Creating a Diagram Using Inspiration 7

Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Creating a Diagram Using Inspiration 7 Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates Starting With Inspiration 7 Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Inspiration is a great program for organizing your thoughts, creating webs, and various other tasks. In this tutorial, I will teach you how to make a web about yourself. To open Inspiration Click Start Programs Inspiration 7 Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates Basics Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Once you have inspiration open you will see the screen below. I will now give you an overview of some of the main items on this screen. 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In the symbol that now reads do. “Main Idea”, type “All About Me”. Basic Buttons Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates Click On a Button to learn what it does Rapid Fire Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates To add a series of connected ideas to a main idea quickly, use Rapid Fire. This is great for brainstorming! Go now and click the Rapid Fire button. Then Type School, Home, Family and Hobbies. Hit enter after each entry. When you are done, click off the Rapid Fire tool. Family Hobbies All About Me Home School It should look like this when you are finished. Create Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates The Create button is another way to add a linked symbol. Lets add a subtopic to the School topic. Click on the School topic. Next you will click on the create button. You have 8 choice in the direction you want the topic to go, lets put it to the right. Family Hobbies All About Me Type the name of your School here School Home Next use the create tool to add at least one subtopic to each of the other 3 main topics. Spell Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Spell check and check often. Remember to proof read your work also. Reading it out loud to yourself is another way to catch mistakes. Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates Symbols Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar You have hundreds of symbols that you can put into your diagram. We are going to put one in for our school. •In your diagram, click on the symbol named school. •In the symbol palette, click on the down arrow. •Go down to Work-School •Select School •Click on any of these school related pictures to put one of them into your diagram. •Now put at least 3 other symbols Symbol Palette into your diagram. Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates Bottom Toolbar Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Change the following about your dogstoolbar, we To learn the features of the bottom name need to enter a new symbol. Play with these buttons •Font Type •Font Size •Font Color to change the color of •Click on any blank space in your diagram your dog. (They will Uses These Buttons •In the symbol palettechange colors on any go under animals, and to Zoom in and out of select animals1 symbol). your Diagram •Click on the light brown dog. Wife Family Hobbies Sports •Give the dog a name Rover Home All About Me Templates 2 S tory House School Heritage Middle School Advanced Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar You now know enough to do a basic diagram, or web. Go to your diagram and add at least 10 more symbols, 4 more picture symbols, and a box with your name in it. You may also change the color of your text symbols. Mr Fischer Inlaws Cats Computers Dad Brother Softball Wife Family Hobbies Football Mom All About Me Otterbein College Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates Home 2 S tory House Nice Yard School Heritage Middle School Deck USA When you are ready, come back here and we will learn some more advanced features of Inspiration. Click here to continue Advanced Buttons Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Click On a Button to learn what it does Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates Arrange Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates That was now little messy, so little messy. Our web isstill a starting to get a now we are We goingfirst learnhow to just moveour symbols using 2 The to is a how to arrange one symbol at will nowlearn way to use the Arrange button! a time. different methods. symbol you want to move. •Click and drag any •Click on the Arrange button •Now move at least 3 more of your symbols. •Choose one of the Diagram Types and click ok. Mr Fischer Inlaws Cats Computers Dad Brother Mr Fischer •If you don’t like the change, you can always UNDO (CTRL-Z). Wife Family Mom Inlaws Softball Cats Hobbies Wife Dad Brother Football Computers Softball Hobbies Mom •Play around with the different arrangements till you get one you like. Home 2 S tory House School Nice Yard Home 2 S tory House All About Me Otterbein College Family Football All About Me Otterbein College Heritage Middle School School Deck Deck USA Nice Yard USA Heritage Middle School Link Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Sometimes you may need to create a link from one symbol to another. For example, our dog isn’t linked to anything right now. Lets include the dog as part of our family. •Move the dog near the rest of your family •Click on the Link button •Click on the family symbol, then on the dog. •That’s all there is to it! Mr Fischer Mr Fischer All About All About Me Me Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates Home Home Family Family Hobbies Hobbies School Otterbein College Wife Wife USA USA Mom Mom Dad Dad Brother Brother Inlaws Inlaws Football Football Cats Cats Heritage Middle School Softball Softball Computers Computers House 2 S tory House Nice Yard Deck Deck Note Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates Sometimes you may want to put in more details about a symbol, but there just isn’t enough room in the diagram. This is when we will use the Note button. The note button allows us to elaborate on a symbol in a collapsible box. Lets use one of our family members to learn this skill. •Click on one of your Family members •Then click on the Note button •In the box that appears, type some details about the person. •You can collapse the box by clicking in the upper left hand corner. •Now add notes to 2 other symbols. Outline Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar This button allows you to turn your diagram into an outline. You can also create an outline and turn it into a diagram. Lets take a look at what our diagram looks like as an outline. Click on the Outline button. Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates Notice that the Outline button now says Diagram. To get back to your diagram view, just click this button Hyperlink Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar You can use the Hyperlink button to link your diagram to a web page, an e-mail address, an existing file, or a blank Inspiration web. Lets link your diagram to the Hilliard City Schools Website. •Click on your school symbol •Click the Hyperlink button •Under Hyperlink Options, choose Web Page •Then in the box Link To type: WWW.Hilliard.k12.oh.us Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates •Click ok and you have a Hyperlink Finishing Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds We are now ready to put some finishing touches on our diagram to prepare it for printing or exporting. There are many thing you can do in Inspiration that this tutorial hasn’t covered, so feel free to explore. I suggest that you save before exploring, just incase something goes wrong. Have fun as you finish the Diagram about yourself!!! Mr Fischer All About Me Home Family Hobbies School Printing Exporting Templates Heritage Middle School Otterbein College USA Cats 2 S tory House Wife Mom Dad Brother Inlaws Football Softball Computers Nice Yard Deck Backgrounds Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Lets put more color in your Diagram, by adding a Background. •On the menu bar, click on Effect •Go down to Background color •Choose a color from the Palette Remember: Make sure your text shows clearly on the background you choose! Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds •Keep changing the color till you find the one that looks right Mr Fischer All About Me Home Family Hobbies School Printing Exporting Templates Heritage Middle School Otterbein College USA Cats 2 S tory House Wife Mom Dad Brother Inlaws Football Softball Computers Nice Yard Deck Printing Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates We now up foraprinting 1st looking diagram. Before we Lets set have pretty good print, lets check for mistakes one last time. •Click on file •Spell check •Select Page Setup •Read through everything checking for grammar •Select Portrait or mistakes Landscape •Check all of your page •Select Fit to one symbols and text so they are easily seen •Add a Header/Footer if Now we are ready to print you want •Do a Print Preview •If it looks the way you want it, Print Exporting Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Sometimes you may want to make a diagram to put into another document, or a website. Exporting will let you save the diagram in a picture format. Lets save our Diagram as a JPEG •Click on File •Select export •Select JPG •Click on Save •You now have a JPEG File Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates Templates Beginning Basics Buttons Rapid Fire Create Spell Symbols Bottom Toolbar Now that you’ve made your 1st diagram of your own, I want to show you where to look for templates that may give you a head start on your work. •Select File •Open Template •Select a category •Then double click on a template to open it. Advanced Buttons Arrange Link Note Outline Hyperlink Finishing Backgrounds Printing Exporting Templates •You can then use the skills you learned in this tutorial to complete the diagram