Inspiration and Kidspiration in the Classroom

What's the difference between Inspiration and Kidspiration?

How can I use these packages in my classroom?

How do visual organizers promote high-level thinking?

Use technology to communicate visually. For many students with special needs, visual communication is an important means of sharing understanding. Use visual tools such as Inspiration, Kidspiration, and others to encourage students to share visually. Kidspiration also has auditory elements that allow students to record their voice.

 

Inspiration Materials

• Inspiration and Kidspiration - main website
• Flashes of Inspiration - Newsletter

Explore Inspiration and Kidspiration

• Teacher Tap: Graphic Organizers from Teacher Tap: Concept Maps
• Inspiration Examples from AEA7
• Inspiration Examples from USD 305
• Inspiration and Kidspiration Examples from Strategic Transitions
• Inspiration for the Deaf from FSDB
• Best Practice in Inspiration and Kidspiration from Comsewogue NY
• Using Inspiration in the One Computer Classroom - online workshop from FCPS
• Inspiration from AITT

School Examples

• Teachers Using Inspiration from the Lakeland Schools (all subjects & specials)
• Inspiration Templates from CSUSM

Alternatives to Inspiration and Kidspiration

Although Inspiration and Kidspiration are wonderful resources, you may want to investigate some online and open source alternatives. It's unlikely you'll find anything as effective as Inspiration, but it's worth exploring. The online resources are particularly useful if you want your students to collaborate on a concept mapping project.

• Cmap - open source software for concept mapping
• Gliffy - online, collaborative concept mapping tool
• Thinkature - online, collaborative concept mapping tool

Create Graphic Organizer Project

Expore the templates in Kidspiration and Inspiration. Adapt an idea for your classroom.

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