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The premier tool to develop ideas & organize thinking
Grade Level: 6 to adult

Powered by the proven techniques of visual learning, Inspiration 8.0 supports critical thinking, comprehension, and writing in all curriculum areas. Students use Inspiration to tap creativity, build new knowledge, analyze complex topics, and improve organizational skills. Educators use Inspiration to customize instruction, achieve standards, assess student progress, and energize learning. Retaining the core Inspiration functions, Inspiration 8.0 introduces significant new capabilities to improve the visual learning experience for students and teachers.
Inspiration's integrated diagramming and outlining environments work together so students can see how their thoughts and ideas connect. Dynamic new features in Version 8.0 inspire both educators and students! You'll find over 50 new curriculum-aligned templates inspire classroom quick-starts, an enhanced Template Wizard, visually integrated notes to bring writing power into diagrams, as well as audio to support multiple learning styles, and the new Site Skeleton™ export to easily convert diagrams to web sites.
Use Inspiration across the curriculum for:
  • Brainstorming
  • Webbing
  • Diagramming
  • Planning
  • Critical thinking
  • Concept mapping
  • Organizing
  • Outlining
Template categories include:
Language Arts
Social Studies
Science
Planning

Benefits:
Clarifies thinking
Deepens understanding of concepts
Increases retention
Develops organizational skills
Taps creativity

New Features of Version 8

More ways to engage and learn visually
  • Keyword search for symbols
    Quickly find symbols to better express ideas and represent concepts by searching with keywords. Inspiration provides more than 1,000 symbols, plus access to more than 1 million additional symbols through Inspiration Web Resources.
  • Video and sound integration
    Use multimedia to create more engaging and informative projects. Students insert and play video and sound such as QuickTime® movies and MP3 files right in Inspiration.
Jumpstart assignments, gather research easily and streamline projects
  • Inspiring templates
    Start projects quickly with templates that offer frameworks for gathering information and organizing ideas. Choose from 65 enhanced templates that cover language arts, science, social studies, thinking skills and planning topics. More than 60 additional templates are available through     Inspiration Web Resources.
  • Drag-and-drop
    Gather research and enhance projects with familiar drag-and-drop actions. Enhanced capabilities make it easy for students to automatically hyperlink to URLs plus quickly add text, images and multimedia files from other sources to their Inspiration projects.
  • Enhanced export and transfer
    Easily and efficiently turn Inspiration documents into robust final projects with new export and transfer capabilities. New options in the Site Skeleton® export let students incorporate symbols, video and sound in web pages. With added transfer options, students can choose just the information they need to finalize assignments in their favorite word processor.
Write with more clarity and accuracy
  • Word Guide
    Write with clarity and build vocabulary using the Word Guide, an innovative dictionary and thesaurus. Information—including parts of speech, definitions and synonyms—is displayed in a familiar way to help students quickly find and choose words with precision.
  • Auto spell checker
    Improve spelling skills and streamline the writing and revision process with a contextual spell checker. Misspelled words are automatically identified in both the Diagram and Outline Views so students can quickly correct errors.

    • Get more visual learning power with Inspiration Web Resources
    Use Inspiration with an Internet connection to seamlessly access these additional complimentary resources:

  • More than 1 million symbols
    Students better demonstrate their understanding and communicate their ideas by including symbols in their projects. An online Inspiration symbol collection, containing more than 1 million illustrations and photographs, offers safe image choices for any topic.
  • 50+ Curriculum Packets
    Curriculum Packets help teachers effectively integrate visual learning techniques as they address multiple learning styles. Each comprehensive online Curriculum Packet provides an integrated unit plan with multiple templates and exemplars. Plus, each of the 50+ Curriculum Packets offers standards-aligned supplemental instructional units for high-school level language arts, social studies or science.
  • 50+ Curriculum Packets
    Curriculum Packets help teachers effectively integrate visual learning techniques as they address multiple learning styles. Each comprehensive online Curriculum Packet provides an integrated unit plan with multiple templates and exemplars. Plus, each of the 50+ Curriculum Packets offers standards-aligned supplemental instructional units for high-school level language arts, social studies or science.

    • On-demand training videos
    Learn how to use Inspiration and complete projects efficiently with on-demand training videos. These online videos cover Inspiration's commonly used features.

    Additional ease-of-use

    • Inspiration Starter screen
      Quickly begin projects or access training and teaching resources from the Inspiration Starter screen.
    • AutoArrange
      Organize ideas effortlessly with AutoArrange. Students more efficiently add content and develop their projects, using AutoArrange to automatically format their diagrams as they work.
    • Brainstorming
      Capture ideas quickly with the enhanced RapidFire® tool. Students choose to add ideas that link automatically to a symbol or to add unconnected ideas that they can later associate and link.
    • Custom symbol libraries
      Help students focus on learning by providing symbols specific to their assignments. Using Inspiration's Template Wizard, custom symbol libraries can be saved and shared with template files or teachers can limit student access to symbol libraries.
    Teacher Resource Book NEW!
    Thinking Classroom book The Thinking Classroom: Using Inspiration to Meet Curriculum Standards is designed to support teachers as they help students develop their critical thinking strategies. Each of the book's six sections focuses on a fundamental thinking skill, and includes an overview of the cognitive strategy and its application in the major curriculum areas: language arts, science and social studies.

    Click here for professional development materials from Inspiration.
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    The Thinking Classroom: Using Inspiration to Meet Curriculum Standards sampler

     

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