{"id":1283,"date":"2012-02-08T11:02:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.155.6.59\/learningtech\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2012-02-07T11:07:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:07:19","slug":"webspiration-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/2012\/02\/webspiration-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Webspiration in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve used Inspiration, you may want to venture to use the web version which will allow your students to access this <strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Visual Thinking, Concept Mapping\u00a0&amp; Writing tool from home<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Webspiration<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 is an\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">ONLINE<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 tool with features that assist students in capturing ideas, organizing information, diagramming processes, and developing writing.\u00a0\u00a0Files can move from Inspiration to Webspiration seemlessly and onto MS Word or Google Docs.\u00a0 I would recommend this tool for Intermediate students and up.<\/p>\n<p>In addition,\u00a0this tool can assist students:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>provide multiple means of action and expression<\/li>\n<li>guide information processing<\/li>\n<li>help map out ideas and organize outlines<\/li>\n<li>promote collaboration online with peers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1601\" title=\"Webspiration\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2012\/01\/webspiration-screenie-300x210.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>What does some\u00a0research say?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Studies such as, &#8220;Concept mapping : does it promote meaningful learning in science?&#8221;(Hembling, 2009),\u00a0 show that there is an increase in content performance for students who had been exposed to concept mapping over the course of their educational experiences.\u00a0 In fact, many go on to using this strategy when they continue in post secondary studies and\/or professional work.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">How do I get started:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Upon consultation, The Learning Technologies team will help you introduce this tool to you and your students.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To obtain a user id\/password, email <a href=\"mailto:Francine.Giacomazza@sd41.bc.ca\">Francine.Giacomazza@sd41.bc.ca<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0If you have an ID, please feel to get started at <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webspirationclassroom.com\">http:\/\/www.webspirationclassroom.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve used Inspiration, you may want to venture to use the web version which will allow your students to access this Visual Thinking, Concept Mapping\u00a0&amp; Writing tool from home.\u00a0\u00a0Webspiration\u00a0 is an\u00a0ONLINE\u00a0 tool with features that assist students in capturing ideas, organizing information, diagramming processes, and developing writing.\u00a0\u00a0Files can move from Inspiration to Webspiration seemlessly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,89,12,17,19],"tags":[98,36,97,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}