Teachers, have you downloaded the Thanksgiving Gallery Pack from MimioConnect? It contains fun holiday images, templates, multimedia files, and lessons/activities. Use the templates, clipart and multimedia to create your own Mimio lessons or use our pre-made lessons/activities in the Lessons tab. 

All educators would like to see their students engaged in classroom activities, not just enduring them. While it can be difficult to pinpoint student engagement, we can often identify it when we see it. If you have worked in a classroom, chances are you have a few stories about moments when one or more of your students were truly engaged. What did that look like? What made you think that the student was engaged? Unpacking a few of my favorite stories of genuine engagement has revealed four keys to increasing student engagement.  

We live in a world that is very different from when I went to school.  Students today have instant access to virtually unlimited amounts of information through the Internet. They use gaming systems that respond to their motions; they communicate dynamically and asynchronously through mobile phones and text messaging; and they participate in digital social networks. In such a world, how do we make classroom life more engaging? An obvious though somewhat incomplete answer is to utilize technology in the classroom. Technology has made the outside world more engaging, so why wouldn’t it do the same in the classroom?

Although Mimio offers numerous training options, the MimioTraining Quick Learn program is truly the cornerstone of Mimio professional development.  I always tell people to start small and find ways to integrate Mimio technologies into what they’re already doing in the classroom.  Most importantly, get students involved, to stimulate their critical thinking and problem solving abilities! 

Lindy George, District Instructional Technology Specialist for Collier County Public Schools and our own Travis Rink, Mimio Professional Development Product Specialist will be on EduTalk Radio on Thursday to discuss the FREE Get Out The Vote lessons and lesson plan developed by the Mimio Teacher Team.

Did you miss the Reading Comprehension Strategies to Reach Every Student Webinar on Thursday, October 4th 2012, where Reading/Literacy Coordinator Dr. Linda Baker of the Tangipahoa Parish School District and Janet Webb, Leader of Implementation at Mimio will walked through the literacy tools used for identifying the reading levels, reading challenges, and progress of student readers at every level in the Tangipahoa Parish district. Download the archived presentation here!

Have you been waiting for the right moment to make your classroom technology purchase? Wait no more because we've just announced our new promotion - Buy MimioTeach and MimioView and get a FREE MimioPad. A couple of really great points about this promotion:

On Thursday, September 20, join Mimio and T.H.E. Journal for 2012 Elections: How to Integrate Student Response Systems into Your Classrooms.

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