Duration: 45 Minutes
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Welcome to your training, session, choice boards and gale resources from FEL. This training is in partnership with the Florida Electronic Library. We are thrilled and always happy to be partners with Florida, with the Florida Electronic library and super excited to share with you this option that you have available to you Gale resources in choice boards.
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My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale, and any questions that you have please feel free to use that QA box. I can see it here. It's open and available, so ask away.
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And we are going to start with a brief agenda, but jump right into understanding sports.
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So I am excited hopefully. You have some background. If not, that's okay. I'm going to explain a little bit of what exactly a Choice Board is I did this training session at the Fame Conference last fall.
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And it was a hit. We had a packed room, and it was very exciting. Folks were super excited to hear about how easy it is to use.
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The tools within Gale resources to put them into choice boards. And then I repeated this session in South Carolina and the folks there had even some additional ideas that, like some of them, had destiny, and they were using the this idea of choice boards or Gale you linking Gale resources to information, and they were.
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Doing this right within destiny. So I don't have access to that.
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Product. So if you do have that, I can kind of talk through. I, the librarian, shared with me. I'm happy to do that after today's training, happy to talk through it a little bit more.
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But if you are just building choice boards, maybe you're doing it in Google slides, or you're using Powerpoint is a great way to do that. I've also heard, and I haven't tried this yet. But one of my other States, actually Ohio! They use pick monkey. So I, not familiar with pick monkey, but it is another option, and and for the State to provide.
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Boards. So just some different ideas of what other folks are doing. So let's dive in. Now that I've given a lot of that information out. Let's dive into our agenda. We're going to start with an overview of the Gale resources, and then I'm going to show you the choice boards. Now I have created links and QR. Codes to everything.
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So you're going to find everything you need in this Powerpoint.
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And then I can also provide I'll provide a link.
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In the follow up email back to this Powerpoint. So if you'd like to use it again, you can. But each slide that I go into. You'll see either. A bitly URL.
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Or a QR. Code that'll take you directly to what I've created. And that's when I, in the description I had mentioned that.
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You would have templates to walk away with. That's what I'm talking about. These are the templates that are ready to go and available for you to use.
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Because they are linked directly to your Florida library resources, and since.
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Your state. Geo. Authenticates. That means that the links will work perfectly for you, no matter what library or what school you're coming from, they will automatically work.
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So it's really a great way to utilize. Those those links in choice. So we will browse.
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The resource, features and choice, and the choice that I've created. And then any questions please feel free to stop me along the way.
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To access your Fl resources. You have a link here. Hopefully, you're familiar with this great information on the Fl site. But if you're using your direct Urls into your gale resources even better, because then you are capturing usage. If you're not familiar, want to learn more about how to do that in your library. Then what I can do is.
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Provide you at the end with your Gale customer, success manager, their contact information, and they can help you with any of those questions that you have.
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Accessing the fbl site. It
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I, we actually, it has just received a recent update. I'd have to update my screenshot here. So you'll see it looks a little bit different, but you're very easily can access content directly on your flip site.
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And now let's dive into the resources and the choice. And I did. We have one for elementary one for middle school and one for high school that you can again utilize in your buildings or share with your teachers. I had a lot of librarians that showed up.
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To our session, and they were doing that to
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Share this information with their teachers. So.
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1st of all, let's talk about what is a choice board.
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So choice, port, choice.
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Choice boards are. They're essentially they're graphicor which allow students to choose different ways to learn about a particular concept. They give students of their own learning by giving them choice about their learning path.
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Many choice boards link to external online content. But today we are going to discuss the boards that keep the students within one document. So within one, I should say, within one resource. This is done through
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You can do this through Google slides.
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And it's really easy to do that, to interlink back to.
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Something within the slide where the students are making that choice. So really, students are able to move around within the slides.
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Via rather than clicking in individual links. It really makes it easy for them to run through it like.
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And access those images so.
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Again, looking at the screen. So that was a little bit off top, not off topic, but off script. That many of the choice board links to external content, such as gale resources within. FEL, so keep that in mind as we're talking through.
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Choice boards, and how they can be used.
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So first,let's talk about the individual resources. First, st we're going to start with elementary, then I'll go into the choice board, and then I actually have an activity on the support site that you can utilize.
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Also with this resource, so Gale In Context: elementary. This is designed for a kindergarten through 5th grade students.
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You're going to find trusted reference content periodicals, videos, images. There's infographics available here within this resource.
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There's. It's also a great resource to support curriculum, standards, animal life, nature, history, geography, science, health, literature, and so much more.
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And it does relay or align nicely to curriculum standards.
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And then to enhance teaching and learning. This is a safe place to find answers.
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Which is really important. You, your students can practice their research skills.
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And also explore their interests. And that's where choice come into play.
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So the choice board that I created, and that is talking about weather at the elementary level. So what is the weather and what I've done here is, and I just put this into a Powerpoint slide, I added the QR. Code and the bitly URL. So this will take you.
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To the slide. But what you will find is when your students have access to this information.
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Or if you're from a public library, and you're doing, maybe you're doing some programming around. If you have some programming that you're doing with students. And you want to create some interactive activities with digital content. Choice can be utilized in your public library, too. So keep that in mind.
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That it is a great option.
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For public libraries, awesome.
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So actually, what I did is, if you notice, when I put my cursor over top of the image, I get the link.
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And when I click into that image it will take me directly to a document within. Or it might be a video. I think thunderstorms might be a video. It could be a video could be an image could be a documents wherever you want your students learning. And the idea here is to give students choice. Now.
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If you need them to study or learn about all of these topics, then maybe one they choose to.
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And day 2 they choose 2 more, or they choose one each day you do one a day. This is elementary, so depending on what level of elementary you're teaching.
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This could be really helpful. Doing one a day or one a week, or that kind of thing where students are looking forward to it.
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So I am from Michigan, and in Florida. You I will share.
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I lived in Florida for a year. I lived in the port area. My kids went to school there, and I remember a day.
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the heaviest coat we wore when we were in Florida, because, we're Michigan. What was like, we call them fall like a fall coat. So just a heavier coat right.
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And we one day we went. It was January, and it was a little chilly, but it's Florida, and the weather warms up so beautifully by midday that my kids were coming home in their short sleep t-shirt and wanting their shorts on, and not their jeans anymore.
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So. But when we went to school that day my kids were in their fall coats, I was dropping them off.
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There were a lot of kids in winter, and there was frost on the ground, and they were touching this, the grass because of the frost, and my kids are like, what are they?
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Doing, cause.
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They knew what snow was like, and I said, This is kind of like snow in Florida, for, for the kids here it's not like they see snow like you guys are used to.
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So I'll never forget that story. So I I had to as a number one choice, include snow.
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Because students in Florida, or, I should say users in Florida should.
