Duration: 45 Minutes
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Welcome to your training session Tuesdays with Tell today's.
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Training for the Tennessee Electronic Library is support, high school instruction and test. Prep.
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My name is Tammi Burke. I am a senior trainer at Gale, and I thank you all for your time. Today we are going to focus on a few gale resources to support high school instruction and test prep. So the test prep resource is separate than the other databases that I'll be going through. I will share best practices for incorporating your gale resources from tell into your library, and.
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We'll also share with you where you can find all the new ready to go training materials, student activities to support success.
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With your tell Gale resources, we will be also covering tools and work functionality. So workflow tools, Google, Microsoft and I will talk to you about learning management systems for those of our K 12 folks that use those.
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So we're gonna talk a little bit about everything and spend a lot of time looking at content that you have available.
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And again I'll be sharing best practices from.
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Schools and teachers that I've worked with, that you may able to incorporate in your library or in your school.
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And for those of you that are, we have a good amount of folks that are.
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That register that are from the Public Library.
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I know you're looking at this to support your high school students that are coming into your library. You all wear so many hats, and we appreciate all that you do. Or maybe you work with the schools in your district. I know that happens a lot in Tennessee which is fantastic, too, and you want to share these resources with them.
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So I will talk to you about. When I'm talking about training, I'm talking about students in the classroom, but you also have students coming in that either need homework, help into your public libraries, or you have home schoolers.
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So think about when I'm talking about. Teachers working with students.
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That parents can be doing those same types of activities with those that are being homeschooled. So all things to keep in mind as I go through the training.
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So today we will start with access to the resources. Hopefully, you're very familiar with the Tennessee Electronic library, and maybe you're already using your direct Urls. But I always like to start with that just in case because people sometimes are new to their roles in the library, and then we're going to do an overview of the gale resources that we're going to cover today.
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I have more on my list in the overview than I think we'll be able to get through.
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But I want to mention them because I don't want them to be forgotten. So we'll talk about those resources today. We're going to spend the majority of our time exploring content tools and features.
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And then again talking about those practices.
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To incorporate these resources into classroom instruction or library instruction, and then questions and contact information I will leave you with at the end of today's training.
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But questions.
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Please feel free to ask at any time, use that QA. Box.
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Ask me at any time. Stop me along the way, if you need me to go over anything again. I'm happy to do that.
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And then I will stay on at the end of today's training to answer any additional questions.
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To access your tell resources. If you are not using your direct Urls, maybe you're using the Tennessee electronic library site. This is the link to that site where you can access all of your resources.
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I did see on the registration that there was one elementary person that registered. If you, if that person happens to be here and just wants to learn more about the high school resources. That's fantastic. You're more than welcome. But I wanted to share with you, too, that you have.
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A site that that TEL has created. It's called Tell for you. So it's tell the number 4, and then you.
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That is great for elementary, so that one is geared just for elementary students. And this.
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I can post these if you're not familiar, just let me know in the QA. And I'll put the link direct links in the chat. Happy to do that.
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Otherwise, hopefully, you're familiar with both of these sites.
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But again, always like to cover that information.
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Let's talk about the gale resources to get us started.
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So you have in context resources that you can utilize in your library. And there's quite a few I'm focusing on 2 for high school. I'm 1, is Gale In context, high school. And this features cross curricular content on topics within geography, history, science, literature, social issues, and more. And this is your.
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Cross-curricular. So it covers a little bit from every subject area available in Gale In Context: high school. So if you have someone looking for.
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One of your science teachers looking for information. This is a great resource to direct them to, or social studies, or English, or even world languages. They're looking for information. To a company, the whatever language they're teaching I know in in my kids school it happened a lot, and these resources can be great for for them, and so many more classes that are available.
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Gale in contact supposed viewpoints. Now this resource I also consider cross curricular because there's so much information here, but it focuses on hot topics and social issues, controversial issues. It's a resource that has topic overviews and viewpoint essays. You'll also find periodicals and multimedia available in this in contact resource. Also so.
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Period, the multimedia and periodical that content is in all of your in context, resources. They are, I will say, rich in.
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Multimedia.
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And opposing viewpoints also has something that's a little bit unique from the other. In context, resources.
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And that is, it has interactive infographics. So I don't know if you are aware of that. But we do have that.
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Now Peterson's.
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Test and career. Prep. We're going to talk about.
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After we talk about our end contacts. And what this resource is great for is practice tests. So if you have students that are preparing for the act, or sat, or in the spring for Ap. Exams, and I wouldn't suggest they wait until spring. But we also have vocational exams available within this resource.
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It has all kinds of fantastic test prep available. And that's what we're going to focus on today. But you also have within Peterson's test and career prep.
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The ability to search for schools. So if you're looking for universities or 2 year colleges, any type of colleges, you'll find that school search tool. And there's also a scholarship tool available to search through scholarships.
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And then.
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In the career path we have, the ability to take an online quiz this quiz that is in.
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Test and career prep has been updated. It is a new one. That's it's also available in for our public libraries. If you're just using career prep, it's been updated there, too. So it is a new quiz.
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It is a little bit simpler, and before you had to answer 2 question or 2.
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I should say 2 of the quizzes because there were 4. You had to answer 2 of them before you could explore careers. Well, they took that out. You don't need to. You can just go in and explore careers now. So that was a request that we kept receiving, and the change was made.
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So great that that option is available. And this is again, this is just exploring. So building resumes, there's career advice. There's job search options. That's something we're covering today in today's training because we're looking more at test prep. But just something I wanted to share. So that you know that this is one of those resources that you're going to find more than just test prep. Within.
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Now, one I always get questions on is, what's the difference between Context high school and Gale? One file high school edition.
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Well, as I mentioned in context, is very rich in multimedia you have topic pages that are organized within that resource.
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Where one file high school edition is focused more on periodical content and reference book content.
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So you're going to find more of that type of.
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Journals and magazines and newspapers within one file high school edition. It's really designed for, we say middle school, but it is more for those high school students. It provides access to content.
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For classroom assignments. It's.
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Focusing on that periodical content. Magazines, reference books.
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And it's it's articles from reference books covering a wide range of subjects from science.
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History and literature, to political science and environmental studies.
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And you'll find it's features, full text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
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It's been carefully edited, the curated and edited. So there is. We have subject matter, specialists that work within this resource and make sure that the content there is.
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Great for our high school students and support the curriculum, and also what they're learning in the classroom. And then it's very quick, like our content is added in there very quickly, because we have low to no embargo rate. And the just for those that need to know this information, and you'll find detailed manual, manual, indexing.
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And, too, with this resource it is built on the same platform as all of our gale resources like our in context resources, our one file product, you'll see they're all on the same.
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Platform. So the tools and features are shared across all of those resources which makes it really easy for students to learn and jump into this. But this is a really great one for those civics classes, any debate classes.
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You'll also find great content in here to support those close events.
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Where periodical content is what students are looking for, because not only that, you have all those tools to support accessibility, so if they are looking for newspaper articles.
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They can translate it into what? Up to over. I think we're at 54, 57 languages.
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So keep that in mind that it's a great option, and it's great.
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Resource to supplement the curriculum, especially those courses that might not have textbooks.
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The last one I want to talk to you about is Litfinder, and.
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Has a former English major lit finders one of those ones that I just love.
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To talk about and explore. You're going to find original literary works within Litfinder. There's over 130,000 poems available over 11,000 short stories and novels.
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You'll find essays and speeches, inaugural speeches. There's also over 1,300 plays, and so much more available. So these are going to be your original literary works are available in Litfinder, and this is what I'm not sure if we'll have time to jump into but one I definitely wanted to mention, especially if you have Ela teachers that you're working with.
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Or you have, I'm sure, in the public library you have students that are looking for support.
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With any of their English classes, their lit classes.
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I also like to utilize some of the information in here as Mentor text. I I like to say that a lot in our lit products. Because that's something that teachers need help and support with with their students. So consider that if you're in the school library might be good information to share with them.
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A few tools. I want you to keep in mind. And then we're gonna go right into our 1st product.
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To share content. You can use the get link tool. If you're using Google classroom, you can share it directly there, or our send to option where you have the ability to send directly to Google, Drive or Microsoft onedrive.
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To support accessible learning. You have translate font, size and display options. And I'm going to model these all for you today to encourage analysis, highlights and notes that promotes that deeper learning with color, coding, and annotation.
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And to develop or continue to develop research skills. You have topic pages within your in context resources. And then you'll find topic which is a visual representation of your search results which I'll share that with you today, too.
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And then, of course, your citations are always attached to every document, but we also have the citation tool.
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So I'm going to share all of that with you today. I just want you to keep those in mind. I like to introduce them first, st and then.
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Show them to you, live.
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The last thing we're gonna talk about before we jump into the products is the ability to.
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Add these resources into your learning management system. So if you're using canvas or schoology or d, 2 l, we can be integrated right into those resources. There's a little bit of setup our tech support team can help with that process.
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So if your tech folks want to talk to our tech folks, we can get it all set up.
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So that your resources that you have from the Tennessee Electronic library can live in your learning management system where students are learning.
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It's really easy. Once they're.
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And even that process is fairly simple. To add.
