Learning Objectives 

• Locate INFOhio training resources and promotional materials to support training, PD,  and outreach.

Teach With INFOhio Blog

The Teach With INFOhio blog is a great place to start when you are looking for news about updates, enhancements, and ideas to help integrate high-quality INFOhio content into teaching and learning.

The blog contains valuable information to keep you up to date on what's happening at INFOhio. It includes helpful tips and strategies for using INFOhio's content and tools for teaching and learning. Check out the blogs and blog series that will help you lead others in your school or district.

• Quality Instructional Materials from INFOhio
  • Blog series that applies the Quality Instructional Materials Rubric to INFOhio resources. Includes features of the resource that meet the criteria including, research-based strategies, inclusive teaching, and usability.
• Literacy in the Math Classroom
  • Blog series outlining INFOhio resources that teachers can use in the classroom with reading, writing, and discussion strategies to build math comprehension and critical thinking.
• Extended Learning Plans and the Simple View of Reading 
  • Blog series highlighting how INFOhio's content and web tools support reading, writing, speaking, and listening competencies.
• Family Engagement: INFOhio Provides Opportunities for All
  • Blog post sharing tips to engage families using INFOhio's resources and web tools. 
• Scholastic Stuff Straight to Your Desktop
  • Blog post that illustrates how to access Scholastic's classroom magazines from EBSCO databases.
• INFOhio Resources Support Social Emotional Learning
  • Blog series outlining the content and tools from INFOhio that support Ohio's Social and Emotional Learning Standards.
• Monday Mini Lessons
  • Blog series with screencasts accompanying modeling the use of INFOhio's resources and web tools supporting Ohio's Learning Standards in blended and face-to-face learning.
• Creating Career Awareness with INFOhio Resources
  • Blog series highlighting how INFOhio bridges career exploration and readiness.
• Give the Gift of Literacy
  • Blog post to support the use of INFOhio's digital text during the holiday season to keep students and their families reading.

Using Teach With INFOhio Blog Posts for Training, Professional Development, and Outreach

It is easy to share Teach With INFOhio blog posts with staff. Sharing a link via email is quick and delivers a lot of great INFOhio content with one click. INFOhio blog posts are also included in the monthly bulletins you receive. Copy and paste the news bullet from the document into an email, your newsletter, or other forms of communication.

In addition, Teach With INFOhio blog posts are easy to transform into a short presentation. Similar to the concept shared in the previous lesson, content and images used in a blog can be copied and pasted onto slides. 

Take few minutes to read this Teach With INFOhio blog post, Quality Text for Women's History Month: eBook Collections from INFOhio. 

Next, check out this presentation with the same name.

This presentation took about 10 minutes to prepare. Images were copied from the orginal post, and the notes are text from the blog. Other images come from screenshots. Using a Teach With INFOhio blog post is an easy way to create a training or PD to use with your staff or parents. 

Pause and Do

Choose a Teach With INFOhio blog post you would like to share with your staff. Deterimine the best way to share it with them:

• Email a link 
• Create a presentation

Develop a plan for your chosen delivery and decide when you will share the information.