Duration: 30 Minutes
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Welcome in everyone. Thank you for joining
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me today. We have another Gale 101
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session. This one is focused on
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Gale In Context: Biography. My name is
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Amber Winters and I'm a senior training consultant
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here with Gale,
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a quick agenda for everyone. First, we'll just
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overview the resource. So you know the
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basics what you can expect when you click in,
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we'll then talk about some of the key concept. You're going
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to find,
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we'll spend the majority of the time though actually walking
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through the platform. So you get a feel of all of the
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different workflows and different pathways
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your users can take to get to the content they need.
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And we'll also take a look at the tools that we have integrated
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within this resource as well. And
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then at the very end of the session, we'll
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have some time for any questions you have. And
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I do have some contacts and wrap up information
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for you as well and don't feel like you need
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to wait until the end of the session to ask questions.
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The the Q and A box is already open
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and it will be open for the full session so feel
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free really, whenever you think of something, go
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ahead and put into the Q and A and I should be able to answer
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it as we move forward. If
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the Q and A does get a little bit inundated, then we
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will wait until the end of the session, but just know
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your questions will be asked no matter when you ask
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them. So
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let's go ahead and get started here talking about GG in
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context biography. So this resource
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is really for a secondary level students
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and up. So your middle schoolers
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may find success in this resource, but
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you'll definitely find success at the
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high school level as well as the undergraduate
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level. And it's also great for adult learners as well.
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So if I have anyone from the public library,
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who's on the line and you have
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individuals just trying to learn about people in the news,
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you know, sometimes we just need to learn about new people, we're reading
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about in the newspaper.
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This is a great resource for them as well. So
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they're going to get the more
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basic level content for younger learners
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like upper upper level, middle
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school and high school. But they're also going to get more
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advanced biographies and content for your
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undergraduate students as well as your adult learners
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or just your, you know, general users
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of the public library who are interested in learning about people.
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And our coverage does include quite a wide
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variety of people and different
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categories and different
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parts of society. So you're going
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to find information on world leaders.
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Of course, you'll find historical figures. I think
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that's what we all think about when we think about biographical
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research. But you'll also find pop culture
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icons, scientists, business people, social
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performers, other politicians,
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things like that. So we've really kind of opened this up to
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be super broad because we want people to
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find information on whatever type of individual
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they're learning about. Maybe it's a new artist that just popped
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up that they want to learn about.
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Um or an author they're very interested in or maybe
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a student is doing a project on, let's
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say an African American scientist
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and they want to just explore what we have in this resource.
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We've organized our platform in a way where they'll easily
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be able to do that and find the content that best
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suits their needs.
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And in addition to the great content, we have, we
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also have some tools that are going to be really helpful
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that we'll take a look at today. So we have
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our highlighted notes tool that's going to help them kind
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of find key pieces of information to hold on to.
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We have a full translation tool. So anyone who's
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working with students or public library patrons
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who need different languages, they'll be able to
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translate each of the articles in our resource
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as well as the platform. We have a read
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speaker for those who are struggling readers
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who prefer to have the text read to them. They can
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do that. In our platform,
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we have a few different accessibility tools that are going
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to help kind of make this a little
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easier to read for your users. So they'll be able to change
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the font, the color, the
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size, all that good stuff. We
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do include a citation generator in here as well
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for anyone working on projects. And
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finally, we do have Google and Microsoft integrations.
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So if you have individuals who
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are trying to save content, you know, they want to look
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at it later or save it out of the platform,
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They'll be able to do that by sending directly over
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to either their Google or Microsoft accounts.
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So we'll take a look at that today when we click into the
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resource as well.
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Now let's just talk a little bit about the key content
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types you're going to find within this resource. The
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first should not be shocked to anyone,
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but of course, it's going to be a biographies and
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what's nice is within this resource. Your
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users aren't going to just see one biography about
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a person. They're going to see detailed
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biographies from multiple publishers.
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So they're going to get kind of different sides of things
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because different publishers are going to focus on
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different aspects of a person's life
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or what a person achieved So it's
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a really nice way to get some real in depth
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information and get different sides of things and
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hear really everything you can about
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a person. So we'll find multiple biographies
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for a lot of the individuals on our platform.
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In addition to those biographies, we also have reference
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articles. So if you're excuse
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me, if you're researching, let's
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say a person related to the civil rights movement, you'll
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see here, I've got a reference
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article about the civil rights movement. So as I'm learning
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about that individual, I can go back
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and see. OK, so what was happening around that time?
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So these reference articles are
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really providing context about
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the highlighted individuals. So why
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they acted how they did, you know what
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made them choose to go into wherever they went into
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these reference articles are really going to help them out
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with that. We
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also have great multimedia content. So not
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only are users going to be able to read biographies
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about people to understand their backgrounds.
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But to also be able to see videos of them
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images, audio files, like a lot of podcasts.
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So sometimes we see interviews with individuals
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to just give them some more
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in depth understanding and to also kind of,
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you know, mix it up a little bit. They don't want to just
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read about a person,
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they want to see what's going on with that person, how that person
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interacts. You'll see, I have an image
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of Ariana Grande at the Met Gala
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on my screen here. So they're
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not just getting the, you know, background about their
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lives. They're also seeing what they're doing right
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now. They're getting that visually and
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through audio files, like podcasts and things like
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that. We
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also actually have a pretty decently sized collection
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of primary sources in the resource as well, which
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I think are sometimes a little bit hidden. But if
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you have individuals who are working through researching
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historical people, they'll
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be able to find a lot of primary sources related
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to them. They may find speeches that these people
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gave. maybe,
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you know, letters that they wrote to editors
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or something like that. They'll find those
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primary sources on the platform, literature criticism
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as well. You may find that in the primary sources
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section.
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So again, a nice way to add context,
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especially if we're looking up historical figures,
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we want to see what was going on in their time. If they
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did make speeches, if they talk to people,
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we want to see that. So we're going to find those primary
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sources here on this platform
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as well.
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News and magazines. This is giving us the more
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up to date content. So if we're researching
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contemporary individuals, you know, artists,
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um
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social media stars, let's say a
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lot of times the news and magazine sections
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are going to be really helpful for them.
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So these are up to date a lot of them are
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imported daily. Of course, it depends on
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the publishing rate of these publications.
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But
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you'll be able to easily click through those and kind
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of get the
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the what's going on related
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to these individuals. And finally,
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this is really for our more
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advanced learners. So our
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higher level high school learners as
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well as our undergraduates
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and our excuse me
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and our adult learners, they'll find academic
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journals. So if they're learning about,
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you know, an individ individual that's in a really
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heavily academic field, maybe
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a scientist or
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someone working some something close
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to that. A lot of times they'll find academic
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journals that those people worked on or
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that are related to topics that person worked
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on. They'll be able to find those in
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this resource as well. Again, of course, these are more
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advanced, so helpful for your older
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learners, but they are included in this
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resource here as well. So again,
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the point of having all of these different content
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types is to really provide a holistic view
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of whatever person this individual
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is learning about.
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Now, let's just dive right into the resource here.
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I haven't seen any questions in the Q and A. But while
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I'm jumping over here,
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does anyone have any questions
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before? I really just dive right in?
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OK.
