Single-click ICT support app
Every lesson has a scripted brief lesson plan print-out and a dedicated single-click inspira ICT support app that exactly matches the lesson plan. Children don’t spend the lesson looking at a screen.
The inspira support app just does the things you need when you need them eg playing the song and displaying the lyrics, playing the games track, playing the performance backing track as you want it.
App Screenshots – Hey You Concert Version
Multicoloured Play bar at bottom of shot shows different sections of song:
- Green – rap
- Red – sing
- Blue – instrumental
- Choose any playback speed
- Loop
In the instrumental section you can display up to 6 instruments and show differentiated parts. The screenshot shows Bb brass but inspira also exists for recorder, classroom percussion, woodwind, strings, keyboard and guitar
Instruments animate the different notes children play
- Animation can be turned on/off
- Note names on/off
- Instrument sounds on/off
- Choose fewer instruments 0 – 6
The song editor allows you or the children to create their own arrangement or to select the sections you want to practise
ICT Support package
Hardware
- Runs from a USB key or from your laptop
- Works with IWB or data projector
- Requires no installation*
Operation
- Uses keyboard shortcuts for single-click operation and doesn’t interrupt the flow of the lesson
- Start and stop tracks with the SPACE BAR move to next item in the lesson plan with PAGE DOWN key - simple
- This symbol in the printed lesson plan
indicates stop/start or
next activity
Features
- At first use the tool in its simplest form to help run the lesson
- Later, use some of the additional features such the song editor, looped play and tempo controls to involve children in creative tasks
*If running from your laptop you need the FREE downloadable flash and shockwave players to be installed on the laptop. If running from USB it will run even if you don’t have flash and shockwave.
