Happy Tuesday! This week’s message contains just a few reminders for our members. From our Flipped Classroom training series, to User Login Manager cleanup, to a call for Tiny Case Study ideas, we hope you’ll each find something useful!
Flipped Classrooms: MARC Records is Going Strong. Advantage Accounts & Marketplace Begins November 1st
October 1st began our Flipped Classroom training series on MARC Records, and we’ve seen some great usage so far! The MARC Records flipped classroom lays out the types of MARC records available through OverDrive and the WSDLC, and details how these records can be managed and uploaded into the Destiny catalog.
On November 1st, the Advantage Accounts & Marketplace Flipped Classroom will begin. This flipped classroom introduces the Advantage program, and shows how users how they can use Marketplace to make the most with their Advantage accounts.
During our Flipped Classroom months, materials on various topics are available for members to review, and OverDrive staff is ready to schedule one-on-one 20-minute sessions to answer your questions. If you have any questions or comments on the flipped classroom content, please let us know; we’d love to hear what you’re thinking!
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Reminder: User Login Manager Cleanup
For our members that use User Login Manager, October gives a good opportunity to clean things up! Over the next few weeks, please go through 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 Amanda Lawman at aizuka-lawman@overdrive.com.
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Send Us Your Tiny Case Study Ideas!
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. We highlight these Tiny Case Studies during various Flipped Classroom months, but you can also view them all by clicking the following link or copy/pasting it into your browser: https://wsdlc.org/training/tiny-case-studies/.
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 bookclub, cleared a hurdle with getting students to team up for 2022’s Battle of the Books, 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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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/.
