SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA and UNIVERSITY PARK, PA — (Marketwire) — 03/27/13 — SP Controls together with Pennsylvania State University today announced that Penn State Instructional Technology Services has adopted a 1,000-seat, university-wide Doceri Desktop education site license for use by its faculty. The software suite provides mobile, remote control of classroom podium computers as well as sophisticated whiteboard annotation and screencasting via an iPad.
After a successful pilot program that began last summer, Doceri Desktop is currently installed in 314 classrooms across 12 Penn State campuses, and is offered as a supported service to all Information Technology Services (ITS) managed classroom computers. Other campuses not managed through ITS may opt to purchase licenses at a discounted rate through the ITS purchasing department.
More than 40 instructors from a diverse range of instructional fields including chemistry, mathematics, engineering, English, theatre, nursing, and criminal justice took part in the Doceri pilot. Instructors are using the to access and remotely control presentations and other class materials on the podium computer. Many also use the to create flipped classroom screencast videos for inversed classroom instruction.
“We were looking for an affordable means by which instructors could access programs and annotate their presentations from a mobile device that worked with our existing network infrastructure,” said Brian Young, instructional designer for Penn State ITS. “After evaluating a half a dozen options, Doceri was the only whiteboard annotation and remote desktop control software that gave us the confidence to pursue university-wide deployment.”
In February 2011, South San Francisco-based SP Controls was the first to introduce an iPad-based interactive whiteboard and remote desktop control app for teachers and business presenters: Doceri. Connecting Doceri on the iPad either with AppleTV or with a host Mac or PC and projector via WIFI, teachers and presenters can control and project any file or program resident on the computer via the iPad, annotate over presentations, images, PDFs and other files and save these annotated presentations for editing and later use. Download Doceri free on the iTunes App Store. Find more information and download a free trial of Doceri Desktop for Mac or PC at .
Founded in 1995, SP Controls has revolutionized audiovisual control technology for fifteen years with its innovative, easy-to-use, and inexpensive products for classrooms and conference rooms. SP Controls is located in South San Francisco, Calif. Contact the company toll free 867-367-8444 or visit us on the Web at .
Bev Barnett
Zebra Public Relations
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Derick Jason Burns
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