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Inspiration
Check out these presentation and trainer scripts for Inspiration 8.
Workshop scripts
These scripts are Inspiration 8 files, so you will need Inspiration 8. If you do not own a copy, feel free to download a 30-day free trial. We also offer the scripts in HTML format. Once the html scripts download, all you will need is a web browser to view them.
Directions for opening the scripts
Once the file downloads, Windows users will need to right-click on the downloaded zip file and choose "Extract to folder..." (or if this option is not in the list, choose "WinZip" and then choose "Extract to folder...") for the files to unzip correctly. For Mac users, the files should unstuff automatically. If they don't, just double-click on the file download.
Note: Scripts may require additional applications to open them:
- Inspiration files require Inspiration 8. You may download a complimentary 30-day trial here.
- HTML files require a web browser to view.
- PDF files require Adobe® Reader. Click here to download a complimentary copy.
- QuickTime® files require QuickTime to view.
Inspiration: One-hour presentation
Inspiration file download
HTML version
Inspiration: Half-day hands-on workshop
Once the download is complete, open the file called "ReadMe" to begin.
PDF and Inspiration files download
Inspiration: Twenty-minute presentation
Inspiration file download
HTML version
What's New in Inspiration 8: Twenty-minute presentation
Inspiration file download
HTML version
Click here to download the Training Videos and Curriculum Packets associated with the Inspiration Half-Day Workshop. Downloading now will make it convenient to access these files directly from your computer if you will not have Internet access during your training session(s). High Speed Internet access and 23 MB of free hard drive space is recommended for downloading these large files.
Still presenting on Inspiration 7.x? Click here for workshop scripts.
InspireData
Below are trainer scripts and a comprehensive list of resources to help you with your InspireData 1.5 workshop!
Workshop scripts
These scripts are Inspiration 8 files, so you will need Inspiration 8 or higher to open them. If you do not own a copy, feel free to download a 30-day free trial. We also offer the scripts in HTML format. Once the html scripts download, all you will need is a web browser to view them.
Directions for opening the scripts
Once the file downloads, Windows users will need to right-click on the downloaded zip file and choose "Extract to folder..." (or if this option is not in the list, choose "WinZip" and then choose "Extract to folder...") for the files to unzip correctly. For Mac users, the files should unstuff automatically. If they don't, just double-click on the file download.
Note: Scripts may require additional applications to open them:
- Inspiration files require Inspiration 8. You may download a complimentary 30-day trial here.
- HTML files require a web browser to view.
- PDF files require Adobe Reader. Click here to download a complimentary copy.
- QuickTime files require QuickTime to view.
InspireData: One-hour presentation
Inspiration file download
HTML version
InspireData: Half-day hands-on workshop
Inspiration file download
HTML version
InspireData: Twenty-minute presentation
Inspiration file download
HTML version
Participant Name Tent
Workshop Completion Certificate
Kidspiration
Use these trainer scripts and resources to help you with your Kidspiration 3 workshop!
Workshop scripts
These scripts are Inspiration 8 files, so you will need Inspiration 8 to open them. If you do not own a copy, feel free to download a 30-day free trial. We also offer the scripts in HTML format. Once the html scripts download, all you will need is a web browser to view them.
Directions for opening the scripts
Once the file downloads, Windows users will need to right-click on the downloaded zip file and choose "Extract to folder..." (or if this option is not in the list, choose "WinZip" and then choose "Extract to folder...") for the files to unzip correctly. For Mac users, the files should unstuff automatically. If they don't, just double-click on the file download.
Note: Scripts may require additional applications to open them:
- Inspiration files require Inspiration 8. You may download a complimentary 30-day trial here.
- HTML files require a web browser to view.
- PDF files require Adobe® Reader. Click here to download a complimentary copy.
- QuickTime® files require QuickTime to view.
Kidspiration: 20-minute presentation
Inspiration file download
HTML download
Kidspiration: One-hour presentation
Inspiration file download
HTML download
Kidspiration: Half-day hands-on workshop
Inspiration file download
HTML download
Trainer resources for use with the scripts
Kidspiration 3 summary.kid
Camouflage.kid
Equivalent Fractions.kid
Base Ten Blocks Ex.kid
Pattern Blocks Ex.kid
Fraction Boxes Ex.kid
Color-Fraction Tiles Ex.kid
Participant Name Tent
Math - Adding and Regrouping
Science - Find the Food Chains
Reading & Writing - Writing Vacation Postcard
Social Studies - Cartoon Creator
Still presenting on Kidspiration 2? Click here for workshop scripts.
