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Check Out Our New Look!
Our new logo, with a power button where the globe used to be, emphasizes the idea of "powering up" your classroom with tools from INFOhio. To be good stewards of our budget (and the environment), we'll be replacing our logo in a phased approach as we need to reprint flyers and brochures this year. Look for it to be completely incorporated with the start of the 2013-14 school year.
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Join Us at eTech 
Are you attending the
2013 Ohio Educational Technology Conference next week? If so, drop by the INFOhio booth, #530, or attend one of our 12 sessions listed here. Hope to see you there!
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Help Your Students Learn to Love Research
In a recent survey, 90 percent of college librarians agree that more than half of freshman arrive on campus without the research skills needed to manage college-level work. How do we help our students develop into competent, confident researchers?
A good place to start is Research 4 Success, a new online, blended-learning course from INFOhio that prepares students with the rigorous research skills they need in college and careers. The course is presented in a series of six modules. Each module introduces students to a key research skill; allows them to practice it; and provides tools for formative, interim, and summative assessment.
The course is designed with the needs of juniors and seniors in mind, but it is also useful for younger high school students or even for college students. Students synthesize the skills covered in R4S best when they work through the course with a teacher as part of a research project. R4S is undergoing a Quality Matters review to ensure the learning is of the highest quality.
The course can be downloaded into a district's learning management system and used as a for-credit class, or a teacher may choose to use one or more of the
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R4S is a series of 6 self-contained modules that schools can use with their LMS or straight from the web.
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modules straight from the website. For example, a district could download the course and use it as the basis for a semester-long class in research skills that the Board of Education has approved for credit. Or an economics and government teacher could use R4S to structure her students' year-long research project.
R4S is free for teachers and students thanks to an Institute of Museum and Library Services LSTA grant awarded by the State Library of Ohio. (The content does not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the granting agencies.)
To learn more, go to educators.infohio.org/r4s and register for access to an online teacher's guide, assessment tools, a syllabus, connections to standards, blended learning ideas, and LMS loading instructions. You can also register for a webinar on R4S, "Research 4 Success, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Research," to be held February 28, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Register or watch the archived version at a later date at www.infohio.org/webinars.
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Database Preview Open Now Until March 1
The 2013 OHIONET Preview for K-12 Libraries, conducted in association with INFOhio, is available now through March 1, 2013, said OHIONET Electronic Resources Coordinator, Carrie Waibel.
The yearly preview opens dozens of electronic databases for 30 days to help educators find digital options to meet their students' needs.
To review the trial resources, go to http://www.ohionet.org/user and enter
ohionetk12 as the username and infohio as the password. That link works only the first time you use it.
After your initial signup, go directly to http://ohionet.org/K-12-trial to review resources.
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