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Their embed content directly into an assignment, a page, a discussion. So you have that ability right from within your learning management system.
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Alright. So let's jump in and start exploring. Let me know if you have any questions, that QA. Box is open and available, and we are going to start with Gale In Context: High School.
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I did sign in already.
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Make sure that we're showing the right screen here. Yes.
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I did sign in already to Google. And since I'm set up as a teacher, I can post information directly into my Google drive. So if you look in that upper right hand corner, you have that ability to sign in with Google or Microsoft. Now.
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What if a student sits down and they forget to sign in and they want to send stuff to their Google drive? Well, when they hit that send to which is a little paper airplane. When they're let's say they're at a document level.
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And they want to send it to their Google drive. Then they'll be prompted to sign in, so it won't just not give them a message. It gives them a message you need to sign in first, st and then they can do so, being that it's the beginning of the year. There's something else. I want to share with you about Google.
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The very 1st time your students sign into Google or Microsoft, we ask permission, we ask permission to put information into their Google drive or Microsoft onedrive.
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And what happens is is a folders created for whichever resource they're in. So we're in Gale In context, high school.
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I'm a high school student. I want this information nice and organized. So what the resource does is it creates a folder titled Gale In context high school, and every time they're in this resource all the information will land in their folder that they send there.
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So it keeps it organized for them.
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Another.
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Trick or tip and trick I will share with you.
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If you have students working on a project and they're working within the resources. And they're only working. Maybe it's 1 class high school. You're gonna have multiple classes hopefully, multiple.
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Classes are using the resources. But let's say they.
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Are doing. Just one research, and they want everything to land in one folder when they're done with that research project.
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If they change the name on the folder.
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To say, maybe the the great Depression. Let's use that one.
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There. If they change the name on that folder the next time they come into Gale In Context: High School.
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A new folder will be created because the resource is looking for Gale In Context: high School. So if they change the name and that's how they're organizing their information.
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If they do it at the end of their project. Fantastic, it keeps it organized in a nice folder. If they do it during their project. Just let them know that.
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The resource doesn't know to look for whatever the title is they created. So keep that in mind. I share that, too, especially with middle schoolers. It's really good for them to help organize they're just not just sending it. They're understanding how to organize content. So it's a good skill.
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To learn, and I think our high schoolers could utilize that skill too. Alright. So, signing in with Google or Microsoft, we also have the translate feature anywhere. You see this little translate icon.
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Means that there's tools there to translate. So up here at the top of the database.
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You are going to find, have the ability to translate the navigational tools.
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Into over 34 languages. So let's choose Italian.
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And you can see here it changes all of my navigational tools, so I can easily navigate through the resource.
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Go back to English.
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Alright!
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So let's talk about Gael contacts high school. We're gonna talk a little bit about the homepage. We're gonna dive into that content.
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So you will see basic search and advanced search at the top. Our contextual toolbar is over here.
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And the tools here will change, depending on where I'm at within the resource.
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Our scrolling topics of interest. These change once a month.
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And we have Hispanic Heritage month Hispanic Heritage Month. We have a lot of new ready to go student activities to go along with our resources on the support site, and I'll share that support site with you at the end of today's training.
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If you're not familiar with it.
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To browse topics below. We have subject categories, as you can see.
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And then we have the ability to browse all of those topic pages. Now, topic pages. If you're not familiar collections of information.
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They provide an image and a topic overview. And then our, as I mentioned, we have subject matter, specialists and content editors, and they work hard on creating those topic pages.
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And making sure that, content to whatever topic it is, and also is related to curriculum standards. And what's being studied in the classroom so very helpful for all of you public library or school library to understand that these.
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Topic. Pages are great to supplement the curriculum or supplement a textbook.
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Chances are, if there's a subject that's being studied, we probably have a topic page on it. They're very like, I said, very good at doing that and covering that information.
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So let's start with, I'm gonna do a basic search because there's 1 other thing I wanna share with you that comes up when you do a search. So if I don't click right into a topic, page and.
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With high school the majority of the time they're doing a search.
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But they might click right in. Use one of the topics below and dive a little bit deeper.
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I'm going to do. And you could see this recently has been updated. If you haven't been in here.
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These topic guide event guide. So they're really Topic Views here, I'm gonna choose civil rights. But we added these icon. So this recently was updated, and that is showing you all of these at the top.
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Have topic pages available. So I'm gonna choose this topic page or.
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Topic guide. We're calling it now civil rights.
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And this is what you're going to find an image, an essay overview.
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All of the content types in the center of the page.
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This one happens to have some case overviews, some critical essays that have been safe. Their safe vetted websites.
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The related topics will take you to related topic pages, and then you can see lots of multimedia. We even have some primary sources here.
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That are available.
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Anytime I wanna drill down and filter out information or search within my results. I have that option here.
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And then below, I have featured content our featured content. This is hand selected by our content editors and subject matter. Specialists.
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So if you're directing students and you're t working with them, they're working on the topic of where I would get them started. And here's 1 of the best practices is, have them get started with the essay overview.
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And then move into this feature content, especially if they're not 100. Sure, if this is exactly what maybe they're working on a project, and this is might not be exactly what they want, or they're looking for the civil rights overall. But they want to drill down and find specific content. Then, using that search within, or our filter, which I'm gonna show you next.
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Will be really helpful to those students. But these 2 areas featured content.
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And our overview are going to be helpful.
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To students.
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And you're going to find sometimes we have critical thinking questions. So we publish.
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Our own content. We have been a publisher for over 65 years, and so you're going to find.
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In our published content. And I see this a lot in the content type of reference. So the reference documents.
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And then I'm seeing it in biographies. And I'm also seeing it on our topic overviews where we have those critical thinking questions.
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Something that teachers were asking for, and we have been able to add them again because we publish our own content. So we can do that. So you're going to find those. And we started late, 2,017. So these have been around for a while.
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Now. But these critical thinking questions.
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You'll find within the articles, and it's really a great tool, because a teacher can assign this document.
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Let's say they want to share the specific document. They can use the get link, tool.
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Grab a persistent URL back to this spot and tell students to answer those critical thinking questions. If you are embedding this into your learning management system, you could embed this entire article.
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And assign that. That's all you have to do, or I can pull it directly into Google classroom. Let me show you that.
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So I can be as specific as a singular article, or I could.
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Add an entire.
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Topic page to Google classroom if I wanted to. So let's see, we're on civil rights.
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Let's say English.
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Oh, social studies would be better.
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Okay. And I can choose my action.
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So maybe I want to.
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Create an assignment.
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Click, go.
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Here's my title.
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And instructions? Answer.
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The critical.
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Questions Andy prepared to.
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Discuss.
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Okay.
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I assign that.
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And of course I can add in a due date. I didn't put anything there today, but you can.
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Even a time.
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Now, when I click view, it's going to open in a new tab.
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I posted a new assignment.
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So I can click on that, or I can class work.
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And here.
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My students can go directly to that document.
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Click into it.
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And there we go, or, if you noticed, I could view the instructions.
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So it takes you just to a different page. But.
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Within Google classroom.
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Okay.
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So very easy.
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Very, very easy to share information with students. So you can again use the get link, tool.
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Provides that persistent URL. If you're using a learning management system, you would see a blue button here that would give you the option to embed this right into an assignment, or you could grab a link to it.
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And then.
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Add it directly to Google classroom.
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Okay.
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So I wanted to talk to you about that featured content. The multimedia that we have available videos. Our videos have transcripts and close captioning available.
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And you can see the time.
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How long those are. You can also sort by. If I wanted the newest videos I could sort by newest.
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Great for images. I like to use that for images, especially in opposing viewpoints. I really like to use that feature that sort by option.
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We also have let's see a few other things I want to share with you. Let's go into reference.
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And maybe I want to filter by.
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Publication date. Let's say so. We have these filter your results on the right hand side.
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And I have publication, date, document, type, publication, title.
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Lexile measurement level. So the difference between these 2 lexile measure gives you the lexile measure.
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And you can multi select.
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Content level is a range, a full range. So.
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If you remember.
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That a level 3 is generally middle school.
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Everything above high school, and all the way up to undergrad and everything below elementary that makes it really simple.
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So maybe I want to filter that down, especially if I have students that might need a little bit more.
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Low, or maybe a lower reading level.
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I. And if that's the case, too, don't forget. You also have Gale and contacts middle school.
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If you have some lower readers that might need a little bit more support, you also have that resource which is also cross curricular. But you also have students that may be reading at a higher level, and you have content there. So you could filter that content down by level. And then there's my search within again.
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I also can filter by level documents.
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I can.
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At, go directly into topic finder, which, remember, is that.
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Visual representation of my search results.
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I also have topic up here. Now, if I select from here.
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The top, or here below my filter bar, it will pull in my content that I have.
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Right here on the topic page, even if I filtered it down. So let's say I want to filter by.
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Certain document types, and what it'll do is.
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It will filter everything down at once.
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Doing an event overview and apply it.
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So I'm in reference it all of it down at once.
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If I were in primary sources, then.
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I would see different document types same with news. I would see in my filter area sections.
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So I have all those options available. What it does is it filters it all down at once. If I wanted to filter by, say, publication, date.
