PHS Media Center
PLAINFIELD HIGH SCHOOL MEDIA CENTER NEWSLETTER
December 2015
Teachers: What services can the media center offer you?
As a certified teacher, Lael DuBois can:
- Compile information from websites, research databases, and e-books for your class assignments
- Instruction on Office 365 for students or teachers
- Talk about books with your students
- Develop collaborative units with teachers to integrate technology into lessons
- Co-Teach a lesson/unit
- Assist with research
- Teach web programs and tools to you or your students
- Order videos, books or other materials
- Design tutorials and lessons
- Professional Development
- Help in any other way
Sending Students to Media Center (also includes tech help)
- Write each student a pass to the media center (use yellow pass).
- Student will then sign in at the media center circulation desk.
- Student will checkout books, print, meet with tech expert students, etc.
- When finished, student will sign out at the media center circulation desk and get his/her pass stamped with date and time.
*Please let Michael Menser and/or Lael DuBois know if there are any issues.
Scheduling
12 Days of Christmas - Adult Books List
For the Twelve Books of Christmas, a Good Friend Gave to Me…
12. Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral by Mary Doria Russell
11. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
10. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9. Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta
8. Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
7. The Martian by Andy Weir
6. The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
5. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
4. The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey
3. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
AND
1. One Second After by William R. Forstchen
Shared by Leslie Preddy, AASL President and Perry Meridian Middle School Librarian
2016 Read Alouds Too-Good-To-Miss
2016 Read Alouds Too-Good-To-Miss - Primary, Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School and Ageless Lists
*Taken from ILF website - Read Aloud Books
Online Resources for Teaching/Learning
2015 AASL Best Websites for Teaching & Learning
Media Sharing
TouchCast - Make a video interactive with web links, documents, pictures and more.
Tackk - Create assignments, presentations, blogs, discussions and more.
Pear Deck - Design your own questions using a slide presentation.
Apps Bar - Build your own free mobile apps.
Soundtrap - Place for students and educators to create music online
Digital Storytelling
Storyboard That - Make stories by using templates with scenes, characters and more.
My Storybook - Create own stories by building a storybook.
Booktrack Classroom - Read books with a movie-style soundtrack. Can even make your own.
Manage & Organize
Beyond Pad - Organize and keep track of notes (white board/digital post it notes).
Google Classroom - Create a paperless classroom.
FlipQuiz - Game show style board for test prep, quizzes and more.
Social Networking & Communications
Bookopolis - Social network and book discovery tool for small children.
Answerables - "Gamify" lessons using a multiplayer game.
DIY - Kids can complete challenges (learn & share new skills) and post projects online.
BeenPod - Organize a collection of webpages that you can comment on.
IFTTT - If This, Then That... Connect two or more apps, websites or products.
Curriculum Collaboration
Gooru - Online resources and lesson plans in science, math, social studies and language arts.
Molecular Workbench - Provides visual & interactive experiments for science.
Knowmia - Short video lessons from teachers around the globe.
Hstry - Multimedia timeline creation tool.
Engineering is Elementary - Engage children with real-world engineering designs.
Content Resources
What Was There - Adds history to a place on Google Maps.
Code - Learn how to code.
BioDigital Human - Interactive 3D to examine the human body.
PhET - Collection of science and math interactive computer simulations.
PHS eBooks
Students and teachers can access ebooks through the PHS library catalog.
Computer/Laptop E-reading Instructions:
Online
- Go to https://pcsc.follettdestiny.com/
- Click on Plainfield High School
- Student Login with your username (same login as tablet) and password (student ID #). Teacher login is with your username and password.
- Click on Follett Shelf
- To check out a book, click on the "i" in the bottom corner and click check out
- Click on Open Book to read
Books are returned automatically after 3 weeks.
Smartphone / iPad / Tablet E-reading Instructions
Download the App
- Download the Follett BryteWave K-12 App from the App Store or from Google Play
- Launch the App and login with your username (same login as tablet) and your password (student ID #). Teacher login is with your username and password.
- Enter Plainfield High School as your school - make sure it is the Indiana one!
- Click Stay Logged In if you are on a private device and click Log In
- Tap the Follett Shelf icon and search for the eBook you want to read
- To check out a book, clock on the "i" in the bottom corner and click check out
- Click on Open Book to read
Books are returned automatically after 3 weeks.
Gale Research Databases - Did You Know?
Coming soon to the PHS Media Center - Makerspaces
Class Visits
PHS Media Center on Social Media
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Goodreads: Lael DuBois
Media Center Newsletter Archives
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November 2015: https://www.smore.com/p9f58
Lael DuBois
Email: ldubois@plainfield.k12.in.us
Website: http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/Page/4390
Phone: 3178397711
Facebook: facebook.com/phsmediacenter
Twitter: @plainfieldmc