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January Winners
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Gina De Groot, Technology Director
Notre Dame de la Baie Academy, Green Bay, Wisconsin
"We are a non-profit high school, so the funds for our wishlist are not so often available. I would love to add something to our school that is as innovative as the mimio and something that we wouldn't otherwise be able to purchase!"
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Tammy Mullins, 5th Grade Language Arts Teacher
Ridge View Elementary, Rockwood, Tennessee
"After each class period I find myself at the whiteboard quickly erasing the material, to just turn around only minutes later to write it once again. It would be so wonderful to be able to spend more of that time working one on one with the students who need the extra attention instead of spending the time in front of the entire class."
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Nicole Knatcal, Special Education Teacher
Purdy Middle School, Purdy, Missouri
"All kids learn better when the information is presented in a variety of ways and this is especially true with special education kids. Being able to see a demonstration would help our kids concrete concepts much more rapidly...a mimio would be a most valuable asset in my classroom in so many ways for increasing student learning and achievement."
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Gaudenz Panholzer, Fire Academy Coordinator
South Bay Regional Public Safety Training Consortium, Carmel, California
"We teach in a number of different venues and so all of our equipment needs to be very portable and easy to set up. Of all the electronic whiteboard devices I have seen, the mimio Xi fits this need best."
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February Winners
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Karin Thompson, 3rd Grade Teacher
South Mountain Elementary School, Millburn, New Jersey
"Using technology as a teaching tool may be one of the most effective ways to build both a child's self-esteem and
learning skills. This interactive tool not only increases student participation in class, but it also brings a new sense of
comradeship to the classroom." Read the full entry »
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Ellen Hickey, 6th Grade Language Arts Teacher
Grovetown Middle School, Grovetown, Georgia
"Because of the community's low socio-economic status, our students are hampered by their lack of access to
existing technology. As a motivator, mimio's value is priceless."
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Sarah Crose, Teacher
Dawes Middle School, Lincoln, Nebraska
"I was asked by my technology coordinator to try out the mimio Classic....[it] has the great potential to be a
productive part of my teaching, benefiting not only students who have physical handicaps but the general population
as well."
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March Winners
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Beth Beery, Spanish Teacher
Huntington North High School, Huntington, Indiana
"When other teachers see what can be done using the mimio equipment, they'll want to use this in their classroom as
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Victor Bliden, Teacher
Brighton High School, Brighton, Colorado
"If the [math] concepts could be more visually and continuously referenced, the non- or poor note takers could more
directly focus on the topics at hand and then 'eventually' be encouraged to write down the important key parts of
the math exercise."
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Jennifer Selock, Teacher
Fox Hill Elementary, Kansas City, Missouri
"I have been interested in the mimio Xi for our classroom going on two years now. I heard another teacher had one so
I borrowed it. Now I don't want to give it back."
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Robert Dent, Gifted Resource Teacher
Jack Jouett Middle School, Charlottesville, Virginia
"I have the opportunity to collaborate with a lot of teachers in our school and to teach a large number of our
students in different capacities. I would use mimio as a tool to engage students in more interactive,
student-centered learning."
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Karen Mowrer, Teacher
IS 195 Roberto Clemente Middle School, New York, New York
"I have low-achieving students who need visual manipulatives in order to achieve success in a math setting. I intend
to use the mimio Xi to teach core geometry and graphing concepts that my students are currently failing to grasp."
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April Winners
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Richard Ebling, System Administrator
Iqra Academy of Utah Elementary School, Salt Lake City UT
"We'd like to use a mimio whiteboard-capture device to decrease our teachers' workload, while significantly
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Levi Austin
Westerschool Elementary School, Veendam, The Netherlands
"We are making a course for teachers and teachers-to-be, on how to use ICT and multimedia in an educational and
creative way. We investigate the practical uses and also the impact of modern society on the social development of
children. Because we work with children from 3 to 6 years old I would like to work with the mimio technology."
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Laura Rowden, Coordinator
Community H.E.L.P., Huntington WV
"mimio would be a wonderful tool for our program. It would help us equip our students with learning disabilities and
attention deficit disorders to succeed in school and in life."
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Cora Sharp, Teacher
Garfield Elementary School, Davenport IA
"Our school is a Reading First School. As part of this initiative we are constantly working on vocabulary and sentence
structure. A mimio would allow me to record student responses, add new words, and call it up when students are to
do their practice read of vocabulary words instead of running off lists and having students lose them."
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May Winners
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Molly Blanton, Curriculum Coordinator
Cleveland County Schools (CCS), Shelby, NC
"I would use mimio to help educate my administration on how valuable this technology tool could be in each classroom. mimio is
portable and would be easy for me to take to each school as I travel through the week."
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Debbie White, Science Teacher
Nessacus Middle School, Dalton, MA
"The use of a mimio would solve all of the issues that are getting in the way of having effective presentations in my classroom."
