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INFOhio is according to their web site, a statewide cooperative school library and information network, supports and enriches teaching and learning by providing equitable access to quality resources for Ohio’s PreK-12 community of students, educators and parents. INFOhio’s components include electronic resources for schools, instructional development for teachers, and school library automation — all promoting information literacy and media literacy through the use of technology.

All resources are available to all of Ohio’s K-12 students and faculty. Parents, please take the time to look at the available resources. After all, it is your tax dollars at work. Take advantage of this resource.

http://infohio.org/ 

Family, Teaching

Adopt a classroom
Dear Friends:
I am reaching out to you to help me inspire my students to reach their highest potential. Adopt-A-Classroom (www.adoptaclassroom.org) is a non-profit organization that offers an easy and accountable way for you to donate funds to my classroom and make a real difference for me and my students.

All donations are tax-deductible. 100% of the donation goes to my classroom. Adopt-A-Classroom takes $0 out for administration.
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Teaching

XO LaptopNow through December 31st you can give a laptop and get a laptop in exchange. The cost is $400 and you get a $200 tax deduction. This is the laptop formerly known as the 100 dollar laptop. While it hasn’t quite made the $100 price range, it is currently about $188 for a laptop.

This isn’t a normal laptop. The screen is fully visible in daylight or inside and the screen can be inverted for reading books. It has no moving parts and is impervious to dust and water. It is meant to go into the worst environments. It has cool networking features that allow it to find all other laptops around it if a network isn’t available (think classroom).

The give one get one program will directly benefit the children in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Mongolia and Rwanda. Go to the web site and take a look.

XO Laptop

If you are more visual there is a video in the article here showing details of the laptop.

New York Times

Teaching