If Hollywood is to be believed, students unfailingly hate studying poetry. This is hardly a universal truth. True, some poets have left us with harder codes to crack. And yet. Most students love writing their own poetry. And so do we! We tried out a sonnet…
What if sharing meant everyone got more. Budgeting for digital content remains a challenge in schools. Individual schools often cannot launch a comprehensive digital initiative alone. To increase accessibility, we offer shared collections, a collaborative eBook platform that enables two or more schools or districts…
(Ed. Note: All titles discussed in this post can be purchased in OverDrive Marketplace in this list.) By: Bethany Porter, Librarian and OverDrive Collection Development Specialist If you’ve followed the news in the past few months, or happened to interact with anyone who’s followed the…
Even those of us in education struggle to keep up with all the trends and buzzwords in education and technology. We’ve parsed three of the most common (and sometimes most confusing). Readers will note the overlap of each of these with the others, but also the…
SYNC, a free summer audiobook program, returns on April 27th and OverDrive’s Training Team wants to help you get the most out it. Join us this Thursday (March 30) at 11:00am (ET) or 3:00pm to learn about how SYNC works and how this great audiobook…
We are excited to announce the return of our annual OverDrive Summer Read program, designed to encourage your students to keep reading all year long. This program aims to help prevent the Summer Slide by providing exciting titles for your students that are simultaneously available…
The Professional Book Nerds podcast recently celebrated its100th episode! For over a year, The Professional Book Nerds podcast has been introducing listeners to authors and offering book recommendations with new episodes coming out every Monday and Thursday. One of our favorite episodes is March Sadness,…
We hope you were able to join us live on February 23 for our special webcast, How to Talk to Your School Community About OverDrive, where our school experts shared key talking points, meaningful data, and innovative ways to engage your educators, parents, students, and…
By: Christina Samek, Marketing Specialist. Last month we told you all about OverDrive’s Shared Collections. We caught up with Independent School Library Director’s Association (ISLDA) and heard about why they chose OverDrive to be their digital content provider. We previewed how easy it is to…
By: Nikka Hronis, Account Specialist. Just one short year ago, we announced the launch of OverDrive’s K-5 QuickStart collection—a reading service developed to promote reading, encourage digital learning, and support literacy goals for grades K-5. This fall, we took things a step further and set…
The OverDrive Education team is traveling to 9 states (including 1 in Canada) on our K-12 Fall Tour! We enjoyed meeting many of you, our school partners, in person. We had over 250 teachers, librarians, curriculum coordinators, technology specialists, and others take part. They left with…
March is Women’s History Month. March 8th was International Women’s Day. If you spent any time on social media yesterday, you saw plenty of creative expressions in the ongoing struggle for gender equity. Here are a few of our favorites: ‘Fearless Girl’ fittingly fearless of crowds…