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January Winners
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Christopher Garchinsky, Technology Consultant
Manheim Township Middle School, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
"The mimio is indeed one of the greatest creations possible for today's
educator. Our teachers can simply write on the whiteboard and provide
notes for students, and can run interactive presentations using
mimioMouse, all from the most natural position of teaching - in front of
the class. "
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Brian Holleger, Mathematics Teacher
Caesar Rodney High School, Camdenm, Delaware
"When I saw the mimio I thought this would be the perfect solution
to the problem of how to help students who miss class or need to see an
example problem re-explained. "
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Jeanne Van Drasek, 4th-5th Grade Teacher
Rockford Middle School, Rockford, Mississippi
"In my classroom we always seem to run out of room on our whiteboard.
Having the
technology to be able to preserve our lists, webs and concept maps and
produce them on paper at the click of a mouse would benefit all students."
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Randy Reynolds, Teacher
Milford Middle School, Milford, Delaware
"A mimio would capture all of the thoughts and
ideas in 'real time' and allow students that were absent to review
everything that we did, not just what I remember."
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Cindy Pickering, Special Education Teacher
Jewett Elementary, Central Point, Oregon
"A mimio
would be extremely helpful in communicating with the parents and helping
the students with homework."
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Suzanne Sampson, Teacher
Roosevelt School, Burlingame, California
"I just came across mimio on the web while doing some late-night surfing.
The more I look at it, the more ideas I get!"
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Diane Liebsch, Sixth Grade Teacher
Atchison Middle School, Atchison, Kansas
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if [students] could focus on the
content of my presentation and notes could be available to them on our
classroom website or from an electronic folder on our school server."
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Kevin Campbell, 5th Grade Student
Swift River Elementary School, Belchertown, Massachusetts
"I have really bad dysgraphia. Even though I
do well in school, I am dependant on a paraprofessional to scribe for me.
I figure with the
use of mimio, maybe I could be independant like the other smart kids in my
fifth grade. I would feel regular."
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Marje Kaiser, Superintendent
SD School for the Blind & VI, Aberdeen, South Dakota
"Recently a public high school sophomore with poor distance acuities,
who loves working with computers, told his team that he wanted a way to
transfer the teachers' whiteboard lessons into his laptop so he could see
them. The school's technology department began hunting and found mimio.
They demonstrated it with the student last week. The student and his
family were thrilled! It was everything he had imagined."
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Malcolm Lane, Technical Officer
South Tyneside Local Education Authority
South Shields Tyne & Wear, United Kingdom
"I think presenting software using MIMIO would give even the most basic
applications the 'WOW' factor. It's often difficult to enthuse teachers
who have been at the sharp end all day, but I think this product would
make that task so much easier."
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Mary Leva, Assistant Principal / Technology Specialist
Our Lady of the Assumption School, Charlotte, North Carolina
"What an asset it would be to have a means that will allow the entire class
to actively participate and to be engaged learners!"
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Ralph Janotti, Librarian
Out of Door Academy, Sarasota, Florida
"Often, students who are absent are unable to
receive the same clarity of thought from notes provided by other students.
By using mimio and posting notes on a teacher's class page, students will
get the information first hand."
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Iris Weiss, Teacher
Chandler High School, Chandler, Arizona
"The mimio is a visual learning tool that allows students in the
classroom to use technology to create a bigger and better community of
learners. "
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Trish Duffy, Elementary Technology Coordinator
Leeds Elementary, Leeds, Massachusetts
"When I heard
what mimio was and saw a demonstration, my first thought was, 'That is
brilliant!' I immediately thought of dozens of ways it could be helpful in
the K-5 system where I work as the elementary technology coordinator. "
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Cynthia Burkes, Third Grade Teacher
Eva Wolfe Elementary School, North Las Vegas, Nevada
"As a part-time presenter, I could use the mimio for the
presentations I conduct several times a year. It would be an unparalleled
tool."
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Heather Cooke, Student
Kennedy High School and CA School for the Blind, Fremont, California
"A mimio would greatly improve my independence in
the classroom not only for the remainder of my high school career but also
when I start college in the not-so-distant future, where it will be even
more difficult to acquire the information necessary out of what is on the
board."
