You must have seen ticker tapes many times in your life. In the business shows and stock market shows there is a serious of flashy names and numbers continuously scrolling on a vertical screen continuously and endlessly? The vertical screen is the ticker tape. The name comes from the ticker sound that the original manually operated orienting machine used to make.
In the beginning days there used to paper tickers and printing machines. A large set of data was printed on the paper tickers. Eventually, with the advancement of technology, the paper tickers were replaced by digital ticker tape. It is as popular as before, if not more.
Although digital ticker tapes are more commonly seen in business schools, stock broker’s offices, Wall Street company offices and in sports events as well, there are other places including education hubs, where ticker tapes can find a place.
Digital ticker tape is used to display some information repeatedly. It can be very useful if you want to implant some ideology, thought, morals or views into a young student’s minds. Ticker tapes can also be used to display announcements in education hubs as well, keeping students informed about their activities and schedules.
Ticker tapes can be used for motivation and regular updates as well. The main reason of having ticker tapes in stock broker’s offices is to keep everyone updated about the stock valuation and motivate them by providing them a very professional work environment.
Similarly, in education hubs, these led ticker board can be used to motivate students. It can serve as a constant reminder and make everyone give their best.
The biggest advantage of installing led ticker board is that they are very flexible. These are available in various shapes and sizes. It is easy to put them together and install them on the wall. Due to the flexibility in terms of size, they can be put around corners and cover all walls of a room as well.
The led ticker signs can be especially helpful in seminar halls and auditoriums. If there are multiple events going on, it can be easily displayed here. Also, during events, the ticker boards can be used as a subtitle screen to display in writing whatever the speaker is saying.
It is easy to operate these ticker tapes digitally. A simple computer feed can decide what text to be displayed on the board, what would be the text formatting and what would be the speed. It is possible to give real time feed to ticker tapes as well.
Additionally, led ticker signs can be used to display news as well. One of the most prominent of ticker boards is the news ticker in One Times Square in New York. A similar concept can be applied to ticker tapes in education hubs as well.
Ticker tapes are inexpensive, easy to shop for and more often than not, a one-time investment. Introducing the digitally operated ticker tapes in education hubs can improve the overall quality of education.