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Very quiet today. No problem. We'll go
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ahead and get going then. So this is the home
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page of Galen context biography. If you've seen
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any other in context resource, you'll
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know. This looks exactly the same
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aside from Gal in context elementary, which is for
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our young kids.
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But this looks the exact same. It does have
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a few features that we'll take a look at that are a little bit
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different than the other resources, but just
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the lay of the land here, you'll find your basic and
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advanced search at the very top of the page.
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We've got some tools in the middle. We'll take a look
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at in a second
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underneath that. We have people of interest
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and these generally change monthly depending
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on what's going on. Anyone watching
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the recording of this wicked um
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actually just released in theaters this month,
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which is why you're seeing Cynthia
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here pulled forward, but you'll see, we can also click
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through and see what other individuals
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are highlighted here.
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And again, it does change monthly a lot
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of times it'll be focused on
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something that happened that month. So after an election,
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we may post information about the
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person who won the election. If there is a big
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environmental movements, let's say, well, post
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environmental scientists. So it really just kind of depends
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on what's going on in a specific month
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here. Scrolling down
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from the people of interest section. We also just
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have this option to browse people here
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and each of these people that are listed are actually
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fully made topic pages that we've created
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for people. So it's not just,
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you know, a list of documents we have related
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to, let's say Elton John,
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it's going to be a fully created page that's
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going to give background on the individual and
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it's going to organize all of the results we
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have related to them. So
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we create topic pages for the most studied,
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most popular, most searched
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individuals on the platform here.
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And you'll see, we do try to break it up kind of based
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on where they land.
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So you'll find contemporary world leaders,
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singers over looking for singers, writers.
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But we also have sections specifically for
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African Americans or Black Americans
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or looking for native Americans or maybe notable
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women. We've pulled those all forward.
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So it's easy for your users to click into
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and I can click into any of these. Let's just click into
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scientists today.
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You'll see there are actually 232
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scientists that we've chosen to highlight.
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Now, if your user is looking for someone who's
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maybe a little bit um more
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obscure.
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they may not find a topic page here, so they may
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need to run a search instead and they'll still put content
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on that person. They just won't have this kind
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of organized look, but you'll see, we can kind of click and
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browse through. Of course, this is a long
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list. So sometimes it is easier.
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if they have someone in mind to search for them,
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but we can browse all of our people. We can
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also change the topic here.
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So I was on scientists and you know that notice
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there are a lot more topics listed here.
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So if I'm interested in the Summer Olympics,
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I can click there the Winter Olympics.
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this breaks it down even further than what we
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saw on the home page. You know, inventors,
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Harlem Renaissance.
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So this again is a nice way to find content
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if your users aren't really sure what they're looking
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for right now, you know, they, they
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know they want to learn about a scientist, but that's about
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all they know. This browse option is a nice
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way for them to find someone who could interest
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them. Now,
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I'm going to jump back to home here just so we
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all have one landing place
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because I wanna show you our person search
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as well and this is unique to gale
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in context biographies. So you're not going to find this
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on the other in context resources,
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but it's right here on the home page on our little toolbar
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here. You'll see where it says person search.
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So what's great about this is I could put someone specific
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right in the search here. So if I have someone specific in mind
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or I can put search limiters
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in here, and I think this is what I find
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particularly intriguing with this resources.
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If maybe I just want to
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have a project about a female, a female leader.
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Let's say
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um I can just do that. I can leave
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the search blank. I can say I want a female.
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Um I can put in an occupation if
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I want. So we have an example here of
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writers. Let's go with writer.
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You'll see. This gives me some options if I want to
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be even more specific, but we'll just stick
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with a writer.
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If I know more information and place of
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birth, place of death, I can add that
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if I have a specific ethnicity in
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mind, maybe I'm looking for influential
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African American women. I can click into
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that here
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and now I can run my search.
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You'll see all of the filters I applied
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appear up top here. So remember I have
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female African American and writer all
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listed as filters.
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I know I have just very basic information about
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these individuals, but I can click directly
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into them
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to be taken to all of the content we have
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related to them.
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So again, this is a really nice way to find individuals
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just based on characteristics as opposed
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to a, a standard basic search.
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You'll see, I have the option here to look
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at the occupation.
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You'll see some of them have more than just writer
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listed.
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That's because that individual
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does more than writing. So they
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have politician listed, but they've also written a book
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or they've written something.
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So let's go ahead and go back to the home page just one last
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time. And
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now instead of browsing or running the people search, I'm actually
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just going to go in and do a basic search
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here. So let's actually stick with the wicked
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idea here. So we'll search
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here for, Cynthia Erivo
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today.
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So if this is gone, let's say it's, you know, next
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month and we've taken her off of the people of interest.
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but you have someone who's still interested in learning
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about her. We're going to type that into the search
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bar instead.
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And what's great is you'll see when I start to type
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here. The first three listed have images
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next to them and these are actually
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sometimes they're called topic pages. You may hear
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them being called person guides, but
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there are those organized pages about individuals
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that we've created to help your users learn
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a little bit easier and navigate a little bit easier.
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So let's click the first one you'll see. This is who we're
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looking for.
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And now once I click in here, so you'll
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see at the very top of the page. I just have kind
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of a quick overview about Cynthia.
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You'll see, I can hit my read more button and this is
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going to pull forward a full article.
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This is gonna be a biography, a basic
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one about what's going on in her life,
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what she's done, any awards she's received or anything
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like that.
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I can click the back button up here to get back to
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my topic page or I click on her name
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right here.
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And once I'm back on the topic page, you'll see, we also give
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some nice quick facts here. So these
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are really nice and if your users are just
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trying to get really basic information, they
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can look at our quick fact, quick facts
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right here on this topic page before they
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really dive in.
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Now, underneath that overview, at the very top,
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you're gonna see this option for this on this
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page feature.
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So this, we've actually chosen to broke
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up every piece of content related to this
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individual. So you'll see, we have
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featured content pulled out separately from biographies,
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magazines and news have their own different sections.
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If we're looking for an image, we have those pulled into
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their own content bucket as well as videos
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and audio files.
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Um And for Cynthia Arrival,
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we don't have any primary sources which
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you know, does kind of make sense because of course,
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she's a pretty contemporary
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individual. But if you were looking
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at historical figure and they were primary sources
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related to the individual that would appear
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in this little gray bar here as well
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and then scrolling down, we're going to see all of those
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content buckets now. So we have some featured
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content that we've pulled forward biographies,
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you'll see our images here, videos, magazines,
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all that great stuff.
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And then at the very bottom. We also have related
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topics here. And when we say topics, they're going to be
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people because this is gail in the context biography.
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So we was going to be pointing to new
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people that are related to the individual.
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And if I were to click into any of these, it would actually launch
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me into that new topic page.
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So I'd be able to click right over to
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another nice neat organized topic page and kind
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of go about with whatever I'm trying to learn.
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Now, let's click up here. Let's go into one of our
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content buckets here. Since we're in Galen
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context biography, I will go into the biography
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content.
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You'll see. We actually have four biographies here
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about Cynthia rival
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and they're all at different levels here.
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Um So if you're in a public library
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or you're working at
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higher education, you most likely aren't using
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lexile. But if I have anyone who
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is using lexile, you notice these are all different.
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So we'll have higher level and lower level black
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styles for your users. Something
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that I find helpful as I'm going
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through, you'll see we have these little kind of content
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level icons here.
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So those range from level one to level
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five, level five is going to be
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high school level as well as adult learning
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level four is going to be
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kind of lower level, high school level
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three will be that middle school two and one
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are going to be middle school and elementary.
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So you won't find much in the level
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one or two options, but you'll find
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a lot of three fours and fives. So if
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you're working with, you know, a wide variety of
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students, you have some who need lower level
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content. These little content
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levels are helpful for you if you're pulling information,
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but you'll see they'll change and you'll see. We give
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the publisher here as well. So if we want to know
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who's publishing, we can take a look
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at that right here. It listed as well.
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On this right hand side, we also have the ability
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to filter. Since we're in biographies,
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it's not as helpful to filter
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these, of course. But
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um you'll see we can filter by subjects.
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So if I was looking at reference articles, instead
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there might be you know, three or four different
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subjects, I can navigate through
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those.
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I can narrow down to content level. So again,
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if you're working with students who need
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a specific level, I can do that here
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in my filters as well.
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I can also search within here. So if I want
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to maybe narrow down even further, I certainly
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could do that here on this page as well.
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Now, let's just click into one of these
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articles. We'll click into this first one.
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Now, in all of our biographies, you're going to see
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at the top here, this little blue
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box, it's going to give just brief
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information about the individual. So whether
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when they were born, their nationality,
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their occupation,
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then underneath that they will get the full text
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here, you'll see.
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And of course, this will change based on the publisher.
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Some may have more information about their career.
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Others may focus more on their
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personal background or their awards,
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which again is why we include more than one
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biography per individual. So we
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want people to kind of dive in to take a look at all
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of the different aspects of this person.
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We also include on this right hand side
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here, an explore panel that's really helpful.
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So if we're looking for more information
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like this, we have this option here
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that's going to pull us forward to a few different articles.
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You'll see, we have our art article contents
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listed here and then related subjects
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listed here as well. So this kind of helps us move
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forward again. If maybe we're stuck
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in our research, we don't have another search to run,
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but we want to keep learning. This explore
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panel is oftentimes helpful for that.
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And I want to take a look at all of the tools we have
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available for documents. But before I do,
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are there any questions about the layout
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of the resource of any of the workflows
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that I just briefly went through?
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Ok, I don't see any. So we'll go
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ahead and keep rolling then because I do want to get through all of the
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great tools we have available. So
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the first one I want to point out is our citation
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tool. Absolutely great for getting buy
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in from students and from teachers because
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they don't have to make their own citations. And that's
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always a beautiful thing. So you can
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find that citation tool either up top
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here at the top of the page in our little toolbar
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where it says site,
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you see when I click it, it pulls forward it, I can pull
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Mlaap a Chicago or Harvard versions,
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I can select it and copy it
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or I could export it over to
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noodle tools, Google Drive,
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Onedrive, whatever I'm using.
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And the citation was also found at the very bottom
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of each of our articles here. And it does provide
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the same information, the same options to change
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over to different
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um different versions as well
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as my same exporting options. So
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we've just included it in two different places
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just to make sure your users find it. So
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if they may be missed it at the top here, hopefully
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they'll see it down at the bottom of the article and
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vice versa.
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And just moving forward from this tool,
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we're going to move just straight down here on
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our toolbar is our send
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to option. So if I find this document particularly
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interesting and I want to save it for later
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or maybe I want to share it with someone I
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can choose to send this over to my Google drive
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my Onedrive or I can email it.
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And what's nice is if I do send it over to one of my drives,
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this is going to be in my drive permanently.
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So I'll always be able to go back and take a look
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at this article and it does actually
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create a folder for your users within
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their drive that will be titled Gale and
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Context biography.
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Um And anytime they throw content
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over to their drive from kind of here on
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out once they have a Gale and context biography
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folder,
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it's always gonna funnel right into that one folder
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for them. So it actually goes over nice and organized
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to make it easier for them to get back to their
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content.
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I also have the option to download, you'll see what I hit,
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download it, just downloads as a PDF
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and I can save that to my desktop if I like or whatever
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I want to do with it,
[00:21:33.949]
I can also print and then I have this nice
[00:21:36.029]
get link option and this get
[00:21:38.118]
link provides me with a persistent URL to
[00:21:40.199]
get right back to this page. So this
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is nice for any educators who are on the line. You
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can get a link and toss it right into a discussion
[00:21:47.068]
board post. Um or maybe
[00:21:49.130]
you just want to direct students to this document because they're
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going to be using it in class today
[00:21:53.289]
for public libraries, if you're trying
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to highlight a specific individual,
[00:21:57.699]
maybe use this in a social media post
[00:21:59.959]
and you have your patrons
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go directly to this link and they can read this
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article,
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but it's a persistent URL. So you can really put
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it anywhere you want. It's a nice feature to have
[00:22:11.239]
and this get link is also available at
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the topic page level. I always want to
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mention that as well. So
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um
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if you find a nice topic page that you want to share, instead
[00:22:20.818]
of just circulate a document, you can use get
[00:22:22.828]
link there as well.
[00:22:25.828]
And these tools, these kind of sending and
[00:22:27.890]
sharing options are also found
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down here under the title. You'll see, I have
[00:22:31.969]
my Google drive icon, my Onedrive
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icon, email, download and print
[00:22:36.430]
again. They do the same thing. They're just
[00:22:38.559]
a little redundant to try to make sure that your users
[00:22:40.809]
see them no matter where they're looking on the page
[00:22:46.088]
on the left hand side here. Kind of just
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across from these tools, we have
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our document accessibility tools
[00:22:52.900]
that are going to help increase the accessibility of
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this for all of your users. So
[00:22:56.959]
the first one is our translate option.
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You'll see when I hit this, I can translate the article to
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quite a few different languages here.
[00:23:04.269]
And I also have the option to set an interface language
[00:23:07.059]
which is going to change. Let's go ahead and do that switch
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over to Spanish here.
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Spanish
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which is going to change all of the tools
[00:23:15.689]
in my search bar you'll see here are now in
[00:23:17.779]
Spanish.
[00:23:19.559]
So as I am walking through the resource anywhere
[00:23:21.858]
I need to go ill, be able to read that in Spanish
[00:23:23.868]
to kind of know where I need to be
[00:23:27.199]
that does translate separately from
[00:23:29.239]
the article. So every time they click into an article,
[00:23:31.299]
they will need to hit the actual translate article
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button as well.
[00:23:34.959]
But let's change this back to English here.
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So in addition to the translation, I can also increase
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or decrease the font size as needed.
[00:23:45.410]
Next to those, I have my display options
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here. So this is where you kind of get
[00:23:49.680]
really
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really um excuse me,
[00:23:54.299]
really deep into customization
[00:23:56.539]
here. So you'll see I can change the background on my
[00:23:58.559]
text.
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I can change the font here and we do have a dyslexia
[00:24:02.009]
font available for your users who prefer
[00:24:04.229]
that I can also change the line letter
[00:24:06.348]
and word spacing.
