NEW MimioProjector Superhero Joins Forces with the League

Our team of Mimio interactive displays has super powers that can rescue a classroom from any educational archenemy! No matter what your foe may be – a budget that’s too small, bored students, or students who are reluctant to collaborate – the League of Interactivity will send the best superhero to the rescue. Now we are introducing our newest member!

No Limits to Classroom Collaboration with the Enhanced MimioMobile App.

The latest version of MimioStudio™ classroom software and the MimioMobile™ app lead the way in allowing every student in your classroom to collaborate on a lesson. The MimioMobile app now supports up to 50 mobile devices, whether they are Apple or Android. The new enhancements give teachers even more control so they can decide how best to facilitate the learning in the classroom. 

The Content Packs that your fellow educators put together for Mimio are always our top-rated downloads from mimioconnect.com. Since we know you love these resources, we have pulled together the following list of our most popular Content Packs. Take a look to see which ones will help you create fun and useful lessons.

Over the past year, Mimio created two informative guides to help educators with some of the challenges they currently face in their classrooms. Mimio has also documented the stories of some dynamic and creative educators who are using Mimio products. These case studies highlight how they have benefited from our hardware and software to facilitate engagement and instruction. If you missed any of these publications, you can download them now from the link below.

10 classroom resolutions to get your students engaged and energized in 2014.

Everyone feels the lull when they return from the holiday break. To help get your students revved up and ready to have fun, Mimio wants to share 10 great ideas that are easy to implement. These ideas come from some of your fellow educators, who know what really works in a classroom.

1. Friendly Competition: Use the Collaborate feature to play math games in which students race against each other to find the correct answer. For example, ask students to solve an equation, or to sort a series of shapes into their correct groups.
2. Students Got Talent: Have students write and record songs/raps/skits as a product from a content area, using the MimioView™ document camera. Then post their work on your website, or embed it into an INK file for the class to review.

Join us for the webinar Classroom Collaboration with Mimio.

Mimio is pleased to offer Collaborate to the Core, an excellent guide to a variety of techniques and suggestions for creating collaborative learning in your classrooms. In addition, the guide offers a number of engaging collaborative lessons, organized by grade levels K-2, 3-5, and 6-12 in the following subject areas: math, language arts, science, and social studies. All lessons meet the Common Core State Standards, include tips, and can be used with or without educational technology.

K-2 students will enjoy working in pairs to practice translating a written time to the face of a clock, and working in small groups to distinguish between short and long vowel sounds. You can check their understanding of the frog life cycle after dividing the class into groups tasked with reaching their own conclusions about the stages of the cycle. And they can break into small groups to practice recognizing the difference between a fact and an opinion, as they discuss sentences related to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Creating a collaborative environment in classrooms is a key method of empowering students to live and thrive in the real world. Discussion, cooperation, open-mindedness, a variety of viewpoints, higher-order thinking skills, different curricular areas, disagreement, and debate are all elements that help students learn how to collaborate with others and thus become better educated individuals.

But how do educators incorporate collaborative learning models into their instruction? Start by setting expectations for your students, clearly explaining the process, and following these five collaboration strategies.

The latest versions of the MimioMobile™ app and MimioStudio™ classroom software bring an exciting upgrade to one of my favorite tools: Collaborate. The newest version of the Collaborate feature, ready for release in September, allows the teacher to push a MimioStudio Notebook page, including an interactive page (oh yes….I said interactive) to the student’s device, where the student can annotate, sort, write, and interact with all of the tasks on that page. (Okay…all together….oooohhhh….aaaahhhh!) The work of the student is displayed on the whiteboard in real time, and the teacher can simultaneously assist students or bring a particular student’s work forward to full screen to use as an example. When the teacher ends the Collaborate session, the student’s work is automatically saved to the MimioStudio Notebook Gallery, where the teacher can open it. Each student’s work is now displayed on a separate page for easy sharing, teacher review, or assessment. And don’t let me forget to share this extra bit of amazing news: the MimioMobile app will now work on iPads, iPhones and Android tablets and phones.