Michigan Online Resources for Educators MORE: Your OneStopShop Teacher Resource Portal on the Michig

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Michigan Online Resources for Educators (MORE)
Your One-Stop-Shop Teacher Resource Portal on the
MichiganeLibrary (MeL)

•  MARESA Fall PD Conference - October 10th, 2008,
  Marquette Sr. HS

Deb Biggs Thomas MeL.Org Coordinator, Barb
Fardell Ed Tech Manager, MDE
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MeL is for Educators!
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What exactly is MeL?

• MeL is a virtual library comprised of MeLCat
  statewide catalog MeL databases MeL Michigan
  history MeL Featured Resources
• MORE in MeL (Michigan Online Resources for
  Educators).
• MeL is Free (Saving you !) and brought to you
  the citizens of Michigan by the Library of
  Michigan and the Institute of Museums Library
  Services.

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How does MeL helps Michigan Teachers and Students
Succeed?

• with subject specialist selected Web sites,
  virtually free of advertising
• with a variety of age-appropriate learning
  resources and tools
• with lessons supporting our state curriculum
  standards and guidelines (MORE)
• with ACT and other test preparation materials
• with access to library collections all over
  Michigan (MeLCat)

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MeLCat Michigan K-12 School Libraries

• Live on MeLCat
• Baraga Area School Library
• Clio Area High School
• Crossroads Charter Academy
• Escanaba Area Schools
• Frankenmuth High School
• Garden City Middle/High Schools
• Genessee School District
• Hanover-Horton Middle/High School
• Lakeview High School Library
• Lenawee Intermediate School District/CEMaT
• Marquette High School
• Milford High School
• Ovid-Elsie Area Schools Info. Center
• Sault Area Schools
• St. Charles Community Schools
• Wayne County RESA
• Calumet Public School Library

• Scheduled to Go Live on MeLCat, Early October
  2008
• Thornapple-Kellogg Library
• Adams Township Schools
• Clarenceville High School
• DeTour School and Public Library
• Gladstone School and Public Library
• Haslett High School
• Heritage Christian Academy
• Houghton Portage Township Schools
• Iron Mountain School District
• Lake Linden-Hubbell School Public Library
• McBain Community Library
• Mount Clemens Community School District
• Mount Clemens Schools
• Munising Mather Middle School
• Oakland Schools Information Center
• Shepherd Secondary Media Center
• St. Johns Public Schools

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MeL Gateways for Educators
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MeL Kids
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MeL Kids K-6 Databases

• SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
• eLibrary Elementary
• What Do I Read Next?
• InfoTrac Junior Edition
• Kids InfoBits
• Appropriate interfaces for K-6 students
• Encyclopedia articles, magazine articles,
  pictures, video, etc.

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MeL Kids Selected Web sites
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MeL Teens
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MeL Teens Middle School and High School Databases

• General Reference Center Gold
• Infotrac Student Edition
• WilsonSelect Plus
• Newsbank Michigan Newspapers
• LearningExpress Library
• SIRS Renaissance
• NoveList

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MeL Teens Selected Web sites
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MeL Resources Especially for Educators

• MeL Michigana
• Educators Reference Complete
• ERIC
• LearningExpress Library
• Michigan Online Resources for Educators

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ERIC in MeL
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Educators Reference Complete in MeL
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Test Preparation

• ACT, GED, SAT, teacher certification, etc.
• Careers and more
• Tutorials and Advanced Placement for middle
  school and up
• English improvement
• Math skills
• Spelling
• Reading comprehension
• Spanish

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MeL is on call

• 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to meet the
  information needs of Michigan residents.
• through MeLCat, a library customer in Marquette
  can request a book from a university in Detroit
  and receive it in just days!
• it's 9 p.m. on a school night and your 4th-grader
  announces he needs information on the Civil War
  in Michigan for a Social Studies assignment
  tomorrow!

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MeL is better

• There is a vast world of information out there
  and the Michigan eLibrary (MeL) is superior to
  the resources commonly available on the World
  Wide Web.
• authoritative
• targeted
• mines the deep Web

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Equal Access!

• No matter where in Michigan you live -- or what
  size your community is -- the Michigan eLibrary
  puts the best information resources right at your
  fingertips.

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MeL by the Numbers

• The Library of Michigan saves Michigans
  libraries, schools, universities and colleges
  over 193 million each year
• In 2007, residents performed over 16 million
  searches and downloaded 5.9 million documents
• Over 30.7 million items are available in MeLCat

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MeL Redux

• MeLCat statewide catalog
• MeL Databases
• MeL Michigan History
• MeL Featured Resources
• Michigan Online Resources for Educators (MORE)
  MeL Information

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MeL Information and Materialshttp//www.michigan.
gov/mel
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Want to see MORE on Mel.Org?

• Michigan
• Online
• Resources for
• Educators

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GO LIVE!
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Michigan Schools Online

• Breaking the cost barriers for online learning

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Partnership
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Obstacles
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Mathematics

• Overall Level of Need

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MSO Will Offer

• Professional Development
• Online Instructor Course
• Administrators Academy/Course
• Content
• Algebra I Remediation Course
• Algebra Intervention
• Low cost curriculum Options
• HippoCampus
• Epic Learning

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For More Info

• Contact
• Your REMC Director
• GenNET
• Barb Fardell at michigan.gov fardellb_at_michigan.
  gov
• Karen Hairston at hairstonk_at_michigan.gov

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8th Grade Tech Literacy

• Work Smart with "Using Technology in Career
  Exploration"         An 8th Grade Technology
  Literacy Assessment GrantGoal Prepare students
  to think critically about their options and to
  make informed life and career decisions

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Using Technology in Career Exploration

• Students demonstrate their technological
  literacy by applying technology and information
  literacy skills to a variety of tasks
  participate in a variety of online learning
  experiences identify their interests, research
  matching careers, create EDPs, and make lifestyle
  decisions by budgeting expenses

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Using Technology in Career Exploration

• What's Available Regional Professional
  Development Multi-disciplinary curriculum with
  performance-based assessments of the METS
  available in print and CD and as an online course
  in Moodle and Blackboard

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Using Technology in Career Exploration

• NOTES View "Using Technology in Career
  Exploration" course at moodle.oakland.k12.mi.us  
  (Login student4, student4) variety of tasks
  topics include Internet Safety, career
  development process, information literacy stages,
  expense budgeting, production of multimedia
  presentations

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TECHPLAN.ORG

• MDE Presentations

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Michigan eLibrary

• mel.org