Join OverDrive Education and Sora at FETC 2021!
Join OverDrive Education and the Sora student reading app at FETC 2021, held Jan. 26-29. This year’s all-virtual event is free to attendees – educators can sign up here. Interested in connecting with Team OverDrive? You can visit our booth and/or check out one of…
Hachette Book Group partners with OverDrive Education to donate anti-racist digital book sets to schools
By: Alecia Mouhanna, Marketing & Communications Specialist Hachette Book Group, in partnership with OverDrive Education and its Sora student reading app, has launched a program to provide school libraries across the U.S. and Canada with free sets of ebooks and audiobooks that provide resources for…
New year, more learning: Expanded access to OverDrive training in 2021
By: Gabby Cregan, Training Specialist Ensuring that your school community knows about the Sora reading app and its features – and that your staff can navigate OverDrive Marketplace – are important steps in building and promoting digital access at your school. That’s why your OverDrive…
Sora Spotlight: Library Media Specialists Rain Smith and Stacey Kern
By: Kristen Griesmer, Product Support Specialist In this recurring series, we’ll feature a different librarian, media specialist or educator who’s become a Sora champion at their school, impressing us with their innovative methods for implementing the reading app and engaging with their students. We’ve asked…
School Stars returns Feb. 1! Are you ready?
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist Although it seemed like it would go on and on into forever, 2020 is finally coming to an end. Like almost everyone, I am ready for it to be over and am feeling hopeful for what 2021 may bring. This…
Learn best practices for OverDrive Marketplace with our new training kit
By: Gabby Cregan, Training Specialist At this hectic time of year, learn new skills when and how it’s convenient for you: all at once, or bit by bit. While we’ve always offered webinars and short how-to videos on popular topics, this year we introduced e-learning…
OverDrive Education announces top K-12 ebook & audiobook downloads for 2020
In 2020, a worldwide shift to partial or fully remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic meant that K-12 students accessed more digital books than ever through the Sora student reading app. OverDrive Education data from 38,000 schools in 71 countries shows that tens of…
Resources for reluctant readers
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist Because I work in marketing in the education space, I’ve long believed teen readers to be our most elusive audience. I have to attempt to appeal to their tastes without being too on-the-nose. On top of that, our materials should…
Live webinar: The books & products that kept Team OverDrive going in 2020
By: Meghan Volchko, Public Library Collection Development Manager It is hard to believe that we are staring down the end of what has been, according to my expert opinion, the longest year ever, but here we are in December. Instead of my writing this from our…
Holiday marketing—One of our favorite things!
By: Christina Samek, Outreach Specialist (To the tune of My Favorite Things) Ebooks and audiobooks you might be missin’ They are in Sora, an app I must mention Achievements and features, it’s more than one thing It’s reading, it’s magic, it’s making me sing! Promotions…