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I want everything from just the past year. I'm gonna see a lot more academic journals, magazines, and newspapers. What a good amount of reference articles, too!
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But I'll see a lot more of those periodicals.
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Here.
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Okay.
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And then again, if I wanted to open up topic finder, I have that at the top or down here, and it will just pull in these results.
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So I'm going to select it so you can see.
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It shows me.
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My topic search and my limiter that I'm.
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And it really drills it down.
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Now, if I go back.
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Let's say I remove that.
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Nope, it took me all the way back, so if I it removed the filter. Now, if I click on topic finder again, look at the difference.
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See how there's way more tiles available.
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Because I remove that filter so you can use topic finder many different ways.
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I can also, as soon as I sit down, if I want to do a search in topic.
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I can do that topic. Finder lives on the homepage of my resources. It also lives under advanced search.
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So I can kick off or change my search at this point. If I wanted to change it now, I absolutely could. I could just put in a search term, and it would do a brand new search for me.
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But I can also pull in directly from a topic. Page even filtered down information if I wanted to. Directly into.
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This tool that I have available.
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And if maybe I'm looking at black history, and I have 8 articles on the right hand side.
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Civil rights, movement.
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And go right into that article. There's more critical thinking questions.
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Okay.
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So we talked about high school we talked about. Oh, one more thing before I leave. I wanted to show you that you do have this explore panel on the right hand side. This is really great, because, especially if I've used topic finder, let's say I found an article that I'm really interested in. But I need 3 other sources.
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I can use this explore panel because it gives me supplemental information on that topic. It'll take me to different.
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Different articles or different images, or whatever we have available. So that more like this is a really helpful tool for our students.
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And then I also have the ability to send this to Google, drive.
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Microsoft onedrive email or print.
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And they also live here under the paper airplane.
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Google Onedrive email.
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Download or print, and this toolbar will stick with me throughout my.
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Scrolling like when I scroll down here. It still sticks with me, so I don't have to scroll all the way back up to the top. This is definitely a longer article.
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So this would be a really helpful tool.
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And then the last one I want to share with you. Of course the citations are attached. It is.
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Defaulted to Mla. 9th edition. But I can change that before I send it to my Google drive. I just would have to scroll all the way to the bottom.
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Or if I just needed the citation, I could use my citation tool.
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Change, the format.
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Copy it, paste it wherever I want, or choose where I'd like to export it to.
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Alright!
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Let me know if you have any questions. We went over a lot of tools in this resource. So let's go into our next one, and that is Gale In Context: opposing viewpoints.
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I wanna talk to you about an idea that was actually just shared with me, and it is called I don't. Are you familiar with the jigsaw strategy.
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So jigsaw strategy being that if you're in a classroom you can choose a topic like elections which we're going to do today.
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And from that topic you could assign each.
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Let's say table group.
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Or each small group their own topic.
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So I could if the overall overarching topic is elections. But maybe I want government or presidential race or voting or voting rights.
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Or United States. And results are those types of terms.
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I could do that for each table group, and then, when you bring everybody back together, they share what they learned on the overarching topic of elections. So.
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Keeping that in mind.
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You can see an opposing viewpoints. This is a really great resource to look at voting rights and election, and that kind of.
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Types of topics that you'll find. This is again hot topics, social issues. You're going to find a lot of content here. But yet still I consider it cross curricular. You can see our our subject areas are a little bit different. We also have the national debate topic.
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Here in a topic page for it.
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And then on the bottom it just like in our other resource. I didn't scroll the way down, though. You'll find topic and educator resources. So I can even access topic finder from this screen if I chose to.
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So keep that in mind with elections. And let me. We just added some new information.
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So we have electronic voting, presidential election process, midterm elections, electoral college. You can see all the different. I just typed in 3 letters. And how many options that we have. So let's go to Presidential election 2,024.
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And you can find a we have a topic page on it.
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Great to use in your classrooms.
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Or in your library. If you are sharing this in your public library. You wanted to share this information because this is not just for students patrons could benefit from this, too. You can use your get link, tool.
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And maybe if you wanted to use the image and link it out, you could do that.
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Again, the we get this question. A lot can students use images like in their publications or not in their publications, but in their
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In their papers and in their work that they're using. Yes, we just ask that. Of course it's cited. That's probably a given. I'm talking to a group of libraries and librarians.
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And you would cite that information. We just. It's not for promotional purposes, right? It's not for publication purposes. So, but yes, they can definitely use it in their work that they're doing. So that might be something you're interested in highlighting in your library and your library website. And you want to direct people to safe, vetted, authoritative information.
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Rather than just going to social media. They can find that content here. So you have these types of topic pages available.
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We are gonna switch gears, though, and go into immigration.
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As our topic.
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We have a topic guide here, and it's also the 2,018 National Debate topic.
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Again same setup image overview. We have all of our content types on the middle of the page here that I can quickly jump to.
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Something I want to point out. That's a little different in opposing viewpoints is you have featured viewpoints and viewpoints.
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Again remember the star and featured is hand selected by our content. Editors and subject matter. Specialists.
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Where viewpoints this houses, our viewpoint essays. If you're not familiar with our viewpoint essays, let me share that with you.
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Viewpoint essays.
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We'll have an article commentary.
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So we get information about the author.
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And we put it in.
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And get that out of the way. We put it in this commentary, and we also include some questions to consider.
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As they're reading the article, and then we go into that article.
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So our viewpoint essays. Give you a bit of information about where's this information coming from? Who is this author? Is? Are they credible. And you can find that here. So we really love the viewpoint essays. For a lot of those reasons so wanted to point that out to you.
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And then we talked about.
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Let me highlight a few things. So let's say I wanted to use this.
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As an assignment.
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And.
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I'm going to highlight each question in a different color, so I can click and drag.
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Select, my color.
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This is question.
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One.
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Let's just do these 3 real quick. We'll do green.
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Question 2, and question 3.
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Right. We'll do blue.
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Okay.
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Save that.
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Now, when they're reading this article.
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If if you look for.
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What to? As you read as you read, consider the following questions. If you're looking for the answer.
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Or what you think might be the answer. Then you can highlight that in yellow, and what you can also do. Let's say it happens to be. It's in this section here.
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I can also add my notes, so I could add a summary of.
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What I found in this section. Now.
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When you have marked up a document.
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Best practice is, send that document somewhere.
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Send it to Google Microsoft email or print because you marked it up. So you have the complete article saved.
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With everything you've marked up in the notes you've taken. What happens is these chunks of text.
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Show up below your citation at the bottom. So I have a yellow section with this exact text, and my notes live below my citation at the bottom. It turns the.
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When I send it to my Google drive, it turns it into a Google Doc.
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And I have all of that information.
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Something else that's happening is my highlights and notes section is being built out. So after I've highlighted on an article.
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I can view all highlights, and you can see here question one question, 2. Question 3.
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I can edit my notes, which.
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I would not just use the word summary. I would put information here.
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And save it so I can edit it, and I can just send these.
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To Google onedrive email or print.
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My citation tool is here also. If I were in multiple articles I would see all of those here. Great. We're excited. So there's another best practice.
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And a way to integrate it into the classroom. If you're teaching about citing sources or works bibliography, this is a great tool that they can use.
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And also great for those digital notes. Another way to use this, too, is, we've had teachers share with us that they have students that will send this to their Google drive and then share it. And it's a great way for that teacher to kind of check in and see where they're at in the research process.
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Also, students have used this tool.
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To work together. So if they're working together on a topic, they can put it in their Google drive and share it. And everybody can see that they can see. Maybe they're adding their own notes and communicating with each other that way. So all kinds of different ways to utilize this tool and this resource.
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Let me go back to.
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Our topic, page.
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Another feature I wanted to point out to you, or specific content, or infographics.
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And our infographics are interactive. I'm just gonna choose this top one here.
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Now, if I send this, here's a tip.
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If I send it to Google Microsoft email print any of these options, I will get exactly what's on the page. Even if I've removed some of the results. So let's say, I removed 2,019, and I just.
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Want to see the 2022 results.
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I'll still see the full.
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I'll still see exactly what I have on this page now, so as soon as I click into it, that's what you see. It takes a print copy of that.
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Even if you're sending it to Google, drive. So keep that in mind. But it is interactive here within the resource.
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And this one looks like it has to remove 2,019 from everything.
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We have 3 different ones available. Sometimes you'll see the ability to change the graph at the top. We have different types of graphs. Here's a. This is a.
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Great option, where I can remove.
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This one has a lot.
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It's a really good one.
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But you can see I can work within that.
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Interactive Infographic.
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And I still have explore, so I can explore and go to another subject area.
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I'm sorry. Not another subject. Another document within this subject area. That's what I meant to say.
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Okay. So we talked about interactive infographics, news articles. Let me go back.
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And we're going to go into news this time.
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This is.
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Something that I really like to do, because we have 65,000 different news articles, which is a lot.
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But we have the his. also the history of this is immigration. So we we do. We want the newest, possibly, but I might want.
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Something. A little bit later I might want to see what was immigration like.
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20 years ago or 10 years ago, so I might be able to find news articles here in the database.
