[Year 12 IPM] ITA U4O1 visualising thinking

[Keith Richardson]

Are you using this at the moment Trudy?
Keith




On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:53:02 +1100, "Brentnall, Trudy J"
<Brentnall.Trudy.J at edumail.vic.gov.au> said:
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> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Maree Duivenvoorden
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> Inspiration 8 is now available as a free for 3 days download.  One major
> difference is that Inspiration files in version 8 can be exported to
> Word for further editing...
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> Maree Duivenvoorden
> Toorak College
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> G'day
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> I've been putting this off for a LONG time but I finally had to face the
> 
> perplexing task 3 of ITA U4O1. Now that I know it has to be done with
> software (thanks for the clarification, Paula!), I started with Word's
> drawing tools and rapidly gave it up as a joke.
> 
> Then, Inspiration struck me literally. I've never used it beyond a 4
> minute fiddle and a yawn, but I had a play today and it's quite nifty
> for U4O1 task 3.
> 
> Attached please find a (rather large - 211K - apologies in advance) JPG
> with an attempt at what I THINK the study design wants.  Frankly, I'm
> guessing madly about this.
> 
> I've only seen one other example of this sort of visualisation stuff (in
> 
> the Potts book) and was greatly underwhelmed by it.  It didn't seem to
> be showing anything about thinking or decisions.
> 
> Has anyone else thought about U4O1 Task 3?  Is this how you see task 3
> looking??
> 
> BTW I used Inspiration 6 (published 1999!) but it seems to do quite
> well.  The source file is attached too if you want to fiddle with my
> starting point.  Suggestions are more than welcome.
> 
> Mark K
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