Duration: 30 Minutes
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Thank you everyone for joining. So today
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we have another Gale 101 session
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today, we're going to be taking a look at Gale In Context: Middle School
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My name
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is Amber Winters and I'm a senior training
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consultant here with Gale.
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So our agenda here today is pretty straightforward.
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First, we're just going to have a quick overview
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of the resource. So what we
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built it for, what we intend it
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to be used for things like that, we'll talk
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about some of the key content you're going to find
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as well as your user is going to find.
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Uh but we'll spend the majority of the time actually
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walking through the platform so we can really get a feel
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of the different workflows they're going to be experiencing.
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We'll take a look at topic pages, some
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of the great filters we have available,
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uh our document tools, all that great stuff
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we'll be able to explore today. And
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then at the very end of the session, we will have time
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for any questions that you have that I'm not able
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to answer as we move along today.
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And I have some wrap up contact information for
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you as well. So even though we'll have
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a bit of time at the end of the session for questions,
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don't feel like you need to hold on to them until the end.
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Go ahead and put them into the Q and A as
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you think of them and I'll try to hit them kind of as
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we move through today.
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So first, let's just get a brief background
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about what Gale In Context: Middle School
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is. So this is a resource that we
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have built specifically as you would expect
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for middle school aged learners. So
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learners in grades at six
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through eight are really the focus of this
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resource. And what's great is we've included
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content that really spans from developing
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learners to more advanced learners. So
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you will be able to hit up every learner you have
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in your classroom or if you have students
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coming into your public library, you'll be able
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to work with any type of student, whatever
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needs they may have.
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And this resource has a pretty substantial
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range of coverage. So it is fully cross
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curricular. Your users are going to
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find information um related to ela
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to social studies, current events,
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science, social and emotional
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learning. They'll also find things on media
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literacy and financial literacy.
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So it's a big wide resource
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that's going to kind of pull everything together
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for your learners.
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And in addition to the great content, we also
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have a nice host of
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tools available. So your users
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will be able to highlight and take notes as they're
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reading a piece of text. So they'll be able to kind of virtually
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talk to their text.
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We do have a translation feature
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in the resource. So your native
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Spanish speakers or any other language
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will be able to translate both what they're reading
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and the platform. So they'll easily
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be able to navigate through in whatever language
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they need. We also have the ability
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for articles to be read to students. So
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if you do have struggling readers, they can
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have the text read to them.
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We have different fonts and colors available
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to really make the database as accessible
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as it possibly can be premade
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citations. Google and Microsoft integrations.
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If your users want to save the information
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they found for later or if they want to share
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it out with their peers with the group
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members, whoever it may be, they'll be able to do
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that with our Google and Microsoft
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integrations. So they'll find all of those
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on the resource to
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help them really organize and have effective
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research.
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So let's take a quick look at some of the different
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content types users are going to find.
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So as you're directing students,
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if you're in a K 12 setting or uh you
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know, patrons, if you're in a public library, just
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consider some of these different content types
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and you may want to reference them as you're
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directing your students to where they need to be. So
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the first of course is going to be reference articles.
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That's kind of the main thing you think about when you think
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about a Gale In Context
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resource. So that's going to give both
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overviews as well as more detailed information
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about different topics. So you could think
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of these articles as you know, giving you the facts.
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So these are before we're getting into different opinions
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and we're getting into kind of the nuances
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of a topic. This is giving us
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our, our basis. This is giving us our base
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to continue our learning.
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Moving on from there, we also have a huge collection
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of both news and magazine articles
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and these are all current, many are
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loaded daily. Of course, it depends on how frequently
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a magazine is published, but
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many are loaded daily and they're going
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to find again great cross curricular
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information. So they'll have magazines
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in the science sphere and
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English and things like that. Many of them
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focus specifically for middle school
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age students
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and this is really going to give them a link to the Real
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world. So we can incorporate these into
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your curriculum that's already focused on
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providing your students with that information.
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But now we're getting it out into the real
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world. They're seeing how the information that you're
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teaching them is actually impacting
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what's going on around them.
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We also have a huge collection of multimedia
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content which I think is sometimes maybe not
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um at the forefront when you're thinking about
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Gale In Context: Middle School or other
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resources like this. But we've got
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a huge collection of videos, images
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and audio files, like podcasts that
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are really going to help your users who may struggle with
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text based learning. You know, they may prefer
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to get their information
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through video or just by looking at pictures
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and analyzing pictures, they're going to be
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able to do that in this resource as well. They'll have
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that back up to the text to make sure
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every type of learner is getting exactly
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what they need.
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We also have a pretty substantial
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collection of biographies both on
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historical and contemporary figures.
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So if you're trying to get to your students or
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your public library patrons,
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learning more about, excuse
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me, about people and how people
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interact with the world and how they impact the
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world. This is still going to be a great
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resource for that. You'll get
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both the historical individuals.
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But what I also love is we have a nice collection of
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like actors and musicians
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and sports figures. So, things
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that are really kind of at the forefront and a lot of times
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are really interesting for middle schoolers.
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they'll find that in this resource as well.
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So not just strictly the individuals
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that you would expect to study in the classroom. But
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also, you know,
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people that are kind of out there right now, public
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figures will be able to take a look at those individuals
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as well.
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And finally, another piece of content
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that I always want to mention are our primary
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sources. And these are really great because
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we have both text based primary
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sources. So things like letters and manuscripts
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and speeches, things like that. But we
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also have a nice collection
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of images as well. So if you want
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your users to maybe just
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analyze maybe a political cartoon
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or something like that, you'll see. I've got something similar
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to that here on my screen. You
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can have them analyze that as opposed
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to reading a piece of text. So again,
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a nice way to reach
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your users in more than one fashion
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and we do have primary sources related both
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to us and world history.
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So either class that you're working in,
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you'll be able to pull contents uh for those
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individuals.
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Now, I wanna go ahead and spend the rest of my time
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in this resource here. So we can see how to find
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all of this great content while I'm
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switching my screen over here,
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almost got signed out. Um I haven't seen any
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questions popping, but I do just want to pause. Does
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anyone have any questions just about the basics
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of Gale In Context: Middle School before we
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keep moving?
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OK. I don't see anything. But again, the Q
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and A is open, we're not using the chat. So
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you know, the chats disabled, but the Q and A is
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open for you.
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So let's go ahead and start taking a look then. So this
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is the home page here of Gale In Context: Middle School.
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And there are a few things I want to point out to you first.
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the first thing is going to be this topics
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of interest section.
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And generally speaking, this changes monthly,
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kind of depending on what's going on. So if there's
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a, you know, a big current event that takes place
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a lot of times that's going to be pulled up to
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the forefront here. But again, it changes
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monthly and your users can kind of scroll
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through and they may find something interesting that they
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did know they wanted to look at.
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And then underneath that,
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we pull forward these different topics
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here to help your students kind of point and click.
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So if you have users coming in who
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aren't quite ready to develop their own search
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terms just yet, you know, beginning researchers
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who struggle to, to type
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in what they're looking for, we've got this great
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point and click functionality that can help them
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with that so they can narrow down based on
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a subject here. So maybe it's
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we'll say us history
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and now they get pulled to this list and I know this list
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looks fairly long,
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but what this list is showing is all of the topic
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pages that we've created related to us.
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History and our topic pages
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are hand curated pages
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on the most studied and most
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utilized terms and topics
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within the resource. What we do is
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we pull everything together together, provide
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an overview of the topic and then
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organize all of the search results that
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they would normally see as a basic search
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onto one page into nice clean content
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buckets. So they can again point and click
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to find the information they need.
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We will be taking a look at one of those in just one
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second. But
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while they're browsing topics here, you'll see
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they have the option, they can actually switch
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out the different sections that
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they're taking a look at. So remember I
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clicked into us history maybe now
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I, I decided I want to take a look at literature
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or maybe people
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I can do that right here from this page. We
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also have a really nice new or updated
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flag
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and I really like this, especially for educators
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who might just be looking for maybe like a bite
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size bit of information.
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you know, maybe for, uh, even
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just a bell ringer, you know, you just want a little bit of
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info, you can see what's new and what's updated
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here. It might be something that you want to share out,
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with your students or with your users.
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But let's jump back to home here. What I'm going
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to do is I'm gonna start running a search because I want
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to show you we are trying to drive
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students to those topic pages because generally
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speaking, they're a little bit easier
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for them to sift through, you know, because they are organized
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more than just your standard basic search.
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So I'm going to search for the women's
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suffrage movement today. This is being
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recorded in March for anyone watching the recording.
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So that is Women's History Month. So we'll stick
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with that theme.
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And when I start typing in here, it's my basic
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search, which of course, a lot of students are going to do.
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You'll see when I have this predictive text
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drop down. The 1st 1234
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options here are bolded.
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So anytime you or your users see
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these bolded options in this predictive text
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drop down, that's actually going to launch
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them into a topic page instead of a basic
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search.
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So I always recommend when you're teaching your users
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how to use this resource point this
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out to them. A lot of times they're going to
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have a topic page for whatever topic they're
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learning about. Of course, if they don't, they'll
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run the basic search and they'll get their content that
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way. But if they have these topic pages
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available, they're going to be really helpful.
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So, again, let's take a look at women's
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suffrage movement here.
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Now, this lands beyond one of those topic
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pages. So again at the top, we're going
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to have a nice overview here. I can click
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my blue read more button to read the full
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overview
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underneath that.
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We're going to see this on this page
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section. So this is showing me
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all of the different content types that I
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have results for related to
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the women's suffrage movement. So you'll see
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our reference works. As I mentioned, we've got
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lots of biographies magazines.
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Our images are pulled out separately. Our
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primary sources are pulled out
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separately and labeled as primary
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sources, which I think is really powerful.
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I know it's, it's hard to teach students
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the difference between a primary and a secondary
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source. So the fact that we've labeled
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primary sources and kind of given them their
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own section is really beneficial
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because we can direct students right there. You know, they know
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they need to find
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a letter from whenever
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you know, they can click into those primary primary
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sources and they'll find those letters.
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So scrolling down from here,
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you're going to see the different content buckets.
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So we usually show the first three or so
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entries in these different content buckets.
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So our reference works here and you'll
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see we can scroll down, we'll start to see some pictures
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and some videos.
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And then on the very bottom of this page,
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we also have related topics so
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your users can keep moving the research forward
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again, even if they don't have a search term. So
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they learn a bit about the women's suffrage movement.
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maybe they want to kind of move forward to women's
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rights. You know, what are women still fighting for?
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What sort of rights are we still trying to,
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um, to ensure for ourselves?
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they can click right here and go into the women's rights
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topic page. So again, they're keeping
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this topic page format that's really
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guided. It's still going to let them explore
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on their own. Of course, they'll be able to click into any
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of these content types, but it's still
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guided in a way that we're making sure
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they're finding the content they actually need
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and not getting overwhelmed by content. That might
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not be exactly what they're looking for,
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especially again, for those beginner researchers
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who may be struggling to build effective
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search terms.
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So let's jump into one of these today. I'm just going
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to click into my references here. So you'll see,
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I've got 100 and nine results
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in my reference content bucket
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and I do want to show you a few of our great
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filters that we have listed
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here. So when I click into a content bucket,
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this is what a basic search would look like.
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So if your user, you know, is
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looking for something that doesn't have a topic page,
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this is what they would see as opposed
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to that topic page. So we've got these filters
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on the right hand side here that I always wanted to point
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out these are going to be really effective
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for users who are coming in with really broad
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search terms and you know, they're going to search and pull
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just a ginormous amount of content that
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may not be exactly what they're looking for.
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We've got some great ways to filter that content.
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I first like to point out the subjects option.
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So of course, this is first searching
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for women's suffrage movement, but we can get even
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more precise if we want
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to, we
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can al also narrow down to a document
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type here. So these are all going to be reference
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works. But maybe I want you
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know, some commentary or just a quick overview.
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Maybe I want something more detailed than I want
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the essay. I can narrow that down here
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to make sure I'm getting exactly what I want.
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You'll see, I have a few other things, publication title,
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The ability to narrow down based on lexile
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measure or content level. This
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is going to be good for you as an educator
[00:14:30.619]
on the line who's um if you're pulling for
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a specific student, you know what level they need,
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you can narrow that down using this lexile
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or this content measure here.
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You can also drop this down to search with N
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if you like
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and then you'll see, I have this option to check off
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this level documents tool
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here
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and these level documents I
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personally think are just absolutely great.
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I taught middle school before I came to gal and
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you know, I wish I had the option to use these
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level documents because what this is going to do
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is we've leveled the same document
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at two different levels. So if
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you need to differentiate for your class, you have
[00:15:07.469]
some struggling readers and you have some more advanced
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readers. we can take a look. I'm gonna
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click into level documents here.
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We can take a look at all of our documents
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that are leveled here. So I'm going to click
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into this women's suffrage movement
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and I will point out we have a flag under
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the title. You'll see right here where it says leveled.
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So if you're ever kind of wondering
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if a piece of text
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is leveled before you click into it, just take
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a look at that little flag.
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If it says leveled, then you do have the two
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levels. And when I click into this here,
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I can actually toggle back and forth between
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the levels. So you'll see on this upper left hand
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side here,
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I clicked into the lower level version,
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but I can toggle while on this page
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to the upper level version.
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And again, these are providing the same
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information. Just the lower level
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is going to have um simpler
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vocabulary. Generally, it's going to be a little
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bit shorter
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to make it a little bit easier for
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your struggling readers to connect with.
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So scrolling down here, excuse me,
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you'll see while we're on a document, we've got a few
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tools that are going to help your researchers as
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well. So the first one is going to be on
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this right hand side here, this explore panel,
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this again is going to help them move forward.
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So once they're done with this article, if
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they want to take a look at things that are kind of similar
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to this, you'll see we have a related subjects here
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and they can click into any one of these and move
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forward with that subject.
[00:16:33.359]
This is also giving them the article contents
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here as well. So if they want to kind of jump
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throughout the article, if it's a longer article,
[00:16:41.019]
they can jump to specific sections here. If they would
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like, you'll
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find a lot of these blue sidebars
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here as well. I know they're not on the side
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but they are called sidebars. Um
[00:16:52.200]
This one's got main ideas here. Some,
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you'll find critical thinking questions,
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some may have vocabulary
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These are great ways to kind of get your students
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brains thinking a little bit more.
[00:17:03.099]
What's great is if there are critical thinking
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questions, you know, that's something you can assign. Again,
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maybe as a bell ringer, maybe as a discussion.
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If you want to share it
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on your L MS or if you're using Google
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classroom, we're integrated with that as well
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using our
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Google classroom button right up top here.
[00:17:20.920]
So you can share out the document with those critical
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thinking questions and have them answer
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them before class or during class and
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then you can discuss afterwards. It's a really nice
[00:17:29.729]
way to kind of pull all of that forward.
[00:17:33.959]
You see at the bottom, there is a words to know here as
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well. So that vocabulary
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also at the very bottom of the page here,
[00:17:40.670]
you'll see. I have a source citation
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and everything in our res our resource
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is cited. So documents,
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images, videos, podcasts,
[00:17:50.890]
primary sources, everything's
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got a citation attached to it. This is a really
[00:17:55.368]
great way to get buy in from both
[00:17:57.469]
teachers and students because
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your students are going to have to build their own citations,
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which is a challenge. We all know
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they can copy and paste this into
[00:18:06.250]
their work cited into their project.
[00:18:08.439]
Wherever it needs to go, they can really easily do
[00:18:10.500]
that. They can also export it
[00:18:12.539]
directly into noodle tools or easy bib
[00:18:14.630]
or send over to their drives if they're using their
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drives. So nice clean way to
[00:18:18.759]
get that citation out.
[00:18:21.769]
That citation is also actually found up
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top here in my toolbar. This
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does the same thing we've just decided to conclude
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it at the top and the bottom of the page. So hopefully,
[00:18:30.680]
students don't miss it as they're working
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through.
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hm In addition to that
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citation tool. We have a lot of other tools that are
[00:18:39.088]
really going to help your students out.
[00:18:41.039]
So right next to citation, we have our send
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two options
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and that button is going to include Google
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and Onedrive. So if you're a Google School
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or a Microsoft School, this is going to function
[00:18:51.289]
perfectly for your users. they
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can click into these. If they're not signed in on
[00:18:55.539]
the browser, it's going to prompt them to sign in.
[00:18:57.979]
But once they hit the send to button this
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document or image or whatever they're on
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is going to go directly over to their
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drive and it will always be there for them
[00:19:07.029]
in a folder that's labeled Galen context
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middle school. So they can hold on to
[00:19:11.328]
this for if they need to maybe come back
[00:19:13.539]
later, maybe their lesson
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is done for the day or something like that. They'll
[00:19:17.680]
be able to come back. They can also use that to
[00:19:19.769]
share between group members. If they're working
[00:19:21.949]
on a group project or something like that,
[00:19:24.009]
they can also use it to share with the teachers, they'll
[00:19:26.140]
be able to send over to drives and
[00:19:28.160]
vice versa. Teachers can use it to send over to students
[00:19:30.529]
as well and we do include an email
[00:19:32.578]
option here as well. So if they'd prefer to email
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it to themselves or to others
[00:19:37.000]
that's found under the scent too as well,
[00:19:40.358]
right next to that, they can download this document
[00:19:42.640]
as a PDF. Um, they can
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technically download videos
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as PDF S as well, but all they're going to
[00:19:49.400]
get is, um, generally there's going
[00:19:51.519]
to be a transcript on the pages, what they're going to see,
[00:19:55.019]
they won't be able to download the video itself.
[00:19:57.578]
They can also print pages here
[00:19:59.719]
and then we have this get link tool
[00:20:02.439]
and I personally love this get link, especially
[00:20:04.588]
if you're going to be sharing content
[00:20:06.809]
with students. Maybe you found an article
[00:20:08.910]
that you want them to use in a project that's coming
[00:20:11.000]
up or maybe you've got a new lesson coming
[00:20:13.318]
up and you want them to read it to kind of be prepared.
[00:20:16.000]
This scale link is great because it's persistent.
[00:20:18.709]
You send it over to your students and they can click
[00:20:20.858]
into it at any point to read whatever
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piece of material that you sent them. So
[00:20:27.078]
they'll be able to click into it wherever they are. They
[00:20:29.299]
actually aren't required
[00:20:31.509]
to enter a password to click onto this link,
[00:20:33.989]
which I think is really handy.
[00:20:35.969]
Um If they decide to move forward in
[00:20:38.009]
their research though, you know that you sent over
[00:20:40.029]
an article about climate change and they
[00:20:42.140]
want to learn more once they try to click
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further into Gallen
[00:20:45.779]
Ks middle school, they'll be prompted to authenticate
[00:20:48.699]
however you authenticate. So for using a password
[00:20:51.140]
or something like that, they'll be required to enter
[00:20:53.299]
it at that time, but you can send them this
[00:20:55.309]
link and they can read it
[00:20:57.160]
on their phones at home, on
[00:20:59.348]
a tablet wherever they are, they'll easily
[00:21:01.439]
be able to access that. It's also great to
[00:21:03.549]
throw that in a syllabus or something
[00:21:05.719]
like that because it's persistent. So you don't
[00:21:07.809]
need to worry about it.
[00:21:09.309]
You know, accidentally breaking in, you're not noticing until
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you've handed out your syllabus for all of your students.
[00:21:13.650]
And then, you know, all 30 in your
[00:21:15.750]
class, tell you that the link isn't working. At the same
[00:21:17.828]
time, this get link is persistent
[00:21:20.029]
and available for you.
[00:21:22.608]
So in addition to those tools
[00:21:24.779]
to kind of get the content out of the resource,
[00:21:27.500]
we also have some great ways to make
[00:21:29.699]
the resource more accessible for your users.
[00:21:32.078]
So the first one is going to be our translate
[00:21:34.578]
button here.
[00:21:36.140]
When I hit this button, I'll be able to translate into
[00:21:38.299]
whatever language I need.
[00:21:40.059]
And it's going to translate that full article
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for me. I also have the option
[00:21:44.309]
to translate the interface which is actually
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going to translate all of my
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navigation buttons. So I'll do
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that quickly so we can see what that looks like. Let's
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click Spanish here.
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So clicking at, you'll see, you know, my search
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bar is in Spanish, my tools up here,
[00:22:00.390]
my explore panel here is in Spanish
[00:22:03.029]
and this actually follows me along. So
[00:22:05.338]
if you do have, you know Spanish speakers
[00:22:07.390]
coming in, who prefer to have their resource
[00:22:09.789]
in Spanish.
[00:22:10.838]
I always suggest have them translate the platform
[00:22:13.309]
into Spanish before they start their,
[00:22:15.318]
their learning
[00:22:16.618]
and then they'll just be able to go through and translate
[00:22:18.739]
the articles as they find them. It's
[00:22:20.838]
a nice way to make sure they know where
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they're clicking if they're having trouble, you know, reading
[00:22:25.019]
the buttons in English.
[00:22:28.219]
In addition to that, we have some different
[00:22:30.279]
font size options here to decrease
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or increase the f the
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font sizes. Excuse me.
[00:22:36.630]
Next to that, we have got some display options
[00:22:38.868]
here as well as I mentioned, we have some different colors
[00:22:41.670]
and some different font options to make
[00:22:43.769]
this as accessible as it needs
[00:22:45.779]
to be. So your users can really customize
[00:22:48.489]
how they're seeing this material. So whatever
[00:22:50.989]
way works best for them, we want to make sure they can do
[00:22:53.118]
that here so they can change this at any time
[00:22:55.400]
under those display settings.
[00:22:57.500]
I'm going to leave it on by default
[00:22:59.779]
though because that's actually what I prefer
[00:23:02.729]
right next to the display options. We have our listen
[00:23:04.979]
tool. It's gonna pause this time.
[00:23:07.469]
But when I hit that, you'll see it opens up this little
[00:23:09.549]
player and I'll be able to have this full article
[00:23:11.890]
read to me. You'll see, I can also download
[00:23:14.140]
the art or download the audio.
[00:23:16.410]
If I maybe want to listen to this later on,
[00:23:18.539]
I can do that.
[00:23:20.049]
And I've also got some settings with this little gear
[00:23:22.199]
here. You'll
[00:23:24.519]
see how I can change. the text
[00:23:26.759]
highlighting as my article is being read to me.
[00:23:28.858]
I can choose if I want words or
[00:23:30.969]
sentences to be highlighted. I can
[00:23:33.239]
change the speed. You know, if it's going a little bit too
[00:23:35.430]
fast for me, I can turn it down to slow.
[00:23:37.890]
It defaults to medium, but I can't turn it to slow
[00:23:39.969]
or I can speed it up here.
[00:23:44.118]
You see, we also have things like automatic scrolling
[00:23:46.410]
that's going to help them out as well.
[00:23:48.578]
So this is a nice way for users
[00:23:50.588]
to really get the most out of this resource
[00:23:52.650]
to really increase the accessibility
[00:23:55.130]
to make sure everyone could get this content.
[00:23:58.338]
We have a quick question here. Then I'm just going to read out
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part of our school is dual immersion. Spanish
[00:24:02.500]
English, usually guide students to search using
[00:24:05.098]
English subject terms and then translate.
