Utah's Online School Library

Past Webinars

SORA Basics for New Users Webinar
Thursday, September 24, 2024

Join this session to learn how to access ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more using Sora, OverDrive’s student reading app. This session will cover things like how to personalize learning to accommodate students with learning differences, how to filter resources to find the right book for you or your student, how to annotate and export your notes, and more.

Mastering Vehicle Repair and Maintenance: Exploring Gale Chilton Library
Thursday, September 11, 2024

Unlock the power of Gale ChiltonLibrary, the authoritative vehicle database trusted by automotive enthusiasts and professionals for over 100 years, now available through Utah's Online School Library. Join our training session to gain access to comprehensive repair, maintenance, and service information. Discover the ASE certification practice test and detailed automobile content that is perfect for Automotive Technology programs in Utah's high schools. Learn how to effectively utilize ChiltonLibrary to enhance instruction, support hands-on learning, and prepare students for careers in the automotive industry. Join this session to learn how students can master vehicle repair and maintenance with Gale ChiltonLibrary.

Periodical Power: New Gale OneFile Resources from Utah's Online School Library
Thursday, September 6, 2024

Join us for an informative training session on the new Gale periodical resources available from Utah's Online School Library. Discover advanced searching and browsing techniques to navigate the vast periodical content. Explore the unique features within the Gale OneFile product family, designed to support research and enhance learning outcomes. Gain insights into best practices for implementing these resources in the secondary classroom. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your instruction and provide students with access to high-quality, up-to-date periodical content.

Creating Interactive Displays with TeachingBooks
Thursday, September 5, 2024

Discover how TeachingBooks resources bring your learning spaces to life. Listen to authors who motivate readers, build background knowledge and support comprehension. Use TeachingBooks resources when actively previewing titles and engaging readers with QR codes in displays and activity centers.

Supporting Early Literacy with TeachingBooks
Thursday, September 4, 2024

Discover exceptional texts to support and supplement early literacy instruction. While underscoring phonics, phonological awareness, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension, you can now use TeachingBooks to identify popular picture books by more than a dozen phonics and phonetical awareness classifications (vowel and consonant sounds, alliteration, rhyming, and more). Additionally, you’ll have worksheets for each book to extend reading instruction in the library, home, or classroom.

Enhance Instruction with TeachingBooks Resources - Secondary Focus
Thursday, September 3, 2024

Discover TeachingBooks tools that can enhance and deepen your already strong instructional practices. Explore resources that expand the experience readers have with books, including videos and audio recordings with authors, lessons, book trailers, vocabulary lists, and more.

Empowering Business Education with Gale’s Business Collections from UOSL
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Discover the power of the new Gale Business collection available from Utah's Online School Library. This training session caters to secondary librarians and educators teaching business classes, aspiring entrepreneurs, marketing instructors, and those guiding students in financial literacy instruction as related to exploring company investment opportunities. Dive into the resources, including Gale Business: Entrepreneurship, Gale Business: Insights, and Gale OneFile: Business. Learn where to find business plans, access company profiles, and stay up to date with industry news. Gain insights into where to find valuable resources for business education and empower your students for success.

Supporting Literacy with TeachingBooks – Elementary Focus
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Discover TeachingBooks tools that can enhance and deepen your already strong instructional practices. Explore time-saving teaching tools, including video and audio recordings with authors, lessons, book trailers, vocabulary lists, and more. Uncover a collection of quality trade books that support and supplement phonological awareness instruction.

Introducing TeachingBooks PK-12 Overview
Monday, August 26, 2024

Explore time-saving teaching tool, including video and audio recordings with authors, lessons, book trailers, vocabulary lists, and more. Discover ways TeachingBooks resources can deepen connections to books while engaging readers, supporting families, and facilitating collaboration with colleagues.

Sora in the Classroom
Friday, August 23, 2024

Join this session to learn how to use digital resources in Sora for classroom learning. This session will cover strategies to get every student to the right resource using direct links, ways to help students engage with digital texts using the latest research on reading comprehension and engagement when using digital resources, ready-made resources you can implement in your classroom that incorporate resources available in Sora, ideas for using Sora to support various subject areas including language learning, science, social studies, history and ELA (and others), and more.

Global Newsstream Webinar
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Global Newsstream provides access to the most influential and respected contemporary news resources from around the globe. This comprehensive news collection provides access to current, full-text news sources, including newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites. With daily updates, researchers have access to hundreds of full-text newspapers on the ProQuest interface, with same-day publication access to over 250 titles.

 

SIRS Issues Researcher Webinar
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

SIRS Issues Researcher is a powerful tool that provides authoritative insight into the most-studied social issues. This service delivers the pros and cons of relevant, credible documents and graphics curated from over 2,000 global sources by our trained editors. This tool allows learners to enhance their research and stay up to date on the latest social issues.

 

SIRS Discoverer Webinar
Monday, August 12, 2024

SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database for upper elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators. The service spans various curriculum areas, such as reading, language arts, current events, science, social studies, history, health, and technology. SIRS Discoverer provides age-appropriate, authoritative, curriculum-aligned content and features for Elementary and Middle/Intermediate Schools.

 

World Book Online: Multiple Language Learners Webinar
Friday, August 2, 2024

Learn how to use World Book Online features to support Multi-Language Learners. We will look at our 3 foreign language resources, Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos, Banco de Contenidos aulaPlaneta, and L’Encyclopédie Découverte, as well as features within our core products such as read-aloud functions, translations, different reading levels, and more! World Book Training and Support

 

World Book Online: Secondary Webinar
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Join us for an overview of your World Book Online resources. With a specific focus on High School resources, Student and Advanced, you will walk away knowing the best time-saving tools for research, accommodation, teacher-planning tools, and where to find more information on all features. We will also take a brief look at eBooks, Timelines, and Discover and how they can be used in the secondary classroom. World Book Training and Support

 

World Book Online: Elementary Webinar
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Join us for an overview of your World Book Online resources for elementary school. We will focus on Early Learning and Kids, and we will also take a look at some additional features within the other resources. With read-aloud functions, translation into over 100 languages, different reading levels, and educational games there are tools to help every student access content at their given level! World Book Training and Support

 

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