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Little bit more about that type of weather, too. So what happens is when you click into that image. Now that I told you a story to go along with it.
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It opens a document.
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And let me try to minimize my other stuff here.
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There we go. So let me share the screen.
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When it's in person it's a little bit easier. So I clicked into it.
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And it took me right to.
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The spot within Gale In Context:, elementary.
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I just want to make sure I'm sharing.
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You're seeing what I'm seeing. Yes, you are perfect.
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So how did I do that?
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It is so easy to do.
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So if I'm let's say I'm doing, I'm we know we're doing the topic of weather, and I want to look for I can start with a search as it as an either a teacher, or again, a public library for working on programming here. And I want to look for weather.
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So we have. We actually have a topic guide on weather. So I can go directly to that topic, guide or.
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If I were wanted to segment these out like I did snow thunderstorms. I could do that search. But as if I'm coming into weather, I may be able to find everything I need in one spot.
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So I can look into my book articles.
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And a quick way to find exactly what I'm looking for is I could do a search within.
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And it looks like I may not have picked it from book articles. Let me go back to all content types.
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Oh, and it won't sorry. Let me go back. One more.
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Okay, I'm going to just do a basic search to save us some time.
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I don't think I picked it from the snow topic, but.
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Maybe I did.
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I bet it was this one.
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Yeah, okay, so I did pick it from the snowtop again. Now.
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Once I find that what I'm interested in a document, a video, how do I grab a link back to that information?
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I just use the get link tool.
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It's right at the top. It'll take my students back to any spot.
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Or my younger users in my library.
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Take students back to any spot within the resource.
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And all I have to do is copy that link again. The get link tools in my in my.
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Toolbox up here, or my
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2 of my! Why am I drawing a blank on my toolbar? But I call it something else all the time. It'll come back to me. Sorry.
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This link.
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I just copy and paste it, and what I did then let me go back to my Powerpoint.
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I selected. Now I can't do this because I'm showing this as a.
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Slideshow. But when I'm when I'm working on my slides, I just.
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Selected the the image and hyperlinked it out.
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So when you select the image and right click.
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It hopefully, you're familiar with this. But just in case.
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Select the image, and then if you right, click that image, then you'll see the hyperlink option, and you just paste it in there. So then that get link tool is.
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That direct document is linked to this image.
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Now with thunderstorms.
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I did. This was a video.
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So let me share my screen.
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And it is muted. So let me turn that on.
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Chances are you've experienced a thunderstorm.
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Thunderstorms produce lightning, and.
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Lightning is a flash of supercharged electricity.
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The loud rule.
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So here you can take your users directly to.
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Video content on thunderstorms.
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And our videos do come with.
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Transcript and close captioning which is on. I can turn that off if I want to.
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So that feature is available.
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So you get the idea right?
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If, when I was creating this, I use the get link, tool.
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I just grabbed the link.
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Again back to this exact spot.
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And then I put it into my Powerpoint slide. So it's.
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Really a kind of a couple of step process. Right? The nice thing is, though, once you've created these slides.
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You can use them again and again. You can just change it for a different topic. you want 5. It depends with our younger users, we might want to keep it consistent that they know that this is a choice board.
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So they might want to keep it a little bit more consistent. Where, with your middle schoolers and high schoolers, you can get a little bit more creative.
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Now there is a.
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Now this is just a side note, tip and trick.
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Let me remember. I'll put it in the.
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In the chat.
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This is a free Google slides theme for that you can utilize. I found it when I was doing some research.
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That you can use for choice.
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And let me make sure I'm going to the right place.
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Choice Board Templates.
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There we go!
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Here it is. Okay. I'm going to put this direct link into the chat.
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Since you all are here.
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And attending live. Thank you for attending. Live.
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So this is, I didn't use these because I had to use our branding. And again, remember, these are ready to go if you want this bitly, URL, and you want this slide.
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You can use the QR code or go to this slide again the at the end. I'll provide you with a link and a QR. Code that'll take you to my entire deck, and these are ready to go. They're utilizing your flour resources. But if you want to build your own, and you haven't before, and you're kind of excited about the idea.
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This, if you want to use some templates manias. One I found, and it's free.
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So you can utilize if you're not strict on branding like we are. That's something you can do. Something else I'm working on is eventually putting these into Google slides.
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But I have to move all of our branding over, and it's a little bit of a process. So these are. That's just an option. I put that in the chat, so you all can. If you want to utilize that extra tool.
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Just a tip and trick that you can use with these.
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Choice boards. Alright! Let me know if there's any questions.
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The elementary one. Again, if you need this, you can.
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Either scan the QR code or.
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Grab this bitly, URL. You might want to write it down.
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And let's go into the next one again. At the end. I will share with you.
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A URL back to this entire slide deck.
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So the next step is, well, okay. Now we've done the choice board. Do we want them to do some type of activity after? Well, we do have support materials.
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Some of them I have ready to go that that relate to the choice board that I did. Others are. I'm just highlighting today.
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And some I'm more. I'm still working on. So I have some that I'm building for these choice Board Sessions.
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But there's there a work in progress. Here's an idea.
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On our Gale support site. We have this document for developing research skills.
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For. And this works directly with Gale In Context:, elementary.
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Here's a URL back to.
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This will take you directly to these documents, so you can see and.
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I've also added. So it's a 4 step, 1st pages for teachers, and then these are 3 documents that students can use as they're working on.
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Building those research skills. And then here's a QR code. If you'd like to scan that so that'll take you directly to this support document that we have on the Gale support site. All of the activities I share with you live on the Gale support site, and this one is that you can utilize with Gale and contacts elementary.
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So that's kind of your next step.
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Right. So you are taking them again.
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Into, go back.
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To the choice board, and then, if you want to do an activity to go along with it, I wanted to provide you with one.
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So that you are ready to go. With this resource.
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Now let's move on to middle school.
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There's any questions. Let me know.
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Middle school is for your middle school students, 6, th through 8th grade students.
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You're going to find trusted reference content periodicals, images. There's audio files. We have great primary sources, creative works and statistics available within this resource.
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To support curriculum standards. We have frequently studied.
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Frequently studied topics in history and geography.
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Science, health literature and the arts. And then we are also connected to Google and Microsoft. So we're integrated with Google and Microsoft.
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Which means that students can easily put information directly into their Google drive or Microsoft onedrive plus Google classroom.
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We work our resources. You can put information directly into your Google classroom. If you're using that, you can also print download an email.
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And then highlights and notes is a great tool that's available in all of your gale resources.
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So for this one I was looking at financial literacy.
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Something that is important in schools.
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And is being taught in schools, and is being added to many curriculums. In many States.
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And so we were looking at economics economics, money matters choice board.
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And so for this one, I took these concepts of budgeting loans and credits and wants taxation, saving and investing in student loans.
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And then what I've done is asked the question or ask for.
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Them to list 2 reasons why. So list 2 reasons why making and following a budget is a is a wise way of managing your money, and here I put the links in the box on the text. There.
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So I click into that box.
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And again it takes me directly to.
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My article on Budgeting.
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So I read the article first, st and then asked.
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Found questions, or in this case I'm listing 2 reasons why.
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And I could have them, right? Their answers. These are middle schoolers, so I could have them just use a piece of paper. Or maybe I want to create.
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A Google form. If that if you prefer everything, digital, you could use a Google form. I am working on a document to go along with.
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This. But we do have a scavenger hunt that goes along with this, too. It's just an additional activity that you can do. But so what I do is I read the article first.st
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And then, because I know budgeting is financial literacy budgeting. It's all part of that.
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Curriculum standard I'm trying to hit. So then what I do is I'll read the article, and then.
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Put in either a question or have them create a list, or whatever the case may be. Whatever I'm looking for.
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So they will for sure find the answers in this article that.
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I have linked out from the Choice Board.
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Go back. And again, same thing. I'm in middle school now. I'm in Gale In context, middle school.
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Is the resource that I pulled this information in from.
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And that's the beauty of these choice boards.
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It does not have to be all in one resource.
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As you'll see. I think I did it in the next one. Maybe it's.
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2 resources. It, doesn't it? You're not limited.
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You can pull in multiple resources. It really depends for our younger, like our elementary students. You might want to say on one.
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Particular topic page, even within one digital resource.
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But you could pull in multiple. It doesn't. They're clicking in and using your choice to get to the content that you've linked out for them for, and then they can either answer their question or complete an activity.
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Whatever it is that you have your next step, your.
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Your instructions.
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Are directing them to do.
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So I'm in Gale In context middle school. The get link tool is here in our conceptual conceptual toolbar. There we go. That was what I the word I was looking for. And these tools change depending on where I'm at within the resource. When I'm at a document level. I see all of these document tools available get link and highlights and notes are always here. So the get link tools. There.
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And that's what I that's my process. When I was creating this choice board.
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What I did. So let me go back to my choice board.
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And these could be could take you directly to if I wanted to go to a
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Maybe I want to go to an audio file. Maybe it's an interview.
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It. Really, there's so much available because your resources are multimedia, especially, you're in context resources. You have great multimedia there images. Or maybe it's a primary source. Maybe I'm doing something in social studies.
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And I want to link out directly to primary sources. And I want to introduce these primary sources to my students. Choice board is a great way to do that with your digital resources. So you can see how easy it is. It's really one tool. It's using the get link tool.
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It takes some work to get them.
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to build these choice boards.
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But for me it took a little bit longer, because I was searching through curriculum standards, and then finding the connection to content that we have available where.
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You all might be a little bit easier. You're looking at programming. Now let's see what we have in the digital resources, or I know these are my curriculum standards. Let me link it to content in the curriculum standards. And you're the beauty is of your Gale resources, especially your in contact. Suite of resources is that you have. They are designed around or built for aligning to curriculum standards.
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What's being taught in the classroom, frequently setting topics. All those things I talk about when I talk about the resource itself.
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That's why they work so well with these choice boards. And what's happening in your schools or with your programming? Because a lot of times your public library programming. You're doing stuff to kind of coordinate with what's happening in the schools. A lot of you work with the schools.
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Which is awesome. So same idea I just did. I linked out the individual text in this one rather than.
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The title. It's really up to you. You could link out the icon. Whatever you want.
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I did the the text box. Now I will say this. If you add a hyperlink to text, it'll underline it like a link.
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So keep that in mind. That's why I like to put boxes around things or shapes. This might. I can't remember if this was a shape. It might have been a shape that I put a text box over.
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But anyhow, either way, keep that in mind that if I were to link it to all this text it would make a hyperlink and underline it. And so if that's what you want to do.
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That's great, but I wanted it to look a certain way.
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Here is the bitly URL to the choice boards and the QR. Code. If you would like those.
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Now the activity that we had available on the Gale support site was a.
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Money, matter, money and banking, scavenger, hunt.
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So we have the scavenger hunt. It's 5 questions long you are going directly into. I believe it would go directly into a topic page questions about money and banking be sure to include your sources. So we ask.
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Questions. So read select the blue. Read more button in the overview. And that's that topic overview on the topic page. So we are using the topic page of.
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Money and banking. Typically, we do for our scavenger hunts. We use one topic. All the answers are going to be found there.
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But it's a way to extend.
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So an extension to that learning that's happening. Or maybe it's just a way for students to get to know the resources. So you have your choice board, and then you also have the scavenger hunt.
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Here's the link at the bottom that'll take you directly to this document, and then the QR. Code is also here.
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Let me know if you have any questions.
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Alright. The last one we're going to go into is Gale Litfinder.
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So our Gale Litfinder is a great resource for Ela classes at the High School level.
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Middle school it's used to, because you are going to find full text poems. Over 130,000 poems are available. There's short stories and novels. You'll also find essays.
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Speeches, including inaugural speeches. There's over 300 plays, and so much more.
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So, Litfinder, are your original literary works.
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And in this one, this this choice board I pulled in Litfinder, and also.
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Gale ebooks, because you have quite a large ebook collection from the Florida library. So I pulled in both.
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And I did look at.
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Curriculum and novels or stories that are studied at the high school level. And the Odyssey is 1 1 of my favorites, too. Book one. And this is a book, one choice Board.
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So same idea where I have linked out the content where you can click into this I did on the box, or the shape itself.
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So I can go directly to some background knowledge. My 1st question is, what is known about the author, Homer.
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All the way to specific questions.
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About the story or the again, we're focusing on Book one. It's not the complete Odyssey. This is focusing on book one.
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And here below I did give some instructions for my high school students is use claim evidence and commentary to support your answers.
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Here is again the bitly URL and the QR. Code.
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And then when I click into one.
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Let me go back!
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I just saw it there a second ago. Why is my icon? There we go.
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This one is a little bit trickier. Let me share that screen.
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So I asked that question.
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What is known about the author, Homer. I took them directly into in.
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Gale literature Litfinder. I took them into.
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This document.
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And they'll find the answer here. Now for a high school students what might be really helpful.
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Is next step. You've given them the choice board and.
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Maybe they want to highlight, because this is a great tool for them to use. What is the question is, what is known about the author? Homer.
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So they could read through this article.
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Click and drag over a chunk of text.
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Choose the color. And here's information about Homer, and they can add any notes that they.
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Would like to this. They can save.
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And then find some additional information.
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About Homer the author.
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Now what I would do with this.
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Now that I've marked it up, what I could do is I would want to make sure. If I want to keep this information, I can send it.
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I can send it to Google.
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Microsoft onedrive email.
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Might email it to myself. I can download it, or I can print it.
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I can. If I choose to send it to my Google drive, let me show you what that looks like.
