Awesome New Ways To Promote & Engage Your Readers With The eResources Within MackinVIA!

Picture your students looking around the library for a book and they see this sticker in the upper corner that tells them there is an eBook available within MackinVIA too.  

They can use the print and eBook in a variety of ways together but making that connection....

to the same eBook with MackinVIA is engaging and fun for our readers.  It is also super helpful for teachers and parents to know that too.  

When I started using MackinVIA to organize all of the eBooks, databases, and audio books within the library I did everything I could to spread the word within our school community about this new great place everyone could go to find the things they needed. 

We had a big kick-off day with all of our students, teachers and parents.  It was really fun to roll out this new platform. 

We created posters to engage our school community within MackinVIA and hung them around school, town, and shared them on our social media networks like Twitter and Facebook.

I also made smaller posters to send home with the students and lots of lots of business size cards for them to tape onto their laptops, put inside their bags and planners....

and even pull out of their wallet when needed.

We encouraged our students to download the MackinVIA app on their devices to have these resources available when they needed it at school, home, and anywhere they might be. 

You can read all about our MackinVIA rollout on this post, Something Exciting Has Come To Van Meter....MackinVIA and eBooks!  

As you can see MackinVIA and everything that comes with it can make such a difference, but it does take a little effort, time, and creativity. 

But I have something awesome to tell you! 

The amazing people at Mackin Educational Resources have given us a BIG surprise!  

They have created beautiful Promotional Materials that will make kicking off and using MackinVIA within your school community so fun and easy. 

On the Mackin website, there is a page just for MackinVIA resources including Promotional Materials.

Just look at everything you will be able to find....

Custom eBook Shelf Markers which can be customized just for your library;

eBook Shelf Markers which can include...

the words This title is available as an eBook or....

a space to write in your own information on the eBook shelf marker; 

 Here are two examples of how these shelf markers can be personalized for your collection...

Custom eBook stickers that are super easy to print on Avery Labels 22825 and...

can print 12 on one page;

I'm Also An eBook sticker that also print on the Avery labels...12 to a page;

Go Digital! Table Tents that print....

two on a page;

MackinVIA Backpack posters, one for young learners and...

our older learners too.

and beautiful MackinVIA bookmarks which allows you to write the UserID and Password for either your schools MackinVIA or the students MackinVIA Backpack.

There are so many ways to bring MackinVIA and all of the terrific eResources to your school community.  Mackin has just made it a little bit easier.

Don't Miss #aussieED on May 10.....We Will Be Discussing "New Libraries For Learning"

This summer I am going on a little adventure to Australia.  My first stop will be in Brisbane where I can't wait to meet so many dear friends finally in person.

My friend Brett, founder of #aussieED recently asked me to be part of one of their Sunday Twitter chats.  I was so excited!  It would be a wonderful way for me to get to know everyone even better before June.

This coming Sunday on May 10, I will be their special guest as we talk about New Libraries For Learning.

To prepare for #aussieED we are asking everyone to share a picture of your library too.  It will be fun to share and tell stories from our libraries.

I hope to see you all there.

Hey Grads! We Want To Hear What Graduation Means To You!

This is such an exciting year for many reasons..... summer is almost here, another school year is drawing to an end, we are making plans and for our older ones one chapter is closing as another opens in front of them.  

My friends at Flipgrid have created something very special for our graduates.   It is called the Flipgrid Graduation Voices 2015!   

By visiting this link, you can read all about the contest and find out how to add your voice to this wonderful project. 

There are two Graduation Voices 2015 Flipgrids. 

One Flipgrid for high school graduates and a Flipgrid for college graduates too. 

Flipgrid is celebrating graduation by collecting student voices throughout the United States.  They want you to share....

For me, graduation means....in the 90 second video that Flipgrid will capture.  

Not only is this a wonderful opportunity to let your voice be heard, students could also win one of two Apple Watches.  

How great would that be for this next adventure within your life! 

I am very honored to be part of the judging team for the Graduation Voices 2015 contest, along with my dear friends Andy Plemmons and Alex Couros.  We will select the top video in each category.

We hope you submit your voice today by visiting the Graduation Voices 2015 site and using your voice to tell us what graduation means to you.

You can read the rules of the contest here too.

Enjoy this time of year everyone.  It is special for all of us.