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Thanks for attending! We hope you enjoyed the FETC Conference and learned more about the Sora student reading app. We've made our leadership roundtable presentation decks available in case you missed one or wanted to share them with your colleagues.
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Leadership Roundtables:
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Friday, January 26
Presenter: Margie Wells
Digital Learning & Library Media Program Specialist
Orange County Public Schools
Presenter: Allison Kibbey
Director of Instructional Technology & Library Media
Orange County Public Schools
How OCPS Brought Digital Reading to Their Large Urban District
If the 8th largest school district in the U.S. can do it, so can you! Join educators from Orange County Public Schools (FL) to learn how their diverse district – which includes 200+ schools and 170+ languages spoken – rolled out ebooks and audiobooks to the entire school community. You’ll hear from Director of Instructional Technology and Library Media Allison Kibbey about how this 1:1 district, which supplies over 188,667 devices to students, got started with a digital reading platform in February 2021. From there, Digital Learning & Library Media Program Specialist Margie Wells will take you through her keys to effective rollout and implementation of digital books, from using curation tools creatively to spark reading engagement, to cost-effectively managing your collection, to promoting your ebooks and audiobooks so that they’re always on your students’ minds. Plus, you’ll discover how digital books make reading more accessible to students, with unique features and formats to draw in even struggling and reluctant readers. The end result? Over 120% checkout growth over the last two years!Download PDF
Presenter: Gretchen Zaitzeff
District Library Media Specialist
Canyons School District (UT)
Presenter: Jody Brookshire
Account Executive
Sora by OverDrive
Keys to Elevating Readers with eBooks and Audiobooks
Join me for a deep dive into best practices for using eBooks and audiobooks to teach and engage all readers, including emerging. struggling, advanced and multilingual students. You’ll learn how to draw and share data with administrators to support students and teachers, plus how to promote, use, and share digital books like a pro. Last (but not least!) you’ll also discover how to connect students to the public library to gain even more access to books. This presentation will be of interest to K-12 librarians, education technology leaders, and school and district leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.Download PDF
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