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Author Archives: Bev Barnett

New, Lower App Store Price for Doceri

We’re in the beta testing phase of the newest Doceri update, and we can’t wait for everyone to see all the new features! We’ve added audio/video screencasting, new drawing tools, and a lots of conveniences for presenters and instructors. With the new update, due out before the end of May, sales of Doceri will go through [...]

Doceri and the Flipped Classroom: Audio/video screencasting coming this Spring

The popularity of the Kahn Academy educational video library has moved the concept of the flipped classroom to the forefront of educational technology discussion over the past year. The resulting paradigm shift moves direct learning from the classroom to the student’s computer – outside of class – via videos that cover the basic lesson material. [...]

Like Doceri, new iBook Author puts teachers in control of creating content

Here’s our take on today’s Apple announcement:  It puts teachers in the driver’s seat to create and share content with their students and each other. The content creation trend is moving rapidly into the education realm, and it’s about time. Great teachers create great teaching resources for their classes, and have been doing so for years, from the [...]

Ocoee Middle Replaces Slates, Electronic Whiteboards, with Doceri

iPads are showing up in schools all over the world and their potential in the learning environment is so clear – but wading through the plethora of available applications can seem daunting. Sometimes seeing a new approach in use is all it takes – and this month during the Florida Educational Technology Conference in Orlando [...]

Nik Peachy: Could Doceri be the IWB (Interactive White Board) Killer?

Speaker, blogger, learning technology consultant and teacher trainer Nik Peachy recently reviewed Doceri. Read about his thoughts about Doceri as the interactive whiteboard killer on Nik’s Quickshout blog: Could Doceri be the IWB Killer? This thought has been coming up more and more lately. We’ve seen the buzz on Twitter, heard it from our customers, and [...]

Doceri at the BETT Show in London January 11-14

SP Controls brings its revolutionary Doceri Software Suite to the BETT Show in London, Stand SN56, 11-14 January, 2012. Doceri combines interactive whiteboard functionality with audiovisual control – all from the Apple iPad. AV Control manufacturer SP Controls has revolutionized classroom presentation and control technology with its new Doceri suite of products. Using the iPad [...]

Northern Arizona University’s W.A. Franke College of Business, with a Doceri Overview

    Paul Wagner, IT Director for The W. A. Franke College of Business, responds to requests from professors at the college who really wanted to use iPads in their classrooms. His research led him to Doceri, and this overview it’s functions and advantages for interactive teaching.

SP Controls’ Bob Toleno Answers: How Do You Doceri?

Like Lisa, I also was not terribly thrilled with the assignment to create my own Doceri drawing. All of the drawings that others had created were very artistic, or at least demonstrated good handwriting, neither of which are strong suits for me. I got married last month, though, and found during wedding preparations a few times that I really needed to get hand-drawn information into a document that I could email or print, and Doceri was the perfect tool for the job. 

SP Controls’ Lisa Roberts Answers: How Do You Doceri?

About a month after Doceri was launched, the Doceri chief architect asked all the SP Controls employees to create a Doceri drawing that we could share with our users. Though I love the creative possibilities that Doceri opens for our users, I was not thrilled about this assignment. I am NOT an artist, I don’t think of myself as very creative, and I’m certainly not a mathematician. Then something sparked my interest…

Wayland High School 1:1 iPad Pilot includes Doceri for Interactive Whiteboarding

Wayland High School in Wayland Mass. is well underway with a Pilot 1:1 iPad Initiative. Working with the school’s technology department, Ed Dehoratius is spearheading the pilot. One section of the College English4 classes he teaches will be using the iPads while the other section continues without the iPads. According to DeHoratius’ blog, this means “a control [...]