Volume 8, No. 3 April 2006 Announcing Inspiration 8--More visual ways to think and learn 21st century classroom uses Kidspiration 2006 Inspired Teacher Scholarship recipients New! Inspiration 8 Teacher Resource Book Upgrade to Inspiration 8 and get special upgrade pricing Schools that upgrade to Inspiration 8 can save 10% or more until June 30, 2006. Get the essential learning tool that helps students grade 6 to adult visualize, think, organize and learn. Inspiration 8 provides more ways to inspire learning success across the curriculum, including video and sound integration, more than 1 million searchable symbols, and more than fifty ready-to-use instructional units for high school curriculum areas. Learn more about Inspiration 8. Learn more about special upgrade pricing. Visit the Inspiration Software booth at any of these upcoming conferences for demonstrations of the latest software, plus a chance to win some great prizes! NECC July 5-7, 2006 National Educational Computing Conference Booth #1032 San Diego, CA Find more information about upcoming conferences.				Announcing Inspiration ® 8--More visual ways to think and learn The newest version of Inspiration gives students and educators more exciting options for integrating visual learning. More than one million online symbols, video and sound integration and the new Word Guide--an integrated dictionary and thesaurus--are just a few of the features that help students to better express ideas and demonstrate learning. For educators, 50+ online Curriculum Packets provide comprehensive, standards-aligned unit plans, making it easy to integrate visual learning into high-school level language arts, science and social studies. Plus, teachers can use more than 250 Web-based templates to give students a jump-start on projects across the curriculum. Want to learn more? Try Inspiration 8 free for 30 days and see the new capabilities that make Inspiration the essential tool to help students visualize, think, organize and learn. Learn more about Inspiration 8. 21st Century Teaching Award winner makes Kidspiration ® a regular part of classroom lessons For Kristi Barrera, Pre-K teacher at West Side Elementary School in Jacksonville, Texas, and winner of the Jacksonville School District's inaugural 21st Century Teaching Award, technology enables her students to learn important skills and see the world from a new perspective. This tech-savvy teacher is always ready to try new ways of teaching her students, who are primarily non-native English speakers. After an introduction to Kidspiration last fall she immediately began to implement it with her students. "Kidspiration provides an effective way to incorporate different subject areas," says Barrera. "It's a great way to pull things together." Read more about how Kristi Barrera uses Kidspiration with her students. Announcing 2006 Inspired Teacher Scholarship Recipients Inspiration Software is thrilled to announce the 30 recipients of the 2006 Inspired Teacher Scholarships for Visual Learning. These talented educators from K-12 schools, colleges and universities in seven countries worldwide clearly demonstrated that they are champions of visual learning and technology. Each educator will receive a scholarship for $750 to be applied toward attendance at a professional development event focusing on visual learning and technology. Learn more about the 2006 Inspired Teacher Scholarship recipients. Want to be notified about future scholarship programs? Send an email to scholarship@inspiration.com and we'll add you to our mailing list. New! Inspiration 8 Teacher Resource Book The Thinking Classroom: Using Inspiration ® to Meet Curriculum Standards offers an innovative approach to helping students develop critical thinking strategies. In-depth explanations of visual learning's role in mastering fundamental thinking skills pair with sound applications in the major curriculum areas of language arts, science and social studies. Learn more about The Thinking Classroom and view sample pages from the book. Integrating video and sound files in Inspiration 8 Enhance your lessons with the new multimedia capabilities of Inspiration 8! You can now attach and play video and sound--such as QuickTime ® movies and MP3 files--right in your diagrams. For example, during a whole-class discussion comparing a myth or legend to a current movie (a lesson found in the new language arts Curriculum Packet Archetypes in Literature), inserting video clips from the movie would be a great way to get the discussion started. Learn more about integrating video and sound. http://teachers.henrico. k12.va.us/ fairfield/marshall_g/ INSPIRATION/ Inspiration.htm Visit this site created by Fairfield Middle School in Richmond, Va., containing more than 40 downloadable templates, examples and lesson plans in social studies, math, language arts, science and planning. Through a grant from Central Virginia Consortium for Technology, all core teachers and students at FMS have access to Inspiration. These templates are offered to help teachers integrate visual learning techniques with Virginia Standards of Learning.. Inspired Sites contain Kidspiration and Inspiration lesson plan ideas, downloadable templates and resources for further exploration. You can see more inspired sites or tell us about yours online. Subscribe Unsubscribe