INFOhio ICoach

I chose to complete a lesson on ISearch for Teachers, specifically referencing Scholastic News because I did not realize that Scholastic Magazine was offered free through INFOhio!!! 

I began by going into the INFOhio Professional Development - ISearch for Teachers and downloading the Trainer Guide from the Exercise Files for reference.  By using the ISearch (Basic Sources) and searching for Scholastic I am able to access Scholastic Magazines and use filters to limit my search criteria.  The next step would be to complete a live presentation using My Account and My Lists with a link to the YouTube webinar . I love that teachers can create a list to access yearly when needed to supplement their curriculum.  At this point in the presentation teachers could create a My List and work through adding material such as Scholastic Magazines to their list in order to be ready to use!  

 Accessing the Teach with INFOhio Blog from the INFOhio menu I searched for Scholastic and found SCHOLASTIC STUFF - STRAIGHT TO YOUR DESKTOP! by Emily Rozmus ;-) which would lead me to EBSCOhost Database Primary Search for Scholastic Magazines as another way for teachers to find exactly what they need, including the permalink to add it to their Google Classroom. I would then go on to step my staff through adding the iSearch widget onto their school webpage.  At the end of my presentation I would reference additional Training & Support for ISearch in case they would like to further their education with INFOhio.

This is perfect! You incorporated so many tools and resources from INFOhio to really support your peers in their learning!

I chose the web tool- Educator Tools. I appreciate the emphasis on high-quality instructional materials and I think this tool would be helpful for my colleagues and myself. I took the InfOhio learning pathway class called Educator Tools under High-Quality Instructional Materials. Attached to the pathwasy their are exercise files linked a power point presentation that I will present because I like how it highlights/circles where to navigate on InfOhio to use the educator tools. 

I found this flyer that would be helpful to use during professional development. This webinar provides a useful how to video and other important information about Educator Tools.

I like the content you pulled together to help your peers get started with Educator Tools1

I chose Explora for grades preK-5. So many of the teachers I support incorporate research with their students and struggle to find quality digital content. We talk about better searching using Google, so incorporating what INFOhio has already curated will be a huge bonus. 

Having access to a wide variety of quality information will go a long way for my teachers to teach their students solid research resources and ways to research, from a young age.

This video - Explora for Primary School Users - Tutorial - will be super helpful in helping my teachers better understand how to use Explora in their classrooms. I would also include this video - Sharing Permalinks from INFOhio - so teachers know how to appropriately share links to specific resources. This will be important to lessen teacher frustration. As teachers want to learn more, I will encourage them to complete the Explora for Grades PreK-5 Class (INFOhio Learning Pathways) course to better familarize themselves with Explora.

I chose The World Kids Almanac Elementary because this resource is the perfect starting point for my INFOhio staff training. It is a tool that will be used and appreciated by teachers and students. I would create a website/resource guide to share, that introduces World Kids Almanac Elementary.

I would include: Educator’s Guide, Flyer, Poster, Overview Video

Directions to access the resource: INFOhio.org >Grade K-5 Resource>Locate World Kids Almanac Elementary>Click on the i for more information. Select Open when ready to use the resource.

I would point out Teacher Resources and the features located on the Home page.

For further information and training, I would include directions on how to access Open Space.

I chose to complete a lesson on World Book Kids.  When I was exploring this resource, I discovered that there are WebQuests under the Educator Tools tab.  There is a wide variety of topics for the WebQuests.  I found this WebQuest about Dr. Seuss.   I could use this activity during Read Across America Week!  It comes with a printable handout to review and accompany this quest.

Like I said, I love the WebQuest feature within World Book Kids. This video is a great overview for all of the great search options that teachers can take advantage of with this resource.  It is a great starter video for teachers.  I was blown away with all of the hidden gems under the Educator Tools.  Lesson plans that are alligned with state standards, PDF handouts ready to go, a tech component, a complete lesson.  One stop shopping!

There is another great compare and contrast feature.  This video thoroughly explains how to take advantage of this feature.  Compare and contrasting is a focus in the Common Core.   Our 2nd grade completes a unit about animals.  This compare and contrast feature would be a valuable and easy resource for the students to use!

As I prepare to launch various mini-sessions with teams of teachers upon return to school, I am blessed with the depth and wealth of resources and tools yet anxious to dive in with so many ideas. I decided to peel back to revisit the goals for the upcoming school year given our mission and vision. Regardless of domains and grade levels, I met with our school administration and we decided to focus on developing inquiry skills across the curriculum. While inquiry as a skill is often present, it is something we wish to see happening in classrooms in all content areas and regularly- a proper mindset. With that said, I also wish to begin concerted efforts to support the early elementary teachers who are specifically requesting coaching and tools to support their classroom practices.

