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INFOhio & SchoolRooms™ Update: 

INFOhio & SchoolRooms™ Update by Theresa M. Fredericka, INFOhio Kristiana Burk, SirsiDynix Kathy Fredrick, Shaker Heights City Schools Denise Scherer, Kalida Local Schools

Top 21st Century Learning Skills: 

Top 21st Century Learning Skills Know More About the World “UPS says it needs workers who are ‘global trade literate, sensitive to foreign cultures, conversant in different languages’ – not exactly strong points in the U.S….where the social studies curriculum tends to fixate on U.S. History.” Think Outside the Box “It’s interdisciplinary combinations – design & technology, mathematics & art – that produce YouTube and Google,” says Thomas Friedman, author of The World Is Flat

21st Century Learning Skills, cont’d: 

21st Century Learning Skills, cont’d Become Smarter About New Sources of Information “It’s important that students know how to manage it, interpret it, validate it and how to act on it,” says Dell executive Karen Bruett. Develop Better People Skills Taken from “How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century” by Claudia Wallis, Time Magazine, December 10, 2006.

Learning 2.0: 

Learning 2.0 “In the 21st Century, the ability to be a lifelong learner will, for many people, be dependent on their ability to access and benefit from online learning.” - Michael Flanagan, Michigan superintendent of public instruction A 3rd grade science project experience and the Chairman of Sun Microsystems, Scott McNealy - “It made me wonder why there isn’t a Web site where I can just go and have anything I want to learn, K to 12, online, browser based and free.”

What Is SchoolRooms?: 

What Is SchoolRooms? K-12 multimedia online discovery portal Combines educator-selected, standards driven content with student-friendly software Facilitates interdisciplinary exploration ILS independent Content consists of: 71 “Rooms” or “Subject Guides” of content relating to standards 1,750 Web page views of content 22,500 educator hand-selected Web sites ~3 million Best of Web sites indexed Assorted 3rd party multimedia content

71 SchoolRooms forES, MS and HS: 

71 SchoolRooms for ES, MS and HS 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

How SchoolRooms Began: 

How SchoolRooms Began Collaboration with INFOhio Idea to take the Rooms platform and build portal and resources for K-12 community Other partners joined in: LNOCA Kent State University SLIS and IAKM Shaker Heights City School District Decision to Build 3 Pilot Rooms at Each Grade Level Earth Science U.S. History Parent’s Guide

The Pilot (2005): 

The Pilot (2005) Pilot Occurred in Shaker Heights City District near Cleveland for pilot Rooms Usability Study with Kent State University IAKM Two K-4 elementary schools, one 5th & 6th grade, one middle school, one high school Grades 2,4,5,6,8,9,10 20+ teachers 40 classes Approximately 700 – 1000 students Parent, Teacher and Librarian Focus Groups

Usability & SchoolRooms: 

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.

Usability & SchoolRooms: 

Usability & SchoolRooms Elementary vs. High School

What We Learned: 

What We Learned Statistics: 88% of students said they would use SchoolRooms again for homework 51% said they preferred it to Google or Yahoo Quotes: “This is better than Google because in Google you get lots of stuff you don’t need.” (student) “SchoolRooms is a great tool for new(er) teachers because it provides resources that are aligned to the curriculum.” (teacher) “SirsiDynix is offering us the opportunity to serve our patrons with accurate information that meets their immediate needs. The information world is rapidly changing. SchoolRooms is the first step in the direction of seamless 24x7 services to patrons.” (librarian)

Building SchoolRooms: 

Building SchoolRooms One week training: June12-16, 2006, at KSU Personas overview Taxonomy methodology & development Sessions on gathering & creating content for the Web Teaser content training Learning the builder tool

Building SchoolRooms, cont’d: 

Building SchoolRooms, cont’d SirsiDynix Taxonomy Development Methodology Used national standards Used big 5 content standards – CA, OH, FL, NY & TX Scavenger hunt / user-friendly check

Maintenance of SchoolRooms: 

Maintenance of SchoolRooms Content is updated according to an annual Editorial Calendar Weekly, bi-weekly and monthly updates to teaser content and URL validation Continuing teacher and librarian contributor support Editorial calendar developed by the SchoolRooms Advisory & Maintenance Group (SAM) consisting of 33 teachers and librarians.

Who’s Using SchoolRooms: 

Who’s Using SchoolRooms Live Customers INFOhio - Shaker Heights & Kalida Boston Public Library City of Philadelphia Beacon Schools City of San Diego Sussex District in Delaware * Reference & Case Study Information Available at www.schoolrooms.net

What They Are Saying: 

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

Phase 1 Deployment: 

Phase 1 Deployment Shaker Heights City School District 5 elementaries, 1 intermediate (grades 5-6), 1 middle school and 1 high school ~6000 students in NE Ohio Kalida Local School District 1 elementary 1 middle and high school ~800 students in NW Ohio

Let’s take a look!: 

Let’s take a look!

Slide27: 

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

Resources: 

Resources OCLC Environmental Scan Pew Internet and American Life Project Ohio Research Study INFOhio SchoolRooms (info & demo) School Library Journal editorial and article (December 2005) SirsiDynix and Born With the Chip by Stephen Abram

What’s Next: 

What’s Next INFOhio and SirsiDynix work together in maintaining SchoolRooms content for all SirsiDynix customers. Phase 1 Deployment with Kalida and Shaker Heights (2006-07). INFOhio and SirsiDynix work together regarding technical issues for deployment of SchoolRooms for 2007-08. INFOhio develops a Toolkit for SchoolRooms and marketing materials for 2007-08; information regarding cost for schools automated via INFOhio vs. stand-alone soon to come. Updated information is available from INFOhio’s Web site at: http://www.infohio.org/LibraryStaff/Transition/Rooms.html.

Questions? Contact: 

Questions? Contact INFOhio Theresa Fredericka 614-752-2941 central@infohio.org LNOCA Joanna McNally 216-520-6900 x223 joanna.mcnally@lnoca.org INFOhio Technical Support Jean Banks 419-228-7417 jean@noacsc.org