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TEACHERS across the United States and abroad use Inspiration® Software -- and they love it! Listen to what some of them have to
say...
 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
"
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
"
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
"
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
 Click
to read the article from LD Online
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!
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