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Betsy Dinger, Special Education Teacher
Green River School, Greenfield, Massachusetts
"We believe that using the
mimio to color-code writing will provide students with a visual connection
between their web, the introduction, and supporting paragraphs."
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February Winners
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Travis Hamblin, Geography Teacher
West Hills Middle School, West Jordan, Utah
"mimio would give me, the teacher, a tool to aide student
understanding and achievement in all areas of class instruction. My
philosophy is that students need to see and experience the world and its'
people, not just read about it in a textbook. mimio would enhance and give
the students a real opportunity to see and use technology."
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George Dellinger, Tech. Ed. Instructor
West Lincoln Middle School, Lincolnton, North Carolina
"The mimio has sparked a great interest in the possibilities that it
holds for my classroom. Students are in an era where print can appear
dull and lifeless, but finding a new way to present that text can mean the
difference in successfully conveying an idea or having that information go
unnoticed. By projecting these thoughts and formulas onto a screen that
has already captured their attention I can feel more confident in my
classes ability to comprehend notes and formulas that are imperative to
their learning. "
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Valerie Pearce, SLS/ Educator
Lenoir City Elementary School, Lenoir City, Tennessee
"After reading about the mimio, I became very excited about the potential
uses with my young children with special needs. I am very anxious to use a technology piece that can provide so many
opportunities and be such a meaningful tool for children of any age and
ability level. I look forward to using this innovative technology with my
children."
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Candi Lavender, Teacher
Parkland High School, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
"I have had success with my disabled students because of my use of
technology, but this would help me with one less step for preparation time
and give me more time to spend creating lessons rather than worrying about
whether my notes are complete before I start. It will also allow my
disabled students to 'come to the board' and contribute their thoughts -
they've never been able to do that, and students have always enjoyed
writing on the board and sharing their knowledge with the class."
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Louanne Hein, District Coordinating Teacher, Art Teacher
Blue Valley North High School, Overland Park, Kansas
"This is a perfect compliment for the visually directed teacher, whether it
be the visual arts, music, math, or simple instruction. I am anxious to
see and hear more about the mimio!"
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Denise Assad, Teacher - First Grade
F.D.Johnston Elementary, Woodtock, Georgia
"I have often filled the white board with the students brainstorming ideas.
and literature
comparisons only to have to
erase the board before I could save it to refer to for further development
of ideas. So a chief use would be to save these works and allow each
child to see a copy to use to extend the ideas and use the ideas as a
model for a new activity."
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Maureen Fox, Head Of Textiles
The Alice Ottley School, Worcester Worcestershire, United Kingdom
"The pupils are always coming up with excellent ideas that are often lost
on scrappy pieces of paper! They also find it very difficult to submit
their first rough sketches for examination portfolios - I'm sure that they
would think differently if they could do it electronically."
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March Winners
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David Low, Tech Coordinator/Teacher
Sound School, New Haven, Connecticut
"Once teachers are at a point where they want to integrate the
computer into their classroom activities, it would be wonderful if they
could have access to a tool which would allow the entire class to take part,
rather than just a few students. The mimio is just such a tool."
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Kristina Sorrells, Math Teacher
Salem Academy, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
"Students often
say they wish the teacher could go over the material with them just one more
time. A mimio board would allow teachers to 'record' their class notes.
These notes can be put together to create a 'catalog of notes' in the
[Student Mathematics] Center. Students can come and view these notes at their leisure."
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John Creighton, Teacher
The Manurewa High School, Auckland, New Zealand
"mimio would be an excellent starter for teachers to get information from
the whiteboard to the intranet so it will be easy access for all. I am from
a poor school in a poor area of Auckland, which has a lot of underprivileged
children. Sure, some of our blind children have laptops, and the school does have
digital projectors, however if
these mimio units can do what they claim to do then it will give children
another way to learn, and it will make it more FUN!"
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Dr. Kevin Waugh
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
"mimio adds new dimensions to the way I can use traditional teaching
tools. mimio gives me a whiteboard and
flip chart with a memory - all those ad-hoc discussions, long explanations,
brainstorming sessions and
student-centred learning experiences that usually disappear when the board
is wiped clean can now be captured and
reproduced as needed."
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Ian Ellis, Science Teacher
duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky
"Students will feel more ownership and be more involved when they
can take with them a copy of their work made with the mimio. It is a classic
technique for students to work a problem at the board. Now it is possible to
share ideas between different classes working on the same material. "
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Barbara Greenstone, Technology Literacy Integrator
Mt. Ararat Middle School, Topsham, Maine
"My school does not yet own a mimio but I've seen them demonstrated several
times at technology conferences. I think the possibilities for use in
schools are endless. In my position as Technology Literacy Integrator, I'm
always looking for ways that technology can provide new opportunities for
teaching and learning across the curriculum."
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Rodger Holland, Associate Professor
Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia
"I have been an accounting professor for over 20 years, and mimio is the
first product that has the potential to change the way I teach! No other
'technological breakthrough' has excited me the way mimio does."
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Jackie Russell
Belmont Primary School, Erith Kent, England
"I work in a Primary school in England where we integrate
visually impaired children into our mainstream
classes. One of the difficulties we have is of adapting the curriculum so
that these children can access it as well as the other children can. We do try our best at
the moment, but one of these would certainly brighten up these children's
education!!"
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April Winners
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Rose Deeds, Gifted Specialist
Summit Elementary, Cincinnati, Ohio
"The mimio board proves to be a fantastic way to allow students to be
active participants in their education. The teacher is not the only one
who has something to share in our class. We are all given an opportunity
to share our knowledge in a variety of ways. The mimio gives us a
professional method in which to communicate more effectively with each
other."
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Dawn Moore, Learning Technologies Facilitator
School District #54, Schaumburg, Illinois
"As technology continues to help us create independent learners, I envision
the mimio playing a role in students constructing and assessing their own
learning. The true test of technology in education is not whether it improves the
way the teacher delivers a classroom lesson but how the student receives
and delivers his own lesson."
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Jeff Davidson, 7th Grade Life Science Teacher
Wheatridge Middle School, Gardner, Kansas
"The mimio fits into our district's improvement plan, by incorporating
technology into the classroom. Any time students can be involved with
the latest technology, their interest level goes up. The mimio is a technological advancement that no school should be without."
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Gregory Kich, Professor
Horry-Georgetown Technical College, Conway, South Carolina
"I teach an internet course in Calculus. When I came
across mimio I thought I won the lottery! My mind just started cranking
out the ways that I could use this technology with my internet course. mimio has provided me with the
technology that has allowed me to take my internet course to the 'next'
level. Thank you!"
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Dr. Jon Hall
The Open University, Milton Keynes Bucks, United Kingdom
"Till now, I've photographed and sent jpegs around. It's only
the 'final version' of the white board, and not how you got there. The
quality is bearable, but oh so low.
Now you've given me mimio and those days are over! Small;
full-motion; high quality! There's another problem solved."
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John Vogel, Teacher
Trafalgar Middle School, Cape Coral, Florida
"Our district has given each teacher the opportunity to have a web page on
our schools' site. Having class notes posted on my site will help
students who are absent, who have lost their class examples, or who would
just like to review examples as they were presented in class. The use of
mimio for my site would also be a great communication tool for parents who
would like to see what is being done in class."
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Becky Miller, 5th Grade Teacher
Churchill, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
"Just when I thought that I had seen all the wonders of the technological
world, Virtual Ink pops up with the Mimio. I am trying hard not to think
of any more ways to use mimio because we are only in school 185 days per
year and I could probably use it 366. (Every year would need to be a leap
year with a Mimio!)"
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Donna Siekmeier, Teacher
Eva M. Wolfe Elementary, Las Vegas, Nevada
"Our math program requires math talk and the recording of strategies,
vocabulary and concepts of ideas. The mimio could help reinforce the
language and give students an immediate feedback to the lessons that they
help create. The mimio would be an interactive tool to be used by both
teacher and student. The uses for the mimio are limitless to
the students and can only enhance their learning."
