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INFOhio
IVDL Sessions Update on INFOhio Digital Video Collection | TRAILS | SchoolRooms | Reports to Promote Your Library: PR From INFOhio | SIRS Discoverer WebFind: Educator Tools | SIRS Discoverer: Science and Math | INFOhio's EBSCO Databases for Classroom Needs: Content, Curriculum and Promotional Ideas | A Smooth Transition to College for Students Using INFOhio's EBSCO Databases | STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) INFOhio's spring 2008 series of 60- to 75-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 Melissa Higgs-Horwell, Distance Learning Coordinator at SCOCA, with your contact information, video conference contact person, site name, DID number and troubleshooting phone number. Or, use the Site Registration Form for the appropriate session. Deadline to register: Three days prior to each session
Join us to learn about the brand new Easy Search feature for
INFOhio’s Digital
Video Collection of 282 videos, explore new features of the
collection and get an update on the newest videos. The Easy Search
feature was added in January 2008, and an RSS feature was added on February
8. These new features, along with demos and discussions of some recent
additions to the collection, will be part of this session.
The Tool for Real-Time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (TRAILS) can be used to measure students' information seeking abilities. Participants will learn how to create and manage an online account on the TRAILS site and how the assessments and their results can be used to help plan and evaluate collaborative lessons aligned with content standards. Hear others discuss their uses of the tests as well. Presenter: Paula Baco, Library Media Specialist,
Trumbull Career and
Technical Center
SchoolRooms - How to Make Your Library Virtual in a Flash
INFOhio's SchoolRooms™ provides a single, student-friendly
interface to high-quality content from school library catalogs, online
databases, 3 million “Best of Web” teacher-selected Web pages as well as
statewide digital resources. Content is presented in virtual rooms that help
students discover information, provide educators with access to quality
materials and enable parents to find appropriate resources for improving
their children’s education. This introduction to SchoolRooms
includes student, parent and teacher resources, as well as password
information for you to share with your faculty, parent groups and students.
Reports
to Promote Your Library: PR From INFOhio Reports for public relations - Share ideas on what data to include in
your annual reports to administrators, methods for obtaining that data, and
ways to present the data effectively.
 SIRS Discoverer WebFind: Educator Tools March 27, 2008, 3:30-4:30 p.m. In this interactive session for teachers and librarians on SIRS
Discoverer WebFind: Educator Tools, participants will learn how to
access quick, convenient curriculum integration tools for the 21st century
K-9 classroom. We will explore
SIRS Discoverer's
popular Activities collection, its information literacy workbooks and
in-class worksheets, standards correlations tool, reading levels, and
various editorial features. We will also review ProQuest's curriculum
integration guides, which include models designed to engage student inquiry.
You are invited to an after school interactive workshop on
SIRS Discoverer, an information and learning resource for elementary and middle
school teachers and students. Come join us for an informative hands-on
workshop which focuses on integrating
SIRS Discoverer in the math and science
curriculum, with special focus on Ohio standards.
SIRS Discoverer is an
award-winning resource for students that makes learning fun and intuitive.
It helps students in grades 1-8 develop their writing, language, research
and computer skills. It can also be used with high school students for
differentiating instruction.
SIRS Discoverer provides schools with
compelling, multidisciplinary learning resources for extending and
reinforcing student achievement at all levels. This workshop will explore
SIRS Discoverer's science and math content, as well as methods for
differentiating instruction using
SIRS Discoverer resources.
INFOhio's
EBSCO Databases for Classroom Needs: As librarians and teachers, we are challenged with teaching 21st century
information literacy skills and also with providing the quality resources
that our students need. This session will discuss the value of EBSCO
databases for classroom teachers in major subject areas including an
understanding of subject-specific content, how to locate important content
sources, pushing information to our teachers and ideas for promoting
database value and usage with teachers.
This interactive videoconference takes a look at the similarities in the
INFOhio K-12 and academic EBSCO databases that make transitions from high
school to college easy. The session will discuss search tips, feature
utilization, common threads with interfaces and how new
EBSCOhost
features will tie into some of the common Web functionality that our
students have come to expect from their favorite Web sites. Advanced search
strategies and tips for college research will also be stressed.
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Sites for Science and Math Resources: Meeting the STEM Initiative, by Cherie P. Pandora, Rocky River High School, May 2008
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