[00:24:07.838]
Would you recommend this for Spanish classes,
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classes or another method?
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Um Yeah. So Ali I would
[00:24:16.358]
probably
[00:24:17.250]
recommend searching in English
[00:24:19.269]
because the majority of our content is going
[00:24:21.338]
to be in English. So I definitely recommend
[00:24:23.680]
searching in English to pull contents and
[00:24:26.108]
then translates that article
[00:24:28.449]
as far as native content in Spanish.
[00:24:30.939]
Ali. I'm going to verify that with my content
[00:24:33.255]
team. I believe we do have some Spanish
[00:24:35.515]
publications, but I don't want to quote
[00:24:37.634]
myself on that until I verify. So after
[00:24:40.203]
the session, I'll get with them and I'll forward
[00:24:42.354]
their information to you. So you'll have that,
[00:24:44.755]
that information. But I believe we do have
[00:24:46.924]
a few Native Spanish
[00:24:49.035]
publications in this resource.
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Ok. So we've got about five
[00:24:58.380]
minutes here.
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Um, I do want to show you one quick
[00:25:02.118]
topic. so I'm actually going
[00:25:04.199]
to go into my advanced search because I wanna show
[00:25:06.219]
you our topic finder, which is
[00:25:08.239]
another really fantastic
[00:25:10.719]
kind of research tool for your users.
[00:25:12.779]
So my advanced search is found up here next
[00:25:14.818]
to my basic search
[00:25:18.338]
and I am going to click here and into topic finder.
[00:25:23.358]
And now from here, I can search for
[00:25:25.420]
a specific topic. So if I'm coming into the
[00:25:27.459]
library again with a really broad search
[00:25:29.689]
term, that's maybe just pulling up too
[00:25:31.750]
much stuff like maybe I'm coming in searching for
[00:25:33.910]
environments and most likely your middle school
[00:25:36.108]
students are looking for you
[00:25:38.269]
know, the natural environment, the world around
[00:25:40.328]
us. But as you know, environment can mean a lot of things,
[00:25:43.949]
you know, it could mean work environment, it could mean school
[00:25:46.118]
environments.
[00:25:47.368]
So of course, running a search
[00:25:49.509]
for environment is most likely going to give them a lot
[00:25:51.660]
of things they don't necessarily want.
[00:25:54.439]
So when they run a search for environment
[00:25:56.449]
now, you'll see, I've got this nice little interactive
[00:25:58.838]
piece here.
[00:26:00.818]
So maybe I'm looking through and, oh yeah,
[00:26:02.848]
you know, I actually, I wanted to learn
[00:26:04.858]
a bit about climate change. I
[00:26:06.880]
can now click into this topic and you'll see it's pulling
[00:26:09.199]
me down a little bit further here. So maybe I wanna
[00:26:11.380]
learn about climate change and humans
[00:26:14.000]
and you see this is pulling me down even further
[00:26:16.390]
to a specific bit of content here.
[00:26:18.588]
You'll see I can change this anytime I want to
[00:26:21.068]
and it's really narrowed down my results
[00:26:23.088]
for me. So I'm not weeding through
[00:26:25.858]
a basic search for an environment that probably
[00:26:28.269]
would have pulled forward thousands, if not tens
[00:26:30.420]
of tens of thousands of results. I'm really
[00:26:32.519]
narrowing it down here for me to
[00:26:34.608]
make it easier just to point and click and find my content.
[00:26:37.469]
So this is almost like running an advanced
[00:26:39.868]
search without developing the search itself.
[00:26:42.549]
You know, it's almost running a search including
[00:26:45.098]
multiple terms
[00:26:46.578]
and I can reset this at any time if I
[00:26:48.598]
wanna go back and learn more. Maybe now I wanna
[00:26:50.739]
click into energy,
[00:26:52.818]
learn about energy. I can do that here as
[00:26:54.880]
well. So again, nice clean way
[00:26:57.150]
to find content for your users who
[00:26:59.299]
may not be the best
[00:27:01.439]
just yet at searching through the resource
[00:27:03.818]
on their own. I've actually heard
[00:27:05.920]
um of a lot of teachers actually having
[00:27:07.969]
their students start on this page
[00:27:10.000]
to begin their learning. So not
[00:27:12.239]
even going through basic search, but they actually
[00:27:14.358]
direct them directly to topic finder
[00:27:16.729]
and then have them learn from there. So it's a really
[00:27:18.900]
nice feature that you'll be able to find
[00:27:21.509]
both under your advanced search. And it's
[00:27:23.549]
also listed on search results
[00:27:25.828]
pages underneath the filter so your
[00:27:28.068]
student students can access it there as
[00:27:30.239]
well. Now,
[00:27:34.160]
I'm gonna go ahead and jump back here to
[00:27:36.299]
my slides because we're almost done for
[00:27:38.400]
the day. Now, if I didn't cover anything
[00:27:40.539]
that someone wanted me to take a look at, feel
[00:27:42.799]
free to type that into the Q and A and
[00:27:44.890]
I can do that now.
[00:27:46.358]
But I do have just some wrap up information
[00:27:48.699]
that I want to give you here. So if
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you have any questions about this webinar
[00:27:52.890]
or any upcoming webinars that we're running,
[00:27:54.920]
you can feel free to reach out to me again.
[00:27:57.039]
My name is Amber Winters. My email here,
[00:27:59.160]
Amber that Winters at Zen gauge.com.
[00:28:01.598]
If you want to talk a little bit more specifically
[00:28:04.039]
about how you can use this resource in your
[00:28:06.108]
learning community. Reach out to
[00:28:08.118]
your customer success manager. If you don't
[00:28:10.189]
know who that is, you can send an email to
[00:28:12.348]
[email protected]
[00:28:14.989]
and they can go over some best practice that
[00:28:17.029]
they've seen with other schools. You know, they work
[00:28:19.269]
with schools around the country so they'll really
[00:28:21.509]
be able to help see how you can integrate your
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resources
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into your classrooms as well
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as my public library folks. They can work with
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you on promoting this information to your patrons
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and getting the information out in their hands.
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If you don't have access right now to Gale In Context: Middle School
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but want to talk about it, you can reach
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out to your sales consultant. If you don't
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know who that is, you can just go to support.gale.com/repfinder,
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that'll direct you to the correct individual and you'll
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be able to reach out to them
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if you need support materials.
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Um So additional training information,
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flyers, tip sheets, lesson plans,
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activities.
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Sorry, all
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of that information you'll be able to find on our support
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site, which is support.gale.com
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and I have included tech support here as well.
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So if you have any technical things that pop
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up, maybe uh you're working to get your resources
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into your learning management system or something like
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that, you can feel free to reach out to them
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at [email protected].
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And we did have another quick question pop
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up here uh asking if I can
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uh show again how to set the platform
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language to Spanish. So I'm gonna
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go ahead and jump back to do that. Um
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If no one else has questions and if you
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already feel comfortable with that, you can feel
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free to hop off and I appreciate you being here.
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But I'm quickly going to show
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how to do that. So
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let me just jump back to the home page. So we have that
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here. So if we're looking to translate
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the interface, it's right at the top here, kind
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of in this little gray bar, I know it's a little bit
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small, but right at the top here where you
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see English, it's gonna drop down
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and we can choose Spanish here
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and then we're translated,
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you'll see all of my tools here are translated
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and then I could just jump back
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and go back to English if I need English.
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OK. Now I've not seen any other questions
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pop up, so I'm gonna go ahead and end the session
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for today. I appreciate it again, everyone
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for being here. Hopefully we'll see you in future
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webinars, maybe future Gale 101 sessions.
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Uh But please enjoy the rest of your day.
Thank you everyone for joining. So today
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we have another Gale 101 session
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today, we're going to be taking a look at Gale In Context: Middle School
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My name
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is Amber Winters and I'm a senior training
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consultant here with Gale.
