1. Open House or Parent Night Slide Show These slides are provided to school librarians, administrators, and teachers to run as a continuous loop presentation during parent events such as open house.

2. Run these slides in a continuous loop show 1.Delete the first 3 intro slides. 2.Delete any other slides that don’t apply to your school. Orange slides—General info for everyone Blue slides—Beginning Reader info for young students Red slides—Research info for older students 3.Save the new file. 4.Click Slide Show > From Beginning. 5.Press Esc to end the slide show.

3. Find Handouts for Parents at www.infohio.org/goto/toolkit Look under Parent Night Resources Early literacy flyers What Is INFOhio?, a longer presentation for parents with presenter notes. Look under Bookmarks & Posters INFOhio Bookmarks INFOhio Business cards with password. Customize with your school’s INFOhio username and password. Print on magnetic paper (find it at business supply stores) and give away to keep on the home refrigerator.

4. Welcome to Ohio’s PreK-12 Digital Library!

5. INFOhio Vision Each Ohio PreK-12 student has equal access to high-quality digital resources for a successful education and future.

6. gives your child free access to millions of educational resources for schoolwork.

7. Find them all at www.infohio.org

9. Click in the Students & Parents box to go to the INFOhio student page.

10. Here is the student page. Notice the grade level boxes across the top.

11. Click them to get a list of resources specially chosen for those grades.

12. Only Ohio students have free access to INFOhio resources.

13. So to use INFOhio at home, you need to log in.

14. If you are logged in, the student page looks like this.

15. Notice the green bar at the top of the screen.

16. If you are not logged in, the page looks like this.

17. Notice the red bar at the top of the screen.

18. Enter the INFOhio username and password here to log in.

19. Don’t know the password? Click here.

20. Then fill in these blanks and click Get My Password.

21. The username and password will appear here.

22. Is your child a beginning reader?

23. Find lots of ways to practice with INFOhio.

24. Click Grades PreK-5.

25. Then choose any of the Beginning Readers tools.

26. World Book’s Early World of Learning

27. Scholastic’s BookFlix: Fiction and Nonfiction Pairs

28. Watch the Story Read the Book

29. World Book Kids

30. Does your child have a project due?

31. Cut the stress! Start with ISearch.

32. = Your school library + INFOhio resources

33. Log in to the student page and type the topic into the ISearch search box.

34. Click any of the tabs to find results. Use the Basic tabs for younger students and Advanced tabs for older ones.

35. Find even more tips under Parents in the menu bar.

36. Questions? Ask your school librarian or email us at support@infohio.org. www.infohio.org Thank you for using