During my first years of teaching, Inspiration was a tool that I used all the time. Over the past few years I rarely used it at all. Last year I switched to a room with a SmartBoard and rediscovered the program. Not only does it engage my students, but it forces them to think and apply their learning. Below is a completed example of a concept map that my math students made on measurement. It was not this neat when I first projected it. The bubbles were scattered across the screen and there were no connections. Over the course of about 15 minutes, my students came to the SmartBoard, organized it, and made the connections. There were some mistakes and it was pretty cool to watch the kids correct them.
In science, I had my students construct a complex food web with a dozen animals. I'm not going to post it here because I took all of the photos from the Internet (you can copy and paste photos to your maps), but below you'll see an example of a food web made with the program:
Check out the Inspiration website and download the 30-Day trial. The site is also full of lesson plans and other resources.Check out: Alphabet Symmetry | Waves of Immigration | Slavery in America
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This workshop will help you learn about and explore the many uses of your Smart Board and Smart Notebook software. The session will be devoted to learning, applying and practicing with a Smart Board and Smart Notebook software and designing a lesson with the tools you’ll learn to take back to your classroom. In addition to Smart Notebook, you will be exposed to other resources you can use to enrich your lessons with captivating multimedia and web 2.0 tools.
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