Mimio day two
I don’t think I will post every day but will probably post things as I’m learning about the Mimio. My one disadvantage (or several) is that (1) the mac software is lagging behind the windows software and some of the things that we saw at #lats09 in the breakout I can’t do with the mac software – yet; (2) I don’t have a wireless kit – so my computer has to be close to the board/projector; (3) the projector is on a trolley which means it gets knocked about as kids move around the classroom – meaning I have to recalibrate more often than if it was ceiling mounted – the positive to that is that calibration is quick.
Yesterday I created my visual roll. I fired it up this morning and showed it to the first student into the classroom and then had to leave the room. When I got back (30 mins later) about 15 students had successfully pulled their faces over their names but someone had missed with the Mimio mouse and pulled the grid out of alignment. (There were also about 5 parents watching with fascination at what the kids were doing – hardly any room for me to move!)
At lunch time I had a bit of a search (thanks google) and finally figured out how to get the grid as a background object (most of the available documentation was for the windows version 6 software and not applicable for me) and therefore unmoveable.
I will see how it goes tomorrow morning.
One of the very cool things you can do is duplicate a page which is ideal for something you do daily or even weekly.
Today the activities we did were (not in the order we did them):
Handwriting
WAD – Word A Day
SODA – Start Of Day Activity
Maths – fact families
Word chunking
March 8th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
You are really exploring the possibilities with the Mimio Jo. I’ve had a few goes using the Mimio at my last school, but wasn’t able to really explore in depth as we had to share 2 between 24 classes and it was often booked out. It’s great that you have it in your room along with the projector. I’m missing having a permanent projector this year, as again it’s something I have to share & book. I look forward to reading more about the really cool things you’re doing with your Mimio.
March 14th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Hey Jo. Very cool to see your updates online. I was wondering where Tina got her visual roll call from.
mimio Studio 6 for Mac is coming soon and there is a special surprise with it to thank you for your patience.
Use a whiteboard marker and mark small crosses at the corners of your projected image – when the projector trolley gets bumped, simply move it back to fit within your marks on the board – no recalibration required!
Looking forward to working with you.
March 14th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Woo Hoo looking forward to Studio 6.
I’ve used a vivid and marked the edges of the maximised page to help. It still sometimes gets a bit confused but i just close studio and reopen and i’m fine.