Inspiration
® is the essential tool students rely on to plan, research and complete projects successfully. With the integrated Diagram and Outline Views, they 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.
Improve 6th to 12th grade skills:
- Plan and organize
- Research and evaluate
- Comprehend and communicate
Educators use Inspiration to customize instruction, achieve standards, assess student projects and energize learning. An expanded selection of 120+ cross-curricular templates in language arts, social studies, science, planning and thinking makes starting assignments quick and easy.
Visualize ideas, concepts and relationships In Diagram View, students create graphic organizers — a core element of visual learning — to analyze, compare and evaluate information. They quickly brainstorm new ideas with the RapidFire tool, search the symbol collection to find images to represent any concept, and insert and play multimedia files. To show relationships between ideas, students link symbols and add words to further clarify meaning.
Improve writing proficiency
As they start the writing process, students use visually integrated notes to expand topics and switch to Outline View to further develop their ideas. The integrated Word Guide helps students choose words with more precision, and a contextual spell checker automatically identifies misspelled words. To finalize projects, students can transfer to their favorite word processor or transform their work into a web site with the Site Skeleton export tool.
Plan and organize projects
Inspiration helps students organize information, develop thinking skills and demonstrate knowledge. Drag-and-drop actions and hyperlinks make it easy to gather research and connect to files and web resources. As students develop their projects, they use AutoArrange to automatically format their diagrams.
Inspiration Web Resources
- More than 1 million symbols
- 50+ Curriculum Packets
- On-demand training videos
Students develop essential learning strategies as they create graphic organizers to visually represent concepts and relationships.
Inspiration®'s integrated diagramming and outlining views and complementary learning capabilities work together to make Inspiration the essential tool to help students visualize, think, organize and learn.
Visually represent ideas
Inspiration's Diagram View makes it easy to express ideas, discover relationships and develop new thoughts and perspectives.
In the Diagram View you can:
Brainstorm ideas quickly with the RapidFire® tool. Capture thoughts with or without automatic links to symbols
Represent thoughts and information with pictures, images, words and multimedia-such as QuickTime® movies and MP3 files. Find just the right image from Inspiration's library of 1,000+ searchable symbols or insert a graphic from Inspiration's online symbol collection, containing more than 1 million illustrations and photographs.
Show relationships among ideas with the Link tool. Explain relationships by adding text directly on the links.
Explore ideas, record research and begin writing with visually integrated notes. New drag-and-drop capabilities make it easy to quickly gather research.
Differentiate among ideas and groups with colors, shapes, patterns and fonts.
Manage notes, audio and subtopic information with Quick Controls.
Organize ideas effortlessly using the Arrange tool or use AutoArrange to automatically format diagrams as you work.
Plan projects and track ideas using the Checklist feature.