Webcast Archives
May 14, 2009
Keep Your Students Learning Till the Final Bell with Kidspiration 3
Keep your K-5 grade students learning right up until that final bell with a hassle-free end of the year project. Get tips on how to keep your students engaged and celebrate a successful school year while they plan, write and publish a yearbook. Lucy Belgum, our Education Development Manager for Language Arts, hosted a 45-minute webcast showing how to:
- Use graphic organizers to keep the project simple and manageable
- Celebrate and acknowledge learning and teaching in all content areas
- Incorporate pictures, charts and words to share the story of their school year
View this Kidspiration webcast!
April 30, 2009
Struggling to Engage Students in Math? See How Math Concepts Come to Life with InspireData®
InspireData is a powerful tool to engage students and bring math concepts to life. Watch this complimentary 45-minute webcast, hosted by Meg Courtnage, our Education Development Manager for Math. Participants learned how they can use InspireData to:
- Support math standards across data analysis, probability and algebra
- Engage students with data from built-in databases, e-Surveys, experiments, or outside sources
- Analyze and interpret data with dynamic graphs and plots
View this InspireData webcast!
March 26, 2009
Making Data Analysis Fun and Engaging with Real Data and InspireData® 1.5
Students use InspireData® to investigate, analyze, and represent data and information in dynamic graphs and plots. See how real-life recycling data was collected with an e-Survey and analyzed using the features and functions of InspireData. Cath Cuff, our Education Development Manager for Science, hosted a complimentary 45-minute webcast demonstrating how you can use InspireData with your students to:
- Collect data easily using e-Survey
- Create Venn, pie, bar and stack plots to show relationships
- Examine data to draw logical conclusions
View this archived InspireData webcast!
March 19, 2009
Teaching STEM and 21st Century Skills with Kidspiration®
Students in the first grade this year will graduate in the year 2020. Will they have the skills necessary for success in the 21st Century? According to the State Educational Technology Directors Association’s (SETDA) recently released Class of 2020: Action Plan for Education, early exposure to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) is critical to success in the 21st century and should be integrated throughout the curriculum for all children starting in kindergarten.
Join us for a complimentary professional development webcast hosted by Inspiration Software’s math educator Meg Courtnage. Participants will learn how to:
- Integrate STEM skills into the K-5 curriculum with Kidspiration 3
- Access tools, activities and lessons that target math, science and technology
- Use visual learning techniques to enhance critical thinking, communication and problem solving
View this archived Kidspiration webcast!
February 26, 2009
Learn to Use Kidspiration®’s Visual Math Tools
Kidspiration 3 has five visual math tools to help K-5 students build their conceptual understanding in math. Join us for a tour and training in Math View. Meg Courtnage, our Education Development Manager for Math, hosted a complimentary 45-minute webcast. Participants:
- Saw a demonstration of all five math tools – color tiles, pattern blocks, base ten blocks, fraction tiles and fraction boxes
- Discovered ready-to-use activities and lesson plans, customization options and tips for starting projects from scratch
- Got ideas for using Kidspiration’s math tools to support K-5 curriculum
View this archived Kidspiration webcast!
February 12, 2009
Writing a Research Paper with Inspiration
Graphic organizers are effective tools for writing research papers. Join us on February 12th to learn how your students can visually plan and record information to write an organized and well-supported research paper using Inspiration. Lucy Belgum, our Education Development Manager for Language Arts, hosted a 45-minute webcast demonstrating how to:
- Use visual techniques to select and narrow a topic
- Use prewriting notes and organizers to formulate the research paper
- Write a thesis statement and support it within the paper’s body
View this archived Inspiration webcast!
January 29, 2009
Using Visual Learning Techniques to Improve Academic Performance with Inspiration®
Inspiration® helps students develop ideas, analyze concepts and improve organizational skills. Explore templates and examples that will help your students improve academic performance in Science, Language Arts and Social Studies. Cath Cuff, our Education Development Manager for Science, hosted a complimentary 45-minute webcast demonstrating how you can use Inspiration 8 to:
- Expand on ideas to create well-supported thinking and conclusions
- Build knowledge by increasing comprehension of new concepts
- Increase organizational skills by connecting ideas into a logical hierarchy
View this archived Inspiration webcast!
