If you are a big fan of Inspiration and Kidspiration the good news is that there is now an online version called webspiration. It is currently in beta but you can sign up to give it a run. The interface is pretty much the same as the inspiration product and behaves in pretty much the same way. So if you have used any of their products, you will be instantly productive!
Some interesting features include the ability to collaborate with others in real time and uploading and downloading of Inspiration 8.5 files. One interesting omission in the product is the ability to upload an image
So for all those teachers that have wanted to use Inspiration but couldn’t get it past their school’s IT budget, go and sign up while it lasts. I couldn’t find any details of future pricing or premium services. This is oviously a response from the large number of other web2.0 services that offer free visual thinking tools – bubbl.us, mindmeister.com, mind42.com, gliffy.com and others.
November 24th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Thank you for providing information about Webspiration! I recently downloaded a program called CMAPS, however, Webspiration blows CMAPS out of the water! It is great to have a tool like Webspiration available. As an educator, I am thrilled for a few reasons. First, as you mentioned in your blog, it’s free! I am in favor of any quality program that I can use in my classroom, especially when there is not a price to pay! Second, because it is on the web, I do not have to save the files to a flash drive to share between computers. Lastly, with the online access, I can now have my students access and create concept maps using their own usernames and passwords! Thank you for blogging about Webspiration!
November 28th, 2008 at 11:22 am
mywebspiration is great. I have pestered the powers that be to install Flash Player 10 on all of the school computers so that I can use it before the end of the year. I hope to have each student add something to a class mindmap. Thanks for making such a great suggestion.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:37 am
I’m just curious if the Webspiration Terms of Use which include the quote below are troublesome to anyone but me:
For all of your Content and User Materials that you post, transmit or submit via the Services and the Site, including (a) comments, (b) feedback, (c) bug reports, (d) piracy reports or (e) product suggestions, you grant Inspiration and the users of the Services and the Site an unrestricted, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully-paid-up license under all intellectual property rights to use, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform, copy, edit, modify, translate, reformat, transmit and distribute such Content and User Materials, with or without having your name attached to such Content and User Materials, in any manner or form and for any purpose, with full rights to sublicense, and you also acknowledge and agree that Inspiration is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you provide for any purpose without any compensation to you.
So in other words, your ideas can be taken by the site owners and passed on to anyone they believe might be interested, Correct? Btw, I’ve been a user of Inspiration for years. But obviously I’d love to use Webspiration, but its Terms of Use guarantee NO privacy whatsoever for whatever you put up on their web.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Hi Sharon,
I guess, like many users, we suffer from dialog fatigue and EULA-itis. I had no idea their ‘terms of service’ were so horrible for end users. Thanks for pointing this out. And even more credit to you for finding it amongst that huge pile of legal-ese on their terms of service page! http://mywebspiration.com/terms-of-use
Kind Regards
Darrel