• Visualize & Develop Ideas. Understand & Retain Concepts
• Plan & Organize Written Work
• Communicate & Present Knowledge
• Use Inspiration for All of Your School Projects

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Visualize & Develop Ideas. Understand & Retain Concepts.

Inspiration makes it easy to create webs, idea maps, mind maps, concept maps, graphic organizers, process flows, and other diagrams for thinking, organizing and writing. Use these proven visual thinking and learning techniques to brainstorm ideas, explore and explain relationships, and integrate new knowledge with what you already know. Inspiration encourages deeper, more critical thinking and that improves creativity, comprehension and retention.

Plan & Organize Written Work

Get organized and think through projects and assignments more effectively using Inspiration’s Outline View. Structure your work for planning and writing. Brainstorm and organize ideas. Gather and keep track of research information and develop a logical flow for written and oral communication. With Outline View, you can quickly develop main and supporting ideas and add detail helping you write to a purpose. Outlining, paired with the integrated visual views, lets you move seamlessly between visual and written expressions of your thinking to expand and refine ideas and produce quality work.

Communicate & Present Knowledge

Communicate what you’ve learned with Inspiration’s Presentation Manager. Use the content you’ve developed in Diagram, Map and Outline Views and expand your work into more thoughtful and compelling presentations and final projects. Inspiration provides all the tools to create organized, polished, formal presentations that convey ideas clearly and demonstrate your understanding and knowledge. Use the FREE Inspiration Presenter to show your presentation easily on any Macintosh® or Windows® computer.

Use Inspiration for All of Your School Projects

Enhance & Improve Your Work

• Build vocabulary and accurately express your intended message with the Word Guide, an integrated dictionary and thesaurus.
• Include videos and record and play sound in your diagrams, outlines and presentations to add multimedia impact.
• Add hyperlinks to web pages, files and other Inspiration documents to gather research or organize larger team projects.

Share Your Work

• Print your work from Diagram, Map and Outline Views and from the Presentation Manager.
• Transfer your work to a word processor to streamline and support project completion.
• Save documents as PDFs.
• Use the Site Skeleton® export to transform diagrams into HTML web sites.
• Export diagrams and mind maps as .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp or .wmf files to insert in other materials.

Use Inspiration to its Full Potential

• Templates provide guidelines and help you start projects quickly.
• On-demand Training Videos show you how to use Inspiration’s most commonly used tools.
• A built-in help system provides assistance when you have questions about how to use Inspiration 9.
• Examples give you ideas on how Inspiration can be used across the curriculum.

"Inspiration 9 is familiar but improved. It takes information to a higher level, giving students the tools to analyze, synthesize and present their thoughts to others. It also helps linear learners create mind maps and visual learners create order. What a great way to bring different types of learners to shared understanding!"

"Inspiration 9 is more inclusive and powerful than previous versions. I'm very excited about this new version!"

"The new Map View in Inspiration 9 is easy to use and understand. You don’t have to give up what you know about Inspiration diagrams and webs; this is an additional tool to view concepts and the relationships between them."

"I like how I can move my ideas around quickly and use RapidFire® in Inspiration 9’s new Map View. The mind maps are great for brainstorming, organizing your ideas and showing the relationships between them."

"Inspiration 9 is much more versatile; it lends itself to communication via the new Presentation Manager which allows students to design their presentations as a thoughtful process and then share it with others without having to create everything from scratch. I really liked its ease of use."

"Inspiration is indispensable for technology planning at the district level; meanwhile, students use it for pre-writing, project planning and presentations. It is the best all-around tool in which a school district can invest."

"Inspiration's Transfer tool is an important feature that adds value for the end user and presents a number of possibilities for classroom implementation."

"Teaching history is not just a matter of getting students to memorize dates. I want them to have thorough understanding of what happened in the past and why. Inspiration is a great tool for that because it helps students organize their material in different ways."

"Inspiration has addressed the needs of a generation of visual learners. My students enjoy using the program to create visually appealing diagrams for projects and presentations."

"Inspiration is the one piece of software my district can’t live without. It has proven to be a valuable tool in fostering students’ critical and creative thinking skills."

"Inspiration is a dynamic program that allows students to incorporate new information at any time. With the hyperlinking and graphic capabilities of Inspiration, students can synthesize and present detailed diagrams to ‘show what I know,’ facilitating student creativity."

"Inspiration energizes my students to think, organize and create. It is a handy tool that helps students break barriers and leads them to success."

"Students are often very creative, but they can’t make their ideas form a logical pattern. By using Inspiration, it’s easy to brainstorm and then, with one click of a button, they have an outline for a story, an essay or a simple research paper. This difficult job is reduced to an enjoyable task that they can accomplish with minimal assistance."

"Inspiration is easy to work with, but challenges my students to think logically and helps them improve their problem solving skills. This program is a great tool for both my teacher education students and their students."