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What do educational professionals think about Inspiration® software?
(To view what business professionals think-click here)
"Inspiration is a software that not only changed the way I think about projects and essay writing, but it changed the way I handle studying and day to day planning. The outlay of the whole program is easy to handle and the numerous templates provided are extremely useful and easy to mould. I have fibromyalgia and ADHD tendencies and Inspiration has taught me how to manage time and makes me want to complete projects and essays on time."
Nicole MacFarlane
Student
Fredericton, NB
"Inspiration 8 is more user-friendly, more interactive and much more connected to other learning resources. This software will help our students use graphic organizers to process new skills and enhance our teaching processes."
Karen Littlefield
Instructional Technology Coordinator
Mid-Del Schools
Midwest City, OK
"Inspiration just gets better and better. This program now covers much more educational territory. The added curriculum units will help educators realize its value for presenting and organizing information. This is a great teaching tool as well as a wonderful learning and thinking tool for students."
Shelley Popson Ardis
Educational Technology Specialist
Resource Materials and Technology Center: Deaf/Hard of Hearing
St. Augustine, FL
"Inspiration 8 is a wonderful enhancement to what was already a first class product. Inspiration is easy to work with, but challenges my students to think logically and helps them improve their problem solving skills. This program is a great tool for both my teacher education students and their students."
Dr. Scott Fredrickson
Professor and Graduate Program Chair
Instructional Technology
Department of Teacher Education, College of Education
University of Nebraska at Kearney
"The Word Guide is one of the most significant new features of Inspiration 8. The combination of dictionary, thesaurus and pronunciation guide will not only help students find the exact word they are looking for, it will also build their vocabulary."
Jerry Suit
Technology Integration Specialist
Oak Hills Local School District
Cincinnati, OH
"You've done it again. The enhancements in Inspiration 8 are solid. I will continue to recommend to teachers and administrators that Inspiration is a must in their toolbox."
Lynn Ochs
Director, Technology for Learning Center
Hamilton County Educational Service Center
Cincinnati, OH
"Students are often very creative, but they can’t make their ideas form a logical pattern. By using Inspiration, it’s easy to brainstorm and then, with one click of a button, they have an outline for a story, an essay or a simple research paper. This difficult job is reduced to an enjoyable task that they can accomplish with minimal assistance."
Sandy Sherwood
K-6 Technology Teacher
Appleby Elementary School
Marathon, NY
"Inspiration energizes my students to think, organize and create. It is a handy tool that helps students break barriers and leads them to success."
Marlene Goss, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Dept. of
Professional and Secondary Ed
West Chester University, West Chester, PA
"Inspiration is a dynamic program that allows students to incorporate new information at any time. With the hyperlinking and graphic capabilities of Inspiration, students can synthesize and present detailed diagrams to ‘show what I know,’ facilitating student creativity."
James Rye, Ph.D.
Community Curriculum Coordinator
Health Sciences and Technology Academy
West Virginia University,
Morgantown, WV
"Inspiration is the one piece of software my district can’t live without. It has proven to be a valuable tool in fostering students’ critical and creative thinking skills."
John Blaser
Technology Integration Specialist
Eastchester Union Free School District
Eastchester, NY
"Inspiration has addressed the needs of a generation of visual learners. My students enjoy using the program to create visually appealing diagrams for projects and presentations."
Sally Stevens
Elementary Computer Support Specialist
Linden Academy of Science and Technology
Linden, NJ
"Teaching history is not just a matter of getting students to memorize dates. I want them to have thorough understanding of what happened in the past and why. Inspiration is a great tool for that because it helps students organize their material in different ways."
Margo McAlear
History Teacher
Park Tudor School
Indianapolis, IN
"Inspiration's Transfer tool is an important feature that adds value for the end user and presents a number of possibilities for classroom implementation."
Bill Robertson, Ph.D.
Project Leader
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM
"Inspiration is indispensable for technology planning at the district level; meanwhile, students use it for pre-writing, project planning and presentations. It is the best all-around tool in which a school district can invest."
Leslie Alles Flanders
Director of Technology
Scott County Schools
Georgetown, KY
What do business/professionals think about Inspiration® software?
INSPIRATION® is an easy-to-use visual learning tool that people use for knowledge mapping, process mapping, multimedia flowcharting and everyday planning.
 "Inspiration® Software is a superb tool for developing the information architecture portion of web site design."
Art Director, Website Design Corporation
"I use Inspiration® for knowledge mapping because it works so reliably and it's so simple. With Inspiration®, people can focus on their thinking."
Ed Rogers, Knowledge Mapping Consultant
Majjer Corp.
"Our firm designs and manages strategic planning processes for communities. We work in cities as large as Oklahoma City and as small as West Feliciana Parish, LA ...Strategic planning in these settings quickly becomes complex. [That's why] Inspiration® is the most valuable piece of software we own. With it, we can outline difficult concepts simply. We can then quickly translate these concepts to written reports."
Ed Morrison, President
Morrison & Assoc., LLC
Inspiration® is a powerful outliner that lives up to its claim: to provide the "tools that let you create a picture of your ideas or concepts in the form of a diagram." It raises the bar to a level that word processors may be unable to meet. In Diagram Mode, the software creates thought pictures: treelike representations with idea cells, or word balloons. Simple graphics convey ideas by position, shape, substance, number, color and other quick visual clues.
David Beckman and David Hirsch are partners in the law firm of Beckman & Hirsch in Burlington, Iowa.
"I use Inspiration® for everything from planning my vacation to saving the world."
Fred May
Utah Division of Comprehensive
Emergency Management
"Here's another 'amen' for the Inspiration® chorus... I've used it to write my entire book on Intranets and Learning. The ability to see my thoughts in either outline or graphical versions, and the ease with which I can reorganize on the fly, makes the creative process flow. "
Ferdi Serim Director, Online Innovation Institute Princeton, New Jersey
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