INFOhio and SchoolRooms™
SchoolRooms is a K-12 multimedia online discovery portal
from SirsiDynix
Corporation. SchoolRooms fosters interdisciplinary exploration by
combining educator-selected, standards-based content with student-friendly
software. The content consists of 71 Rooms or Subject Guides
with more than 1,700 Web page views and links to more than 22,000
educator-selected Web sites, all related to national standards. In addition,
SchoolRooms delivers approximately 3 million Best of Web
sites indexed to links in the 71 Rooms. In addition,
SchoolRooms provides federated searching of selected Core Collection
resources. The full SchoolRooms product
also provides federated searching of local online subscriptions, links to local online catalogs
and third party multimedia content. Visit the
SirsiDynix demo site.
INFOhio plans to offer SchoolRooms subscriptions during the
2008-2009 school year. More information will be available here, as soon
as it is available.
What INFOhio provides now:
SchoolRooms Plus | Evaluating SchoolRooms Plus
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Questions about SchoolRooms Plus?

What INFOhio provides now: SchoolRooms Plus
Through a cooperative agreement with SirsiDynix, INFOhio is evaluating a
partial version of SchoolRooms during the 2008-2009 school year,
SchoolRooms
Plus. During the evaluation period, the product is provided without charge to all Ohio K-12 students, educators
and parents.
SchoolRooms Plus consists of:
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71 Rooms for elementary, middle and high school,
including Guides for educators, librarians and parents
List of
Rooms... |
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Knowledge organized by headings and subheadings -- all
leading to quality Web sites |
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A search box to locate Web sites by title keywords |
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Links to more than 22,000 educator-selected Web sites
and selected Core Collection resources |
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Three million Best of Web sites indexed to links
in the 71 Rooms |
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Explorations such as Cool Links, Fun & Games and
Learn More About... |
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Evaluating SchoolRooms Plus
As testing of SchoolRooms continues, INFOhio encourages
Ohio students, educators and parents to tell us what you think about the
product. Use the Help Evaluate section at the bottom of the right
frame of the SchoolRooms home page (see above). This is where
to report broken links and suggest additional Web links. A brief survey can
be completed, and a suggestion form can be used to submit comments and
suggestions.
Promotion and Training Materials
Questions about SchoolRooms Plus?
Visit our FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions) page and check out the list of questions
already answered. If you don't find the information you are looking for here, please
e-mail your question to
webmaster@infohio.org.
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