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So our agenda here today is pretty straightforward.
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First, we're just going to have a quick overview
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of the resource. So what we
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built it for, what we intend it
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to be used for things like that, we'll talk
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about some of the key content you're going to find
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as well as your user is going to find.
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Uh but we'll spend the majority of the time actually
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walking through the platform so we can really get a feel
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of the different workflows they're going to be experiencing.
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We'll take a look at topic pages, some
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of the great filters we have available,
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uh our document tools, all that great stuff
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we'll be able to explore today. And
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then at the very end of the session, we will have time
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for any questions that you have that I'm not able
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to answer as we move along today.
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And I have some wrap up contact information for
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you as well. So even though we'll have
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a bit of time at the end of the session for questions,
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don't feel like you need to hold on to them until the end.
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Go ahead and put them into the Q and A as
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you think of them and I'll try to hit them kind of as
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we move through today.
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So first, let's just get a brief background
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about what Gale In Context: Middle School
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is. So this is a resource that we
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have built specifically as you would expect
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for middle school aged learners. So
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learners in grades at six
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through eight are really the focus of this
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resource. And what's great is we've included
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content that really spans from developing
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learners to more advanced learners. So
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you will be able to hit up every learner you have
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in your classroom or if you have students
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coming into your public library, you'll be able
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to work with any type of student, whatever
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needs they may have.
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And this resource has a pretty substantial
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range of coverage. So it is fully cross
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curricular. Your users are going to
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find information um related to ela
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to social studies, current events,
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science, social and emotional
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learning. They'll also find things on media
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literacy and financial literacy.
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So it's a big wide resource
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that's going to kind of pull everything together
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for your learners.
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And in addition to the great content, we also
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have a nice host of
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tools available. So your users
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will be able to highlight and take notes as they're
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reading a piece of text. So they'll be able to kind of virtually
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talk to their text.
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We do have a translation feature
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in the resource. So your native
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Spanish speakers or any other language
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will be able to translate both what they're reading
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and the platform. So they'll easily
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be able to navigate through in whatever language
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they need. We also have the ability
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for articles to be read to students. So
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if you do have struggling readers, they can
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have the text read to them.
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We have different fonts and colors available
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to really make the database as accessible
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as it possibly can be premade
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citations. Google and Microsoft integrations.
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If your users want to save the information
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they found for later or if they want to share
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it out with their peers with the group
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members, whoever it may be, they'll be able to do
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that with our Google and Microsoft
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integrations. So they'll find all of those
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on the resource to
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help them really organize and have effective
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research.
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So let's take a quick look at some of the different
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content types users are going to find.
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So as you're directing students,
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if you're in a K 12 setting or uh you
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know, patrons, if you're in a public library, just
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consider some of these different content types
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and you may want to reference them as you're
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directing your students to where they need to be. So
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the first of course is going to be reference articles.
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That's kind of the main thing you think about when you think
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about a Gale In Context
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resource. So that's going to give both
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overviews as well as more detailed information
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about different topics. So you could think
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of these articles as you know, giving you the facts.
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So these are before we're getting into different opinions
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and we're getting into kind of the nuances
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of a topic. This is giving us
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our, our basis. This is giving us our base
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to continue our learning.
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Moving on from there, we also have a huge collection
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of both news and magazine articles
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and these are all current, many are
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loaded daily. Of course, it depends on how frequently
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a magazine is published, but
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many are loaded daily and they're going
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to find again great cross curricular
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information. So they'll have magazines
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in the science sphere and
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English and things like that. Many of them
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focus specifically for middle school
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age students
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and this is really going to give them a link to the Real
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world. So we can incorporate these into
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your curriculum that's already focused on
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providing your students with that information.
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But now we're getting it out into the real
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world. They're seeing how the information that you're
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teaching them is actually impacting
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what's going on around them.
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We also have a huge collection of multimedia
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content which I think is sometimes maybe not
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um at the forefront when you're thinking about
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Gale In Context: Middle School or other
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resources like this. But we've got
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a huge collection of videos, images
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and audio files, like podcasts that
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are really going to help your users who may struggle with
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text based learning. You know, they may prefer
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to get their information
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through video or just by looking at pictures
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and analyzing pictures, they're going to be
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able to do that in this resource as well. They'll have
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that back up to the text to make sure
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every type of learner is getting exactly
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what they need.
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We also have a pretty substantial
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collection of biographies both on
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historical and contemporary figures.
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So if you're trying to get to your students or
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your public library patrons,
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learning more about, excuse
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me, about people and how people
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interact with the world and how they impact the
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world. This is still going to be a great
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resource for that. You'll get
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both the historical individuals.
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But what I also love is we have a nice collection of
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like actors and musicians
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and sports figures. So, things
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that are really kind of at the forefront and a lot of times
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are really interesting for middle schoolers.
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they'll find that in this resource as well.
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So not just strictly the individuals
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that you would expect to study in the classroom. But
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also, you know,
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people that are kind of out there right now, public
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figures will be able to take a look at those individuals
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as well.
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And finally, another piece of content
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that I always want to mention are our primary
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sources. And these are really great because
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we have both text based primary
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sources. So things like letters and manuscripts
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and speeches, things like that. But we
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also have a nice collection
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of images as well. So if you want
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your users to maybe just
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analyze maybe a political cartoon
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or something like that, you'll see. I've got something similar
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to that here on my screen. You
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can have them analyze that as opposed
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to reading a piece of text. So again,
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a nice way to reach
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your users in more than one fashion
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and we do have primary sources related both
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to us and world history.
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So either class that you're working in,
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you'll be able to pull contents uh for those
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individuals.
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Now, I wanna go ahead and spend the rest of my time
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in this resource here. So we can see how to find
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all of this great content while I'm
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switching my screen over here,
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almost got signed out. Um I haven't seen any
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questions popping, but I do just want to pause. Does
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anyone have any questions just about the basics
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of Gale In Context: Middle School before we
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keep moving?
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OK. I don't see anything. But again, the Q
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and A is open, we're not using the chat. So
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you know, the chats disabled, but the Q and A is
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open for you.
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So let's go ahead and start taking a look then. So this
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is the home page here of Gale In Context: Middle School.
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And there are a few things I want to point out to you first.
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the first thing is going to be this topics
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of interest section.
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And generally speaking, this changes monthly,
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kind of depending on what's going on. So if there's
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a, you know, a big current event that takes place
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a lot of times that's going to be pulled up to
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the forefront here. But again, it changes
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monthly and your users can kind of scroll
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through and they may find something interesting that they
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did know they wanted to look at.
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And then underneath that,
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we pull forward these different topics
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here to help your students kind of point and click.
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So if you have users coming in who
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aren't quite ready to develop their own search
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terms just yet, you know, beginning researchers
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who struggle to, to type
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in what they're looking for, we've got this great
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point and click functionality that can help them
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with that so they can narrow down based on
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a subject here. So maybe it's
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we'll say us history
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and now they get pulled to this list and I know this list
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looks fairly long,
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but what this list is showing is all of the topic
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pages that we've created related to us.
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History and our topic pages
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are hand curated pages
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on the most studied and most
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utilized terms and topics
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within the resource. What we do is
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we pull everything together together, provide
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an overview of the topic and then
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organize all of the search results that
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they would normally see as a basic search
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onto one page into nice clean content
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buckets. So they can again point and click
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to find the information they need.
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We will be taking a look at one of those in just one
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second. But
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while they're browsing topics here, you'll see
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they have the option, they can actually switch
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out the different sections that
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they're taking a look at. So remember I
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clicked into us history maybe now
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I, I decided I want to take a look at literature
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or maybe people
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I can do that right here from this page. We
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also have a really nice new or updated
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flag
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and I really like this, especially for educators
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who might just be looking for maybe like a bite
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size bit of information.
