NCC Professional Development Day March 9, 2016

Congratulations! Congratulations to John Mitchell for earning the Spence White Service Award for support of INFOhio and School Libraries!

District/Bldg. iCoach Accepting applications 3/3 Blackboard course training Training will begin May-August Please encourage participation – including librarians, library aides, teachers, ESC consultants, and principals!

Mitinet Updates Don’t forget to let us know when you’re ready for an update. If you do not know the status of your account, please contact Dave Ingraham (davei@mitinet.com) for clarification.

ISearch Local Toolkit for Educators is Public and Updated

New – page for Tech Coordinators with instructions on adding an Isearch button to your website.

Toolkit  Technical Help

ISearch Once configuration is completed by Lima, you will be asked to verify the following: Check the library name in the banner. Make sure results match the library choice. Check your Book River. Check that patron features (email, holds, etc.) are present (or not present). Once that is done, we will publish the URL to the INFOhio website and in CAT/CAT Jr.

MobileCirc Update Working with INFOhio Technical Services to complete SSL authentication setup The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) ensures that info passing between web server and browser remains private. MobileCirc documentation available from the Handbook. More to come in May meeting!

Click Advocacy on our homepage to share how On our new Advocacy page, you’ll find an easy way to contact your legislators plus Topic Starters to help you write a short email to let them know how #INFOhioWorks for your school!

Iwonder Update Education sites, topic centered, uses questions to pull the learner in. Blue ‘I’ button like a piece of candy, click on it to get to all the ‘good stuff’! One resource is the Iwonder Genius Hour IWonder collects websites, hand picked by Ohio school librarians, that students can use for research. For grades 3-9. Click the I button to find resources for integrating Iwonder into instruction.

Enhancements Fall 2015 This enhancement document collects all changes to our resources that occurred during the fall of 2015. To find the enhancement document, please use the INFOhio toolkit and click on the flyers button. https://www.infohio.org/educators/library/toolkit/flyers

INFOhio Goes Mobile Get the Chrome App in the Google Web Store! Let’s highlight a couple of the enhancements. Get the Chrome App in the Google Web Store!

DVC Playlists New playlists have been added to the DVC. Note: Bill Nye videos

Reading Videos and Handouts New initiative ‘Reading Round the Clock’

Google Classroom Button You will see something new in Tools when you go into the article. It is a Google Classroom button. Teachers who use Google Classroom can click on that button and they will be ask what class they want to add the article to. Then they can choose to add it to an assignment, an announcement, or a question. They can then add their directions to students, which could include the username and password. (May also display as Share to Classroom) Do a search in Explora. Bring up the article and you’ll find a Google Classroom button (also in Isearch). Teachers who use Google classroom will be asked to what class to add the article, then to what assignment…

New interface all the books under Trek’s Travels can be translated into Spanish.

World Book Webquests Educator Tools  Webquests (more being added daily) WB has added webquests under educator tools – a great way to encourage teachers to use WB.

Embed codes added to eLearning Modules Videos Topic Centers Articles New in Science Online Embed codes added to eLearning Modules Videos Topic Centers Articles

Make a new Connection… NCC will now be known as CONNECT When? April 1, 2016 Why? A change in ownership Who? The Cuyahoga, Lorain, and Medina ESCs will become our new owners. Why? In order to align our services with the ESC and the Ohio Schools Council. More details in May… stay tuned! Change in ownership and name of organization to align services with those of the ESC and the Ohio Schools Council and use the partnership to leverage services. Important thing for your to know: Nothing will change, we will still offer the same level of service.

Materials Materials from today’s event will be posted to: www.nccohio.org/library/liaison