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Sheila McCleary, Teacher
Hall County Schools, Gainesville, GA
"mimio would relieve some of the equal access gap between the sighted and the visually impaired."
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Ann Agerton, Technology Specialist
Fairhope Elementary School, Fairhope, AL
"We have recently completed setting up a video production facility on our campusÉ This will open endless opportunities for student
learning and teacher training. It would be awesome to have a mimio set up in this room for students to use during their broadcast.
Weather reports, today in history and other daily segments will take on new life!"
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June Winners
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Brian Goldstein, Science Teacher
Amity Middle School, Bethany, CT
"It is hypothesized that students who have web-based access to the information and do not have to take
notes during instruction will have time to process the material on a semantic level and thus retain the i
nformation more accurately than those students who take notes during instruction."
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Robert (Bob) Morris, Teacher
Grant Elementary School, Ridgefield Park, NJ
"I want to take my lessons and have them displayed on the web so my students can access them at home during anytime of the day.
This would be perfect for students who need an extra review or miss school."
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Michael Hall, Teacher
Longwood High School, Middle Island, NY
"As you could imagine, I am constantly seeking out new ways to make my classes more entertaining, interactive and fun; and based on
what I have heard, the mimio product can instantly help meet those goalsÉ I think mimio is very practical both economically and
educationally."
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Cindy Wagner, Fourth Grade Teacher
Washington Elementary School, Alexandria, MN
"We are learning how to take notes. Whew, itÕs hard! Thank goodness for mimio! Our whole class read about the life cycle of a sea
turtle. Then we highlighted just the most important facts from each paragraph. We got rid of everything that wasnÕt highlighted, and
we had our notes!"
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July Winners
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Miesja Cubito, Sixth Grade Teacher, Technology Leader
Anna B. Pratt Academy, Philadelphia, PA
"Students canÕt be taught only by notes and lectures. A great way to read information is on the Internet. mimio would allow us to view
information on web sites as a class. This way I can make sure that we are all on the lectures same page and I wonÕt have to monitor
students on individual computers (if in a computer lab). mimio would allow me to be at the board navigating and pointing things out as
opposed to sitting at a computer."
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Cynthia Ramirez, Instructional Technology Specialist
C. J. Harris Elementary and Lawhon Elementary Pearland ISD, La Porte, TX
"Having a mimio at a campus would be a positive step forward in technology for our district. Teachers are interested and fascinated by
all technologies produced. I have had inquires about interactive whiteboards and having a mimio would allow me to not only talk about
it, but demonstrate how they can use it and then put it in their hands to try."
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Kati Searcy, Teacher
Mountain Park Elementary School, Roswell, GA
"Beyond the basic subjects (math, science, language arts, social studies, etc), mimio will enable the greater processing of higher level
thinking activities, creative problem solving, and research presentation skills."
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Stacy Kasse, Teacher
Taunton Forge School, Medford, NJ
"The ease of use, the way to increase student involvement into my lessons, and the fact that a Ôsuperior product in the K-12 education
marketÕ could be in my classroom, are just a few of the reasons why my class and I would love to experience a mimio."
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August Winners
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Darcy Ruby, Curriculum Resource Teacher
Oakshire Elementary School, Orlando, FL
"I can see teachers projecting student essays on the whiteboard for revision and elaboration. Writing scores would increase because
students would be able to see first hand what they can do to improve their own writing."
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Kathryn Colvario, Specialist-Language Arts
Walpole High School, Walpole, MA
"The use of mimio would give students the results of the day's lesson without having to tediously write down the contents of the board.
It would provide more of an opportunity for students to review as well as apply the parts of the lesson in which they participated and
more easily connect the semantics, the story line and the literary analysis resulting in them seeing both 'the forest and the trees'."
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Michael Allen, Second Grade Teacher
JFK Elementary School, San Francisco, CA
"A mimio would be a great addition to the current project I am implementing this year in my classroom Ð 'e-Classroom'Émimio will allow
my students and me to create and participate in a variety of dynamic digitalized lessons, presentations, and learning activities."
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Heather Pedraza, Physics Teacher
Round Rock High School, Austin, TX
"With mimio I can capture a board after each step in the drawing. When students replay it, it would be like I am drawing it for them
personally. I can also have notes to the side of the picture explaining what I did."
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September Winners
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Camille Martin, Eighth Grade Teacher
Christ the Teacher School, Fort Lee, NJ
"I am in the 8th Grade at Christ the Teacher SchoolÉIf my class had mimio it would make note taking easier and students can go back
to review previous lessons. Note taking would be easy because we could save all the teacher's original notes and then post it on the
web or make copies."
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John Zeigler, Teacher
Beaumont Middle School, Lexington, KY
"I have witnessed the power of the mimio device and it's flexibility to provide different instructional strategiesÉThe addition of a mimio
will allow me to use my whiteboard as an interactive multimedia teaching tool."