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you know, maybe for, uh, even
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just a bell ringer, you know, you just want a little bit of
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info, you can see what's new and what's updated
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here. It might be something that you want to share out,
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with your students or with your users.
[00:09:48.690]
But let's jump back to home here. What I'm going
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to do is I'm gonna start running a search because I want
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to show you we are trying to drive
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students to those topic pages because generally
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speaking, they're a little bit easier
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for them to sift through, you know, because they are organized
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more than just your standard basic search.
[00:10:04.808]
So I'm going to search for the women's
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suffrage movement today. This is being
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recorded in March for anyone watching the recording.
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So that is Women's History Month. So we'll stick
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with that theme.
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And when I start typing in here, it's my basic
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search, which of course, a lot of students are going to do.
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You'll see when I have this predictive text
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drop down. The 1st 1234
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options here are bolded.
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So anytime you or your users see
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these bolded options in this predictive text
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drop down, that's actually going to launch
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them into a topic page instead of a basic
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search.
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So I always recommend when you're teaching your users
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how to use this resource point this
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out to them. A lot of times they're going to
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have a topic page for whatever topic they're
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learning about. Of course, if they don't, they'll
[00:10:47.558]
run the basic search and they'll get their content that
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way. But if they have these topic pages
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available, they're going to be really helpful.
[00:10:54.058]
So, again, let's take a look at women's
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suffrage movement here.
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Now, this lands beyond one of those topic
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pages. So again at the top, we're going
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to have a nice overview here. I can click
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my blue read more button to read the full
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overview
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underneath that.
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We're going to see this on this page
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section. So this is showing me
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all of the different content types that I
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have results for related to
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the women's suffrage movement. So you'll see
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our reference works. As I mentioned, we've got
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lots of biographies magazines.
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Our images are pulled out separately. Our
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primary sources are pulled out
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separately and labeled as primary
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sources, which I think is really powerful.
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I know it's, it's hard to teach students
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the difference between a primary and a secondary
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source. So the fact that we've labeled
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primary sources and kind of given them their
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own section is really beneficial
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because we can direct students right there. You know, they know
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they need to find
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a letter from whenever
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you know, they can click into those primary primary
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sources and they'll find those letters.
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So scrolling down from here,
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you're going to see the different content buckets.
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So we usually show the first three or so
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entries in these different content buckets.
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So our reference works here and you'll
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see we can scroll down, we'll start to see some pictures
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and some videos.
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And then on the very bottom of this page,
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we also have related topics so
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your users can keep moving the research forward
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again, even if they don't have a search term. So
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they learn a bit about the women's suffrage movement.
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maybe they want to kind of move forward to women's
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rights. You know, what are women still fighting for?
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What sort of rights are we still trying to,
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um, to ensure for ourselves?
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they can click right here and go into the women's rights
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topic page. So again, they're keeping
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this topic page format that's really
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guided. It's still going to let them explore
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on their own. Of course, they'll be able to click into any
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of these content types, but it's still
[00:12:51.219]
guided in a way that we're making sure
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they're finding the content they actually need
[00:12:55.710]
and not getting overwhelmed by content. That might
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not be exactly what they're looking for,
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especially again, for those beginner researchers
[00:13:02.580]
who may be struggling to build effective
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search terms.
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So let's jump into one of these today. I'm just going
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to click into my references here. So you'll see,
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I've got 100 and nine results
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in my reference content bucket
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and I do want to show you a few of our great
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filters that we have listed
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here. So when I click into a content bucket,
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this is what a basic search would look like.
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So if your user, you know, is
[00:13:27.960]
looking for something that doesn't have a topic page,
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this is what they would see as opposed
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to that topic page. So we've got these filters
[00:13:34.940]
on the right hand side here that I always wanted to point
[00:13:37.000]
out these are going to be really effective
[00:13:39.264]
for users who are coming in with really broad
[00:13:41.384]
search terms and you know, they're going to search and pull
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just a ginormous amount of content that
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may not be exactly what they're looking for.
[00:13:48.625]
We've got some great ways to filter that content.
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I first like to point out the subjects option.
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So of course, this is first searching
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for women's suffrage movement, but we can get even
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more precise if we want
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to, we
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can al also narrow down to a document
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type here. So these are all going to be reference
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works. But maybe I want you
[00:14:10.599]
know, some commentary or just a quick overview.
[00:14:13.168]
Maybe I want something more detailed than I want
[00:14:15.200]
the essay. I can narrow that down here
[00:14:18.349]
to make sure I'm getting exactly what I want.
[00:14:21.190]
You'll see, I have a few other things, publication title,
[00:14:24.190]
The ability to narrow down based on lexile
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measure or content level. This
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is going to be good for you as an educator
[00:14:30.619]
on the line who's um if you're pulling for
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a specific student, you know what level they need,
[00:14:35.308]
you can narrow that down using this lexile
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or this content measure here.
[00:14:40.580]
You can also drop this down to search with N
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if you like
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and then you'll see, I have this option to check off
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this level documents tool
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here
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and these level documents I
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personally think are just absolutely great.
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I taught middle school before I came to gal and
[00:14:56.239]
you know, I wish I had the option to use these
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level documents because what this is going to do
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is we've leveled the same document
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at two different levels. So if
[00:15:05.428]
you need to differentiate for your class, you have
[00:15:07.469]
some struggling readers and you have some more advanced
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readers. we can take a look. I'm gonna
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click into level documents here.
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We can take a look at all of our documents
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that are leveled here. So I'm going to click
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into this women's suffrage movement
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and I will point out we have a flag under
[00:15:23.000]
the title. You'll see right here where it says leveled.
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So if you're ever kind of wondering
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if a piece of text
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is leveled before you click into it, just take
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a look at that little flag.
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If it says leveled, then you do have the two
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levels. And when I click into this here,
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I can actually toggle back and forth between
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the levels. So you'll see on this upper left hand
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side here,
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I clicked into the lower level version,
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but I can toggle while on this page
[00:15:49.649]
to the upper level version.
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And again, these are providing the same
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information. Just the lower level
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is going to have um simpler
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vocabulary. Generally, it's going to be a little
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bit shorter
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to make it a little bit easier for
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your struggling readers to connect with.
[00:16:07.710]
So scrolling down here, excuse me,
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you'll see while we're on a document, we've got a few
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tools that are going to help your researchers as
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well. So the first one is going to be on
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this right hand side here, this explore panel,
[00:16:20.168]
this again is going to help them move forward.
[00:16:22.229]
So once they're done with this article, if
[00:16:24.428]
they want to take a look at things that are kind of similar
[00:16:26.509]
to this, you'll see we have a related subjects here
[00:16:29.269]
and they can click into any one of these and move
[00:16:31.279]
forward with that subject.
[00:16:33.359]
This is also giving them the article contents
[00:16:35.509]
here as well. So if they want to kind of jump
[00:16:37.908]
throughout the article, if it's a longer article,
[00:16:41.019]
they can jump to specific sections here. If they would
[00:16:43.158]
like, you'll
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find a lot of these blue sidebars
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here as well. I know they're not on the side
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but they are called sidebars. Um
[00:16:52.200]
This one's got main ideas here. Some,
[00:16:54.320]
you'll find critical thinking questions,
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some may have vocabulary
[00:16:58.849]
These are great ways to kind of get your students
[00:17:00.889]
brains thinking a little bit more.
[00:17:03.099]
What's great is if there are critical thinking
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questions, you know, that's something you can assign. Again,
[00:17:07.689]
maybe as a bell ringer, maybe as a discussion.
[00:17:10.328]
If you want to share it
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on your L MS or if you're using Google
[00:17:13.989]
classroom, we're integrated with that as well
[00:17:16.009]
using our
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Google classroom button right up top here.
[00:17:20.920]
So you can share out the document with those critical
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thinking questions and have them answer
[00:17:25.309]
them before class or during class and
[00:17:27.469]
then you can discuss afterwards. It's a really nice
[00:17:29.729]
way to kind of pull all of that forward.
