1. NCC Professional Development Day
March 9, 2016

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

3. 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!

4. 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 for clarification.

5. ISearch Local Toolkit for Educators is Public and Updated

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

7. Toolkit  Technical Help

8. 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 ( , 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.

9. 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!

10. 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 to let them know how #INFOhioWorks for your school!

11. 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.

12. Enhancements Fall 2015
This enhancement document collects all changes to our resources that occurred during the fall of To find the enhancement document, please use the INFOhio toolkit and click on the flyers button.

13. 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!

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

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

16. 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…

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

18. 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.

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

20. 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.

21. Materials
Materials from today’s event will be posted to: