Inspiration is a great source for students to consolidate and represent information. I actually used this program in my Special Ed. class. In order to get through the numerous court cases that go along with the education of students with special needs, we were split into groups, given a case, and told to find the main points for a inspiration web. After a short time we all took 2-3 minutes and presented our case. It was a terrific visual and got the job done in a short period of time. I really enjoyed it.
Coming from a neat freak perspective, I can see some drawbacks to this program. I spent alot of time in this class just making my web look the way I wanted, in a visually pleasing way. I would totally understand the kid who had to have it "just so" and my class would probably spend longer actually creating the webs than finding and sorting the information. I can also see myself wanted to change my student's webs to be organized and neat. Inspiration is something that I am willing to try, but can see being more time consuming that it is worth in the long run. I do really like the outline feature though.
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