The Ohio Resource Exchange Pilot: Delivering Aligned Resources to Your Desktop

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The Ohio Resource Exchange Pilot Delivering
Aligned Resources to Your Desktop

• by
• Brian Brown, ODE
• Lois Lequyea, INFOhio

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OPIPSAA

• Ohio Partners in Promoting Student Academic
  Achievement is a coalition of Ohio not-for-profit
  agencies dedicated to providing Ohios learners
  and educators seamless access to learning
  resources that support and are aligned to Ohio
  Academic Content Standards (ACS).

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OPIPSAA Partners (partial listing)

• Academic Curriculum Materials Centers
• Battelle for Kids
• Cleveland Municipal Schools
• Educational Service Centers (ESC)
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC)
• eTech
• INFOhio
• Kent State Universitys School of Library Science
• MCOECN
• NetWellness
• Ohio Department of Education (ODE)
• Ohio Historical Society
• Ohio Media Centers
• Ohio Resource Center (ORC)
• ORCLISH/SERRC
• SPARCC Stark Portage Area Computer Consortium

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Ohio Resource Exchange Prototype

• Funded in 2004 by Battelle for Kids and ENC
• Contributing agencies
• Cleveland Municipal School District
• INFOhio area media center resources
• Ohio Resource Center
• SPARCC Align to Achieve

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ORE Prototype Results

• Preliminary evaluation in spring of 2005
  identified problems that required funding to
  resolve inadequacies of the server software
  hosting the metadata

• D3A2 proposes a Data Exchange

• June 1, 2005 a new prototype was undertaken with
  INFOhio hosting the metadata

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D3A2 Prototype Participants

• Cleveland Municipal School District
• eTech (Formerly SchoolNet and Educational
  Technology)
• INFOhio
• ODE
• Ohio Resource Center
• SPARCC Align to Achieve

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Demonstration of D3A2 prototype Brian
Brown ODE Project Manager Curriculum and
Assessment
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How can you participate?

• Approach your principal and curriculum director
  to find out what your district is using to
  analyze student data
• Learn to use the system and look for evidence of
  how the library is or is not impacting learning

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How can you participate?

• COLLABORATE! This is more than consultation and
  cooperation
• Join the listservs
• Watch for forthcoming information about aligning
  resources and making what has been aligned
  accessible to you and your teachers.

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Audience ParticipationQuestions and Comments