August 2007
INSPIRATION & KIDSPIRATION
Faribury Public Schools has purchased the Kidspiration/Inspiration software to support teachers’ efforts related to district-wide school improvement goal & identified intervention strategies:
All students will improve their reading comprehension and vocabulary skills across the curriculum.
Students will improve their reading comprehension skills by learning to use Graphic Organizers as a strategic tool to identify key concepts and supporting details, examples and definitions.
INSPIRATION:
The best introductory lessons are the training mini-videos that you can access from the Inspiration STARTER screen. Just click
"Learn to Use" and then "Training Videos."
If you want an actual handout to work from, please try these links:
KIDSPIRATION:
Click Quick Tour for a short overview of Kidspiration (Quicktime movie)
If you want an actual handout to work from, please try these links:
LINKS
If you do a web search for any or all of the following phrases, there will be literally thousands of links for you to explore!
- Inspiration in the classroom
- Kidspiration in the classroom
- Inspiration templates
- Kidspiration templates
The links below are just a sampling to get you started. Have fun!
PS
Don't forget to visit the Inspiration / Kidspiration software site itself - there are lots of resources there to explore as well.
SPECIAL NOTE FOR KIDSPIRATION
SESSION PARTICIPANTS
We used "dogs" to build our sample graphic organizer, and I mentioned an hysterically-funny "talking dog" video. It's on YouTube, so you won't be able to access it from school, but if you have internet access at home, just click here!