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It's going to ask me the very 1st time.
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You send information, or from, I'm on my own computer. So it usually remembers my information.
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Today. It made me log in. I haven't been in here yet today, so
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The very 1st time we do ask permission to put information into Google, drive.
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And then what happens is a folders created.
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For whatever resource I'm in. So I'm in Gale literature, Litfinder. So let me just show you. I'll go into my Google drive.
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Me, see.
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Actually.
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Need to be in this one.
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I made the mistake of changing my.
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Account my
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My Google account information.
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And on the one I use all the time I was doing something, and I needed to create a different URL or
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Gmail, and now I'm regretting it, cause I change it across the board.
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So, anyhow, and I don't know how to fix it. Gale Litfinder, so here's my folder.
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Yeah. Literature. Litfinder. I open it up.
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And here is my document.
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It is, turns it into a Google Doc.
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And here's the chunk of text I highlighted.
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Then below my citation.
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And my citation is automatically attached.
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I have my source citation. I also have my gale document number.
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Which can be helpful too.
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For other activities. So keep that in mind that every document has a gale document number. But here's my highlighted passage and any notes I've taken.
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So there's an answer to my question. That was I asked during.
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In my Choice Board.
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Another way to do this is when you're using your choice. You can.
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You can also use just the highlights and notes. So if I only wanted that.
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I've highlighted best practice. I always say, send it to Google Microsoft.
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email download, whatever it is. So you have a copy of the entire article.
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Or document, and what you've highlighted.
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But then also view all highlights and.
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You have that capability.
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After you've done some highlighting on a document.
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You have these what I like to call digital notes, and I can just send this to.
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Those same locations.
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And here's the option to edit my notes.
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So if I wanted to add in more details, I can.
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So just another great tool that's available within your gale resources.
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Okay.
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Let me go back to my Powerpoint. I just want to share. I think I shared everything there with you.
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I just want to make sure that if you need the URL or the QR. Code they are here.
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And again each of these is linked out.
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So each question is taken into a document in LitFinder, or it might be taking users directly to a section within an ebook.
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Which is a great way to use your choice.
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I had a an account I was working with. They were using choice boards, and they were specifically using it for their ebooks.
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They were either introducing titles or they were introducing, sections of the ebooks.
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On, based on a certain topic.
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So great idea to use choice that way. It really depends on how you want to use them. Or maybe you just want to highlight. Some, if you're, in a library, public library, or even a school library, and you want to highlight some of the ebooks that are available, based on a serve certain topic. I had a another group use. They were looking at health and wellness.
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And mental health, and they utilize a choice board.
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With their ebook collection, which is a great idea, so many different ways that these choice boards can be used for the classroom. They can be utilized in your library, too.
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The activity I have to go along with. This one doesn't really go along with the Odyssey. I apologize for that. We do have.
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For lit finder. We do have a scavenger hunt, and then we also have.
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I. I had given the instructions of claim, evidence and commentary. This is claim, evidence and reasoning, similar idea, and a great way to use this with that type of writing this week created this document that can be used in Litfinder or any of your in context, resources.
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Alright! So we're right towards the end of our time. Oh, here are the.
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Sorry. Here's the bitly URL for this.
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Document or this scavenger hunt, and then the URL and the QR. Code for the claim evidence and reasoning. They do all live on the Gale support site. And I'm going to talk to you about that next.
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But quick way to get to them is utilizing the tools I've given you on the screen.
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Don't forget at the end. I'm going to share the QR code to the entire N. Bit URL to the entire power.
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Powerpoint deck, so Gale support, site.
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This is where you're going to find your access.
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All the materials, the training materials. I linked out those student activities. You'll find them here.
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So in for access and product, you'll have access and title lists and mark records and all of your database icons and widgets. Your training center is where you're going to find tip sheets and tutorials and recorded webinars. There's training decks and lesson plans.
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Projects and scammed your hunts. I shared with you a lot of student activities that you can utilize with choice.
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Along with your Gale resources. And there's there's multiple activities, including
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Some that you're seeing you're seeing on the screen. Here's a Galex searching best practices. We also have escape rooms and templates. If you want to create your own escape room.
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We've got tick toe and trading cards and all kinds of great activities to go along with your Gale resources.
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If you're interested in doing training yourself on individual resources, we've curated our training materials for you into this toolkit. We have Powerpoint slide decks ready to go. We also have these great click sheets where you can start with the basics, and then we also share with you where you can go for help.
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So it takes you through step by step. Okay, now that we've started you on the basics, maybe you've watched a webinar. Now, next steps. Here's some different ideas, or here's some quick tips, or do your own training. Here's a Powerpoint slide deck.
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We have great video tutorials that are available, and also all of our marketing materials, bookmarks.
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Posters. We have email.
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And blog templates available. We also have social media posts, every shape and size.
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That you may need, you can utilize. Don't recreate the wheel. We have everything for you.
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So that is the end of our session. I just again don't forget I still have one more slide or 2 more with the QR. Code.
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Support site. I just mentioned your one on one support. If you're looking, you need more. You want to walk through that support site, or you are looking for the direct Urls. Or maybe you want to run a usage report for your library, your Gale customer success. Managers are your one on one support and all things Gale.
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So please reach out to them. Their contact information will also be included in the follow-up email. The training should pop up. When you leave me today. Please give me some feedback. I share that internally. I also share it with the folks.
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At the Florida Electronic Library. They ask for it once a year. It is completely anonymous. Unless you want your information there, or you need me to reach out to you again. Please feel free to leave your contact information. I do check them.
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And we'll reach out to you with any questions that you have. But please.
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Leave some comments we all you have to do is click the continue button. It should pop up on your screen, and I like to say we're having a competition. But.
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I can boastfully say that.
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I am killing it with these training, with the training, and I'm I'm very excited. I look in there like I said. I look in there often, and I do share it internally. We all do so. If you ever work with a gale trainer, please fill out the survey. It really helps us all out again. My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior training consultant at Gale. It's the little things that get you excited right. Senior training consultant at Gale.
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I thank you so much for your time today. Please come back and check out. We have a lot of Fl trainings coming up.
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And that that I'll be posting and and adding so I can't remember if I put them all up there yet or not. But they, you'll see if you go to the training site you will see that we have a lot of great materials and training materials available and ready to go for you.
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There's yeah. They're all posted. So from now until January we have a lot of training sessions coming up. So please join us again.
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And then here is that.
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QR code. And here's the bitly URL. So this will take you to this specific slide deck.
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And all those templates that are ready to go for you. And again they are linked out using your electronic library resources. So when I say they're ready to go, they truly are. You can start implementing them tomorrow if you wanted to, but they're ready to go for you all.
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So I thank you so much for your time today. Please let me know if you have any questions again. I'm happy to do so.
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But thanks everyone, and have a great rest of your day.