INFOhio Educator Tools enables excellent searches for "inquiry" in both trends and dimensions. Upon surveying the teachers, the most common area documented was question formulation. That will be the specific focus. What is interesting is, that I initially began this iCoach pathway, I thought I would select Bookflix for the early elementary teachers. After some more digging, I decided to select the pathway for Highlights Library. Included in the exploration with the teachers will be:

The webinar (for K-12): Using Inquiry to Drive Authentic Research (this would be before the breakout sessions by grade bands speaking to the school-wide goal of developing inquiry skills)

Pathway: Highlights Library

Exercise Files: Highlights Library exercise files and likely all of these including a sample lesson and the training guide

Monday Mini-Lesson: Using Highlights Library to Teach Questioning

Blog Posts: Inquiry and INFOhio: Reflecting by Mary Rowland & Inquiry and INFOhio: Questioning by INFOhio Staff

This is not a comprehensive list at this time - I am still developing this opportunity. I wanted to note this because as of now, these are pieces I am planning to thread together while recognizing I need to look at the overall flow and fit of the components. However, I am excited to dig in with the teachers who, I feel confident, will be excited as well!

I am making it a priority to present on Explora and iSearch.  I have not started planning my delivery of iSearch yet so this post is focused on Explora.  I suspect my presentation is going to have to be rather quick so I love the resources included in the ExploraK5 Trainer Guide.  I will be sure to share the Lesson Plan Template for incorporating Explora in the classroom.  We will practice the steps to get to Explora and will practice searching and browsing.  

Even though we will focus on Explora for this particular presentation, I will be sure to share the Teach with INFOhio blog post, "Sharing Premium Content from INFOhio: What Link Do I Use".  My main reason for bringing attention to Explora is so that students will have access to periodicals since we do not have them in house.  I'm sure teachers will find interesting articles to supplement their instructional curriculum so they will definitely want to know how to share those articles in ClassDojo and Google Classroom.

I chose BookFlix to plan a lesson for. While most of my K-2 teachers use BookFlix, I feel they mostly use it as a video source for sharing books or a "free choice" time when students are doing their daily five rotations.I found K-5 Digital Content Learning Pathway that has an entire class on BookFlix, a Trainer's Guide I can make copies of to share with my teachers,  a flyer they can copy and send home to help parents use this resource at home and a Monday Minin Lesson that models how teachers can use BookFlix in an indepth lesson.

I am hoping that presenting best practices for digital reading skills using BookFlix will encourage teachers to see this tool as more that a "free choice" tool.

I chose two tools for this response: Educator Tools and Open Space.  Both tools are ones I want to introduce to my staff this school year because Open Space is a fantastic communication tool and Educator Tools provides access to a wealth of instructional materials.  A flyer used in an ICoach activity is perfect to introduce both of these tools to my staff.

An introduction and orientation to Open Space will be created using ICoach activity materials:

1. I will use excerpts from the Community and Collaboration with Open Space Groups webinar for initial orientation to Open Space.
2. I will provide the Open Space Groups for Users Guide.

An introduction and orientation to Educator Tools will be created using materials provided by INFOhio:

1. Getting Started with Educator Tools video
2. Educator Tools PowerPoint Presentation
3. Educator Tools Trainer Guide

I chose three resources to design instructional guides for staff based on expressed needs from the past school year. The resources that would be beneficial to explore in the classroom are: Educator Tools, Science Online, and World Book Student. 

Through our CLSD grant, we have a increased focus on disciplinary literacies at the high school level. The following resources would be impactful in this focus based on their offerings. 

Educator Tools: Teachers have the ability to search resources and activities by subject, content and grade level. Teaches can incorporate more specific content literacies in their teaching to improve student understanding and engagment. 

Science Online: Our science department has voiced they want to incorporate more focus on imporving reading and comprehension by expanding vocabulary. This resource provides a plethora of citable articles that can be incorporated in class to be read as a class, independently or read aloud through the site. 

World Book Student: This has been a resource I continue to refer back to due to its simple search, translation capabilities, activities and all resources. I believe every teacher and student in 7-12 could find this resource useful, and with its translated resources even our ELL students can engage with grade level content. 

I chose Book Nook, and the resources I would share with teachers are the following resources to get started:

PITCH THE PAPER WITH INFOHIO'S BOOK NOOK

Book Nook Student Promo

Book Nook Teacher Promo

Flyer

In sharing the blog post, teachers are able to get a quick overview of how the platform works.  The teacher promo gives a quick video intro which helps them to visualize it in action, and the student promo gives teachers something to share with students.  The flyer does a nice job overall demonstrating what the platform is and how to find resources.  Overall, I think that this would be a good foundation for a training session to give teachers a new resource to redefine how book reports are completed.

