Jordan Hill - Mimio Core Skills II - 2-6-14

Inserting files- You can use files (Word docs, PPT's, PDF's, images, multimedia, etc...) that you have already created in Mimio Studio Notebook. Click here to see a brief video of the 3 methods of inserting your files.

"Screen Clipping"- This is how you can capture ANY image and bring it into Mimio Studio. You can even use the free-form tool to capture JUST the image without the background. This video refers to Mimio version 8. However, you perform the task the same with version 11. Don't forget, if you want the image to remain static on your Notebook page, "Lock" the image. Use the "Selector" tool to select your object. Then, in the menu bar at the top of the page, click "Format", "Locking" then "Lock". 

"Screen Annotation" - You can use the Mimio tools to annotate over Word, PDF's, or sites from the Internet. Any time you perform the screen annotation function, it is automatically saved in your Gallery. Once your screen annotation file is in your Gallery, you can drag it into your Notebook file.

"File Attachment" - You can attach files right into your Notebook file. They become a part of the Notebook file; similar to attaching a file to an email. You can drag attached files into your Notebook software or open the files separately to annotate over them. 

Mimio Mobile
In order to begin  using the mobile device capability with your Mimio hardware/software, follow the steps below. On your teacher computer that is attached to your projector, open your Mimio software then:
>Click Tools
>Click Settings
>Click About
>Highlight "MimioMobile"
>Click "Activate"
>You will then need to put in the license number. Please email me when you are ready to do this. I can not post the license number here but I am happy to email it to you.

Then, download the MimioMobile app to your mobile device and have your students do the same. When you all have the mobile app downloaded, follow the steps below. Also, you can view the guide and videos below for more information.

On your teacher machine, attached to your projector, open your Mimio software and click:
>Tools
>Settings
>Mobile devices
>On the teacher's mobile device, open the MimioMobile app, then scan the QR code displayed on this screen. 
>Once the teacher device has taken control of the computer:
     >Click the "Applications" button on your MimioStudio Toolbox. (The icon is a pencil and paintbrush.)
     >Click "Class Manager"
     >Choose your class (If you have created your class in "Gradebook", you can choose your class. If you just want to do a quick assessment for understanding, or have your students participate in the interactive lesson, just click "Anonymous".)
     >Click "Start Class"
     >Click the QR code to enlarge it
     >Have your students open their MimioMobile app on their mobile device and scan the QR code displayed on your whiteboard.

*******EVERY MOBILE DEVICE MUST BE CONNECTED TO THE SAME WIRELESS NETWORK.*******

     >Now everyone is ready to go! As the teacher, you can decide to give control to the students of the computer or have up to 9 students collaborate with the lesson being displayed. Just use the tools at the top of your mobile device. Remember, you can always take back control by clicking the blue button on your device. 

Click HERE for a guide to "Mobile Devices in the Classroom" that you can download or view on Google Drive. The same guide is embedded below for viewing. 

Click HERE for a video describing the MimioMobile capabilities in your classroom.

Below is a great video with several helpful tips to remember for using the MimoMobile app. 







Mimio Connect
Don't forget to go to mimioconnect.com. Create an account to have access to 1,000's of downloadable lessons! You can search by grade level, subject or standard. 

AZ Kelsey Academy - Mimio Core Skills Training January 28, 2014

MimioTeach Bar 
Below is a brief video demonstrating how to connect your 
MimioTeach Bar. 

Please click HERE for a downloadable, printable reference guide for the MimioTeach Bar.

TIPS WORTH KNOWING

MOVING YOUR TOOLS AND CHANGING THE VIEW OF YOUR NOTEBOOK PAGE

You may want to place the Tool Bar to the bottom so that students can reach it easily.

• View
• Standard Tool Bar
• Choose placement

You may want to move where your thumbnails appear.

• View
• Tab View
• Choose placement

When you open a created file, you may want the students to focus on the content, not the tool bars.

• View
• Full screen

You may want your Studio Tools in a different place on your screen.

• Click the gray area at the top of the tools and drag the tools where you want them.

To collapse or expand the Studio Tools

• Double click the paintbrush at the top of the Studio Tools to collapse OR expand

If you close your Studio Tools accidentally, you can reopen them by following one of the 4 steps below:

1

• Tools
• Mimo Studio Tools

2

• Clicking the Tools icon in the status bar at the bottom of Notebook

3

• Right clicking on the Mimio Studio icon in the system tray
• Choose tools

4

• Hover near your board and click the top button on the stylus

MimioStudio Tools
Below is a brief video demonstrating the MimioStudio basic tools. The video shows an older version of Mimio. However, the only difference that I see in this video and the updated version is the icon for the eraser. It is in the same place on the toolbar. It just looks different. 

Please click HERE for a reference guide for Studio Tools. 

***Tools covered on January 28, 2014 (Above is a link for a guide to the Tools)
1. Zoom
2. Pen/Brush
3. Shapes / Lines
4. Selector
5. Text
6. Highlighter
7. Eraser
8. Sizer / Color pallette

Mimio Mobile
In order to begin  using the mobile device capability with your Mimio hardware/software, follow the steps below. On your teacher computer that is attached to your projector:
>Click Tools
>Click Settings
>Click About
>Highlight "MimioMobile"
>Click "Activate"
>You will then need to put in the license number. Please email me when you are ready to do this. I can not post the license number here but I am happy to email it to you.

