librarians are watching their numbers diminish and libraries close

Building Advocacy Together: INFOhio’s 21st Century

Learning Commons

Laura SponhourApril 25, 2013

Librarians are watching their numbers diminish and libraries

close.

We’re here

today to keep

the doors open.

People don’t recognize a library’s value.

We need to help people see the value of a school library.

Speak UP

Collect Data

Know Your Stuff

How Show You Contribute to the Curriculum?

The Learning Commons is an

Easy Way to Know Your Stuff.

http://learningcommons.infohio.org

1) Stay Up to Date…

2) Which Helps You

Look Like an Expert…

3) Which Helps You Make the Library

Central to Learning

The Learning Commons helps you show value in three steps.

1) The Learning Commons Keeps You Up to Date on the

Latest Trends.

The LC provides a wealth of personal Professional

Development.

Use the 21 Things for Self Development or Graduate

Credit.

Learn a New Technique in 15 Minutes with the Instructional

Videos.

Earn CEUs with Learn With INFOhio Webinars.

Use KBC Groups to Share Ideas with Like-Minded Professionals.

Join the Inquiry, Complex Text, and the Common Core Group.

Or the Digital Citizenship Group.

Or the eBook Study Group.

2) The LC Helps You Look Like a Technology and Curriculum Expert.

In New Technologies

This is nothing new, actually.

21 Things Includes Web 2.0 Tools and More.

KBC contacts give new perspective.

in Sources of Free Professional Development.

Try Instructional Videos at a Faculty Meeting.

Try Projecting an Archived Webinar at a Faculty or Department Staff Meeting.

Share the Professional Collection in EBSCO.

in Common Core Resources.

Share the IMatrix.

http://imatrix.infohio.org

IMatrix Search Screen

Basic standard

information

Basic standard

information

Shows Dimensions of Inquiry related to

the standard

Shows Dimensions of Inquiry related to

the standard

Cross Curricular Connections shows

other related standards.Click on code to open

links to those standards.

Cross Curricular Connections shows

other related standards.Click on code to open

links to those standards.

Imatrix details screen

Assessment gives

resource suggestions for standard

assessments.

Assessment gives

resource suggestions for standard

assessments.College

and Career Anchor

Standard

College and Career

Anchor Standard

Instructional Strategies

and Resources including INFOhio

Electronic Resources

Instructional Strategies

and Resources including INFOhio

Electronic Resources

More of detail screen

Use the Free Research and Inquiry Tools.

Review the Common Core Resources in the INFOhio

Toolkit.

Which Helps Position the Library as Central to Learning.