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INFOhio IVDL Sessions
2009-2010

Introducing CAT 2.0! | INFOhio’s Core Collection and a Thanksgiving WebQuest | TRAILS | INFOhio’s Core Collection and Martin Luther King Jr. Day | Exploring Ohio's Mound Builders With INFOhio, Google Earth and Google Maps | INFOhio’s Core Collection and Black History Month | Jog the Web Bridging the Digital Divide | March Into Women’s History Month | Cyber  Safe  Ohio  Professional  Development

INFOhio's fall 2009 series of 60-minute, interactive video conference professional development workshops is for teachers, librarians, curriculum coordinators, guidance counselors and technology coordinators. Librarians are encouraged to organize a group of participants with computers at their sites, as there will be hands-on activities in most of these presentations. CEU certificates will be provided. This connection is for ATM sites.

To schedule a video conference, e-mail IVDLorders@laca.org with your contact information, video conference contact person, site name, name of their equipment and/or an external IP address if your unit is not in the TC reliance system at eTech Ohio. Or, use the Site Registration Form for the appropriate session. Deadline to register: Three days prior to each session


Introducing CAT 2.0!
September 17, 2009, 3-4 p.m.

INFOhio’s newest addition to its automation family is CAT 2.0. This CAT has a sleek, sophisticated look and lots of new features. For example, CAT 2.0 allows patrons to renew checked out items and place holds on materials. Many new functions and features will be discussed. As always, the OPAC committee is looking forward to your input. If this sounds like the CAT you’ve been looking for, then join us for an overview of INFOhio’s new online catalog.

The session presenter was Trish Baker, INFOhio Liaison at LACA.

Session Resources

INFOhio CAT 2.0 New Features List, August 2009 [MS Word OR PDF 1 pg]
 

Using the Online Catalog, Supplement to Section 2.2 of INFOhio's Sirsi K-12 Manual for INFOhio-automated schools, August 2009. [PPT 58 slides] Note: This presentation is password protected. SirsiDynix participants may obtain a username and password from their ITC provider.

 

September 17, 2009 CAT 2.0 IVDL
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Click to proceed to INFOhio's Core Collection of Electronic Resources.INFOhio’s Core Collection and a Thanksgiving WebQuest
October 19, 2009, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Learn how to use INFOhio’s Core Collection of Electronic Resources to support research-based activities and student collaboration correlated to Ohio’s Academic Content Standards. Educators attending this session will gain insights and strategies to use the Thanksgiving Means More Than Giving Thanks WebQuest for Grades 3-6 and will learn how to apply Web-based lesson plans to other grade levels.

The session presenter was Trish Baker, INFOhio Liaison at LACA.

Session Resources

Analyzing Photographs. Student activity to use with World Book Student, October 19, 2009 [MS Word OR PDF 1 pg]
 

Ohio Academic Content Standards for Thanksgiving Means More Than Giving Thanks WebQuest, September 24, 2009 [MS Word OR PDF 2 pgs]
 

Thanksgiving Means More Than Giving Thanks, October 19, 2009 [PPT 50 slides]
 

Thanksgiving Means More Than Giving Thanks WebQuest
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TRAILS: Helping Students Plot Successful Paths to Information Literacy
December 16, 2009, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

The Tool for Real-Time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (TRAILS) measures students' information literacy skills. Learn how to use this assessment tool that is freely available on the Web. Learn how to create and manage an online account on the TRAILS site. Learn how to download the TRAILS data and put it into a spreadsheet to produce charts and graphs. Get ideas on how teachers, administrators and librarians collaborate using the assessment results to develop strong instruction and assignments. The session is appropriate for those working with grades 3-12.

The session presenter was Jennifer Schwelik, INFOhio Consultant and TRAILS Project Manager. Co-presenter is Jennifer Flaherty, Beachwood High School Librarian.

 
Session Resources

TRAILS Web site
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Click to proceed to INFOhio's Core Collection of Electronic Resources.INFOhio’s Core Collection and Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 7, 2010, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Learn how to use INFOhio’s Core Collection of Electronic Resources to support research-based activities. Educators attending this session will gain insights and strategies to use for student research and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Lesson plans already created at Education World, ReadWriteThink, and Doreen Rappaport’s home page (Martin’s Big Words) will be included.

Although many of the lesson plans are elementary, several lessons for middle are high school will also be shown. You will discover some of the hidden treasures found in INFOhio’s resources.

