INFOhio Library Services User Group Professional Development

1. INFOhioLibrary Services User GroupProfessional Development October 25, 2012

2. Why do we need to teach literacy in all subjects in all grades K-12? • Video from bjnesbitt’s channel • A Vision of K-12 Students Today • Written and produced by B Nesbitt • Found on YouTube

3. A Vision of K-12 Students Today

4. Why? What? How? … Develop a Plan!

5. WHY? • The Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for school librarians and teachers • to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. • It is made available at no cost to users.

6. Teach students information literacy skills • How to use effectively the tools already being used • Learn from what they are already doing to research, evaluate, synthesize, and create new ideas, skills, and learning.

7. And most importantly Engage them in their learning.

8. WHAT: TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards.

9. WHAT does TRAILS offer? • Freely available on the Web at: www.trails-9.org • Knowledge assessment of five categories comprising information literacy skills • Downloadable results at both class and student levels • Self-administered by the librarian • Assurance of student privacy

10. Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills • As of September, the following features are available: • Alignment of TRAILS items with the Common Core State Standards • Addition of images to select TRAILS-3 items • Creation of national benchmarks based on 2011-12 data (coming soon!) • www.trails-9.org

13. Test Items

14. HOW? Trails can help teachers and librarians tailor learning to the needs of students by assessing students ability to do the following:

15. Develop topics. • Identify potential sources. • Develop, use, revise search strategies. • Evaluate sources and information. • Recognize how to use information responsibly, ethically, and legally.

16. Features in Trails: • Create an Account • Create a Session • View Assessment • Administration Details • Manage a Session • Class Report • Student Report • Benchmarks

17. Getting Started: • Create an Account • Create a Session • View Assessment • Manage a Session

22. Session Name • Assessment • Grade you will use the assessment for • Order of delivery of questions • Trial sesssion – yes or no • How many students • Click create Session button

25. Develop a Plan: • How Central Crossing HS – Liz Bode has used it • What she and Shannon Route at Grove City HS have planned for this year

26. How have others used TRAILS in their schools?

27. Now let’s try it!

28. TESTAMONIAL: Since we are a Race to the Top School, we have implemented the new Student Learning Objectives (SLO) that need to be turned in for the new evaluation system. I used the 9th grade General Literacy Test 1 as a pretest, topical tests for formative assessment and will use the General Literacy Test 2 as the posttest. Each has provided good data so far for my SLO and evaluation during our year of practicing it all. I highly recommend that all media specialists use this website. Debby Howdyshell, Liberty Union HS.

29. Media Literacy: One of the 21st Century Skills All Students Need to Succeed at MEC … Monday, Feb. 11: 1:00-3:30 p.m.

30. Take a break!

31. What the heck is X86? • Jeff O’Brien explains …

32. Miscellaneous Tidbits for Inquiring Minds…

33. CAT Jr. enhancement to your OPAC • Display of eBooks or Websites

34. MEC Library Website http://www.mecdc.org/infohioservices.aspx book

36. MEC LIBRARIES link

37. vendorrecords@mail.mecdc.org

38. Do you see this in your email?

39. Electronic Resources • Digital Video Collection. • Titles support the standards in science, geography, Ohio history, and more. • Can stream the videos, download them to view later, or embed them in your own web pages.  • http://dvc.infohio.org

40. DVC EVALUATION • 70+ titles “with captions” in the Digital Video Collection • success stories /anecdotal comments • Have you had students that are deaf or hard of hearing that have benefited from the captions? • Have you had students use the captions to help them with reading? • Have the captions been beneficial in other ways? • charles@noacsc.org

42. Discovery Portal http://bit.ly/DiscPortHELP

43. Is your district violating policy? • Use your favorite search engine (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) and enter a search string similar to the following: INFOhio username password site:yourschoolsdomain.org • (replace “yourschoolsdomain.org” with the domain name used by your school)

44. INFOhio username password site:mecdc.org

45. Ebooks…free or cheap!www.pixelofink.com

46. NetGALLEY • https://www.netgalley.com/

47. Presidential Elections explained… • http://www.commoncraft.com/video-explaining-us-election-process

48. Backpack TV - http://www.backpack.tv/ Applications for EducationDifferentiated instruction: video content to support the math & science textbooks • free academic videos arranged according to subject area, topic, and video length. • videos aligned to commonly used Algebra, Biology, and Calculus textbooks. • plans for more topics and textbooks to be added in the future.

49. Are you seeing NEW PHOTOS of your students in WORKFLOWS ?

50. Thank You for Attending http://www.mecdc.org/INFOhioServices.aspx