1. September 2011
PCHS MEDIA CENTER
https://sites.google.com/site/ptanklibrary/
Monthly Statistics
Circulations by Grade
9 th Grade: 70
th
10 Grade: 241
11th Grade: 56
12th Grade: 53
What’s Coming Next
Month:
Classes Served and Other News
This month, we served over Please check out the Media Pathfinders have been very
 Tuesday Tech
60 classes in the Media Center’s new Website. This popular and helpful for many
Session on
Center. Some of the space will serve as a resource students. These documents,
October 18, 2011
collaborative lessons and information center for both uploaded on the Media Center
featuring
included: How to Use Google students and teachers. There Website, guide students in
Edmodo
Docs, Introductions to are changes being made daily, their research and inquiry by
 Content specific Pathfinders for various so check back often for directing them to reliable
resource links on subjects, How to Access and updates. If you encounter a sources of information. Some
the Media Center Use Online Databases, and security warning, allow the site of the featured sources
Website How to Use MLA Citation to display both secure and include subscription
Maker. non-secure items. databases provided by NC
 Hundreds of new WiseOwl, Sweet Search
books, including We have approximately 30 September’s Tech Tuesday
search engine, and MLA
Science and students a day using the session was a great success.
citation maker.
Technology, Social Media Center during lunches. We have 13 total participants.
Science, Art, This session focused on
New books are on their way!
History, Biography, information literacy, the
Over 200 new titles should
and Fiction research process, NCDPI’s
arrive in the Media Center by
selections new Information Skills and
mid-October. These books
Technology Essential
 Student Book range from Science and
Standards, and project based
Trailers using Technology to new fiction and
learning.
Movie Maker and graphic novels.
Animoto