Repeat steps until all are restored
This still may seem a lot but if you are like me this is going to save a tremendous amount of "babysitting", as you can click through 40 in a matter of 10 minutes, where as before it would take hours using iTunes because you have to wait for the first iPod/iPad to come back up before moving on to the next.
If you are ITRTs at RCPS reading this I will be training you on how to do this. Don't worry!
Thanks Apple, Inc. for sharing this invaluable tool so that we can get back to what we do best, and producing our product, educated students! :-)
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