CORE COLLECTION
Item bullet The ART Collection
Item bullet Biography Reference Bank
Item bullet Digital Video Collection
Item bullet EBSCOhost
Item bullet Enc. Estudiantil Hallazgos
Item bullet Gran Enciclopedia Hispánica
Item bullet L'Encyclopédie Découverte
Item bullet LearningExpress Library
Item bullet Literature Online
Item bullet Mango Languages
Item bullet NewsBank Newspapers
Item bullet Oxford Reference Online
Item bullet ProQuest Ancestry Library Ed.
Item bullet Science Online
Item bullet World Book Early World of Learning
Item bullet World Book Web

CORE COLLECTION BY GRADE LEVEL
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Item bullet 6-8
Item bullet 9-12

CORE COLLECTION BY MATERIAL TYPE

CORE COLLECTION RESOURCES
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Item bullet INFOhio Toolkit
Item bullet Product Updates
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 INFOhio Toolkit for Classroom Teachers
2007-2008
How To | Resources and Links | Supply List | To Do

INFOhio’s Toolkit provides you with the supplies and resources needed to get the school year off to a great start and to ensure continued success throughout the year! Make sure you’ve got the basics; utilize this checklist to make the most use of INFOhio in your school.

How To
q Get started using INFOhio’s Core Collection for appropriate resources that support and supplement what students should know and be able to do as outlined in Ohio’s Academic Content Standards for grades K-5, grades 6-8 and grades 9-12. Help is just a click away - just follow the INFObutton to better understand how to use each resource.

q Help students develop information literacy skills (the ability to locate, retrieve and use information for knowledge construction and communications). Utilize INFOhio’s DIALOGUE Model for Information Literacy Skills.

INFOhio's Core Collection of Electronic Resources

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Resources and Links
q View the What Is INFOhio? video that explains how INFOhio helps Ohio students, educators and parents with their research needs. [Various formats 4:33 min]

q Review the materials available from the Educator section of INFOhio's Web site for user-friendly links to all of Ohio's Academic Content Standards, lesson plans, learning activities and more.

q Visit the Ohio Department of Education's Instructional Management System to find lesson plans, items from the Ohio Achievement tests and other useful information related to Ohio's Academic Content Standards.

q Get help with your professional development by utilizing EBSCOhost for journals such as Educational Leadership, Journal of Education, Reading Teacher and more. Learn how to use the Alert feature to have articles e-mailed to you.

q Make use of more than 200 digital video titles, over 700 standalone segments, produced by well-respected video producers at no cost! INFOhio and your local Ohio Area Instructional Media Center make the Digital Video Collection available to view immediately through real-time video streaming or  downloading for later use. The collection uses the same username/password as INFOhio's Core Collection.

q OH! Teach provides educators with hundreds of free, high-quality Web sites.

q Promote the use of HomeworkNow, a free, statewide, online reference service staffed by professional librarians, available 24/7, to answer questions and assist in finding information. Download the HomeworkNow Toolbar to your Web browser.

q Utilize LearningExpress Library for test preparation resources, skill-building tools, study guides and career guidance materials.

  

 

Proceed to INFOhio's Educator page.

 

Proceed to ODE's Instructional Management System.

Proceed to the EBSCOhost Professional Collection

 

Proceed to INFOhio's Digital Video Collection.

 

Proceed to OH! Teach.

 

Get help from HomeworkNow.

Proceed to LearningExpress Library.
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Supply List
q Provide the free promotional supply list materials, which include a Core Collection Flyer, bookmark and student card, to students and parents.

q Not sure of the INFOhio username/password? Use the online request form or contact central@infohio.org.
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To Do
q Collaborate with your school library media specialist to correlate classroom lesson plans/units with available resources.

q Make sure INFOhio is a favorite/bookmark on all computers and be sure to have the INFOhio button on your school Web site.

q Check out INFOhio's Professional Development Opportunities page often to learn about various sessions presented by Ohio colleagues, Core Collection vendors and others. Sessions are designed for classroom teachers, curriculum and technology coordinators and school librarians to help them use INFOhio’s electronic resources in support of the Academic Content Standards, as well as other topics.

q Subscribe to INFOhio's Information Literacy E-List to share ideas and best practices related to using information literacy in a standards-based classroom.

q Get an Ohio public library card and encourage your students to get one.

  

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Last Updated on August 8, 2007

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