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INFOhio's Five
Components Curriculum Resource Catalog assists in collection development and identifies resources aligned to Ohio's Academic Content Standards. It is a composite of several catalogs that can be searched simultaneously. These catalogs consist of the Ohio Area Instructional Media Center holdings (registration for borrowing is required), online lesson plans, and a Union Catalog of over one million unique bibliographic records of resources held by over 2,400 Ohio public and private school libraries. These bibliographic records are used by school library media specialists to download to local online catalogs. Electronic Resources provides a core collection of electronic, age-specific, curriculum-related resources for K-12 use in Ohio. Negotiating a statewide contract for these resources makes them available across the state without charge to individual schools. INFOhio pays about 50˘ per student on behalf of the State of Ohio to provide all these resources to the students and educators in every public and non-public school. Instructional Development - INFOhio offers a full range of training, workshops, seminars, in-services and support programs to help educators throughout the state better understand the expanding definition of literacy and how to use tools and technologies of the Information Age. Library Automation makes it possible for thousands of library card catalogs to be available on the Internet. It also allows schools to give their students and teacher access to other school, college and public library collections from the classroom, library or home. More than 2,400 Ohio schools in 480 districts serving over 1,100,000 students have online access to millions of print resources via INFOhio's standardized library automation software from SirsiDynix. INFOhio… for
standards-based education Todays school libraries are much more than warehouses of books they are knowledge
spaces, where active learning takes place students build their own
understanding and knowledge. (Ross J. Todd and Carol C. Kuhlthau,
Student Learning
Through Ohio School Libraries: The Ohio Research Study) The Ohio Department of Educations Instructional
Management System contains model lessons and
assessments for a variety of Academic Content Standards as well as professional resources
on standards-based education and lesson design. Keeping in mind the five stages of
planning for standards-based education: 1) Content, 2) Assessment, 3) Data
Analysis, 4) Instruction and 5) Materials, INFOhio, the
state's virtual library and information network for all K-12 public and nonpublic schools,
provides resources that support and supplement what students should know and be able to
do. Stop surfing and start finding
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