PHS Media Minute
Plainfield High School Media Center Newsletter
March 2014
PHS Media Center Information
Lunch: Students with a pass can visit the media center during lunch
Tutoring: After school until 3:30 p.m.
Books / Magazines: Circulate for 2 weeks
Research Databases: Use at school and at home
MC Library Card Catalog: http://library.plainfield.k12.in.us/
MC Website: http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/index.php/phs-mediacenter.html
Reading Club: Join on My Big Campus - http://mybigcampus.com
Plainfield / Avon Reading Challenge
Reading Challenge Rules:
1. Read a book, magazine, or newspaper - one that isn't for a class assignment.
2. Talk with any staff member about what you read. Bring the book or article with you.
3. The staff member will report the number of pages that you read and it will be added to the school total.
*Non-fiction will be counted as double the pages.
Please return all reading challenge forms to the media center or Lael DuBois's mailbox.
Read Across America Day - March 3, 2014
Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library
Online Resources:
- Evergreen Catalog - search the online library catalog
- Overdrive - download books and audiobooks right to your digital device
- Hooopla - borrow free videos, music and audiobooks
- Freegal - download songs and music videos
- A to Z Databases - online reference information
- Mángo - learn a new language online
- Zinio - online magazine collection
*The public library also has drop in technology classes every other Monday from 4-6 p.m.
NBC Learn - Online Digital Resources
There are over 12,000 online resources:
- NBC Current Events collection and historic videos
- News broadcasts and interviews
- Hundreds of primary source documents
- Images, charts, graphics, cartoons and more
- K-12 safe and appropriate
- Mapped to curriculum and correlated to Indiana and Common Core Standards
How to access NBC Learn:
- Access NBC Learn through the Indiana portal - http://indiana.nbclearn.com/
- Choose NBC Learn K-12 or NBC Learn K-12 on My Big Campus
- Then click on register in the top right hand corner
*Information taken from http://indiana.nbclearn.com/
Indiana History Online
*Taken from the Indiana History Online website.
Blendspace
Apps for Smart Phones & Tablets
OWA - Outlook Web App
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/owa-for-iphone/id659503543?mt=8
Destiny Quest - Online Library Catalog
Search the Plainfield High School online library catalog.
Access My Library - Gale Databases / eBooks
Access the Gale online databases through the smart app. Choose Indiana, then 2nd Plainfield High School, password is "stafford," click on Access Library, then click on Gale Databases or Gale eBooks.
SkyDrive becomes OneDrive
2014 Summer of eLearning
Top 10 Student Checkouts for February 2014
PHS MC Statistics - February 2014
- 139 classes attended out of 133 class periods = 100% scheduled (multiple classes per period)
- 1344 students from study hall and sent from classes
- 3987 students in scheduled classes
- 5331 total students for February
- Estimated: 281 students per day
- Estimated: 40 students per class period
- 505 student book/material checkouts (19 teacher book/material checkouts)
Lael DuBois
Email: ldubois@plainfield.k12.in.us
Website: http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/index.php/phs-mediacenter.html
Location: 1 Red Pride Drive
Phone: 317-839-7711
Facebook: facebook.com/phsmediacenter
Twitter: @plainfieldmc