I want to develop a presentation with my audiance in mind- my TBT group, which is a group of 9-11 teachers in tested subject areas. This is a really stressed out group and I want to share something that will be beneficial to everyone. I am choosing to focus on selecting High Quality Instructional Materials and Educator Tools. 

These are some of the resources I've pulled to help me create this presentation:

Teach Learn Digital Flyer

Ed Tools Digital Flyer

IPadBookmark Flyer

5 P's of Successful Curriculum Transformation

Getting Started with Educator Tools (video)

MondayMiniLesson: Using Infohio Tools to Design Learning Experiences (Video)

I wanted to put together some resources to share with our staff on diverse books. I found this blog post, that I would share with teachers. The article highlights three INFOhio sources where students can access diverse books, so I would include information on each of those as well as the article on Best Practices for Digital Reading .

BookFlix - How Should I Use BookFlix in My Classroom and BookFlix Title List

World Book Early Learning -  Early World Book Learning Starter Kit and World Book Early Learning Title List

Highlights - Highlights Library Overview Video and Highlights Library Content 

I chose to plan a lesson about Reading on the Screen, using the learning pathway of the same name. The Best Practices for Digital Reading document is a great resource to support the learning pathway and lesson. Reading 'Round the Clock - Reading on the Screen would be a great video for after the lesson so that teachers will also be able to relay the information to parents and continue the digital reading strategy at home as well as in the classroom. Reading on the Screen: Why Supporting Digital Natives Matters! is a blog post that will also be a great piece to be included with the lesson.

Hi, our school is looking towards more STEM ideas and as I was looking through the section on High-Quality Instructional Materials and typed in the word STREAM to see what would come up and I came across some videos that linked to PBS and found old videos of the T.V. show Zoom. I remembered that show from a while ago and thought that is a great kid friendly resource and how that still applies to STEM learning today. 

There are so many great resources and tools that it makes it difficult to choose! I initially looked at Gale in Context because I felt that would be a good beginning research tool for my 2nd and 3rd graders. However, I discovered that the Trainer Guide is not available. 

So I decided to look more at world Book Kids. This is a resource that I have already introduced to my students, but I do nt think they are using it to its capabilities. Plu, teachers do not know of this resource, so I want to introduce them to it. The one thing that I REALLY like about this resource is that it will translate into 100 languages, and even read out loud in some of those languages. This is very helpful for my EL students.

I looked at the Trainer Guide and got some indeas for how to share this with my teachers, and how to more effectively teach my students about this resource. I liked the idea of having them complete a WebQuest with World Book Kids.

I also found these videos that could be used when sharing with teachers or students. 

I also like the starter kit and the ideas linked within it.

With help from our amazing Library Tech (who is also becoming an iCoach), I hope to facilitate R4S with our 10th graders who are in pursuit of the AP Capstone Diploma.  (In 10th grade, they get ready. In 11th grade, they undertake individual original research projects that are scored by the College Board.) By following the R4S curriculum, these students will be prepared for the challenges ahead. As part of R4S UNIT 2, I would provide them with orientation to and experience with (my all-time favorite) Academic Search Premier, even though it is housed under the Educator banner, and the Points of View Reference Center. Can't wait to see/hear their reactions to the C.R.A.P. test in Unit 3.  :>). I explored the notes for Teachers and, per the suggestion there, requested the official Teacher Guide.  From the Document Library, I will zero in on the EBSCO basis and advanced searching tutorials to shore up my knowledge as well as share with the teacher and students.  There is also a Monday Mini Lesson on Points of View. From "Learn with INFOhio," I choose the webinar from last fall, "See What’s New: EBSCO eBook Collections: High School and Education," as the book collections are new to me but sound valuable for student research as well as my own.  (Side note:  We were subscribing to a Gale book collection--but have foregone that in deference to consolidating teacher and student attention to INFOhio.). From "Teach with INFOhio," while bowled over by the possibilities generated by key word searching "EBSCO," I plan to zero in on this handout for the students:  https://www.infohio.org/document-library/item/flyer-teach-learn-grades-9-12.

I would like to set up a Teacher Tech Time, after school, on a specific day of the week for a month/grading period., and each date would focus on one resource or tool on INFOhio. The resource/tool would alternate between elementary and middle/high school. 

Pebble Go Next, Book Flix, and World Book Kids would be the first few I'd "Present and Play" for elementary teachers during our Tech Time..

For middle/high school, I'd start with Explora for the respective grade levels, Ebsco ebooks, and WB Timelines.