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By Amanda Bindel
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Mind-mapping tool lets kids easily create visual organizers.
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What's It About?
The desktop software version of Inspiration has been used in classrooms for a decade. Kids can create visual representations using shapes, clouds, imported images, colors, and text. INSPIRATION MAPS on iPad puts the software in kids' hands, where they can use touch-screen gestures to create their maps and share them by emailing, printing, saving, or exporting them to the desktop or Web versions of Inspiration. Kids can create text outlines and convert them to diagrams or start with a visual mind-map and convert it to a text outline. Dozens of templates are included to get kids started organizing ideas for writing assignments, planning speeches or essays, thinking through groups projects, and more.
Is It Any Good?
Mind-mapping is a strategy that helps kids learn and remember information more efficiently. Inspiration Maps makes it easy for kids to brainstorm, plan, think, and remember information. They can be as creative as they want in organizing their ideas. The iPad version works beautifully, with tap-and-swipe gestures to create the parts of the map. Background and object colors, text sizes and fonts, and images all are customizable. Work can be saved and reopened easily to continue editing. Sharing is easy, too. Kids can print their maps, adding a professional look to a presentation or report. The free version, Inspiration Maps Lite, allows the creation of up to five mind maps, but it doesn't offer sharing.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Inspiration Maps is a helpful tool for middle and high schoolers. Try the free version, which allows kids to create five free maps, to see if it works for your child's work and learning style.
Encourage kids to use Inspiration Maps to plan and organize their writing or to organize information to review for a test.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Subjects : Language & Reading : forming arguments , using supporting evidence , writing , writing clearly
- Skills : Creativity : brainstorming , combining knowledge , producing new content , Self-Direction : academic development , Communication : conveying messages effectively
- Pricing structure : Free to try, Paid
- Release date : May 8, 2013
- Genre : Education
- Publisher : Inspiration Software, Inc.
- Version : 3.0
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 9.0 or later
- Last updated : October 28, 2021
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