Welcome to your training, session, choice boards and gale resources from FEL. This training is in partnership with the Florida Electronic Library. We are thrilled and always happy to be partners with Florida, with the Florida Electronic library and super excited to share with you this option that you have available to you Gale resources in choice boards.
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My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale, and any questions that you have please feel free to use that QA box. I can see it here. It's open and available, so ask away.
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And we are going to start with a brief agenda, but jump right into understanding sports.
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So I am excited hopefully. You have some background. If not, that's okay. I'm going to explain a little bit of what exactly a Choice Board is I did this training session at the Fame Conference last fall.
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And it was a hit. We had a packed room, and it was very exciting. Folks were super excited to hear about how easy it is to use.
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The tools within Gale resources to put them into choice boards. And then I repeated this session in South Carolina and the folks there had even some additional ideas that, like some of them, had destiny, and they were using the this idea of choice boards or Gale you linking Gale resources to information, and they were.
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Doing this right within destiny. So I don't have access to that.
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Product. So if you do have that, I can kind of talk through. I, the librarian, shared with me. I'm happy to do that after today's training, happy to talk through it a little bit more.
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But if you are just building choice boards, maybe you're doing it in Google slides, or you're using Powerpoint is a great way to do that. I've also heard, and I haven't tried this yet. But one of my other States, actually Ohio! They use pick monkey. So I, not familiar with pick monkey, but it is another option, and and for the State to provide.
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Boards. So just some different ideas of what other folks are doing. So let's dive in. Now that I've given a lot of that information out. Let's dive into our agenda. We're going to start with an overview of the Gale resources, and then I'm going to show you the choice boards. Now I have created links and QR. Codes to everything.
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So you're going to find everything you need in this Powerpoint.
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And then I can also provide I'll provide a link.
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In the follow up email back to this Powerpoint. So if you'd like to use it again, you can. But each slide that I go into. You'll see either. A bitly URL.
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Or a QR. Code that'll take you directly to what I've created. And that's when I, in the description I had mentioned that.
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You would have templates to walk away with. That's what I'm talking about. These are the templates that are ready to go and available for you to use.
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Because they are linked directly to your Florida library resources, and since.
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Your state. Geo. Authenticates. That means that the links will work perfectly for you, no matter what library or what school you're coming from, they will automatically work.
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So it's really a great way to utilize. Those those links in choice. So we will browse.
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The resource, features and choice, and the choice that I've created. And then any questions please feel free to stop me along the way.
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To access your Fl resources. You have a link here. Hopefully, you're familiar with this great information on the Fl site. But if you're using your direct Urls into your gale resources even better, because then you are capturing usage. If you're not familiar, want to learn more about how to do that in your library. Then what I can do is.
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Provide you at the end with your Gale customer, success manager, their contact information, and they can help you with any of those questions that you have.
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Accessing the fbl site. It
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I, we actually, it has just received a recent update. I'd have to update my screenshot here. So you'll see it looks a little bit different, but you're very easily can access content directly on your flip site.
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And now let's dive into the resources and the choice. And I did. We have one for elementary one for middle school and one for high school that you can again utilize in your buildings or share with your teachers. I had a lot of librarians that showed up.
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To our session, and they were doing that to
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Share this information with their teachers. So.
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1st of all, let's talk about what is a choice board.
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So choice, port, choice.
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Choice boards are. They're essentially they're graphicor which allow students to choose different ways to learn about a particular concept. They give students of their own learning by giving them choice about their learning path.
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Many choice boards link to external online content. But today we are going to discuss the boards that keep the students within one document. So within one, I should say, within one resource. This is done through
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You can do this through Google slides.
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And it's really easy to do that, to interlink back to.
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Something within the slide where the students are making that choice. So really, students are able to move around within the slides.
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Via rather than clicking in individual links. It really makes it easy for them to run through it like.
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And access those images so.
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Again, looking at the screen. So that was a little bit off top, not off topic, but off script. That many of the choice board links to external content, such as gale resources within. FEL, so keep that in mind as we're talking through.
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Choice boards, and how they can be used.
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So first,let's talk about the individual resources. First, st we're going to start with elementary, then I'll go into the choice board, and then I actually have an activity on the support site that you can utilize.
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Also with this resource, so Gale In Context: elementary. This is designed for a kindergarten through 5th grade students.
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You're going to find trusted reference content periodicals, videos, images. There's infographics available here within this resource.
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There's. It's also a great resource to support curriculum, standards, animal life, nature, history, geography, science, health, literature, and so much more.
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And it does relay or align nicely to curriculum standards.
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And then to enhance teaching and learning. This is a safe place to find answers.
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Which is really important. You, your students can practice their research skills.
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And also explore their interests. And that's where choice come into play.
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So the choice board that I created, and that is talking about weather at the elementary level. So what is the weather and what I've done here is, and I just put this into a Powerpoint slide, I added the QR. Code and the bitly URL. So this will take you.
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To the slide. But what you will find is when your students have access to this information.
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Or if you're from a public library, and you're doing, maybe you're doing some programming around. If you have some programming that you're doing with students. And you want to create some interactive activities with digital content. Choice can be utilized in your public library, too. So keep that in mind.
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That it is a great option.
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For public libraries, awesome.
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So actually, what I did is, if you notice, when I put my cursor over top of the image, I get the link.
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And when I click into that image it will take me directly to a document within. Or it might be a video. I think thunderstorms might be a video. It could be a video could be an image could be a documents wherever you want your students learning. And the idea here is to give students choice. Now.
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If you need them to study or learn about all of these topics, then maybe one they choose to.
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And day 2 they choose 2 more, or they choose one each day you do one a day. This is elementary, so depending on what level of elementary you're teaching.
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This could be really helpful. Doing one a day or one a week, or that kind of thing where students are looking forward to it.
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So I am from Michigan, and in Florida. You I will share.
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I lived in Florida for a year. I lived in the port area. My kids went to school there, and I remember a day.
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the heaviest coat we wore when we were in Florida, because, we're Michigan. What was like, we call them fall like a fall coat. So just a heavier coat right.
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And we one day we went. It was January, and it was a little chilly, but it's Florida, and the weather warms up so beautifully by midday that my kids were coming home in their short sleep t-shirt and wanting their shorts on, and not their jeans anymore.
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So. But when we went to school that day my kids were in their fall coats, I was dropping them off.
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There were a lot of kids in winter, and there was frost on the ground, and they were touching this, the grass because of the frost, and my kids are like, what are they?
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Doing, cause.
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They knew what snow was like, and I said, This is kind of like snow in Florida, for, for the kids here it's not like they see snow like you guys are used to.
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So I'll never forget that story. So I I had to as a number one choice, include snow.
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Because students in Florida, or, I should say users in Florida should.
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Little bit more about that type of weather, too. So what happens is when you click into that image. Now that I told you a story to go along with it.
