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INSPIRED SITE: A Quick Overview of Graphic Organizers

Graphic Organizers from the Schools of California Online Resources for Education

Tweet Graphic organizers are an important part of visual learning. So for this week’s featured Inspired Site, we’re showcasing some graphic organizers from the Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE) website. Here you’ll find valuable ways to utilize graphic organizers and visual thinking in your lessons. The website defines and exemplifies the following Read more »

INSPIRED SITE: Must-See Student Examples of Inspiration and Kidspiration Diagrams

Cobb County School District page on Inspiration and Kidspiration

Tweet If you’re looking for some detailed lesson plans to jumpstart your planning around Inspiration and Kidspiration, check out this week’s featured Inspired Site on the Cobb County School District website! Its Children’s Books and Technology page for Inspiration® and Kidspiration® has some excellent lessons for Language Arts at all age levels. Here you’ll find Read more »

INSPIRED SITE: An Adventure Through American History

Hope Elementary School page for 20th Century American History

Tweet In this week’s featured Inspired Site on the Hope Elementary School website in Hope, Maine, you’ll find ideas for teaching about 20th Century American History. The site has visual diagrams to teach about World War I, World War II, the Holocaust, the Civil Rights Movement, the Great Depression, the Vietnam War and more. Organized Read more »

INSPIRED SITE: A Compelling Use of Webspiration Classroom in a Communications Arts Course

Trending Education

Tweet Trending Education, a blog that provides “tips, tricks and trends in educational technology,” highlighted Communication Arts teacher Joe B. and his use of Webspiration® BETA in a freshman speech class. This post talks about how Joe uses Webspiration BETA to teach his students how to generate the concept and main points of a speech. Read more »

INSPIRED SITE: Kidspiration Activities for Kindergarten Through Fifth Grade

Kidspiration

Tweet Erin Hansen at Edina Public Schools in Edina, Minnesota created an excellent site that provides lesson plan ideas and examples for Kidspiration® spanning from kindergarten to fifth grade. The best part about this site is that each activity allows you to download the Kidspiration templates to use directly on your computer and in your Read more »

INSPIRED SITE: 50 Uses of Inspiration and Kidspiration

University of Wisconsin-Stout

Tweet January is the time for starting fresh and creating resolutions. For this week’s featured Inspired Site, I have one more New Year’s resolution to add to your list. Try incorporating at least one Inspiration® and Kidspiration® activity each week this year. To get started with some great ideas, check out the University of Wisconsin-Stout‘s Read more »

INSPIRED SITE: A Biology Teacher’s Use of Webspiration Beta

Education 2.0: The Future of Education is Online

Tweet This week’s featured Inspired Site is a blog post titled “Educator 2.0: The Future of Education is Online” by Adrianne Stone who is a biology teacher and consultant for online instructor training. Adrianne covers topics in elearning and edtech with a vision for the future 21st century classroom. This past July her featured post Read more »

Visual Learning Integration Made Easier

Tweet Educators are buzzing across social networks about the need to teach more reading, writing and thinking skills throughout the curriculum. Yet, this can be a daunting task when teachers need to primarily teach subject matter. Where do you find the time to create lessons and activities that further skill development and teach learning strategies Read more »

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