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Hi Everyone,

My name is Aimee Mendelsohn and I am a School Improvement and Academic Specialist with the ESC of Lake Erie West.  I provide professional development and technical assistance to schools throughout Ohio.  My favorite aspect of INFOhio would have to be Transparent Language.  I like this resource because of the ease of use for students and teachers, the many different languages available, and the ELL features.  It is a great tool and I hope to see more schools using it in the future,  

I used TLO when my husband and I traveled to Iceland. It is a lot of fun!

TLO is the resource at the top of my list to look into more closely - it looks amazing from the webinars.  One question I left the 2-part webinar with was this...do they have any pre-made lessons or do teachers need to build everything from scratch?  Might be a bit time consuming the first time through if they have to enter everything in on their own...

Hi Mindy - here are some lessons and curriculum offered by TLO. They are all available in Educator Tools. https://www.infohio.org/educator-tools/?collection=aW5mb2hpbzcwNjM1fGluZm9oaW83MDgzMXxpbmZvaGlvNzA0MTR8aW5mb2hpbzcwNDE2

Hi! I'm April Hoying and I work at the Darke County Educational Service Center. My favorite resource is BookFlix.

Hi April - I really love BookFlix too! There are days when I am working on projects here that I watch several of the eBooks and count myself lucky to have this job!

Hi!  I'm Mindy Geschke and I'm from the ESC of Northeast Ohio.  I've really enjoyed viewing the What's New in InfoOhio webinars...and I'm trying to think back to the beginning of the school year and wished I had viewed them all live.   A few general INFOhio questions I have are:

• My work computer is logged in as an INFOhio Statewide User, but as I’m watching the recordings, I don’t see the chat to view the recording that details how to log in as a statewide user.  Can you send me the link to the video that is referenced in each of the webinars?
• Why would educators need a school account versus using the state-wide account?  Is there any reason I, as an ESC Consultant, would ever need anything other than the statewide account? Is there ever a need/use for an individual account?  If so, under what circumstances?  And how would one go about getting one?  Just curious how the system is set up...

Hi Mindy,

I think this is the video referenced in the webinars: https://www.infohio.org/document-library/item/logging-in-to-access-digital-content-from-infohio-infohio-on-youtube.

Most times we can log folks in automatically, but if we can't tell the location of someone's IP, we prompt them to log in. Many schools want a username and password that is easy for even their youngest students to remember. Additionally, as long as a school's INFOhio username and password doesn't get shared online, they can keep the same username and password for many years. We have to periodically change the INFOhio statewide username and password. (In fact, we had to change it this week because it got shared online.) So a school u/p is more consistent. And some schools want their school's use data. We can share that with them for certain resources if we can automatically tell which district they are from (by IP) or if their users log in with their school username and password.

Some ESCs have their own INFOhio username and password but most agencies use the statewide login (or get logged in automatically) because most don't need the agency-level use data.

At this time, we don't do individual logins for our main website, mostly because there's nothing that an individual login would get you that the statewide or school login doesn't already provide, and because we don't really want any individual student information associated with our site.

Hope that helps!

Erica

Hi Mindy - great questions!

The video for logging in is located in the Document Library under Screencasts. Use the main menu, find Document Library under Educators, and then click Help Docs and Promotional Materials. Here is a link to the video as well! 

https://www.infohio.org/document-library/item/logging-in-to-access-digital-content-from-infohio-infohio-on-youtube

The district un/pw serves two purposes. First, hopefully it is easy for students to remember. We encourage districts to use words or phrases that are familiar to the students. The second reason it is necessary is for schools that use INFOhio's Library Services Platform to automate their school library. When they are logged in with their school specific un/pw, the students can access their school catalog directly through ISearch and Fetch.

Most schools are logged in automatically using IP authentication. If you are interested in this feature at your ITC, let me know and I can check with our tech team.