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Free Digital Summertime Reading Resources for students
Check out INFOhio's Curriculum Toolbox on Resources to Support the Third Grade Reading Guarantee. You'll find links to Early World of Learning (shown here), which features practice texts and diagnostics for developing readers in grades PreK-3; BookFlix, a great source of online, follow-along reading practice; and many other tools. Students can use these sites during the summer if they have your district's username and password. Your library media specialist or ITC provider can help you find your district's username and password if you need it. |
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Catch up on professional reading during the summer with EBSCO's Professional Collection
Did you know that you have free access to more than 500 professional journals--including Education Week, Library Journal, and Technology & Children--through INFOhio's EBSCOhost Professional Collection?
- Select the Professional Development Collection radio button.
- Enter the journal name in the Publication entry box.
- Click Search.
- Articles will appear in reverse chronological order.
To see a complete list of journals available, click the Title Lists link in the top right of the screen and then click Title List under Professional Development Collection. You can search for a particular title or browse alphabetically.
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Applications Open for District/Building ICoach until May 9
Are you interested in becoming a specialist in using digital tools in the classroom? Would you like to share those tools with your peers? Could you use a little no-cost professional development while earning D/B ICoach certification? Then complete the short application form to be a District/Building ICoach by May 9. Go to the INFOhio ICoach page for more information and the application form. |
Register Now for Boot Camp 2014, August 4 and 5
Start the 2014-15 school year by joining us for our third annual online conference, Find Your Adventure, August 4 and 5. This year's sessions include: - Tech Skills for Next Gen Assessments
- Becoming an App-Smashing Librarian
- Leading from the Library
- Creating Makerspaces
- Flipping Your Library
- And more!
You can register for all the sessions or just a few. Just as in the past, this year's Boot Camp is offered at no charge. |
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Gail Greenberg Wins Hugh Durbin Scholarship
The INFOhio Governing Advisory Board is pleased to announce that Gail Greenberg, library media specialist at Collinwood High School, is the winner of the INFOhio 2014 Hugh Durbin Scholarship. To be considered for this award, she had to be selected to participate in this year's Library Leadership Ohio Institute, a 3-day program held in July that cultivates the leaders who will guide Ohio libraries into the twenty-first century. The Hugh Durbin Scholarship pays her tuition for the program.
"I am elated and truly honored," Gail said. "It's nice to be recognized for doing something I believe in."
A literacy advocate, Gail has served at-risk youth in PreK-12. Her research into the effect of collaboration between librarians and teachers on literacy in urban elementary... Read More
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INFOhio's Erica Clay Selected for Library Leadership
We're proud to share that INFOhio ILibrarian Erica Clay has been chosen for Library Leadership Ohio 2014. Participants were carefully chosen based on their "outstanding leadership potential; excellent communication skills; successful library employment experience; initiative, commitment and reasonable risk taking; forward-thinking approach to problem solving, and; a commitment to the profession." We think that describes Erica beautifully. We also want to send special congratulations to two other members of our school library media family that were selected: Gail Greenberg with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (who also won the Hugh Durbin Scholarship as noted above) and Angela Wotjecki with Nordonia Hills City School District. |
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Free Webinar- Support Struggling Readers in 6-12 with Free Tools, May 8, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
We all know the hurdles students with poor reading skills face, especially those who enter middle school still reading below grade level. What is less known is how to help them.
Join Michael Roush, Technology Coordinator for the Region 14 State Support Team, and Tom Kitchen, Curriculum Consultant at the Ross-Pike ESD, to learn about research-based practices to improve literacy in grades 6-12.
Michael and Tom will introduce each of the five Practice Guide recommendations for improving adolescent literacy from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), an arm of the U.S. Department of Education. For each recommendation, they will suggest free tools that support it.
Register for Support Struggling Readers in 6-12 with Free Tools. |
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