MEC K-12 School Library Professional Development

January 23, 2014

INFOhio Electronic Resources Preview : February, 2014Login information will be sent out on 1/31

Carrie L. Waibel carriew@ohionet.orgElectronic Resources CoordinatorOHIONET800-686-8975, ext. 25

 

TRAILS: validating the assessments

School librarians are needed to participate in a focus group for TRAILS assessment

Online focus groups in February Tuesday, February 11

Thursday, February 13Monday, February 17Wednesday, February 19

If you are willing to participate, please complete this form by Friday, Jan. 10th to let us know your preference for date:

http://tinyurl.com/trails-OnlineFocusGroup

Digital Learning Day

Digital Learning Day in Ohio: February 5, 2014

A national campaign to spotlight successful instructional practice and effective use of technology across the country

opportunity to celebrate Ohio’s commitment to increasing student access to quality digital and blended learning

Video Contest: Ohio students are invited to showcase their creative talents and technology skills in a video contest with students across Ohio. You can create a video on your own or with a team. Submission deadline for videos is Jan. 6, 2014. Highlights from past Digital Learning Days are listed at the link, and news and information about upcoming events will also be added.Registration Form: Are you planning to participate in Digital Learning Day?  Click here to tell us about your event.

http://www.digitallearningday.org/

SLMS/Teacher Librarian Eval Rubric

Will be presented at March 3rd Standards Board Meeting @ ODE

Susan D. Yutzey, PhDOELMA President 2013 oelmasdy@gmail.com

Get yours here!

BookFLIX titles now available in ERES

(INFOhio E-Resource database)

• Available through your online catalog in the main catalog only –

not in Cat Jr.

• Available in Discovery Portal on the Elementary Level only, as our contract with Scholastic does not permit advertised access for students above elementary K-6 grades.

Using CAT:

1)Make sure that the checkbox to include eBooks is checked.

2) Do a title search for a BookFLIX title.  Ex: "bark George“

3) Along the right side, in the results list for INFOhio Videos and eBooks, you should see the "Bark, George" title listed.  4) Click on it... which will display its record in the ERES catalog.      a) If your IP is not authenticated (ex: accessing from home), you will have to first provide a valid U/P... it can be either the state U/P or a district specific U/P.

5) From the ERES display, click on the little green guy "Read It Now" image to bring up the specific title pair directly in BookFlix. 

Using Discovery Portal (DP):To be in compliance with our Scholastic licensing agreement, BookFLIX titles will NOT display in the Middle or High school portals.

In DP, BookFLIX titles are only searchable in the following portals:  Elementary, Literature Guide, Parents, Educators and Librarian portals.

1) Go into one of the valid DP portals for BookFLIX searching.       a) If your IP is not authenticated (ex: accessing from home), you will have to first provide a valid U/P...it can be either the state U/P or a district specific U/P.

2) Do either an "Everything" search or specifically search the INFOhio eResource Collection for a BookFLIX title:  ex:  "bark George“

3) Find the title on the results list and bring up the title pair in BookFLIX by:      a) Clicking on the little green guy "Read It Now" image OR b) Clicking on the title, then clicking on the little green guy

"Read it Now" image.

Research: INFOhio-style!

Ask! Act! Achieve! => The Teacher Resource Tab

by Lisa Wendt

R4S and Points of View => Teaching Argumentative Writing by Mary Nemeth

Break

World Book by Wendy Fisher

From your (the teacher) perspective…

Teacher Tips

• Created with LIVEBINDER– Lots of little gray tabs but

worth investigating!

Teacher Tips

• Start with the ACHIEVE tab– Plagiarism Tutorial– Citation help

Teacher Tips

Teacher Tips

Help students to create safe online profiles

One of the most

valuable

resources is

ALTEC:Think

Tank

Teacher Tips

Teacher Tips

Teacher Tips

Teacher Tips

EBSCO resources can

be kept in same folder;

Requires login at least 1x per

6 months.

Teacher Tips

EBSCOHOSTUser Guide

can be foundon your

MEC LibrariesWebsite !

WELCOME tab: Anchor Standards

USEFUL DOCUMENTS tab: Promotional tools

1. Teach students to use POV to find documentation to support argumentative writing.

2. Teach students to use POV to find good topics to defend in argumentative writing.

3. Guide students to instruction on creating a good essay in POV.

4. Guide students to all the research help in POV.

5. Teach students to find charts, graphs, and pictures to include in their essays.

Points of view – Searching

Use search box.

Browse by category and drill down.

Look through In the News highlighted topics.

Basic Search – Using the search box

1. Encourage students to put in their topic into the basic search box.

2. Students may also choose advanced search to narrow their topic by publication type, full text or not, document type, and search mode.

Browse by Category - Search

Drill down for the basic article on your topic

Search using In the News

Tools on the right side allow students to save their work in several ways.

On the left side of the “homepage” for each topic you can also choose to looks at related information on that topic by type.

Bar at the top of POV allows one to return to a new search, view a list of publications in POV, view a list of subjects in POV, use a dictionary.

On the right one can sign in to their account and access and save to their folder.

R4S Learning Objectives

Module 1: Asking Good Quesitons

Module 2: Finding Information

Module 3: Selecting the Best

Module 4: Putting it together

Module 5: Your Presentation

Module 6: Making the Grade

Research for success divisions