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May Winners
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Vicki Rainwater, Teacher for the Visually Impaired
Mercedes Special Education Cooperative, Mercedes, Texas
"When I saw the mimio at a Technology Conference, I was very excited about the
possibilities it would afford the special needs students that I work with
especially visually impaired, auditorially impaired, and orthopedically
impaired especially those with quadriplegia. The mimio would be a very powerful tool in a special needs student's
educational setting."
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Doreen Elliott, Teacher
Wahiawa Middle School, Wahiawa, Hawaii
"Having a mimio available as part of my teaching equipment - paired up with
my laptop - will demonstrate for students and my colleagues what is
available with current technologies to support productivity. Their
understanding of a seamless integration of technology into daily activities
will further their comprehension that more and more is possible through the
use of these devices to make our work efficient and viewable to a larger
audience."
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Mark Hanen, EdTech Facilitator
Northern Lights College, Dawson Creek, British Columbia
"Northern Lights College serves a geographic area the size of England,
Scotland, Wales, and Ireland combined. We have campuses in communities with
as few as 125 residents, not counting the black bears and grizzlies. By using mimio and teleconferencing equipment, we can teach a face to face
mathematics class on one of our larger campuses and offer the same class in
real-time in a community like Atlin (population 450), 184 km southeast of
Whitehorse."
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Dorothy Coven, Teacher
Central Elementary School, Albany, Oregon
"I have a vision that all classrooms be technology rich, creative, dynamic,
and interactive learning environments! I was so energized to see the
possibilities that innovative teachers have come up with to integrate the
mimio into classrooms. It sounds like they will truly enrich the learning
experience for their students!"
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Roland Yung, History Teacher
Muscatine High School, Muscatine, Iowa
"mimio will soon be an indispensable tool for the classroom. A classroom is
much more than an area for students to be in for an hour, it is an
experience. An experience is made up of the different senses and
intelligences that a student may possess. This is where the mimio comes
in."
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Richard Fleming, English Teacher
The English Academy, Tapada das Mercês Lisboa
"Our student base is from a wide range of
socio-economic groups, and a large proportion of our students from
developing countries have had limited educational opportunities and thus
have difficulties in writing at speed. This means that any copying of board-
notes creates waiting time. mimio could
eradicate such time-wasting, prevent student demotivation, increase student
talking-time and hence improve the students' (and our) results."
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Dr. Mark Dakers, Science Co-Coordinator
Charters School, Ascot Berkshire, England
"My lessons often feature pupils
demonstrating their ideas at the board - allowing them to practice with
guidance and support from staff and their peers. A Mimio whiteboard would
allow me to provide the class a permanent record of the work done at the
board - allowing an increase in the number of examples tried. This would
allow more work to be completed by each class, developing their
understanding of these mentally taxing tasks."
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June Winners
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Kerry Olson-Rysavy, Technology Coordinator
North Dakota School for the Deaf, Devils Lake, North Dakota
"This device would
definitely benefit deaf students who are required to copy notes in their
classes. The mimio would provide a beneficial way of helping to eliminate
the students from having to take the notes written on the board either at
the end of the class period or having to stop the instruction long enough
for them to copy the notes. During class time, it would allow deaf students
to interact with their peers as well as the teacher instead of taking the
time to copy the notes from the board."
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Shirley Pait, TVI
Parkton Elementary, Parkton, North Carolina
"mimio would increase students' productivity, because they would be able to
have constant access to what the teacher is saying and give the students who
are totally blind the opportunity to 'see' what is being written on the
board. In short, this is the miracle my students have been waiting for."
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July Winners
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Brett King, IT Administrator
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
"A large number of our students with visual impairments, head injuries, fine
motor impairments and learning disabilities require the use of a note taker. mimio would mean that these
students would have direct access to the material that is presented on the whiteboard. This tool would help us maximize accessibility, save time for the students
and us, and reduce the costs of personal support."
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Blair Cochran, Physics Teacher
Hamilton Wenham Regional High School
South Hamilton, Massachusetts
"[An] important part of my teaching style is
the use of computer simulations and real time data collection during
interactive lessons. One aspect
of these lessons is that the students make predictions before doing the
experiment as a class. The
students can come to the board and interact with the data or simulation
using mimioMouse. This allows them to accurately show their classmates their
predictions."
