Inspiration 8
Inspiration is a concept mapping program. It provides a visual way of organising ideas and can be useful for essay planning and revision.
Inspiration lets you work with ideas as a diagram, or as an outline. You can export the outline to create a structure for writing e.g:
Inspiration
I - Rapid Fire
. A - Get Ideas Down
. B - spreads them around
. C - quick
II - Visual
Getting Started with Inspiration
- Inspiration is installed into the "EasyAccess" group - Click on "All Programs" , select "EasyAccess" then "Inspiration". (On RAS you will find it in the "Accessories" folder)
- Click on "Create a diagram" on the Starter screen
- Use the Create tool to generate new ideas from your main idea
- Reposition the ideas by dragging them with a mouse
- Click on the ‘outline’ tool to see your ideas as a list
- Use the "Transfer" button to export your diagram to Word.
Further Information
You can download an Inspiration Quick Start Guide (Word document)
Video Tutorials
Inspiration has video Tutorials which show you how to use the program.
To view these, click on the "Learn to use" button shown on the "Inspiration Starter" screen as the program starts.
