Week Eleven - Part #1 Kidspiration & Inspiration

NOTE: Class will meet in HSC 252 (the small computer lab)

Inspiration and Kidspiration are just two of the many software available for classroom use. This software can be used to create a concept map, an idea map and many other mind mapping projects.

EXAMPLES & QUICK TOURS
Kidspiration
Social Studies
Kidspiration Quick Tour

Inspiration
Language Arts
Inspiration Quick Tour

SAMPLE PROJECTS
Kidspired Tales
Inspiration & Kidspiration: Teacher-Created Projects (University of Wisconsin-Stout)

LESSON PLANS & IDEAS
TOGETHER - Kidspiration Templates
Kidspiration Collection (N. Canton City Schools)
Teachers Using Inspiration & Kidspiration (templates)
TALK: Technology Assisting Literacy Knowledge Kidspiration & Inspiration
Kidspiration & Inspiration Lesson Plan Ideas (Fayette County Public Schools - KY)
Teacher Tap: Inspiration & Kidspiration in the Classroom

STANDARDS
Washington State Standards & Inspiration & Kidspiration (96 pages)
Information & examples are given on how this software supports the Washington EALRS

OTHER RESOURCES
Using the Kidspiration Activity Wizard
"Tips for Using Kidspiration Learning Software in the Classroom" by M. McDade 2007
Inspiration/Kidspiration Tutorials and PowerPoints
Inspiration and Kidspiraton Tutorials & Resources
Inspiration Basics
Learning Electric Inspiration Tutorials

INSPIRATION WEB PAGE
List of Training Opportunities
Inspiration & Kidspiration and White Board Support

IN CLASS Play around with Inspiration or Kidspiration and create a document showing events that have happened in your life during the last five years.

To be able to view this on a computer that doesn't have Kidspiration or Inspiration you will need to save this as a Word document. If you want to post your project to your blog you will need to use box.net or other web based file storage system. Email your project to yourself as well as all documents are deleted from public computers on a regular basis.

For Kidspiration: When you have completed your project click on the "writing" icon (the first one icon on the top menu) and then click on "publish" (the last icon). Save as a .doc (make sure that .rtf isn't in your title). Upload your document to a web based file storage service such as box.net (see instructions below) and use the url they provide to link to the document from your blog.

For Inspiration: When you have completed your project save as an .isf. Then click on "transfer" and transfer and save to Word. Then upload this document to box.net and use the url they provide to link to the document from your blog.

FREE GRAPHIC ORGANIZATION SOFTWARE
Try Gliffy a free web 2.o tool

SOFTWARE AWARDS
Technology & Learning's Awards of Excellence/ Readers' Choice Awards 2007
EDDIE Awards (Innovative software for education) 2007