Are you looking for ways to save money when you print?
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has recently implemented a change to the way that they print documents based on recent research.  The school's printing costs currently run up to $100,000 per year and they estimate that they will cut this cost by up to 10%.  So what did they do to save their school $10,000 a year?
They changed the type of font that they print on documents. 

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mimio products have been designed from the ground up to be hardy and reliable in most real-world situations, especially New Zealand classrooms.  But it is always good to know that when things go wrong, that there is someone to help fix things quickly and easily and that's where your mimio hardware warranty comes in.  Did you know that you can extend your current mimio warranty for free? 

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Do you use Sunshine books and resources in your classroom?
Sunshine Books has just released their range of Sunshine Classics Joy Cowley big books for interactive whiteboards.  The series is made up of 3 new CDs featuring six animated stories and new rhymes from all-time favourites written by Joy Cowley.  Along with the stories, there are fun, open-ended interactive activities which can be used with your mimio. 

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Some teachers will already say we have the fly flip cards already why do we need them in the mimio gallery. I believe you can use both. As a person who likes variety and not doing the same thing again and again having the concrete fly flip cards and then having them to use with the mimio gives me that variety. Some of the students who struggle see it on the whiteboard and it makes sense to them. It is there world. They are able to interrupt the information in a way they can use.  

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Each holidays we run workshops for teachers who find training during the term too hard and prefer a clear head to concentrate. These workshops are different from the ones offered during the term at schools. We ran both the Beginners and Getting Practical Workshops in Auckland last year with full workshops. We have decided to offer them in Christchurch and Wellington this year as well. 

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What value do interactive whiteboards (IWBs) have in today’s classrooms?
"Interactive Whiteboards are very important. Their value is that they provide ‘technology’ to teachers while they teach. In the past, teachers used to use technology to prepare their lessons before they entered the classroom, and then to keep assessment records and the like after they left. Before interactive Whiteboards, when teachers ‘taught’ in the classroom usually their only tool was a stick of chalk and their voice. Research shows that it is the quality of the ‘teaching’ that has the greatest impact of the standard of student learning. But an Interactive Whiteboard can improve the quality of teaching by giving access to the potential of ICT."  

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Two of our free mimio QuickLearn courses have had a timetable change to the following:

mimio Studio Intermediate I - 30 minute online training covering how to add content to your lessons, including screen clipping and importing documents. (Now Tuesday 13 April 9:30pm)  

mimio Studio Intermediate II - 30 minute online training covering how to open/edit ink files, export/import gallery files and exporting ink files to other formats. (Now Tuesday 13 April 10:30pm) 

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Are you in the market for some more mimio interactive whiteboard recorders? For a very limited time, Waterman Innovations is giving away a FREE mimio Pad with every 3 mimio Interactive or mimio Interactive & Capture units sold. The mimio Pad allows you to wirelessly control your computer from anywhere in the room and works seamlessly with your existing mimios and mimio Studio software. 

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Do you know anything about Fire Poi and how to use them?
If you want to know come ask my class because they know! My daughter Emma has visited my class to show them how to do poi and they were excited to hear that she has now bought fire poi. Unfortunately they are not something she can bring to school and demonstrate for several reasons – one being her university schedule and the other being that the best effect is at night time. So how is it that my class knows all about them? 

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I am so fortunate to have the job I do. I get to work with my fellow teaching colleagues around the country and sometimes with their students as well. It is not often I have the experience of having a wild animal join the training but just the other week this happened. I was at a school in Central Otago working with two teachers, one of whom was a teaching principal.  

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