I reviewed the Inspiration software for Secondary English Education. It is a great software that helps students form organizations skills in writing and visualize concepts and relationships. There are also a number of tools for teachers to customize Inspiration to work with their curriculum. Inspiration even comes with easy to understand training videos that help everyone get started efficiently.
This literary analysis of the story The Cay is a great example of how students can use Inspiration to enhance their understanding of stories and plots. Also, depending on the student's preferred learning style, they can either view the analysis in either a diagram mode (with pictures and brief descriptions), or as an outline.
While this software is mostly focused on student retention and understanding of the material (and would be consdered a reference tool), there are books available for teachers that help create lesson plans using Inspiration. The books acts as a tutorial for the teacher by providing an overview and review questions over the information. Here is the sample tutorial.
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