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US Edition
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| Students develop essential learning
strategies as they create graphic organizers to visually represent
concepts and relationships. |
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Inspiration®'s
integrated diagramming and outlining views and complementary learning
capabilities work together to make Inspiration the essential tool to help
students visualize, think, organize and learn.
Below is a general product overview. To see the new capabilities added with
Inspiration 8, click here.
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Visually represent
ideas
Inspiration's Diagram View makes it easy to express ideas,
discover relationships and develop new thoughts and perspectives.
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In the Diagram View you can: |
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Brainstorm ideas quickly with the RapidFire® tool.
Capture thoughts with or without automatic links to symbols. |
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Represent thoughts and information with pictures, images, words and
multimedia-such as QuickTime® movies and MP3 files.
Find just the right image from Inspiration's library of 1,000+ searchable
symbols or insert a graphic from Inspiration's online symbol collection,
containing more than 1 million illustrations and photographs. |
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Show
relationships among ideas with the Link tool. Explain relationships by
adding text directly on the links. |
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Explore ideas, record research and begin writing with visually integrated
notes. New drag-and-drop capabilities make it easy to quickly gather
research. |
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Differentiate among ideas and groups with colors, shapes, patterns and
fonts. |
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Manage notes, audio and subtopic information with Quick Controls. |
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Organize ideas effortlessly using the Arrange tool or use AutoArrange to
automatically format diagrams as you work. |
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Plan
projects and track ideas using the Checklist feature. |
Diagram to outline with one click
 With
a simple mouse click, students can transform a diagram into a hierarchical
outline.
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View, you can: |
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Organize ideas and arrange thoughts by dragging subtopics. Diagram View
updates automatically. |
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Add
new topics to further develop ideas. |
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Manage notes, audio and subtopic information with Quick Controls. |
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Develop topics into written reports using notes text. Students can add up to
15 pages of notes text for each topic. |
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Plan
projects and track ideas using the Checklist feature. |
Develop ideas and organize writing easily with
intuitive toolbars |
Outline Toolbar
Formatting Toolbar
Major Inspiration functions are at students' fingertips with our smart
toolbars. No need to memorize keyboard shortcuts or search through menu
items to find features — just click on the toolbar and keep working! Plus,
the fully indexed and searchable help system provides answers to
Inspiration-related questions. |
Jumpstart projects with templates
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Start assignments quickly with inspiring
templates that offer frameworks for gathering information and organizing
ideas in language arts, science, social studies, thinking skills and
planning topics. |
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65
templates - A wealth of ideas from across the curriculum inspires students
and teachers to plan, organize and create. More than 60 additional templates
are available through Inspiration Web Resources. |
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Template Wizard - Create customized visual learning activities! The Template
Wizard gives teachers step-by-step help for designing templates to support
any curriculum area. Custom libraries may also be created and saved with
templates for sharing with other computers. Teachers can also limit the
symbol library for targeted study. |
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Flexible template access - Use and share templates with ease! Templates can
be stored and launched from any location, making them readily available for
students and teachers.
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Integrate video and sound
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Use
multimedia to create more engaging and informed projects. Students
insert and play video and sound, such as QuickTime®
movies and MP3 files, right in Inspiration. Students can also record
their own audio and attach it to a symbol or topic.
Write with clarity and accuracy
Students 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.
Connect directly to research and information
sources
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Enrich Inspiration diagrams and
outlines by adding hyperlinks that connect to other documents,
including web sites, Inspiration documents and files created in
other programs. This provides students with a simple way to gather
research and keep their work and materials together. |
Turn Inspiration documents into robust final
projects
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Export Inspiration diagrams and outlines
to continue working on projects in word processing documents,
PowerPoint slides and graphics files. |
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Use the Site Skeleton®
export to seamlessly convert outlines and diagrams to HTML and
incorporate the diagram's symbols, video and sound into web pages.
Each symbol becomes a separate web page, complete with appropriate
hyperlinks. Inspiration even creates a site map. |
Get more visual learning
power with
Inspiration Web Resources |
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Use Inspiration with an Internet
connection to seamlessly access these additional complimentary
resources:
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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
searchable illustrations and photographs, offers safe image choices
for any topic. |
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50+ Curriculum Packets - US
Edition feature only
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. Each of the 50+
Curriculum Packets offers standards-aligned supplemental
instructional units for high-school level language arts, social
studies or science. |
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On-demand training videos
Learn how to use Inspiration and complete projects efficiently with
on-demand training videos. These online videos cover Inspiration's
most commonly used features. |
 Teacher Resource 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.
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| Powered by the proven strategies
of visual learning, Inspiration® 8 provides more ways
to inspire learning success across the curriculum. |
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The new and enhanced
capabilities—including Inspiration Web Resources—make Inspiration the
essential learning tool to help students visualize, think, organize and
learn.
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.
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| 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. |
| 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.
Access learning standards, classroom applications and templates with
exemplars of student work.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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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. |
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