After I had developed my Blog. I had time to play with the Inspiration software. I made two mind maps. The first one was topic of "Africa" with some ideas related to Africa e.g. Animals, Food, Music. I added some African animals images using Paint. I also attempted to add some sound to the words or images but didn't work out well. When I clicked on the word "Zebra" or the "Zebra" image I would excepted to hear some zebra's sound.
Secondly I created a Mammal Animals web. I selected a few animals that categorised as mammal into the web. Interesting I also learned how to hyperlinks websites so when I selected picture of the dog, a dog's website would appear.
The Inspiration software was very interesting and useful for the 21st century classroom. I have learnt so much from this software. I think student will be engaged in this as much as I did. They can build graphic organisers, including concept maps, webs, ideas maps and most importantly mind mapping. Mind mapping is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions and writing (wikipedia, 2010).
Inspiration can help students to develop kills such as Brainstorming, Planning, Organising and Thinking. I would highly recommended this to my class.
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