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.

A new year is a great time to plan ahead and set goals. It is a time of renewal, and for many, a fresh start. However, a new year is also a great time to look back at the year that was. INFOhio had a great 2018 with new and improved resources and tools and a fresh new look. Here is our countdown of the Best of 2018 from INFOhio.

Access to quality open education resources (OER) is now easier for Ohio educators and students. In a partnership announced today, INFOhio will provide school districts with access to the Knovation Content Collection, using its full array of digital library applications.

With special thanks to the Ohio Department of Education and the Libraries Connect Ohio partnership, INFOhio is able to continue delivering essential digital resources to all Ohio PreK-12 schools ensuring equity of access for all students once again. INFOhio will continue to provide favorite resources teachers rely on accessed directly from INFOhio’s website:

• BookFlix
• Digital Video Collection
• ISearch
• Science Online
• Storia for 4^th grade, soon to be expanded to include 5th grade, bringing the Storia collection to over 300 titles!

INFOhio is licensing and renewing high-quality, digital, instructional content for the 2018-2019 school year that all Ohio PreK-12 students, their parents, and their teachers can use at school, at home, and on the go. INFOhio has licensed Science Online and renewed videos in INFOhio's Digital Video Collection (DVC) for all Ohio PreK-12 schools to use at no cost to schools.

On Thursday, March 15th, the State Library of Ohio Board approved a grant to contribute LSTA funding to the Libraries Connect Ohio collection of digital content for FY2019. INFOhio, OhioLINK, and OPLIN, representing school libraries, academic libraries, and public libraries, contribute funding for this collection of high quality digital content. Through this unique partnership of library organizations, Libraries Connect Ohio is able to provide a strong and consistent set of resources that demonstrates the benefits of shared services and effectively serves Ohioans of all ages.

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!