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InspirED PLN is a professional learning support program designed and managed by teachers, for teachers and education support staff. It is a not-for-profit organisation backed by Athol Road Primary School. Our aim is to provide excellent professional learning opportunities at a very reasonable cost.

InspirED PLN is a professional learning support program designed and managed by teachers, for teachers and education support staff. It is a not-for-profit organisation backed by Athol Road Primary School. Our aim is to provide excellent professional learning opportunities at a very reasonable cost.

Inspiration® encourages deeper, more critical thinking and improves students' creativity, comprehension and retention. The software helps students create webs, idea maps, mind maps, concept maps, graphic organizers, process flows, and other diagrams for thinking, organizing and writing.

Guitar masters like Jimi Hendrix are capable of bending the physics of waves to their wills, plucking melody from inspiration and vibration. But how do wood, metal, and plastic translate into rhyth...

Guitar masters like Jimi Hendrix are capable of bending the physics of waves to their wills, plucking melody from inspiration and vibration. But how do wood, metal, and plastic translate into rhyth...

A quick guide that may give much needed inspiration to teachers who are battling a case or two of the tuned-out student.

Educate, engage, and inspire your students with video! Sign up for YouTube for Schools to bring the power of video to your classrooms for free. Access thousands of free high quality educational videos on YouTube in a controlled environment.

"Inspiration Software® uses research-based principles and strategies to develop and support our visual thinking and learning software for students and educators."

Kids creating digital book commercials.

This research article provides an overview of how transformative learning experiences can be created through instructional design.  The aim is to use instruction to make learning more experiential, personally relevant and transformative to students.  The authors explain a framework for providing transformative learning experiences, including several indicators that fall into the categories of developing personal meaning, competence with the subject and relationships.  The authors also present guidelines for designing these experiences, including applying design fundamentals, crafting the learning experience and teaching and facilitating to inspire learning. A quick, but worth while read! Wilson, B. G., & Parrish, P. (2011). Transformative learning experience: Aim higher, gain more. Educational Technology, 51 (2), 10-15.

 Some articles about Future of Education Technology. (10 Emerging Education and Instruction Technologies that all Educators Should Know about. )

This site offers a wealth of information and many great resources for teachers interested in using digital media for storytelling and other activities.  There are a number of very good, clear, screencast tutorials for teachers to use. Preview a few to see if you might be able to use them with your classes. I thought they were great for high school students, and they inspired me to think about creating my own screencasts for other tutorials! :-)

A great post that reminds readers about the transcendence of narrative writing across genres (and across subjects!) The teacher uses historical and science fiction as inspiration for her ELA students' writing projects, but ideas, such as the "What if . . ." digital presentation project she mentions from Larry Ferlazzo could be used in almost any subject. The author's ideas for having students prove their informational research are also very helpful. I loved reading the post, too. Her, "Nobody puts baby in a corner," quote made me laugh out loud.

Inspiring and enlightening narrative about a high school teacher's experience integrating digital tools and storytelling into his classes (including lots of lessons learned!) and a "how to" guide for aspiring technology integrators.

Create a Class Account in Storybird and your students can create their own storybird books.

Make, read, and share visual stories. A global community of readers, writers, and artists of all ages. We curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories.

These tools from Google for Educators, whether old and familiar or new and improved, will keep teachers and students inspired, inventive, and organized.

Check out how Education Technology is spreading to Pinterest-- click on the recommendations within the article to find new ideas and tools to use in the classroom! You may just find someone inspiring to follow as well.

Boards are created by teachers, admins, and other education enthusiasts. There are new blogs, tools, and ideas shared daily.

Some really great ideas for integrating Social Media into your classroom

Kidspiration provides a cross-curricular visual workspace for K-5 learners. Students combine pictures, text, numbers and spoken words to develop vocabulary, word recognition, reading for comprehension, writing and critical thinking skills.

"Standards-based teacher lesson plan books make it easy to integrate visual thinking and learning across the curriculum. Teachers get practical ideas and step-by-step directions for engaging students in activities that encourage learning, thinking and creativity."