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 »
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 »
Tweet Blank page syndrome is a term used to describe a type of writer’s block. You know the signs: staring at a piece of paper or computer screen with no inspiration or ideas of what to write, therefore, leaving the page blank. Many students experience blank page syndrome when they begin writing. They struggle to Read more »
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 »
Tweet One way to enhance students’ understanding of math and science is to combine these lessons with visual tools like InspireData®. Indiana University Bloomington collected a series of step-by-step instructions to introduce you to an overview of our visual learning tool to help you get started. Once you know the basics, the wiki helps you Read more »
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 »
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 »
Tweet These days, it is fairly common knowledge that students learn in individual and different ways. This is because everyone has a unique way of absorbing information. Over the past century, psychologists have taken a close look at the ways in which people uniquely comprehend information. These valuable studies help shape the way Inspiration® Software Read more »
