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Lower Production Costs and Increase Student Involvement.
Scala Solutions: Education
High schools and universities always need to communicate with students, faculty, staff, and parents. Yet budgets are tight and where to spend money is not always obvious, especially in technology.
Administrators must invest in a solution that will not only be embraced by its users but also its audience and stand the test of time through employee turnover and student graduation. Until recently, most communication was split up by individual departments or student organizations. Now thanks to converging markets, educators have the chance to synthesize messages in at least three different venues and avoid costly overlap in the process.
Television can reach nearly anyone at any time. A single station can double as a public access outlet as well as event calendar. Another channel can deliver an ongoing series of messages like homework assignments and be ready for instant announcements in a weather-related emergency. Yet relying solely on video quickly becomes costly and too slow to edit.
Perhaps you also need the ability to target a specific visual message to a certain location, such as a building lobby, stadium, cafeteria, or auditorium. It may require continuous updates or even database-driven information that is only relevant at that particular place, at that exact time. Traditional character generators look dated which turn audiences off, and only allow content to be changed on-site with no additional inputs or outputs.
Scala has been pioneering these converging visual technologies for over 15 years. Our InfoChannel software suite can manage all of these displays -- community television, campus-wide information systems, and interactive kiosks -- together from a single location with one set of tools. From creating content to scheduling to distribution and playback, InfoChannel can handle everything in a single network. Plus, the entire system can be managed by any number of people, be it a single teacher or an entire classroom of students.
Whether or not you are creative, every Scala solution can easily be tailored to suit your needs. Aspiring graphic artists love InfoChannel Designer's intuitive interface and teacher's assistants are just as at home within Reporter, our template-based tool. Incorporate either into a class or an after-school club. Create an event calendar or bulletin board that seamlessly integrates with your existing station.
InfoChannel content -- even including interactive menus for kiosks -- can be created with minimal training and comes bundled with application-specific art libraries. Users can also directly import their own media from video, scanners, cameras, and the Internet. Then they can choose from hundreds of smooth eye-catching transitions that fade, zoom, fly, and twist in 3D... all from a simple point-and-click interface.
InfoChannel transforms television and flat panel monitors into truly dynamic digital signage, a rapidly updateable medium that is easy enough for anyone to manage. That's why educators and cable operators around the world have been using Scala software for years to create, distribute, and play back content on community access stations, kiosks, and information displays with a great look and lower production costs.
Case Study: Phoenixville Area High School (Education)
Enhanced by Scala's InfoChannel 3 software suite, a new curriculum was written to support live broadcasting of school events and community calendars. Students are now involved more than ever, both during the school day and in an after school studio club, making Phoenixville a model for nearby communities and an inspiration to many educators.
