Inspiration : Testimonials

Educators across the United States and around the world use Inspiration^® in their classrooms every day — and they love it! See what some of them have to say.

"Students are often very creative, but they can’t make their ideas form a logical pattern. By using Inspiration, it’s easy to brainstorm and then, with one click of a button, they have an outline for a story, an essay or a simple research paper. This difficult job is reduced to an enjoyable task that they can accomplish with minimal assistance."
Sandy Sherwood
K-6 Technology Teacher
Appleby Elementary School
Marathon, NY

"Inspiration energizes my students to think, organize and create. It is a handy tool that helps students break barriers and leads them to success."
Marlene Goss, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Dept. of
Professional and Secondary Ed
West Chester University, West Chester, PA

"Inspiration is a dynamic program that allows students to incorporate new information at any time. With the hyperlinking and graphic capabilities of Inspiration, students can synthesize and present detailed diagrams to ‘show what I know,’ facilitating student creativity."
James Rye, Ph.D.
Community Curriculum Coordinator
Health Sciences and Technology Academy
West Virginia University,
Morgantown, WV

"Inspiration is the one piece of software my district can’t live without. It has proven to be a valuable tool in fostering students’ critical and creative thinking skills."
John Blaser
Technology Integration Specialist
Eastchester Union Free School District
Eastchester, NY

"Inspiration has addressed the needs of a generation of visual learners. My students enjoy using the program to create visually appealing diagrams for projects and presentations."
Sally Stevens
Elementary Computer Support Specialist
Linden Academy of Science and Technology
Linden, NJ

"Teaching history is not just a matter of getting students to memorize dates. I want them to have thorough understanding of what happened in the past and why. Inspiration is a great tool for that because it helps students organize their material in different ways."
Margo McAlear
History Teacher
Park Tudor School
Indianapolis, IN

"Inspiration's Transfer tool is an important feature that adds value for the end user and presents a number of possibilities for classroom implementation."
Bill Robertson, Ph.D.
Project Leader
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM

"Inspiration is indispensable for technology planning at the district level; meanwhile, students use it for pre-writing, project planning and presentations. It is the best all-around tool in which a school district can invest."
Leslie Alles Flanders
Director of Technology
Scott County Schools
Georgetown, KY

My job as an Instructional Technology Integration Specialist takes me into schools and districts to work with teachers on integrating technology in their classrooms. When introduced to the program, teachers immediately grasp the benefits and potential of using Inspiration, particularly in addressing their students' multiple learning styles.

Heidi Erstad
Instructional Technology Integration Specialist
CESA 1
West Allis, WI

Everyone in Georgia who is familiar with Inspiration loves it as much as I do! In fact, I told the teachers at my school that if I were a classroom teacher and could have only one program on my computer, I would want it to be Inspiration.

Jerrie Cheek, technology coordinator
Smyrna, GA

All the research shows that successful science teachers give their students the opportunity to act like real scientific investigators. That's why I have my students create concept maps with Inspiration. Inspiration makes students investigate a concept for themselves, and helps them understand what that concept really means.

Paul Rutherford, science coordinator
Lee's Summit, MO