mimio     Site Map   Contact    Solutions Products Training Buy Support News About Us    Education       Business       Online Meetings      mimio Interactive      mimio Interactive + Capture      mimio Board      mimio Pad      Accessories      mimio quick learn       mimio masters       Online Store       Resellers and Distributors       Product Support       Downloads       Product Registration       Contact Support       Press Room       Awards       Testimonials       Company       Contact Us    Think Ink Contest Winners:   2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007   January Winners   JoAnna Nichols, 6th Grade Science Teacher Hancock County Middle School, Sneedville, TN "My classroom is located in the rural Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee. The ability to implement interactive activities would help students learn about complex concepts as well as learn about the far reaches of outer space." Read the full entry » Marlyn Waford, Teacher for the Visually Impaired Second Street School, Frankfort, KY "The students that I see at this particular school use Braille, but also use equipment that allows them to view information from the board. mimio would allow them to continue having opportunities to view the information just as their classmates do." Read the full entry » Mary Jo Tomars, Third Grade Teacher Waupaca Learning Center, Waupaca, WI "With the No Child Left Behind law, we educators need to educate our parents on what is expected. mimio would allow me the opportunity to hold informational parent meetings that show parents different levels of proficiency relating to our curriculum." Read the full entry » Nicole Walker, Teacher Plainfield High School, Downers Grove, IL "It is difficult to bring the SMART Board into the classroom in a school that is overcrowded. Since several teachers are using the same classroom, the board obscures the dry erase board for other teachers. mimio would solve this problem due to the portability and ease of set-up." Read the full entry »   February Winners   Deborah Aughey, English Department Chair Robert Morgan Ed Center, Miami, FL "The mimio technology attracts us because we are always looking to provide our students with hands-on technology that mimics the workplace. Today's world of work requires teamwork, adaptation to available technology, and a wide variety of critical thinking skills... mimio could bridge the gap of LEP students learning English and technical arts skills to become active, integrated, productive and gainfully employed members of society." Read the full entry » Jim Chiavacci, Instructional Technologist University of Maine, Orono, ME "mimio would allow me to demonstrate a wonderful tool to pre-service and graduate teachers showing them the many ways a technology like this could support their classroom." Read the full entry » Maggie Mosher, Inter-related Teacher K-4 Madison Elementary, Gardner, KS "Though my classroom is comprised of numerous age levels and abilities, every one of my students is able to use mimio to learn. A permanent mimio in our special needs classroom will help motivate students, expand new ways of learning, provide immediate feedback to students, increase parental involvement and improve the evaluation of students with learning disabilities. What teacher wouldn't want this tool for her students?" Read the full entry » Peter Scarano, Elementary Principal River Ridge, Hanover, IL "I had seen mimio at a conference and feel it would be more adaptable for our situation than the SMART Board." Read the full entry »   March Winners   Christopher Bishop, Student Delta State University, Cleveland, MS "I would use this device in the college environment to teach students wishing to become teachers how to use different types of technology." Read the full entry » Margo Heidenreich, Teacher Piedmont Community Charter School, Gastonia, NC "The mimio product will allow me to maintain the high level of technology integration I have come to appreciate even in a traditional classroom setting. The goal of our educational system is to prepare students for their future. By ensuring technology in the classroom stays current with technology in the corporate world, students will have a comfort level and skill which will be necessary as they transition into the 'real' world." Read the full entry » Sonja Dreher, 6th-8th Grade Language Arts St. Patrick's Catholic School, Elkhorn, NE "mimio will make every assignment and every presentation come to life. Our students must have opportunities to enhance their work and learn to love to express themselves in a creative, professional fashion. Incorporating mimio into our classrooms will certainly assist in meeting these goals." Read the full entry » Susan Fitchben, Teacher of the Visually Impaired Dames Ferry Elementary School, Gray, GA "The beauty of mimio is that it is so easy to use, all the teachers can be trained easily and do not have to modify their teaching styles in order to accommodate for the equipment. Oh and another bonus is that mimio is portable too!" Read the full entry »   April Winners   David Underhill, Headteacher Ysgol Trefonnen School, Llandrindod Wells Powys, UK "The staff is very eager and willing to utilize the new interactive boards and children love the interactivity where they also participate in an exciting way." Read the full entry » Karen Janowski, Educator Reading Public Schools, Reading, MA "I believe that mimio has greater flexibility and is more advantageous for our school system due to its portability, ease of use and lower cost compared to other interactive whiteboard technology." Read the full entry » Kari Jones, Health and Physical Education Teacher Capitol Hill Gifted and Talented Magnet School, Saint Paul, MN "Since physical education is moving toward the future with more individual fitness, this would enable my students to progress to the next generation and be able to put their learning into practice for the rest of their lives. This will help with the building blocks to their future for a life of wellness." Read the full entry » Teresa Culpepper, Administrative Coordinator Anderson University, Anderson, SC "I would use mimio to showcase the innovative ways in which technology can allow us the ability to incorporate lessons into everyday situations, to