[accessibleimage] Re: Smartboards,Mimio

Hi Susan,
That was really interesting. Did (does) the student use a personal size
white board?
Was also thinking that this would be very useful in a classroom setting
when the
teacher writes and draws on the blackboard. Sending a few references I
found 
related, but your experience is the most telling.

Best,
Lisa

[ http://www.mimio.com/ ]www.mimio.com
This school year will bring new challenges in my teaching career. I will
have a visually impaired child in my math and science classroom who cannot
see the board. He uses a brailler to submit written assignments and has
braille textbooks. I am planning how I can best meet his needs and feel
like the mimio is the ideal solution for my classroom. Since math and
science are interactive subjects, a lot of material is written on the
board during instruction and student interaction. Unfortunately he will
not be able to see the valuable information on the board. Having a mimio
will allow me to print out the material on the board and have it converted
to braille by his Vision Teacher. My classroom with a mimio will serve as
a model in my school district as an effective way to meet all students'
needs especially the visually impaired.
http://www.nfbnet.org/pipermail/nobe-l/2004-December/000888.html
I am a certified teacher of the blind/visually impaired, but I am
itinerant. 
This means that I go from school to school and that I don't have a
classroom. 
So I don't have to worry about whole class instruction anymore. When I did 
teach in a resource room I found that a Smart Board was a good alternative
to the 
whiteboard. You can type on your computer and show it on the board that
way. 
http://acans.nmsu.edu/acans/040606story1SSDICTBlindStudent.shtml
nga began brainstorming ideas. They considered Smartboard technology, but
quickly dismissed it after seeing the $10,000 price tag. After consulting
with Nolan Gray, ICT Instructional Technology Manager, they decided on
Mimio technology. 
Mimio technology allows the whiteboard to be interactive, meaning that as
Professor Remmenga writes formulas on the whiteboard, they are projected
onto a desktop computer used by Ron. 
Professor Remmenga works on the whiteboard. The Mimio camera, attached to
the side of the whiteboard, projects her work to Ron Jones' computer.The
computer is equipped with software that enables Ron to enlarge the font
size and thus see what the rest of the class is seeing. The computer and
accompanying software were purchased by the office of Services for
Students with Disabilities. The Mimio technology was purchased by
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).



accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx skrev 2. november 2006 kl. 04:32 +0000:
>I've used the mimio in my classroom. I've had a low vision student use a 
>whiteboard (with the mimio mounted on it), so that he and I could both
>see 
>and read his writing. This method improved his illegible handwriting.
>Also, 
>by using the mimio, he was able to record and print out his work done on
>the 
>whiteboard. Otherwise all his work would have been lost after erasing the 
>board. During Geometry class, I require my students to make drawings with 
>appropriate markings; for example congruent angle, congruent line
>segment, 
>or right angle markings. The first year I used the mimio, I had a low
>vision 
>student make the drawing with the help of his fellow students who were 
>braille readers. They guided him through the drawing. Once completed, we 
>knew we could print it out easily, but the student asked what would
>happen 
>if we sent it to the Tiger. We sent his drawing to the Tiger, and it 
>embossed beautifully, and this was the first time that a low vision
>student 
>was able to share a geometric drawing he had created by electronic means 
>with one of his blind peers in a matter of minutes and at the mere push
>of a 
>button. Of course, everyone in the class wanted a copy, and we also had
>to 
>draw several more such drawings. The first drawing did not require the 
>labeling of points, so there were no letters involved - just curved and 
>straight markings. Subsequent drawings did require that the vertices be 
>labeled, but all students stated that they would have no problem reading 
>raised line capital letters, and we proceeded with great success. This
>was 
>quite the teachable moment one dreams of.
>
>Susan
>
>Susan A. Osterhaus, M.Ed.
>Secondary Mathematics
>Texas School for the Blind
>  and Visually Impaired
>1100 West 45th Street
>Austin, Texas 78756
>Phone: 512-206-9305
>Fax: 512-206-9320
>E-mail: susanosterhaus@xxxxxxxxx
>Website: http://www.tsbvi.edu/math/
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Lisa Yayla" <fnugg@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 2:33 AM
>Subject: [accessibleimage] Re: Smartboards,Mimio
>
>
>> Dear Will and Ike,
>> Thank you for your answers.
>> I was also thinking that using the  drawing on a blackboard as an
>analogy 
>> to give when explaining about preparing tactile graphics.
>> When you draw on the blackboard you can't draw very detailed and you
>have 
>> to think of those in the back of the room. Was thinking this might be
>> an apt comparison.
>> What do you think?
>>
>> And how do the graphics come out when you draw on the board? Any 
>> experience with embossing them out with Tiger or transferring to swell 
>> paper?
>>
>> Best,
>> Lisa
>>
>> Will Pearson wrote:
>>> Hi Lisa,
>>>
>>> We're using that sort of thing as part of the MiMeG project here at 
>>> Bristol. We're just using it to annotate video and no character 
>>> recognition is being performed.  If you've got any questions about the 
>>> more technological aspects of this sort of technology then Muneeb, the
>RA 
>>> working on the project, sits next to me and the supervisor for MiMeG
>is 
>>> also my PhD supervisor.
>>>
>>> Will


Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter 
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx

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