January 15, 2009
Writing to a Prompt with Kidspiration® 3
Graphic organizers are an effective tool to support students as they learn how to write to a prompt. Learn how your students can learn to write on demand using Kidspiration. Lucy Belgum, our Education Development Manager for Language Arts, hosted a 45-minute webcast demonstrating how to:
- Use visual techniques to plan writing that is mindful of audience, purpose and form
- Engage students in the process of writing paragraphs that contain supporting details
- Target, plan and write to the components found within the various modes of writing using graphic organizers
View this archived Kidspiration webcast!
November 13, 2008
Engage Students and Promote Project-based Learning Across the Curriculum with InspireData®
Listen to an interview with Telannia Norfar, a ninth-grade math teacher at Northwest Classen High School in Oklahoma City. Mrs. Norfar used InspireData by having her math students use it to collect and analyze data for how to improve the quality and selection of food in their school cafeteria.
The cafeteria-food project was a collaborative effort with her colleagues across the curriculum. Mrs. Norfar’s focus was on math, as she guided students in analyzing the data they had gathered using InspireData. In English class, the students worked on writing skills, as they wrote business letters to the principal and the cafeteria manager. From their social studies teacher, the students learned about other cultures, including the geography and cuisine of different regions. And they worked with their science teacher to create lab reports about the patterns they saw in their data and to learn about environmental considerations in the cafeteria.
During this complimentary 45 minute webcast, Ms. Norfar explains three things her students learned from this project:
- How to analyze data that is not pre-formatted
- How to compare and contrast data using venn diagrams to see trends
- How to create appropriate graphs to support a proposal
View this archived InspireData webcast!
October 16, 2008
Analyzing Close Presidential Races with InspireData®:
How Might a Different Winner Have Changed History?
The 2008 presidential election is looking to be another nail biter, so we will tap into the excitement and use this "teachable moment" to look back in history at the other close presidential races. Then we'll examine how history might have been different if the candidate who was narrowly defeated had won.
Rick Reynolds, our Education Development Manager for Social Studies, hosted a 45-minute webcast demonstrating how to:
- Use InspireData to analyze vote totals by state through history to identify the elections decided by slim margins.
- Help students see the importance of civic engagement and voting.
- Manage the process of conducting additional research and recording findings in animated slide shows which can be played back for engaging student presentations.
- Adapt the activity for different age groups and to develop additional skills.
During the webcast Rick also presented the results of the Nationwide Mock Presidential Election we are sponsoring. If you and your students haven't done so already, please take a moment to weigh in with your votes!
View this archived InspireData webcast.
Individualizing Early Literacy Instruction with Kidspiration®
Learn how Kidspiration supports the teaching and learning of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development and reading comprehension, all components of effective reading instruction.
On September 25, 2008, Lucy Belgum, our Education Development Manager for English/Language Arts, hosted a 45-minute webcast demonstrating how to:
- Support emergent readers in practicing essential early literacy skills with individualized reading instruction
- Use Kidspiration activities as an informal classroom assessment tool
- Incorporate Kidspiration activities into independent literacy centers
View this archived Kidspiration webcast now.
Making Sense of Fractions with New Math Tools in Kidspiration
Meg Courtnage, our Education Development Manager for Mathematics, hosted a 45-minute webcast on August 28, 2008, demonstrating how to:
- Use fraction tiles, pattern blocks, color tiles, base ten blocks and fraction boxes to develop conceptual understanding of fractions
- Represent and compare fractions; add and subtract with like and unlike denominators; and work with mixed numbers, improper and equivalent fractions
- Engage students in tasks that promote problem-solving, reasoning and communication
View this archived Kidspiration webcast.
Engaging Students in Civics and Government with the Presidential Election and InspireData®
Engaging Students in Civics and Government with the Presidential Election and InspireData® was hosted by Rick Reynolds, our Education Development Manager for Social Studies on May 29, 2008. During this 45-minute webcast, Rick demonstrated how to:
- Create e-Surveys to gather data about the candidates' views and gather students' opinions about those views
- Analyze the results with visual graphs and plots that show the power of polling
- Engage students with interesting questions that encourage them to look further into their information, explore the data and find correlations
View this archived InspireData webcast.
Building Data Literacy Skills with Radish Plants and InspireData®
Content Categories: Nature of Science and Life Science
Building Data Literacy Skills with Radish Plants and InspireData® was hosted by Cathy Cuff, our Education Development Manager for Science on April 29, 2008. During this 45-minute webcast, Cathy demonstrated how, using plant data collected by an Oregon middle school science class, you can:
- Collect and display data quickly and easily
- Construct dynamic data plots
- Use scientific inquiry to analyze and interpret results
View this archived InspireData webcast.
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