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It opens a document.
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And let me try to minimize my other stuff here.
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There we go. So let me share the screen.
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When it's in person it's a little bit easier. So I clicked into it.
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And it took me right to.
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The spot within Gale In Context:, elementary.
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I just want to make sure I'm sharing.
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You're seeing what I'm seeing. Yes, you are perfect.
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So how did I do that?
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It is so easy to do.
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So if I'm let's say I'm doing, I'm we know we're doing the topic of weather, and I want to look for I can start with a search as it as an either a teacher, or again, a public library for working on programming here. And I want to look for weather.
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So we have. We actually have a topic guide on weather. So I can go directly to that topic, guide or.
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If I were wanted to segment these out like I did snow thunderstorms. I could do that search. But as if I'm coming into weather, I may be able to find everything I need in one spot.
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So I can look into my book articles.
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And a quick way to find exactly what I'm looking for is I could do a search within.
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And it looks like I may not have picked it from book articles. Let me go back to all content types.
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Oh, and it won't sorry. Let me go back. One more.
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Okay, I'm going to just do a basic search to save us some time.
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I don't think I picked it from the snow topic, but.
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Maybe I did.
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I bet it was this one.
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Yeah, okay, so I did pick it from the snowtop again. Now.
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Once I find that what I'm interested in a document, a video, how do I grab a link back to that information?
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I just use the get link tool.
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It's right at the top. It'll take my students back to any spot.
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Or my younger users in my library.
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Take students back to any spot within the resource.
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And all I have to do is copy that link again. The get link tools in my in my.
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Toolbox up here, or my
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2 of my! Why am I drawing a blank on my toolbar? But I call it something else all the time. It'll come back to me. Sorry.
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This link.
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I just copy and paste it, and what I did then let me go back to my Powerpoint.
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I selected. Now I can't do this because I'm showing this as a.
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Slideshow. But when I'm when I'm working on my slides, I just.
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Selected the the image and hyperlinked it out.
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So when you select the image and right click.
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It hopefully, you're familiar with this. But just in case.
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Select the image, and then if you right, click that image, then you'll see the hyperlink option, and you just paste it in there. So then that get link tool is.
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That direct document is linked to this image.
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Now with thunderstorms.
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I did. This was a video.
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So let me share my screen.
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And it is muted. So let me turn that on.
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Chances are you've experienced a thunderstorm.
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Thunderstorms produce lightning, and.
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Lightning is a flash of supercharged electricity.
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The loud rule.
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So here you can take your users directly to.
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Video content on thunderstorms.
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And our videos do come with.
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Transcript and close captioning which is on. I can turn that off if I want to.
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So that feature is available.
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So you get the idea right?
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If, when I was creating this, I use the get link, tool.
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I just grabbed the link.
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Again back to this exact spot.
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And then I put it into my Powerpoint slide. So it's.
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Really a kind of a couple of step process. Right? The nice thing is, though, once you've created these slides.
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You can use them again and again. You can just change it for a different topic. you want 5. It depends with our younger users, we might want to keep it consistent that they know that this is a choice board.
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So they might want to keep it a little bit more consistent. Where, with your middle schoolers and high schoolers, you can get a little bit more creative.
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Now there is a.
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Now this is just a side note, tip and trick.
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Let me remember. I'll put it in the.
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In the chat.
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This is a free Google slides theme for that you can utilize. I found it when I was doing some research.
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That you can use for choice.
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And let me make sure I'm going to the right place.
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Choice Board Templates.
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There we go!
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Here it is. Okay. I'm going to put this direct link into the chat.
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Since you all are here.
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And attending live. Thank you for attending. Live.
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So this is, I didn't use these because I had to use our branding. And again, remember, these are ready to go if you want this bitly, URL, and you want this slide.
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You can use the QR code or go to this slide again the at the end. I'll provide you with a link and a QR. Code that'll take you to my entire deck, and these are ready to go. They're utilizing your flour resources. But if you want to build your own, and you haven't before, and you're kind of excited about the idea.
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This, if you want to use some templates manias. One I found, and it's free.
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So you can utilize if you're not strict on branding like we are. That's something you can do. Something else I'm working on is eventually putting these into Google slides.
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But I have to move all of our branding over, and it's a little bit of a process. So these are. That's just an option. I put that in the chat, so you all can. If you want to utilize that extra tool.
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Just a tip and trick that you can use with these.
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Choice boards. Alright! Let me know if there's any questions.
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The elementary one. Again, if you need this, you can.
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Either scan the QR code or.
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Grab this bitly, URL. You might want to write it down.
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And let's go into the next one again. At the end. I will share with you.
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A URL back to this entire slide deck.
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So the next step is, well, okay. Now we've done the choice board. Do we want them to do some type of activity after? Well, we do have support materials.
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Some of them I have ready to go that that relate to the choice board that I did. Others are. I'm just highlighting today.
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And some I'm more. I'm still working on. So I have some that I'm building for these choice Board Sessions.
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But there's there a work in progress. Here's an idea.
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On our Gale support site. We have this document for developing research skills.
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For. And this works directly with Gale In Context:, elementary.
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Here's a URL back to.
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This will take you directly to these documents, so you can see and.
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I've also added. So it's a 4 step, 1st pages for teachers, and then these are 3 documents that students can use as they're working on.
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Building those research skills. And then here's a QR code. If you'd like to scan that so that'll take you directly to this support document that we have on the Gale support site. All of the activities I share with you live on the Gale support site, and this one is that you can utilize with Gale and contacts elementary.
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So that's kind of your next step.
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Right. So you are taking them again.
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Into, go back.
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To the choice board, and then, if you want to do an activity to go along with it, I wanted to provide you with one.
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So that you are ready to go. With this resource.
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Now let's move on to middle school.
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There's any questions. Let me know.
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Middle school is for your middle school students, 6, th through 8th grade students.
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You're going to find trusted reference content periodicals, images. There's audio files. We have great primary sources, creative works and statistics available within this resource.
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To support curriculum standards. We have frequently studied.
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Frequently studied topics in history and geography.
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Science, health literature and the arts. And then we are also connected to Google and Microsoft. So we're integrated with Google and Microsoft.
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Which means that students can easily put information directly into their Google drive or Microsoft onedrive plus Google classroom.
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We work our resources. You can put information directly into your Google classroom. If you're using that, you can also print download an email.
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And then highlights and notes is a great tool that's available in all of your gale resources.
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So for this one I was looking at financial literacy.
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Something that is important in schools.
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And is being taught in schools, and is being added to many curriculums. In many States.
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And so we were looking at economics economics, money matters choice board.
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And so for this one, I took these concepts of budgeting loans and credits and wants taxation, saving and investing in student loans.
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And then what I've done is asked the question or ask for.
