I am a person who thinks that she knows Microsoft Word program pretty well. I took a computer application class, and learned some helpful shortcuts. How to bold, and other task from your keyboard. One cool thing that did learn was about Smart Art, it is something in the New 2008 version of Word. It allows you to organize your information into some graphic organizers, which is really cool. There are pie charts, and cycle charts (that you can use for the life cycles) and just so many other organizers, so you don't have to sit there and manually draw, the life cycle chart. Which is great for me because my artistic ability is how we say not so great.
Another cool program that i got to work with was Inspiration. That allows you to make a concept map. Which was awesome! I tried to use it last year, and got so frustrated with it that i went and found a different program. You can type in information in an outline and it will format it into a concept map, or you can work with the map on your own, and you can get an outline from that. It really allows you to make graphic organizers for you students to study from, or use as an assessment. I LOVE Inspiration. Now that i know how to use it, successfully.
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16 years ago
I agree. I really liked using Inspiration. I like how I could work in the concept map part or the outline part. I also liked how you can add pictures to help get the point across. I am going to use this alot when I start teaching, for me and for the students.
ReplyDeleteI love Inspiration. I agree with you and Caitlin, I think this is a great program for both teachers and students. Students could use this as a hand on activity and teachers could use as a layout for a lesson. I believe both the teacher and student will get alot of use out of this program. I feel you could learn alot with Inspiration!
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