Inspiration 9 Software:
What is Inspiration 9?
Inspiration is a graphic organizing piece of software that helps teachers and students learn through visual mapping, outlining, writing, and making presentations.
This software is a tool for thinking and creating. Students and teachers can brainstorm ideas, organize thoughts, collaborate, take notes, present ideas, structure writing, and much more.
RESOURCES:
- Templates ~ built into the program
- Lesson Plans ~ aligned to the Common Core Standards
- Inspired Learning Community ~ Online community to find more "inspired" ideas for the classroom
- Online "How To" videos
What is Kidspiration 3?
This software is very similar to Inspiration but it is geared towards lower grades. The highlight of this software is the MATH TOOLS. The diagrams are very helpful when teaching math to visual learners. This software can be used by individual students and/or used with an interactive white board for whole group instruction.
RESOURCES:
- Templates ~ built into the program ~ Math Tools~
- Lesson Plans ~ aligned to the Common Core Standards
- Inspired Learning Community ~ Online community to find more "inspired" ideas for the classroom
- Online "How To" videos
What is Webspiration Classroom?
This software is very similar to Inspiration but it is the online version of the software. The highlight to this software is the access to the thinking and creating tool 24 - 7 if a student/teacher (Users) has internet access. Another highlight is that users can share their "webs" so that groups can truly collaborate online.
Here is the web sites description: "Webspiration Classroom service helps students to brainstorm ideas, gather and organize information, build comprehension, develop written work and engage in collaborative learning, anytime and anywhere."
RESOURCES:
- Templates ~ built into the program ~ Math Tools~
- Lesson Plans ~ aligned to the Common Core Standards
- Inspired Learning Community ~ Online community to find more "inspired" ideas for the classroom
- Online "How To" videos
- More "How To" videos ~ When you log into Webspiration... Click on the Resource Center link on the right of the page. There you will find a Quick Start Guide and other helpful links.
FAQ for Webspiration:
~ Directions for hyperlinks in Webspiration:
http://www.webspirationclassroom.com/classroom-gettingstarted/help/hyperlinks
Coping hyperlinks only works when you are linking to another Webspiration file or an URL.
~ Directions for sharing:
http://www.webspirationclassroom.com/classroom-getting-started/collaboration
