Duration: 45 Minutes
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Welcome to your training for DISCUS. Today we are talking about unleashing the literary power of Gale for Students eBook Collection. My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale.
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And I'm excited to talk to you about the four ebook collections that you have access to, the four students series is a great collection to utilize in any ELA classes.
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or even classes that maybe programming that you're doing if you're studying literary works at the public library.
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These resources or these ebook collections
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that you have available are novels for students, poetry for students, drama for students, and short stories for students. And they're great for that deeper understanding of literature. And we take a look at the frequently studied classics.
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Or also the contemporary or popular work. So we have all of that within this collection that you have access to. It's multiple volumes.
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within each of those collections.
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And I'm excited to dive in a little bit deeper and share with you
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Some of the features that maybe you aren't fully aware of within not only the eBooks platform, but in each particular collection that you have access to.
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So our agenda today, we're going to start with an overview of the Gale ebooks and collections, so the ebook platform and the collections themselves.
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We're going to browse through all of that
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Sorry, I want my
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mouse is really touchy. There we go. We're going to browse through all of the resource content and features. And then again, any questions, please feel free to ask at any time. I will check in throughout the session if you have any questions, use that Q&A box.
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I will also stay on at the end of today's training if you have any additional questions. And then I will share with you where you can go for additional support. So we have great support materials and training materials on the Gale support site.
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And I'll be sharing that information with you today. Of course, you have your fantastic folks at Discus.
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for that one-on-one support that you may need. So reach out to them first.
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And they can either direct you to where you need to find that information you're looking for or help you with that, or they know how to contact us at Gale if they need any additional support.
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To access your DISCUS resources, hopefully you're already familiar with this site.
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It is very well organized, easy to find content, and I will model that for you today. So we'll go in through the portal that you all should be using for access to your discus resources. Let's first talk about your Gale ebook collections that you have.
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So Gale ebooks
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The platform itself is available 24 7. You can access content anywhere you have access to the internet you can access or to a browser too. You can access the content.
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on Gale ebooks platform. It's unlimited simultaneous access.
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No holds or returns, so they're not checking in or checking out any books.
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a whole classroom full of students could be accessing the same text at the same time.
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It's mobile responsive, so if students need to access from a, let's say, an iPad or an e-reader or their cell phone, they can do that.
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It's unlimited downloads, so you can download or print off any of the information that is available in this ebook collection.
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Very intuitive search and browse features are available. You have the ability to search within a particular collection or search through the entire
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All four of the collections and it's multiple volumes as you have the series for each of these
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resources or each of these ebook collections
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you have the series. So multiple volumes are available. You also have the search option of using topic finder and Topic Finder is the visual representation of your search results. It's also interactive.
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You can translate the text into actually over, now we're over 50 languages. I think we're at 57. So that's really helpful when you have a classroom full of students and you're utilizing these ebooks and you have students that need the text translated, you have that feature available within these resources within all of your Gale resources.
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But in particular, these ebooks that we're talking about today.
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You also have the text-to-speech option.
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where you can listen to the text being read aloud or download it as an MP3
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And then integration with Google and Microsoft are available and also with learning management systems such as Schoology or
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Canva, Canvas, sorry, Canvas, you have the learning management systems available too.
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So Gale ebook collection let's talk about the individual collections that you have. You have poetry for students. This features
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discussion and analysis of poems from all time periods
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nations and cultures. You have volumes 1 to 62.
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And then your short stories for students, this provides critical overviews of short stories, again, from all cultures and time periods with discussion. And you have volumes one through 51.
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And then drama for students, this features critical reviews of the most studied plays.
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And then there'll be discussions of themes and characters and dramatic devices.
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And again, the volumes that you have.
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is 1 through 38.
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And then finally, novels for Students, which provides critical overviews of novels, including discussions of plot, character, themes, and structure. And you have volumes 1 through 66.
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And we are going to jump into each of those and I'm going to talk to you about
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all of the content you have available. You also have great tools and features available within your Gale resources.
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You have the get link tool where you can link specific to specific content or if you're maybe it's one of those volumes you want to share
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With students, you can use that get link tool. You can share directly to Google Classroom. We are integrated with Google and Microsoft, so you have that ability to share to Google Classroom or send content directly to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive.
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We have great tools to support accessibility. I talked about the translate feature. You also have the ability to increase or decrease the font size, listen to the text being read aloud, as I mentioned, and you also have display options that you can customize the text
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to meet the varying needs of your learners.
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To encourage analysis, which is really helpful, especially when you're talking about the collections that you have access to.
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here within each of these four students ebooks that you have, the highlights and notes promotes that deeper learning with color coding and annotation. So again, great when you're using these ebooks, maybe you're using them as an anthology and an ELA class.
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These highlights and notes feature can be a really, really helpful tool within these ebook collections or utilizing these ebook collections. And then developing research skills.
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Topic pages are available in your other Gale resources here because we're in ebooks, you're focusing more on
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either that individual collection or individual
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ebook or it could be right down to a chapter or I should say a grouping of pages within that ebook.
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So a little bit different than your Gale In context resources that have the topic pages.
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Again, I already mentioned topic finder, so you do have topic finder available as a search option and then the citation tool is always available. Citations are always attached to
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Every document that you have available within your resource
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But you also have the citation tool if you just need that citation. And you have multiple formats available and multiple ways to export that citation.
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All right, so with that, let's jump in. I'm first going to walk you through where you're going to find this content on the discus.
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site. So if I access view online resources
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I can go directly to g for Gale
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And all four collections live under the Gale eBooks.
