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April Winner
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Pauline Luther, Resource Teacher
Pinellas County Schools District Office, Largo, Florida
"I wear many "hats" in my position. I would appreciate having a tool that is useful and portable...
under every hat that I wear is a brain trying to work smarter, not harder.
A mimio is a smart tool." Read the full entry »
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May Winner
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Paul Ladd, Student
Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach, Virginia
"For the first time in my life, because of mimio, I am able to see what is being
written on the board. I went home after seeing the
demonstration and just wept. If there was ever a use for this wonderful
product, it is allowing me to see the board in class for the first time in
my life." Read the full entry »
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June Winners
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Keith Rittenhouse, Teacher
Shelby City Schools, Shelby, Ohio
"[mimio] is a tool that unleashes the teacher and students. Work can be done, archived, and erased...knowing full well, the content is safe and available through the computer it has been saved to. In certain instances, we could 'broadcast' it to a lab of students to their own computers giving a better chance of success and creating lifelong, excited learners!"
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Ken Gray, Special Education Teacher
St. Paul's High School, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
"Next year we have a young boy coming to us who has no legs and only two fingers on one hand. I saw your product in the latest Apple flyer...this would free him from the necessity of carrying heavy books and a bag and allow him to concentrate on listening to the information being given."
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JoAnn Moss, Principal and Teacher
Elm Street Elementary School, Rome, Georgia
"I am interested in making the teaching of children the most effective that it can possibly be. If I can make the social studies lesson more dynamic; the mathematics instruction clearer; the discovery process in science more spontaneous; and the job of the teacher simpler, then I have helped many students."
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Twyla Wilson, Teacher
Desert Eagle Secondary School
Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community, Scottsdale, Arizona
"Most of my students know legends and family stories that could become an important part of the history and literature elements at the early childhood and elementary schools. It has been an arduous process to get the high school students to get their words on paper...If I had a mimio, I can see the class writing stories, illustrating their work and publishing more work as a cooperative project."
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July Winners
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Heather Fike, Dance Teacher
Nathan Hale High School, Tulsa, Oklahoma
"The mimio would save me and my students so many steps! It would, of course, give us more time to work on technique and dances. I work a lot on creativity with my students and there is no telling what new things they could come up with in uses for the mimio!"
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Richard Cail, Teacher
Douglas Elementary School, Acton, Massachusetts
"mimio would give me the ability to capture a lecture and replay it for kids who really need to see things twice for them to 'click'. It would give them confidence to relax more in the classroom and take the time they needed, outside of the classroom, to view and process the information. mimio would be another tool in my bag to be that compassionate teacher - to provide additional attention and access to knowledge."
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Brandy Dickerson, Teacher
East St. John High School, Reserve, Louisianna
"The school which I work is a very rural high school. Nearly half of all of the students that attend the school work on these farms with their parents, missing school when it is time for harvesting. I would use the mimio to help make sure the students do not get behind in their classwork. It pains me every year to see students who want to do well and finish school sacrificing it for the well being of their families. The mimio will allow many students to maintain their grades in their classes and be able to finish school."
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Keren Meister-Emerich, Technology Trainer
Laramie County School District #1, Cheyenne, Wyoming
"Using the mimio and training teachers to use it will enable me to help teachers better educate students. Teachers will see the possibilities for their own classrooms, through my demonstrations. By allowing teachers to continue with their existing style of teaching, but capturing lecture notes, mimio is a technology that teachers will embrace."
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George Kleiner, Teacher
Physician Assistant Program at Harlem Hospital, New York, New York
"Learning to interpret radiograms requires intense concentration on the part of the student in order to acquire the levels of interpretive skills and confidence needed. However, the student is caught between concentrating on the lecture and the taking notes to aid in later study. [With mimio] the students will be saved from the conflict to concentrate in class or to take notes."
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August Winners
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Carolyn Ruderman, Parent
Heritage Middle School, Livingston, New Jersey
"I am the mother of a profoundly dysgraphic eleven year old student in the Livingston school system. Having a mimio in these classrooms might alleviate the need for a scribe to write for my son. I would love to see if the mimio would spare my son this embarrassment, and concomitantly alleviate the frustration of my school district to have to employ someone for this task."
