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    Emergency Alerts Digital Signage

    How to Use Emergency Alerts with Digital Signage

    No one expects disaster, but there are steps you can take to ensure your students are safe if danger comes to your campus. Thousands of schools across the country use emergency alerts (commonly called Common Alerting Protocol, or CAP Alerts) to send messages to students and staff. Digital signage[…]

    Bootstrapping a Dream Financial Literacy Lab

    Bootstrapping a Dream Financial Literacy Lab

    Ryan Monoski visited Penn State’s financial literacy lab and had one thought: why can’t his high school kids have something that cool and educational too? Most people would say it’s because Penn State is a college and has lots of money; Monoski, a former stockbroker turned high school finance[…]

    25 Free Lesson Plan Resources for Teachers

    25 Free Lesson Plan Resources for Teachers

    Teachers and school administrators across the country are using digital signage to both enhance how students learn and improve how schools communicate their message to them. The examples below are just two of the hundreds of templates you can quickly add to your display to communicate fun learning[…]

    Teaching Stocks Through Edutainment

    Teaching Stocks Through Edutainment

    Financial Literacy Labs are preparing high school students across the country for both college and future careers. One of the best ways to teach students about finance and stocks is through edutainment. To help you get started, we’ve created a stock game and lesson plan (below) and compiled a list[…]

    Financial Words Your Students Should Know

    75 Financial Words Your Students Should Know

    Financial Literacy Labs have become more popular across high schools each year. Creating one on a budget is easier than you think! Here’s how.

    21 Digital Signage Templates for Schools

    21 Digital Signage Templates for Schools

    Digital signage sounds innovative! Who wouldn’t want something to visually communicate their message to students, faculty, and parents? But then you use it and it is just plain frustrating! It doesn’t take long for you to start screaming in frustration, “Why can’t this be easy to use--like[…]

    10 Free Tools You Can Use with Digital Signage

    10 Free Tools You Can Use with Digital Signage

    Digital signage lets you visually communicate your message with students, staff, and parents. If you are having trouble getting attention for your events and announcements, then digital signage is the perfect solution.

    Grant Money for Digital Signage

    7 Tips to Get Grant Money for Digital Signage

    There are millions of dollars waiting to be given to your school for digital signage! You can have the funding you need to wow parents, students and staff and you don’t have to spend a dime. Whats more, once you have digital signage up and running, you don’t have to spend more than a few minutes[…]

    4 Creative Ways to Get Funding for Digital Signage

    4 Creative Ways to Get Funding for Digital Signage

    In 1948, you could get a brand new B&W 16 inch TV for the bargain price of $795! By the end of the 20th century, you could get an RCA 36 inch color TV for only $1400! Flash-forward 20 years and you can get an HD 40 inch TV for less than $200 with the right bargain hunting. TV prices have fallen a[…]

    9 Actions That Should be on Your Cybersecurity Checklist

    9 Actions That Should be on Your Cybersecurity Checklist

    A high school student in Miami hacked into a teachers' computer to change his grade; in Montana, a district was shut down for three days after hackers sent parents and faculty threatening messages and demanded a bitcoin ransom--they were not alone: in 2018 alone, at least three other states have[…]

    Reasons You Need a Digital Menu Board

    5 Reasons You Need a Digital Menu Board

    Are you spending too much money updating your menus or printing posters about promotions you’re running? Maybe it’s been years since you even considered making a change to your menus. Are you struggling to retain customers and attract a new audience? Or do you simply work too hard keeping your menu[…]

    6 Strategies Every School IT Administrator Should Use To Create a Safer School

    6 Strategies Every School IT Administrator Should Use To Create a Safer School

    IT Administrators work behind the scenes to make sure a school has the technology infrastructure it needs to engage and teach students. Making this happen takes more than plugging in a network cable! The 6 strategies that follow will make sure that you are an effective campus IT administrator.