INFOhio supports remote learning with resources, lessons, and more that all Ohio PreK-12 schools can use. Your students can keep calm, carry on, and keep learning with INFOhio!

Learn how to make the most of the World Book resources you have from INFOhio by attending free World Book webinars throughout the school year.

There are approximately 50 weekdays when students are not in school during the summer months. What could your students learn if they spent a few minutes of each of those 50 days reading?

The school year is drawing to a close but these Teach With INFOhio blog posts can help you finish the school year strong and start the summer right. 

Back by popular demand: INFOhio Beach Bags and the virtual Camp INFOhio, offered for free to all Ohio families.

The 2019 OhioNet eResources Preview is February 1^st through the 28^th. INFOhio provides premium OhioNet membership for all Ohio PreK-12 schools.

Ohio Ed Techs will hold a free virtual conference via Google Hangouts and YouTube on February 22nd, and INFOhio is participating!

Staff in INFOhio-automated school libraries now have an easy way to learn how to get the most out of their library software: INFOhio's Learn It Clips. Learn It Clips are short video tutorials that provide clear, visual, step-by-step instructions on completing common tasks in Workflows.

Learn how one ITC is sharing eBooks across their schools and districts in an on-demand webinar presented by OverDrive & School Library Journal.

Friday's post on how to keep calm, cool, and collected during the last days of school provided an example of how to implement Camp INFOhio into your classroom during the last weeks before summer break. The goal is to keep kids engaged, learning, and interested. Another resource available at no cost from INFOhio is IWonder. This student site is a collection of websites chosen by educators. The sites are categorized by asking students questions such as "Do You Want to Learn More About Technology?" and "Do You Want Help with a Project?" Students can browse to find a topic that interests them, and drill down to find specific websites where they can learn, play, and explore. Of course, one way to achieve part of the goal set is to allow the students to do just that—browse to learn, play, and explore. Without a plan of action, however, students may not be as engaged. And without engagement, well, we all know what happens in a classroom where students are not actively invested and interested!

The classroom is packed up, with bare walls and stacked-up textbooks. Students are eager to help clean and sort, preparing for the end of the school year. The teacher frantically finds activities to keep the class busy, and when all else fails, turns to a movie, the lights turned off, the room cooler without a fluorescent glare. Tomorrow is Field Day, and the temperature is sure to be high. The next day is the class picnic, and after that, the doors close for good on this school year. 

The Summer Slide sounds like a fun piece of playground equipment, but it’s something to avoid: “Students in lower-income families who don't read over the summer lose two to three months of learning, according to the National Summer Learning Association, a Baltimore group with ties to Johns Hopkins University” (Wisconsin State Journal). To learn more about the Summer Slide, try a search for “summer slide” or “summer learning loss” in ISearch (use your school or district's INFOhio username and password if prompted).

EBSCO has created a video for INFOhio called "Research Made Easy with ISearch." Find a link to the video by clicking the blue I button for ISearch on the INFOhio website.

Dear Teachers,

It’s August – let’s do this!

Have you seen the three new videos to help parents help their children practice reading? Reading on the Go, Reading for a Purpose, and Reading on the Screen, all less than three minutes, give parents concrete, easy tips to help their children become stronger readers and meet the Third Grade Reading Guarantee.