Happy Halloween, WSDLC Members! 🎃 This week’s message is a light one, with reminders on Flipped Classrooms, Tiny Case Studies, and for those members that utilize User Login Manager, it’s cleanup time. We’re also sharing out information on WEMTA’s next webinar in their Professional Development series.
Enjoy your week!
Flipped Classrooms: Final Day for MARC Records; Advantage Begins Tomorrow
What is a WSDLC Flipped Classroom?
The WSDLC offers a self-paced training series to help new members get oriented (and as a refresher for returning members) with their membership and the Sora collections. Every month, a different topic and set of materials are highlighted to help guide members throughout the school year. The content of these Flipped Classrooms is intended for Library Media Specialists and anyone else that may help to manage school/district library resources, OverDrive Advantage purchasing, and digital classroom materials. Materials are available for members to review independently, and OverDrive staff are ready to schedule one-on-one 20-minute sessions to answer members’ questions.
This month’s theme is MARC Records!
The MARC Records flipped classroom may be short but it is packed with helpful information for members. This lesson introduces members to the kinds of MARC records available through OverDrive and the WSDLC, and details how these records can be managed and uploaded into the Destiny catalog.
Want to get ahead? November’s theme is Advantage Accounts & Marketplace! This flipped classroom introduces the Advantage program and shows how users how they can use Marketplace to make the most of their Advantage accounts. Learn about Lending Models, adjusting the Content Access Level for your Advantage titles, make the most out of Class Sets, and so much more!
You can find more information on WSDLC Training opportunities and materials here: https://wsdlc.org/training/
Find the full calendar of self-paced training topics here: https://wsdlc.org/training/wsdlc-training-schedule/
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Tiny Case Studies: Kindles in the Classroom
The WSDLC Training Series isn’t limited to only the Flipped Classrooms. Some months we also take an opportunity to share Tiny Case Studies that have been submitted from WSDLC Members! WSDLC’s Tiny Case Studies are brief, practical summaries of outstanding things that some WSDLC members are doing that involve Sora and serve as an opportunity for members to share a WSDLC-related problem they had and how they solved it.
During October, we’re highlighting the Tiny Case Study Kindles in the Classroom, submitted by one of the WSDLC’s Board Members, Beth Hennes!
Description: “When offered an eBook, my library users will often scoff and tell me that they “just prefer to hold the book” (which is pretty common and not unique across users). Yet when offered an e-reader, sometimes they warm up to eBooks because the experience is more like a page and less like a screen. However, many e-readers are designed for personal ownership, not just an app you can sign into, which makes them hard to use in a school setting with OverDrive.”
If you’ve done something lately that you’d like to share with the WSDLC Community, let us know! Maybe you’ve put together some creative marketing, started a student reading book club, engaged your school’s teachers on how they can utilize these resources in their classroom, or made a successful case for funding. No idea or accomplishment is too small! You can submit your tiny case study idea by email at wsdlc-info@wils.org or complete the idea form, and we will reach out to you with the next steps!
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Reminder: User Login Manager Cleanup
For our members that use User Login Manager, October is the unofficial User Login Manager cleanup month!
Over the next few weeks, please go log in to your User Login Manager account and make sure to add credentials for new students and remove those students who have left your school or district.
For more information on how to do this, please reach out to the OverDrive team at wsdlc@overdrive.com.
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In the Community: WEMTA Professional Development Webinar Budgeting Strategies & the Common School Fund
On Thursday, November 9th at 6:30pm, DPI’s Monica Treptow will be hosting a discussion on Budgeting Strategies & the Common School Fund! A panel of Library Media Specialists from Wisconsin schools will join Monica in this discussion.
Click here to learn more and to register.
The cost for this webinar is $15 for WEMTA non-members; free for WEMTA members.
Not a WEMTA member? Find out how to join here.
Find out more about WEMTA’s Professional Development series here.
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The WSDLC project managers and the team at OverDrive are always available if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions.
Not sure who to contact? Check out this handy guide on the WSDLC website: https://wsdlc.org/who-to-contact-with-questions/.
