Art Teachers Need Inspiration: Diagram

Inspiration is a wonderful software program that is VERY useful to Art Teachers. Teachers can link art periods together, artists, works of art, etc together. This program was incredibly user friendly and very innovative.

I had some trouble with using the footer and it did not show until you used the print preview option. Perhaps there is an way to view it that I did not discover, but I feel this is not a very user friendly option. I would probably write the footer on my outline before I would the actual diagram.

Other than this I can most definitely use this in my classroom. I especially liked hyper-linking the pictures of the paintings in my diagram to websites that would give more information on the artist's of the time period. Also the way that you can incorporate pictures and color make it a brilliant online interactive lesson.

I feel this is a that is especially helpful to have ready before any lesson plan. Something that either the child can study and have as a quiz later; a study guide if you will. Or just simply as a guide to understanding the many levels of art history. It can be confusing!

On a scale from one to ten I would give this program an overall 4.5 out of five stars.