Lectern/Touchpanel question

Submitted by April Barton on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 12:50pm.

We are building a new law school building, and along with it, new smart lecterns for all of our classrooms. We had initially planned to build the Crestron/AMX touchpanel into our smart lectern, but are now considering mounting the touchpanel on the wall. In particular, Crestron offers a wireless touchpanel that can live on the wall, but can also be carried over to the lectern if a professor wants to have access to it during class.

The wall mounted option is attractive to us because it frees up valuable lectern real estate. We feel that most professors will adjust the lights, audio, media input etc, before class and thus would not need access to the touchpanel during class. However, I worry that having the touchpanel in one location (wall) and the computer in another (lectern) might not be wise.

My questions are:

1. Do any of you have wall mounted touchpanels rather than lectern installed touchpanels, and if so, how have these worked out for you?

2. Does anyone have experience with the Crestron wireless touchpanels?

3. Do any of you think we are making a dire mistake by considering putting the touchpanel on the wall rather than built into the lectern?

I greatly appreciate any input on this.

Best,
April

April Mara Barton
Assistant Dean for Academic Computing
Villanova University School of Law
299 North Spring Mill Rd.
Villanova, PA 19085
610-519-5201

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RE: Lectern/Touchpanel question
Submitted by jsouthard on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 1:16pm.

April,

We are New York Law School are also in the midst of building an entire
new physical campus. I know my colleague - Joe Compagno - will reach
out to you, but my brief response below.

John Southard - CTO

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Subject: [teknoids] Lectern/Touchpanel question

We are building a new law school building, and along with it, new smart
lecterns for all of our classrooms. We had initially planned to build
the Crestron/AMX touchpanel into our smart lectern, but are now
considering mounting the touchpanel on the wall. In particular,
Crestron offers a wireless touchpanel that can live on the wall, but can
also be carried over to the lectern if a professor wants to have access
to it during class.

The wall mounted option is attractive to us because it frees up valuable
lectern real estate. We feel that most professors will adjust the
lights, audio, media input etc, before class and thus would not need
access to the touchpanel during class. However, I worry that having the
touchpanel in one location (wall) and the computer in another (lectern)
might not be wise.

My questions are:

1. Do any of you have wall mounted touchpanels rather than lectern
installed touchpanels, and if so, how have these worked out for you? We
are planning both, a wall-mounted one for basic BMS functions and one at
the instructor station more optimized for classroom technology control.

2. Does anyone have experience with the Crestron wireless touchpanels?
We've seen and touched them and will soon be programming them.

3. Do any of you think we are making a dire mistake by considering
putting the touchpanel on the wall rather than built into the lectern?
Putting it on the wall accounts for faculty who wander, while having it
at the Podia accounts for those who like to stay in one location. We
are planning for both.

I greatly appreciate any input on this. Joe Compagno will reach out to
you and get you any other information.

Best,
April

April Mara Barton
Assistant Dean for Academic Computing
Villanova University School of Law
299 North Spring Mill Rd.
Villanova, PA 19085
610-519-5201

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