Sunday, December 16, 2007

Re: Displays in School Foyers

Also check out AxisTV - http://www.visix.com/products/axistv/index.htm=20

Sounds similar to Aavelin.

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Shabbi Luthra
Director of Technology
American School of Bombay
Mumbai, India
www.asbindia.org


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From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Arvind Grover
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 8:44 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Displays in School Foyers

Chris, we use an expensive, but decent product by Aavelin
(http://tinyurl.com/2rfwfa). There is a video server behind each plasma
screen and using a PC and the Aavelin software you can set up what you
want to appear on the screen; the software connects to the video server
over the network (and can be accessed remotely if needed). It basically
works like Powerpoint but has options for news and weather feeds and
video depending on which product you buy.

We like it because we don't need a lot of support to run it. You can
certainly do it for cheaper stringing together different things from
Powerpoint to Filemaker Slideshows to Keynote, etc.

Happy to answer questions off or on list,
arvind

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arvind s grover
Director of Technology
The Hewitt School
45 East 75th St
New York, NY 10021
T. (212) 994-2613
F. (212) 639-9366
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-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Smith
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:12 AM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Displays in School Foyers

I've recently received the following request from a school ...

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"Our school is on three campuses .... in the foyer area of each we want
to
put plasma screens displaying a variety of pieces of information for
children and parents.=20
What I have in mind is something like a CNN or Sky News screen with
perhaps
three or four different things going on together on the screen."

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Anyone have any hardware or software solutions that you've seen working
in
schools or tried yourselves?

I intend to make them aware of the online websites that now allow a
school
to run a TV or Radio station ... (lists on Shambles) ... but I don't
think I
have a split screen (LAN) solution ...=20

Appreciated ...=20

Many thanks

Chris
ePortfolio www.shambles.net/csmith
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Chris Smith : email: csmith@csmith.info=20
Based in Thailand, working across S.E.Asia
The Education Project Asia www.shambles.net

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Support for ICT across the Curriculum (consultancy)=20
'It's out there somewhere, the trick is finding it'
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