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Rotman School of Management Engages Students, Community with Digital Signage

Rotman School of Management uses digital signage to better communicate campus messages and connect with students.

February 3, 2015 Jessica Kennedy Leave a Comment

Digital signage is a top technology that help schools interact with today’s college students. It provides multiple benefits in the higher education realm, from helping schools communicate messages in a more cost-effective manner, launch emergency notifications, provide wayfinding capabilities, and beyond. After its renovation, the Rotman School of Management took its digital signage to another level with massive signage installs. Since installing these digital signage solutions, the school has been able to display real-time financial information and customized content created by its media and events team.

5 Mistakes Colleges Make With Their Digital Signage Solutions

When it's time for your college to install digital signage, make sure it's done right.

February 2, 2015 Jessica Kennedy Leave a Comment

Digital signage is one of the hottest forms of technology used on college campuses across the country. Colleges use their digital signage solutions to boost their sports culture, provide wayfinding on campus, teach classes, and ultimately attract prospective students. However, digital signage gets tricky and can fail if colleges make major mistakes, including not knowing what style of digital signage to use, creating boring content, investing in a solution that doesn’t fit the space they want to install it in, not being careful with the equipment, and hiring cheap labor to do the job.

Leaving Mobile Device Management to the Students

One NJ school chooses to let students be device administrators in order to teach responsible use of technology.

January 29, 2015 Chrissy Winske Leave a Comment

This NJ school had a unique solution for mobile device management. They made students device administrators. We go inside Montclair Kimberley Academy’s 1:1 program for a closer look at the philosophy and the technology driving it all.

How to Make K-12 Assessments Fun

At TCEA 2015, two instructional technology teachers will share tools that help educators rethink how they deliver assessments in the digital age.

January 26, 2015 Chrissy Winske Leave a Comment

At TCEA 2015 “Reimagine Assessment In the Digital Age” explores how technology has changed our idea of assessment and why traditional pen and paper tests are on the way out.

Central Arizona College Invests in Crestron Gear, Mobile Furniture for Collaborative Classrooms

Central Arizona College developed collaborative classrooms to support BYOD and maintain instructors' familiarity with teaching methods.

January 22, 2015 Jessica Kennedy Leave a Comment

Central Arizona College was charged to craft collaborative rooms for students to bring their own devices while leaving instructors’ teaching undisturbed. The college answered the charge by investing in mobile furniture, Crestron AirMedia and Crestron Fusion RoomView technologies. Now, these classrooms enable students to move around and reconfigure the classroom, support students’ variety of devices, and maintain teaching familiarity and comfort for instructors.

How Migrating to Cloud Can Benefit K-12 Schools

We look at how implementing cloud services can help solve your budget challenges, while providing benefits inside and outside of the classroom.

January 21, 2015 Chrissy Winske Leave a Comment

For schools with limited resources, cloud services are great way to add technology without draining your budget. We explore the benefits of the cloud and how to prepare for migration.

History Museum Installs Corporate Boardroom Sound System

Listen Technologies Wireless Digital Conferencing System Chosen for Board Room at Natural History Museum of Utah

January 15, 2015 TD Staff Leave a Comment

When the Natural history Museum of Utah needed to update its corporate boardroom with a new wireless digital conferencing system, they chose Listen Technologies.

Learning from LAUSD’s Failed iPad Program

A federal report examines what went wrong for the L.A. district and the results make a clear case for the importance of planning.

January 14, 2015 Chrissy Winske Leave a Comment

See where LAUSD iPads’s program went wrong and how you can avoid the same mistakes.

Napa School Is a Model for Tech Integration In K-12

Students learn in a BYOD environment and have access to Promethean boards, Google Apps for Education, a cyber cafe and more.

January 13, 2015 Chrissy Winske Leave a Comment

New Technology High School in Napa, California has always been ahead of it’s time when it comes to technology integration. We take a look at what makes this innovative public school tick.

5 Tips to Keeping Your College’s BYOD Control in Check

Struggles to keep BYOD usage under control are common in colleges. Here are 5 ways your college can stay on track.

January 12, 2015 Jessica Kennedy Leave a Comment

BYOD is a common expectation of today’s college students. But what happens when students abuse it, or when a professor or administrator loses control of what students do on the network? Xirrus’s Bruce Miller says that this is a common struggle in today’s higher education institutions, and that colleges should consider keeping network access under control. Five major ways colleges can keep their BYOD access in check is by covering use cases, deciding how much control a class needs, bringing in a third party, getting granular with control and upping the in-class engagement.