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EBOOK ACCESS Winterfield Elementary

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Page 1: Winterfield Elementary.  ebooks are digital copies of books that can be accessed from home via the internet  Our school has a small (but ever growing)

EBOOK ACCESSWinterfield Elementary

Page 2: Winterfield Elementary.  ebooks are digital copies of books that can be accessed from home via the internet  Our school has a small (but ever growing)

WHAT IS AN EBOOK? ebooks are digital copies of books that can be accessed from home via the

internet

Our school has a small (but ever growing) collection that can be accessed via Horizon

ebooks have features that allow for interaction such as bookmarking and searching

Page 3: Winterfield Elementary.  ebooks are digital copies of books that can be accessed from home via the internet  Our school has a small (but ever growing)

INTERNET SAFETY Children should be supervised at all

times while using the internet

Make sure that your child never gives out any personal information

Page 4: Winterfield Elementary.  ebooks are digital copies of books that can be accessed from home via the internet  Our school has a small (but ever growing)

FOLLETT SHELF Our school’s ebooks can be accessed via

our school’s web site

From the web site click on ‘Faculty and Staff’

Find Marci Gerrish (under support staff) and click on the icon that looks like the Earth

Open my wiki using Mozilla Firefox

Click on ‘Resources for Parents’ and Horizon

Page 5: Winterfield Elementary.  ebooks are digital copies of books that can be accessed from home via the internet  Our school has a small (but ever growing)

FOLLETT SHELF Once you are in Horizon click on ‘Follett

Shelf’

Logon to Follett Shelf by using the following logon informationYour child’s teacher’s last namePassword: BEARS

Page 6: Winterfield Elementary.  ebooks are digital copies of books that can be accessed from home via the internet  Our school has a small (but ever growing)

FOLLETT SHELF When you get into Follett shelf

Click on a book that you would like to read to open it

All books have unlimited access so you don’t need to check them out

The bottom buttons allow you to change the view

The buttons on the left include, table of contents, search, highlighting, and notes