[00:17:33.959]
You see at the bottom, there is a words to know here as
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well. So that vocabulary
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also at the very bottom of the page here,
[00:17:40.670]
you'll see. I have a source citation
[00:17:43.140]
and everything in our res our resource
[00:17:45.900]
is cited. So documents,
[00:17:48.170]
images, videos, podcasts,
[00:17:50.890]
primary sources, everything's
[00:17:53.239]
got a citation attached to it. This is a really
[00:17:55.368]
great way to get buy in from both
[00:17:57.469]
teachers and students because
[00:17:59.489]
your students are going to have to build their own citations,
[00:18:01.969]
which is a challenge. We all know
[00:18:04.209]
they can copy and paste this into
[00:18:06.250]
their work cited into their project.
[00:18:08.439]
Wherever it needs to go, they can really easily do
[00:18:10.500]
that. They can also export it
[00:18:12.539]
directly into noodle tools or easy bib
[00:18:14.630]
or send over to their drives if they're using their
[00:18:16.680]
drives. So nice clean way to
[00:18:18.759]
get that citation out.
[00:18:21.769]
That citation is also actually found up
[00:18:23.848]
top here in my toolbar. This
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does the same thing we've just decided to conclude
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it at the top and the bottom of the page. So hopefully,
[00:18:30.680]
students don't miss it as they're working
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through.
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hm In addition to that
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citation tool. We have a lot of other tools that are
[00:18:39.088]
really going to help your students out.
[00:18:41.039]
So right next to citation, we have our send
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two options
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and that button is going to include Google
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and Onedrive. So if you're a Google School
[00:18:49.108]
or a Microsoft School, this is going to function
[00:18:51.289]
perfectly for your users. they
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can click into these. If they're not signed in on
[00:18:55.539]
the browser, it's going to prompt them to sign in.
[00:18:57.979]
But once they hit the send to button this
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document or image or whatever they're on
[00:19:02.519]
is going to go directly over to their
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drive and it will always be there for them
[00:19:07.029]
in a folder that's labeled Galen context
[00:19:09.289]
middle school. So they can hold on to
[00:19:11.328]
this for if they need to maybe come back
[00:19:13.539]
later, maybe their lesson
[00:19:15.608]
is done for the day or something like that. They'll
[00:19:17.680]
be able to come back. They can also use that to
[00:19:19.769]
share between group members. If they're working
[00:19:21.949]
on a group project or something like that,
[00:19:24.009]
they can also use it to share with the teachers, they'll
[00:19:26.140]
be able to send over to drives and
[00:19:28.160]
vice versa. Teachers can use it to send over to students
[00:19:30.529]
as well and we do include an email
[00:19:32.578]
option here as well. So if they'd prefer to email
[00:19:34.650]
it to themselves or to others
[00:19:37.000]
that's found under the scent too as well,
[00:19:40.358]
right next to that, they can download this document
[00:19:42.640]
as a PDF. Um, they can
[00:19:45.199]
technically download videos
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as PDF S as well, but all they're going to
[00:19:49.400]
get is, um, generally there's going
[00:19:51.519]
to be a transcript on the pages, what they're going to see,
[00:19:55.019]
they won't be able to download the video itself.
[00:19:57.578]
They can also print pages here
[00:19:59.719]
and then we have this get link tool
[00:20:02.439]
and I personally love this get link, especially
[00:20:04.588]
if you're going to be sharing content
[00:20:06.809]
with students. Maybe you found an article
[00:20:08.910]
that you want them to use in a project that's coming
[00:20:11.000]
up or maybe you've got a new lesson coming
[00:20:13.318]
up and you want them to read it to kind of be prepared.
[00:20:16.000]
This scale link is great because it's persistent.
[00:20:18.709]
You send it over to your students and they can click
[00:20:20.858]
into it at any point to read whatever
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piece of material that you sent them. So
[00:20:27.078]
they'll be able to click into it wherever they are. They
[00:20:29.299]
actually aren't required
[00:20:31.509]
to enter a password to click onto this link,
[00:20:33.989]
which I think is really handy.
[00:20:35.969]
Um If they decide to move forward in
[00:20:38.009]
their research though, you know that you sent over
[00:20:40.029]
an article about climate change and they
[00:20:42.140]
want to learn more once they try to click
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further into Gallen
[00:20:45.779]
Ks middle school, they'll be prompted to authenticate
[00:20:48.699]
however you authenticate. So for using a password
[00:20:51.140]
or something like that, they'll be required to enter
[00:20:53.299]
it at that time, but you can send them this
[00:20:55.309]
link and they can read it
[00:20:57.160]
on their phones at home, on
[00:20:59.348]
a tablet wherever they are, they'll easily
[00:21:01.439]
be able to access that. It's also great to
[00:21:03.549]
throw that in a syllabus or something
[00:21:05.719]
like that because it's persistent. So you don't
[00:21:07.809]
need to worry about it.
[00:21:09.309]
You know, accidentally breaking in, you're not noticing until
[00:21:11.479]
you've handed out your syllabus for all of your students.
[00:21:13.650]
And then, you know, all 30 in your
[00:21:15.750]
class, tell you that the link isn't working. At the same
[00:21:17.828]
time, this get link is persistent
[00:21:20.029]
and available for you.
[00:21:22.608]
So in addition to those tools
[00:21:24.779]
to kind of get the content out of the resource,
[00:21:27.500]
we also have some great ways to make
[00:21:29.699]
the resource more accessible for your users.
[00:21:32.078]
So the first one is going to be our translate
[00:21:34.578]
button here.
[00:21:36.140]
When I hit this button, I'll be able to translate into
[00:21:38.299]
whatever language I need.
[00:21:40.059]
And it's going to translate that full article
[00:21:42.150]
for me. I also have the option
[00:21:44.309]
to translate the interface which is actually
[00:21:46.608]
going to translate all of my
[00:21:48.729]
navigation buttons. So I'll do
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that quickly so we can see what that looks like. Let's
[00:21:53.078]
click Spanish here.
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So clicking at, you'll see, you know, my search
[00:21:57.828]
bar is in Spanish, my tools up here,
[00:22:00.390]
my explore panel here is in Spanish
[00:22:03.029]
and this actually follows me along. So
[00:22:05.338]
if you do have, you know Spanish speakers
[00:22:07.390]
coming in, who prefer to have their resource
[00:22:09.789]
in Spanish.
[00:22:10.838]
I always suggest have them translate the platform
[00:22:13.309]
into Spanish before they start their,
[00:22:15.318]
their learning
[00:22:16.618]
and then they'll just be able to go through and translate
[00:22:18.739]
the articles as they find them. It's
[00:22:20.838]
a nice way to make sure they know where
[00:22:22.868]
they're clicking if they're having trouble, you know, reading
[00:22:25.019]
the buttons in English.
[00:22:28.219]
In addition to that, we have some different
[00:22:30.279]
font size options here to decrease
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or increase the f the
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font sizes. Excuse me.
[00:22:36.630]
Next to that, we have got some display options
[00:22:38.868]
here as well as I mentioned, we have some different colors
[00:22:41.670]
and some different font options to make
[00:22:43.769]
this as accessible as it needs
[00:22:45.779]
to be. So your users can really customize
[00:22:48.489]
how they're seeing this material. So whatever
[00:22:50.989]
way works best for them, we want to make sure they can do
[00:22:53.118]
that here so they can change this at any time
[00:22:55.400]
under those display settings.
[00:22:57.500]
I'm going to leave it on by default
[00:22:59.779]
though because that's actually what I prefer
[00:23:02.729]
right next to the display options. We have our listen
[00:23:04.979]
tool. It's gonna pause this time.