The session presenter was Trish Baker, INFOhio Liaison at LACA.

 
Session Resources

100 Acts of Kindness [PDF 1 pg] 
 

Handout, by Trish Baker. Includes recommended links. [MS Word OR PDF 2 pgs]
 

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Me (journal worksheet). From ReadWriteThink, ©2004 NCTE/IRA [9 pgs]
 

My Big Words, by Jane Galbraith [MS Word OR PDF 1 pg]
 

Presentation PowerPoint [85 slides]
   

Video of presentation [Windows Media Player 2:08 hrs]
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Exploring Ohio's Mound Builders With INFOhio, Google Earth and Google Maps
January 20, 2010, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Have your students create a tour of Ohio's ancient earthworks from the Woodland Period with Google Earth. Based on their own research, students can compile their findings in a Google Earth tour that can be shared online with Google Maps. Tours can contain Web links, text and photos to enhance the satellite imagery already in Google Earth and Google Maps. We'll share project resources and how-to ideas for using INFOhio’s Core Collection of Electronic Resources, Google Earth and Google Maps.

What a fabulous way to bring Ohio's rich history to life!

The session presenter was Peggy Whyte, Curriculum Integration Coordinator at SCOCA.

 
Session Resources on Peggy Whyte's blog
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Click to proceed to INFOhio's Core Collection of Electronic Resources.INFOhio’s Core Collection and Black History Month
February 4, 2010, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

February is Black History Month. Using INFOhio’s Core Collection of Electronic Resources, educators will find resources to support student research. Get ideas on how the resources and student research can be used in classroom projects and lesson plans.  Lesson plans and worksheets already created will be provided.

The session presenter is Trish Baker, INFOhio Liaison at LACA.

 
Session Resources
  Handout: INFOhio Resources for Black History Month Research, by Trish Baker. [MS Word OR PDF 2 pgs]
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Click to visit the Jog the Web home page. Jog the Web: A FREE Interactive Web 2.0 Tool That's Cool!
February 11, 2010, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Jog the Web is a FREE Web 2.0 tool that takes your students on a step-by-step tour of Web sites that you have selected. But it also allows the creator to post questions and comments at each Web page. You could call it a virtual tour or Web scavenger hunt.

As a librarian, you could take your students on a tour of the online catalog and have them perform tasks along the way, or show them the online databases that are available through INFOhio.

As a classroom teacher, you can send your students to specific Web sites and ask questions about the site. Each slide or Track is completely interactive.

The session presenter was Trish Baker, INFOhio Liaison at LACA.

 
Session Resources

Jog the Web home page
 

Presentation PowerPoint [33 slides]
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Bridging the Digital Divide CANCELED
February 18, 2010, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Learn tricks and tools that one academic library in Ohio uses to teach and promote information literacy for incoming freshman, Post Secondary Option students and all others.

Join session presenter Suzanne Johnson-Varney, Technical Services Librarian at Shawnee State University, and learn more about Bridging the Digital Divide.


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Click to proceed to INFOhio's Core Collection of Electronic Resources.March Into Women’s History Month
February 25, 2010, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

 INFOhio’s Biography Reference Bank, Science Online, World Book Student  and OAIMC’s Digital Video Collection will be featured as the sources for student research. Using an Education World lesson plan, students will become editors of a new book entitled The Encyclopedia of Notable Women. Their responsibility will be to select women in the arts, medicine, politics, science and sports fields that are the most deserving of inclusion in this greatest women in history encyclopedia.

The session presenter was Trish Baker, INFOhio Liaison at LACA.

 
Session Resources

INFOhio’s Core Collection of Electronic Resources
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Cyber  Safe  Ohio  Professional  Development
April 29, 2010, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

The Ohio Attorney General's Office, SCOCA and INFOhio are pleased to offer a one-hour teacher in-service session on the Ohio AntiHarassment, Intimidation and Bullying (HIB) Law conducted by Kathleen L. Nichols from the office of the Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray. The session will provide Ohio educators with up-to-date information on Anti HIB, Internet safety, cybercrime issues and digital citizenship. Prepare your staff to help educate students about the consequences and the effects of bullying through the use of social networks and other digital technologies. Don't miss this timely videoconference!

The session presenter is Kathleen L. Nichols, LSW, MA.

Site registration form [PDF 1 pg]
 
Session Resources on Peggy Whyte's blog
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