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Inspiration v8 |
Powered by the proven techniques of visual learning,
Inspiration ® supports improved achievement for students grade
6 to adult. Inspiration strengthens critical thinking, comprehension,
and writing across the curriculum, in language arts, science, social
studies and anytime your students need to structure research or other
thought processes.
Inspiration integrated diagramming and outlining environments work
together to help students comprehend concepts and information. Educators
use Inspiration to customize instruction, achieve standards, assess
student progress, and energize learning. |
System Requirements
Windows
- 486 Processor Or Higher
- Windows 95,98,2000,NT 4.0,ME Or XP (including Tablet PC Edition)
- 8MB RAM
- 640x480, 256 colour Display
- 5MB Available Hard Drive; 20MB For Full Install
- CDROM Drive (For Installation)
- Optional: Windows Compatible Printer
- Internet Browser
- Soundcard And Speakers Microphone
Macintosh
- Macintosh Or Power Macintosh
- System 7.1, 8.0, 9.0 Or OS X
- 4MB Available RAM
- 640x480, 256 colour Display
- 5MB Available Hard Drive
- 30MB For Full Install
- CDROM For Installation
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Product Code - 15327
£59.00 |
New In Inspiration 8
The new and enhanced capabilities including Inspiration Web Resources
make Inspiration the essential learning tool to help students visualize,
think, organize and learn.
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. More than 60 additional templates are available
through Inspiration Web Resources.
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 synonymsis 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.
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 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. Plus, each of the 50+ Curriculum Packets offers
standards-aligned supplemental instructional units for high-school
level language arts, social studies or science.
Access learning standards, classroom applications and templates with
exemplars of student work.
On-demand training videos
Learn how to use Inspiration and complete projects efficiently with
on-demand training videos. These online videos cover Inspiration's
commonly used features.
Additional ease-of-use
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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