Question:

When I download an activity on my home computer how do I find/retrieve it once at school ?(I am signed in as a member)

• Submitted By:

  Jan

• Date:

  Jan. 26, 2012

Answer:

Thank you for your recent submission to Ask a Master. We are so glad to have you as part of our wonderful online community of educators! You are wondering how to access an activity you have downloaded from MimioConnect on a different computer. When you download a file from MimioConnect it will only save and open on the computer that you are on at the time. I would suggest saving your downloads to a flash drive or external hard drive in order to transfer to your school computer. You can also tag the file as one of your favorites on MimioConnect and then when you get to your school computer you can open and download it there. To do this simply click on the “Add to favorites” blue link underneath the lesson plan or activity. When you log in at school you will be able to easily find this file by going to “View Profile” (top right of page under your username/picture) and then to “Favorites.” I hope you have found this helpful and please let me know if there is anything else you may need as we are always here to help. Have a great evening! 

Mimio Master:

Cameron.Nichols   

Question:

How can I create a table in the Mimio notebook? Can an Excel table be interactive using Mimio?

• Submitted By:

  Laurina R.

• Date:

  Jan. 16, 2012

Answer:

Thank you for such a versatile question! There are a number of tables available for your use that can be found in the gallery. All you need to do is type the word "table" in the search box when you open up your gallery. Tables can also be easily made with the use of the shapes and line tools from your Mimio toolbar. To make sure that your lines are equally spaced in the table, you can utilize the "grid" feature which can be accessed from the "View" drop down menu in the notebook. When this feature is activated, you have control of how far apart you'd like the lines to be as well as if you'd like objects to be "snapped into place" once they are placed inside the created boxes. As for Excel tables, they can be imported in but they will lose their interactivity. To keep them active and be able to manipulate them, open them up outside of the notebook and just use your Mimio stylus/pen to input data or type text. For more suggestions and tips on how to maximize your lesson creation and development, check out the "Ask a Master" section of MimioConnect. Happy creating!

Mimio Master:

Tracy Tishion    

Question:

My district has switched to the Google Apps for Education platform for communication, collaboration and its productivity package of writing tools. Can Google docs and Google presentations be inserted into a Mimio notebook page like Word and PowerPoint?

• Submitted By:

  Sharon M.

• Date:

  Nov. 6, 2011

Answer:

Thank you for this very, relevant question since many districts are beginning to move to "cloud-based" applications and management due to 21st century demands like acquisition of specific information literacy and technology skills as well as recent initiatives like B.Y.O.D.(bring your own device or technology) in our schools. With reference to your question as to whether or not Google docs and presentations can be inserted into a Mimio notebook, the answer is yes! Here are the steps that you'd need to take. As I'm sure you are aware of, your Google docs are not stored on your local computer like traditional documents. They are stored in your "cloud" to be easily shared out with others. So, what this means is that you'll need to download the file to your computer before you can insert it into the Mimio notebook. To do this, just have your file open in your Google documents, then go to File and choose download. You will have a choice of downloading as a .pdf or Word document (if you have a document opened) or .pdf or PowerPoint (if it's a Google presentation opened). Once they have been downloaded and saved somewhere on your computer as one of those downloadable types, they can now be inserted into a notebook page. Just keep in mind that those files, once inserted into the notebook, become static and no changes can be made or animations activated to the documents themselves. Remember that you still have the originals back in your Google docs home. For more tips and suggestions, check out the other Ask a Master questions and answers on MimioConnect!

Mimio Master:

Tracy Tishion    

Question:

Can I create a slide show in Mimio with animations or is the best way to create in PowerPoint and use Mimio tools when showing?

• Submitted By:

  Derek McEwen

• Date:

  Oct. 11, 2011

Answer:

Thank you so much for your recent submission to Ask a Master. We are so glad to have you as part of our wonderful online community of educators! You are wondering about using PowerPoint slide shows with Mimio. You can always import your PowerPoint document into MimioNotebook. Just remember that when you import a PowerPoint into Mimio it becomes a static file, meaning that only the content will be brought in losing all interactivity you had in the file (such as hyperlinks, transitions and other flash animation). The good news is that you can now add your own interactivity to your file in a new way using the Mimio Software! Try using Screen Annotation or the many wonderful reveals you can find right in the Gallery to get your students involved in your lesson. If you have any specific file that you would like to add to your lesson (picture, audio, flash, video) you can easily insert it right into Mimio Notebook by using the “INSERT FILE” button located on your toolbar. I hope you have found this helpful and please let me know if there is anything else you may need as we are always here to help. Have a wonderful weekend!

Mimio Master:

Cameron.Nichols