As we have continued to grow the TrilbyTV community, the ability for us to work with other platforms has become an important part of our development approach.
A growing number of schools are now using Google’s G Suite set of applications and this gives us the opportunity to create stronger integration with the way the school works.
Continue reading → Integrating with Google
Digital signage is like any technology in that it needs ownership and ideas, otherwise its just a screen on the wall.
These are the words I used when delivering a TrilbyTV training session to teachers at Micklefield School this week.
Micklefield School have been part of the TrilbyTV sharing and showcasing community for two years now. They have one screen in their main corridor and one in their lunch hall. These screens are used to mainly promote pupils work which was our main feature focus when making TrilbyTV.
Continue reading → Technology with a purpose
We’ve visited well over 1,000 schools on our travels as technology trainers and we have certainly seen our fair share of school reception areas. This is the entrance point to the school, the place where visitors, parents and occasionally Ofsted inspectors, get their first impression.
When Plymouth College of Art were looking to upgrade their digital signage they found TrilbyTV to be the perfect fit.
On the requirements checklist were ease of use, simple set up and affordability, TrilbyTV ticked all of these says David Jones, Head of IT.
Continue reading → Switching on screens at Plymouth College of ArtA lot of the sites we visit on a daily basis purchased signage in a different era. A time where a screen was seen as a holding device. A display of sorts to give people ‘something to do’ while they sat in a waiting area. To cover all interests the screen would often be packed with several areas of content, a news ticker tape, a weather panel, maybe even a live news display from the BBC or Sky in a corner. The live news display often had its own ticker tape and weather info as well!
Sometimes a screen was bought with the idea that a receptionist or other member of staff would ‘update’ the information on it. Maybe welcoming a visitor or adding images of a recent event, but the software behind this ultimately got in the way of making that idea become a reality. The fall back for this was to resort to the same old process, pop someone else’s content on there just to make the screen appear as though it is doing something.
Celebrating our 2nd birthday since launching the #1 Digital signage made for education our exhibition stand looked fantastic as part of the larger Exertis Unlimited space at BETT.
We had three screens showcasing our full-screen content, such as our Twitter feeds which can now be coloured coded to match school and college branding with our new version 4.
Continue reading → BETT 2018 in review
Version 4 of TrilbyTV, released on 1st Feb, introduces some new features to TrilbyTV, including the much-requested ability to change colours of tweets and title screen elements.
The web app has been completely rebuilt with all of the new features. The iPad app will have similar functionality at release and lots of updates to come! If there is something you can’t do via the iPad app you use the web app which has also been optimised for tablets.
Continue reading → New features in TrilbyTV v4
