OverDrive Education Presentations at ISTE
Visit OverDrive Education's partner presentations during ISTE! You'll learn all about Sora, OverDrive's student reading app, and see how others are implementing digital content to engage their students and staff. Each session also offers a chance to win a Samsung Galaxy Tablet, so don't miss out!
Discover Sora
Sora is OverDrive's K-12 reading app. With Sora, students and educators can access the best catalog of ebooks and audiobooks available to schools, including titles for curriculum reading, independent reading and professional development.
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Sunday, June 27 EST
Presenters: Keara Rubin
Cherokee County School District (GA)
2:30pm
Cherokee County School District’s Keara Rubin will share her success expanding student reading options by utilizing the Metered Access Concurrent User and Class Set lending models and the Sora app’s “Add a library” feature. She’ll also share how her district highlights student work by publishing it in their digital collection
Monday, June 28 EST
Presenter: Angela Daigle
Millard Public Schools (NE)
Introducing Sora with a 1:1 implementation & managing digital demand
Don’t miss Angela Daigle’s story of introducing the Sora student reading app as part of her district’s 1:1 implementation process. Angela will explore how she has leveraged librarian input and usage data to inform her digital collection development, and how the district is budgeting to meet increasing demand.
Tuesday, June 29 EST
Presenter: Melissa Jacobs
New York City Department of Education (NY)
12:30pm
Attendees will learn how the NYC School Library System responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by building a diverse and culturally reflective digital collection that filled barren book deserts, met the digital reading needs and interests of students and families, and innovatively connected with three NYC public library systems.
Presenter: Denise Hull
Aurora Public Schools (CO)
1:00pm
Denise Hull of the Aurora Public Schools (CO) will provide best practices for building equitable and inclusive collections through curation. Attendees will learn how to leverage curated collections to promote diversity, as remote learning and curriculum support tools, to encourage pleasure reading and facilitate special interests including professional development.
Presenter: Jeanette Whisenton
Jackson Public Schools (MS)
1:30pm
Keeping students reading during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge for educators. Hear how Jackson Public Schools (MS) Teacher Resource Center Coordinator/Lead Librarian Jeanette Whisenton has used the Sora reading app to successfully deliver reading resources to students during these unprecedented times.
Gaelyn Jenkins
Greenville County Schools (SC)
2:00pm
With the Sora student reading app’s Public Library CONNECT (PLC) feature, kids can access age-appropriate ebooks and audiobooks from the local public library in addition to their school’s digital collection. Discover how the Greenville County Schools (SC) are using PLC for summer reading, ESOL support and much more.
Nella Szilagyi
Leslie Poulos
Wethersfield Public Schools (CT)
2:30pm
Join Library Media Specialists Nella Szilagyi & Leslie Poulos of the Wethersfield Public Schools (CT) for an eye-opening exploration of how they’re maximizing access, diversity and inclusion through curation and promotion of their digital collection.
Presenter: Mary Keeling
Newport News Public Schools (VA)
2:30pm
Funding. Training. Monitoring use. Loading record into the ILS. Reporting. Newport News Public Schools (VA) Library Media Services Supervisor Mary Keeling will cover all this and more during an in-depth look at best practices for managing technical services work flows to support innovative learning environments in school libraries.
Presenter: Caroline Hughes
Ann Arbor Public Schools (MI)
2:30pm
Interested in promoting student voice and choice with Sora? Attendees will hear from Caroline Hughes, Media Specialist at Ann Arbor Public Schools, on ways to facilitate student engagement in collection development to increase free choice independent reading. In the last 6 months, hundreds of students across all grades have participated!
Presenter: Sam Garchik
Ottumwa Community School District (IA)
4:00pm
Hear the Ottumwa Community School District’s (IA) digital shift story from High School Librarian Sam Garchik, who will share how they successfully adopted digital class sets for high school and middle school and are now planning to use ebooks in additional courses this fall.
Presenter: Angie Jameson
Chagrin Falls Exempted Village Schools
4:30pm
Bathroom barcodes. Themed social media posts. Integration with the morning announcements. Chagrin Falls Exempted Village Schools (OH) Library Media Specialist Angie Jameson will explore all this and more as she shares the creative ways she’s promoting Sora to her students and boosting reading engagement.
Wednesday, June 30 EST
Joanna Dunn
Shelley
Lau
Dianne Pang
Hawaii Department of Education (HI)
1:30pm
What goes in to creating a successful statewide digital collection? Join Joanna Dunn, Shelley Lau and Dianne Pang of the Hawaii Department of Education to find out. They’ll cover the setup process, funding, how the digital collection’s incorporated into the library, promotion, the benefits of district-level collections and much more.