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 Loyd, Douglas (... on Mon, 05/19/2008 - 9:05am.

April, best of luck to you. Answers:

1. Some of our (Extron) touchpanels are mounted on the wall (mostly in seminar rooms). It doesn't seem to matter much to the professors. The touchpanels that are located at the lecterns are mounted next to the flatpanel displays and don't use up any extra space that way.

2. No experience yet with Crestron wireless touchpanels, but we are considering moving up to Crestron during our next major renovation and will be interested in others' experience as well.

3. I don't think you're crazy, except that movable devices can walk away more easily than hard-mounted. I don't think I would bother to make them movable.

Have a great weekend.

- Doug

Doug Loyd, Faculty Technical Advocate
University of Virginia School of Law
Phone: (434) 981-9560

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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?

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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