[CASL-L] E-books for classroom

[Melissa Thom]

Good Morning,

We also use and LOVE Sora/Overdrive in the WHPS middle schools.

Another great company that I use primarily for non-fiction is ABDO
<https://abdobooks.com/>! They have a lot of great content and the option
to purchase mulit-user ebooks.  If you purchase a certain amount, you also
get a print copy of each title ordered.  The purchased titles can be shared
via Classroom and even downloaded as a PDF.  The rep that I work with is
amazing and very personable.  His name is Monte Kuehl and his email is:
mkuehl at abdobooks.com -- just tell him that I referred you and he will bend
over backwards to help!!!

For a limited time, Mackin and JLG are offering various titles as well for
free--most of them multi-user.  If you can't find this info, we have links
on our Online Learning Website
<https://sites.google.com/whps.org/ms-onlinelearning/e-books-and-audiobooks?authuser=0>
for our teachers.

And last but not least, have you looked at Hoopla??  It's part of the
public library and users need a library card to sign up.  But they have a
lot of great titles for both ebooks and audiobooks that I am always trying
to promote to my teachers because they can do book groups and class reads
utilizing this free resource!!!

Hope this helps!!
Melissa


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On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 9:21 AM <edunnack3492 at charter.net> wrote:

> Hi:
> One of my principals reached out to me today to ask if I would research
> online collections for schools so teachers can assign specific books for
> lit circles, classroom reports etc. Right now, we scramble to get together
> books from various sources to make a class set. Our schools were way behind
> in technology, but with recent events have taken big steps to correct that.
>
> Overdrive seems to be mentioned quite frequently; I would be interested in
> any experience you have with them. Even though we have Alexandria library
> software, I purchase books from Follett. In looking through the books they
> offer, I'm not sure they have enough multi-use copies of titles the
> teachers would be interested in.
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions here. Thanks!
>
> Eileen Dunnack
> Woodstock Public Schools
> Woodstock, CT
> dunnacke at woodstockschools.net
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