save paper and pens in the classroom, to promote and inspire different ways to use existing technology to prevent unnecessary waste or use of resources. What better way to do that than to be armed with the essential tools like mimio." Read the full entry »   May Winners   Janine Loveless, College Faculty and PhD Learner Eastern Iowa Community College and Capella University, Muscatine, IA "My suggestion is to use mimio to develop lecture plans, which we could call learning plans, and create the content to be delivered and materials to be used in different types of media. With the use of templates, graphics, resources, and colors provided by mimio and its add-ons, the learning experience will be better designed and provide learners and faculty with interactive and unique opportunities to handle the learning delivery and acquisition. With mimio we could create text, images, audio and video for the learning plan." Read the full entry » Jim Musgrave, English Teacher Contemporary Instructional Concepts, San Diego, CA "This would be an especially effective device for grammar classes and English as second language classes where students often lose attention quickly during the usual 'boring' grammar lesson. Instead, students could whiz off into cyberspace and even do the quizzes and PowerPoint presentations provided with the Writer's Assistant." Read the full entry » Julie Irizarry, Math Teacher John Carroll Catholic High School, Ft. Pierce, FL "After viewing the mimio session presented at our school, I want to take that idea one step further by using mimio and the recording option to record the students solving problems on the whiteboard. Students will be assessed on presentation skills and ability to communicate the reasons behind the steps that they took to solve the problem." Read the full entry » Robert Throndson, Mathematics Teacher George Washington High School, Cedar Rapids, IA "A more original use of mimio that I have discussed with other teachers was purchasing a 4' x 8' sheet of white laminated shower board from a home center (something we have already done to some of our old chalkboards to make them whiteboards) for about $10, then having groups of students use the surface as a "table" for plotting data, working on example problems, playing instructional games, etc. and having it all recorded without needing to use a projection unit." Read the full entry »   June Winners   Cheryl Buckel, Librarian Andrew Jackson Elementary School, Chalmette, LA "St. Bernard Parish was totally devastated by Hurricane Katrina! This innovative product will also be used to teach library and research skills. Faculty meetings will become interactive. This product will enhance our curriculum and bring some new technology into a school that has to start from scratch." Read the full entry » Christine Perez, Special Education Teacher K-6 Andrew Jackson Elementary School, Chalmette, LA "This mimio device would truly enhance the experiences for my students and make it efficient to transfer notes written on the board for students who are unable to transfer notes from the board due to a disability." Read the full entry » Peggy Schwarz, Library Media Specialist Chalmette High School, Chalmette, LA "As a library media specialist and teacher, I would have many uses for mimio. In my own library instruction classes, mimio would be invaluable as an effective tool for modeling navigation of educational software or research-related web sites to small and large groups of students in the library." Read the full entry »   July Winners   Linda Pittman, Teacher Tinker Elementary, Tampa, FL "mimio would allow me to write essays with my students while manipulating them and pointing out important points such as main idea, detail sentences, and supporting sentences. This would make writing so much more interactive and alive which would drastically improve writing instruction and learning." Read the full entry » Mary Jane Williams, Spanish Teacher Richwood High School, Richwood, WV "Adding mimio and related software to my classroom would offer my students a unique, motivating approach to learning language while teaching them valuable technology skills." Read the full entry » Michelle Ridgway, Fourth Grade Teacher Lakeview Elementary School, Sugar Land, TX "As I sit in my wheelchair, I could type sentences. Then the students could circle and add in text as an interactive editing activity. I would not mind transporting this lightweight device to other classrooms and model its effectiveness, but I believe other teachers will fall in love with it and want their own! The mimio device will change the way instruction is delivered, the way thinking is encouraged, the way a child even feels about learning -excitement and empowerment." Read the full entry »   August Winners   Diana La Rocque, Technology Integration Specialist District Office, Charleston, SC "I am in the process of writing a course on the wiki, blog, and podcasting technology. I see your technology as a fit into this syllabus." Read the full entry » Jason Reed, Math Teacher Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, KY "mimio will be a tool that helps me make math instantly accessible to people who process information visually, socially, or even kinesthetically! With a mimio, I would be able to drive calculator activities, display classroom data, and create poll questions from my whiteboard without being tied to a computer (or tripping over power cords). mimio would allow for a seamless integration of the TI-Navigator network and still keep me accessible to students!" Read the full entry » Patrice Fletcher, Teacher H.L. Johnson Elementary, Royal Palm Beach, FL "The students who are labeled with learning disabilities need instructional tools that allow for an interactive experience. mimio is a necessary device that will continually hold students' interest levels as well as make learning 'fun'." Read the full entry » Travis Rink, Science Teacher Goddard High School, Goddard, KS "As a chemistry teacher, I am always using our existing whiteboards on a daily basis in all six hours. Constant erasing and repeating hour after hour could be nearly eliminated with mimio." Read the full entry »   September Winners   Lorraine Leo, Technology Teacher Jackson School, Newton, MA "With a mimio I would be