Re: Inspiration Software

[Katie Oelmann <k_oelmann@po-1.ackley.k12.ia.us>]

My high school used Inspiration quite often for the English 2 and English
3 teacher.  The English 2 students had a semester of Independent Guided
Reading where they were to read approved novels and then do a project on
it.  Many used Inspiration to do Character Maps, Literary Maps, Simple
Cycles - anything where you could make  a flow chart type of display.  My
daughter even used it for her American History class to make a time line.  It's
a very simple program to use.  It has many templates as well as the
ability to create original works.  One warning though - the program has a
glitch of some sort that is very frustrating at times.  It would often freeze
my computer when I went to print, therefore losing any unsaved changes.
Make sure to tell the students to save often.  Hopefully if there's a new
version out there this has been taken care of.  I don't have the number
accessible right now, but I do know they will give you trial software to let
your teachers/students try it out.  This software has been pushed very
heavily to the administrators in Iowa.  Hope this was of some help.


Katie Oelmann, Media Specialist
AGWSR Community Schools
Ackley, IA 50601
k_oelmann@po-1.ackley.k12.ia.us

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