Ideas for Digital Signage Content

[titch]

This thread is to share ideas about digital signage content and ideas. Share your screenshots of what you have done and how you did it. Would be good to try and keep the thread tidy so it can be used as reference? Edited January 31, 2013 by titch

[titch]

 

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Display Software: Xibo

 

Page with an embedded Google calendar (agenda mode), news rss feed, BBC weather "screenshot" and RSS ticker of our twitter feed at bottom. Background is a picture of our school in bloom.

[titch]

 

dISPLAY sOFTWARE: Xibo

 

Page with an embedded Google calendar (agenda mode), BBC Newsround "screenshot of part of page". RSS scrolling at side. Background made of boxes.

[titch]

 

Software: Xibo

 

National Geographic Photo of the day. With school twitter rss and Google calendar embedded. Background is the as newsround background. The text about the picture is pulled from the RSS of the national Geographic.

[titch]

 

Software: Xibo

 

Webcams showing Santas Grotto in Lapland and also the outside of somewhere in Lapland. Countdown to Christmas + Twitter feed runs along the train track at the bottom. Think I pinched the background off here so thanks to whoever originally posted it.

Edited January 31, 2013 by titch

[titch]

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Software: Xibo

 

General embedded google calender with twitter feed at bottom. Would love to make the font size larger but not sure if this is possible.

[fiza]

@titch - Do you make your own layout templates? I havent used XIBO for a while but gonna look at it again for my new school. Last time I just picked a template from the template exchange site. This time Id like to attempt to create my own but not sure how easy it is.

[glennda]

@titch - Do you make your own layout templates? I havent used XIBO for a while but gonna look at it again for my new school. Last time I just picked a template from the template exchange site. This time Id like to attempt to create my own but not sure how easy it is.

 

It is just a case of creating an image at the correct dimensions

[fiza]

It is just a case of creating an image at the correct dimensions

 

Was never very good at art! I have good ideas but no skill!

[glennda]

Was never very good at art! I have good ideas but no skill!

 

neither am i!! In principle its fairly easy to do, in practice not!!

 

Run a competition with the kids! Its how my old school used to put photo's up each year! They had a photocompetition and the top 10/15 won prizes and had their picture framed and put up!

[gpjt]

Software: Signagelive

 

PE Dept

 

Main School

[InterwebsGuy]

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Software: Xibo

 

National Geographic Photo of the day. With school twitter rss and Google calendar embedded. Background is the as newsround background. The text about the picture is pulled from the RSS of the national Geographic.

 

How did you get the larger photo from Nat Geo's RSS feed?

Curious, I like this idea.

[titch]

@titch - Do you make your own layout templates? I havent used XIBO for a while but gonna look at it again for my new school. Last time I just picked a template from the template exchange site. This time Id like to attempt to create my own but not sure how easy it is.

 

Yep. Just find the resolution of your screen then create a background in your favorite picture editor. Save as JPEG then upload to zibo as a background. Have attached all my backgrounds.Backgrounds.zip

[titch]

Software: Signagelive

 

PE Dept

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Main School

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Love the clean look. Whats the video stream thats playing?

[titch]

How did you get the larger photo from Nat Geo's RSS feed?

Curious, I like this idea.

 

Only the text not the picture is from RSS feed. I used this bit og code to embed the page I wanted with the bit off the edges of the page cut off

 

"http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/sport/">

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[InterwebsGuy]

Only the text not the picture is from RSS feed. I used this bit og code to embed the page I wanted with the bit off the edges of the page cut off

Seriously, why did I never think of that?

Thank you!

[titch]

No worries. I didn't create the code though. Just found it on the net and adjusted it

[Love_Sausage]

Great stuff, thank for the code. Can I ask where the RSS feed is? Can't find it!

 

Edit: Never mind, found it! http://feeds.nationalgeographic.com/ng/photography/photo-of-the-day/

Edited February 1, 2013 by Love_Sausage

[gpjt]

Love the clean look. Whats the video stream thats playing?

 

Thanks.

 

The main area in the centre is a playlist that has our daily content. Any requests from staff for example picture,videos etc go here. They also have some access to the ticker feed on the bottom.

[Love_Sausage]

Looks nice, but it's not only prohibitively expensive for education but also very US-focused. You'll find very little that goes on in here for commercial use, we're (almost) all based in UK non-profit educational workplaces. Edited February 1, 2013 by Love_Sausage