[00:23:07.469]
But when I hit that, you'll see it opens up this little
[00:23:09.549]
player and I'll be able to have this full article
[00:23:11.890]
read to me. You'll see, I can also download
[00:23:14.140]
the art or download the audio.
[00:23:16.410]
If I maybe want to listen to this later on,
[00:23:18.539]
I can do that.
[00:23:20.049]
And I've also got some settings with this little gear
[00:23:22.199]
here. You'll
[00:23:24.519]
see how I can change. the text
[00:23:26.759]
highlighting as my article is being read to me.
[00:23:28.858]
I can choose if I want words or
[00:23:30.969]
sentences to be highlighted. I can
[00:23:33.239]
change the speed. You know, if it's going a little bit too
[00:23:35.430]
fast for me, I can turn it down to slow.
[00:23:37.890]
It defaults to medium, but I can't turn it to slow
[00:23:39.969]
or I can speed it up here.
[00:23:44.118]
You see, we also have things like automatic scrolling
[00:23:46.410]
that's going to help them out as well.
[00:23:48.578]
So this is a nice way for users
[00:23:50.588]
to really get the most out of this resource
[00:23:52.650]
to really increase the accessibility
[00:23:55.130]
to make sure everyone could get this content.
[00:23:58.338]
We have a quick question here. Then I'm just going to read out
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part of our school is dual immersion. Spanish
[00:24:02.500]
English, usually guide students to search using
[00:24:05.098]
English subject terms and then translate.
[00:24:07.838]
Would you recommend this for Spanish classes,
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classes or another method?
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Um Yeah. So Ali I would
[00:24:16.358]
probably
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recommend searching in English
[00:24:19.269]
because the majority of our content is going
[00:24:21.338]
to be in English. So I definitely recommend
[00:24:23.680]
searching in English to pull contents and
[00:24:26.108]
then translates that article
[00:24:28.449]
as far as native content in Spanish.
[00:24:30.939]
Ali. I'm going to verify that with my content
[00:24:33.255]
team. I believe we do have some Spanish
[00:24:35.515]
publications, but I don't want to quote
[00:24:37.634]
myself on that until I verify. So after
[00:24:40.203]
the session, I'll get with them and I'll forward
[00:24:42.354]
their information to you. So you'll have that,
[00:24:44.755]
that information. But I believe we do have
[00:24:46.924]
a few Native Spanish
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publications in this resource.
[00:24:56.189]
Ok. So we've got about five
[00:24:58.380]
minutes here.
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Um, I do want to show you one quick
[00:25:02.118]
topic. so I'm actually going
[00:25:04.199]
to go into my advanced search because I wanna show
[00:25:06.219]
you our topic finder, which is
[00:25:08.239]
another really fantastic
[00:25:10.719]
kind of research tool for your users.
[00:25:12.779]
So my advanced search is found up here next
[00:25:14.818]
to my basic search
[00:25:18.338]
and I am going to click here and into topic finder.
[00:25:23.358]
And now from here, I can search for
[00:25:25.420]
a specific topic. So if I'm coming into the
[00:25:27.459]
library again with a really broad search
[00:25:29.689]
term, that's maybe just pulling up too
[00:25:31.750]
much stuff like maybe I'm coming in searching for
[00:25:33.910]
environments and most likely your middle school
[00:25:36.108]
students are looking for you
[00:25:38.269]
know, the natural environment, the world around
[00:25:40.328]
us. But as you know, environment can mean a lot of things,
[00:25:43.949]
you know, it could mean work environment, it could mean school
[00:25:46.118]
environments.
[00:25:47.368]
So of course, running a search
[00:25:49.509]
for environment is most likely going to give them a lot
[00:25:51.660]
of things they don't necessarily want.
[00:25:54.439]
So when they run a search for environment
[00:25:56.449]
now, you'll see, I've got this nice little interactive
[00:25:58.838]
piece here.
[00:26:00.818]
So maybe I'm looking through and, oh yeah,
[00:26:02.848]
you know, I actually, I wanted to learn
[00:26:04.858]
a bit about climate change. I
[00:26:06.880]
can now click into this topic and you'll see it's pulling
[00:26:09.199]
me down a little bit further here. So maybe I wanna
[00:26:11.380]
learn about climate change and humans
[00:26:14.000]
and you see this is pulling me down even further
[00:26:16.390]
to a specific bit of content here.
[00:26:18.588]
You'll see I can change this anytime I want to
[00:26:21.068]
and it's really narrowed down my results
[00:26:23.088]
for me. So I'm not weeding through
[00:26:25.858]
a basic search for an environment that probably
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would have pulled forward thousands, if not tens
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of tens of thousands of results. I'm really
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narrowing it down here for me to
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make it easier just to point and click and find my content.
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So this is almost like running an advanced
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search without developing the search itself.
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You know, it's almost running a search including
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multiple terms
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and I can reset this at any time if I
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wanna go back and learn more. Maybe now I wanna
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click into energy,
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learn about energy. I can do that here as
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well. So again, nice clean way
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to find content for your users who
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may not be the best
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just yet at searching through the resource
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on their own. I've actually heard
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um of a lot of teachers actually having
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their students start on this page
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to begin their learning. So not
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even going through basic search, but they actually
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direct them directly to topic finder
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and then have them learn from there. So it's a really
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nice feature that you'll be able to find
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both under your advanced search. And it's
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also listed on search results
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pages underneath the filter so your
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student students can access it there as
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well. Now,
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I'm gonna go ahead and jump back here to
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my slides because we're almost done for
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the day. Now, if I didn't cover anything
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that someone wanted me to take a look at, feel
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free to type that into the Q and A and
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I can do that now.
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But I do have just some wrap up information
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that I want to give you here. So if
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you have any questions about this webinar
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or any upcoming webinars that we're running,
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you can feel free to reach out to me again.
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My name is Amber Winters. My email here,
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Amber that Winters at Zen gauge.com.
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If you want to talk a little bit more specifically
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about how you can use this resource in your
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learning community. Reach out to
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your customer success manager. If you don't
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know who that is, you can send an email to
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[email protected]
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and they can go over some best practice that
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they've seen with other schools. You know, they work
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with schools around the country so they'll really
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be able to help see how you can integrate your
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resources
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into your classrooms as well
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as my public library folks. They can work with
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you on promoting this information to your patrons
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and getting the information out in their hands.
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If you don't have access right now to Gale In Context: Middle School
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but want to talk about it, you can reach
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out to your sales consultant. If you don't
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know who that is, you can just go to support.gale.com/repfinder,
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that'll direct you to the correct individual and you'll
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be able to reach out to them
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if you need support materials.
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Um So additional training information,
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[00:28:56.890]
flyers, tip sheets, lesson plans,
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activities.
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Sorry, all
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of that information you'll be able to find on our support
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site, which is support.gale.com
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and I have included tech support here as well.
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So if you have any technical things that pop
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up, maybe uh you're working to get your resources
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into your learning management system or something like
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that, you can feel free to reach out to them
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at [email protected].
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And we did have another quick question pop
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up here uh asking if I can
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uh show again how to set the platform
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language to Spanish. So I'm gonna
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go ahead and jump back to do that. Um
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If no one else has questions and if you
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already feel comfortable with that, you can feel
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free to hop off and I appreciate you being here.
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But I'm quickly going to show
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how to do that. So
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let me just jump back to the home page. So we have that
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here. So if we're looking to translate
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the interface, it's right at the top here, kind
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of in this little gray bar, I know it's a little bit
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small, but right at the top here where you
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see English, it's gonna drop down
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and we can choose Spanish here
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and then we're translated,
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you'll see all of my tools here are translated
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and then I could just jump back
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and go back to English if I need English.
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OK. Now I've not seen any other questions
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pop up, so I'm gonna go ahead and end the session
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for today. I appreciate it again, everyone
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for being here. Hopefully we'll see you in future
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webinars, maybe future Gale 101 sessions.
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Uh But please enjoy the rest of your day.