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Lorena Marchant, First Grade Teacher
Show Low Primary, Show Low, Arizona
"I've never seen a mimio, but am very excited about the prospect of using one
to enhance instruction in my classroom. After reading about it on your web
site, I can think of so many ways to use it!"
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Sharon Stovall, Special Ed. Teacher
Martin Elementary, Flowery Branch, Georgia
"With mimio our school will be equipped with a tool to assist the increasing
numbers of struggling learners (those who need additional time to learn not
copy), their teachers and their parents!"
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David Dick, Planetarium Director
Lawrence North High School, Indianapolis, Indiana
"Often times I teach in the dim room to over 50 people. A chalkboard cannot
be seen well and hard to see for everyone in the room. The mimio would be
used to project on the dome of the planetarium where the all sixty seats
would be able to see."
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Rikki Wiercinski, Teacher
John C. Vanderburg School, Henderson, Nevada
"I would love to keep all that great information that the students
find after researching for three weeks in an easy to read, web format
instead of reading through an entire research paper the next year. The mimio
really seems so versatile! I would love to implement it into my classroom!"
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Anne Menneer, Teacher
CPR College, Cornwall, United Kingdom
"I work with all abilities from 16 to 80. We have a smart board in one
location, which is over booked. I use the projector quite a bit, but it is
just a big screen. [The mimio] is a smart board with
portability, plus things that the smart board does not do. If I won one, It
would be in use all day and every day, half in the board mode, and half in
the Smart Board mode."
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Cathleen Carroll, History Instructor
Christian Brothers Academy, Lincroft, New Jersey
"Currently I use PowerPoint presentations and internet sites to project the
artifacts, document, maps, concepts and available research to engage my
students. Using the mimio device would allow greater interaction for my
students by affording me the means to add notes, comments and highlight
important aspects of these materials."
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Wendy Bender, Teacher
John F. Kennedy Middle School, Port Jefferson Station, New York
"This year I began using a very new math
program -- Connected Math. The
weakness is that the solutions are put on the board and are then lost at the
end of the period. Wouldn't it be wonderful to use the mimio and preserve
all the solutions, not only for the students to see and use in the future,
but for the students who were absent from class and did not have the benefit
of working with a group."
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August Winners
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Alex Johnson-Jimenez, 5th Grade Teacher
Smith Elementary School, Sioux City, Iowa
"I've had the pleasure of seeing a mimio in action. As such, I am well aware
of the impact that the device could have in a classroom setting where students
are not all at the same academic level or learn in the same manner. If hands on
learning is a key to success, then the mimio is the tool to use in the
classroom."
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Christi Gongola, Vision Teacher
Whitewater Middle School, Fayetteville, Georgia
"I'm currently sitting in a computer lab with a seventh grade student that I
work with each day. He is a very bright guy but he is considered legally blind;
thus, sometimes his vision is a deterent to him learning and seeing everything
going on in the classroom. We are thinking the mimio would help him a great
deal...it would bring information right to him ... up close and personal."
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Lucinia Eubanks, Educator
Munger Middle School, Detroit, Michigan
"The mimio is a tremendous tool allowing for sequential display of
information, creation of visually meaningful content, pairing of picture with
text, integration of commercial software and storage of information for repeat
viewing. I will integrate the mimio with the other learning tools and
strategies at my disposal to make learning come alive for students."
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Edrika Hall, 5th Grade Teacher
Cora L. Rice Elementary School, Landover, Maryland
"Many times, the students go home and may not have copied all of the
information down or may have transcribed the information incorrectly. With the
mimio, I would be able to rectify that situation easily and efficiently. The
mimio would make my Science Class more fun and innovating than it already is."
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September Winners
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Peggy Hallack, Special Education Teacher
Hutchinson Middle School-7, Hutchinson, Kansas
"...the mimio would not only help captivate the attention of my special
education students and help involve them in technological activities that fit
into the curriculum, but also help with intrinsic motivation to do well on
projects and assignments. A mimio in my seventh grade special education resource
classroom would be indispensable and would touch the lives of many students
passing through the seventh grade in Hutchinson, Kansas."
