We're excited to tell you about companies that have developed
materials to support and enhance the use of Inspiration Software®,
Inc.'s visual learning products in the classroom.
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GameIt! with Inspiration
GameIt! with Inspiration is a unique collection of 12 different interactive game templates designed for use with Inspiration.
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You have already been using Inspiration for concept mapping and graphic organization, now you can use it in a whole new way – to support your curriculum with interactive class activities. Each template was designed in Inspiration and includes all of the necessary design elements. All you need to do is choose the game style you wish to use, and then fill in the blanks with your questions and answers. Within minutes you will have a great class activity in the game style of Family Feud, Jeopardy, Millionaire, Bingo, and much more!
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Promethean ACTIV board
The Promethean ACTIV board provides the most powerful solution available when you want to capture or present ideas using Inspiration in front of a whole group of students.
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Optimized for use on Promethean ACTIV boards, Inspiration now includes shape and handwriting recognition making it easy to create graphic organizers by sketching symbols and links and writing text directly on the ACTIV board. Users are also able to move toolbars to the bottom of the ACTIV board screen for easy access by all students. When Inspiration is used in conjunction with Promethean's software and ACTIVote system, users benefit from a fully embedded student response system - allowing the teacher to ask questions and collect feedback from every student on the fly and even paste the results as a chart into Inspiration itself.
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Scoop!
Scoop! is an innovative and convenient lesson plan
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service that delivers four weekly learning situations related
to current events, media, and social awareness. Each lesson contains
powerful Inspiration diagrams to creatively enhance and support K-12
students' visual learning and thinking processes. SCOOP! lesson plans are
customizable and cross-curricular. In fact, with Scoop's! lesson plan
archive, educators can quickly access learning situations by subject
(Science and Technology, Math, Language Arts, Health and Physical Education,
Social Studies, Art, and Personal Development), by age group, topic or date.
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Structured Writing
In Structured Writing, Inspiration graphic organizers and outlines are used to teach students the essentials of paragraph writing.
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Lessons incorporate concept maps, word processing tools and color-coded Inspiration templates to help students plan, structure and organize their thoughts and become proficient writers.
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Structured Writing II
Using Inspiration graphic organizers and outlines, Structured Writing II builds upon the techniques taught in Structured Writing to show how students can turn simple paragraphs into full-length essays.
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Using concept maps, word processing tools and color-coded Inspiration templates, students learn skills that help them produce a more complex, high-level of writing. Click here for more information.
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The Reader's Handbook Integration Guide for Inspiration The Reader's Handbook Integration Guide for Inspiration supports the use of Inspiration together with the Reader's Handbook: A Guide for Reading and Learning, Grades 6-8.
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The user-friendly Integration Guide provides teachers with powerful tools for teaching reading and comprehension across the curriculum. It contains step-by-step instructions on how to use Inspiration and the Reader's Handbook to customize instruction, assess student progress and develop students' reading proficiency. The Integration Guide also includes a CD-Rom with Inspiration templates that align to each of the guide's lesson plans, as well as a fully-functioning 30-day trial of Inspiration.
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Inspiration® for RedHalo®
Inspiration for RedHalo offers the same capabilities* as Inspiration for Pocket PC while running on handheld devices using the RedHalo platform and the Windows Mobile 2005 operating system.
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Inspiration for RedHalo is included in a subscription to RedHalo. Click here to learn more about the RedHalo mobile learning platform.
* Printing capabilities may vary based on device used.
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Inspiration® for Nova5000
The handheld version of Inspiration runs on Fourier System's Nova5000, a student learning appliance designed to fill the space between handheld devices and laptops, and is bundled with every Nova5000 purchase. Click here to learn more about the Nova5000.
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