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Item #: IN22300
Grades: 6 -12
Publisher: Inspiration Software
Packaging: Box
Our Price: $68.00
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The Essential Tool to
Visualize, Think, Organize, and Learn!
Inspiration®
8.0 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.
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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
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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.
Improve 6th to 12th grade skills:
- Plan and organize
- Research and evaluate
- Comprehend and communicate
INSPIRATION FEATURES
Students develop essential
learning strategies as they create graphicorganizers 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.
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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.
Diagram to outline
with one click
 With a simple mouse
click, students can transform a diagram into a hierarchical outline.
In Outline View, you
can:
- Organize ideas and arrange
thoughts by dragging subtopics. Diagram View updates automatically.
- Add new topics to further develop
ideas.
- Manage notes, audio and subtopic
information with Quick Controls.
- Develop topics into written
reports using notes text. Students can add up to 15 pages of notes text
for each topic.
- Plan projects and track ideas
using the Checklist feature.
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Develop ideas and
organize writing easily with intuitive toolbars.
Diagram Toolbar
Outline Toolbar
Formatting Toolbar
Major Inspiration
functions are at students' fingertips with our
smart toolbars. No
need to memorize keyboard shortcuts or
search through menu
items to find features — just click on the
toolbar and keep
working! Plus, the fully indexed and searchable
help system provides
answers to Inspiration-related questions.
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Jumpstart projects with templates
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Start
assignments quickly with inspiring templates that offer
frameworks for gathering information and organizing ideas in language
arts, science, social studies, thinking skills and planning topics. |
- 65 templates - A wealth of ideas from
across the curriculum inspires
students and teachers to plan, organize and create.
- Template Wizard - Create customized
visual learning activities! The
Template Wizard gives teachers step-by-step help for designing
templates to support any curriculum area. Custom libraries may also be
created and saved with templates for sharing with other computers.
Teachers can also limit the symbol library for targeted study.
- Flexible template access - Use and share
templates with ease! Templates
can be stored and launched from any location, making them readily
available for students and teachers.
Integrate video and sound
Use
multimedia to create more engaging and informed projects. Students
insert and play video and sound, such as QuickTime® movies and MP3
files, right in Inspiration. Students can also record their own audio
and attach it to a symbol or topic.
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Write with clarity
and accuracy
Students write with
clarity and build vocabulary using the Word Guide,
an innovative dictionary and thesaurus. Information—including parts of
speech, definitions and synonyms—is displayed in a familiar way to help
students quickly find and choose words with precision.
Connect
directly to research and information sources
Enrich Inspiration
diagrams and outlines by adding hyperlinks that
connect to other documents, including web sites, Inspiration documents
and files created in other programs. This provides students with a
simple way to gather research and keep their work and materials
together.
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Turn Inspiration documents into robust final projects
- Export Inspiration diagrams and outlines
to continue working on
projects in word processing documents, PowerPoint slides and graphics
files.
- Use the Site Skeleton®
export to seamlessly
convert outlines and diagrams to HTML and incorporate the diagram's
symbols, video and sound into web pages. Each symbol becomes a separate
web page, complete with appropriate hyperlinks. Inspiration even
creates a site map.
Get more visual
learning power with Inspiration Web Resources
Use Inspiration with
an Internet connection to seamlessly access these additional
complimentary resources:
- More than 1 million symbols
Students better
demonstrate their understanding and communicate their ideas by
including symbols in their projects. An online Inspiration symbol
collection, containing more than 1 million searchable illustrations and
photographs, offers safe image choices for any topic.
- 50+ Curriculum Packets
Curriculum Packets help
teachers effectively integrate visual learning techniques as they
address multiple learning styles. Each comprehensive online Curriculum
Packet provides an integrated unit plan with multiple templates and
exemplars. Each of the 50+ Curriculum Packets offers standards-aligned
supplemental instructional units for high-school level language arts,
social studies or science.
- On-demand training videos
Learn how to use Inspiration and complete projects efficiently with
on-demand training videos. These online videos cover Inspiration's most
commonly used features.
Powered
by the proven strategies of visual learning, Inspiration®
8 provides more ways to inspire learning success across the curriculum.
More
ways to engage and learn visually
- Keyword search for symbols
Quickly find symbols to better express ideas and represent concepts by
searching with keywords. Inspiration provides more than 1,000 symbols,
plus access to more than 1 million additional symbols through
Inspiration Web Resources.
- Video and sound integration
Use multimedia to create more engaging and informative projects.
Students insert and play video and sound such as QuickTime® movies and MP3 files right in Inspiration.
Jumpstart
assignments, gather research easily and streamline projects
- Inspiring templates
Start projects quickly with templates that offer frameworks for
gathering information and organizing ideas. Choose from 65 enhanced
templates that cover language arts, science, social studies, thinking
skills and planning topics.
- Drag-and-drop
Gather research and enhance projects with familiar drag-and-drop
actions. Enhanced capabilities make it easy for students to
automatically hyperlink to URLs plus quickly add text, images and
multimedia files from other sources to their Inspiration projects.
- Enhanced export and transfer
Easily and efficiently turn Inspiration documents into robust final
projects with new export and transfer capabilities. New options in the
Site Skeleton®
export let students incorporate symbols, video and sound in web pages.
With added transfer options, students can choose just the information
they need to finalize assignments in their favorite word processor.
Write
with more clarity and accuracy
- Word Guide
Write with clarity and build vocabulary using the Word Guide, an
innovative dictionary and thesaurus. Information—including parts of
speech, definitions and synonyms—is displayed in a familiar way to help
students quickly find and choose words with precision.
- Auto spell checker
Improve spelling skills and streamline the writing and revision process
with a contextual spell checker. Misspelled words are automatically
identified in both the Diagram and Outline Views so students can
quickly correct errors.
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Additional ease-of-use
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- Inspiration Starter screen
Quickly begin projects or access training and teaching resources from
the Inspiration Starter screen.
- AutoArrange
Organize ideas effortlessly with AutoArrange. Students more efficiently
add content and develop their projects, using AutoArrange to
automatically format their diagrams as they work.
- Brainstorming
Capture ideas quickly with the enhanced RapidFire®
tool. Students choose to add ideas that link automatically to a symbol
or to add unconnected ideas that they can later associate and link.
- Custom symbol libraries
Help students focus on learning by
providing symbols specific to their
assignments. Using Inspiration's Template Wizard, custom symbol
libraries can be saved and shared with template files or teachers can
limit student access to symbol libraries.
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Whether planning a
project, analyzing data or communicating results,
students benefit from applying the proven strategies of visual
learning
at every step of the process.
The
powerful combination of Inspiration®
and
InspireData™ gives students all the tools they need to successfully
organize, conduct, conclude and communicate results for a
project or
investigation in science, mathematics, social studies and
more. To learn more, CLICK HERE.
System Requirements
Windows
Pentium 75 MHz or higher
Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT 4.0, ME, XP
(including Tablet PC Edition) or Vista
8 MB RAM
15 MB available hard drive
50 MB for full install
Recommended:
- Internet connection
- QuickTime
Optional:
- Interactive electronic whiteboard
- Microphone
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Matcintosh
System 8.6, 9.x or OS X (10.1.5 or higher)
5 MB available RAM
10 MB available hard drive (8.6 and 9.x)
65 MB for full install
QuickTime
Recommended:
Optional:
- Interactive electronic whiteboard
- Microphone
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