Mimio’s new webinars highlight such key topics as collaboration, effective lesson design, and the benefits of an online community.

Mimio is extremely excited to kick off the Spring Webinar series with our first session, Classroom Collaboration with Mimio on Tuesday, February, 10, 2015. The Spring Webinar series is hosted by educators who use Mimio every day in their classrooms or districts to engage and inspire their students. That's exactly what they will do for you in informative sessions covering topics from collaborative learning to integrating technology simply and easily into your lessons, and learning about the advantages of our online teaching community.

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.