Then, download the MimioMobile app to your mobile device and have your students do the same. When you all have the mobile app downloaded, follow the steps below. Also, you can view the guide and videos below for more information.

On your teacher machine, attached to your projector, open your Mimio software and click:
>Tools
>Settings
>Mobile devices
>Teacher device needs to open the MimioMobile app, on his/her mobile device, then scan the QR code displayed on this screen. 
>Once the teacher device has taken control of the computer:
     >Click the "Applications" button on your MimioStudio Toolbox. (The icon is a pencil and paintbrush.)
     >Click "Class Manager"
     >Choose your class (If you have created your class in "Gradebook", you can choose your class. If you just want to do a quick assessment for understanding, or have your students participate in the interactive lesson, just click "Anonymous".)
     >Click "Start Class"
     >Click the QR code to enlarge it
     >Have your students open their MimioMobile app on their mobile device and scan the QR code displayed on your whiteboard.

*******EVERY MOBILE DEVICE MUST BE CONNECTED TO THE SAME WIRELESS NETWORK.*******

     >Now everyone is ready to go! As the teacher, you can decide to give control to the students of the computer or have up to 9 students collaborate with the lesson being displayed. Just use the tools at the top of your mobile device. Remember, you can always take back control by clicking the blue button on your device. 

Click HERE for a guide to "Mobile Devices in the Classroom" that you can download or view on Google Drive. The same guide is embedded below for viewing.




Click HERE for a video describing the MimioMobile capabilities in your classroom.

Below is a great video with several helpful tips to remember for using the MimoMobile app. 

Mimio Connect
Don't forget to go to mimioconnect.com. Create an account to have access to 1,000's of downloadable lessons! You can search by grade level or subject. 

Orrs Elementary - Google Apps Training - 1-25-14

Hello Orrs Staff!
Below are notes and videos about Google Drive. Please feel free to email or call me anytime if you have questions. 

GOOGLE DRIVE

Drive works best with Google’s Chrome browser.

30GB of storage for:

Images

Music

Videos

Documents

Spreadsheets

Presentations

You can also upload files that are not in Google format or convert your already created files to a Google formatted doc so that others can edit and collaborate.

Only files uploaded that are NOT in Google format count toward your storage.

Supports 15 file formats

You can download the Google Drive mobile app to your devices and edit there too.

Eliminates:

Jump drives

emailing large files

carrying devices to and from work/home

UPLOADING FILES TO DRIVE FROM YOUR COMPUTER

>Click the Gear icon in the top right

>Choose “Settings”

>Choose “Upload Settings”

>Choose “Confirm settings before each upload”

>Click the red upload button

>Decide if you want to upload individual files or a folder (Folder option ONLY works with Chrome as your browser)

>Choose what you want to upload from your computer

>When “Upload Settings” window appears, choose the option you want

>Click the “Start Upload” button

You will see the status of the upload. Then you will see it appear in Drive. Open Drive on your desktop and you will see the file there too! If you delete a file from your Google Drive on your computer, you will see that it disappears from Drive online too!

Uploading files to Google Drive

SHARING FILES IN GOOGLE DRIVE

>Check the box by the file or folder you want to share

>2 options for sharing from “My Drive”

>Click the  icon at the top

OR

>Right click on the file and click share

OR

>Share from the open document by clicking the   button in the top right corner of the document.

>After you choose how to share, the “Share Settings” window will open and you can decide here what rights your collaborators will have.

>Choose to send a message when you share

>Choose to send yourself a copy

>Click “Share and Save”

If someone shares a file or folder with you, it will be in the “shared with me” link in Drive. These “shared with me” files are not automatically synced with your Drive on multiple computers. If the owner of the document deletes a file from their drive, then you will no longer have access to it either.

Sharing documents

CREATING DOCUMENTS IN DRIVE

>Click  (In top left corner)

>Choose Document

>Click on “Untitled Document” in the top left corner

>Name your document

>Click OK

>Begin creating your document.

>Every keystroke is saved in Drive automatically!

Creating new documents in Google Drive

STUDENT GMAIL

GSCS 3rd through 5th grade students now have email through GAFE. Below is the page they see upon their first attempt to log into Gmail. 

You can share files with your students through Google Drive. They can also submit files to you through Google Drive.

Moore Elementary Mimio Core Skills Training II - 1-24-14

Hi Moore Staff,
This post contains videos and notes for the Mimio training on January 24. If you need help with anything before my next visit, please call or email me. Also, I will be conducting the "drop-in" sessions at the lab (at Central Office) on Mondays from 3:15p to 4:30p. 

Inserting files- You can use files (Word docs, PPT's, PDF's, images, multimedia, etc...) that you have already created in Mimio Studio Notebook. Click here to see a brief video of the 3 methods of inserting your files.

