Inspiration & Revolution

[Ronald Zellner]

Inspiration is a very different utility from Revolution (like comparing 
apples to bowling balls) - each one has it's relative place in the 
educator's tool box.  I use Inspiration extensively for conceptualizing 
and organizing content and I have students utilize it in a variety of 
assignments as well. (graduate courses in Educational Technology)
I have developed a number of resources in Revolution for use by my 
students (see the projects section of the ed-rev  wikki for an example) 
.

The recent suggestion of creating similar functions in Revolution was 
interesting as this is what I have been doing with another one of my 
resources.  This is a Revolution stack with a variety of functions, but 
the main one is to provide students with a means of creating content 
maps for planning assignments in one of my courses.  It lets students 
create, categorize and link content nodes to represent the content they 
will include in particular assignments.  They can export the resulting 
content map as a jpg file for submission and sharing.
   This resource does not match certain strengths and functions of 
Inspiration, but it works well as a develpment/planning tool and I can 
make it available to all my students.  Here is a link to a short QT 
movie that introduces its functions.  This is taken out  of context of 
the full assignment site, but I think the main point comes across.

http://edtcserver.coe.tamu.edu/courses/MapInstructionsF.mov

Ron Zellner