Greenville County is Putting Inspiration in the Classroom

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Greenville County is Putting Inspiration in the
Classroom

• Integrating Inspiration Educational Edition
  Software in our SC Curriculum Standards

Toni Norris, Instructional Coach, The School
District of Greenville County
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What is Inspiration?

• INSPIRATION is a visual learning tool that,
  provides students a way to develop and organize
  ideas.
• INSPIRATION provides teachers a tool to meet the
  needs of visual learners using a variety of
  visual thinking techniques.
• INSPIRATION provides teachers and students a way
  to create, graphic organizers, timelines, and
  concept maps easily on the computer and use them
  projected on a screen or TV.
• INSPIRATION can also be used on the overhead
  projector as a transparency, or as an activity
  sheet used at student desks.
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• Inspiration is a user friendly software package
  designed for integration in all subject areas

• Concept Mapping
• Webbing
• Planning
• Graphical Organizing
• Brainstorming
• Teacher Planning

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Why Should I Use Inspiration?
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Organize Ideas for Learning
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Concept Mapping

• Builds relationships between ideas
• Two or more concepts are linked by words that
  describe their relationship.
• Can take new information and link it to prior
  knowledge.

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What is a Concept Map?
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Concept Map
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Webbing

• Visual map that structures information into
  major topics and supporting details. (Main
  Idea/Topics and Sub Topics)
• Helps students learn to organize and prioritize
  concepts and information
• Very useful for analyzing stories and
  characterization
• Webs helpful when teaching the economic, or
  political policies of a ruler

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Webbing with Inspiration
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Character Web from Catcher in the Rye
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Inspiration Diagram View
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Inspiration, Moving to Outline View
Endangered Species Stack I.Food
Chain II.General Information about your
species III.Habitat IV.Picture of Species V.
Bibliography Card VI. Take Action About your
species VII.The Future of your Species VIII.
Miscellaneous Thoughts A.The Story of your
Species B. Each Bubble shown is a card in this
HyperStudio project. Click on a bubble and
then the upper right red square to see
suggestions for what should go on the card.
Click Here
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Planning

• Clarify objectives and define the work
• Idea mapping
• Pre-writing phase helps students to clarify their
  thoughts and create clear concise writing.
• Idea mapping before a project helps students
  visualize the steps and the required information
  necessary to complete the assignment.

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Book Report Directions
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Research Project
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Teacher Planning

• Organizing
• Prioritizing
• Communicating
• Thematic Units
• Long Range Plans
• Open House
• Technology Planning

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PTA Open House
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Substitute Teacher Lesson Plan
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Student Planning Template
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Inspiration for Pre-Writing
Click Here
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Inspiration Writing Circular Stories
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Graphical Organizer

• Cause and effect diagrams
• Identify main characters, setting, problem, and
  solution to a story
• Timelines
• Sequence of events
• Genealogy
• Branches of government

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Forms of Water
Outline View
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Civil War Timeline
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What Are the Benefits to Teachers and Students?
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Addition Math Web
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Timeline
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Brainstorming

• Generate fresh ideas
• Develop thoughts
• Discover themes, patterns, and solutions
• Fast exercise in word and idea association
  utilizing keywords, symbols, colors and graphics
  to form nonlinear networks of potential ideas and
  observations.

Brainstorm
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Inspiration Provides Templates

• In the software
• On the website

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KWHL
Templates in Inspiration
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Causes of the French Revolution
Templates in Inspiration
Outline View
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Templates in Inspiration
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Templates Made in Inspiration
Click Here
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Inspiration Meets the Standards
Lessons written by teachers to meet curriculum
standards.
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Science Standards
Click Here
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Language Arts Standards
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Inspiration Great Ideas for the Classroom
Classroom Ideas Using Inspiration For Teachers by
Teachers
Subjects Include Language Arts, Science, and
Social Studies, K-12
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Greenville County Provides Inspiration Training
to Teachers

• Classes offered to teachers, free of charge
• Six contact hours, typically from 400-700, two
  days
• Licensed copy of Inspiration given to
  participating teachers

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While participating in the class.

• Teachers will each complete a concept map using
  the templates.
• Teachers will each complete a concept map from
  scratch in outline and diagram view.
• Teachers will create lessons incorporating
  Inspiration and share them with the class.
• Teachers will go to the Inspiration Website to
  find subject specific examples, locate additional
  templates, and other resources.

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Visit the Inspiration Website

• Free trial software
• Resources for using Inspiration in the curriculum
• Lesson plans

• http//www.inspiration.com

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Kidspiration

• Primary Grades
• Special Education

• Kidspiration Demo

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Handouts and Materials can be located at
www.greenville.k12.sc.us/league Click on
Instructional Coach
Thank You