Using Inspiration to Inspire Teaching and Learning

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Using Inspiration to Inspire Teaching and Learning
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Why?
Ideas are the Focus
Visual
Plan, Process and Prioritize
Convert to Outlines for writing
Organize, Update or Change
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Inspirations Two Views

• Inspiration has two main views or environments
• Diagram View- create visual diagrams such as
  concept maps, idea maps, webs, storyboards
• Outline View- organise written documents,
  speeches, reports or plans by providing a
  framework for ideas, order the flow of the
  information and structure paragraph detail and
  contents

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When you work with visual representations of
ideas

• Easily see how one idea relates to another
• Learning and thinking become active
• Find gaps in knowledge
• Recall the details better
• Clarifies thinking

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Inspiration in the classroom

• Students learn to
• Brainstorm
• Clarify thinking
• Expand their thinking
• Generate new ideas
• Break concepts and ideas down
• Develop their thoughts visually
• Plan
• Gather ideas
• Organize thinking and research

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Students can use Inspiration for

• Pre-writing tasks
• Story composition
• Story analysis (story maps)
• Character analysis
• Research
• Comparisons (Venn Diagram)
• Concept map
• Goal setting
• KWL

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Brainstorming
New Idea
New Idea
New Idea
Rapid Fire
New Idea
New Idea
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KWL Charts
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Pre-writing
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Paragraphs
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ProjectPlanning
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Export

• Save Diagram as
• Image
• Web page

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Brainstorm
Organize
Evaluate
Students
Synthesize
Analyze
Produce
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Using Templates

• Some of the work is done for you, there are many
  templates (file-templates) available for use
• Literary web (Little Red Riding Hood)
• Science- life cycles
• Lesson plans
• KWHL
• Teacher progress report
• Thinking bridge map
• Thinking circle map
• Goal setting
• Concept map
• Tree diagram
• Venn Diagram

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Lets Go!

• Create a web about FOOD
• Open Inspiration 6 from the start menu
• Set up the look of your web using Diagram
  Properties (file)
• Add main idea and headings
• Use Rapid Fire (lightning bolt on tool bar or F9)
• Change layout- mouse click and drag
• Add symbols (symbol library)
• Color code (effects, fill colour)