Walking through the tutorial for Inspiration 8 was amazing! This is the technology I WISH the teachers would have had access to when I was in class.
This basically outlines the important information for students and teachers, while making it interesting and interactive for both.
Perhaps on the the strongest tools Inspiration brings to the tables in organization through technology. Now, teachers NEED to be able not to only teach their subject, but to be able to guide students through learning basic computer programs as well. Inspiration gives the students the opportunity to organize their thoughts and become used to the idea of interacting their thoughts on a computer program.
I think that research projects and general prompts would get the most use out of this program. Because you can go so far on a single idea, the program helps you expand your points and get an outline going on what you want to mention and/or include in your writing. The program is ideal for group projects because everyone can contribute to the idea of what needs to be discussed.
I agree peer feedback is vital to the revision process. In my early writing classes, my papers were edited by another classmate before being submitted to the teacher. This gave us the opportunity to fix basic errors while also teaching us the editing process.
This could also be done online, though, through the student blogs we discussed last week or perhaps using this new "inspirational" tool for writing. Students could upload their outlines or email them to a classmate, get the new edited version emailed back, and see the changes. This is a lot of what we do in journalism. While old school pen and paper is always trusty, its sometimes not timely.
All in all, it seems educators are jumping on the technology bandwagon and finally figuring out that if they want to keep up with the education curve, they have to become more interactive. I believe Inspiration 8 proves just that.
Life in Texas
16 years ago
4 comments:
That was a great idea you had about the student blogs. I will consider trying this with my future students.
Before i read yours i used blogs too for my students. I never understood about blogs untill i got into this class. I might not do it out of class but it is a great tool to use for classmates.
I was thinking the same thing when I was watching the Inspiration tutorial. I wish I had it in highschool, things would be much easier. It's actually pretty cool how easy things are and its a great way to organize, it you're anything like me, my handwriting is awful and sometimes its hard for me to read my own notes, this would help a lot!
Annette,
Thanks for sharing good information!
CK :)
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