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Benjamin Robinson, Teacher
KD Markley, Malvern, Pennsylvania
"So often children don't understand the basic direct instruction lesson when
it is taught to the entire class. The use of the mimio and imovie would allow
me to to explain the basic concepts or procedures in a lesson and allow the
child to review it whenever necessary."
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Stephen O'Toole, Instructional Technology Specialist
Great Valley School District, Malvern, Pennsylvania
"I believe the mimio would be a wonderful tool to use in my staff development
workshops as well as introduce to teachers. I am excited to see how I could use
this in my trainings as well as providing teachers with the opportunity to use
it in the classrooms."
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Michael Hutchison, Instructor
Muscatine Community College, Muscatine, Iowa
"Communication is the key to relating knowledge and the mimio provides a
means for the classroom teacher to enhance this art of communication in a
meaningful and powerful way."
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Eudelle Mundy, SPED Supervisor
Smith County Board of Education, Carthage, Tennessee
"At this time, we have three children who have been diagnosed with
degenerative eye diseases and two who are blind. One of the big problems we
face is getting all the classroom teacher's notes for the children. This tool
would not only enable us to save time and reduce duplication costs, but also
these students' time would be maximized with learning experiences rather than
copying notes or waiting for peers or teachers to run copies for them."
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Sibyl King (Mac), AIG Teacher
Tanglewood Elementary School, Lumberton, North Carolina
"The mimio would provide yet another tool that would show the educators how
'NOW and RELEVANT' technology is! It is hard to contain myself while I write
this! This mimio device is exciting!"
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October Winners
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Cheryl Jakobovic, Librarian
Calvin Smith Elementary, Painted Post, New York
"As the librarian and technology specialist in our school, I am always
looking for technology that will assist instruction. Students who have the opportunity to use this technology would learn and
practice valuable communication skills as they present to their peers. I
don't use any technology unless I see a direct use by the students as well
as the teachers."
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Teresa Clyde, Resource / Technology Teacher
Hedrick Elementary, Lewisville, Texas
"In spite of my students' various 'handicapping' conditions, they
are very bright in using technology. The mimio would give
me the ability to capture a lecture and replay it for kids who really need
to see things twice. It would give my students the confidence to relax and
take the time they need to view and process the information we have covered."
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Willie Walker, ICT Support Worker
Elgin Academy, Elgin Morayshire, United Kingdom
"In my position as ICT Support Worker for the Moray area (over 50 schools), I
advise teachers dealing with pupils who have Special Educational Needs and/or
require Support for Learning about technology which can help their pupils
access the curriculum. I have come across local cases where mimio is being
used in this context. This is something I feel
should be more widely shared with teaching staff in Moray."
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Deidre Habetler, Teacher
Thurgood Marshall Middle School, Chicago, Illinois
"I have a small whiteboard easel in my room
that I use during class to illustrate Scientific processes and define terms.
Unfortunately, this does not allow for all the students to accurately record
the information as they have learning or language disabilities that limit
their ability to do so. I am hoping that having mimio Xi in my classroom
will allow those students to have access to the notes and illustrations
without having to re-construct the class period after school."
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Celani Dominguez, Professor
Clark-Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education
Worcester, Massachusetts
"The Hiatt Center staff utilizes various media to collaborate, plan
and train future and present teachers for the reforms of today and the near
future. The mimio will help us to save time and archive important
'brain-storming' notes and concept maps that we find hard to access at the
present time."
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November Winners
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Heather Verde, Technology Supervisor
Extended School Enrichment - Georgetown ISD, Georgetown, Texas
"Use of mimio in our organization would benefit not only our students, but
our staff as well. mimio would be helpful in many ways to our organization. The possibilities
are endless."
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Toby Coleman
Lafayette Intermediate, Waterloo, New York
"At the elementary level of teaching having the ability to quickly review
notes and materials from previous days is extremely important. I strongly
believe that the mimio is that tool, which can help teachers improve the
education that they deliver to students."
