Monday, December 13, 2010

Thing 20 - Visual Learning

All of the visual learning things available online now are great! With our district placing heavy focus on Marzano's content literacy strategies and Doug Fisher's work, these things lend themselves well to our district initiative. My IDP this year has two focus areas - improved technology usage and more use of word/concept mapping and similar tools so this is the jackpot for me. I've already used cmap and have had students do so as well, but the brainstorming maps would have been helpful several weeks ago when we started our formal lab writeups in biology class. I will also show mywebspiration.com to my students as they all learned how to use inspiration software in middle school and unfortunately we did not renew our license. I'm hoping the students will be able to effectively use it based on their prior knowledge.


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  1. Inspiration SoftwareDecember 14, 2010 at 11:43 AM

    Hi Mr. Landry,

    It's great that you're testing Webspiration BETA out on your students. I'm curious; however, do your students have access to an older version of Inspiration?

    Reading over the topics you mentioned in this post (i.e. visual learning, Marzano's studies, brainstorming, etc.), I thought I'd share with you our blog Thinkspiration at www.inspiration.com/blog. Here, we discuss many of these topics and provide teaching resources for each of our programs.

    I'd love to hear your feedback and learn more about the ways you're using Webspiration BETA and Inspiration. Feel free to email me at connect(at)inspiration.com. You may also find me on our blog, Facebook or Twitter.

    Thanks for mentioning us!

    Sarah Cargill, Inspiration Software
    inspiration.com/blog
    facebook.com/InspirationSoftware
    twitter.com/InspirationSW

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