Inspiration

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Inspiration

• A graphic organizer
• A tool for all students

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Reasons to use Inspiration

• Vocabulary
• Story Starting
• Assist Recall
• Compare/Contrast
• Cycles
• Flow Charts
• Characteristics
• Categories
• KWL

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Getting the ideas down

• They must know it.
• Ive been
• teaching it.
• How can they
• show it?

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The Templates

• Why
• re-invent the wheel?

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From simple
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To more complicated
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Structured
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Recall from viewing video
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An example from an ESL student novel report
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Recall exercise for short text
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Work from a template for compare and contrast
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K W L
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Math review
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Evaluating the productAre you getting what you
are looking for?

• Is there enough vocabulary?
• Is the arrangement appropriate?
• Does it demonstrate knowing not just parroting?
• Rubrics and global scoring

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Rubrics
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Jordan School District T4 site

• http//t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/inspi
  ration_templates/index.html

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References

• http//www.inspiration
  .com/home.cfm
• Tutorials (Inspiration keeps changing versions
  and each new version does more)
• http//hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/landryp/inspiration/i
  ndex.htm
• http//hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/landryp/inspiration.h
  tmHyperlinks
• Some classroom examples http//www.spart5.k12.sc
  .us/TechTraining/InspirationMatrix.htm
• Other publishers version
• http//www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS_01.h
  tm
• http//www.graphic.org/goindex.html
• Jordan School District T4 site http//t4.jordan.k1
  2.ut.us/teacher_resources/inspiration_templates/in
  dex.html