Instructional materials matter. While securing a coherent curriculum and professional development for teachers is the first step in ensuring equity in Ohio’s classrooms, identifying high-quality supplemental materials at grade level for all learners can be helpful in increasing student engagement, meeting diverse needs, and filling instructional gaps. In this Teach with INFOhio Blog post, learn how to use licensed digital content from INFOhio to engage, empower, elevate, and extend family literacy during the holidays.

INFOhio provides quality instructional materials that can be easily shared with students, staff, and parents. Use this alphabetical list of INFOhio resources to see how to directly link to the licensed content.

As a digital library, INFOhio practices curation daily. Curating resources can be a useful practice to support a personalized learning environment. This blog will explore how educators can use curation to facilitate authentic learning experiences, overcome obstacles, and accelerate learning. 

November is National Native American Heritage Month. Quality text from eBook collections provided by INFOhio supports knowledge building and vocabulary development while increasing awareness and understanding of the contributions, history, and achievements of Native Americans.

INFOhio encourages Ohio educators to curate INFOhio’s instructional materials. Explore four curation tools you probably already have access to and learn about a few deciding factors to consider when choosing a curation tool that best meets the needs of students and staff.

The license for the Bill Nye the Science Guy videos will expire at the end of October 2023.  

Digital Video Collection videos are no longer accessible in the ISearch My Library tab. 

INFOhio's Research 4 Success (R4S) is an online learning course presented in six units to teach high school research skills. To increase the flexibility of the learning units in the classroom, INFOhio has added R4S to Open Space. 

It's election season! Discover INFOhio's instructional materials on the topics of voting, the election process, and the presidency that are available to Ohio's students, educators, and parents at no cost.

INFOhio encourages Ohio educators to curate INFOhio’s instructional materials. Curation is the human touch–the personal and informed evaluation, selection, and collection of the best resources to meet students needs.

Collections of eBooks have been purchased from Infobase and Gale on the topics of student wellness and careers. Instructional materials will continue to be purchased throughout the 2023-2024 school year with funding from Future Forward Ohio. 

 

September 15 - October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. Quality text from eBook collections provided by INFOhio supports knowledge building and vocabulary development while increasing awareness and understanding of the contributions, history, and achievements of Hispanic/Latino Americans.

A collection of eBooks and videos have been purchased from Infobase and Gale on the topics of the Holocaust and genocide. Instructional materials will continue to be purchased throughout the 2023-2024 school year with funding from Future Forward Ohio. 

 

With funding from Future Forward Ohio, INFOhio has purchased two collections of professional learning eBooks from EBSCO and Gale. Some of the focused areas for this content include classroom management, computer technology, distance education, early childhood, mathematics, reading & phonics, and STEM. 
 

This summer an in-person, multi-day event took place with a small cohort of Instructional Materials Reviewers. This 3-day workshop increased participants' skills and knowledge of evaluating and implementing open access content for teaching and learning. Each participant was responsible for curating a final product of instructional materials focused around one of the following high-needs topics: financial literacy, STEM, career exploration and development, and the Holocaust and genocide for grades 6-12.