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Yes, You Have Ebooks: Options for K-12
- 1. You Have eBooks Yes, Options for K-12
- 2. Joan Upell School Library Coordinator South Dakota State Library Joan.upell@state.sd.us Julie Erickson Electronic Services Coordinator South Dakota State Library Julie.erickson@state.sd.us
- 3. Mapping the Route • Urban & Rural Legends • Statistics • State Library Eresources • SD Titles to Go • Free Options
- 4. Urban & Rural Legends • Every book is available in eBook form • I can interlibrary loan an eBook • Having e-readers means you have eBooks • You don’t need a library anymore because everything is available on the internet for free • Every eBook works on every device • The State Library offers every ebook I need • We aren’t 1 to 1 so we can’t do ebooks
- 5. In South Dakota…. 44%Schools that offer eBooks Schools that allow BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Citizens who have access to eBooks through their public libraries 81% http://library.sd.gov/SDSL/publications/DOC/RPT-DataDigestSchoolLib2014.pdf http://library.sd.gov/SDSL/publications/DOC/RPT-DataDigestPubLib2014.pdf 44% Schools that have access to State Library subscription Electronic Resources 100%
- 6. Kids & Families Reading Report, 5th edition, Scholastic, 2014
- 7. Kids & Families Reading Report, 5th edition, Scholastic, 2014
- 8. Kids & Families Reading Report, 5th edition, Scholastic, 2014
- 9. We need to do ebooks….
- 12. State Library resources with eBooks (6-12+)
- 13. State Library resources with eBooks (6-12+)
- 14. State Library resources with eBooks (K-5)
- 23. Questions?
- 25. South Dakota State Library Julie Erickson (julie.erickson@state.sd.us) Joan Upell (joan.upell@state.sd.us)
Editor's Notes
- TIE ebook session outline:* Statistics on Shift intro history of ereaders/ebooks via M. Sauer's slides for perspective consumer vs. public library vs. school library models (1 to 1 vs. multiple users) Logistics (here is what you have—what can you do?) SD Titles to Go and online resources (WB Advanced, ebooks on EBSCO, GVRL, Learning Express) examples of platforms in use at some SD schools: Follett Shelf, Overdrive, Scholastic Storia? other options - free, pay per use, streaming, special needs Q and A *Add to TIE Edmodo: create updated list of free sites, create Diigo list of background info links)
- *make an interactive quiz here* Not every book is available in eBook form Interlibrary loaning eBooks isn’t possible Having e-readers does not mean you have eBooks NOT every eBook works on every device
- Data from 2014 data digests, but continually growing…graphic has been edited! 4/13/15
- Although the focus of the data is kids reading for fun…some ebook data is worthy to note…
- Although the Scholastic study reports that 65% of kids prefer to read print books when reading for fun, we can’t ignore the other 35% who prefer ebooks, especially when reading for research….and reading related to Smarter Balanced…
- All of the resources shown here are not found if you just google it….they are subscription only…Your school library may also subscribe to additional titles… I is Investigate in WISE, not a start line, ciruclar process, go back and forth…
- Topics you are working on right now?
- going to find best selling fiction here but….go live into each resource and look at examples WB Advanced--classics LEX GVRL Ebooks on Ebsco
- going to find best selling fiction here but….go live into each resource and look at examples GVRL – selected full text encyclopedias—Titles like: Encyclopedia of World Biography, American Decades SAGE—selected ebooks 75 titles like “Encyclopedia of Politics of the American West" and "Leading Every Day”
- SIRS Discoverer Nonfiction ebooks over 500 full-text titles DK, Scholastic, My Science Library & More Tumblebook Library provides read aloud story books, chapter books, nonfiction videos from National Geographic, puzzles and games to support the titles.
- SD Titles to Go (Overdrive) – check with your local public library….Teens & Kids Collections – ebooks and audiobooks – one to one, plus classic titles Always Available When on the main SD Titles To Go homepage, select ‘member libraries”
- Updated 4/13/15
- Students must qualify for theses services: Braille and Talking Book (National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped - BARD, Braille and Audio Reading Download, is a password-protected web site that enables eligible readers to download any of the thousands of titles recorded by National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) for its readership. BARD materials are now available from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch through the for iOS devices. More info on the State Library webpage… Bookshare.org (US Dept of Education) Thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), Bookshare is free for all qualified U.S. students. How can you read Bookshare books? Listen to books with high quality text-to-speech voices Hear and see highlighted words on screen Read with digital braille or enlarged fonts Create physical braille or large print Read directly from your Internet browser
- Primary Sources: LOC's Student Discovery Sets are iBooks arranged around six themes. Those themes are The Constitution, The Dust Bowl, Immigration, Symbols of the United States, The Harlem Renaissance, and Understanding the Cosmos. Each theme is contained within its own iBook. The LOC's Student Discovery iBooks incorporate tools for zooming-in on elements of primary sources and drawing on documents to highlight aspects of them. Teaching guides are available for each of the iBooks in the Student Discovery Sets. iPad/Mac go to iTunes Store and download for free
- Read online….
- Free online reading, reads aloud…for early literacy…Colorado Library Consortium, Douglas County Libraries and Unite for Literacy have partnered to provide access to more than 100 ebooks. These early literacy ebooks: are all original -- books carefully crafted to connect with young children and their families. have narrated audio support with an initial goal of supporting the 300 languages that are spoken in U.S. homes. offer photographs and illustrations to authentically depict a child's-eye view of the real world. are structured to reflect the most current research on the specific features that impact success for beginning readers of all ages. Unite for Literacy is a Colorado-based publisher funded by sponsorships to ensure free ebook content remains free.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of nearly 400 free art history books. Now the Getty Museum has put more than 250 art books online for anyone to read online and or download. You can find all of these books in the Getty Publications Virtual Library.
- Use for reference…many other free ebook sites pull from public domain materials on Project Gutenberg… More links on our resources page in Diigo… Google books— excerpts can be useful for reference or partial content. Chapters will pop up with the search term
- Everything we’ve touched on and more…slides and Diigo list are found on link from conference…
- Thanks!