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Inspire Data, Kidspiration, Inspiration

Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: October 10, 2008

I’m inspired again.  A group of us paticipated in a webinar about Kidspiration 3.0 so that we could have a common vision about the possibilities.   It was interesting to learn that in one school district Inspiration was first used by School board members to develop flow-charts. The Board members are now using Inspire Data to [...]

We continue to be INSPIRED by Inspire Data!

Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: September 11, 2008

I received this email from a math teacher who is using Inspire Data.   I’m thrilled to see such excitement and SUCCESS on day 8 of a very, very hectic new school year. (new computers, new software, new media center COMMOTION and excitement everywhere):

Oh my gosh! [social studies teacher] and I were very impressed today [...]

Thing # 7: Webinars

Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: March 2, 2008

It’s quite exciting, actually, to learn more ideas for email’s expanded potential for connecting with media center patrons. But as one of my online students so nicely stated, we have filtered and policied out so much of what our patrons would relate to and could easily connect with.
Webinars are a fantastic tool; [...]

We’re Inspired. . . I’m Inspired

Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: February 14, 2008

Earlier I wrote about the possibilities of Inspire Data. Today 3 teachers, a student teacher, another media specialist and I attended an Inspired Data webinar ; the interest and excitement was very visible during the hour-long session.
“That’s really cool”
“Powerful”
“Real time-data” “
“Impressive” “
“Pretty neat”
“I can use this NOW”
“Awesome” and “there are so many [...]

Engaged learning with Inspire Data

Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: January 23, 2008

Today I tackled Inspire Data so I can introduce it to a math teacher who will be co-teaching a new class. I played with the templates, looked at the possibilities– and had an “ahhhhh” moment when I discovered the database for baseball statistics. Within seconds I had the latest stats on the WSU [...]