able to make the virtual classroom life-size and allow students to interact with our global neighbors by drawing on the whiteboard in the virtual classroom as students in other countries are drawing with them." Read the full entry » Marsha Sirkin, Teacher Morehead City Middle School, Moorhead City, NC "mimio allows students to manipulate the Internet in front of classmates instead of sitting at a desktop computer. This gives each student the opportunity to exercise verbal understanding of content area with classmates." Read the full entry » Richard Brantley, First Grade Teacher Cumberland Elementary School, West Lafayette, IN "With a mimio I could make annotations to documents, PowerPoints, Kidspiration, graphics, etc, and then print to share with the class or save them for days later." Read the full entry » Richard Meagher, Classroom Teacher of Chemistry and Physics Mt. Lawley Senior High School, Perth, WA "With mimio Interactive and recorder in my classroom I could easily capture my complex chemical diagrams of processes or organic structures along with my audio in a 'movie style', save as a Quicktime *.movie, and then export into an iPod format ready for my students to upload to their computers or iPods." Read the full entry »   October Winners   Christina Lambard, Teacher Westglades Middle School, Parkland, FL "Students could view reading passages projected by an LCD while I highlighted and underlined important points using mimio. As teachers we often instruct our students to select crucial parts of a passage, but it is difficult to monitor all 24 students at once or demonstrate for them what I want them to see." Read the full entry » Kim Norris, Student Teacher Walnut Creek Middle School, West Bloomfield, MI "After seeing a demonstration of mimio in one of my education classes, I wanted one. It was interactive, amazing, and the possibilities seemed endless. However, after being in the middle school classroom student teaching for the past five weeks, I know now that I don't just want one - I need one...as any middle school math teacher could attest, getting students and parents to be able to work together on math at the middle school level can be impossible. I believe that mimio has the capability to make the impossible, possible." Read the full entry » Terry Young, Coordinator, Multimedia Production and Support Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria "The Japanese Language department of Swinburne University of Technology currently uses a mimio Capture system to record the writing of Kanji characters...Our academics like the ability to easily capture the stroke work on the whiteboard, which is a medium they are already familiar with. Teaching this online has been traditionally a problem, but mimio Capture has provided an easy efficient solution." Read the full entry » Deborah Jackson, Teacher Fort Hill High School, Cumberland, MD "mimio is a unit that turns any whiteboard into an Interactive Touch Screen (with a data projector) that enables teachers or students to control, mark up and save or print projected desktop applications and documents directly from the board. It electronically records class notes, drawings and diagrams which can be saved and then printed." Read the full entry »   November Winners   Lori Bederman, Teacher St. Peter School, Bridgeport, CT "If I had a mimio in my classroom, it would be my primary educational tool. mimio would save me valuable time with daily lessons and give me more time to spend with my students. It is a convenient tool that would help my students increase their learning capabilities. It is a worldwide connector to a global learning experience." Read the full entry » Mary Anderson, Graduate Assistant/Department of Adult and Career Education Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA "Students would benefit by being able to access class notes from the course web site or receiving them via email, after having been captured by mimio from the whiteboard by the professor." Read the full entry » Meredith Pruitt, Sixth Grade Language Arts Teacher Kings Mountain Intermediate School, Kings Mountain, NC "mimio would help me with my new curriculum, and it would help me to raise my end of grade test scores. This technology would give my students some much needed experiences. I feel that mimio would help me to better prepare my students in this day and age of high stakes testing." Read the full entry » Penny de Byl, Senior Lecturer (Computer Games & Graphics Programming) Manager University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland "We would like to use mimio Interactive as a 'quasi' motion capture device for relaying content in real-time into a 3D virtual environment." Read the full entry »   December Winners   Geoff Olson, Seventh Grade Teacher Randolph Middle School, Randolph, NY "I teach seventh grade math at Randolph. What I would really like to do is use mimio Capture to post my class notes on my blog... if students forget their notes in school they could still get on my blog, get the notes, and be able to do their homework." Read the full entry » Jim Marsalis, Math Teacher St. Martin's Episcopal School, Metairie, LA "When one of our technology folks came to me a few days ago and said 'You might get your smartboard early, I said 'Let me tell you about mimio.' An hour later, she was convinced that mimio is the way to go." Read the full entry » Vickie Houlihan, Computer Operations/Networking Instructor Heartland Career Center, Wabash, IN "mimio would allow the instructor to present these concepts in a professional manner for the students to understand. mimio will be used to stimulate the learning environment. mimio would enhance the students learning techniques with hands-on, visual training." Read the full entry » Wendy Barber, Provisional Teacher of the Visually Impaired W. Jesse Gurganus Elementary School, Havelock, NC "I am an itinerant teacher of the visually impaired and actually cover 10 schools in my district... I would use the mimio to enhance the learning of these three bright students. Being able to get every piece of information would put them on the same playing field with the other students...When you give someone their independence, you give them the world." Read the full entry » © 2007, mimio Home     Legal     PRIVACY POLICY