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With that information and compare it to what is it like now? So not only are you going to get that current information, but you can get some historical information. Now keep in mind, though, opposing viewpoints is really great for hot topics, social issues. So if you're looking for more of the social studies, type information.
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Go into Gale In. Context. High school first.st
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Because this resource is focusing more on those topics that are happening right now.
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So keep that in mind, too. I had a librarian share that with me, and she told me the topic she was searching for. I was like, did you go into Gale In Context High School? It was a new resource, they that the State had just purchased for them, and she wasn't aware.
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And she's like no, and I showed her, and she's like, Oh, my gosh! This is what I needed. So keep that in mind that you have this resource. Yes, it is cross, curricular. But it's looking at those current issues. So those are the types of topics that I would search for in here, those hot topics.
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Within this resource.
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So little side note there and then. Again. I can filter by newest.
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And I could also filter by publication date. If I just want everything from the past year.
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And if I needed to create a link to this specific content.
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I would just use my get link tool.
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And link it back, or I can put it right into my Google classroom.
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So even after you filtered information down, you can also.
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Link it back to your.
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Use that link or use that Google classroom to share that information.
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Tools to support accessibility. I have the ability to.
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Into over. I think we're at 57 languages now.
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So I can translate that article.
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I can decrease or increase that font size, and this will stick with me throughout my session.
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Under display options. I have the ability to change the color behind the text.
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I can change the font if I need open dyslexic. I have that option available.
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I can also increase the line, letter, and wordpacing.
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And this will also stick with me throughout my session. So if I go to this next article.
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You can see it sticks with me, and I increase the.
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Font size. So it's stuck with me, too.
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If I need to go back to my default settings.
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I can either close out of the resource or.
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Go back to default settings.
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And then I have the listen option. There.
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Now, we talked about your digital resources. But we didn't talk about your test. Prep. So let's go into test prep resources.
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I'm already logged into Peterson's. You do want to create an account on this resource because you want to save where you're at what it does, is it automatically will save your test. So if I'm working on a test.
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A practice test.
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I can come directly back to it. Now we have some options. Prepare for exam or vocational tests. Those are the areas we're spending time in today.
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If I'm preparing for an exam. If it's a high school, am I looking for college test? Prep. Which would be your sat.
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Or grad schools. There, too, you can see here I have the Ap. Exams right at the top.
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There's also stem resources here.
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And when I click into that Ap. It gives me all of these different.
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Tests that I have available. You can also see.
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We have articles, and we have information about that exam. Some of them, too.
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We have the ebook available. Also, they can download the entire ebook if they wanted to. It'd be quite expensive, I'm sure, with printing, but.
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Probably cheaper than
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If they were to buy the book. But you do have the complete Peterson's ebooks here available, too.
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So if I wanted to go into, let's I usually go into biology because I have that one started already. I have also added it to my resources.
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When I open it up.
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I can go into the introduction. There's flashcards and study materials. Here's an instructional video, or I can jump right into my practice tests.
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I can start my 1st one. I just select it.
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And it'll tell me. It tells me information about the test, how long it'll take it should take. And then this is my! I use this one a lot. This is my 3rd attempt.
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I can start the quiz, and it takes me right into that practice test.
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Pretty self explanatory here. What I can do, too, is when I get to the point where I want to submit this quiz, even if I haven't answered all the questions I can do that.
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I can submit the quiz and get my score.
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And then.
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Any answers I have correct. I will see that in my score any answers I have incorrect. I will also see that, and both ways. We'll get an explanation of the correct answer.
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The timer is also running here.
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I can hide the timer if it makes me a little anxious. I can do that.
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I can also.
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Move the screen out of the way.
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Now let me see.
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I think I can go.
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Yes, so here's my attempt on this one.
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Or is this my first.st
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Feedback, on attempt.
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Oh, that was the one I was just on.
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Let me go back!
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I think I can see.
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That's not what I was looking for.
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Maybe it's here.
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Where I can click into. And I'm trying. I'm sorry. It's been a second since I've been in here, and I think it changed a little bit.
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Where I can check my.
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Go back into the quizzes here. It should be here.
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There we go!
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So I can go back into the quiz. My attempt.
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Yeah, no, that's interesting. I used to be able to, and I'm not seeing it. And it could be user error on my part where I have.
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The ability to see my past questions, and I keep clicking on the same one. Maybe I need to same thing here.
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Yeah, where I could see the attempts.
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Alright. I may have to ask questions after this session.
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On, those.
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It's gonna frustrate me because I know.
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It's gotta be here, and I just am missing it. Great.
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Terms.
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Jumped, one.
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There. It is. Okay.
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So? Where was it?
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It was under.
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Quizzes.
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Under grades. So if you go to grades.
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Quizzes, which I did the 1st time.
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That's interesting, that.
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It showed up differently. You go under there, then that's where you can review. I think. I was clicking on the one I had just started and I didn't. That was my problem.
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I didn't actually submit it, but you can see past.
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Attempt, and here's what it'll look like. With the question. The answer I selected, which was incorrect, and the answer the correct answer. And then that information on that.
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Wise answer.
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Minus b, the correct answer.
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Alright. So that is your 8, and all of your assessments look the same. So if I'm here, or maybe I am, let me go back to my homepage.
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I'm under vocational test, the only one that's a little different. Here is cosmetology.
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We use malady for cosmetology, so that one looks a little different, but the other ones will look the same.
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As the one I was just on. So the the layout, the answering the questions is going to be the same. What is offered for each one is slightly different, too, because those Ap. Exams we have a lot of.
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Different tools available like flash cards and and those things, but so prepare for an exam.
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Is where I went first.st
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Prep for vocational tests is the other area. So that's where you're going to find all of that test. Prep and college test prep.
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Act, I know is coming up.
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You have the online course, and then the practice. So this one has even a little bit more available. And then don't forget you have books and articles. I just had to click on it, and I can download the entire book.
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I can add that book to my resources which.
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Puts it in my resources folder, and then every time I come in here, if I want to quickly jump to my resources, I log in and click my resources.
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Which lives at the top, or you saw it on the home page. It'll take me. I can go directly to where I was.
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So I go right into the course.
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Or.
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Access one of my schools or my scholarships, or a job.
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So whatever I've saved in here.
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And my my resources.
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Will, so.
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We'll be there until I.
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Choose to delete it.
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Alright. So those are the resources I wanted to go in today. I did our. I did mention Gale Litfinder. Don't forget. That's great for your Ela teachers, and it is a literature resource that has all of your full text.
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Share it with you right here, so you can see what the homepage looks like. It has all those full text poems and speeches available look for an author. Look for a specific literary work. You're going to find all of that great information here, with all of those tools to support accessibility.
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Alright. Let's go back.
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So I can just share with you before you leave me today, because we're a little bit over our time.
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The gale support site. So if you're looking for one support, you can look, or I should say, if you're looking for support, and you need that information, and would like to access it yourself.
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You do have the Gale support site that we've created for the Tennessee Electronic Library. And I'm putting that in the Webinar chat. It's a great one to bookmark. It's where you're going to find your libraries. Access Urls, your title list. Mark records everything you need for your databases are going to live there. You'll also find in the training center. We have tip sheets and tutorials and recorded webinars and training decks available.
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So we have Powerpoints with all of our training notes.
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We also have added training toolkits.
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For each individual resource. And they're great click sheets where we've curated our training materials for you.
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So you're going to find that type of content. And of course you will find all of the recordings we've done specifically for the Tennessee Electronic Library and.
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Also any upcoming training sessions that we have scheduled for the Tennessee Electronic Library. You'll see those if you go to support dot Gale. Com forward, slash, tell it'll take you to the tell page that or site we've created. And then marketing materials are also there a great way to share information with students. We just added.
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New escape room.
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And that's for Gale In Context: High School. We talked about today. So Hispanic heritage month, we have an entire escape room ready to go for you, and we have them for elementary middle school and high school. We have.
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2.
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For Elementary, 2 for middle school, No. One for middle school, and 2 for high school. Now we might have 2 for middle school, too. I haven't checked, but.
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We do have also templates. If you want to create your own escape room, there's a template available for you along with so many other things tick to and trading cards and so many different reading activities available claim evidence and reasoning, like all kinds of student activities, to go with your resources.
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To support high School instruction.
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That wraps our session. My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale, and I thank you so much for your time. Here are some, also some awesome.
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Folks that can help you if you have any additional questions. Your Gale customer, success managers, they are your one on one support, and all things Gale.
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So if you're looking for help walking through the support site or adding access to your website, they can help with all of that.
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And answer those questions. If you're looking to add your learning, your resources to your learning management system, feel free to reach out, to Gale technical support.
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A survey should pop up when you leave today. If you could click, continue, we'd love to have your feedback on the session.
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If you'd like to use your phone, just scan the QR code and answer those questions, I share that.
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Information internally, and also with the folks at Tell. It is completely anonymous, unless you.
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Give if you'd like us to reach out to you. I do go back into those surveys and any questions that you have for me. Otherwise don't forget all those follow-up emails you'll be receiving from me. So feel free to ask any questions that you have. I'm happy to help in my email addresses right here, too.
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And that wraps our session for today. All, if you have any questions, I'll stay on the line. But thanks, everyone have a great rest of your day.
Welcome to your training session Tuesdays with Tell today's.
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Training for the Tennessee Electronic Library is support, high school instruction and test. Prep.
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My name is Tammi Burke. I am a senior trainer at Gale, and I thank you all for your time. Today we are going to focus on a few gale resources to support high school instruction and test prep. So the test prep resource is separate than the other databases that I'll be going through. I will share best practices for incorporating your gale resources from tell into your library, and.
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We'll also share with you where you can find all the new ready to go training materials, student activities to support success.
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With your tell Gale resources, we will be also covering tools and work functionality. So workflow tools, Google, Microsoft and I will talk to you about learning management systems for those of our K 12 folks that use those.
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So we're gonna talk a little bit about everything and spend a lot of time looking at content that you have available.
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And again I'll be sharing best practices from.
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Schools and teachers that I've worked with, that you may able to incorporate in your library or in your school.
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And for those of you that are, we have a good amount of folks that are.
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That register that are from the Public Library.
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I know you're looking at this to support your high school students that are coming into your library. You all wear so many hats, and we appreciate all that you do. Or maybe you work with the schools in your district. I know that happens a lot in Tennessee which is fantastic, too, and you want to share these resources with them.
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So I will talk to you about. When I'm talking about training, I'm talking about students in the classroom, but you also have students coming in that either need homework, help into your public libraries, or you have home schoolers.
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So think about when I'm talking about. Teachers working with students.
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That parents can be doing those same types of activities with those that are being homeschooled. So all things to keep in mind as I go through the training.
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So today we will start with access to the resources. Hopefully, you're very familiar with the Tennessee Electronic library, and maybe you're already using your direct Urls. But I always like to start with that just in case because people sometimes are new to their roles in the library, and then we're going to do an overview of the gale resources that we're going to cover today.
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I have more on my list in the overview than I think we'll be able to get through.
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But I want to mention them because I don't want them to be forgotten. So we'll talk about those resources today. We're going to spend the majority of our time exploring content tools and features.
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And then again talking about those practices.
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To incorporate these resources into classroom instruction or library instruction, and then questions and contact information I will leave you with at the end of today's training.
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But questions.
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Please feel free to ask at any time, use that QA. Box.
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Ask me at any time. Stop me along the way, if you need me to go over anything again. I'm happy to do that.
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And then I will stay on at the end of today's training to answer any additional questions.
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To access your tell resources. If you are not using your direct Urls, maybe you're using the Tennessee electronic library site. This is the link to that site where you can access all of your resources.
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I did see on the registration that there was one elementary person that registered. If you, if that person happens to be here and just wants to learn more about the high school resources. That's fantastic. You're more than welcome. But I wanted to share with you, too, that you have.
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A site that that TEL has created. It's called Tell for you. So it's tell the number 4, and then you.
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That is great for elementary, so that one is geared just for elementary students. And this.
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I can post these if you're not familiar, just let me know in the QA. And I'll put the link direct links in the chat. Happy to do that.
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Otherwise, hopefully, you're familiar with both of these sites.
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But again, always like to cover that information.
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Let's talk about the gale resources to get us started.
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So you have in context resources that you can utilize in your library. And there's quite a few I'm focusing on 2 for high school. I'm 1, is Gale In context, high school. And this features cross curricular content on topics within geography, history, science, literature, social issues, and more. And this is your.
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Cross-curricular. So it covers a little bit from every subject area available in Gale In Context: high school. So if you have someone looking for.
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One of your science teachers looking for information. This is a great resource to direct them to, or social studies, or English, or even world languages. They're looking for information. To a company, the whatever language they're teaching I know in in my kids school it happened a lot, and these resources can be great for for them, and so many more classes that are available.
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Gale in contact supposed viewpoints. Now this resource I also consider cross curricular because there's so much information here, but it focuses on hot topics and social issues, controversial issues. It's a resource that has topic overviews and viewpoint essays. You'll also find periodicals and multimedia available in this in contact resource. Also so.
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Period, the multimedia and periodical that content is in all of your in context, resources. They are, I will say, rich in.
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Multimedia.
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And opposing viewpoints also has something that's a little bit unique from the other. In context, resources.
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And that is, it has interactive infographics. So I don't know if you are aware of that. But we do have that.
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Now Peterson's.
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Test and career. Prep. We're going to talk about.
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After we talk about our end contacts. And what this resource is great for is practice tests. So if you have students that are preparing for the act, or sat, or in the spring for Ap. Exams, and I wouldn't suggest they wait until spring. But we also have vocational exams available within this resource.
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It has all kinds of fantastic test prep available. And that's what we're going to focus on today. But you also have within Peterson's test and career prep.
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The ability to search for schools. So if you're looking for universities or 2 year colleges, any type of colleges, you'll find that school search tool. And there's also a scholarship tool available to search through scholarships.
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And then.
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In the career path we have, the ability to take an online quiz this quiz that is in.
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Test and career prep has been updated. It is a new one. That's it's also available in for our public libraries. If you're just using career prep, it's been updated there, too. So it is a new quiz.
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It is a little bit simpler, and before you had to answer 2 question or 2.
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I should say 2 of the quizzes because there were 4. You had to answer 2 of them before you could explore careers. Well, they took that out. You don't need to. You can just go in and explore careers now. So that was a request that we kept receiving, and the change was made.
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So great that that option is available. And this is again, this is just exploring. So building resumes, there's career advice. There's job search options. That's something we're covering today in today's training because we're looking more at test prep. But just something I wanted to share. So that you know that this is one of those resources that you're going to find more than just test prep. Within.
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Now, one I always get questions on is, what's the difference between Context high school and Gale? One file high school edition.
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Well, as I mentioned in context, is very rich in multimedia you have topic pages that are organized within that resource.
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Where one file high school edition is focused more on periodical content and reference book content.
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So you're going to find more of that type of.
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Journals and magazines and newspapers within one file high school edition. It's really designed for, we say middle school, but it is more for those high school students. It provides access to content.
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For classroom assignments. It's.
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Focusing on that periodical content. Magazines, reference books.
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And it's it's articles from reference books covering a wide range of subjects from science.
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History and literature, to political science and environmental studies.
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And you'll find it's features, full text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
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It's been carefully edited, the curated and edited. So there is. We have subject matter, specialists that work within this resource and make sure that the content there is.
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Great for our high school students and support the curriculum, and also what they're learning in the classroom. And then it's very quick, like our content is added in there very quickly, because we have low to no embargo rate. And the just for those that need to know this information, and you'll find detailed manual, manual, indexing.
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And, too, with this resource it is built on the same platform as all of our gale resources like our in context resources, our one file product, you'll see they're all on the same.
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Platform. So the tools and features are shared across all of those resources which makes it really easy for students to learn and jump into this. But this is a really great one for those civics classes, any debate classes.
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You'll also find great content in here to support those close events.
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Where periodical content is what students are looking for, because not only that, you have all those tools to support accessibility, so if they are looking for newspaper articles.
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They can translate it into what? Up to over. I think we're at 54, 57 languages.
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So keep that in mind that it's a great option, and it's great.
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Resource to supplement the curriculum, especially those courses that might not have textbooks.
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The last one I want to talk to you about is Litfinder, and.
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Has a former English major lit finders one of those ones that I just love.
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To talk about and explore. You're going to find original literary works within Litfinder. There's over 130,000 poems available over 11,000 short stories and novels.
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You'll find essays and speeches, inaugural speeches. There's also over 1,300 plays, and so much more available. So these are going to be your original literary works are available in Litfinder, and this is what I'm not sure if we'll have time to jump into but one I definitely wanted to mention, especially if you have Ela teachers that you're working with.
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Or you have, I'm sure, in the public library you have students that are looking for support.
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With any of their English classes, their lit classes.
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I also like to utilize some of the information in here as Mentor text. I I like to say that a lot in our lit products. Because that's something that teachers need help and support with with their students. So consider that if you're in the school library might be good information to share with them.
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A few tools. I want you to keep in mind. And then we're gonna go right into our 1st product.
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To share content. You can use the get link tool. If you're using Google classroom, you can share it directly there, or our send to option where you have the ability to send directly to Google, Drive or Microsoft onedrive.
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To support accessible learning. You have translate font, size and display options. And I'm going to model these all for you today to encourage analysis, highlights and notes that promotes that deeper learning with color, coding, and annotation.
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And to develop or continue to develop research skills. You have topic pages within your in context resources. And then you'll find topic which is a visual representation of your search results which I'll share that with you today, too.
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And then, of course, your citations are always attached to every document, but we also have the citation tool.
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So I'm going to share all of that with you today. I just want you to keep those in mind. I like to introduce them first, st and then.
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Show them to you, live.
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The last thing we're gonna talk about before we jump into the products is the ability to.
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Add these resources into your learning management system. So if you're using canvas or schoology or d, 2 l, we can be integrated right into those resources. There's a little bit of setup our tech support team can help with that process.
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So if your tech folks want to talk to our tech folks, we can get it all set up.
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So that your resources that you have from the Tennessee Electronic library can live in your learning management system where students are learning.
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It's really easy. Once they're.
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And even that process is fairly simple. To add.
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Their embed content directly into an assignment, a page, a discussion. So you have that ability right from within your learning management system.
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Alright. So let's jump in and start exploring. Let me know if you have any questions, that QA. Box is open and available, and we are going to start with Gale In Context: High School.
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I did sign in already.
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Make sure that we're showing the right screen here. Yes.
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I did sign in already to Google. And since I'm set up as a teacher, I can post information directly into my Google drive. So if you look in that upper right hand corner, you have that ability to sign in with Google or Microsoft. Now.
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What if a student sits down and they forget to sign in and they want to send stuff to their Google drive? Well, when they hit that send to which is a little paper airplane. When they're let's say they're at a document level.
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And they want to send it to their Google drive. Then they'll be prompted to sign in, so it won't just not give them a message. It gives them a message you need to sign in first, st and then they can do so, being that it's the beginning of the year. There's something else. I want to share with you about Google.
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The very 1st time your students sign into Google or Microsoft, we ask permission, we ask permission to put information into their Google drive or Microsoft onedrive.
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And what happens is is a folders created for whichever resource they're in. So we're in Gale In context, high school.
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I'm a high school student. I want this information nice and organized. So what the resource does is it creates a folder titled Gale In context high school, and every time they're in this resource all the information will land in their folder that they send there.
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So it keeps it organized for them.
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Another.
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Trick or tip and trick I will share with you.
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If you have students working on a project and they're working within the resources. And they're only working. Maybe it's 1 class high school. You're gonna have multiple classes hopefully, multiple.
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Classes are using the resources. But let's say they.
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Are doing. Just one research, and they want everything to land in one folder when they're done with that research project.
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If they change the name on the folder.
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To say, maybe the the great Depression. Let's use that one.
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There. If they change the name on that folder the next time they come into Gale In Context: High School.
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A new folder will be created because the resource is looking for Gale In Context: high School. So if they change the name and that's how they're organizing their information.
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If they do it at the end of their project. Fantastic, it keeps it organized in a nice folder. If they do it during their project. Just let them know that.
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The resource doesn't know to look for whatever the title is they created. So keep that in mind. I share that, too, especially with middle schoolers. It's really good for them to help organize they're just not just sending it. They're understanding how to organize content. So it's a good skill.
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To learn, and I think our high schoolers could utilize that skill too. Alright. So, signing in with Google or Microsoft, we also have the translate feature anywhere. You see this little translate icon.
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Means that there's tools there to translate. So up here at the top of the database.
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You are going to find, have the ability to translate the navigational tools.
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Into over 34 languages. So let's choose Italian.
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And you can see here it changes all of my navigational tools, so I can easily navigate through the resource.
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Go back to English.
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Alright!
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So let's talk about Gael contacts high school. We're gonna talk a little bit about the homepage. We're gonna dive into that content.
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So you will see basic search and advanced search at the top. Our contextual toolbar is over here.
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And the tools here will change, depending on where I'm at within the resource.
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Our scrolling topics of interest. These change once a month.
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And we have Hispanic Heritage month Hispanic Heritage Month. We have a lot of new ready to go student activities to go along with our resources on the support site, and I'll share that support site with you at the end of today's training.
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If you're not familiar with it.
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To browse topics below. We have subject categories, as you can see.
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And then we have the ability to browse all of those topic pages. Now, topic pages. If you're not familiar collections of information.
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They provide an image and a topic overview. And then our, as I mentioned, we have subject matter, specialists and content editors, and they work hard on creating those topic pages.
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And making sure that, content to whatever topic it is, and also is related to curriculum standards. And what's being studied in the classroom so very helpful for all of you public library or school library to understand that these.
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Topic. Pages are great to supplement the curriculum or supplement a textbook.
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Chances are, if there's a subject that's being studied, we probably have a topic page on it. They're very like, I said, very good at doing that and covering that information.
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So let's start with, I'm gonna do a basic search because there's 1 other thing I wanna share with you that comes up when you do a search. So if I don't click right into a topic, page and.
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With high school the majority of the time they're doing a search.
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But they might click right in. Use one of the topics below and dive a little bit deeper.
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I'm going to do. And you could see this recently has been updated. If you haven't been in here.
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These topic guide event guide. So they're really Topic Views here, I'm gonna choose civil rights. But we added these icon. So this recently was updated, and that is showing you all of these at the top.
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Have topic pages available. So I'm gonna choose this topic page or.
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Topic guide. We're calling it now civil rights.
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And this is what you're going to find an image, an essay overview.
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All of the content types in the center of the page.
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This one happens to have some case overviews, some critical essays that have been safe. Their safe vetted websites.
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The related topics will take you to related topic pages, and then you can see lots of multimedia. We even have some primary sources here.
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That are available.
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Anytime I wanna drill down and filter out information or search within my results. I have that option here.
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And then below, I have featured content our featured content. This is hand selected by our content editors and subject matter. Specialists.
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So if you're directing students and you're t working with them, they're working on the topic of where I would get them started. And here's 1 of the best practices is, have them get started with the essay overview.
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And then move into this feature content, especially if they're not 100. Sure, if this is exactly what maybe they're working on a project, and this is might not be exactly what they want, or they're looking for the civil rights overall. But they want to drill down and find specific content. Then, using that search within, or our filter, which I'm gonna show you next.
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Will be really helpful to those students. But these 2 areas featured content.
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And our overview are going to be helpful.
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To students.
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And you're going to find sometimes we have critical thinking questions. So we publish.
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Our own content. We have been a publisher for over 65 years, and so you're going to find.
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In our published content. And I see this a lot in the content type of reference. So the reference documents.
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And then I'm seeing it in biographies. And I'm also seeing it on our topic overviews where we have those critical thinking questions.
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Something that teachers were asking for, and we have been able to add them again because we publish our own content. So we can do that. So you're going to find those. And we started late, 2,017. So these have been around for a while.
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Now. But these critical thinking questions.
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You'll find within the articles, and it's really a great tool, because a teacher can assign this document.
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Let's say they want to share the specific document. They can use the get link, tool.
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Grab a persistent URL back to this spot and tell students to answer those critical thinking questions. If you are embedding this into your learning management system, you could embed this entire article.
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And assign that. That's all you have to do, or I can pull it directly into Google classroom. Let me show you that.
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So I can be as specific as a singular article, or I could.
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Add an entire.
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Topic page to Google classroom if I wanted to. So let's see, we're on civil rights.
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Let's say English.
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Oh, social studies would be better.
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Okay. And I can choose my action.
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So maybe I want to.
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Create an assignment.
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Click, go.
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Here's my title.
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And instructions? Answer.
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The critical.
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Questions Andy prepared to.
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Discuss.
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Okay.
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I assign that.
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And of course I can add in a due date. I didn't put anything there today, but you can.
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Even a time.
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Now, when I click view, it's going to open in a new tab.
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I posted a new assignment.
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So I can click on that, or I can class work.
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And here.
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My students can go directly to that document.
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Click into it.
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And there we go, or, if you noticed, I could view the instructions.
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So it takes you just to a different page. But.
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Within Google classroom.
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Okay.
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So very easy.
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Very, very easy to share information with students. So you can again use the get link, tool.
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Provides that persistent URL. If you're using a learning management system, you would see a blue button here that would give you the option to embed this right into an assignment, or you could grab a link to it.
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And then.
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Add it directly to Google classroom.
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Okay.
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So I wanted to talk to you about that featured content. The multimedia that we have available videos. Our videos have transcripts and close captioning available.
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And you can see the time.
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How long those are. You can also sort by. If I wanted the newest videos I could sort by newest.
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Great for images. I like to use that for images, especially in opposing viewpoints. I really like to use that feature that sort by option.
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We also have let's see a few other things I want to share with you. Let's go into reference.
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And maybe I want to filter by.
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Publication date. Let's say so. We have these filter your results on the right hand side.
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And I have publication, date, document, type, publication, title.
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Lexile measurement level. So the difference between these 2 lexile measure gives you the lexile measure.
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And you can multi select.
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Content level is a range, a full range. So.
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If you remember.
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That a level 3 is generally middle school.
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Everything above high school, and all the way up to undergrad and everything below elementary that makes it really simple.
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So maybe I want to filter that down, especially if I have students that might need a little bit more.
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Low, or maybe a lower reading level.
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I. And if that's the case, too, don't forget. You also have Gale and contacts middle school.
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If you have some lower readers that might need a little bit more support, you also have that resource which is also cross curricular. But you also have students that may be reading at a higher level, and you have content there. So you could filter that content down by level. And then there's my search within again.
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I also can filter by level documents.
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I can.
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At, go directly into topic finder, which, remember, is that.
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Visual representation of my search results.
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I also have topic up here. Now, if I select from here.
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The top, or here below my filter bar, it will pull in my content that I have.
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Right here on the topic page, even if I filtered it down. So let's say I want to filter by.
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Certain document types, and what it'll do is.
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It will filter everything down at once.
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Doing an event overview and apply it.
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So I'm in reference it all of it down at once.
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If I were in primary sources, then.
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I would see different document types same with news. I would see in my filter area sections.
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So I have all those options available. What it does is it filters it all down at once. If I wanted to filter by, say, publication, date.
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I want everything from just the past year. I'm gonna see a lot more academic journals, magazines, and newspapers. What a good amount of reference articles, too!
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But I'll see a lot more of those periodicals.
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Here.
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Okay.
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And then again, if I wanted to open up topic finder, I have that at the top or down here, and it will just pull in these results.
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So I'm going to select it so you can see.
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It shows me.
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My topic search and my limiter that I'm.
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And it really drills it down.
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Now, if I go back.
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Let's say I remove that.
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Nope, it took me all the way back, so if I it removed the filter. Now, if I click on topic finder again, look at the difference.
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See how there's way more tiles available.
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Because I remove that filter so you can use topic finder many different ways.
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I can also, as soon as I sit down, if I want to do a search in topic.
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I can do that topic. Finder lives on the homepage of my resources. It also lives under advanced search.
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So I can kick off or change my search at this point. If I wanted to change it now, I absolutely could. I could just put in a search term, and it would do a brand new search for me.
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But I can also pull in directly from a topic. Page even filtered down information if I wanted to. Directly into.
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This tool that I have available.
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And if maybe I'm looking at black history, and I have 8 articles on the right hand side.
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Civil rights, movement.
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And go right into that article. There's more critical thinking questions.
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Okay.
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So we talked about high school we talked about. Oh, one more thing before I leave. I wanted to show you that you do have this explore panel on the right hand side. This is really great, because, especially if I've used topic finder, let's say I found an article that I'm really interested in. But I need 3 other sources.
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I can use this explore panel because it gives me supplemental information on that topic. It'll take me to different.
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Different articles or different images, or whatever we have available. So that more like this is a really helpful tool for our students.
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And then I also have the ability to send this to Google, drive.
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Microsoft onedrive email or print.
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And they also live here under the paper airplane.
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Google Onedrive email.
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Download or print, and this toolbar will stick with me throughout my.
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Scrolling like when I scroll down here. It still sticks with me, so I don't have to scroll all the way back up to the top. This is definitely a longer article.
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So this would be a really helpful tool.
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And then the last one I want to share with you. Of course the citations are attached. It is.
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Defaulted to Mla. 9th edition. But I can change that before I send it to my Google drive. I just would have to scroll all the way to the bottom.
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Or if I just needed the citation, I could use my citation tool.
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Change, the format.
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Copy it, paste it wherever I want, or choose where I'd like to export it to.
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Alright!
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Let me know if you have any questions. We went over a lot of tools in this resource. So let's go into our next one, and that is Gale In Context: opposing viewpoints.
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I wanna talk to you about an idea that was actually just shared with me, and it is called I don't. Are you familiar with the jigsaw strategy.
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So jigsaw strategy being that if you're in a classroom you can choose a topic like elections which we're going to do today.
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And from that topic you could assign each.
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Let's say table group.
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Or each small group their own topic.
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So I could if the overall overarching topic is elections. But maybe I want government or presidential race or voting or voting rights.
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Or United States. And results are those types of terms.
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I could do that for each table group, and then, when you bring everybody back together, they share what they learned on the overarching topic of elections. So.
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Keeping that in mind.
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You can see an opposing viewpoints. This is a really great resource to look at voting rights and election, and that kind of.
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Types of topics that you'll find. This is again hot topics, social issues. You're going to find a lot of content here. But yet still I consider it cross curricular. You can see our our subject areas are a little bit different. We also have the national debate topic.
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Here in a topic page for it.
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And then on the bottom it just like in our other resource. I didn't scroll the way down, though. You'll find topic and educator resources. So I can even access topic finder from this screen if I chose to.
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So keep that in mind with elections. And let me. We just added some new information.
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So we have electronic voting, presidential election process, midterm elections, electoral college. You can see all the different. I just typed in 3 letters. And how many options that we have. So let's go to Presidential election 2,024.
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And you can find a we have a topic page on it.
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Great to use in your classrooms.
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Or in your library. If you are sharing this in your public library. You wanted to share this information because this is not just for students patrons could benefit from this, too. You can use your get link, tool.
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And maybe if you wanted to use the image and link it out, you could do that.
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Again, the we get this question. A lot can students use images like in their publications or not in their publications, but in their
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In their papers and in their work that they're using. Yes, we just ask that. Of course it's cited. That's probably a given. I'm talking to a group of libraries and librarians.
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And you would cite that information. We just. It's not for promotional purposes, right? It's not for publication purposes. So, but yes, they can definitely use it in their work that they're doing. So that might be something you're interested in highlighting in your library and your library website. And you want to direct people to safe, vetted, authoritative information.
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Rather than just going to social media. They can find that content here. So you have these types of topic pages available.
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We are gonna switch gears, though, and go into immigration.
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As our topic.
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We have a topic guide here, and it's also the 2,018 National Debate topic.
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Again same setup image overview. We have all of our content types on the middle of the page here that I can quickly jump to.
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Something I want to point out. That's a little different in opposing viewpoints is you have featured viewpoints and viewpoints.
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Again remember the star and featured is hand selected by our content. Editors and subject matter. Specialists.
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Where viewpoints this houses, our viewpoint essays. If you're not familiar with our viewpoint essays, let me share that with you.
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Viewpoint essays.
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We'll have an article commentary.
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So we get information about the author.
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And we put it in.
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And get that out of the way. We put it in this commentary, and we also include some questions to consider.
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As they're reading the article, and then we go into that article.
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So our viewpoint essays. Give you a bit of information about where's this information coming from? Who is this author? Is? Are they credible. And you can find that here. So we really love the viewpoint essays. For a lot of those reasons so wanted to point that out to you.
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And then we talked about.
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Let me highlight a few things. So let's say I wanted to use this.
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As an assignment.
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And.
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I'm going to highlight each question in a different color, so I can click and drag.
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Select, my color.
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This is question.
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One.
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Let's just do these 3 real quick. We'll do green.
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Question 2, and question 3.
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Right. We'll do blue.
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Okay.
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Save that.
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Now, when they're reading this article.
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If if you look for.
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What to? As you read as you read, consider the following questions. If you're looking for the answer.
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Or what you think might be the answer. Then you can highlight that in yellow, and what you can also do. Let's say it happens to be. It's in this section here.
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I can also add my notes, so I could add a summary of.
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What I found in this section. Now.
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When you have marked up a document.
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Best practice is, send that document somewhere.
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Send it to Google Microsoft email or print because you marked it up. So you have the complete article saved.
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With everything you've marked up in the notes you've taken. What happens is these chunks of text.
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Show up below your citation at the bottom. So I have a yellow section with this exact text, and my notes live below my citation at the bottom. It turns the.
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When I send it to my Google drive, it turns it into a Google Doc.
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And I have all of that information.
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Something else that's happening is my highlights and notes section is being built out. So after I've highlighted on an article.
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I can view all highlights, and you can see here question one question, 2. Question 3.
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I can edit my notes, which.
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I would not just use the word summary. I would put information here.
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And save it so I can edit it, and I can just send these.
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To Google onedrive email or print.
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My citation tool is here also. If I were in multiple articles I would see all of those here. Great. We're excited. So there's another best practice.
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And a way to integrate it into the classroom. If you're teaching about citing sources or works bibliography, this is a great tool that they can use.
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And also great for those digital notes. Another way to use this, too, is, we've had teachers share with us that they have students that will send this to their Google drive and then share it. And it's a great way for that teacher to kind of check in and see where they're at in the research process.
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Also, students have used this tool.
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To work together. So if they're working together on a topic, they can put it in their Google drive and share it. And everybody can see that they can see. Maybe they're adding their own notes and communicating with each other that way. So all kinds of different ways to utilize this tool and this resource.
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Let me go back to.
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Our topic, page.
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Another feature I wanted to point out to you, or specific content, or infographics.
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And our infographics are interactive. I'm just gonna choose this top one here.
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Now, if I send this, here's a tip.
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If I send it to Google Microsoft email print any of these options, I will get exactly what's on the page. Even if I've removed some of the results. So let's say, I removed 2,019, and I just.
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Want to see the 2022 results.
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I'll still see the full.
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I'll still see exactly what I have on this page now, so as soon as I click into it, that's what you see. It takes a print copy of that.
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Even if you're sending it to Google, drive. So keep that in mind. But it is interactive here within the resource.
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And this one looks like it has to remove 2,019 from everything.
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We have 3 different ones available. Sometimes you'll see the ability to change the graph at the top. We have different types of graphs. Here's a. This is a.
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Great option, where I can remove.
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This one has a lot.
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It's a really good one.
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But you can see I can work within that.
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Interactive Infographic.
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And I still have explore, so I can explore and go to another subject area.
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I'm sorry. Not another subject. Another document within this subject area. That's what I meant to say.
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Okay. So we talked about interactive infographics, news articles. Let me go back.
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And we're going to go into news this time.
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This is.
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Something that I really like to do, because we have 65,000 different news articles, which is a lot.
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But we have the his. also the history of this is immigration. So we we do. We want the newest, possibly, but I might want.
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Something. A little bit later I might want to see what was immigration like.
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20 years ago or 10 years ago, so I might be able to find news articles here in the database.
