www.HomeworkNow.org

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www.HomeworkNow.org

• A Librarian in
• Every Living Room
• Ohio SchoolNet Conference
• Columbus Convention Center
• February 15, 2005

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What is HomeworkNow?

• Librarians offering online reference assistance
  24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  
• Tutors offering online professional tutoring
  services from 2 pm 10 pm, 7 days a week.
  
• Helping students find solutions online, anytime
  by connecting them with high quality,
  authoritative information resources via the
  Internet.

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What is HomeworkNow? (contd)

• The HomeworkNow service is free and available to
  all Ohio residents.
  
• It is funded by an IMLS grant awarded by the
  State Library of Ohio
  
• It is staffed by the contributions of 52 public
  libraries throughout the state and over 60 Ohio
  librarians contracted by NOLA.

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Why Use HomeworkNow?

• Convenient
• Anonymous
• Accurate
• Authoritative
• Easy
• Friendly Fun!

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Why Offer HomeworkNow?

• Libraries are seeking new ways to remain relevant
  in todays highly connected, self-serve society.
  
• The wealth of information available online makes
  it possible to provide assistance in the virtual
  world.
  
• The wealth of information available online also
  makes it increasingly difficult to find and
  evaluate high quality information especially
  for young people. Librarians can help!

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How Does HomeworkNow Work?

• Demo

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What Kinds of Questions Do We Answer? Copied
here directly from transcripts with no editorial
corrections

• how a desire to control trade affected economic
  development in europe and sparked a period of
  exploration
  
• native american census....
• how to claculate a median? how to look at dat
  afigure out quartiles?
  
• I need some websites to help me locate
  information on how we get long eyelashes, how we
  inherit them, and what chromosome they are on

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What Kinds of Questions Do We Answer? Copied
here directly from transcripts with no editorial
corrections

• Why were so many Civil War battles fought in
  National Parks?
  
• Can you help me find the book Satanic Nurses?
• Can u tell me what types of fish cats like
  whether it is tropical fish, goldfish or all
  fish?
  
• you suck. What do you have to say about that?
• How many diagonals can be drawn for a polygon
  with 15 sides?
  
• hi. can u please connect me to a tutor?

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Answers or Assistance?

• The goal of HomeworkNow is to assist and guide
  not to answer.
  
• Sometimes students find this very disappointing!
• We seek to suggest and provide information
  resources that support learning and successfully
  completing assignments.

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What if We Cant Help?

• Not all questions can be answered by online
  librarians.
  
• We can connect students to the online
  professional tutors from Tutor.com
  
• Questions from students in some locations can be
  forwarded to an online nurse.
  
• Questions can be forwarded via email to a local
  librarian for follow-up

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How Does the Tutoring Service Work?

• Tutors are accessed through a librarian referral.
  
  
• Tutors are available from 2pm 10 pm, 7 days a
  week
  
• The tutoring service is provided in a different
  interface and requires the Shockwave plugin

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The Schools Role in HomeworkNow

• Promote the service amongst your students.
• Share this information with your teachers,
  administrators and parents.
  
• Invite your local library to demonstrate the
  service to your teachers, administrators and
  parents.
  
• Please dont use the service as a class all
  together at one time.

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HomeworkNow Promotional Ideas

• There are promotional materials available at
• http//www.KnowItNow.org/mediakit
• Print and distribute HomeworkNow bookmarks.
• Write an article for the school newspaper.
• Add a link to the service on your schools web
  site.
  
• Schedule a demo at the next PTA meeting.
• Print and hang a HomeworkNow poster in the
  library and classrooms.

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• HomeworkNow provides real answers from real
  people, real-time, real easy. Its the next
  generation of library service for connected young
  learners who have high expectations for
  convenience and quality.
• Thank you for your participation in the promotion
  of this exciting new library service!

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www.HomeworkNow.org

• A Librarian in
• Every Living Room
• Ohio SchoolNet Conference
• Columbus Convention Center
• February 15, 2005
• Tracy Strobel Cleveland Public Library
  TStrobel_at_cpl.org

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ReadThisNow.org