What is Inspiration:

Inspiration^® is the essential visual thinking and learning tool students rely on to plan, research and complete projects successfully. With the integrated Diagram and Outline Views, learners create graphic organizers and expand topics into writing. This powerful combination encourages learning in multiple modes. As a result, students gain and retain a better understanding of concepts and demonstrate knowledge, improving their performance across the curriculum.

Instructional Strategies:

    Use Inspiration to present students with a task, and a place to complete it.  Include links to websites, Word documents, other inspiration diagrams, or movies you've downloaded from Unitedstreaming.  Use the Rapidfire feature to quickly collect the brainstorming of a group of students.   

     Nonlinguistic Representation

     Cues, questions and advanced organizers

Lesson Examples:

    What is the difference between a Star and a Hero?  link

    Use this document to organize a written retell.  link

    Connect this image with your study of Colorado History  link

Help Sheets:

    Annotated image of the front page showing what all the buttons do.  link 

    How to add videos InspirationLinkingVideos.doc

     Various tips and tricks how to Inspiration.doc

Online Resources:

    Inspiration Links. 

    Atomiclearning on Inspiration  link

     Trainer resources link

Articles and Readings:

People Resouces: