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Last Updated: October 02, 2024

Tuesdays with TEL: Choice Boards and Gale Resources

Support students with the power to choose how to learn about a certain subject or concept with Choice Boards. Discover best practices to connect the library to the classroom using Gale digital resources from the Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL). View this training session recording to explore examples of Choice Boards created for your Gale resources that encourage more responsible, accountable, and independent student learning. Learn more about your resources available from TEL and walk away with materials connected to subjects of study for elementary, middle school, and high school to use and share with teachers in your building!
Duration: 45 Minutes
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Welcome to your training session for the Tennessee Electronic Library. Today's training is Choice Boards and Gale Resources from TEL. My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale, and I thank you all for taking time out of your day and joining me for this session. Our session today is what I want to do is provide you with an understanding of the resources that you have available from TEL.

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And then how to use those resources with choice, and talk about content, tools and features within your gale resources so hopefully, you have a little bit of an understanding of what choice are. But if you don't, that's okay. I'm going to cover that information with you today. And what I've also done is, I've created 3 choice boards.

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That you are able to use within your libraries and classrooms, or you can use them as templates for your own choice. So I've done that for you all today.

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I have provided links and QR. Codes to everything within this Powerpoint slide deck, including.

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Link and a QR code to the slide deck itself. So you're going to find a lot of that information as we go along.

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If you the link to the Powerpoint Slide deck, if you would like that, that will be at the end of today's training. I'll provide that.

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And I'll let when we're on a slide, that this link will take you to the entire slide deck, or this one takes you to directly to the activity, the student activity, or whatever the case may be, I'll let, as we work through the resource.

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And I will also include that link to the slide deck or to the Powerpoint.

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Slides in the follow up email. So you'll have it multiple ways today.

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For our agenda.

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We are going to start with talking about an overview, just a really brief overview of your Gale resources and then understanding of choice. And then we are going to browse through the resource features, and choice boards. So, as I go into the.

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Choice words. I'm going to show you how I created or talked to you about how I grab that information and added it to a choice board.

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And then also I will highlight some of the tools and features within the resources. So a little bit of information.

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From everywhere questions that you have. Please feel free to use. The QA. Box.

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And again I will also share at the end.

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The support that you're going to find, Gale support materials that you will find on your Gale support site and let me share that link with you right now.

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So you have that in the chat. So that's the support page that we've created for the Tennessee Electronic Library.

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Let's start with a brief overview of your Gale resources, and I did not put all of them on here. I just.

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Selected a few, and have grouped them together.

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So your resources that you'll use most often for classroom support is anything in the in context.

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So anything with Gale In Context in the title. And you do have what we call the 3 building blocks you have in context, elementary.

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Which is for kindergarten through 5th grade and context, middle School 6, through 8th grade students and Gale In Context High School for our 9th through 12th grade students. You also have Gale In Context College, for I would say that one's a great one for.

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Your 1st and second year students.

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Because if they're using their in-text resources when they are in your school district.

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Or through your public library. Then when they get to that higher Ed level, they'll feel comfortable with that resource, too.

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You also have Gale in context, viewpoints.

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So let me talk to you about these 4. So the 3 building blocks, elementary middle school, high School Cross Curricula. You're going to find a little bit of everything available within these resources.

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Where opposing viewpoints is looking more at those hot topics, social issues, you're going to see both sides of the issue. We don't. We show left and right and everything in between, so we don't lean one way or the other. We are a.

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Publisher of our own content.

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But also we work with fantastic publishers. So you're going to find a little bit of everything here. I also consider this one somewhat cross, curricular.

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But again, it's looking at those hot topics and controversial or social issues. So if you're looking for a social studies topic.

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Or a history topic, I would go to one of the elementary middle school or high school, depending on which level you're at.

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We're opposing viewpoints is more current events.

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Hopefully, that helps you understand the difference. You also have other in context, resources available, like environmental studies.

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So keep in mind that you do have additional.

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In context resources, available.

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Looking at periodical content. Anything with one file in the title, and you have a very large collection. I did not put them all on here, but anything with one file in the title is going to be period focused on periodical content magazines, newspapers, academic journals.

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You're going to find some multimedia here. But if you're looking for rich multimedia, you're in context has a lot more. But you will find some multimedia here in your magazine newspapers and academic journals.

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General. One file is our largest general publication. So popular magazines that type of publication used a lot at the Public Library, where academic one file is focused more on your scholarly journals.

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So great for either those accelerated programs at the high school level, but used heavily at the academic or higher Ed level.

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One file news is focus more on newspaper content. So you're going to find newspaper periodicals if you only have one copy in your public library, and maybe it's 1 that's utilized. Often you might want to showcase that you have full access.

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To say the Wall Street, or I'm sorry to. Yeah. Well, the New York Times or the Washington Post.

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Here in Gale one file news, so that might be the route you want to take and share that with folks.

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Where high school edition is designed for our high school students. So it's periodical content. But it is for.

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High schoolers, too, can utilize this resource. But really it's for that high school.

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Content so great for current events or debates, or those types of civics, or any classes that are using publications that they need specifically for high school students.

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And then again you have a huge one file collection.

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And you'll find that on your TEL.

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On the Tennessee site. So if you go to the TEL site you'll find that information there.

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For faculty, staff and professional development. I absolutely love Gale. One file educators complete. You're going to find great content here to support education.

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For Spanish language periodicals. This is for middle school, and up.

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You're going to find Spanish and Portuguese periodicals in again. It's in the one file family, so we know it's periodical. But this resource is called informacemo.

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For your business resources, company and industry research. You're going to find Gale business insights and Gale business entrepreneurship. Really helpful. Gale. Business insights takes a deep look at company profiles, swat analysis. Plunkett reports that type of information where Gale business entrepreneurship provides you with full business plans. Ways to manage your small business, or start a small business.

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Funding that type of information.

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And then one more I have to mention is testing career prep. So this is for your test. Prep. Ap, you're going to find her also all kinds of vocational certification tests. You're going to find available this test prep. Within this resource, also great career advice. There's a career assessment. You have the ability to build resumes in this resource.

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So lots of great content in Peterson's test and career. Prep.

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So that's just a brief overview of some of the resources you have from the Tennessee Electronic library, some of your gale resources. So let's talk about choice boards, and how your gale resources can very easily work within choice boards.

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So what is a choice board.

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Choice boards are a graphic organizer which allow students to choose different ways.

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To learn about a particular concept or topic. 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 content as I'm going to model for you today, such as gale resources from. TEL.

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Elementary where you're going to find premium, a premium resource with trusted reference, topical videos and images.

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It supports curriculum standards. You're going to find frequently nature, history, history, history, geography, science, health, literature, and more.

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And to enhance teaching and learning. It is a safe place to find answers.

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It's a great place for students to practice research skills and explore their interests. Remember, this is a resource for kindergarten through 5th grade students. So you'll find all of that great content at the reading level. Within this resource.

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Here is the choice boys board I created and focus. I was taking a look at curriculum standards.

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And for elementary. I chose what is weather. And again, we are solely using Gale In Context: elementary. Now, when I created this choice board.

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I had. I did have to do it here within my Powerpoint slide deck, because I needed my Gale branding on everything. Now you all might have different options. Maybe you're using canva.

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There are some sample choice templates available in canva, or you're looking for another site. You might want to try slides, mania.

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Just do a search on free choice for templates and slides. Mania pops to the top of the list.

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And they are free. So you might want to use that as an option. Or maybe you want to design your own and Google slides, or using Powerpoint like I had to do.

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And I simply created boxes and added numbers to kind of help identify with students.

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I was also looking for ways to hyperlink out my information. So.

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What I did is I linked from Gale In context, elementary to these images.

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Because I was thinking about it, and students are going to click on an image. I will share with you a tip.

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If you hyperlink out.

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A word, it is going to provide it.

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This view.

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In a hyperlink, so meaning that it'll highlight it in blue. It'll underline it. So that might not be the way you want to go. I didn't want to. I wanted to use the image because I felt like students are going to click on the image, and it's a little bit easier to say click on the picture.

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And you can see the hyperlink is showing up here in my results. So what happens is, if a student wants to learn about snow first.st

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Or maybe they and they don't have to go in order. Or maybe you do. Maybe for elementary. Each week they pick a different one, or we're week one. We're choosing this.

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Topic and snow or day one, I should say, because you could cover this easily in a 5 day week.

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If I click into the picture.

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And what it does. Let me open up my.

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Hold on a second. I'm not seeing it here.

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I. Want to, I need to share my other screen. There we go.

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What it does is it opens up directly where I want students to go.

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And that is to this article.

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On snow.

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Now this is a level 2. We have. Generally.

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Lower elementary is content level one.

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Upper elementary is content level. We have 5 different levels with middle. So if you remember, middle school is a content level 3. Everything below, elementary, everything above high school. It makes it simple.

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So content. Level one and 2, and I can switch between.

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I don't have to stay with my level 2. If I needed a level one I could do that.

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How did I direct students to this document? Well, what I did is I actually searched.

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Did a search on weather we had a great topic, and I found content that I was interested in linking out in my choice board.

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But to grab a link. All I do is I use my get link, tool.

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It's in the contextual toolbar up here.

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I just select, get link copy that URL.

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Attach it to.

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A choice board right here.

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Now it does. It have to be just an article.

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No, it can also be a video. It could be an image thunderstorms. I chose a video.

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I click into it.

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Taking a couple seconds to load. Here.

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And it starts the video.

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Let me share this with you real quick.

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I'm going to turn the volume on.

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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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So you can see we have closed captioning available. You have the transcript here below.

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We have great tools to support accessibility in the upper right here. So if I wanted to translate, this would translate my text.

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So my transcript.

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Not the closed captioning or the video, but I can translate the cramp, the transcript. So keep that in mind. But when you're at the document level, you'll see that translate feature where you can translate into over 57 link different languages.

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So keep in mind that you have that available to support accessibility. We'll talk more about these as we work through.

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The resource or the the training. Today.

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Let me go back to my Powerpoint.

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And so you get the idea right?

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I grab the link, I attach it to an image. Now this.

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QR. Code. And this direct URL.

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Will take you to the whole entire point. Deck.

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So that's how these 2 work.

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On this page. What I'm going to share with you on the next slide is an activity to go along with the choice.

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So there's any questions. Please let me know about the choice board again. All I did was find content within Gale.

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And I will model that for you. Make sure I have it.

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Open here I have high school open.

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So I found content within Gale In Context: elementary.

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Me go back to my.

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Desktop.

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And I was searching for weather. So this was my path.

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Did a quick search. We have weather, forecasting or weather to different topic guides. I'm going to choose weather.

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And I found a lot of great content right here.

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In this topic. Page now, is everything on this same topic. Page maybe not.

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I could bring in ebooks. If I wanted to link an ebook, I could use my other TEL resources if I wanted to use other TEL resources.

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It doesn't have to be all just one. But you have other. TEL resources for elementary that you can utilize.

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And use their linking, whatever their linking is. But.

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So I wanted to find an article on. Let me go to book articles. I think that's what this one may have been.

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Maybe I'm looking for something on wind.

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And all I would do is, once I found what I was interested in.

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And where I want my students to go. This is a level 2.

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Little bit higher level. I just use a get link tool.

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The get link, tool.

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Again is.

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Right here in my contextual toolbar.

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And you'll always see it there.

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In the toolbar.

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Okay, let's go back to our Powerpoint.

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Now let me share with you.

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What we have available for an activity.

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Now this also has its own.

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Qr code, and also a bitly URL.

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So we have this document.

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Early research skills and.

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The 1st page is directed more towards teachers, skills, research steps. And then we go into the 3 student documents. So this is a teacher, tip sheet.

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And then we 1st students to choose a topic.

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What are they interested in? What do they want to write about?

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Why did they choose this topic? Then they investigate. So once they are at this point they investigate. The next step is.

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Developing that research skills plan. So you have a plan, a main idea supporting details and a summary. So once they have their topic and they're using their notes and details.

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Then they can continue to develop those research skills. So it's if they choose. If you, that's how you're using your choice board, you're letting students choose one of those.

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Weather ideas that you want them to select from. So you're kind of giving them a guided path.

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To the content that you want them to learn.

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Maybe they're doing this as small groups, or individually, they're going to present this.

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So that they're all learning from each other.

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You can utilize this activity. Oh, here, let me share with you.

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The link and the QR code. You can share this activity.

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And this can work with one of those topics.

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Let me go into the next resource. Let me know if you have any questions.

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And that's middle school Galen context, middle school.

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So discover premium resources, trusted reference tap periodicals. You'll find videos, images, audio files, primary sources, creative work statistics. There's also experiment activities.

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Within this resource.

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To support curriculum standards. You're going to find those frequently topics in history and geography, science, Health, literature, and the arts, just to name a few.

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And to enhance teaching and learning. We have Google and Microsoft integration.

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Including Google, classroom.

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You have unlimited print, download and email, and also highlights and notes are available. These are some of those tools and features that are integrated into our resources.

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For this choice Board.

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I took a look at financial literacy.

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So it with economics, money matters.

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It's a choice board where here I linked out the question.

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And what I also did is created an activity to go specifically along with this choice, so that I did for the Tassel Conference. But have it linked on the next slide.

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So what I did was link out to direct content. So all I do as a student is click into for budgeting. I have to list 2 reasons why making and following a budget is a wise way of managing your money.

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I select that.

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And again it takes me directly into that document.

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Now, if I'm a student that needs some additional support, like I need to translate my article. I have these great tools to support accessibility. I can translate my article into over 57 languages.

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Let me model for you.

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I like to use Spanish.

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I also like to use Italian, but.

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Spanish, you can see. I can complete that translation. We give a sample first.st A lot of times. Kids are just curious about the different languages. So that's why we want to know. Do you for sure want to complete the translation or not? Once I completed all of my tools, will be back up here again, but you can see it gives me a good sample of that article in Spanish. First.st

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Cancel that I can decrease or increase the font size.

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For display options. I can change the color behind the text.

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I can change the font.

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Even open dyslexic. I can increase the line, letter, and wordpacing.

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And the nice thing is with this feature is, it'll stick with me throughout my session. So if I were to continue to explore.

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I could. It would just be set up exactly like this.

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So I just come into the 1st document, set my display options to customize it for myself.

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And then it sticks with me until I leave this session.

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To go back to the default settings. I just open that back up.

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Back to default settings and click done.

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I can also listen to this text being read aloud to me.

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And it does take a couple seconds for this to load. Let me make sure. There we go.

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There are some settings here.

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Let me get it started first.st

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Budgeting.

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Oh, I had it set! I had a.

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Hold on!

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Many people dedicate significant time and.

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It is set to slow mode, because I was in a session just.

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A little bit ago. That's fine. We're coming here, anyway. So you open this more button.

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Under settings.

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This is where you can slow the speed down or speed it up.

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Usually defaulted to a hundred.

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I can also increase the volume. I can click, play again.

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These features here, where, when it's I can make some decisions on what's being highlighted. The word color, the sentence color, the text color I'm seeing I'm seeing black. But if I needed that text color.

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In blue as it's being read aloud to me. It can do that.

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I can also just have it underline.

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Or I can change. Exactly what's being.

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What color it's being highlighted in, or.

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Remove that sentence word only, no highlighting at all.

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When I click, play.

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That's I changed every time I change a setting. It takes a little bit to load.

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Budgeting.

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Many people dedicate, significant.

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So this is the underline and word.

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That's what that setting is. It is defaulted to.

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The word color and green sentence color. It's usually defaulted to this.

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And time and effort to trying to get money, but get.

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There we go, so you can see the sentence in one color.

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And the word that it's on in blue in another color.

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I also have the ability to enlarge the text.

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I just turn that on.

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And what it does.

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Thing. Money is only one.

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Pulls out this text box onto the page.

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Now, you may be thinking, okay, you can translate the text. Can you translate the listen? Can you listen to it? Another language? You can.

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You can listen. We are at 25 languages here.

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So you can listen to it in another language. A question came up.

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Do you have, Korean? Yes, we do. That just came up over on Friday. So if that's 1 that you're looking for, Korean is one of the languages that you can listen to it being read aloud.

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So it's, I believe, how they've decided is it's the ones that are the most used.

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And that's the ones that we have available to listen to. But we're constantly adding more.

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Where, like? I said, we're at 25. There, now.

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Let me know if you have any questions about any of that. Those tools again. That's under that more button.

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I can also download this as an Mp. 3.

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Okay, let's go back to our choice board.

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Now the second one. What I did is these 2 actually are taking you to 2 different articles.

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So I would. The instructions would be for my students to.

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Read the answer the questions. Now I, as I said, I create an activity to go along with this choice board, but it could simply be a a.

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Piece paper, or maybe you have a document that you've created, that you have questions on.

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That you want to pull into a choice board and link it to specific content. Great idea.

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That's something that you can do. Or maybe you're at a library, and you want to highlight your new books that you have available, and you want to direct students using a choice board, they click in the cover of, or the title of cover of the book.

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And it takes them directly to that ebook. Or maybe you have a book review, a video. You want them to watch on that ebook.

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That's an idea, too. So there's lots of ways that you can use choice in the classroom, in the library, in the public library for programming. They're just a great tool to ha give users choice.

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Right. And you can like, I said, link out multiple articles. It's not limited to just one. It depends on what questions you're asking.

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And where you want your students to go. It could be a video. It could be an image. It could be an audio file.

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And this again. This link in this QR code will take you to the Full Powerpoint slide deck. But these ones on the next page.

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We'll take you to this activity. So this is that money matters activity.

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We have. This 2 page activity, and the this.

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Coordinates directly with the choice board. You can use the choice board as a template.

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That I've created for you. You can use this as a template, feel free to do so.

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Or you, take it and use it in your classroom because it is linked out using your Tennessee electronic library resources. So you can.

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Provide access directly to that article without needing to authenticate into that article.

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Or video or image, or whatever it is. So these are ready to go for you or your teachers to use along with.

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This student, activity.

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Where again, budgeting loans and credits and lots, you can see, it coordinates with that choice.

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What I've also done is linked out the direct links to the documents here, in case.

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You wanted to use this, or you're.

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Teachers wanted to use this as a standalone. One.

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Thing quick, Tip I want to mention is that you need to be in Gale In Context:. Middle school.

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Before you utilize these links. Otherwise you're going to get an error code. But if you open up Galen context middle school on your browser. Then use the link. It'll open the document or simply use the choice board.

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There's the QR code and direct.

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URL to this activity.

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We also another activity I wanted to share with you is a scavenger hunt on money and banking.

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And it's just simple. 5 questions, scavenger hunt.

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That you can utilize within Galen context, middle school.

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To go along with this topic.

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And here's this access information. These all live on the Gale support site.

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And you'll find them underneath Gale In Context: middle School. They're in the training documents.

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By product. You can go directly to Gale In Context middle School, and you'll find both of these activities there.

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Everything I've linked out for the activities already live on the Gale support site and are directly connected to the individual resources.

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I just wanted to highlight them here and give you direct access. Also.

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The last resource we are going to talk about is for our high school students. And that's Gale In Context: opposing viewpoints.

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Remember, this is cross, curricular but hot topics, social issues, controversial issues. You're going to find here.

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Premium resources, content, periodicals, videos, images, audio statistics.

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There's informed viewpoints and viewpoint essays available.

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To support curriculum standards. You're going to find frequently topics and current social issues, controversial topics, supporting science, social studies and the language arts.

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And then, of course, we have that integration with Google.

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We also have the ability to print download or email.

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And then we have our highlights and notes, feature.

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So I wanted to show you a few search options, too. So this time, when we go into the resource, I want to show you.

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Our something. If the homepage, a little bit topic pages and topic finder. We talked about your tools to support accessibility, so we don't need to cover that again at the document level. But let's 1st go into our choice board.

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And you can see here, with our choice Board.

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What I did. I did something a little different here. I use the information icons to link everything out.

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I also provided a link to the activity I wanted students to complete.

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And my background. Knowledge takes you to a topic on inflation.

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So I kind of did things a little bit differently. I also left some directions here, use claim evidence and reasoning to support your answers. I actually have an activity to go along with that.

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So just a little bit different, just trying to.

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Try different things right, and show different ways, that these can be used and provide different types of templates.

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For you all to take back and use in your.

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Buildings. So background knowledge. If I.

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Click on. It takes me to.

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The complete topic page. So we're going to talk about topic pages.

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Topic. Pages are a.

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What you'll find is a curated information on the topic or term.

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These are created by our content or our subject matter. Specialists and content editors.

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On the topic. Page, you'll find an image and topic overview.

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And then below, in the center will be all of our different content types that we have available.

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And then below that you'll find boxes with each of those content types within. So, for example, featured viewpoints.

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And viewpoints. I want to talk about the difference between these 2.

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Featured viewpoints, anything with the featured content in that little star icon. This is hand selected information by our subject matter. Experts.

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So in this resource, it's great because you're going to get both sides of the issue.

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Just within featured viewpoints. So this is a great area to direct your users to.

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When they're looking for content.

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Because it does show both sides of the issue, and we consider it the best of the best. So we pull that out. It's a great place to get started.

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Where our viewpoints will have our viewpoint. Essays.

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Viewpoint essays. I'm going to click into it. You'll see here in.

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Where it says right here, the document, type, viewpoint, essay.

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What they are. I'm going to use this 1st one.

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Is they provide you with. Oh, wait a minute.

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So let me go back to my results. This took me to my.

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Topic, overview.

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And go directly to a viewpoint essay. Here, there we go. This is what I was looking for. Article commentary.

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So it gives you some background information on the author.

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And then these have some questions to consider.

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This would. These would be great, too, to pull into choice.

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Where you could direct students. Back to this article you have 3 questions ready to go.

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You can direct them directly to this document.

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So there's lots of information already ready to go within your resources. It's just understanding it's there and how to use the tools.

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To share it, and the easiest way is using that, get link tool and pulling it into the choice.

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You also have to the right this great explore panel, where you can find supplemental information.

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You'll also see all of our quick send options where you can quickly send a Google Microsoft email download and print. They also live in the contextual toolbar.

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Underneath that paper airplane. You'll find the send to.

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With Google onedrive and email.

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You have the download feature or print we talked about. Get link.

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Our citations are attached to everything within your resources. But the citation tool is also here. If you just need the citation.

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You can choose your format where you'd like to export it to, or simply copy and paste.

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And we also have highlights and notes. Let me talk about that real quick.

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If you highlight a chunk of text.

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Question, one.

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Save that information.

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And maybe I go below, and I look for.

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This is maybe the answer. I also want to put that in yellow.

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I would want to put more of a summary, but.

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Just depends.

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And this is also a great tool to use. If you've linked out a document.

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And are asking the question, What are 2 types of inflation.

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You could direct. Students use the highlights and notes feature, and they could highlight the 2.

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Types of inflation.

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And then best practice is to send this entire document somewhere to their Google drive onedrive email. But what's also happening is.

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My highlights and notes is being built out. So with my choice board.

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I'm asking the question, what are 2 types of inflation? And I'm finding that information in my document.

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So here it is. Here's the article.

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Types of inflation.

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Multiple models describe the types of inflation.

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And so you can find you want to find the answers to those questions here.

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Some types of inflation.

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I'm just going to highlight this section here.

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Same idea, right.

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They're actually down below here. But anyhow, you get the idea.

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Use a different color.

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Now best practice. I send this entire document to my Google drive. So I have it.

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Till I choose to delete it.

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Lands in a folder titled.

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Gale and contact. Supposing.

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And then what's happening is my highlights and notes is being built out.

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So what can I do with that.

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As a student. Here's the 2 articles I did some highlighting in.

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If I'm using this with the choice board, I can just send this information.

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To Google, Microsoft.

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Email download.

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Or print. I can label this content before I send.

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So it'll create a nice legend for me.

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I can edit my notes.

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Before I send them.

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I can simply just send this information.

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So here's also another way to answer the questions on the choice board is using the highlights and notes, feature bibliographies. And I can change that format.

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So keep that in mind that that's an option, too. And this is being built out throughout my session.

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So, as I'm before I leave my session, I would want to make sure that I come here and send this information somewhere.

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Or printed off, because I don't want to delete. I don't want to lose it.

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So if I've done all that work for my on the choice board, I've answered all those questions. I found the information in the articles I've used, the highlights and notes, feature.

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Want to make sure I keep it. So that's why I always say best practice.

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Always teach your users, your students, to send the entire document.

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Somewhere, because if they chance, forget to come in here.

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And send just what I like to call digital notes. Their digital notes.

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To their Google Drive or Microsoft onedrive. They at least have the complete article that they've marked up.

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So they don't lose everything, and that's what this warning is. Here. Please make sure you remember.

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Alright! Let's go back to.

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Our Powerpoint. Please let me know if you have any questions we're approaching.

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Got a couple more minutes before the end of our session.

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Again. This link and QR. Code will take you to.

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The the complete slide deck. But this here and I again used information icons to make it a little bit easier on myself to link out.

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Would take you to the document, and this is more for you all.

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But you can share it with students, too.

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You might Want to download this document. So this is taking you to the persuasive document that we have.

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So complete the persuasive paper activity on the topic of inflation.

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So you can utilize a document that we've created a student activity.

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And I linked it out for you all on this choice board.

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You might want to download.

