The Best $30 I Have Spent in the Last 5 Years

The best $30 I have spent in the last 5 years was on Doceri, a software program that enhances your presentation skills. When paired with the Doceri iPad app, anything that it is on my computer screen mirrors to my iPad. (Picture this as the opposite of Apple TV.) This includes documents, spread sheets, apps, web sites, etc. Once I have mirroring set up, I become untethered from the podium and can move freely around the room. Not only can I control my presentation from afar, but I can mark on anything I am showing. I really love this  for real-time annotation on web sites! 

Here are just a few of the things you can do with Doceri. 

• Control your computer from anywhere in the room
• Control and annotate over a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation
• Create a hand-written lesson in advance and play it back for your class
• Use your tablet as a live whiteboard projected for the class to see
• Hand your tablet to participants and have them annotate the lesson from their seat
• Record a lesson or lecture live as you give it and post it on your site

For more tech tips, check out Caffeinated Learning: How to Design and Conduct Rich, Robust Professional Training. 

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