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A. What is Inspiration?
===Inspiration is a visual thinking technique that enables students to easily create and update graphic organizers, concept maps and idea maps. It is the ultimate visual thinking tool. It is where you can brainstorm ideas, structure your thoughts, visually communicate concepts, take notes, organize information and structure writing for plans, papers and reports. ===

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C. How to Create Your Own Inspiration Web?
===It is simple for anyone to create their own web. When one first clicks on Inspiration you have the options of choosing between an outline, diagram, or an already premade template. If you choose to create your own diagram it will bring you to an oval in the middle; that is where you enter your main concept. To add another bubble you can click on the "create" link, with the web picture above it, and another bubble will appear to add in more information. You can change your bubbles into pictures or add pictures next to your bubbles by clicking on the “Basic” tab to the right where the rectangular box is. There are so many features in Inspiration, we can't cover them all, but the best way to learn is to do some exploring yourself! ===

===D. Examples in “real life”/general uses Inspiration is a great tool for anyone, especially for students and teachers! For real life uses it would be helpful for students to use outside of class for some organization in their life. === ===E. Classroom/Learning Uses  Inspiration can be used when organizing information for an essay, for an introduction of yourself, a way to organize notes for science, math, history, ect... === ===1. Teacher Uses:  === ===Teachers are able to use Inspiration for many different activities. It can be used when the students are creating graphic organizers and want to add in their own pictures. Inspiration gives color to plain graphic organizers and students are able to bring out their creativity in their assignments. ===

2. Student Uses:
===Students can use Inspiration to create outlines and webs. For students who have trouble writing down their thoughts, Inspiration allows them to create outlines and add visuals of what they’re thinking. ===

3. Possible differentiation for Special Needs/ELL students:
===Special Needs students and ELL students might need extra assistance creating their own web on Inspiration. We don’t feel ELL students will have too much trouble because it can be as simple as using one word bubbles. ===

<span style="color: #ffb000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Parent Uses:
===<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Inspiration is more beneficial to students; however, parents can use the outline form for gathering their ideas. If parents like to be more organized and structured it might be helpful to them. === ===<span style="color: #ffb000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">F. Resource links to examples of classroom uses or articles/online sources with suggestions for use in the classroom, lesson plans ===

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<span style="color: #ffb000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">G. Citations/Works Cited
<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Inspiration.com <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(September 15, 2010) <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Inspiration. Retrieved September 14, 2010@http://www.inspiration.com/Examples/Inspiration <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Inspiration.(September 15, 2010)