Special Events

Mimio Demo, May, 2011

Mimio (http://www.mimio.com/ ), a global leader in interactive teaching technologies, offers a set of powerful interactive teaching tools called MimioClassroom. Their tools can turn an ordinary white board into an interactive white board and record regular dry erase marker notes in full color. Their solutions help facilitate collaborative and engaging interactions among instructors and students.  

 The MimioClassroom family of products include the following:

• MimioTeach – Instantly turn your ordinary whiteboard into an interactive whiteboard. It enables you to teach interactively with an ordinary whiteboard.
• MimioCature –Captures the notes and drawings made with dry erase markers on your ordinary whiteboard.
• MimioView – Allows you to incorporate document camera images and live videos into your interactive lessons.
• MimioPad – the MimioPad wireless tablet frees you to move about the classroom while teaching with your whiteboard.
• MimioVote – lets you gauge student understanding instantly, at any point during a lesson, with maximum class participation. It simplifies assessment, grading and record-keeping.
• MimioStudio – helps you create multimedia lessons that engage your students.

Learning Objects, Inc. Demo, Feb. 2011

Learning Objects, Inc. is the leader in social software for learning. Their solutions facilitate constructive interactions among students and instructors.

Their main product Campus Pack is an enterprise-scale social learning platform that integrates social media tools such as wikis, blogs, and podcasts into any e-learning environment. Campus Pack engages learners, increases student retention, and allows practitioners easily reach pedagogical goals through implementation of evidence- and problem-based learning.

Student Response Systems ("Clickers") Demos

IDSC has invited two major competitors in the Student Response Systems ("Clickers") market - eInstruction and Turning Technologies - to do onsite demos. After their demos, USNA faculty members who have used these products will share their own experiences. Schedules and descriptions are as follows:

• Wednesday, 7 Feb. from 1200-1300 - eInstruction Demo. Location: Nimitz 18 - Marty Abrahamson will be here from eInstruction demonstrating the Classroom Performance System, a full featured radio frequency student response system designed to promote classroom interaction and automatically grade quizzes and tests. Students use handheld "clickers" to respond to questions. The system compiles the answers and displays results in a histogram, keeping the students anonymous to each other yet revealing how the class is divided over the question.  The system can also be used to quickly administer daily reading quizzes or even tests which are graded automatically by the software. 
  
  LT Kevin Henderson from the Economics department will share his experience of using the Classroom Performance System.

• Thursday, 8 Feb. from 1200-1300 - Turning Technologies Demo. Location: Nimitz 18 - Megan Reed from Turning Technologies will be discussing how to engage students in active learning, instantly understand student comprehension, create an interactive lecture environment, and track student performance with a TurningPoint student response system and ResponseCard "clickers". And also the 100% integration with Microsoft® PowerPoint® that easily allows professors to create interactive PowerPoint® presentations that collect real-time responses from students.
  
  The following faculty members from the Math department will share their experiences: Capt. Koichi Takagi, Prof. Mark Meyerson, and Prof. Wayne Ehler.