April is School Library Month, a time to celebrate librarians' vital role in fostering a love of reading and instilling digital, information, and media literacy skills in students to help them become literate and successful citizens. To celebrate, read about Ohio School Librarians participating in INFOhio user groups—ICoach and Users Council—doing amazing work with INFOhio resources.

Spring is here! The sun is shining, new growth is sprouting, and warmer temperatures are right around the corner. Celebrate spring with eBooks, videos, and activities from INFOhio that will engage students and revitalize your classroom. 

In honor of Youth Art Month, let’s explore a variety of eBooks for art teachers to help engage and excite art students. The arts can be a powerful tool to motivate reluctant readers, helping them engage with text and broaden their reading skills. Art teachers rely on text; fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction, to help inform and inspire students. Research and inquiry are an integral part of visual art education.  

March is Women's History Month. Quality text from eBook collections provided by INFOhio support knowledge-building and vocabulary development while increasing awareness and understanding of the contributions made by trailblazing women. 

GenYES Ohio is a resource collection and project-tracking platform that prepares Ohio students to become Student Technology Leaders (STLs) through technology-infused leadership instructional materials. With these resources, teachers can support a variety of classes and topics from STEM and makerspaces, to industrial arts and student-supported help desks.

Encourage reading with choice boards on the topics of fantasy and visual arts. 

February is Black History Month. Quality text from eBook collections provided by INFOhio support knowledge building and vocabulary development while increasing awareness and understanding of the contributions of African Americans.

On Thursday, January 9 at 6:00 p.m. Capstone will be doing maintenance on PebbleGo Next. PebbleGo Next will be unavailable beginning at this time and will remain offline for less than an hour.

Access to individual editions to CultureGrams is now working. 

For more than 25 years, INFOhio has provided educators and students with high-quality instructional materials. As we approach a new year, let's look back and reflect on 2024. This year, educators, students, and families, from all 88 counties across Ohio, used resources from INFOhio.

There are many ways to encourage students to read. Book clubs and choice boards are just a couple of ways to give students a voice in their reading selection and reading books aloud is engaging and can be tied to instruction. In this second blog in the Adventures in eBooks series find out how to use eBooks to motivate students.

On Tuesday, December 10, ProQuest will be having an authentication update on their resources. During this time, there may be some downtime for CultureGrams.

Winter is the season of ice and snow, but it also includes celebrations to light a fire of learning. Count on INFOhio for engaging digital resources to explore history, culture, science, and creativity with your students to warm up your classroom. 

Explore careers that match student interest with these Career Cluster choice boards. 

Support K-12 students' background knowledge with choice boards on selected social studies topics including American wars, ancient civilizations, and indigenous peoples.