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Question:

I have opened a word document and I want to use my Mimio pen to write over it, how do I get the tools to work.

• Submitted By:

  Sandy J.

• Date:

  Aug. 2, 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 have a question concerning how to use your Mimio pen to write over your open word document. This is very easy to do! On your toolbar there is a button for Screen Annotation which allows you to annotate anything on your screen. To use this, you would want to open the MimioStudio software and have the Mimio toolbar available. By clicking the Screen Annotation button (bottom right button on tool bar), you can freeze the screen and then use any of the other tools on the Mimio toolbar to annotate or draw on the screen. Upon pressing the Annotation button, you will hear a camera shutter clicking noise and a green border will go around your screen. Your screen will be "frozen" allowing you to use the Mimio stylus and any tools to circle, highlight, draw, etc anywhere on the page you want. Since the screen is frozen, you'll want to make sure it's in position before you go into the Annotation mode. To get out of Annotation mode, simply hit ESC on your keyboard, click the bottom left button (interactive) on the Mimio toolbar, or right click anywhere on your screen and select “close.” The Mimio toolbar can 'float' over any application and you can use the features at will if you are in the Annotation mode. Another great feature of this is that any annotation you make is automatically saved in the Mimio Gallery in the Screen Annotations folder. If you open your Mimio Gallery by pressing the Gallery button on the Mimio tools (third button from the bottom left--looks like a picture frame), you can click on the Screen Annotations folder and bring your annotations right in a Mimio file to continue doing work, review what you did, print, save, etc. Also, if you want to try something different you can easily insert your word document right into MimioNotebook which would allow you to use all of the tools and even add other elements found in the Gallery such as the different reveals in effort to make your document interactive. To insert the file, open MimioNotebook, go to INSERT at the top and then FILE, navigate to the file of your choice and select OPEN. You will notice in the bottom left hand corner of your Notebook that is says “loading document” and soon your word document will appear! You can also insert the file by clicking on the INSERT FILE icon on your toolbar (6th button down on left side) or you can drag/drop the file from its location on your computer directly into MimioNotebook. Here is a video showing you how easy it is to do this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBB9eLpVehE
I hope you find this helpful and please let me know if there is anything else you need as we are always here to help. Have a wonderful day! 

Mimio Master:

Cameron.Nichols   

Question:

Can I print multiple pages like thumbnails on one sheet of paper?

• Submitted By:

  Julie S.

• Date:

  Jul. 28, 2011

Answer:

This a good question because there are times when we need to print off our notebook pages to use as references, guide a lesson, or for notetaking and mark ups. You do have an option to print multiple notebook pages on 1 sheet of paper. It is a choice in the "preferences" when you go to click on Print from your notebook menu. It may be a little different from computer to computer but the choice is "Pages per sheet." On some computers it's in the layout tab, or the features tab, or even the advanced tab. This form of printing does give you those smaller versions of the pages, but without the lines. Give it a try and don't forget to check out the rest of the Ask a Master section on the site for other tips and suggestions!

Mimio Master:

Tracy Tishion    

Question:

How can I add the self-checking tools to a lesson? IE: the student clicks the correct word and it chimes and is highlighted, or, the reverse, the student clicks the incorrect choice and the buzzer sounds and the words is highlighted in red. Also, from where are the sound effects obtained? Thank you for your kind response.

• Submitted By:

  Michelle S.

• Date:

  Jul. 19, 2011

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 asked for help on how to create lessons where your students can see whether their choice was correct or incorrect. We all know that no matter the age, students love the instant feedback. First of all, please make sure that you have the latest version of MimioStudio Notebook Software downloaded on your computer. You can do this by going to:

http://www.mimio.dymo.com/en-US/Support/Downloads.aspx

Your MimioStudio Gallery comes preloaded with some wonderful resources for you to use when creating lessons, including different answer reveals that can make your lessons more interactive for your students. First, open up your Gallery, click on the Gallery folder so that it is highlighted in blue and then enter “reveals” into the search bar at the top. Here you will find various reveals to use in your lessons such as the pop, star pop, color and shade reveals which you can bring into Mimio Notebook and resize to fit over the answer choices. When the students come up and click on the reveal, the answer will be displayed underneath. You can also search the Gallery again for “correct” and you will find various multimedia files such as colored checkmarks, cross areas, along with correct and incorrect answer areas. You can easily drag these invisible answer reveals into Mimio Notebook and resize them to fit over the answer choices. When the students come up and click on an answer it will show them if they are right or wrong instantly! To reset, simply click on the answer again. Your students will love the sound and animation! As part of our new MimioStudio Software, your Gallery comes with wonderful Question Templates that are designed to use with the MimioVote System. However, you can still use the question template if you do not have the MimioVote. To do this, open your Gallery, go to and expand the Questions and Results folder, open up the Questions folder. Now, choose the template you’d like, drag it out into MimioNotebook, resize as needed and add in your question and answer choices and you are ready to go! Left clicking once inside the template will open up the text fields where you can enter the question and answer choices. Click on the circle to the left of the correct answer choice and you will see a green check appear. You can change other settings by clicking on the icon in the lower right hand corner of the template. Once you finish, click outside of the template and it is ready to use. To reveal the correct answer simply click on the blue button at the bottom center of the question template. Also, there are a few other reveal gallery files on MimioConnect that you may like. Simply conduct a search for “reveals” and download the files you like. Now you should be ready to create some amazing lessons that will keep your students fully engaged and provide instantaneous feedback during your lessons!

You are also wondering where to find sound effects to add to your lessons. There are many sound effects that are already in a folder in your Gallery so all you have to do is search for “sound effects” and you will have access to all of them. You also have the option of using any sound effect that you have on your computer or have downloaded. Please remember to search on MimioConnect for sound effects as well as I know there are several .mcf’s that are available for download. I hope this helps and please feel free to contact me with any further questions that you may have. Have a fantastic week!

Mimio Master:

Cameron.Nichols   

Question:How do I link sound from the Gallery Browser to an object?

• Submitted By:

  Carol Ann C.

• Date:

  Jul. 14, 2011

Answer:Are you wondering how to use a sound file found in your Gallery as an action setting to an object in Mimio Notebook? Here is a quick step by step tutorial on how to easy it is to load a sound file that you have in your Gallery and apply it as an action setting to your object of choice. Now, you can use all of the files that are already in your Gallery without having to go and search for them elsewhere. Watch me today!

Mimio Master:

Cameron.Nichols