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This document because it lives on our support site. Right now, we're on the Gale support site.

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You might want to download this document and then link it from change that link that hyperlink and link it from your own.

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Folder. So you have just the students going just to the document and not to the support site might make it a little bit easier for them.

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Okay, let me go back to.

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A Powerpoint and share with you the activities that we have available.

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So we have a lesson plan on argumentative writing with Gale In Context:.

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And utilizing the claim, evidence and reasoning. The er writing.

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Here's a link for that.

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Or the one I already shared with you, and that's writing a persuasive paper.

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And we have that activity. And here is the link for that activity on the Gale support site.

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So 2 activities that you can utilize.

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The choice board that I created for you, but just wanting to highlight some of that information that you're going to.

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With opposing viewpoints. Again, all of this information lives on the Gale support site.

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If you look at the training center and look at by product, you'll find.

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Opposing viewpoints. And all of these activities linked out there.

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And so much more.

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Where you can go for additional support is a gale support site.

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What you'll find here. And here's the link at the top. That is the one I shared with you at the beginning of the session today.

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You're going to find all of your access, your product information, if you want your Geo authenticated.

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Urls for your.

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TEL resources, go to the TEL site.

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And look under. I can't remember what it's under. It's to the right. Might be educators. Let me pull it up.

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Tennessee Electronic Library Site.

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I'll give you this link hopefully. You're familiar with it, but I'll put it.

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Chat, and where you want to go is to library staff.

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And I'll show you real quick.

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Okay. So all I did was go to library staff.

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And you'll find your TEL link generator here.

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There's a little video.

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So you can find support materials. Here's the vendor is Gale.

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And you can use this resource to create that link generator.

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If you need help, there's help here.

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Okay, so that was library staff. TEL link generators where I went.

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Back to my Powerpoint.

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You also are going to find great training materials, tutorials, recorded webinars. We have training decks and resource guides and upcoming webinars and escape rooms. Toolkits.

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Like this one here that we created for Gale In Context: elementary. These are great. We call them click sheets, too, because you can click into. It's what we've done is we've curated our training materials for you all.

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So we want to empower you.

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And provide you with the tools you need. In case you are delivering your own training, we give you all that information and links to our Powerpoint slide decks that have all of our training notes.

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Along with all of these other materials for webinars or activities. And then, if you need more help.

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We gave you that information to who you can reach out to.

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Here's some short video tutorials we have under 3 min long, great to highlight some of the tools or the individual resources.

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Here's 1 of our escape rooms that we just created for Hispanic heritage month.

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And then we have great marketing materials, bookmarks, digital assets. You'll find email templates, blog templates, social media posts, all shapes and sizes, all ready to go for all your TEL.

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Gale resources.

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Please let me know if you have any questions.

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But that wraps our session again. My name is Tammi. I'm a senior trainer at Gale, and I would love to get your feedback on today's training. If you would like to. Since you're joining the live session, please feel free to click, continue, and.

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Give us some feedback on the training survey, or if you'd like to use your phone, there's a QR. Code.

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Please feel free to fill that out, or we also have a bitly URL there. If you'd prefer to use that.

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But love to get your feedback. I do share that information, and also with the folks at TEL. It's completely anonymous. Unless you want me to reach out to you for something I can do that. Just let me know.

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But love to get that feedback from you all. And we asked some questions like, how you plan to use it in the future? Or are you using your resources now? And that kind of those types of questions? So please share.

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Customer success. Managers, they are your one on one support, and all things scale. If you're looking for help with access, or want to walk through the gale support site, or you want usage reports.

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For your library. You can reach out to our Gale customer success managers, and they can help you with that stuff, and so much more.

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And then you have tech support here, and then our gale support site, too.

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But that wraps our session. So thank you all for your time today. Here again is a link to the.

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Training site, and then we do have. If you'd like to share your success stories Instagram or.

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XI have a hard time calling it XI still want to call it Twitter.

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And then one last slide, and that is.

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Again. This will take you to the Powerpoint slide deck.

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So thanks everyone. If you have any questions.

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I'll stay on the webinar here, but have a great rest of your day.

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And I hope to see you again in the future. We have another training.

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Let me find that there it is.

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On October 20, second.

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And it is for public libraries.

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Mastering, Gale, power, search.

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Hope you join us back. Thank you so much. Have a great rest of your day.
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