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Inspired Sites are websites, blogs and wikis created by educators that demonstrate how they integrate visual learning, Inspiration®, InspireData®, Kidspiration® and Webspiration Classroom™ service into their curriculum. These sites contain helpful resources, such as: downloadable templates, lesson plans and other activities developed and used in classrooms like yours!
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Earlier this month, we featured the Jordan School District’s website for its Inspiration® templates. For this week’s featured Inspired Site, I’d like to highlight the fact that the website’s section on “Transforming Teaching Through Technology” also has a great resource for Kidspiration®! On this site, you’ll find a collection of basic templates to help you get started as well as more than 10 additional resources for Kidspiration on other educational websites. Read more »
This week’s featured Inspired Site can be found on the St. Bonaventure University website. This site showcases ways in which educators have personally used Kidspiration® in their classrooms. In addition, you’ll find an extensive list for additional ways you could use Kidspiration with your students for different subject areas and teaching methods. For example, you’ll find activities for social studies, Language Arts, math and science. Check out this site to discover new uses for Kidspiration in your classroom! Read more »
Happy Fourth of July! This week’s featured Inspired Site is the Jordan School District’s website on “Transforming Teaching Through Technology.” In this section, you’ll find Inspiration® templates for graphic organizers that include the following: categorization, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, concept map, descriptive pattern, listing pattern, vocabulary building, problem-solution pattern, sequence pattern, word map, word questioning, and words in context. When you find a template or graphic organizer on this site that you’re interested in using, you can download it in either a PDF or Inspiration file (ISF) format. What’s more is that at the bottom, you will find additional resources and information about graphic organizers. Read more »
This week’s featured Inspired Site on Kidspiration® by Rockingham County Public Schools is likely one of the most impressive resources I have seen. This site allows you to download Kidspiration templates across English, math, social studies and science. The lessons are identified by grade appropriateness ranging from kindergarten to twelfth grade. I’m bet you’ll find just about any template you’re looking for on this site!
As many of you know, graphic organizers are great tools in visual learning and thinking. They help students frame ideas around a way of thinking, answer questions, solve problems, think critically and more. That’s why we wanted to highlight the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory’s Pathways to School Improvement web page on graphic organizersfor this week’s featured Inspired Site! Here you’ll discover different types of graphic organizers and the ways you can integrate these tools into your lesson plans.
This week’s featured Inspired Site highlights a Kidspiration® and Webspiration Classroom™ service user guide from the Frederick County Public Schools in Maryland. This site has step-by-step, visual instructions to help you get started with these two tools. It even points out the great resources we have on our web site, including the Atomic Learning videos, the Kidspiration Getting Started guide and the Kidspiration Help Center. All of these resources combined will help you dive into using Kidspiration with your students in the classroom. Read more »
Check out this week’s featured Inspired Site, which includes countless literacy templates by Technology Assisting Literacy Knowledge (TALK) at the Fayette County Schools in Kentucky. When you go to the school’s page for lesson plans around literacy, you’ll find lesson plan ideas ranging from Edgar Allen Poe to Julius Caesar, endangered animals, Native Americans, current events and more. These in-depth lesson plan descriptions include useful web links, PowerPoint templates and – best of all – Inspiration templates. This site is truly a valuable resource while teaching literacy in your classroom with Inspiration.
This week’s featured Inspired Site by Fairfax County Schools in Virginia, highlights technology lessons for fourth graders using Inspiration®. This site provides lessons and suggestions that you can use to meet the Virginia Standards of Learning.
This week’s featured Inspired Site by Fayette County Public Schools in Kentucky is packed full of excellent resources on Inspiration® and Kidspiration®! Here, you’ll find scientifically based research on teaching with graphic organizers, links to tutorials on the Inspiration Software website and countless examples of how to use these tools in your classroom. This site also has a great list of additional resources by educators and educational institutions that may be extremely helpful when you’re looking at using these visual learning tools.
This week’s featured Inspired Site by Wacona Elementary School in Georgia, highlights some examples of ways to use Inspiration® and Kidspiration® in the classroom. These examples are listed by the following subject areas: Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies. This site will help you get started on these tools, as well as provide some great visual examples. In fact, it even has recommendations for Classroom Management and Technical Tips!
