DBHS campus goes digital
August 26, 2015
Fliers have always been a common staple on the Diamond Bar High School campus, and so has the litter that came along with it. But for the past few weeks, students who have looked at the newly-installed school kiosks have seen announcements of school events and video advertisements posted on the touch-screen. Students can use the kiosks to advertise for their clubs and campaigns as the school transitions and learns more about the kiosks.
The kiosks were announced by former Principal Catherine Real in an e-mail to school staff. The e-mail stated that these kiosks would be used to make the school environmentally friendly, stating that they would be an effective way to reduce the number of campus fliers.
“I hope it’ll be used to save paper,” senior Anabelle Cheng said. “So if we still have flyers around school everywhere, that would be a waste.”
The company Skool Live partnered with DBHS to install these kiosks at school after school officials first saw them used in Mater Dei High School.
“I think it has great potential to help us reduce a lot of wasted paper because there are always fliers up on campus during the school year,” APES teacher and Instruction Dean David Hong said.
Two kiosks were installed on Aug. 26. One is next to the career center and the library, and the other is placed near the front entrance of school.
Students interested in using the kiosks to advertise their clubs or extracurricular activities will have to wait until next month when Randy Thomas and Activities Director Janna Van Horn will explain the protocol to sign up.
DB Student
Sep 21, 2015 at 4:26 pm
Yes! I totally agree Kohei. The kiosks are kind of useless as far as I’ve seen.
Kohei Obata
Aug 28, 2015 at 10:42 pm
Honestly it sound great and it looks cool but saying that it will replace paper flyers is a bad idea. People aren’t going to stop and wait for all the announcements to come up. Like seriously paper flyers are a better way to get information around the school because they are simple and people actually read them because it’s short and straight to the point. It’s just like the electric billboard in front of our school people can’t see everything and they may see an announcement for a second and it may change right away. They aren’t going to wait to see what that announcement was. I think this is a good tool but it isn’t the best idea. Replacing flyers with this is stupid. Why doesn’t the school just put a reasonable limit to how many flyers you’re allowed to print.