"Screen Clipping"- This is how you can capture ANY image and bring it into Mimio Studio. You can even use the free-form tool to capture JUST the image without the background. This video refers to Mimio version 8. However, you perform the task the same with version 11. Don't forget, if you want the image to remain static on your Notebook page, "Lock" the image. Use the "Selector" tool to select your object. Then, in the menu bar at the top of the page, click "Format", "Locking" then "Lock". 

"Screen Annotation" - You can use the Mimio tools to annotate over Word, PDF's, or sites from the Internet. Any time you perform the screen annotation function, it is automatically saved in your Gallery. Once your screen annotation file is in your Gallery, you can drag it into your Notebook file.

"File Attachment" - You can attach files right into your Notebook file. They become a part of the Notebook file; similar to attaching a file to an email. You can drag attached files into your Notebook software or open the files separately to annotate over them. 

Jordan Hill Elementary - Mimio Core Skills I - 1-23-14

Hi Jordan Hill Elementary Staff,



I enjoyed our sessions on Thursday! I am so glad that you are enthusiastic about Mimio software and hardware. 

If you have ANY questions before my next visit, feel free to call or email me. I have also reserved the lab (2nd Floor at Central Office) on Mondays from 3:15p to 4:30p, beginning again on January 27, 2014. These will be informal, drop-in sessions. We can go over core skills OR advanced skills. If you want help with files that you are working on, if you want to make your Mimio files more interactive for your students, OR if you need help beginning new Notebook files, these work sessions are for you. These sessions are to help you, no matter how experienced you feel with Mimio Studio. I look forward to seeing you in the next training sessions and hope you will join me in the lab on Mondays!

April

Don't forget to go to mimioconnect.com. Create an account to have access to 1,000's of downloadable lessons! You can search by grade level or subject. 

Please click HERE for the reference guide for the Studio Tools. 

Please click HERE for the reference guide for the MimioTeach Bar.

TIPS WORTH KNOWING

MOVING YOUR TOOLS AND CHANGING THE VIEW OF YOUR NOTEBOOK PAGE

You may want to place the Tool Bar to the bottom so that students can reach it easily.

• View
• Standard Tool Bar
• Choose placement

You may want to move where your thumbnails appear.

• View
• Tab View
• Choose placement

When you open a created file, you may want the students to focus on the content, not the tool bars.

• View
• Full screen

You may want your Studio Tools in a different place on your screen.

• Click the gray area at the top of the tools and drag the tools where you want them.

To collapse or expand the Studio Tools

• Double click the paintbrush at the top of the Studio Tools to collapse OR expand

If you close your Studio Tools accidentally, you can reopen them by following one of the 4 steps below:

1

• Tools
• Mimo Studio Tools

2

• Clicking the Tools icon in the status bar at the bottom of Notebook

3

• Right clicking on the Mimio Studio icon in the system tray
• Choose tools

4

• Hover at your board and click the top button on the stylus

***Tools covered on January 23, 2014 (Above is a link for a guide to the Tools)
1. Zoom
2. Pen/Brush
3. Shapes / Lines
4. Selector
5. Text
6. Highlighter
7. Eraser
8. Sizer / Color pallette
 
I know many of you have created lessons using Promethean software. Below is a video describing the steps to follow in order to use those files with your Mimio software. If you have any trouble, just call or email me.

Moreland Rd. Elementary - Mimio Gallery 2-4-14

Hi Moreland Rd. Staff,

Below are notes about the Mimio Gallery. Please feel free to call or email me with any questions about Mimio, anytime! Also, don't forget about the Monday afternoon sessions in the lab, at Central Office, 3:15p-4:15p. 

April 

Click HERE for a reference card for the Mimio Gallery.

1. Gallery divided into 4 parts: Images, Templates, Multimedia, Lesson (The "Lessons" section is not in the Gallery by default. This is available when you add things to the Gallery.
2. When searching the Gallery, make sure you have one of the folders highlighted. If you want to search the entire Gallery, then highlight Gallery folder. If you are looking for a multimedia music file, then highlight the Music folder.
3. Imported Content Packs can be added from mimioconnect.com
4. Questions and Results are used to create multiple choice questions and can be used with the Mimio Vote system.
5. Screen Annotations is the folder that contains ANY screen annotations that you create. These can  also be inserted into new Notebook files. 
6. New Folder - For creating new folders or subfolders. You can also click/drag folders into other folders to create subfolders.
7. Import File - While you can insert files directly into a Notebook file, you can also make entire files a part of your gallery.
8. Copy/Paste - Put any Gallery file into multiple folders. You can also "right-click" to copy and paste files and folders.
9. Import Content Pack - When you download packs from mimioconnect.com to your computer (MCF files), you use this button to put the Content Packs into your Gallery. Or, if another teacher has shared content with you, this is how to organize those files into your Gallery.
10. Export Content Pack - Use this button to share any part of your Gallery with other teachers or save them to a portable drive in order to copy them on to another computer. 

Mimio Studio Gallery Features

Using Your Mimio Gallery to Make your Lessons More Effective

Adding Content to your Gallery

Adding Content Packs to your Gallery I

Adding Content Packs to your Gallery II

Adding Content Packs to your Gallery III