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With that information and compare it to what is it like now? So not only are you going to get that current information, but you can get some historical information. Now keep in mind, though, opposing viewpoints is really great for hot topics, social issues. So if you're looking for more of the social studies, type information.
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Go into Gale In. Context. High school first.st
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Because this resource is focusing more on those topics that are happening right now.
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So keep that in mind, too. I had a librarian share that with me, and she told me the topic she was searching for. I was like, did you go into Gale In Context High School? It was a new resource, they that the State had just purchased for them, and she wasn't aware.
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And she's like no, and I showed her, and she's like, Oh, my gosh! This is what I needed. So keep that in mind that you have this resource. Yes, it is cross, curricular. But it's looking at those current issues. So those are the types of topics that I would search for in here, those hot topics.
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Within this resource.
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So little side note there and then. Again. I can filter by newest.
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And I could also filter by publication date. If I just want everything from the past year.
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And if I needed to create a link to this specific content.
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I would just use my get link tool.
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And link it back, or I can put it right into my Google classroom.
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So even after you filtered information down, you can also.
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Link it back to your.
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Use that link or use that Google classroom to share that information.
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Tools to support accessibility. I have the ability to.
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Into over. I think we're at 57 languages now.
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So I can translate that article.
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I can decrease or increase that font size, and this will stick with me throughout my session.
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Under display options. I have the ability to change the color behind the text.
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I can change the font if I need open dyslexic. I have that option available.
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I can also increase the line, letter, and wordpacing.
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And this will also stick with me throughout my session. So if I go to this next article.
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You can see it sticks with me, and I increase the.
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Font size. So it's stuck with me, too.
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If I need to go back to my default settings.
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I can either close out of the resource or.
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Go back to default settings.
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And then I have the listen option. There.
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Now, we talked about your digital resources. But we didn't talk about your test. Prep. So let's go into test prep resources.
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I'm already logged into Peterson's. You do want to create an account on this resource because you want to save where you're at what it does, is it automatically will save your test. So if I'm working on a test.
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A practice test.
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I can come directly back to it. Now we have some options. Prepare for exam or vocational tests. Those are the areas we're spending time in today.
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If I'm preparing for an exam. If it's a high school, am I looking for college test? Prep. Which would be your sat.
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Or grad schools. There, too, you can see here I have the Ap. Exams right at the top.
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There's also stem resources here.
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And when I click into that Ap. It gives me all of these different.
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Tests that I have available. You can also see.
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We have articles, and we have information about that exam. Some of them, too.
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We have the ebook available. Also, they can download the entire ebook if they wanted to. It'd be quite expensive, I'm sure, with printing, but.
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Probably cheaper than
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If they were to buy the book. But you do have the complete Peterson's ebooks here available, too.
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So if I wanted to go into, let's I usually go into biology because I have that one started already. I have also added it to my resources.
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When I open it up.
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I can go into the introduction. There's flashcards and study materials. Here's an instructional video, or I can jump right into my practice tests.
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I can start my 1st one. I just select it.
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And it'll tell me. It tells me information about the test, how long it'll take it should take. And then this is my! I use this one a lot. This is my 3rd attempt.
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I can start the quiz, and it takes me right into that practice test.
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Pretty self explanatory here. What I can do, too, is when I get to the point where I want to submit this quiz, even if I haven't answered all the questions I can do that.
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I can submit the quiz and get my score.
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And then.
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Any answers I have correct. I will see that in my score any answers I have incorrect. I will also see that, and both ways. We'll get an explanation of the correct answer.
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The timer is also running here.
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I can hide the timer if it makes me a little anxious. I can do that.
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I can also.
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Move the screen out of the way.
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Now let me see.
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I think I can go.
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Yes, so here's my attempt on this one.
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Or is this my first.st
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Feedback, on attempt.
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Oh, that was the one I was just on.
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Let me go back!
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I think I can see.
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That's not what I was looking for.
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Maybe it's here.
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Where I can click into. And I'm trying. I'm sorry. It's been a second since I've been in here, and I think it changed a little bit.
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Where I can check my.
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Go back into the quizzes here. It should be here.
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There we go!
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So I can go back into the quiz. My attempt.
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Yeah, no, that's interesting. I used to be able to, and I'm not seeing it. And it could be user error on my part where I have.
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The ability to see my past questions, and I keep clicking on the same one. Maybe I need to same thing here.
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Yeah, where I could see the attempts.
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Alright. I may have to ask questions after this session.
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On, those.
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It's gonna frustrate me because I know.
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It's gotta be here, and I just am missing it. Great.
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Terms.
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Jumped, one.
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There. It is. Okay.
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So? Where was it?
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It was under.
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Quizzes.
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Under grades. So if you go to grades.
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Quizzes, which I did the 1st time.
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That's interesting, that.
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It showed up differently. You go under there, then that's where you can review. I think. I was clicking on the one I had just started and I didn't. That was my problem.
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I didn't actually submit it, but you can see past.
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Attempt, and here's what it'll look like. With the question. The answer I selected, which was incorrect, and the answer the correct answer. And then that information on that.
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Wise answer.
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Minus b, the correct answer.
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Alright. So that is your 8, and all of your assessments look the same. So if I'm here, or maybe I am, let me go back to my homepage.
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I'm under vocational test, the only one that's a little different. Here is cosmetology.
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We use malady for cosmetology, so that one looks a little different, but the other ones will look the same.
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As the one I was just on. So the the layout, the answering the questions is going to be the same. What is offered for each one is slightly different, too, because those Ap. Exams we have a lot of.
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Different tools available like flash cards and and those things, but so prepare for an exam.
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Is where I went first.st
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Prep for vocational tests is the other area. So that's where you're going to find all of that test. Prep and college test prep.
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Act, I know is coming up.
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You have the online course, and then the practice. So this one has even a little bit more available. And then don't forget you have books and articles. I just had to click on it, and I can download the entire book.
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I can add that book to my resources which.
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Puts it in my resources folder, and then every time I come in here, if I want to quickly jump to my resources, I log in and click my resources.
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Which lives at the top, or you saw it on the home page. It'll take me. I can go directly to where I was.
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So I go right into the course.
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Or.
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Access one of my schools or my scholarships, or a job.
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So whatever I've saved in here.
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And my my resources.
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Will, so.
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We'll be there until I.
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Choose to delete it.
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Alright. So those are the resources I wanted to go in today. I did our. I did mention Gale Litfinder. Don't forget. That's great for your Ela teachers, and it is a literature resource that has all of your full text.
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Share it with you right here, so you can see what the homepage looks like. It has all those full text poems and speeches available look for an author. Look for a specific literary work. You're going to find all of that great information here, with all of those tools to support accessibility.
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Alright. Let's go back.
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So I can just share with you before you leave me today, because we're a little bit over our time.
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The gale support site. So if you're looking for one support, you can look, or I should say, if you're looking for support, and you need that information, and would like to access it yourself.
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You do have the Gale support site that we've created for the Tennessee Electronic Library. And I'm putting that in the Webinar chat. It's a great one to bookmark. It's where you're going to find your libraries. Access Urls, your title list. Mark records everything you need for your databases are going to live there. You'll also find in the training center. We have tip sheets and tutorials and recorded webinars and training decks available.
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So we have Powerpoints with all of our training notes.
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We also have added training toolkits.
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For each individual resource. And they're great click sheets where we've curated our training materials for you.
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So you're going to find that type of content. And of course you will find all of the recordings we've done specifically for the Tennessee Electronic Library and.
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Also any upcoming training sessions that we have scheduled for the Tennessee Electronic Library. You'll see those if you go to support dot Gale. Com forward, slash, tell it'll take you to the tell page that or site we've created. And then marketing materials are also there a great way to share information with students. We just added.
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New escape room.
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And that's for Gale In Context: High School. We talked about today. So Hispanic heritage month, we have an entire escape room ready to go for you, and we have them for elementary middle school and high school. We have.
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2.
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For Elementary, 2 for middle school, No. One for middle school, and 2 for high school. Now we might have 2 for middle school, too. I haven't checked, but.
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We do have also templates. If you want to create your own escape room, there's a template available for you along with so many other things tick to and trading cards and so many different reading activities available claim evidence and reasoning, like all kinds of student activities, to go with your resources.
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To support high School instruction.
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That wraps our session. My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale, and I thank you so much for your time. Here are some, also some awesome.
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Folks that can help you if you have any additional questions. Your Gale customer, success managers, they are your one on one support, and all things Gale.
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So if you're looking for help walking through the support site or adding access to your website, they can help with all of that.
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And answer those questions. If you're looking to add your learning, your resources to your learning management system, feel free to reach out, to Gale technical support.
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A survey should pop up when you leave today. If you could click, continue, we'd love to have your feedback on the session.
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If you'd like to use your phone, just scan the QR code and answer those questions, I share that.
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Information internally, and also with the folks at Tell. It is completely anonymous, unless you.
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Give if you'd like us to reach out to you. I do go back into those surveys and any questions that you have for me. Otherwise don't forget all those follow-up emails you'll be receiving from me. So feel free to ask any questions that you have. I'm happy to help in my email addresses right here, too.
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And that wraps our session for today. All, if you have any questions, I'll stay on the line. But thanks, everyone have a great rest of your day.