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Them to list 2 reasons why. So list 2 reasons why making and following a budget is a is a wise way of managing your money, and here I put the links in the box on the text. There.
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So I click into that box.
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And again it takes me directly to.
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My article on Budgeting.
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So I read the article first, st and then asked.
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Found questions, or in this case I'm listing 2 reasons why.
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And I could have them, right? Their answers. These are middle schoolers, so I could have them just use a piece of paper. Or maybe I want to create.
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A Google form. If that if you prefer everything, digital, you could use a Google form. I am working on a document to go along with.
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This. But we do have a scavenger hunt that goes along with this, too. It's just an additional activity that you can do. But so what I do is I read the article first.st
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And then, because I know budgeting is financial literacy budgeting. It's all part of that.
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Curriculum standard I'm trying to hit. So then what I do is I'll read the article, and then.
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Put in either a question or have them create a list, or whatever the case may be. Whatever I'm looking for.
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So they will for sure find the answers in this article that.
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I have linked out from the Choice Board.
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Go back. And again, same thing. I'm in middle school now. I'm in Gale In context, middle school.
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Is the resource that I pulled this information in from.
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And that's the beauty of these choice boards.
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It does not have to be all in one resource.
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As you'll see. I think I did it in the next one. Maybe it's.
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2 resources. It, doesn't it? You're not limited.
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You can pull in multiple resources. It really depends for our younger, like our elementary students. You might want to say on one.
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Particular topic page, even within one digital resource.
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But you could pull in multiple. It doesn't. They're clicking in and using your choice to get to the content that you've linked out for them for, and then they can either answer their question or complete an activity.
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Whatever it is that you have your next step, your.
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Your instructions.
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Are directing them to do.
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So I'm in Gale In context middle school. The get link tool is here in our conceptual conceptual toolbar. There we go. That was what I the word I was looking for. And these tools change depending on where I'm at within the resource. When I'm at a document level. I see all of these document tools available get link and highlights and notes are always here. So the get link tools. There.
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And that's what I that's my process. When I was creating this choice board.
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What I did. So let me go back to my choice board.
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And these could be could take you directly to if I wanted to go to a
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Maybe I want to go to an audio file. Maybe it's an interview.
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It. Really, there's so much available because your resources are multimedia, especially, you're in context resources. You have great multimedia there images. Or maybe it's a primary source. Maybe I'm doing something in social studies.
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And I want to link out directly to primary sources. And I want to introduce these primary sources to my students. Choice board is a great way to do that with your digital resources. So you can see how easy it is. It's really one tool. It's using the get link tool.
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It takes some work to get them.
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to build these choice boards.
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But for me it took a little bit longer, because I was searching through curriculum standards, and then finding the connection to content that we have available where.
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You all might be a little bit easier. You're looking at programming. Now let's see what we have in the digital resources, or I know these are my curriculum standards. Let me link it to content in the curriculum standards. And you're the beauty is of your Gale resources, especially your in contact. Suite of resources is that you have. They are designed around or built for aligning to curriculum standards.
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What's being taught in the classroom, frequently setting topics. All those things I talk about when I talk about the resource itself.
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That's why they work so well with these choice boards. And what's happening in your schools or with your programming? Because a lot of times your public library programming. You're doing stuff to kind of coordinate with what's happening in the schools. A lot of you work with the schools.
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Which is awesome. So same idea I just did. I linked out the individual text in this one rather than.
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The title. It's really up to you. You could link out the icon. Whatever you want.
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I did the the text box. Now I will say this. If you add a hyperlink to text, it'll underline it like a link.
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So keep that in mind. That's why I like to put boxes around things or shapes. This might. I can't remember if this was a shape. It might have been a shape that I put a text box over.
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But anyhow, either way, keep that in mind that if I were to link it to all this text it would make a hyperlink and underline it. And so if that's what you want to do.
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That's great, but I wanted it to look a certain way.
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Here is the bitly URL to the choice boards and the QR. Code. If you would like those.
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Now the activity that we had available on the Gale support site was a.
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Money, matter, money and banking, scavenger, hunt.
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So we have the scavenger hunt. It's 5 questions long you are going directly into. I believe it would go directly into a topic page questions about money and banking be sure to include your sources. So we ask.
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Questions. So read select the blue. Read more button in the overview. And that's that topic overview on the topic page. So we are using the topic page of.
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Money and banking. Typically, we do for our scavenger hunts. We use one topic. All the answers are going to be found there.
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But it's a way to extend.
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So an extension to that learning that's happening. Or maybe it's just a way for students to get to know the resources. So you have your choice board, and then you also have the scavenger hunt.
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Here's the link at the bottom that'll take you directly to this document, and then the QR. Code is also here.
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Let me know if you have any questions.
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Alright. The last one we're going to go into is Gale Litfinder.
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So our Gale Litfinder is a great resource for Ela classes at the High School level.
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Middle school it's used to, because you are going to find full text poems. Over 130,000 poems are available. There's short stories and novels. You'll also find essays.
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Speeches, including inaugural speeches. There's over 300 plays, and so much more.
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So, Litfinder, are your original literary works.
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And in this one, this this choice board I pulled in Litfinder, and also.
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Gale ebooks, because you have quite a large ebook collection from the Florida library. So I pulled in both.
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And I did look at.
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Curriculum and novels or stories that are studied at the high school level. And the Odyssey is 1 1 of my favorites, too. Book one. And this is a book, one choice Board.
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So same idea where I have linked out the content where you can click into this I did on the box, or the shape itself.
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So I can go directly to some background knowledge. My 1st question is, what is known about the author, Homer.
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All the way to specific questions.
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About the story or the again, we're focusing on Book one. It's not the complete Odyssey. This is focusing on book one.
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And here below I did give some instructions for my high school students is use claim evidence and commentary to support your answers.
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Here is again the bitly URL and the QR. Code.
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And then when I click into one.
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Let me go back!
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I just saw it there a second ago. Why is my icon? There we go.
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This one is a little bit trickier. Let me share that screen.
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So I asked that question.
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What is known about the author, Homer. I took them directly into in.
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Gale literature Litfinder. I took them into.
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This document.
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And they'll find the answer here. Now for a high school students what might be really helpful.
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Is next step. You've given them the choice board and.
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Maybe they want to highlight, because this is a great tool for them to use. What is the question is, what is known about the author? Homer.
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So they could read through this article.
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Click and drag over a chunk of text.
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Choose the color. And here's information about Homer, and they can add any notes that they.
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Would like to this. They can save.
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And then find some additional information.
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About Homer the author.
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Now what I would do with this.
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Now that I've marked it up, what I could do is I would want to make sure. If I want to keep this information, I can send it.
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I can send it to Google.
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Microsoft onedrive email.
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Might email it to myself. I can download it, or I can print it.
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I can. If I choose to send it to my Google drive, let me show you what that looks like.
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It's going to ask me the very 1st time.
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You send information, or from, I'm on my own computer. So it usually remembers my information.
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Today. It made me log in. I haven't been in here yet today, so
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The very 1st time we do ask permission to put information into Google, drive.
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And then what happens is a folders created.
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For whatever resource I'm in. So I'm in Gale literature, Litfinder. So let me just show you. I'll go into my Google drive.
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Me, see.
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Actually.
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Need to be in this one.
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I made the mistake of changing my.
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Account my
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My Google account information.
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And on the one I use all the time I was doing something, and I needed to create a different URL or
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Gmail, and now I'm regretting it, cause I change it across the board.
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So, anyhow, and I don't know how to fix it. Gale Litfinder, so here's my folder.
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Yeah. Literature. Litfinder. I open it up.
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And here is my document.
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It is, turns it into a Google Doc.
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And here's the chunk of text I highlighted.
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Then below my citation.
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And my citation is automatically attached.
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I have my source citation. I also have my gale document number.
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Which can be helpful too.
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For other activities. So keep that in mind that every document has a gale document number. But here's my highlighted passage and any notes I've taken.
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So there's an answer to my question. That was I asked during.
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In my Choice Board.
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Another way to do this is when you're using your choice. You can.
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You can also use just the highlights and notes. So if I only wanted that.
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I've highlighted best practice. I always say, send it to Google Microsoft.
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email download, whatever it is. So you have a copy of the entire article.
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Or document, and what you've highlighted.
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But then also view all highlights and.
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You have that capability.
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After you've done some highlighting on a document.
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You have these what I like to call digital notes, and I can just send this to.
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Those same locations.
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And here's the option to edit my notes.
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So if I wanted to add in more details, I can.
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So just another great tool that's available within your gale resources.
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Okay.
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Let me go back to my Powerpoint. I just want to share. I think I shared everything there with you.
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I just want to make sure that if you need the URL or the QR. Code they are here.
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And again each of these is linked out.
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So each question is taken into a document in LitFinder, or it might be taking users directly to a section within an ebook.
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Which is a great way to use your choice.
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I had a an account I was working with. They were using choice boards, and they were specifically using it for their ebooks.
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They were either introducing titles or they were introducing, sections of the ebooks.
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On, based on a certain topic.
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So great idea to use choice that way. It really depends on how you want to use them. Or maybe you just want to highlight. Some, if you're, in a library, public library, or even a school library, and you want to highlight some of the ebooks that are available, based on a serve certain topic. I had a another group use. They were looking at health and wellness.
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And mental health, and they utilize a choice board.
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With their ebook collection, which is a great idea, so many different ways that these choice boards can be used for the classroom. They can be utilized in your library, too.
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The activity I have to go along with. This one doesn't really go along with the Odyssey. I apologize for that. We do have.
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For lit finder. We do have a scavenger hunt, and then we also have.
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I. I had given the instructions of claim, evidence and commentary. This is claim, evidence and reasoning, similar idea, and a great way to use this with that type of writing this week created this document that can be used in Litfinder or any of your in context, resources.
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Alright! So we're right towards the end of our time. Oh, here are the.
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Sorry. Here's the bitly URL for this.
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Document or this scavenger hunt, and then the URL and the QR. Code for the claim evidence and reasoning. They do all live on the Gale support site. And I'm going to talk to you about that next.
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But quick way to get to them is utilizing the tools I've given you on the screen.
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Don't forget at the end. I'm going to share the QR code to the entire N. Bit URL to the entire power.
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Powerpoint deck, so Gale support, site.
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This is where you're going to find your access.
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All the materials, the training materials. I linked out those student activities. You'll find them here.
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So in for access and product, you'll have access and title lists and mark records and all of your database icons and widgets. Your training center is where you're going to find tip sheets and tutorials and recorded webinars. There's training decks and lesson plans.
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Projects and scammed your hunts. I shared with you a lot of student activities that you can utilize with choice.
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Along with your Gale resources. And there's there's multiple activities, including
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Some that you're seeing you're seeing on the screen. Here's a Galex searching best practices. We also have escape rooms and templates. If you want to create your own escape room.
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We've got tick toe and trading cards and all kinds of great activities to go along with your Gale resources.
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If you're interested in doing training yourself on individual resources, we've curated our training materials for you into this toolkit. We have Powerpoint slide decks ready to go. We also have these great click sheets where you can start with the basics, and then we also share with you where you can go for help.
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So it takes you through step by step. Okay, now that we've started you on the basics, maybe you've watched a webinar. Now, next steps. Here's some different ideas, or here's some quick tips, or do your own training. Here's a Powerpoint slide deck.
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We have great video tutorials that are available, and also all of our marketing materials, bookmarks.
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Posters. We have email.
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And blog templates available. We also have social media posts, every shape and size.
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That you may need, you can utilize. Don't recreate the wheel. We have everything for you.
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So that is the end of our session. I just again don't forget I still have one more slide or 2 more with the QR. Code.
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Support site. I just mentioned your one on one support. If you're looking, you need more. You want to walk through that support site, or you are looking for the direct Urls. Or maybe you want to run a usage report for your library, your Gale customer success. Managers are your one on one support and all things Gale.
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So please reach out to them. Their contact information will also be included in the follow-up email. The training should pop up. When you leave me today. Please give me some feedback. I share that internally. I also share it with the folks.
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At the Florida Electronic Library. They ask for it once a year. It is completely anonymous. Unless you want your information there, or you need me to reach out to you again. Please feel free to leave your contact information. I do check them.
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And we'll reach out to you with any questions that you have. But please.
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Leave some comments we all you have to do is click the continue button. It should pop up on your screen, and I like to say we're having a competition. But.
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I can boastfully say that.
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I am killing it with these training, with the training, and I'm I'm very excited. I look in there like I said. I look in there often, and I do share it internally. We all do so. If you ever work with a gale trainer, please fill out the survey. It really helps us all out again. My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior training consultant at Gale. It's the little things that get you excited right. Senior training consultant at Gale.
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I thank you so much for your time today. Please come back and check out. We have a lot of Fl trainings coming up.
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And that that I'll be posting and and adding so I can't remember if I put them all up there yet or not. But they, you'll see if you go to the training site you will see that we have a lot of great materials and training materials available and ready to go for you.
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There's yeah. They're all posted. So from now until January we have a lot of training sessions coming up. So please join us again.
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And then here is that.
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QR code. And here's the bitly URL. So this will take you to this specific slide deck.
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And all those templates that are ready to go for you. And again they are linked out using your electronic library resources. So when I say they're ready to go, they truly are. You can start implementing them tomorrow if you wanted to, but they're ready to go for you all.
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So I thank you so much for your time today. Please let me know if you have any questions again. I'm happy to do so.
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But thanks everyone, and have a great rest of your day.