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Curriculum Toolboxes: Manage the Instructional Shifts with One Neat Package
Text complexity, marshalling arguments, close reading. We all know that these are skills we need to teach to help students meet Ohio's New Learning Standards and excel on the PARCC assessments.
Ideas for how to teach those skills and where to find tools to help are harder to come by.
But just in time for the holidays, we have packaged sets of free tools to help teach those skills and many others. Curriculum Toolboxes include both INFOhio premium digital resources as well as reliable websites.
"We're using the online curation tool Scoop.it to put the Toolboxes together," said Cathie Cooper, INFOhio eLearning Specialist. "Scoop.it lets us easily add new resources as we find them, so we can keep the tools fresh and up to date."
She said that the Scoop.it sites are just the first layer in the Curriculum Toolbox. "We're looking now into adding more links to specific standards and to INFOhio's IMatrix," she said. "We want to help teachers find all they need in one place.
Here are just a few examples of the kinds of resources you'll find on our Curriculum Toolbox page:
Close Reading (One of 9 resources listed)
Math and the Common Core (One of 7 resources listed)
Informational Text and Literary Nonfiction (One of 11 resources listed)
You'll also find resource collections on these topics:
Find all of them on the Curriculum Toolbox page.
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I Am a Digital Learner Video Contest
 Do you have students looking for their directorial debut? Are they digital learners? Then tell them about Digital Learning Day's
I Am a Digital Learner video contest. Any Ohio K-12 student or team of
students can create a 1-3 minute video for the contest. Finalists will be debuted at the Ohio Education Technology Conference January 27-29, 2014. The final winner will be announced on Digital Learning Day, February 5, 2014. Deadline for entry is January 6, 2014. For more information, review the student rules web page and information for teachers and parents. |
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Apply Now for the Hugh Durbin Scholarship to attend Library Leadership Ohio
The INFOhio Governing Advisory Board is pleased to announce the Hugh Durbin scholarship to the 2014 Library Leadership Ohio Institute.
Hugh Durbin, who served for 19 years as the Director of Library Media Services for the Columbus Public Schools and was President of OELMA in 1978, was a mentor and friend to a generation of library media specialists across Ohio. His vision and leadership are celebrated in this award.
See our webpage for instructions on applying.
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Free December Webinars
If you need to earn a CEU or just want to learn something new, log in to one of INFOhio's upcoming webinars.
All sessions are held on Thursdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Can't join us at that time? You can still earn a certificate of attendance for CEU credit by watching the archived version and answering a few questions afterward.
To register for an upcoming session or to view a previous one, go to the Learn With INFOhio! webinars page.
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There's Still Time to Speak Up!
December 20 is the last day to complete Project Tomorrow's annual Speak Up survey. Add your voice to the discussion of educational technology, 21st century skills, and schools of the future. The survey takes just 10 minutes. To participate, go to http://www.speakup4schools.org/speakup2013/.
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