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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Inspiration 8.0

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Powered by the proven strategies of visual learning, Inspiration® 8 helps 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 Inspiration projects.
Enhanced export and transfer

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 synonyms—is 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 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.

On-demand training videos

Learn how to use Inspiration and complete projects efficiently with on-demand training videos covering Inspiration’s commonly used features.

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