Inspiration

For visual mapping, outlining, writing and making presentations, use Inspiration® 9, the ultimate thinking and learning tool. Brainstorm ideas, structure your thoughts and visually communicate concepts to strengthen understanding with the Diagram and Map Views. To take notes, organize information, and structure writing for plans, papers and reports, use the integrated Outline View to focus on main and supporting ideas and to clarify thinking in written form. With Inspiration's Presentation Manager, transform your diagrams, mind maps and outlines into polished presentations that communicate ideas clearly and demonstrate understanding and knowledge.

Enhance & Improve Your Work

• Build vocabulary and accurately express your intended message with the Word Guide, an integrated dictionary and thesaurus.
• Include videos and record and play sound in your diagrams, outlines and presentations to add multimedia impact.
• Add hyperlinks to web pages, files and other Inspiration documents to gather research or organize larger team projects.

Share Your Work

• Print your work from Diagram, Map and Outline Views and from the Presentation Manager.
• Transfer your work to a word processor to streamline and support project completion.
• Save documents as PDFs.
• Use the Site Skeleton® export to transform diagrams into HTML web sites.
• Export diagrams and mind maps as .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp or .wmf files to insert in other materials.

Use Inspiration to its Full Potential

• Templates provide guidelines and help you start projects quickly.
• On-demand Training Videos show you how to use Inspiration’s most commonly used tools.
• A built-in help system provides assistance when you have questions about how to use Inspiration 9.
• Examples give you ideas on how Inspiration can be used across the curriculum.

Windows^®

Pentium III 450 MHz or higher

Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP (including Tablet PC Edition), Vista or Windows 7

256 MB RAM

250 MB available hard drive

Recommended:

• Internet connection*
• QuickTime^® 

Optional:

• Interactive electronic whiteboard
• Microphone
  

Macintosh^®

PowerPC G4 700 MHz or higher

OS X 10.3 or higher

512 MB RAM

250 MB available hard drive space

Recommended:

• Internet connection*

Optional:

• Interactive electronic whiteboard
• Microphone