Week 3: MS-Word & Inspiration

Here are some of the options that I find interesting about Inspiration. Inspiration creates an outline of their work, this will be a great idea for students to learn to set up outline in the traditional hierarchy. The auto arrange is great, how many times we arrange a diagram and as it grows it stops making sense? this is a great tool to reconfigure the diagram when is too large. The transfer of videos, notes and links is a tool that can make it easier to add information to the diagram. Inspiration is a great visual tool that can be use in the classroom. Again, the typed outlines and the handouts in the typical classroom may not be sufficient for the new generation to have fun and learn at the same time. I will use Inspiration in my classroom as a language learning tool. I can have the students have definitions on words a create diagrams, the diagrams can include short sentences, and if possible add pictures related to the sentence or word.

The writing activities in the bilingual classroom are fundamental. I really like Inspiration it seems like a great technology tool. This program can help me with the vocabulary, sentence structure and examples of how to use adjectives, verbs and nouns. Language learning requires practice, Inspiration is a fun way of getting the students to support one another by reviewing each others diagram while learning from the vocabulary cover from each student. Since time is limited, each student can cover one topic and presented to the classroom in a creative diagram with links and videos to support the topic. I would ask the students to use the blogger to review the others diagrams by giving a positive feedback.
Hiram