Kidspiration Webcasts & Archives
Upcoming Kidspiration Webcast:
Teaching STEM and 21st Century Skills with Kidspiration®
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009
Time: 12:00-12:45 p.m. Pacific Time, 3:00-3:45 p.m. Eastern Time
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.
Please join us March 19th 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
Register for this Kidspiration event today!
Archived Kidspiration Webcasts
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 on February 26th 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!
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!
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.