[00:24:09.299]
And once I choose these settings while I'm in a session,
[00:24:11.630]
this is going to follow me along. So as
[00:24:13.838]
I'm clicking through reading new articles, I'm not going
[00:24:16.000]
to have to enter this information in again,
[00:24:18.160]
over and over again. It's going to save
[00:24:20.180]
for me. Now, I will say if
[00:24:22.269]
your users are signed off due to inactivity
[00:24:24.618]
or if they close out of their browser and then click back
[00:24:26.709]
in. they will have to redo this because
[00:24:28.890]
we don't recognize the same person twice
[00:24:30.969]
because we don't have named user accounts or anything like
[00:24:33.039]
that. But if they are on the same
[00:24:35.199]
session, this is going to follow them along.
[00:24:37.489]
I'm actually going to go back to my defaults today
[00:24:39.640]
though. So right
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next to our display options, we also have our listen
[00:24:44.000]
tool and this is going to read the full article
[00:24:46.140]
to your users. So
[00:24:47.848]
if they prefer to have something read to them, they
[00:24:49.939]
could hit that list and you'll see it pops up
[00:24:51.979]
this nice little option here
[00:24:54.380]
and they can have it read aloud to them and
[00:24:56.410]
it does read in whatever language they've
[00:24:58.539]
translated to. So if they translated this
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article into Spanish before they hit listen,
[00:25:03.338]
it's actually going to read to them in Spanish
[00:25:08.769]
and we have about four minutes. But I do want to show you
[00:25:10.838]
our highlights and notes feature before we end off the
[00:25:12.848]
day. So if you have students who are
[00:25:14.868]
working on a project and they need to highlight
[00:25:17.239]
the bits of information they want to include
[00:25:19.400]
in their project, we include our highlights
[00:25:21.479]
and notes feature right here on the platform. They can just click
[00:25:23.699]
and drag over anything they think is important.
[00:25:26.500]
Let's say this little bit here.
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They can choose the color, they can put a note
[00:25:30.400]
in here, maybe for my project,
[00:25:35.229]
they can say that
[00:25:36.348]
and they can really highlight over as much or as little
[00:25:38.660]
as they want. Let's add a couple highlights
[00:25:40.680]
in here and save that information.
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And now these highlights and notes are session based.
[00:25:45.500]
So if your students are going through finding
[00:25:47.890]
information, I think is interesting and they want to hold on
[00:25:49.989]
to that. They need to get this document out
[00:25:52.170]
of the platform. They can do that by sending
[00:25:54.279]
over to their drives. They can download,
[00:25:56.568]
they can print,
[00:25:57.779]
they can do any of those options. It will
[00:25:59.890]
get it out of the platform and it will retain both
[00:26:02.088]
their highlights and notes.
[00:26:04.838]
Another great feature we have if we take a
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look at my highlights and notes button in this tab
[00:26:09.000]
right hand corner here.
[00:26:11.338]
If I click into this while I'm on a document, it's going
[00:26:13.380]
to show me the text I highlighted as
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well as notes I took and the highlight color.
[00:26:18.219]
I can hit this view all highlights and notes option.
[00:26:22.029]
And now this has just pulled out the bits
[00:26:24.160]
that I've highlighted. So it's not showing me the full article
[00:26:26.309]
anymore. It's only showing me what I chose to highlight
[00:26:29.239]
and I can actually take this with me. So you'll
[00:26:31.269]
see, I have the option to send this document over
[00:26:33.989]
to Google Drive Onedrive or email
[00:26:36.390]
or I could download or print this. So
[00:26:38.578]
if your users don't want to, you know,
[00:26:40.588]
if they let's say they highlighted three or four articles.
[00:26:42.689]
They don't want to save all of those articles.
[00:26:44.969]
They can go to those highlights and notes page
[00:26:47.189]
and they can just save this.
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And you'll see at the bottom, we do include a running bibliography
[00:26:52.160]
here and we do include the link
[00:26:54.338]
to the articles as well. So if I had highlighted
[00:26:56.640]
in a couple of articles, they would each be listed
[00:26:59.039]
here and I can easily click back
[00:27:01.519]
using this hyperlink to get to the article that I was
[00:27:03.588]
already on.
[00:27:04.939]
You'll see, I'm on the same session. So all of
[00:27:06.949]
my highlights stayed here.
[00:27:09.650]
So just kind of a secondary way to get
[00:27:11.689]
content out of the resource and get it
[00:27:13.779]
in the hands of your users and so they can use it for
[00:27:15.868]
later. Now,
[00:27:21.160]
we're nearing the end of our time today and I do have
[00:27:23.180]
some wrap up information for you.
[00:27:25.400]
Um But any questions about
[00:27:27.469]
the tools, we looked at the workflows, we looked
[00:27:29.949]
at anything at all, put them into the Q and A for me,
[00:27:32.358]
I'll be able to answer those while I jump back
[00:27:34.420]
over to my slides and give you
[00:27:36.880]
some wrap up information.
[00:27:41.000]
So if you have any questions about the training, we
[00:27:43.118]
went over today that you
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think of after we're done, feel free to
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send me an email again. My name is Amber Winters
[00:27:49.259]
and my email is
[00:27:51.299]
[email protected]. If you want to get a little
[00:27:53.338]
more specific to your learning community
[00:27:55.529]
and how you can use this resource with them.
[00:27:57.660]
Reach out to your customer success manager. They can help
[00:27:59.868]
you out with that They work with librarians
[00:28:02.259]
and teachers and schools across
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the US so they can really provide you with a wealth of information.
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If you don't know who your customer success manager
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is, you can send an email to
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[email protected] and
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we'll forward you to the correct individual
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if you don't have Gale In Context: Biography right
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now, but you want to talk about it, reach out to your sales
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consultant. If you don't know who that is,
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just go to support.gale.com/repfinder,
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we'll forward you to the correct individual.
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And I do like to mention our support site here
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as well. So if you need additional support information,
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uh maybe activities for students, you need
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flyers, bookmarks, social
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media, uh messaging, you
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go to our support site, which is just support.gale.com.
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We have all of the information ready to go for
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you. We also have some great professional development
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content. So if you're going to be training
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your staff, the support site is a nice place
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to take a look as well. So you won't have
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to re invent the wheel while you do that.
Welcome in everyone. Thank you for joining
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me today. We have another Gale 101
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session. This one is focused on
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Gale In Context: Biography. My name is
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Amber Winters and I'm a senior training consultant
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here with Gale,
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a quick agenda for everyone. First, we'll just
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overview the resource. So you know the
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basics what you can expect when you click in,
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we'll then talk about some of the key concept. You're going
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to find,
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we'll spend the majority of the time though actually walking
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through the platform. So you get a feel of all of the
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different workflows and different pathways
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your users can take to get to the content they need.
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And we'll also take a look at the tools that we have integrated
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within this resource as well. And
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then at the very end of the session, we'll
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have some time for any questions you have. And
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I do have some contacts and wrap up information
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for you as well and don't feel like you need
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to wait until the end of the session to ask questions.
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The the Q and A box is already open
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and it will be open for the full session so feel
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free really, whenever you think of something, go
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ahead and put into the Q and A and I should be able to answer
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it as we move forward. If
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the Q and A does get a little bit inundated, then we
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will wait until the end of the session, but just know
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your questions will be asked no matter when you ask
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them. So
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let's go ahead and get started here talking about GG in
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context biography. So this resource
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is really for a secondary level students
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and up. So your middle schoolers
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may find success in this resource, but
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you'll definitely find success at the
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high school level as well as the undergraduate
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level. And it's also great for adult learners as well.
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So if I have anyone from the public library,
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who's on the line and you have
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individuals just trying to learn about people in the news,
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you know, sometimes we just need to learn about new people, we're reading
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about in the newspaper.
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This is a great resource for them as well. So
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they're going to get the more
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basic level content for younger learners
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like upper upper level, middle
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school and high school. But they're also going to get more
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advanced biographies and content for your
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undergraduate students as well as your adult learners
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or just your, you know, general users
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of the public library who are interested in learning about people.
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And our coverage does include quite a wide
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variety of people and different
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categories and different
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parts of society. So you're going
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to find information on world leaders.
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Of course, you'll find historical figures. I think
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that's what we all think about when we think about biographical
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research. But you'll also find pop culture
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icons, scientists, business people, social
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performers, other politicians,
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things like that. So we've really kind of opened this up to
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be super broad because we want people to
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find information on whatever type of individual
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they're learning about. Maybe it's a new artist that just popped
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up that they want to learn about.
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Um or an author they're very interested in or maybe
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a student is doing a project on, let's
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say an African American scientist
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and they want to just explore what we have in this resource.
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We've organized our platform in a way where they'll easily
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be able to do that and find the content that best
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suits their needs.
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And in addition to the great content, we have, we
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also have some tools that are going to be really helpful
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that we'll take a look at today. So we have
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our highlighted notes tool that's going to help them kind
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of find key pieces of information to hold on to.
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We have a full translation tool. So anyone who's
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working with students or public library patrons
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who need different languages, they'll be able to
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translate each of the articles in our resource
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as well as the platform. We have a read
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speaker for those who are struggling readers
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who prefer to have the text read to them. They can
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do that. In our platform,
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we have a few different accessibility tools that are going
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to help kind of make this a little
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easier to read for your users. So they'll be able to change
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the font, the color, the
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size, all that good stuff. We
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do include a citation generator in here as well
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for anyone working on projects. And
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finally, we do have Google and Microsoft integrations.
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So if you have individuals who
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are trying to save content, you know, they want to look
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at it later or save it out of the platform,
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They'll be able to do that by sending directly over
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to either their Google or Microsoft accounts.
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So we'll take a look at that today when we click into the
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resource as well.
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Now let's just talk a little bit about the key content
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types you're going to find within this resource. The
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first should not be shocked to anyone,
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but of course, it's going to be a biographies and
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what's nice is within this resource. Your
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users aren't going to just see one biography about
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a person. They're going to see detailed
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biographies from multiple publishers.
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So they're going to get kind of different sides of things
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because different publishers are going to focus on
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different aspects of a person's life
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or what a person achieved So it's
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a really nice way to get some real in depth
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information and get different sides of things and
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hear really everything you can about
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a person. So we'll find multiple biographies
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for a lot of the individuals on our platform.
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In addition to those biographies, we also have reference
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articles. So if you're excuse
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me, if you're researching, let's
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say a person related to the civil rights movement, you'll
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see here, I've got a reference
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article about the civil rights movement. So as I'm learning
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about that individual, I can go back
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and see. OK, so what was happening around that time?
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So these reference articles are
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really providing context about
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the highlighted individuals. So why
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they acted how they did, you know what
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made them choose to go into wherever they went into
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these reference articles are really going to help them out
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with that. We
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also have great multimedia content. So not
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only are users going to be able to read biographies
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about people to understand their backgrounds.
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But to also be able to see videos of them
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images, audio files, like a lot of podcasts.
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So sometimes we see interviews with individuals
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to just give them some more
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in depth understanding and to also kind of,
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you know, mix it up a little bit. They don't want to just
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read about a person,
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they want to see what's going on with that person, how that person
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interacts. You'll see, I have an image
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of Ariana Grande at the Met Gala
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on my screen here. So they're
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not just getting the, you know, background about their
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lives. They're also seeing what they're doing right
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now. They're getting that visually and
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through audio files, like podcasts and things like
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that. We
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also actually have a pretty decently sized collection
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of primary sources in the resource as well, which
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I think are sometimes a little bit hidden. But if
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you have individuals who are working through researching
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historical people, they'll
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be able to find a lot of primary sources related
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to them. They may find speeches that these people
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gave. maybe,
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you know, letters that they wrote to editors
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or something like that. They'll find those
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primary sources on the platform, literature criticism
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as well. You may find that in the primary sources
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section.
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So again, a nice way to add context,
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especially if we're looking up historical figures,
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we want to see what was going on in their time. If they
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did make speeches, if they talk to people,
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we want to see that. So we're going to find those primary
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sources here on this platform
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as well.
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News and magazines. This is giving us the more
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up to date content. So if we're researching
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contemporary individuals, you know, artists,
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um
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social media stars, let's say a
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lot of times the news and magazine sections
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are going to be really helpful for them.
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So these are up to date a lot of them are
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imported daily. Of course, it depends on
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the publishing rate of these publications.
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But
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you'll be able to easily click through those and kind
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of get the
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the what's going on related
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to these individuals. And finally,
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this is really for our more
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advanced learners. So our
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higher level high school learners as
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well as our undergraduates
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and our excuse me
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and our adult learners, they'll find academic
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journals. So if they're learning about,
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you know, an individ individual that's in a really
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heavily academic field, maybe
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a scientist or
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someone working some something close
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to that. A lot of times they'll find academic
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journals that those people worked on or
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that are related to topics that person worked
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on. They'll be able to find those in
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this resource as well. Again, of course, these are more
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advanced, so helpful for your older
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learners, but they are included in this
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resource here as well. So again,
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the point of having all of these different content
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types is to really provide a holistic view
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of whatever person this individual
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is learning about.
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Now, let's just dive right into the resource here.
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I haven't seen any questions in the Q and A. But while
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I'm jumping over here,
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does anyone have any questions
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before? I really just dive right in?
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OK.
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Very quiet today. No problem. We'll go
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ahead and get going then. So this is the home
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page of Galen context biography. If you've seen
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any other in context resource, you'll
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know. This looks exactly the same
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aside from Gal in context elementary, which is for
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our young kids.
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But this looks the exact same. It does have
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a few features that we'll take a look at that are a little bit
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different than the other resources, but just
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the lay of the land here, you'll find your basic and
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advanced search at the very top of the page.
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We've got some tools in the middle. We'll take a look
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at in a second
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underneath that. We have people of interest
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and these generally change monthly depending
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on what's going on. Anyone watching
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the recording of this wicked um
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actually just released in theaters this month,
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which is why you're seeing Cynthia
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here pulled forward, but you'll see, we can also click
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through and see what other individuals
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are highlighted here.
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And again, it does change monthly a lot
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of times it'll be focused on
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something that happened that month. So after an election,
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we may post information about the
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person who won the election. If there is a big
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environmental movements, let's say, well, post
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environmental scientists. So it really just kind of depends
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on what's going on in a specific month
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here. Scrolling down
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from the people of interest section. We also just
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have this option to browse people here
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and each of these people that are listed are actually
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fully made topic pages that we've created
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for people. So it's not just,
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you know, a list of documents we have related
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to, let's say Elton John,
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it's going to be a fully created page that's
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going to give background on the individual and
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it's going to organize all of the results we
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have related to them. So
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we create topic pages for the most studied,
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most popular, most searched
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individuals on the platform here.
