Hello Tuesday! We have another set of short-but-sweet topics to share out to you all this week.
New Titles Added in December
Last month a total of 397 completely new titles were added in to the shared collection! And in just the three short weeks since these have become available, a few titles have already well-exceeded 100 checkouts, with one title (Brightest Night: Wings of Fire Graphic Novel Series, Book 5) seeing a whopping 296 checkouts already!
Click here to download a .xlsx file of the list of each of these newly purchased titles, along with their format and the content access level(s) they belong to.
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Flipped Classrooms: Two More Weeks for Usage Statistics, Up Next is Managing Holds
This month we’ll be taking a look at Usage Statistics by utilizing Marketplace Insights. Insights is the area of your Marketplace account where you can run a variety of reports including, but certainly not limited to, the titles and formats that are getting checked out, what’s being purchased, how many holds are on titles, and how your students are interacting with Sora. You will also see how you can break down these reports to view usage at the consortium level, by only your school (Branch), or at the Advantage level.
Get started on Flipped Classroom: Usage Statistics today!
But wait, there’s more! This month’s training opportunity also comes with a Tiny Case Study! In January 2020, we heard from Jennifer Peterson at Menasha School District on some best practices and preparation for how to get students using your eBook collection:
Getting Buy-in from Key Stakeholders (January 2020)–Jennifer Peterson, Menasha Joint School District
Description: You finally have ebooks, but now how do you get people to start using them? Who should you start with? How do you spread the word and garner interest?
Want to get a head start on the next Flipped Classroom? February’s topic is freshly created, and focuses on managing holds, how to make the most of your Advantage purchases, and a look at some of the features and programs OverDrive and the WSDLC employ to get the books your students want in to their hands sooner. There is also an excellent marketing resource created by one of our members!Click this link to check out February’s Flipped Classroom: Managing Holds
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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/.
