SchoolRooms A synergetic learning portal

1. Explore. Discover. Learn. SchoolRooms A synergetic learning portal

2. What is SchoolRooms? • Grade 3-12 curriculum-based learning environment that integrates • School library resources • Database resources • Digital videos • 23,000 hand selected Web sites • Over 5 million Web pages crawled and indexed for Best of the Web • 71 virtual rooms of content by curricular area for elementary, middle and high school levels • Includes educator and parent resources

3. How SchoolRooms was built Teacher/librarian teams built each page beginning with curriculum Analyzed national standards and state standards for New York, Ohio, California, Texas and Florida Best of Web – Web sites selected to meet curricular needs Curriculum-based structure How SchoolRooms was tested Every page tested by students – 88% say they wanted to use SchoolRooms again to help with homework. Usability test supervised by Kent State experts with 1,000 students given specific, timed searches + technology that tracks eye movements. Teacher built & Student tested

4. College & Careers Fine Arts Art & Theater Dance & Music Language Arts Literature (ES & MS) Literature: American (HS) Literature: British (HS) Literature: Classical/World (HS) Reading & Vocabulary Speech Writing Math Science Earth Science Life Science Physical Science Scientific Process & Inquiry Social Studies Economics Geography Government & Citizenship U.S. History World History Study & Research Technology Audience Guides Children & YA Literature Educator’s Guide Librarian’s Guide Parent’s Guide Foreign Language – future development 71 SchoolRooms forES, MS and HS

5. Usability & SchoolRooms Eye-Tracking Example Heat map example from Eye-tracking at home level. Shows the typical “triangle” of most popular space looked at on Web sites.

6. Usability & SchoolRooms Elementary High School vs.

7. Who is using SchoolRooms? Boston Public Library Philadelphia Safe & Sound Program State of Ohio – K-12 schools State of South Carolina State of Delaware San Diego Public Library & SDUSD Colorado Springs D 11 Chesapeake (VA) Public Library Alachua County, FL International – future!

8. Who Is Using SchoolRooms?

9. What They Are Saying “I’ve been playing with the SchoolRooms site since the workshop last week and am quite enjoying it. Just yesterday, it saved some poor third grader who had to do a report on Anne Bradstreet.” - Children’s Librarian , Boston “My 11 year old daughter went into the Elementary School section of SchoolRooms being a 6th grader and she was enthralled! In fact after spending over an hour on SchoolRooms I asked her to get ready for bed and she asked if she could get on the next night. She really loved it! This is a really great product!” - Parent “I like how everything was easy to read and it was colorful, not boring.” - ES Student “It was much easier…you don’t get stuff that isn’t relevant.” - MS Student “I like the Web site because everything was easy to find.” - HS Student

10. Let’s take a look!

17. Federated searching across the school library catalog, INFOhio Core Collection, Best of the Web and The Web (Google)

22. Your help is needed….

23. INFOhio’s link to SchoolRooms http://schoolrooms.infohio.org/ Information about SchoolRooms http://www.infohio.org/schoolroomsbasic.html INFOhio Help Resources and promotional materials http://www.infohio.org/ER/SchoolRoomshelp.html Materials and More Jennifer Schwelik 216-831-2080 x233 jschwelik@bw.beachwood.k12.oh.us