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resource or
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I can go into each one. So if I'm looking for drama and click on d
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Here's drama for students. So they've been sectioned out to individual collections.
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Or as I mentioned, you can access
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all four of them through Gale ebooks. So you have
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Drama.
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novels is here
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You also have poetry.
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She got to scroll down a little bit to get to this one. Here it is, poetry for students
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And then the last one is short stories.
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Right here. Today, I am going to access all four of them.
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through the Gale e-books.
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And I'm going to log in real quick here
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So I'm accessing all four. Let me compare it though for you.
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If I were going just into, let's see, our first one is drama.
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It would take me directly to this spot. So this page
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If I'm going through the general Gale ebooks and I click into
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the cover of drama for students
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it takes me to this spot.
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So either way, it's taking you to that particular collection.
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I'm clicking. You can't even tell the difference. Let me go back to this.
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So I'm either going to all four
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Or if I want to take my students directly to
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The drama for students collection, I can do that using that portal. So both options are available on the DISCUS site.
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And this is where we're going to start our
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exploration. Now, actually, let me go back to the home page because I do want to cover some tools and then we'll jump into this particular collection so
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If I'm accessing through the general all collection guilt ebooks
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from the Gale section of my discus site
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And I want to point out a few items that you have available. Of course, you have basic search and advanced search right here at the top. Now this basic search is going to search through the entire collection of ebooks that you have available.
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If I wanted to search by subject, publication, or entire document for a term, I can do that.
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I have some ability to add some prelimiters even with my basic search, where advanced search
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gives you more of that detailed look where you can really
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select individual fields, and this can be as simple or as complex as you would like it to be if you're looking for that granular information and really want to dive in for into a particular term, you can utilize our advanced search. You can see all the pre-search limiters that we have available here too.
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And this is also where Topic Finder lives.
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And again, Topic Finder is a visual representation of our search results.
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I can kick off my search here if I wanted to.
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Looking for Maya Angelou.
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I might as well just model this for you real quick. And you can see it searched through everything. So all of those volumes that I have really quick, it searched through all of it at once and it brings it back into these tiles.
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There's two different visualizations available. Here you go for Monday morning. Tiles or wheel.
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Most of our users prefer tiles, so that's why it's defaulted to that. And you can see the larger the tile, the more information we have underneath that subject heading.
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And it dives in a little bit deeper with another click if I'm interested in literary styles.
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it takes me down to six
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different documents.
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So again, visual and interactive tool. And it does live in a couple places. I'll share that with you as we go. But if I wanted to kick off my search using Topic Finder, all I do is go under advanced search and select topic finder.
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In your in-context resources, you'll find it living on the homepage and also under advanced search.
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But today we're in ebooks. Let's go into
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Well, before I do, we do have the ability to sign in with Google, Microsoft. I can also change
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the languages for the navigation as I'm navigating through the resource. We're at 34 languages here.
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That's at the top of my page and that will just change my navigational tools.
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If I sign in with Google and I'm set up as a teacher, it will sign me directly in and I can post information directly onto my
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onto my classroom, Google Classroom.
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Okay, so now I'm signed in.
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Now, any information I send to google
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will land directly in a folder titled Gale eBooks.
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And I will have that information in my Google Drive. It turns it into a Google Doc and it's there until I choose to delete it.
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Microsoft works the exact same way.
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So let's dive into drama for students first.
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Now, as you can see, I have a few features here. First, it gives me a little bit of an overview of what drama for Students is. To the right, I have the ability to search just within this series.
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So by simply clicking on that cover or
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Let's say I accessed through
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directly to this point using the DISCUS website. Both take me to this
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exact spot where it is the individual volumes
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of this series that we have.
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I can search within just this series by utilizing the search box over here to the right hand side.
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If I were to use the basic search, it's going to again search through the entire collection.
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So all four of those series, it's going to search through. So that's something to really understand.
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the difference between the two, that if I just want to search, I'm looking specifically for drama
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I can search within my series by clicking on the cover
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and utilizing my search box over to the right hand side. If I wanted to share this entire, maybe I'm sharing this with my
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ELA teachers and I want them to know that we have this collection available. Of course, you can direct them to this spot.
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On the DISCUS site or
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Once you're in the product itself, you can use the get link tool
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and share with them an individual link
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back to this exact spot. Either way, it's going to take you to the Drama for Students series.
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Now, each volume, and we are going to go into this one today
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Once I select that volume.
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It takes me to the table of contents.
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And under that table of contents.
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I have…
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each of those collections available. So I'm looking at individual, today we're going to go into a raisin in the sun
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We're going to talk about that, but I do want to talk to you about something before that. We have the ability to view the ebook
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Or we also have a text view.
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So there's two different ways to look at the text and I want to explain that to you. And so let's go into
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I'm going to go directly to Raising the Sun because I can still switch between each. If you're not familiar with this feature within our Gale ebooks.
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I'll model it for you.
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I feel like this is quite small, maybe not.
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So we have, this is our text view. And within our text view, you have all of our tools to support accessibility available.
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If I change it to book view, which in my contextual toolbar, see this little book?
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That's our book view.
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it takes me into the PDF of that
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ebook.
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So just as you have you may have
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I don't know if you have these collections on your shelf. Sometimes libraries do. They might have a couple volumes of the four students. You have the digital now digital access to all those volumes through Discus.
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Same idea, it's just unlimited access. There's not just one copy. You have as many copies as you need for each of those students that are accessing this or the teachers that are utilizing them.
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So we have the PDF version, just as you would your print.
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I just made it double page
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I can make this whole screen if I want.
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Tap or swipe. These are great on e-readers too.
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I can also zoom in or zoom out.
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I can drag this text.
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Zoom in a little bit more.
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And focus on a certain section of the text.
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or but i will
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point out that if you need that translate feature or any of the other
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tools to support accessibility. You do need to be in text view.
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BookView is literally a PDF of that
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print text
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So keep that in mind.
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If I would like to utilize those features, I just go back to text view and here they all are.
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I have the translate feature where I can translate the text.
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into over 57 languages.
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And I'm just going to give you a quick example of Spanish
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And it gives me just a sample first
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But I can complete that translation
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And once I do, then my other tools to support accessibility will pop back up here. That's what this messaging also tells me.
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I have the ability to decrease or increase that font size.
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Under display options, I have the ability to change the color behind the text.
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I can change the font. Maybe I need open dyslexic.
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I can also increase that line, letter, and word spacing.
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And this feature, once I set it up on the first document, the display options, it will stick with me throughout my session.
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I can turn the page.
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And you can see it sticks with me.
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If I want to go back to default settings, I just open that box back up and it's here in the bottom left-hand corner.
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I can also listen to this text being read aloud to me.
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And it'll start with the
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Title.
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A few other features that I have as it's warming up here.
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Hold on a second. I just realized.
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I…
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Forgot to turn on.
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Audio, there we go.
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2018. Introduction
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Released in 2018.
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You can see it scrolls down the page too.
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But there are some features under this more button
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I have some settings features. They're pretty straightforward here.
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These, I want to mention this area here is specifically for what's happening in this text box, but I can slow the speed down or speed it up.
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Change the volume.
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I also can enlarge the text.
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So again, under that more button.
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I just turn on enlarge text.
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Once I click play, I'll show you that in a moment. I also want to point out that I can play this as an MP3. I can download this as an MP3. So I enlarge the text.
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Now I click play.
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The Seagull is a drama film directed by Michael Meyer.
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And it pulls out that text onto the page.
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I can also increase or decrease this font size.
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So a great feature, again, meeting the varying needs of your users.
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To remove that listen.
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Let me turn this off again.
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I just close that box out.
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All right. So I wanted to, I talked about the tools to support accessibility. What we're going to find in each of these
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collections. I'm in volume number 37
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We talked about the text view and book view.
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And as you can see, as I scroll down, we start with the introduction.
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move into the plot summary.
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I can utilize my table of contents at any time if I wanted to jump into another collection, I was going into
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Looks like I already did jump. Okay, raisin in the sun.
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is where I was.
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And you could see too, we have some information that's hyperlinked out to additional content.
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So articles that are related to
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this term and
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this title.
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You also will find, let me see.
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We have, sometimes we have some text features available
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Like here, media adaptations
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We might have questions. Sometimes there's critical thinking questions that we might have.
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This one is going through each act of the play.
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As you can see, a little more information about the
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Characters, compare and contrast. So again, those text features, just as you would find in the for students ebook, you'll find it here.
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within this text that you have in your resource.
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If I wanted to send this information to my Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive, up here my contextual toolbar will change depending on where I'm at within the resource. So with the tools that I need.
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Right now, I want to send this to Google. I don't have to scroll all the way back up to the top and use the quick send options. I can just click on that paper airplane and send this entire document to Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or email.
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When I send it to my Google Drive.
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Let me open that up real quick.
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I'm used to having it up there in the upper right hand corner.
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There we go.
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Oops.
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Drive. Okay.
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It is here, but it also lands in my ebooks folder.
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So folders automatically created
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And here is
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A raisin in the sun.
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Thank you.
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So I'm going back into my resource.
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And again, all I did was quickly send that
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to my Google Drive.
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Another option I have available
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is the ability to send this to my Google Classroom. So what does that look like?
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Well, I just click on the green box
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Go to Google Classroom.
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So your classes, join a class. This is me. I'm the teacher.
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Oh, I wonder if it's because I'm in my incognito.
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shouldn't be.
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Oh, I apologize.
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Let me send this.
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Oh.
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Okay, let me model this for you. Hold on one second. Let me…
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Let me go into my other account.
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Is it this one?
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This is what happens when you try to use incognito windows because you're working on something else at the same time.
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I'm just going to use this drive as an example.
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Okay, real quick, let me just log back in and send this into this Google Drive. Got too many accounts going at the same time.
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I don't know if you've ever done that where you've
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I thought I was creating a quick test account and it changed my entire Google account.
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Don't do that. Don't do that. Now I've got it all like two accounts going, which is kind of a pain and that's uh
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Not what I want.
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Why?
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Salesforce, there we go.
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Okay, so we were in drama.
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Specifically.
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Volume 37.
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And a raisin in the sun.
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Now again, let's try this
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Sending it to my Google Drive or Google Classroom.
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Choose my class. This is what I wanted to share with you.
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Honors English, choose my action.
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I can create an assignment, ask a question, make an announcement, create material.
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I'm going to use make an announcement. It's the quickest one for me to use for during a training.
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I can make…
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Add my instructions here.
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and post.
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When I click view, it's going to open in a new tab.
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And right here, a raisin in the sun
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And there's the link and it'll go directly into, oh, it looks like it went to the login. Oh no, there we go. The picture looked different though. I don't know if you noticed that. So usually the icon will show me the resource itself. For some reason, it's showing me your discus login, but it does take you directly to the exact spot.
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So it might be something going on with how Google is displaying that information based on
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the access through the discus site. So keep that in mind. It is still going to direct you to the exact spot you want your
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users to go to. So it took me directly into Raisin in the Sun and then my users or my students can access that information directly. It's really a quick and easy process.
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If you don't have to log back in, but even when you do, it was still pretty quick. So keep that in mind that you have that feature available and you can put information directly into Google Classroom.
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All right, let me find my incognito window.
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There we go.
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Okay, so that's how Google Classroom works.
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We talked about already Google and Microsoft. You also have the ability to download and email information. So the send to has email.
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Or I can download this. And when I download it, it'll give me that book view version, that PDF version, because we have that original source content.
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So I'll have when I download it or print it off, it'll look
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identical to my book view.
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So it'll look like this.
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All right, let me know if you have any questions on anything I went over there.
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You know, I kind of jumped around a little bit and I want to make sure that you're understanding everything that we have.
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So let's go into our next collection. I want to point out a few other things within this collection and that
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We're going to go into novels for students.
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And we are going to go to volume 66 today.
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And take a look at…
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20,000 leagues under the Sea.
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So also, if you look at the top, before I jump into, we might have some additional, we're going to touch into some of this, but some additional information
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Interacting with literature.
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You have literary chronology.
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Any contributor information is here.
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And then we're going to talk a little bit more about these at the bottom, but you do have glossary of literary terms.
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Cumulative author title and indexed.
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We're going to go directly into 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
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And again, it takes me into that text view
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This one starts with that introduction.
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And we also have a little bit of information about the author.
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media adaptations. And this one has an author biography available.
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After that, we jump into that plot summary.
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So it's taking a look at the individual chapters
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Again, a great way to look at that content.
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before or as you may be reading that novel.
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You'll see the individual chapters, compare and contrast we have available here.
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This one also has
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Scroll down. I have it in my notes.
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Let me go to book view. It might be a little quicker.
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I have critical thinking questions and additional activities for the classroom.
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So here you can see media adaptations as
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So when you're in the text view, it'll provide it in that blue box.
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So it's the same idea, right, that you have this text box in your
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PDF, but in your
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on your text view within the resource, it will be in that blue box. So compare and contrast.
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More character information
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Here we go. So primary source and other links.
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if I were to have scrolled down, I bet you one more page, I would have seen this.
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And then we have some critical thinking questions.
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And the nice thing is with those critical thinking questions, let me see if this will work. I'll go back to text view.
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No, it didn't jump me to that. I'll just scroll down.
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With your highlights and notes, I wanted to share that with you. Okay, so here's primary sources and other links and it's hyperlinked out where with the PDF, you wouldn't have that
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But in the text view, you do. You have that ability to access those additional links.
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And then on the next page is where we have those critical thinking questions.
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So what I can do here is I can utilize my highlights and notes tool
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where it can highlight this question
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I just click and drag.
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Choose my color
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This is question one.
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Save that. And then I can go down
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and find the answer to that question, or maybe I need to add additional content. Maybe it's this section here.
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I'll also put that in yellow because that was question one.
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And this is an answer. And then I might want to add
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add more of my own notes here or a summary of that information and save.
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And I can scroll back up and do that for the next question. So you can see you can utilize those
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three different colors this is question three
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Two, you get the idea.
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Now what's happening is a couple of things.
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My highlights and notes section is being built out. So if you look on this toolbar in the upper right hand corner, I have highlights and notes.
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It's being built out. So I can be in multiple documents highlighting away and that highlights and notes section will continuously build out. It is session based.
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So I'll have to make sure I do something with that information before I leave my session.
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Or it will be lost. So my best practice that I always share is
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to send this marked up document
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to my Google Drive. Let's keep it simple or Microsoft OneDrive. You can email, download or print also.
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But if I send it to Google or Microsoft, any of those places, I have it
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Lease that document marked up in case I forget to come back in.
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And use my highlights and notes feature.
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I have that document till I choose to delete it works the same way. Nice thing is though, now it's all marked up.
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And any notes I've taken will be here too. So what happens is these two chunks of text or three, because I had one down below, will live below my source citation.
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At the bottom of my Google Doc or Microsoft Word doc
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And my notes will be there too.
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So I have that information, but I also have under highlights and notes.
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I'm going to click on view all highlights and notes.
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I have this section that's being built out.
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And this, again, session based.
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But you can see here's question one.
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Here's my answer. I can edit my notes.
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So I can add in any additional information that I want.
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Maybe I need more. I definitely would need more here. Add more notes.
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So I would add more information here. But the nice thing is, is I have this chunk of text
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And I can come back in here and add more notes.
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Or if you're talking to students about
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plagiarism and you want to have them put
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information into their own words, they can do that here in real time.
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My bibliography is at the bottom.
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And what I can do with this information
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is I can send it.
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I can send it to Google Drive, OneDrive email, download or print.
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All those options are available. And I like to call these digital notes. Now, again, great when you're using these
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Collections.
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an anthology you're annotating
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This is something that is done a lot, right? It's being taught, hopefully at the middle school level, that students are learning that, maybe even younger, but definitely at the high school level. And they don't have to worry about losing their post-it notes. I mean, I had a, I remember one of my kids came home and she was excited. She got a great grade on her
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When she was annotating in her anthology and they actually handed in the books, the teachers looked at it and gave them a grade on it.
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And that's a great way to do that. But I asked her, okay, so when you go back and you're like preparing for an exam or a test, you have to use that information again or for a paper, she's like mainly for a paper, but sometimes yes.
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On the exam. And I said, so do you ever lose any of the post-it notes was my question and and
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She thankfully is in a good position and didn't. She also would follow up with some notes after. But here in this situation with the Gale ebooks, you don't have to worry about losing any of those post-it notes.
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If you are doing any annotating, because you're sending the marked up document to your Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive, or you're just sending these highlights and notes, this is a quick way to review before you have that exam. Also, if you're sending it to Google or Microsoft, you can hand it in digitally to your teacher. Your teacher can add their notes to your document and send it back to you. So just think of it as another step, a great way to supplement
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implement the curriculum, another tool. And again, something that is being used at higher levels. So if it's middle school, they're using this in high school. High school, they're using this at higher ed, annotating
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Text is a very important skill that students are learning.
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A great tool that you can use right within your Gale resources is to utilize your highlights and notes tool.
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Okay, let me know if you have any questions on that. You can also change that format of the citation.
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And you can do this here in highlights and notes. You can also do this
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Here at the document level, when I'm on the document. And then at the very bottom, this one is quite long.
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At the very bottom, you'll also find that citation and the ability to change that format before you send it download email or print.
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Okay, so we talked about all those great tools. We talked about the get link tool. You're seeing how that content is available. You have additional content like primary sources and critical thinking questions.
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These are great too for critical overviews or maybe criticism.
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that you're utilizing, this is the content that you're going to find available within these resources, within these collections. So great to use for those critical overviews.
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or any lit crit that students are using.
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are needing to do within the classroom.
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So again, table of contents is here in the upper right hand corner too.
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So let's dive into our next collection. I want to share with you poetry for students.
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Go back to my home page.
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And this time we're going to go into the series of poetry for students.
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And again, don't forget you have that search within the series, so I could do a quick search, but I know exactly where
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this poem is that I want.
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And this is that you do also have in the series some best of
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So this is the best of poetry for students.
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And we're going to go into one of my favorites, Oh Captain My Captain.
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It's taking a little bit to load here.
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There we go.
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When we are in even the poems, so drama, short stories.
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poetry, novels, you're going to find this explore panel.
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The Explore panel is a great way to find supplemental information related to the document that you're on.
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And you also will find related subjects available.
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So being that this is a tragedy, this poem is actually
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A funeral ode to President Lincoln following his assassination.
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you will find you can see more tragedies that are available and it'll take you to additional content that you have within your collection.
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We talked about the interlinking already here.
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But as you can see, similar content, right? But now we're focused on
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poetry. And we're looking at the theme. Maybe we're looking at the theme of tragedy. We're looking at the different styles of
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poetry. Poetry is very different and can be difficult for students to understand. So you might be looking at the different styles. Here's the actual poem.
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Here's a summary of the poem.
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And then we go into each stanza and talk a little bit further because again
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you do have that poetry can be challenging and i
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I was an English major in college and it was challenging even then to learn a little bit about it. And I wish that we would have
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you know they really wanted us to develop that critical thinking and the not just critical thinking, but the
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looking at lit crit and looking at
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at that higher ed level.
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And we didn't get this type of support. We had to discuss it in class and I would have loved to have a little bit more of support talking about the individual stanzas and a little bit more understanding to go along with those poems. So I get it why, you know, of course, that was our major. That was what we did, but
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to give students that
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better understanding at the high school level. We have that content available here within these series. Then we're talking about themes. We go directly into themes. So it's not just on the poem itself, but you get themes within this.
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within this collection or within this document too.
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Again, that compare and contrast. So you're going to find similar features. This one also has critical thinking questions available.
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And then we have style. So themes
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style this is a rhyme.
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And talks a little bit more about poems and when they utilize that certain style.
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So it's not just on the
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The poem itself, you're getting additional information. Again, all things that are being taught at that ELA level.
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Let me go back to
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this page because I want to point out
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that you do have additional information here at the bottom.
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So…
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We have our glossary of literary terms.
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Which can be really helpful.
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So it's not just on the
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individual, and you'll find these at the bottom of
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of each of the series, of each of the volumes. You'll find it at the bottom.
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This additional information, but you have that glossary of terms. So you have additional content, additional support for your students
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cumulative author and title index
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information available and where you can find that
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what volumes you'll find. So again, if you're looking for a certain author.
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You can always do a basic search and find that content.
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Or use advanced search
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But you can also utilize, maybe this is a skill that you're teaching to your students.
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that cumulative author and title index.
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And you can see national and ethnicity
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Subject and theme.
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So if I were looking for
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And I can quickly jump where they're hyperlinked out.
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The road not taken. This is choice, psychology. So this is really helpful when you're talking about that subject or theme.
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And you have that alphabetical option here, or I can put in a term.
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Still I rise, Maya Angelou, it takes me directly to
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the article.
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If I were to, we already did a topic
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finder search, but if I were to do a basic search
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I want to show you the difference.
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And the basic search will take you to, you can see each of the individual documents
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A summary, how many pages. This is a poem explanation
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And I can go directly to that document by clicking on the title.
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But this is what your search, when you do a basic search, this is how the results will show.
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And you can see where it's coming from. This is coming from novels. This is coming from poetry. So it looks through all of your ebooks at once.
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All right, we're right towards the end. The only other ebook I wanted to jump into is short stories.
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And because Halloween is right around the corner.
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I want you to know that you have the legend of Sleepy Hollow available.
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So it might be a fun one to highlight and share.
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with your teachers that you do have this available. Again, you have all those great tools to support accessibility, the media adaptations are here.
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I can print this off. I can download this. So if I want individual copies for my students, I have that.
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And then on that table of contents, one other thing I wanted to point out is
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At the top, why study literature at all? So we have those types of, this is in, again, we're in the short stories for students. So you're going to see that additional type of content available, looking at themes or authors, but this is
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information on why study literature at all.
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Okay.
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Let me know if you have any questions. I'm happy to stay on if you do have any additional questions, but let me quickly share with you where you can go for support, your discus folks.
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are right here. Hopefully you're familiar. Again, you can find that information on the discus or on the discus site. You can find that support information, but here's a direct email.
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And then to support
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Let me put this in the chat.
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Real quick, this site is we've created specifically for discus and it has all of your support materials. Now you're accessing through the discus
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site so you don't need the access URLs and mark records, but in the training center, we have tip sheets and tutorials. We have recorded webinars.
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training decks, resource guides, any upcoming webinars, you'll find them there. We also have escape rooms. We have templates and actual built escape rooms. That's a newer
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item that we have added, we have tic-tac-toe. We have all kinds of
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excuse me, all kinds of different student activities available on the Gale support site, including book studies.
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You see this document that you can utilize and great marketing materials. Here's an example of marketing materials. This is specifically
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For our four students series available on Gale eBooks.
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So you can link that out directly in take students directly into that content.
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And that wraps our session. I thank you so much for your time today. Again, my name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale. And if you'd like to take the survey, just click continue or you can scan the QR code. We'd love to get your feedback. I do share that it's anonymous.
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Unless you want to leave your information and you would like me to contact you for something, you can leave that information there, your contact information.
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But we do
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Ask for your feedback because I share that information internally and then also with our folks at Discus. They utilize that survey too for their reporting. So it would really help everyone out if you took a few minutes to fill that out, we'd appreciate it.
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Again, QR code is there, or you can just click that continue button. And then I thank you so much for your time today. I hope you join us again in the future. We'll be adding some new trainings coming up here probably within the next couple months or within the new year. So be on the lookout for those.
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And you can access this recording will live on the discus support site under the training section. And you'll find all of our previously recorded in the library there. Training sessions are available.
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If you'd like to connect with us and share your success stories on social media, this is how you can reach out to Gale. Just tag us. And I know they retweet or reshare that information often.
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Let me know if you have any additional questions. I'm happy to stay on the line, but thank you everyone for your time today and have a great rest of your day. Great week. Hope you have a great week.
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Thanks, everyone.
Welcome to your training for DISCUS. Today we are talking about unleashing the literary power of Gale for Students eBook Collection. My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale.
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And I'm excited to talk to you about the four ebook collections that you have access to, the four students series is a great collection to utilize in any ELA classes.
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or even classes that maybe programming that you're doing if you're studying literary works at the public library.
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These resources or these ebook collections
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that you have available are novels for students, poetry for students, drama for students, and short stories for students. And they're great for that deeper understanding of literature. And we take a look at the frequently studied classics.
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Or also the contemporary or popular work. So we have all of that within this collection that you have access to. It's multiple volumes.
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within each of those collections.
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And I'm excited to dive in a little bit deeper and share with you
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Some of the features that maybe you aren't fully aware of within not only the eBooks platform, but in each particular collection that you have access to.
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So our agenda today, we're going to start with an overview of the Gale ebooks and collections, so the ebook platform and the collections themselves.
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We're going to browse through all of that
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Sorry, I want my
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mouse is really touchy. There we go. We're going to browse through all of the resource content and features. And then again, any questions, please feel free to ask at any time. I will check in throughout the session if you have any questions, use that Q&A box.
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I will also stay on at the end of today's training if you have any additional questions. And then I will share with you where you can go for additional support. So we have great support materials and training materials on the Gale support site.
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And I'll be sharing that information with you today. Of course, you have your fantastic folks at Discus.
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for that one-on-one support that you may need. So reach out to them first.
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And they can either direct you to where you need to find that information you're looking for or help you with that, or they know how to contact us at Gale if they need any additional support.
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To access your DISCUS resources, hopefully you're already familiar with this site.
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It is very well organized, easy to find content, and I will model that for you today. So we'll go in through the portal that you all should be using for access to your discus resources. Let's first talk about your Gale ebook collections that you have.
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So Gale ebooks
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The platform itself is available 24 7. You can access content anywhere you have access to the internet you can access or to a browser too. You can access the content.
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on Gale ebooks platform. It's unlimited simultaneous access.
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No holds or returns, so they're not checking in or checking out any books.
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a whole classroom full of students could be accessing the same text at the same time.
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It's mobile responsive, so if students need to access from a, let's say, an iPad or an e-reader or their cell phone, they can do that.
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It's unlimited downloads, so you can download or print off any of the information that is available in this ebook collection.
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Very intuitive search and browse features are available. You have the ability to search within a particular collection or search through the entire
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All four of the collections and it's multiple volumes as you have the series for each of these
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resources or each of these ebook collections
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you have the series. So multiple volumes are available. You also have the search option of using topic finder and Topic Finder is the visual representation of your search results. It's also interactive.
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You can translate the text into actually over, now we're over 50 languages. I think we're at 57. So that's really helpful when you have a classroom full of students and you're utilizing these ebooks and you have students that need the text translated, you have that feature available within these resources within all of your Gale resources.
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But in particular, these ebooks that we're talking about today.
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You also have the text-to-speech option.
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where you can listen to the text being read aloud or download it as an MP3
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And then integration with Google and Microsoft are available and also with learning management systems such as Schoology or
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Canva, Canvas, sorry, Canvas, you have the learning management systems available too.
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So Gale ebook collection let's talk about the individual collections that you have. You have poetry for students. This features
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discussion and analysis of poems from all time periods
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nations and cultures. You have volumes 1 to 62.
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And then your short stories for students, this provides critical overviews of short stories, again, from all cultures and time periods with discussion. And you have volumes one through 51.
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And then drama for students, this features critical reviews of the most studied plays.
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And then there'll be discussions of themes and characters and dramatic devices.
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And again, the volumes that you have.
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is 1 through 38.
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And then finally, novels for Students, which provides critical overviews of novels, including discussions of plot, character, themes, and structure. And you have volumes 1 through 66.
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And we are going to jump into each of those and I'm going to talk to you about
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all of the content you have available. You also have great tools and features available within your Gale resources.
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You have the get link tool where you can link specific to specific content or if you're maybe it's one of those volumes you want to share
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With students, you can use that get link tool. You can share directly to Google Classroom. We are integrated with Google and Microsoft, so you have that ability to share to Google Classroom or send content directly to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive.
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We have great tools to support accessibility. I talked about the translate feature. You also have the ability to increase or decrease the font size, listen to the text being read aloud, as I mentioned, and you also have display options that you can customize the text
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to meet the varying needs of your learners.
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To encourage analysis, which is really helpful, especially when you're talking about the collections that you have access to.
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here within each of these four students ebooks that you have, the highlights and notes promotes that deeper learning with color coding and annotation. So again, great when you're using these ebooks, maybe you're using them as an anthology and an ELA class.
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These highlights and notes feature can be a really, really helpful tool within these ebook collections or utilizing these ebook collections. And then developing research skills.
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Topic pages are available in your other Gale resources here because we're in ebooks, you're focusing more on
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either that individual collection or individual
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ebook or it could be right down to a chapter or I should say a grouping of pages within that ebook.
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So a little bit different than your Gale In context resources that have the topic pages.
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Again, I already mentioned topic finder, so you do have topic finder available as a search option and then the citation tool is always available. Citations are always attached to
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Every document that you have available within your resource
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But you also have the citation tool if you just need that citation. And you have multiple formats available and multiple ways to export that citation.
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All right, so with that, let's jump in. I'm first going to walk you through where you're going to find this content on the discus.
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site. So if I access view online resources
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I can go directly to g for Gale
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And all four collections live under the Gale eBooks.
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resource or
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I can go into each one. So if I'm looking for drama and click on d
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Here's drama for students. So they've been sectioned out to individual collections.
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Or as I mentioned, you can access
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all four of them through Gale ebooks. So you have
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Drama.
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novels is here
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You also have poetry.
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She got to scroll down a little bit to get to this one. Here it is, poetry for students
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And then the last one is short stories.
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Right here. Today, I am going to access all four of them.
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through the Gale e-books.
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And I'm going to log in real quick here
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So I'm accessing all four. Let me compare it though for you.
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If I were going just into, let's see, our first one is drama.
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It would take me directly to this spot. So this page
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If I'm going through the general Gale ebooks and I click into
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the cover of drama for students
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it takes me to this spot.
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So either way, it's taking you to that particular collection.
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I'm clicking. You can't even tell the difference. Let me go back to this.
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So I'm either going to all four
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Or if I want to take my students directly to
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The drama for students collection, I can do that using that portal. So both options are available on the DISCUS site.
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And this is where we're going to start our
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exploration. Now, actually, let me go back to the home page because I do want to cover some tools and then we'll jump into this particular collection so
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If I'm accessing through the general all collection guilt ebooks
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from the Gale section of my discus site
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And I want to point out a few items that you have available. Of course, you have basic search and advanced search right here at the top. Now this basic search is going to search through the entire collection of ebooks that you have available.
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If I wanted to search by subject, publication, or entire document for a term, I can do that.
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I have some ability to add some prelimiters even with my basic search, where advanced search
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gives you more of that detailed look where you can really
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select individual fields, and this can be as simple or as complex as you would like it to be if you're looking for that granular information and really want to dive in for into a particular term, you can utilize our advanced search. You can see all the pre-search limiters that we have available here too.
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And this is also where Topic Finder lives.
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And again, Topic Finder is a visual representation of our search results.
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I can kick off my search here if I wanted to.
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Looking for Maya Angelou.
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I might as well just model this for you real quick. And you can see it searched through everything. So all of those volumes that I have really quick, it searched through all of it at once and it brings it back into these tiles.
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There's two different visualizations available. Here you go for Monday morning. Tiles or wheel.
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Most of our users prefer tiles, so that's why it's defaulted to that. And you can see the larger the tile, the more information we have underneath that subject heading.
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And it dives in a little bit deeper with another click if I'm interested in literary styles.
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it takes me down to six
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different documents.
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So again, visual and interactive tool. And it does live in a couple places. I'll share that with you as we go. But if I wanted to kick off my search using Topic Finder, all I do is go under advanced search and select topic finder.
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In your in-context resources, you'll find it living on the homepage and also under advanced search.
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But today we're in ebooks. Let's go into
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Well, before I do, we do have the ability to sign in with Google, Microsoft. I can also change
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the languages for the navigation as I'm navigating through the resource. We're at 34 languages here.
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That's at the top of my page and that will just change my navigational tools.
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If I sign in with Google and I'm set up as a teacher, it will sign me directly in and I can post information directly onto my
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onto my classroom, Google Classroom.
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Okay, so now I'm signed in.
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Now, any information I send to google
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will land directly in a folder titled Gale eBooks.
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And I will have that information in my Google Drive. It turns it into a Google Doc and it's there until I choose to delete it.
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Microsoft works the exact same way.
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So let's dive into drama for students first.
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Now, as you can see, I have a few features here. First, it gives me a little bit of an overview of what drama for Students is. To the right, I have the ability to search just within this series.
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So by simply clicking on that cover or
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Let's say I accessed through
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directly to this point using the DISCUS website. Both take me to this
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exact spot where it is the individual volumes
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of this series that we have.