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Kathy Poe, Teacher
Fletcher Middle School, Jacksonville Beach, FL
"Recently saw a demo of how the whiteboard works and all I could think of was 'Where have you been all my life?!' I am teacher who is
in her 35th year of teaching."
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Shawn Ferrens, Upper Elementary Teacher
Fields Elementary School, Fields, OR
"Currently I am the 4th-8th grade teacher in a two-room schoolhouseÉ.In today's society even a basic knowledge of such programs is
vital to our students' success and because of this it is my mission to not only give my students a basic knowledge of computer skills
and programs, but also make them efficient in them. This is where I would use mimio in my classroom."
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October Winners
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Elizabeth (Beth) Strauss, Media Specialist
Pelham High School, Pelham, NH
"I would use mimio to encourage teachers to captivate and motivate their studentsÉ It would allow us to build a database of curriculum
information so that teachers could share their knowledge across departments and even across schools."
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Janeice deLange, Writing Coach
Indian Springs Elementary School, Eight Mile, AL
"As a teacher and coach, time is always of the essence. mimio would streamline my production and cut preparation time in half. It is
sometimes difficult to prepare something on the computer and then have to make transparencies or multiple copies for students to
readÉmimio would display the information needed straight from my laptop computer."
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Jim Bycznski, Teacher
Berea High School, Berea, OH
"Our program has exposed students to the skills, materials and techniques used in the movie and entertainment industriesÉ we are
beginning to incorporate the skills and talents of our science, math and robotic students to help bring life to our artistic creationsÉ By
utilizing mimio, we will be able to work out plans, schematics and engineering designs, while being able to store and print the information
for future referenceÉThrough technology and creative problem solving, students will work together to bring life to their imaginations."
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Joshua Krohn, Teacher
King and Queen Elementary School, Mattaponi, VA
"As an impoverished school in Mattaponi, Virginia we are attempting to create a performing arts program for the youth of the areaÉ
Having technology in the classroom would make their learning that much more enjoyable as well as beneficial to students who have
never seen technology at all."
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November Winners
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Philip Kragnes, Director of Computer Accommodations Program
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
"mimio would offer a unique adaptive technology option for students and employees with disabilities in our university setting. Students
with low-vision would be given a means of accessing hand-drawn or written information in real-time. Students with learning disabilities
would have an opportunity to receive copies of in-class materials, instead of having to rely on often imprecise notes."
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Pat Rivera, Business/Technology Instructor
Santa Fe High/SF Community College, Santa Fe, NM
"As a technology teacher, I would have a multitude of uses for mimio...I feel that instructional delivery would be greatly enhanced for
my students. That fact that it is portable allows me to use it in my travels to various schools where I instruct teachers."
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Michael Dower, Science Teacher
Young Achievers School, Jamaica Plain, MA
"Éwe use a variety of web-based programs like brainpop.com and other flash based animations. The kinesthetic nature of mimio would
allow students movement and the ability to interact more readily with these types of programs."
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Ann Ness, K/1 Teacher/Building Technology Coordinator
Chugiak Elementary School, Chugiak, AK
"mimio can add color, excitement, interest, digital recording, innovation, printing, the ability to post what we are actually doing on my
web site and more! No longer do parents have to read long explanations of what we are doing in class. They can actually see it! A
picture is worth a thousand words."
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December Winners
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Betsy Ruffin, Librarian/Technologist
Cleburne Intermediate School, Cleburne, TX
"As a librarian, I would use mimio to make library skills and information literacy lessons more interactive, drawing
the students more into the lessons and enabling me to reach learners with all modalities and at various levels of
need."
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Julia VanderMolen, Technology Specialist
Wayland Union Schools, Dorr, MI
"mimio can help our students at every grade level in our school by concentrating on their writing, phonetics, and kinetic skills...mimio will help
students to successfully explain their projects to classmates and adults. When the projects are completed, they will become a part of our
classroom library to revisit and review concepts previously taught."
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Mike Russell, Math Department Head
Perryville School, Perryville, AK
"I teach in a small school in rural Alaska. Our school has K-12 in one building with a total of 36 students. I teach the
high school Ð all subjects. One problem we always run into is the lack of technologyÉI would love to use Google Earth
to teach geography or use some of the virtual dissection programs for science. I also want the students to present to
each other and get familiar with the technology that will be commonplace in college."
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Katy Avoli-Miller, Teacher
Buffalo Gap High School, Swoope, VA
"One way I used mimio was to show student writing samples on the board and then editing them and printing the notes
out for the class as examples. We also used mimio to help with spelling and reading strategies. I also liked the fact that I
could print the notes out for the classÉThis device cut my workload down so much! I would love to have one of my
very own because the students responded so well the hands-on applications!"
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