What first impressed me about the company was the speed of their response. 16) to learn more about it and perhaps get support for a demo for my workshop group. I liked the capabilities and the cost (a price/performance combination I refer to as a value buy) enough to contact the folks at Doceri (Mar. The cost for the Doceri software? Just $50. You can view, navigate and annotate applications running on the desktop of the computer using the iPad, similar to an interactive whiteboard (IWB) with a wireless slate such as a SMART Board or Promethean board. The two work together to make the iPad a remote screen and control surface for the computer connected to a projector. One resides on your computer, Windows or Mac, and the other is a free iPad app called Doceri Remote.
I was leading a workshop for a group of educators at the end of March on using the iPad as a display device, so I downloaded the trial version of Doceri. Though I’d heard about Doceri before, I was intrigued by Sam’s description and several of the comments that followed.
On March 15, Sam wrote about a software package called Doceri and how it might be used as an inexpensive substitute for an interactive whiteboard system. Not free.įree app with really basic structure, which makes it easy to use for younger kids.Sam Gliksman’s iPads in Education Ning is one of the best sites on the web for thoughtful commentary and discussion on using the iPad for teaching and learning.
They promote that the app is good at working together with pdf (which mean that you can collaborate with many other programs (since many computer programs can produce a pdf nowadays). Like many of the other apps it´s ll about recording what´s on the screen. You publish your recordings at wher eyou also can look at others recordings (more than 15 000 recordings). Another app from the creators of explain everything.Īnother interactive whiteboard. You can record speech as well.Īllow you to record your actions when you´re visiting a website, so you can create guides for your students. The app is free, but there is a watermark that you can remove from an in app-purchase.
If you install Doceri desktop you can use PC/Mac as well as the app. Requires registration.Īnother digital whiteboard app. You can comment on others recording (after they share the recording) by writing text or by recording videocomments. There are more settings which means that you can do more stuff in Explain everything than you can do in Educreations. This app isn´t free, but it has a lot of different uses, so if you buy it you´ll probably end up using it a lot.Īn app that helps digital collaborative work. Explain everything can handle more formats than Educreations when you want to import material (for instance filmclips) to work with. The app ois easy to use.Īn interactive whiteboard that reminds of Educreations. You can draw using 10 different colors and add sounds. You can use a white, aligned, hatched, coordinate system or a picture as background. I like this app.Īn free interactive whiteboard app that can be used to record whats on the screen (inside the app). The free version is perfect to test the app before unlocking the premiumversion. This means that you get instant feedback and can control if the students understand what you´re talking about. When the students interact you as a teacher will get stats on your screen. On your screen you´ll see the current slide as well as miniatures of the other slides.
When you as a teacher activate the presentation you generate a code that the students use to enter. After this you can add surveys, examinations, filmclips and elements where the students are supposed to draw on pictures. Nearpod converts the pdf to a peresentation. The teacher uploads an presentation (as a pdf most tools today can create a pdf from you presentation). I do not know which of them that are available for android.Ĭan be used on PC/Mac as well as the app. The following apps are available for iPad. I´d advice you to let the students make recordings that can be used for other students. Some of them can be used for flipping the classroom. This part of ICT in school will focus on apps that help the learning to become visible. To develop yourself and your education I´d say there is more value from using open apps more, since you and your students will find new ways to use that app. There is nothing that says that one is better or worse than the other kind since it all depends on what you want to do. The other kind of apps (open apps) is useful for many different things. The first ones are those that can do one thing, for instance a calculator (the app myscript calculator is one that you must test if you haven´t done that already), it´s good at what it does, but it doesn´t do anything else. When you work with apps in education there are two different kind of apps.