Vapid or valuable: social media in the classroom
By: Tiffany Wincek, Account Specialist. It’s the beginning of another school year, which means it’s time to focus again on the best ways to connect with students. What do you do when students can’t seem to pry their eyes away from their social media accounts?…
Monthly K-12 Webcasts – Free, Fast, Focused
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Specialist. Welcome to the new school year, educator friends! Whether you’ve just started back or are feeling like you’ve been in the building forever and a day, we know the fall can be fraught with excitement, delight, and, occasionally, abject terror….
OverDrive lifehacks to personalize digital reading
By: Bailey Hotujac, School Launch Specialist. Tips and tricks to make your life easier in a classroom or media center full of students with different needs, interests and reading levels. Curating from Recommended Lists So you want curate a list, but finding all those titles…
New digital citizenship: culture, collaboration and content
Digital literacy and digital citizenship are no longer soft skills. They are required for success in the classroom and a student’s broader relational sphere. Parents and teachers alike worry about privacy, bullying and screen time, but there are positive nuances and opportunities to consider. It…
What you missed at Digipalooza 2017
By: Christina Samek, Marketing Specialist. If you weren’t able to attend our first exclusive school program at DigiP, fear not! Here’s a breakdown of all the exciting things that went down at the conference and what’s to come for OverDrive Education. We kicked things off…
OverDrive is now a B Corporation for Creating Positive Social and Environmental Impact.
Simply Taking Responsibility for Tomorrow and Empowering Communities with our Commitment to a “World Enlightened by Reading”. Today we’re incredibly proud to announce that OverDrive has become a Certified B Corporation™. So what exactly does that mean? B Corporations are a new kind of company…
6 ways public libraries and schools can work together
By: Adam Sockel, OverDrive Marketing Communications Specialist Regardless of where you reside in the United States, the end of August represents the same thing to everyone: back to school. Students of all ages will return to classrooms ready to re-engage with curriculum, classmates, and teachers….
All the feels on Read a Book Day
Reading a good book is sometimes the only means to grasp a very specific texture of humanity. Like this: “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put…
Graphic novels aren’t comics. But so what if they were?
By: Patti Carlyle, Public Relations Specialist and Calvin and Hobbes junkie since the 90s. Self-appointed reading purists often turn up their noses at non-traditional reading. As if a page > chapter > tome of text-heavy 9 point font is the only experience permitted a reader….
Encourage your users to get outside and camp this summer (and read!)
By: Beau Livengood, OverDrive Account Specialist Costco got us. We went in for 5 specific things, but then they have that featured item that grabs your attention and you just can’t pass it up (kind of like a good curated collection). This time it was…