Practice using Miro

• Use Miro on a computer rather than a mobile device. If you use Miro on a mobile device (phone, iPad/tablet), you won't be able to copy and paste images to a new location on the board (in order to select them and look at all the ones you've selected at once). Because Miro doesn't currently support pasting on mobile devices, you can only have a view-only experience of browsing through the pictures if you use a mobile device.
  • Miro can be used in a web browser, either Chrome version 1.8614.0 or higher or Firefox is what is recommended. There is also a Miro desktop app that you can download and install.

• Watch the Miro Navigation Basics 3-minute Video.
  • Besides this Navigation Basics Video, windows might pop up and suggest that you do other Miro tutorials or learn about other Miro features. For the purposes of Pick a Picture, these other things aren't relevant, as we'll only need to know how to do what's listed here below plus what's covered in the Navigation Basics Video.

• Now, you're ready to practice. For the rest of the items on this page, you'll be using a Miro board that has been set up for people to experiment with (so don't worry about keeping it exactly the way it was before you began). Here's the link for it: meaningfulaction.org/sandbox
  • If meaningfulaction.org/sandbox doesn't take you straight to the pictures, here are login credentials that you can use to log in, Email address: miro@pickapicture.org Password: 4corners4sides

• Choosing pictures - Make a copy of the images you choose rather than moving the images you choose. (One reason for this is so that the original image won't get separated from its attribution.) Copy and paste the images to a different part of the board where you will be collecting the images that you've chosen. This way you'll be able to look at all of the images you've chosen at once.
  • Select a picture - The arrow icon at the top of the toolbar (on the left hand side of the screen) toggles between select mode and pan mode. In pan mode, your cursor will look like a hand and you will be able to pan around the board to navigate around it. In select mode, your cursor will look like an arrow. In this mode, you point at things with the arrow and click on them to select them.
  • Copy and paste the picture to a new location - Select a picture. Then, use Ctrl+C/Ctrl + V for Windows or Cmd + C/Cmd + V for Mac.

• Rearranging pictures - Some people gain a lot from spending time repositioning the images while they reflect on them.
  • Drag a picture to a different location - Select and hold while you move your cursor to drag a picture.

• Hide or show collaborators' cursors - Collaborators' cursors allow you to see what regions of the board other people are looking at. Clicking the icon shown in the picture below allows you to toggle between hiding and showing your collaborators' cursors.