Mimio Teach Software

Mimio Studio software and basic terminology. What is mimio Studio? Mimio Studio is a suite of software tools that allow you to capture, create, and present information. When used with mimio hardware and a data projector, mimio Studio turns any whiteboard into a powerful interactive presentation tool. Desktop Central is a Windows Desktop Management Software for managing desktops in LAN and across WAN from a central location. It provides Software Deployment, Patch Management, Asset Management, Remote Control, Configurations, System Tools, Active Directory and User Logon Reports. Software‐updates voor mimio Studio controleert en deze installeert. Software‐updates gebruiken Via de instellingen voor software‐updates kunt u op software‐updates voor mimio Studio controleren en de updates installeren. Software‐updates openen: 1. Open mimio Studio‐instellingen. Klik op Software‐update.

My team is distributed across the US and various sites in Europe. Pervasive email, cheap telecom, and WAN/Internet connectivity have made it possible for us to be effective, but we have not yet found a way to successfully facilitate the creative process beyond physically meeting. As a lead, I am always interested in technologies/gadgets that may reduce our otherwise prodigious appetite for plane tickets and hotel rooms.

The usual approach to start ideas flowing is to gather participants in a conference room with a projector/display and whiteboard to debate, analyze, and brainstorm. Sometimes others will join by telephone, and maybe we share what is on the room’s screen using Netmeeting. Despite careful meeting management and tenacious facilitation remote users usually feel like secondary participants. This is especially apparent when there is no handout and what’s on the screen isn’t the focus of discussion.

Various interactive products can be used to share the contents of a whiteboard, which (partially) addresses one aspect of real meetings. The most obvious technical gap is that, when people are together they can take turns actively contributing to the whiteboard whereas remote interactive users are almost entirely passive participants. Lack of nonverbal cues is also a limitation, but can be ameliorated (somewhat) by enforcing conference call etiquette.

Mimio Studio 12.1

The idea of sharing drawings in real time using a PC is far from new, but there seem to be lots of products to potentially facilitate the interaction of a virtual team. Because the basics are in place, it’s hard to know which will be worth the effort without trying them all…

Interactive Whiteboard Choices

Mimio Projector Software

• • We’ve tried these Wacom Intuos3 tablets for almost a year
  • Cheap ones are low resolution and don’t work very well (e.g. Graphire), Intuos3 is much better to
    use
  • Cost: $100-200
  • Microsoft thought this was a good idea and forced it on OEMs
  • Lenovo X60 is a 12.1″ example. Seems to be best in class
  • User draws directly on display using pen
  • Cost: $1,500-2,000
    • Overlays plasma display or includes integral projector (front or rear projection)
    • Intended for school classrooms
    • Cost: $5,000+
    • LCD display with integrated digitalizer (same as Wacom tablet peripheral), user draws directly on screen (which lays flat on the desk)
    • Same technology used by Tablet PCs, applied to a 21″ LCD display
    • Intended for graphic artists
    • Not intended for collaboration, but would be a nice interface to a good application
    • Like most Wacom products, this reportedly works great
    • Cost: $2,500
    • Needs to be calibrated to work. Vendors claim it’s easy
    • Works on whiteboards up to 8′ x 4′
    • Mimio can record whiteboards without a PC, no word on whether this works well
    • Mimio system is reputedly less accurate and slower
    • Both systems can generate a variety of image files, including PDF
    • Never seen either system in action
    • Some comparative reviews and Internet chatter, circa 2000, 2002, and 2003
    • Cost: USB: $850, Bluetooth: $1,300
    • Walkthrough of eBeam software
    • Web interface for meetings only works with deployment $800 meeting server or use of Luidia web
      site (free, for now)
    • Cost: $650 + 250 = $898
    • Overview of Mimio Studio, the software supporting the device
    • May need third party software to do interactive meetings?
    • Products like Ibid and Polyvision seem to have only obsolete models with RS232 serial interfaces
    • I notice these around various offices, usually waiting for someone to approve their disposal
    • Probably surpassed by products like eBeam and Mimio
    • The Panasonic Panaboard comes to mind
    • Still see these around, usually dirty and battered but people will pry unused plasma displays off the wall so they can plug these in
    • Probably the only device left in the office that uses thermal fax paper
    • MS ConferenceXP is for non-commercial use
    • Video Conferencing is available everywhere now (we have Tandberg units in several conference rooms per floor), but now that it’s here nobody wants to use it

  Pro	Con	Neat hardware Comparatively inexpensive	Windows XP Tablet Edition is underwhelming Includes nearly useless collaboration software (MS Journal, MS OneNote) Unfortunately it’s a whole PC Low performance systems: after Desktop Services gets done locking it down, how much functionality will be left? Each user needs one

  Touch Sensitive Display

  Pro	Con	Hardware is reportedly neat Not sure whether it will play nicely with laptops	Not useful without good software, which doesn’t come bundled Very expensive for a peripheral Each user needs one

  SMART Boards

  Wacom Cintiq

  Infrared+ultrasound Whiteboard Systems

  Luidia eBeam

  Mimio

  Resistive Whiteboards

  Print/Facsimile Whiteboards

  Some Other Choices

  Update: Have since procured an eBeam, and it works as promised– it is surprisingly accurate (similar precision to a digitalizer tablet).

Digitalizer Tablet

Pro	Con	Inexpensive enough that everyone can have one Solid drivers Widely available (CompUSA, Staples, etc.) Well supported in Windows Vista (and XP Tablet PC) Well engineered, high-quality peripheral	Requires uncommon eye-hand coordination Very hard to get used to looking at screen while drawing Poor results (primative/oversized drawings, etc.) It works as advertised, but it just doesn’t get used much

Tablet PC