Just out of curiosity...

[Liam]

What do you have in school reception. At present we have a TV which links to our school website blog etc. Had a one lan system but it got old and become full time maintenance.

 

What do you all have in reception. I'm thinking...... Geeky.... Awesome..... Gimmicky.

 

Thanks

[Alkaline]

Ridiculously large expensive tv on a loop of some pictures and a large security guard.

[Jasbo]

We keep it low tech, with a large monitor, pc hidden In roof on the LAN, Vnc, a PowerPoint on loop and auto start, and timer plug to switch them both off and on.

 

We also have 3 other displays around school connected to some fee signage app, on the content pages we put qr codes to send people to our school web site / services pages - works pretty nice I think.

[sparkeh]

Big tv displaying... Content (can't remember!), electronic sign in system, er... Security stand with iPad in it for parents to pay stuff online.

[unixman_again]

One of these which we use to display text messages and jpg posters. The receptionists do the text messages (you can key them into the system) but I do the posters as converting an M$ Office file to a jpg is beyond them.

[Liam]

Where from and how much are these

[zebulunn]

We just have a TV w/embedded PC pointed at BBC News channel. Going to look at getting Xibo running at some point instead.

[unixman_again]

Where from and how much are these

We purchased our sign from Digital Signage - by Lobby Sign but I can't remember how much they cost. We actually have two, one in reception and one in a remote block and we are supposed to be getting another for our new building.

[hardtailstar]

Big scary office lady....

[mthomas08]

We use Xibo to link all the TV screens.

 

Soon all our TVs will have a wall mounted PC which is nice spec, last and look tidy instead of cables every where. I don't like a laptop sitting on the side, I hate cables hanging. If it doesn't look good enough for reception it doesn't look good enough for a classroom I say.

[Lmsgpm2012]

We have a 42" wall mounted TV running either videos or photos on a loop or notices when needed. We have a 50" touch screen tv on a trolley which has come out of our nursery ( because they now have a new wallmounted one) and one of the staff has suggested putting it into reception for visitors to use to sign into the school electronically. I'm all for electronic sign in but i can just imagine visitors typing their name and car reg.. etc into a 50" tv screen.

[rad]

This all day long (BBC if its blocked at school)

http://www.trendingcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/BBC-News.jpg

 

We did have the TV linked to a PC however no one bothered to updat it and it was on a loop of pictures for months.