You can use any of mimio Studio’s drawing and editing tools to markup applications and web pages. Then use the same tools and features to interactively present your information. Incorporate text, images, and pictures from any application or the web easily and quickly. With a host drawing tool and an extensive gallery, including graphs and maps, it is easy to create entire presentations. mimio Studio can even be used, without mimio hardware, to prepare presentations and manipulate previously created content. Without a projector, mimio Studio records handwritten notes and drawings directly from your mimio enabled whiteboard. When used with mimio hardware and a data projector, mimio Studio turns your whiteboard into a powerful interactive presentation tool.
Mimio Studio is a suite of software tools that allow you to capture, create, and present information the way you want to.
The eBeam has a base unit – you can add features separately, Mimio comes fully loaded.Smart, Portable Interactive Whiteboards with mimio.eBeam provides a 7 year warranty vs Mimo 5 year.eBeam has the industry’s largest active area, 9ft x 5ft.Mimio stylus had a shorter battery life.Better Quality of the look and feel of the eBeam Edge hardware.eBeam provides built in web sharing for remote teaching.Some of the main differentiations are as follows: Versatile & Portable – Along with the eBeam Edge for Education the Mimio Teach is a portable solution offering all of the features and functions (and we believe more) of a traditional smartboard for less than half of the cost.Īlthough we like the Mimio Teach, in our opinion it’s a good second choice to the eBeam Edge for Education. Recording – All the handwritten notes, mashups of digital images, annotations on powerpoint presentations are all recorded that can be used to replay a math problem during class or be shared as notes to be reviewed later.ģ. Mimio Connect – This is a website powered by Mimio building a community for teachers providing a chockful of lesson plans and activities. The software has windows look and feel and gives you all the functionality to interact with your content including tools that allow navigation, annotations, text and highlighting to name a few.ġ. We opened up a powerpoint presentation navigating through our file folder using the stylus. There are 2 quick access buttons on the capture bar and the stylus acts like a mouse for both left and right click.
The Mimio Teach is easy to use and responsive. The great thing about a portable interactive solution is that it can be used on a white board or on a unused wall allowing us to leverage the resources we already have available. Following the wizard the software asked to us to calibrate the system using the stylus to touch the calibration points projected on the whiteboard. Installed the Mimio software called Mimio Studio to our laptopĪfter installing the software and restarting the laptop the Mimio software instantly recognized the capture bar. This integrates the MimioTeach bar and stylus, the MimioVote assessment system and the MimioCapture ink recording systemĤ. Attached the Mimio capture bar to one side of the whiteboard and then plugged in the Mimio Hub into the USB on our laptop. First, we read through the Mimio Quickstart guide (2 minutes)ģ.
Here are the steps to install in a nutshell:ġ. Works with Windows, Mac and Linux OS systems.
We had our laptop connected to a projector facing the whiteboard. From start to finish it took us less than 10 minutes to get up and running.
The Mimio Teach comes with a stylus that is a little bigger than a dry erase marker and a receiver that is 18 inches at full length. Similar to Luidia’s eBeam Edge for Education the Mimio Teach is a portable interactive whiteboard solution.