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And you'll see, we do try to break it up kind of based
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on where they land.
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So you'll find contemporary world leaders,
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singers over looking for singers, writers.
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But we also have sections specifically for
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African Americans or Black Americans
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or looking for native Americans or maybe notable
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women. We've pulled those all forward.
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So it's easy for your users to click into
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and I can click into any of these. Let's just click into
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scientists today.
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You'll see there are actually 232
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scientists that we've chosen to highlight.
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Now, if your user is looking for someone who's
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maybe a little bit um more
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obscure.
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they may not find a topic page here, so they may
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need to run a search instead and they'll still put content
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on that person. They just won't have this kind
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of organized look, but you'll see, we can kind of click and
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browse through. Of course, this is a long
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list. So sometimes it is easier.
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if they have someone in mind to search for them,
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but we can browse all of our people. We can
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also change the topic here.
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So I was on scientists and you know that notice
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there are a lot more topics listed here.
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So if I'm interested in the Summer Olympics,
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I can click there the Winter Olympics.
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this breaks it down even further than what we
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saw on the home page. You know, inventors,
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Harlem Renaissance.
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So this again is a nice way to find content
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if your users aren't really sure what they're looking
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for right now, you know, they, they
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know they want to learn about a scientist, but that's about
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all they know. This browse option is a nice
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way for them to find someone who could interest
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them. Now,
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I'm going to jump back to home here just so we
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all have one landing place
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because I wanna show you our person search
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as well and this is unique to gale
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in context biographies. So you're not going to find this
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on the other in context resources,
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but it's right here on the home page on our little toolbar
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here. You'll see where it says person search.
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So what's great about this is I could put someone specific
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right in the search here. So if I have someone specific in mind
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or I can put search limiters
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in here, and I think this is what I find
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particularly intriguing with this resources.
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If maybe I just want to
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have a project about a female, a female leader.
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Let's say
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um I can just do that. I can leave
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the search blank. I can say I want a female.
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Um I can put in an occupation if
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I want. So we have an example here of
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writers. Let's go with writer.
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You'll see. This gives me some options if I want to
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be even more specific, but we'll just stick
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with a writer.
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If I know more information and place of
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birth, place of death, I can add that
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if I have a specific ethnicity in
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mind, maybe I'm looking for influential
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African American women. I can click into
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that here
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and now I can run my search.
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You'll see all of the filters I applied
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appear up top here. So remember I have
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female African American and writer all
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listed as filters.
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I know I have just very basic information about
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these individuals, but I can click directly
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into them
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to be taken to all of the content we have
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related to them.
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So again, this is a really nice way to find individuals
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just based on characteristics as opposed
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to a, a standard basic search.
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You'll see, I have the option here to look
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at the occupation.
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You'll see some of them have more than just writer
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listed.
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That's because that individual
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does more than writing. So they
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have politician listed, but they've also written a book
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or they've written something.
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So let's go ahead and go back to the home page just one last
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time. And
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now instead of browsing or running the people search, I'm actually
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just going to go in and do a basic search
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here. So let's actually stick with the wicked
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idea here. So we'll search
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here for, Cynthia Erivo
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today.
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So if this is gone, let's say it's, you know, next
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month and we've taken her off of the people of interest.
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but you have someone who's still interested in learning
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about her. We're going to type that into the search
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bar instead.
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And what's great is you'll see when I start to type
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here. The first three listed have images
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next to them and these are actually
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sometimes they're called topic pages. You may hear
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them being called person guides, but
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there are those organized pages about individuals
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that we've created to help your users learn
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a little bit easier and navigate a little bit easier.
[00:14:02.808]
So let's click the first one you'll see. This is who we're
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looking for.
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And now once I click in here, so you'll
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see at the very top of the page. I just have kind
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of a quick overview about Cynthia.
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You'll see, I can hit my read more button and this is
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going to pull forward a full article.
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This is gonna be a biography, a basic
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one about what's going on in her life,
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what she's done, any awards she's received or anything
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like that.
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I can click the back button up here to get back to
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my topic page or I click on her name
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right here.
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And once I'm back on the topic page, you'll see, we also give
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some nice quick facts here. So these
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are really nice and if your users are just
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trying to get really basic information, they
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can look at our quick fact, quick facts
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right here on this topic page before they
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really dive in.
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Now, underneath that overview, at the very top,
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you're gonna see this option for this on this
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page feature.
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So this, we've actually chosen to broke
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up every piece of content related to this
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individual. So you'll see, we have
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featured content pulled out separately from biographies,
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magazines and news have their own different sections.
[00:15:08.590]
If we're looking for an image, we have those pulled into
[00:15:10.739]
their own content bucket as well as videos
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and audio files.
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Um And for Cynthia Arrival,
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we don't have any primary sources which
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you know, does kind of make sense because of course,
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she's a pretty contemporary
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individual. But if you were looking
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at historical figure and they were primary sources
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related to the individual that would appear
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in this little gray bar here as well
[00:15:31.769]
and then scrolling down, we're going to see all of those
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content buckets now. So we have some featured
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content that we've pulled forward biographies,
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you'll see our images here, videos, magazines,
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all that great stuff.
[00:15:43.479]
And then at the very bottom. We also have related
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topics here. And when we say topics, they're going to be
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people because this is gail in the context biography.
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So we was going to be pointing to new
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people that are related to the individual.
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And if I were to click into any of these, it would actually launch
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me into that new topic page.
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So I'd be able to click right over to
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another nice neat organized topic page and kind
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of go about with whatever I'm trying to learn.
[00:16:09.639]
Now, let's click up here. Let's go into one of our
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content buckets here. Since we're in Galen
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context biography, I will go into the biography
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content.
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You'll see. We actually have four biographies here
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about Cynthia rival
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and they're all at different levels here.
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Um So if you're in a public library
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or you're working at
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higher education, you most likely aren't using
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lexile. But if I have anyone who
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is using lexile, you notice these are all different.
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So we'll have higher level and lower level black
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styles for your users. Something
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that I find helpful as I'm going
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through, you'll see we have these little kind of content
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level icons here.
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So those range from level one to level
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five, level five is going to be
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high school level as well as adult learning
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level four is going to be
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kind of lower level, high school level
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three will be that middle school two and one
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are going to be middle school and elementary.
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So you won't find much in the level
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one or two options, but you'll find
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a lot of three fours and fives. So if
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you're working with, you know, a wide variety of
[00:17:11.519]
students, you have some who need lower level
[00:17:13.539]
content. These little content
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levels are helpful for you if you're pulling information,
[00:17:19.660]
but you'll see they'll change and you'll see. We give
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the publisher here as well. So if we want to know
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who's publishing, we can take a look
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at that right here. It listed as well.
[00:17:29.750]
On this right hand side, we also have the ability
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to filter. Since we're in biographies,
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it's not as helpful to filter
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these, of course. But
[00:17:37.789]
um you'll see we can filter by subjects.
[00:17:39.828]
So if I was looking at reference articles, instead
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there might be you know, three or four different
[00:17:44.039]
subjects, I can navigate through
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those.
[00:17:47.449]
I can narrow down to content level. So again,
[00:17:49.459]
if you're working with students who need
[00:17:51.489]
a specific level, I can do that here
[00:17:53.868]
in my filters as well.
