Inspiration® Software Partners

Inspiration® Software has collaborated with the following companies and publishers to develop and provide materials that support and enhance the effective integration of Inspiration® into the classroom.

Related Technologies and Services
Textbook Connections

Related Technologies and Services

Atomic Learning is dedicated to providing educational resources that allow teachers, students and learners of all ages to embrace technology. Their short, easy-to-view-and-understand online tutorials are a great anytime/anywhere resource for answers to those "How do I do that?" questions. Click here for more information and to browse Atomic Learning's online library of Inspiration tutorials.

Fourier System's Inspiration^® for Nova5000
The handheld version of Inspiration runs on Fourier System's Nova5000, a student learning appliance designed to fill the space between handheld devices and laptops, and is bundled with every Nova5000 purchase. Click here to learn more about the Nova5000.

The Promethean ACTIV board provides the most powerful solution available when you want to capture or present ideas using Kidspiration in front of a whole group of students. Optimized for use on Promethean ACTIV boards, Kidspiration now includes shape and handwriting recognition making it easy to create graphic organizers by sketching symbols and links and writing text directly on the ACTIV board. Users are also able to move toolbars to the bottom of the ACTIV board screen for easy access by all students. When Kidspiration is used in conjunction with Promethean's software and ACTIVote system, users benefit from a fully embedded student response system - allowing the teacher to ask questions and collect feedback from every student on the fly and even paste the results as a chart into Kidspiration itself. Click here for more information.

Sublime Learning™ delivers professional learning designed to unleash the instructional power of Kidspiration® and Inspiration. Their unique offering integrates effective teaching strategies with expertise on innovative use of Kidspiration and Inspiration. Beyond how-to, they focus on using technology to achieve K-12 instructional goals for reading, writing, math and thinking skills across the curriculum. To move from ideas to classroom practice, Sublime employs professional learning best practices, and instructors provide foundational knowledge, models, practice and feedback over time.

Educators complete Sublime Learning programs with a better understanding of how to use Inspiration and Kidspiration to encourage creative and critical thinking, increase differentiated instruction, and engage students more deeply in their own learning process.

Print poster-sized Inspiration 9 documents to engage collaborative and whole-class visual learning with the VariQuest™ Poster Maker. Optimized to work together, Inspiration and the VariQuest Poster Maker allow you to seamlessly enlarge, print and display Inspiration's Diagram, Map and Outline View documents to:

• Show relationships between ideas to explain concepts
• Jumpstart brainstorming
• Clearly communicate assignment and classroom expectations
• And more!

Inspiration 9.0a is compatible with both the VariQuest Plus 3000 and the Poster Maker 3600. Click here for more information on VariQuest Visual Learning Tools.

Inspiration Software and VariQuest share a passion for visual thinking and learning. Teachers use the technologies together to diagram and display assignment instructions, show work examples, post an outline of rules, and in other creative ways. Students complete assignments using Inspiration and make class presentations using the posters as visual aids.

Textbook Connections

Many leading education textbook publishers have chosen graphic organizers as a core strategy to improve learning outcomes. They use graphic organizers within textbooks to present new information and concepts, and they give recommendations on how to use graphic organizers with student activities in their teacher guides and classroom materials.

High Point Series
Hampton-Brown
Grades 6-12
Hampton-Brown recommends using Inspiration in conjunction with its High Point Series' lesson plans. The High Point Series is a standards-based language arts program for grades 6 and up, offering relevant themes, motivating literature, content connections and specialized strategies for English-language learners and struggling readers. Using Inspiration, students develop vocabulary and writing skills by building graphic organizers as part of the lesson plans. Click here for more information about Hampton-Brown's High Point Series.

Strategies for Writers, levels F-H
Zaner-Bloser
Grades 6-8/Writing
Download Inspiration 8 templates to use with activities and projects found in Zaner-Bloser's Strategies for Writers' textbooks and notebooks. Using these graphic organizers with process writing will help your students systematically and confidently plan and organize their writing in five critical modes: Narrative, descriptive, expository, persuasive and test writing.

To use these templates, you must have Inspiration. To download a free 30-day trial of Inspiration, click here.

Click on your textbook to access the templates:

Level F, Grade 6

Level G, Grade 7

Level H, Grade 8