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Volume 9, No. 3
Summer 2007
Massachusetts teacher improves data literacy in and out of the classroom
Celebrating 25 years with FREE teacher resources!
Create electronic portfolios with Inspiration
Live outside the U.S.? Sign up for Flashes International
Tips and tricks:
InspireData--Setting up Time Series and working in Table View
Inspired Sites:
Inspiration assessment rubric
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NECC
June 24-27, 2007
National Educational Computing Conference
Booth #2218
Atlanta, GA
www.neccsite.org
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Welcome to Flashes, the newsletter designed to help you better integrate Inspiration®, InspireData™, Kidspiration®, Inspiration for handhelds and visual learning into your curriculum. In this issue, read about a teacher who uses InspireData in his classroom to improve data literacy, plus learn about creating student portfolios in Inspiration.
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Massachusetts teacher improves data literacy in and out of the classroom |
 | Middle school science teacher Richard Comeau has a strategy for keeping his sixth-graders involved in their class work and motivated to find answers to their inquiries. Comeau uses InspireData as a tool to encourage students to form their own questions, collect data, analyze results and make inferences to acquire a deeper understanding of science concepts. | "InspireData is fluid and visually engaging. It allows more kids with diverse learning styles to make sense of the data," says Comeau. "Kids want to work with the data because they have so much control over how they represent the information and make sense of it - and they can do it quickly and easily."
Learn more about how Richard Comeau uses InspireData to bring data understanding to his sixth grade classroom and scientists in the field. |
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Celebrating 25 years with FREE teacher resources! |
| Inspiration Software is celebrating 25 years of inspiring excellence with visual learning! Dedicated to supporting educators like you, we've created new resources to help you address learning objectives across the curriculum. | Receive over 60 FREE lesson plans for Inspiration, InspireData and Kidspiration. Each lesson offers:- Ideas and instructions on how to achieve key standards with visual learning, plus suggestions for assessment and adaptation
- A student template complementing the lesson plan
- An exemplar for demonstration or assessment
|  | These lesson plans are available for a limited time on our complimentary commemorative 25th anniversary Evaluation CD. Along with these valuable lesson plans, the Evaluation CD also provides access to complete 30-day trials of our software, plus extra resources to help you get started using visual learning with your students.
Request a 25th anniversary Evaluation CD |
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Create electronic portfolios with Inspiration |
 | As the school year comes to an end, creating an electronic portfolio is a beneficial way for students to review the year's accomplishments and tell the story of their learning in a unique way. Using Inspiration to compile projects, organize information and summarize learning helps students demonstrate their personal achievements and reflect on their educational journey - all in one convenient, easy-to-share document. | Learn more about using Inspiration to create powerful student portfolios.
Download student portfolio template |
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Each edition of Flashes International showcases educators from around the world and provides useful information on using Inspiration, InspireData and Kidspiration in the classroom. In addition to great product ideas, you'll receive tips & tricks on the software, inspired web sites that highlight educators' ideas and templates, and news and product announcements from Inspiration Software.
To sign up for Flashes International, visit http://www.inspiration.com/ie/newsletter.
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InspireData--Setting up Time Series and working in Table View
Using InspireData's animated Time Series, students can visualize data as it changes over time. This analysis helps students understand time-based concepts - such as exponential growth - and draw conclusions about past events and future probabilities. Students can easily set up tables in InspireData so that data can be analyzed using InspireData's Time Series animation.
Learn more about setting up Time Series in InspireData.
Learn more about working in InspireData's Table View.
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Wondering how to evaluate students' Inspiration and Kidspiration assignments? Use this handy rubric created by Karen Franker, instructor for the University of Wisconsin-Stout's popular online course Inspiration and Kidspiration: Tools for Active Learning. The rubric covers areas such as arrangement of concepts, content and design.
Inspired Sites contain Inspiration and Kidspiration lesson plan ideas, downloadable templates and resources for further exploration. See more inspired sites or tell us about yours online. |
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