Building Classroom AV Infrastructure That Adapts as Teaching Keeps Changing
Higher ed classrooms now support more teaching modalities than ever. Here’s how AV and IT infrastructure can keep pace.
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Thomas Telford Multi Academy Trust Transforms Classrooms with Avocor Interactive Displays
The Thomas Telford Multi Academy Trust (TTMAT), comprising five schools in the West Midlands, U.K., prioritizes a unique flat management structure, granting Headteachers full autonomy while fostering collaboration to drive educational standards. Committed to enhancing teaching and learning, TTMAT recently overhauled its classroom technology with Avocor displays to create a more engaging and effective educational environment Across […]
LG CreateBoards Enhance Teaching in Jamestown Schools
Jamestown, New York is investing in its youth and planning for the future by modernizing the Jamestown Public School district with new LG CreateBoard smart boards that deliver enhanced learning opportunities, increased engagement and direct relevance to students’ daily lives and skill sets. District officials and technology providers have outfitted every classroom across the district’s […]
Key Digital BYOD Education System is User-Friendly for Educators
As new decisions are made surrounding distance learning and hybrid classrooms, Key Digital offers its new take on BYOD 4K wireless presentation gateway devices for the education market. The new KD-BYOD4K for KDPlay is now available. Key Digital says its ease of use and powerful annotation tools makes this stand-alone unit the full solution for the future of […]
New Classroom Audio Enables Hybrid Learning at Duquesne University
Duquesne University recently outfitted more than 40 classrooms with Nureva HDL300 audio conferencing systems and an additional 32 systems have been ordered. SMARTSolution Technologies, an authorized Nureva dealer, supported the university in its search for an audio conferencing system to help students learn in a hybrid environment, where some students are in the classroom and others are participating in […]
NY Announces Nearly $100 Million in School Tech and Security Upgrades
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced the approval of 148 Smart Schools Investment Plans aimed at improving school security and reimagining teaching and learning for the 21st century with school tech. The approved plans, totaling $94 million, are part of the $2 billion Smart Schools Bond Act — a sweeping education technology initiative first […]
Campus IT: Do Your Buildings Suffer from These Common School Safety Issues?
Some schools will soon reopen in the fall — at whatever capacity they can in the wake of COVID-19 — yet many still suffer from alarmingly common school safety issues. Many school districts hire security consultants to do walkthroughs of their campuses to look for security risks. These assessments often consist of two parts: the physical assessment of each school […]
Motorola Safe Schools Solution Can Analyze Video & Voice Data
Motorola Solutions has announced Safe Schools, an end-to-end solution which uses video, data, voice, and analytics to increase student safety. According to the company, Safe Schools creates a secure environment from the moment a visitor enters a campus, including artificial intelligence video analytics to alert school officials of suspicious activity and seamless communication with local […]
New ASSA ABLOY Launches Explosion and Hurricane-Resistant Door
Access control manufacturer ASSA ABLOY releases its multi-solution door opening that protects against explosions, hurricanes, and fires. The Blast and Hurricane Resistant door and hardware solution was influenced by ASSA ABLOY’s tornado-resistance door and hardware, according to the company. It includes openings from CURRIES or Ceco Door and Corbin Russwin BL6600 Series or SARGENT BL7300 Series multi-point locks, with the new SARGENT and Corbin Russwin’s multi-point deadlocking systems factory […]
The FBI Warns Schools: Online Classrooms, Teleconferencing Apps Are Being Hijacked
With distance learning and videoconferencing on the rise, the FBI says it has received reports that video platforms are being hijacked (“Zoom-bombing”). Two schools in Massachusetts reported the following incidents: In late March 2020, a Massachusetts-based high school reported that while a teacher was conducting an online class using the teleconferencing software Zoom, an unidentified […]
