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Flashes Newsletter
Welcome to Flashes, the official newsletter of Inspiration Software®, Inc. Each edition of Flashes showcases how educators use Inspiration®, InspireData® and Kidspiration® in their classrooms. Each issue brings you great instructional ideas, tips and tricks and gives you the latest news from Inspiration Software. Sign up for Flashes today!
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Visit the Inspired Learning Community and check out our most current blog entries, find and share lesson ideas, see featured videos, and catch up on the latest news and information from Inspiration Software! This is an excellent resource to share ideas about visual thinking and learning, Inspiration, InspireData and Kidspiration. If you aren't already a member, sign up today and encourage your colleagues to participate too!
Inspired Web Sites
Inspired Sites are web sites created by educators that demonstrate how they integrate Inspiration, InspireData and Kidspiration into their curriculum. These sites contain downloadable templates, lesson plans and other activities developed and used in classrooms like yours!
Thank you to all our educators for creating these Inspired Sites!
Visual learning Inspired Sites
Graphic organizers
Discover web sites created by educators that provide an introduction to the use of graphic organizers in the classroom.
Introductory Information on Graphic Organizers
This site, created by Annette Lamb, President of the Lamb Learning Group, provides great introductory information on graphic organizers, links to more information and examples, and features Inspiration and Kidspiration as resources.
Types of Graphic Organizers
Score, a web-based classroom resource for students and teachers, provides a list of different types of graphic organizers, many of which were developed using Inspiration.
Kidspiration Inspired Sites
All subjects
Discover web sites created by educators that incorporate Kidspiration and visual learning into the curriculum.
Cape Girardeau - Missouri
Downloadable Kidspiration and Inspiration activities and templates for elementary grades.
District Five Schools of Spartanburg County - South Carolina
A nice collection of downloadable Kidspiration classroom examples.
Fairfax County Schools - Virginia
Downloadable Kidspiration templates and lesson plan ideas for grades K-3.
Jordan School District - Utah
Kidspiration activities in many subject areas, along with links to other resources.
Oswego City School District - New York
More than 50 Kidspiration activities and lesson plans, many with downloadable templates.
Rockingham County Public Schools - Virginia
Download a wide variety of Kidspiration templates sorted by grade level and subject: English, math, science and social studies.
TeacherWebs - New York
Elmont Schools K-6 teachers created Kidspiration activities during a Fall 2004 workshop.
Video Classroom Project
Video recordings of Kidspiration at work in the classroom. (To find Kidspiration-related clips, select "Search by Keyword" and perform a search using the term "Kidspiration.")
Wacona Elementary School - Georgia
A variety of teacher suggestions for integrating Kidspiration and Inspiration into lesson plans.
Reading and writing
Discover web sites created by educators that incorporate Kidspiration and visual learning into reading and writing curriculum.
Cobb County - Georgia
Created for a technology presentation titled "Make Children's Books Come Alive with Technology," this site contains downloads for graphic organizers that assist students in understanding and analyzing literature.
The Digital Scoop - Nebraska
Created by Susan Prabulos, this site offers lesson plans and templates that match up Kidspiration with popular children's books, plus links to other valuable Kidspiration online resources.
Global Classroom Online
Patti Weeg created a bank of Kidspiration classroom activities in language arts and math for grades Pre-K-3.
Montgomery County Public Schools - Maryland
Enhance vocabulary and writing skills with these Kidspiration activities for elementary students.
Math
Discover web sites created by educators that incorporate Kidspiration and visual learning into math curriculum.
Global Classroom Online
Patti Weeg created a bank of Kidspiration classroom activities in language arts and math for grades Pre-K-3.
Inspiration Inspired Sites
All subjects
Discover web sites created by educators that incorporate Inspiration and visual learning into the curriculum.
Cape Girardeau - Missouri
Inspiration activities and templates for middle school and junior high in a range of subject areas.
District Five Schools of Spartanburg County - South Carolina
A nice collection of downloadable Inspiration classroom examples.
Fairfield Middle School - Virginia
Contains more than 40 downloadable templates, examples and lesson plans in social studies, math, language arts, science and planning.
Jordan School District - Utah
Inspiration activities in many subject areas, along with links to other resources.
Lakeland Central School District - New York
Numerous Inspiration examples for K-12 in a wide variety of subject areas from art to physical education.
Lexington School District One - South Carolina
Finished elementary-level project examples include downloadable Inspiration files and lesson plans.
Oswego City School District - New York
More than 50 Inspiration activities and lesson plans, many with downloadable templates.
Rockingham County Public Schools - Virginia
Download a wide variety of Inspiration templates for grades 6-12 in language arts, math, social studies and science.
Salina Public Schools - Kansas
HTML Inspiration examples across multiple grade levels and subject areas.
Spartanburg School District Three - South Carolina
Mary Seamon created a web site on Inspiration and the Web Based Learning Model.
TeacherWebs - New York
Elmont Schools K-6 teachers created Inspiration activities during a Fall 2004 workshop.
University of Wisconsin-Stout
This site contains Inspiration and Kidspiration examples from across the curriculum created by students of University of Wisconsin-Stout's popular online workshop, Inspiration and Kidspiration: K-12 Strategies to Build Study Skills and Comprehension. Also included is information about the online course, plus a list of 50 uses for Inspiration and Kidspiration and a handy scoring rubric for assessing graphic organizers.
Video Classroom Project
Video and radio recordings of Inspiration at work in the classroom. (To find Inspiration-related clips, select "Search by Keyword," and perform a search using the term "Inspiration.")
Wacona Elementary School - Georgia
A variety of teacher suggestions for integrating Kidspiration and Inspiration into lesson plans.
Social studies
Discover web sites created by educators that incorporate Inspiration and visual learning into social studies curriculum.
East Buchanan Community Schools - Iowa
Students in Mark McCright's middle school social studies class created Inspiration webs on various topics.
Fairfax County Schools - Virginia
Downloadable Inspiration templates for social studies, plus lesson planning suggestions for using the templates.
Hope Elementary School - Maine
Check out this Inspiration project on 20th Century American History created by Susan Stillwell and other educators from the Maine School Administrative District #5. Sixth grade students used Inspiration to create web sites that document major events of the past century.
Online tutorials
Discover web sites created by educators that provide online training resources for incorporating Inspiration and visual learning into the curriculum.
Learning Electric
Forty online training videos provide a quick start in Inspiration (requires a QuickTime Player for viewing).
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Inspiration Software has compiled this list of Inspired web sites to showcase the ways in which educators use our software. In doing so, Inspiration Software is neither endorsing nor accepting responsibility for the content of individual sites nor their suitability. If you have any questions about the information listed on any of the sites, please contact the proprietors of those sites directly.
