Inspiration makes it easy to create webs, idea maps, mind maps, concept maps, graphic organisers, process flows, and other diagrams for thinking, organising 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.

In Diagram View, you can:

• Brainstorm and capture ideas quickly with the RapidFire tool
• Use symbols to represent your ideas visually – choose from over 1,200 in the Symbol Libraries or use keyword search to locate a specific image from Inspiration’s Web Resources
• Show relationships between ideas with links
• Add text to links to explain relationships or use built-in linking text phrases
• Differentiate ideas with colours, shapes, patterns, shadows, fonts and styles
• Use the Arrange tool to instantly arrange your diagram into different tree charts
• Start the writing process with visually integrated notes

In Map View, you can:

• Expand your mind map’s central idea by adding new topic and subtopic branches
• Rearrange and connect ideas easily by dragging branches into place
• Use the Relationship tool to show connections among branches and topics
• Branches and their sub-branches automatically maintain the same colour to visually keep related thoughts together

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Get organised and think through projects and assignments more effectively using Inspiration’s Outline View. Structure your work for planning and writing. Brainstorm and organise 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.

In Outline View, you can:

• Quickly capture ideas and information
• Add topics at different levels with single commands
• Rearrange topics by dragging – subtopics and notes move automatically – or use the Promote, Demote, Split and Combine commands
• Transform notes and paragraphs into individual topics to reorganise information easily and quickly
• Plan projects and track ideas using the Checklist tool
• Develop topics by adding paragraphs as notes
• Hide and show levels of detail to see the big picture or all of your content
• Instantly transfer your outline to your favourite word processor to format and polish your written work

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 organised, 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.

With Inspiration’s Presentation Manager, you can:

• Start to develop your presentation using the content from your Diagram, Map or Outline View. Inspiration automatically generates a basis presentation from your content and some visuals from your Diagram or Map View content.
• Use ready-made professional themes to create visually appealing presentations. Customise themes to personalise them by adding graphics and changing background colours, fonts, and bullet styles. Save your personalised themes for your ongoing use.
• Easily add graphics from your computer and the Internet. Use the Create Snapshot tool to create graphics from your diagram or mind map.
• Add video and sound files to illustrate a point.
• Add speaker notes to slides to elaborate on your talking points.
• Use slide transitions and reveal talking points individually to engage your audience.
• Print your slides in various formats (with or without speaker notes) for handouts, including 3×5 and 4×6 cards.
• Control advancement of your slides or run your presentation in auto-play mode.
• Present using a single screen or take advantage of speaker monitor support that shows speaker notes and other presenter information on a second monitor.

Enhance and 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 organise 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.

Minimum System Requirements

• Windows
  
  • Operating System: 2000, ME, XP (including Tablet PC Edition), Vista or Windows 7
    
  • System Memory: 256 MB
    
  • Hard Drive Space: 250 MB
    
  • Recommended: QuickTime
    
  • Optional: Interactive electronic whiteboard, Microphone


• Macintosh
  
  • Operating System: OS 10.3 or higher
    
  • System Memory: 512 MB
    
  • Hard Drive Space: 250 MB
    
  • Optional: Interactive electronic whiteboard, Microphone

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• Inspiration 30-Day Trial version
• Examples and Lesson Plans to Integrate Inspiration into Your Curriculum
• Inspiration Case Studies
• Inspiration Testimonials
• Inspiration 9 Training One-hour Workshop (4.5 MB zip html)
• Inspiration Quick Start Guide (9 MB)
• Research-based White Paper: How Digital Tools Prepare Students for the 21st Century (613 KB)

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