[00:17:55.969]
I can also search within here. So if I want
[00:17:58.019]
to maybe narrow down even further, I certainly
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could do that here on this page as well.
[00:18:03.750]
Now, let's just click into one of these
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articles. We'll click into this first one.
[00:18:11.799]
Now, in all of our biographies, you're going to see
[00:18:13.858]
at the top here, this little blue
[00:18:16.259]
box, it's going to give just brief
[00:18:18.289]
information about the individual. So whether
[00:18:20.500]
when they were born, their nationality,
[00:18:22.858]
their occupation,
[00:18:24.959]
then underneath that they will get the full text
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here, you'll see.
[00:18:28.880]
And of course, this will change based on the publisher.
[00:18:31.680]
Some may have more information about their career.
[00:18:33.930]
Others may focus more on their
[00:18:36.180]
personal background or their awards,
[00:18:38.750]
which again is why we include more than one
[00:18:40.828]
biography per individual. So we
[00:18:42.910]
want people to kind of dive in to take a look at all
[00:18:45.068]
of the different aspects of this person.
[00:18:48.469]
We also include on this right hand side
[00:18:50.529]
here, an explore panel that's really helpful.
[00:18:52.969]
So if we're looking for more information
[00:18:55.029]
like this, we have this option here
[00:18:57.108]
that's going to pull us forward to a few different articles.
[00:18:59.930]
You'll see, we have our art article contents
[00:19:01.939]
listed here and then related subjects
[00:19:04.180]
listed here as well. So this kind of helps us move
[00:19:06.479]
forward again. If maybe we're stuck
[00:19:08.568]
in our research, we don't have another search to run,
[00:19:10.729]
but we want to keep learning. This explore
[00:19:13.108]
panel is oftentimes helpful for that.
[00:19:17.118]
And I want to take a look at all of the tools we have
[00:19:19.348]
available for documents. But before I do,
[00:19:21.588]
are there any questions about the layout
[00:19:23.630]
of the resource of any of the workflows
[00:19:25.809]
that I just briefly went through?
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Ok, I don't see any. So we'll go
[00:19:33.689]
ahead and keep rolling then because I do want to get through all of the
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great tools we have available. So
[00:19:37.828]
the first one I want to point out is our citation
[00:19:39.920]
tool. Absolutely great for getting buy
[00:19:41.930]
in from students and from teachers because
[00:19:44.189]
they don't have to make their own citations. And that's
[00:19:46.660]
always a beautiful thing. So you can
[00:19:48.680]
find that citation tool either up top
[00:19:50.930]
here at the top of the page in our little toolbar
[00:19:53.219]
where it says site,
[00:19:55.229]
you see when I click it, it pulls forward it, I can pull
[00:19:57.598]
Mlaap a Chicago or Harvard versions,
[00:20:00.630]
I can select it and copy it
[00:20:03.449]
or I could export it over to
[00:20:05.588]
noodle tools, Google Drive,
[00:20:07.769]
Onedrive, whatever I'm using.
[00:20:11.150]
And the citation was also found at the very bottom
[00:20:13.279]
of each of our articles here. And it does provide
[00:20:15.539]
the same information, the same options to change
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over to different
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um different versions as well
[00:20:21.279]
as my same exporting options. So
[00:20:23.299]
we've just included it in two different places
[00:20:25.410]
just to make sure your users find it. So
[00:20:27.699]
if they may be missed it at the top here, hopefully
[00:20:29.858]
they'll see it down at the bottom of the article and
[00:20:32.219]
vice versa.
[00:20:36.049]
And just moving forward from this tool,
[00:20:38.199]
we're going to move just straight down here on
[00:20:40.549]
our toolbar is our send
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to option. So if I find this document particularly
[00:20:45.088]
interesting and I want to save it for later
[00:20:47.239]
or maybe I want to share it with someone I
[00:20:49.318]
can choose to send this over to my Google drive
[00:20:51.348]
my Onedrive or I can email it.
[00:20:53.939]
And what's nice is if I do send it over to one of my drives,
[00:20:56.410]
this is going to be in my drive permanently.
[00:20:59.180]
So I'll always be able to go back and take a look
[00:21:01.279]
at this article and it does actually
[00:21:03.309]
create a folder for your users within
[00:21:05.459]
their drive that will be titled Gale and
[00:21:07.509]
Context biography.
[00:21:09.400]
Um And anytime they throw content
[00:21:11.410]
over to their drive from kind of here on
[00:21:13.529]
out once they have a Gale and context biography
[00:21:15.890]
folder,
[00:21:16.729]
it's always gonna funnel right into that one folder
[00:21:19.039]
for them. So it actually goes over nice and organized
[00:21:21.189]
to make it easier for them to get back to their
[00:21:23.269]
content.
[00:21:25.630]
I also have the option to download, you'll see what I hit,
[00:21:27.640]
download it, just downloads as a PDF
[00:21:30.328]
and I can save that to my desktop if I like or whatever
[00:21:32.719]
I want to do with it,
[00:21:33.949]
I can also print and then I have this nice
[00:21:36.029]
get link option and this get
[00:21:38.118]
link provides me with a persistent URL to
[00:21:40.199]
get right back to this page. So this
[00:21:42.439]
is nice for any educators who are on the line. You
[00:21:44.500]
can get a link and toss it right into a discussion
[00:21:47.068]
board post. Um or maybe
[00:21:49.130]
you just want to direct students to this document because they're
[00:21:51.170]
going to be using it in class today
[00:21:53.289]
for public libraries, if you're trying
[00:21:55.630]
to highlight a specific individual,
[00:21:57.699]
maybe use this in a social media post
[00:21:59.959]
and you have your patrons
[00:22:02.170]
go directly to this link and they can read this
[00:22:04.279]
article,
[00:22:06.009]
but it's a persistent URL. So you can really put
[00:22:08.259]
it anywhere you want. It's a nice feature to have
[00:22:11.239]
and this get link is also available at
[00:22:13.318]
the topic page level. I always want to
[00:22:15.348]
mention that as well. So
[00:22:17.318]
um
[00:22:18.660]
if you find a nice topic page that you want to share, instead
[00:22:20.818]
of just circulate a document, you can use get
[00:22:22.828]
link there as well.
[00:22:25.828]
And these tools, these kind of sending and
[00:22:27.890]
sharing options are also found
[00:22:29.910]
down here under the title. You'll see, I have
[00:22:31.969]
my Google drive icon, my Onedrive
[00:22:34.250]
icon, email, download and print
[00:22:36.430]
again. They do the same thing. They're just
[00:22:38.559]
a little redundant to try to make sure that your users
[00:22:40.809]
see them no matter where they're looking on the page
[00:22:46.088]
on the left hand side here. Kind of just
[00:22:48.358]
across from these tools, we have
[00:22:50.578]
our document accessibility tools
[00:22:52.900]
that are going to help increase the accessibility of
[00:22:54.920]
this for all of your users. So
[00:22:56.959]
the first one is our translate option.
[00:22:59.049]
You'll see when I hit this, I can translate the article to
[00:23:01.180]
quite a few different languages here.
[00:23:04.269]
And I also have the option to set an interface language
[00:23:07.059]
which is going to change. Let's go ahead and do that switch
[00:23:09.199]
over to Spanish here.
