TEACHERS across the United States and abroad use Inspiration® software-- and they love it! Listen to what some of them have to say... 

" I have ... found that using Inspiration® is motivating for kids who've lost much of the pleasure of learning. They can visually demonstrate to themselves that they are learning and making progress in transferring what they take into and what they put out in their own writing. This is practical empowerment and more meaningful motivation than any encouragement that comes from an external source. "

Kristin Kight, Ph.D. student and teacher
LD Online
February 1998

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" During a class for teachers I was facilitating ... I asked the teachers to load Inspiration® onto laptops. After a seven-minute demonstration on webbing, they broke into groups of three, then took one topic in the web and expanded what they wanted to learn. By the end of a 37-minute period, we had three groups with diagrams! ... One teacher commented, 'This is the first software I've seen that lets me get a handle on the learning at the beginning, rather than focusing on the product.' "

Ted Hamilton, Technology Mentor/Teacher
Mission, SD

I am really finding Version 6 great to work with. I use it to create mind maps for all my topics on evaluation. These I use to make transparencies for the overhead projector. I then import the graphic into PowerPoint to make a slide. It makes perfect slides from Inspiration® Documents. Version 6 is very user friendly. I am taking it to the college to demo for some of the other Teacher Ed. instructors. Congratulations on a most useful teaching aid.

Glen Hammond
Red River College
Manitoba, Canada

" In my history classes, I want my students to achieve a thorough understanding of what happened in the past and why. Inspiration® is a great tool for that, because it helps students organize material in different ways. ...Because different structures of information allow one to think differently, Inspiration® serves the highest purpose in education. "

Margo McAlear, history teacher Indianapolis, IN

"My students create webs with Inspiration®. I find this very helpful with my students in Spanish because they struggle to express themselves in another language, and webbing gives them an anchor to begin expressing themselves."

Rich Hance, Spanish teacher
Glen Cove, NY

"Everyone in Georgia who is familiar with Inspiration® loves it as much as I do! In fact, I told the teachers at my school that if I were a classroom teacher and could have only one program on my computer, I would want it to be Inspiration®."

Jerrie Cheek, technology coordinator
Smyrna, GA
 

"All the research shows that successful science teachers give their students the opportunity to act like real scientific investigators. That's why I have my students create concept maps with Inspiration®. Inspiration® makes students investigate a concept for themselves, and helps them understand what that concept really means. "

Paul Rutherford, science teacher
Shawnee Mission, KS
 
Students benefit from having a tool for planning and developing a wide range of projects and activities. With Inspiration®, they can use the software to "show what they know," adding to their plan as they fulfill components of it and discover new information. 

James Rye Professor
West Virginia University 
Morgantown, WV 

The innovation that makes Inspiration® 6 especially useful is the ability to place hyper links into diagrams and outlines. The emphasis now is to use technology in situations directly related to curriculum. Having students complete concept maps where outside information can easily be accessed by hyper links makes research much more exciting and relevant. 

Paul Biermann 
5th Grade Teacher  Gillette Road Middle School 
Cicero, NY 

 
Gathering information and merely repeating it is no longer acceptable. Students need to be able to gather, sort, analyze and apply the information they have acquired. They need to be able to use information to make informed decisions. Learning to effectively communicate and share ideas is a skill that students in the twenty-first century need to master. Inspiration® helps students meet this goal. 

Terry Rosengart 
Coordinator of Instructional Technology 
Community School District 11 
Bronx, NY 

My job as an Instructional Technology Integration Specialist takes me into schools and districts to work with teachers on integrating technology in their classrooms. When introduced to the program, teachers immediately grasp the benefits and potential of using Inspiration®, particularly in addressing their students' multiple learning styles. 

Heidi Erstad 
Instructional Technology Integration Specialist 
CESA 1 
West Allis, WI 

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Using Inspiration® to Organize Reading and Writing 

 by Kristin S. Kight University of Delaware February 1998

If you have any comments about Inspiration® software, e-mail us at success@strategictransitions.com . We'd love to hear from you!