Inspiration Blog

After watching the video over inspiration, I was pleasantly surprised with what I found. Inspiration is a great tool for organizing ideas. It makes allows you to brainstorm and construct a web for organizing your ideas. From my past experiences, brainstorming my ideas has been a confusing process because my ideas were all scattered and had no order. I wish that I would have had the opportunity to use a program such as this. This could be used in the classroom for writing papers, so that the students can organize their thoughts in an efficient manner.


I believe the best way to integrate technology into writing is by doing assignments that require the students to brainstorm ideas. The whole basis of inspiration is to assist the student in more effectively organizing their thoughts so that the writing process is much easier. Research papers can also be incorporated into this realm because inspiration allows you integrate web research and findings into the inspiration program.

I think that students can best help each other by getting into small groups of 3-4 people and take turns reading and critiquing each others papers. This allows for multiple perspectives on ideas and techniques to better improve the individual's writing style. I have participated in this technique in my education experience, and found it to be positively reinforcing and informative. I believe that it improved my writing because you can learn different things from other people. This also allows the teacher to mingle amongst the group and give the students feedback. As far as incorporating technology, blogging is an excellent way for the students to communicate. I have really enjoyed this experience and found it to be convenient and helpful. Reading other people's perspective and expressing my opinion and them doing likewise, has been an awarding experience so far.