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Todd Matthew, English Teacher
Emma Willard School, Troy, New York
"Almost on a daily basis I wish I could somehow have copies of everything my students have generated during class to return to at a later date for semi-quarterly review, parent visits, or when potential students and their families visit my classroom. I am so incredibly impressed by the level of thinking that my students possess, that I know it would better serve them by utilizing the Mimio during class, and then having class notes available on the school's web site."
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Jack Snoeyink, Teacher
UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina
"A mimio could capture the dynamic sketches for playback anytime, and a mimioMouse could let us control applications from the whiteboard without disruptive transitions. Moreover, using a natural interface would free us to incorporate powerful software tools seamlessly into a lecture, or into an interactive discussion at the board."
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Janice Kilgore, Music Educator
Majikal Musik Machine, Cedar Hill, Texas
"This definitely is a win win situation. The teacher is a winner because of the ease of providing a visual image to reinforce the concept to be learned and the students are winners because it provides an instantaneous electronic representation of the teacher's notes in their own handwriting. Every classroom should have one and every student should benefit from the teacher's use of it."
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September Winners
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Anders Mossberg
Hearingeducation, Uppsala, Sweden
"I believe that mimio is a fantastic aid to all kind of dysfunctional
pupils. With help of the mimio they can now focus their concentration on
listen[ing] to the teacher and relax."
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Cheryl Berry
District One Schools, Campello, South Carolina
"The years of teaching experience would be
recorded and shared with many teachers from all of our schools at one time
because of the mimio technology."
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Troy Gorodess, Special Ed Teacher
PS 186, Bronx, New York
"It would be a tremendous
teaching tool to be able to present and record (for later distribution) class notes, brainstorming ideas and actual "step-by-step" examples taken
from classroom instruction."
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Audrey Houser
Lewis Chapel Middle School, Fayetteville, North Carolina
"I know prayer isn't allowed in public schools, however mimio is certainly an answer to mine. I teach special education students in a school where over 40% of the
children live in poverty or are deemed "High risk" and learning isn't a
top priority. mimio will offer me the hook I've been looking for to
actually make my instruction 'special'."
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Ritamary Vining
Hunter-Tannersville, Tannersville, New York
"Our school has a web site and we post homework every night, this would
enhance our students learning by being able to also view what exactly went
on. What an AWESOME product!"
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October Winners
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Chris Bastian, Instructional Technology Specialist
Valley City State University, North Dakota
"Mimio is so adaptable that we could use it in any school, on any whiteboard, and any computer platform. The mimio would allow us to demonstrate distance learning opportunities and an interactive whiteboard atmosphere to potential mimio customers... teachers and administrators."
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Regina Tock, Special Ed Teacher
Discovery Middle School, Canton, Michigan
"It is difficult to find the time while teaching such low functioning students to get on the computer and try and make the notes comparable to the ones I have put on the whiteboard in time for them to take them home that day. The mimio would make an exact copy."
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Alan Sparrow, Helpdesk Coordinator
York College, York, Nebraska
"I'm in charge of computer technical support at a small college. The technology used in the classroom must simplify a task or accomplish something that can't otherwise be done, otherwise it won't be used. It has to be easy to use or the 'technophobes' won't go anywhere near it. The mimio meets all of these requirements."
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Rebecca Butler, Teacher
Nitro HIgh School, Nitro, West Virginia
"Teaching, Training, Brainstorming, Sharing, Communicating, Presenting ... all of these are ways that I -- should I say we -- would use a mimio at Nitro High School."
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Loa Kay Bowthorpe, Teacher/Coach
Union High School, Roosevelt, Utah
"This would be a tremendous asset to my classroom for brainstorming, presenting information, giving notes, aiding in student productions, storyboarding, preparing rubrics, reflecting back on ideas to improve projects, and making improvements on student work."
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Diane Glynan, Resource Teacher/Advisor Visually Impaired
Kelburn Normal School, Wellington, New Zealand
"I first saw the mimio demonstrated last month at a conference and consider it the most exciting new technology I have seen for years. The potential the mimio has for the future education for students with low vision is immense."
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November Winners
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Ryan Schasteen, Social Studies Teacher
Wheatridge Middle School, Gardner Kansas
"My creative use for mimio would be to have my 8th grade social studies
students animate some Civil War battles and to creat a storyboard from the
novel we read on the Civil War. I've always wanted to do something like
this but the learning curve to create a Flash animation is too high for my
students."
