Hello WSDLC Members, and welcome to another Flipped Classroom installment. It’s November and that means it’s Advantage Month! Our friends at OverDrive have pulled together a set of resources to answer your questions about Advantage, like… …What do I do with an advantage account? …How do I find and buy content for my Advantage collection?Continue Reading WSDLC Flipped Classroom: November is Advantage Month!
This month, in our “flipped classroom,” we’re featuring MARC records. Here’s how you can participate: Review the flipped classroom content about MARC records It includes documentation on how to access and download MARC records, how to upload the records into your Follett catalog, and more. Make an appointment to talk with OverDrive staff one-on-one.Continue Reading Flipped Classroom: MARC Records
Member exchange webinars are a chance to get together (virtually), share your experience, and learn from other. Each one will feature a specific topic that will benefit WSDLC members. The topics and dates are: December 10, 3:30-4:15: How members are encouraging use by students January 14, 3:30-4:15: How members are encouraging use by staff FebruaryContinue Reading Save the dates! 2019/20 WSDLC member exchange webinars
As you are easing back into the school year, we’d like to welcome you back to the WSDLC and give you a recap of what’s happened with the WSDLC over the summer. Please note: If this message sounds familiar, we did send one very similar last month. We have a lot of exciting things happeningContinue Reading Back to School
Our Getting started month is winding down. October will be MARC records month! We’ll post training content on October 7th. Meanwhile, you can schedule a 20 minute one-on-one session with OverDrive to get all of your questions answered: October 16 between 9-12 October 21 between 1-4 Contact Connie Bowman (cbowman@rakuten.overdrive.com) to schedule a session. If neither dateContinue Reading MARC records month is coming soon!
Good morning — As part of our project management work for the WSDLC, we coordinate an annual process to bring suggestions for improvement to OverDrive. We discover these suggestions from your feedback. To start this process, we’re looking for your suggestions: what would you like to see improved in the OverDrive platform? We know it’sContinue Reading Looking for your suggestions for OverDrive
Good morning! This month is our Getting started month. To help you started with the WSDLC collection, OverDrive is scheduling 20 minute one-on-one sessions to answer all of your questions. They will be available on 9/19 from 1-4. Please schedule by noon on 9/16 if you’d like a set session. Otherwise, you can always askContinue Reading Set your one-on-one appointments with OverDrive for help getting started and with MARC records!
Good Morning and a warm welcome back to each of our WSDLC members. Flipped Classroom months is one of the components of the 2019/20 WSDLC training plan. During the Flipped Classroom month, materials are available for members to review and OverDrive staff are ready to schedule one-on-one 20-minute sessions to answer members’ questions. Information aboutContinue Reading September Flipped Classroom: Getting Started
WSDLC training plan by month There are six components to the WSDLC training plan: “Flipped classroom” months: Review a set of materials about the topic on your own. Schedule a 20-minute one-on-one session with OverDrive to get your questions answered. Starting in September with a “Getting started” month. Topical FAQs: From the questions members askContinue Reading WSDLC Training Schedule
We learned from OverDrive that Sora is now available in 9 languages in addition to English: • Simplified Chinese • Traditional Chinese • French • German • Italian • Japanese • Russian • Spanish • Swedish How can students update their language settings? Students using Sora in a web browser at soraapp.com can easily update Sora’s display language from the welcome screen or the new Language settings optionContinue Reading Sora available in additional languages!
