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SOME RESOURCES FOR
OUR "INSPIRATION" DISCUSSION

Things are shaping up nicely for our "Booklist" chat about using Inspiration in the classroom. We've lined up two staff members at Inspiration to join us -- a curriculum developer and a product support person. Their focus will be entirely on ways to use Inspiration to meet your and your students' needs. No sales pitches, etc. These are not sales folks, and our Listserv is not interested in selling or promoting products.

The discussion will begin Monday, September 10. Anyone interested in taking part should join our [MWbooklist] listserv before Monday, although we'll accept you anytime you can get there! You'll find sign-up information below. To kick things off, John will send a message to Booklist subscribers.

You don't have to have Inspiration to join the chat, but it will certainly be helpful to be familiar with it. YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A FULLY FUNCTIONING TRIAL VERSION of Inspiration, and the newer program, Kidspiration, at the company website. These trial programs only work for 30 days but they are just like the regular software.

GO TO:
http://inspiration.com/freetrial/index.cfm

Judging from all the private email we've gotten expressing interest in this Booklist chat, we can learn a lot about graphic organizers and visual teaching/learning tools from this experience, specific product notwithstanding.

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READ A RUNNING RECORD OF OUR CONVERSATION

DOWNLOADS:
History template (Inspiration file)
Cause and effect template (Inspiration file)

Note: contact Erin Antonius at Inspiration and ask for these templates, which are in Inspiration format. Mention MiddleWeb.

eantonius@inspiration.com

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*HOW TO SUBSCRIBE*

To SUBSCRIBE to the list, send a mail message to

listserv@sreb.org

with the following in the body of the message:

subscribe MWbooklist your_full_name

IF YOU'D LIKE THE DIGEST...

Subscribe as shown above. Then send another message to

listserv@sreb.org

with the following in the body of the message:

set mode digest MWbooklist