[00:23:11.910]
Spanish
[00:23:13.420]
which is going to change all of the tools
[00:23:15.689]
in my search bar you'll see here are now in
[00:23:17.779]
Spanish.
[00:23:19.559]
So as I am walking through the resource anywhere
[00:23:21.858]
I need to go ill, be able to read that in Spanish
[00:23:23.868]
to kind of know where I need to be
[00:23:27.199]
that does translate separately from
[00:23:29.239]
the article. So every time they click into an article,
[00:23:31.299]
they will need to hit the actual translate article
[00:23:33.630]
button as well.
[00:23:34.959]
But let's change this back to English here.
[00:23:39.828]
So in addition to the translation, I can also increase
[00:23:42.269]
or decrease the font size as needed.
[00:23:45.410]
Next to those, I have my display options
[00:23:47.500]
here. So this is where you kind of get
[00:23:49.680]
really
[00:23:51.660]
really um excuse me,
[00:23:54.299]
really deep into customization
[00:23:56.539]
here. So you'll see I can change the background on my
[00:23:58.559]
text.
[00:23:59.598]
I can change the font here and we do have a dyslexia
[00:24:02.009]
font available for your users who prefer
[00:24:04.229]
that I can also change the line letter
[00:24:06.348]
and word spacing.
[00:24:09.299]
And once I choose these settings while I'm in a session,
[00:24:11.630]
this is going to follow me along. So as
[00:24:13.838]
I'm clicking through reading new articles, I'm not going
[00:24:16.000]
to have to enter this information in again,
[00:24:18.160]
over and over again. It's going to save
[00:24:20.180]
for me. Now, I will say if
[00:24:22.269]
your users are signed off due to inactivity
[00:24:24.618]
or if they close out of their browser and then click back
[00:24:26.709]
in. they will have to redo this because
[00:24:28.890]
we don't recognize the same person twice
[00:24:30.969]
because we don't have named user accounts or anything like
[00:24:33.039]
that. But if they are on the same
[00:24:35.199]
session, this is going to follow them along.
[00:24:37.489]
I'm actually going to go back to my defaults today
[00:24:39.640]
though. So right
[00:24:41.858]
next to our display options, we also have our listen
[00:24:44.000]
tool and this is going to read the full article
[00:24:46.140]
to your users. So
[00:24:47.848]
if they prefer to have something read to them, they
[00:24:49.939]
could hit that list and you'll see it pops up
[00:24:51.979]
this nice little option here
[00:24:54.380]
and they can have it read aloud to them and
[00:24:56.410]
it does read in whatever language they've
[00:24:58.539]
translated to. So if they translated this
[00:25:00.680]
article into Spanish before they hit listen,
[00:25:03.338]
it's actually going to read to them in Spanish
[00:25:08.769]
and we have about four minutes. But I do want to show you
[00:25:10.838]
our highlights and notes feature before we end off the
[00:25:12.848]
day. So if you have students who are
[00:25:14.868]
working on a project and they need to highlight
[00:25:17.239]
the bits of information they want to include
[00:25:19.400]
in their project, we include our highlights
[00:25:21.479]
and notes feature right here on the platform. They can just click
[00:25:23.699]
and drag over anything they think is important.
[00:25:26.500]
Let's say this little bit here.
[00:25:28.269]
They can choose the color, they can put a note
[00:25:30.400]
in here, maybe for my project,
[00:25:35.229]
they can say that
[00:25:36.348]
and they can really highlight over as much or as little
[00:25:38.660]
as they want. Let's add a couple highlights
[00:25:40.680]
in here and save that information.
[00:25:43.368]
And now these highlights and notes are session based.
[00:25:45.500]
So if your students are going through finding
[00:25:47.890]
information, I think is interesting and they want to hold on
[00:25:49.989]
to that. They need to get this document out
[00:25:52.170]
of the platform. They can do that by sending
[00:25:54.279]
over to their drives. They can download,
[00:25:56.568]
they can print,
[00:25:57.779]
they can do any of those options. It will
[00:25:59.890]
get it out of the platform and it will retain both
[00:26:02.088]
their highlights and notes.
[00:26:04.838]
Another great feature we have if we take a
[00:26:06.848]
look at my highlights and notes button in this tab
[00:26:09.000]
right hand corner here.
[00:26:11.338]
If I click into this while I'm on a document, it's going
[00:26:13.380]
to show me the text I highlighted as
[00:26:15.539]
well as notes I took and the highlight color.
[00:26:18.219]
I can hit this view all highlights and notes option.
[00:26:22.029]
And now this has just pulled out the bits
[00:26:24.160]
that I've highlighted. So it's not showing me the full article
[00:26:26.309]
anymore. It's only showing me what I chose to highlight
[00:26:29.239]
and I can actually take this with me. So you'll
[00:26:31.269]
see, I have the option to send this document over
[00:26:33.989]
to Google Drive Onedrive or email
[00:26:36.390]
or I could download or print this. So
[00:26:38.578]
if your users don't want to, you know,
[00:26:40.588]
if they let's say they highlighted three or four articles.
[00:26:42.689]
They don't want to save all of those articles.
[00:26:44.969]
They can go to those highlights and notes page
[00:26:47.189]
and they can just save this.
[00:26:49.529]
And you'll see at the bottom, we do include a running bibliography
[00:26:52.160]
here and we do include the link
[00:26:54.338]
to the articles as well. So if I had highlighted
[00:26:56.640]
in a couple of articles, they would each be listed
[00:26:59.039]
here and I can easily click back
[00:27:01.519]
using this hyperlink to get to the article that I was
[00:27:03.588]
already on.
[00:27:04.939]
You'll see, I'm on the same session. So all of
[00:27:06.949]
my highlights stayed here.
[00:27:09.650]
So just kind of a secondary way to get
[00:27:11.689]
content out of the resource and get it
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in the hands of your users and so they can use it for
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later. Now,
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we're nearing the end of our time today and I do have
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some wrap up information for you.
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Um But any questions about
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the tools, we looked at the workflows, we looked
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at anything at all, put them into the Q and A for me,
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I'll be able to answer those while I jump back
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over to my slides and give you
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some wrap up information.
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So if you have any questions about the training, we
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went over today that you
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think of after we're done, feel free to
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send me an email again. My name is Amber Winters
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and my email is
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[email protected]. If you want to get a little
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more specific to your learning community
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and how you can use this resource with them.
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Reach out to your customer success manager. They can help
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you out with that They work with librarians
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and teachers and schools across
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the US so they can really provide you with a wealth of information.
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If you don't know who your customer success manager
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is, you can send an email to
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[email protected] and
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we'll forward you to the correct individual
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if you don't have Gale In Context: Biography right
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now, but you want to talk about it, reach out to your sales
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consultant. If you don't know who that is,
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just go to support.gale.com/repfinder,
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we'll forward you to the correct individual.
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And I do like to mention our support site here
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as well. So if you need additional support information,
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uh maybe activities for students, you need
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flyers, bookmarks, social
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media, uh messaging, you
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go to our support site, which is just support.gale.com.
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We have all of the information ready to go for
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you. We also have some great professional development
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content. So if you're going to be training
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your staff, the support site is a nice place
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to take a look as well. So you won't have
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to re invent the wheel while you do that.