EdTech Buzzwords Breakfast: Differentiation, Blended and Flipped
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…
7 books to better understand the immigrant experience
(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…
Win free registration to Digipalooza 2017!
OverDrive is excited to announce a partnership with Penguin Random House to offer 10 scholarships for Digipalooza ‘17! The scholarship will cover the $199 registration fee to the 6th international user group conference August 2-4, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio. No matter what your job title,…
Best of International Women’s Day 2017
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…
You’ve launched a Shared Collection. Now What?
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…
OverDrive Education announces K-12 school spring tour dates
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…
K-5 Quickstart is a year old. Celebrate with free eBooks!
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…
Webcast: How to Talk to Your School Community About OverDrive
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…
Happy Engineers Week! Girl Day is February 23rd.
Girl Day is a worldwide campaign to introduce girls to the fascinating world of engineering. Thousands of people—engineers, teachers and others—act as Role Models and educate girls about how engineers change our world. This simple act has turned many girls on to engineering & technology careers….
Your OverDrive Resource Center
By: Christina Samek, Marketing Specialist. OverDrive’s Resource Center was created with our school partners in mind. We wanted it to be your one-stop-shop for all things OverDrive: the best of our marketing, collection development, training and product resources. We are coming up on the anniversary…
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