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Huntington Lyman, Writing Coordinator and Teacher
The Hill School, Middleburg Virginia
"Some of my middle school students have been diagnosed with learning
differences that make it very difficult for them to take notes. With mimio, it would be easy to keep
a file copy of class notes that could be accessed through a school
computer or the internet."
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Kris Oftedahl, Mathematics Teacher
Hill-Murray High School, Maplewood Minnesota
"With an interactive whiteboard, a person could access a lesson
over the Internet and see how the teacher arrived at their conclusion. A
step-by-step process of the creation is there for them to review."
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Sue Fletcher, Teacher
Waihopai School, Invercargill, New Zealand
"My
students with low vision have waited a long time for the technology which
allows them to access the notes and diagrams the teacher puts on the class
whiteboard to aid with verbal explanations."
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Bryan Dye, Math Teacher
The Hewett School, Norwich Norfolk, United Kingdom
"From looking at your site, it looks like the mimioMouse option together
with a projector would be a brilliant way of presenting my interactive
geometry online resources that I've developed on my website."
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Jane Love, Director
Center for Collaborative Learning and Communication
Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina
"mimio would make it
possible to critique web design interactively; to demonstrate software
applications with much greater ease and fluidity; to brainstorm ideas for
group projects and save the results without having to create a separate
document; and to take group notes for a meeting, freeing attendees from
this individual task."
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Dr. Nigel Leigh Oldfield
Buxton Community School, Buxton Derbyshire, United Kingdom
"I have been developing my online chemistry resource for many years.
I should like to relaunch the site with even more interactivity, and would
be using the Mimio to carry out real time simulations as a prelude to practical investigations."
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Robert Ballecer, CIO
Homeboyz Interactive, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"We tried to use a SmartBoard solution but it proved to be too bulky, too
cumbersome and far too expensive for our purposes. mimio is the only
product that offers the portability, ease of setup and price point that
makes sense in a mobile education market."
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December Winners
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Andrew Baldwin, Instructional Technology Teacher on Special Assignment
Independent School District 196, Rosemount, Minnesota
"I am perhaps most intrigued by the learning
opportunities that mimio can enhance. With relative ease ideas can be
generated for the integrating of mimio in the secondary classroom. However,
as an educator with a dozen years experience at the elementary level the
idea of utilizing mimio at the primary and intermediate level is exciting."
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Vaughn Murphy, Instructional Technology Consultant
Heartland AEA, Johnston, Iowa
"The mimio lessons listed [here] were created during a technology integration
workshop attended by 15 middle school teachers. During their time together,
they learned how to use the mimio and designed lessons incorporating this
innovative technology. What they discovered was utilizing
a mimio transforms a traditional classroom to a student-centered learning
environment which supports best practices."
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Gabriel Wong
Ryde Public School, Ryde, New South Wales
"A mimio
would enable students with special needs to write or draw on the whiteboard
and then it can be transferred
to the computer website for publishing it on individual class' webpage."
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Barb Corrigan, 6th Grade Teacher
American School for the Deaf, West Hartford, Connecticut
"I worked with a group of four 5th and 6th graders yesterday, and after an
hour, they had made a great chart for a tough math problem. If only I had
the mimio then! It would have saved us so much time instead of each child
copying the info. Our students are substantially behind their hearing
peers, so anything that helps with the learning process AND saves time seems
excellent!"
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Jennifer Collins, Curriculum Coordinator
Sunnyvale School, Sunnyvale, Texas
"As our district continues to strive for excellence in technology, I believe
a mimio would help us close the gap between traditional instruction and
complete technology imersion. I am excited about the many possibilities
that would be provided to our staff and students through the use of a mimio."
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Paula Winter, Teacher
Hudson's Bay High School, Vancouver, Washington
"The only problem with mimio will be the squabbling amongst the staff
to see who gets to use it first! I'll get a calendar ready for sign-ups.
Why didn't someone think of this before now? The teachers and students of
America thank you."
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Paul Shepherd
Guilsborough Northants, UK
"I would use it as a main teaching aid, allowing use of presentation tools in
improving the learning experience."
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