April+19+Homework

Inspiration- Comprehend, Create, Communicate and Achieve more. Inspiration is a great tool that can really help students with writing. Inspiration can make diagrams and concept maps. It is a great tool because it can be used on Macs and PCs. The thing that makes inspiration different is because when you are making your graph organizers and diagrams you can add pictures. Another thing that is great about Inspiration is at it is very easy to use. One thing that students say that they really like about it is that you can move ideas around instead of having to erase them and then write it again somewhere else. Another thing students really like about this is that you can change the text box colors. This is very helpful because when you are planning your paper it is easier to see the flow of the paper if it is in different colors. Students also love being able to put pictures into their organizers because it helps them trigger thoughts to jump start their writing. This is being used a lot in the classroom. Teachers say that before they have their students start writing papers that they make them go back to the computers to do a graph organizer. Teachers say that it improves the students writing so much because the students go into more detail and are willing to put more time in to it because they get to be on the computers. Teachers also say that it helps to improve students writing because it has a spell check, dictionary, and thesaurus built in. Teachers report that this is helping the students' vocabulary grow because it is so easy for the students to look up different words. Students say that when given the option they would pick Inspiration over a regular graph organizer any day. Students also say that it is better than a regular graph organizer because they can put arrows to things that relate and then add another bubble to show how they are related. The students say that it is much easier to go back and write a paper if you not only know that the ideas are linked but why they are linked.

"Inspiration - Comprehend. Create. Communicate. Achieve More." //Outlining, Writing, & Brainstorming Using Mapping, Graphic Organizers and Other Visual Thinking Techniques//. Inspiration Software, Inc., 2012. Web. 11 May 2012. .