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Jean Horsley, Fourth Grade Teacher
Rawsonville Elementary, Ypsilanti, Michigan
"Being able to integrate mimio into my classroom would be an exciting step
for me toward technology integration. I look forward to the day when my
fourth graders are acquiring information, presenting what they've learned,
and creating new learning on their own through the use of technology."
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Les Allison, Educator
Monroe Middle School, Green River, Wyoming
"I have seen
students' interest and motivation increase dramatically when they are able
to use computers and new methods for presenting their work. Our state
standards require students to use technology in all core subject areas for
presentations of their work. Technology has a definite place in today's
educational process. It will increase students' interest and provide them a unique method to be directly involved in their learning, and
classroom activities."
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Richard Boyd, Mathematics Teacher
Richmond Heights Middle School, Miami, Florida
"To impact more of our
children, we must have committed parents. I believe that the mimio would
give us the necessary tools to provide our parents with a real snapshot of
their childrens' performance."
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Meg Denton, Occupational Therapist
Rhode Island School for the Deaf, Providence, Rhode Island
"As an occupational therapist in a school for the deaf, I am constantly
challenged with finding creative solutions for students who are not
performing up to their potential. A mimio whiteboard in the classroom
would be an incredible tool for the students to review information, to see
the progression of the information and to be able to print it out and
bring it home instead of worrying to get it down on paper."
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Peggy Bergman, Teacher for Visually Impaired Students
Parkview High School, Lilburn, Georgia
"My goal would be that each teacher would begin posting the mimio files to
their individual web sites so that all students, visually impaired and
non-disabled, would have complete access to complete daily notes. It would
be an exciting change to have a device that would be as useful for the
entire population as it is for my students. Rather than being special and
different, the VI students would be using something that everybody uses; and
all involved would benefit."
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Lisa Adams, Math Instructor
Newbury Park High School, Newbury Park, California
"Four years ago, we were awarded the grant to become a digital high school.
As a member of our technology committee and in the forefront of using
technology, I'm always looking for ways in which the use of technology could
enhance learning. I was very excited to learn about mimio. I think it can
be a great tool to enhance learning by maximizing accessibility and by
saving time for the students and myself."
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Warren Rieutort-Louis, Student
The British School In The Netherlands, Voorschoten, Netherlands
"So many new paths are
opened with new technologies like the mimio whiteboard. This technology
would fascinate many students through its interactivity and apparent ease of
use. The ever-increasing use of laptops in our schools would also benefit
from this, enabling the teacher to 'interact with the whiteboard', rather
than crowding crowds of eager-to-learn students around one computer, in a
innovative but futile attempt to catch their interest in a potentially
fascinating piece of software. Thank you for bringing this wealth of education to us."
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Susan Stuef, Teacher
United Oaks Elementary, Hazel Park, Michigan
"Paper & pencil, chalk & board, markers & overhead
projector are not as visually interesting to today's high tech students. With the addition of a mimio Electronic Whiteboard, students in my classroom
would receive more engaging lessons and discussions. What an excellent learning tool that would be used in all subject
areas for many years!"
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Derrick Apple, Student
Gordonsville High School, Gordonsville, Tennessee
"My sister and I have an eye disease called Stargardts. Our desk are about ten feet from our
white board but we still have to use a monocular to read the notes on
the board. Science class is ninety-nine percent note taking. Sometimes I
just listen to the teacher and take notes and not go with the notes on
the board. Then the teacher has to provide those notes for me to
compare with to be sure that I have eveything I need. The mimio would be
great in this class but not only just for me. The teacher could benefit
a lot too."
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Clare Prout, Trainer
Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, Cornwall, United Kingdom
"I currently work as a trainer within the NHS delivering a range of topics
...all of which can be pretty dry subjects. Due to the
geographical nature of the area in which I live, I have to be able to
deliver these subjects in a wide variety of settings and locations. So the
delivery system needs to be both user friendly and very portable. Fairly recently I was
introduced to mimio as part of a course facilitating the skills for
interactive whiteboard use. To say that this has opened up so many
possibilities for me would be an understatement of some significance! Goodbye chalk and
talk, hello mimio!"
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