[ISLMA-Share] myOn ebook program

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An administrator asked my opinion of it  a few years ago. I thought then
that reading selections were limited to just a few publishers and, as you
noted, skewed young. Have you considered Epic! ? Their selection of titles
is very good and classroom accounts are free to teachers.  Our students who
use it, like it.

On Mar 5, 2018 16:46, "Email list for the Illinois School Library Media
Association" <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> We have it in our k-8 district.
> I think the elementary teachers are okay with it.
> No one at the middle school uses it.
> We find it to look very young and even though they boast materials through
> high school, we find those are severly lacking.
> We also do not like the quizzes that students have to take.
> They say we can bypass them, but there are some that can't be bypassed.
> It is so they can measure the lexile, which is a whole other conversation!
>
> Instead, we use the free version of Newsela and database articles for
> non-fiction text.
>
>
> Mariela Siegert
> Adjunct Faculty, SOIS at Dominican University
> School Librarian
> ​,
> Westfield Middle School
> ​ in Bloomingdale, IL​
> marris116 at gmail.com
> @marris116
> Instagram:  msiegert_WFMS_Library
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Do any of you have experience with the myOn ebook program at any grade
>> level?  My principal asked me about it, and I'm interested in opinions of
>> those who have used it, rather than just relying on what I see on the
>> company's website.  Thanks in advance for any information you can share.
>>
>> Brooke Fleuette
>> Mercer County High School
>>
>> Currently reading: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela
>> Duckworth
>> Currently listening to: Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton
>>
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