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I can search within just this series by utilizing the search box over here to the right hand side.
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If I were to use the basic search, it's going to again search through the entire collection.
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So all four of those series, it's going to search through. So that's something to really understand.
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the difference between the two, that if I just want to search, I'm looking specifically for drama
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I can search within my series by clicking on the cover
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and utilizing my search box over to the right hand side. If I wanted to share this entire, maybe I'm sharing this with my
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ELA teachers and I want them to know that we have this collection available. Of course, you can direct them to this spot.
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On the DISCUS site or
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Once you're in the product itself, you can use the get link tool
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and share with them an individual link
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back to this exact spot. Either way, it's going to take you to the Drama for Students series.
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Now, each volume, and we are going to go into this one today
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Once I select that volume.
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It takes me to the table of contents.
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And under that table of contents.
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I have…
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each of those collections available. So I'm looking at individual, today we're going to go into a raisin in the sun
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We're going to talk about that, but I do want to talk to you about something before that. We have the ability to view the ebook
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Or we also have a text view.
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So there's two different ways to look at the text and I want to explain that to you. And so let's go into
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I'm going to go directly to Raising the Sun because I can still switch between each. If you're not familiar with this feature within our Gale ebooks.
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I'll model it for you.
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I feel like this is quite small, maybe not.
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So we have, this is our text view. And within our text view, you have all of our tools to support accessibility available.
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If I change it to book view, which in my contextual toolbar, see this little book?
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That's our book view.
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it takes me into the PDF of that
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ebook.
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So just as you have you may have
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I don't know if you have these collections on your shelf. Sometimes libraries do. They might have a couple volumes of the four students. You have the digital now digital access to all those volumes through Discus.
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Same idea, it's just unlimited access. There's not just one copy. You have as many copies as you need for each of those students that are accessing this or the teachers that are utilizing them.
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So we have the PDF version, just as you would your print.
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I just made it double page
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I can make this whole screen if I want.
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Tap or swipe. These are great on e-readers too.
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I can also zoom in or zoom out.
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I can drag this text.
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Zoom in a little bit more.
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And focus on a certain section of the text.
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or but i will
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point out that if you need that translate feature or any of the other
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tools to support accessibility. You do need to be in text view.
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BookView is literally a PDF of that
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print text
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So keep that in mind.
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If I would like to utilize those features, I just go back to text view and here they all are.
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I have the translate feature where I can translate the text.
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into over 57 languages.
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And I'm just going to give you a quick example of Spanish
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And it gives me just a sample first
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But I can complete that translation
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And once I do, then my other tools to support accessibility will pop back up here. That's what this messaging also tells me.
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I have the ability to decrease or increase that font size.
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Under display options, I have the ability to change the color behind the text.
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I can change the font. Maybe I need open dyslexic.
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I can also increase that line, letter, and word spacing.
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And this feature, once I set it up on the first document, the display options, it will stick with me throughout my session.
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I can turn the page.
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And you can see it sticks with me.
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If I want to go back to default settings, I just open that box back up and it's here in the bottom left-hand corner.
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I can also listen to this text being read aloud to me.
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And it'll start with the
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Title.
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A few other features that I have as it's warming up here.
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Hold on a second. I just realized.
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I…
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Forgot to turn on.
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Audio, there we go.
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2018. Introduction
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Released in 2018.
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You can see it scrolls down the page too.
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But there are some features under this more button
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I have some settings features. They're pretty straightforward here.
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These, I want to mention this area here is specifically for what's happening in this text box, but I can slow the speed down or speed it up.
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Change the volume.
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I also can enlarge the text.
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So again, under that more button.
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I just turn on enlarge text.
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Once I click play, I'll show you that in a moment. I also want to point out that I can play this as an MP3. I can download this as an MP3. So I enlarge the text.
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Now I click play.
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The Seagull is a drama film directed by Michael Meyer.
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And it pulls out that text onto the page.
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I can also increase or decrease this font size.
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So a great feature, again, meeting the varying needs of your users.
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To remove that listen.
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Let me turn this off again.
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I just close that box out.
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All right. So I wanted to, I talked about the tools to support accessibility. What we're going to find in each of these
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collections. I'm in volume number 37
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We talked about the text view and book view.
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And as you can see, as I scroll down, we start with the introduction.
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move into the plot summary.
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I can utilize my table of contents at any time if I wanted to jump into another collection, I was going into
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Looks like I already did jump. Okay, raisin in the sun.
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is where I was.
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And you could see too, we have some information that's hyperlinked out to additional content.
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So articles that are related to
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this term and
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this title.
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You also will find, let me see.
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We have, sometimes we have some text features available
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Like here, media adaptations
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We might have questions. Sometimes there's critical thinking questions that we might have.
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This one is going through each act of the play.
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As you can see, a little more information about the
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Characters, compare and contrast. So again, those text features, just as you would find in the for students ebook, you'll find it here.
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within this text that you have in your resource.
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If I wanted to send this information to my Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive, up here my contextual toolbar will change depending on where I'm at within the resource. So with the tools that I need.
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Right now, I want to send this to Google. I don't have to scroll all the way back up to the top and use the quick send options. I can just click on that paper airplane and send this entire document to Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or email.
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When I send it to my Google Drive.
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Let me open that up real quick.
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I'm used to having it up there in the upper right hand corner.
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There we go.
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Oops.
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Drive. Okay.
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It is here, but it also lands in my ebooks folder.
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So folders automatically created
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And here is
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A raisin in the sun.
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Thank you.
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So I'm going back into my resource.
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And again, all I did was quickly send that
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to my Google Drive.
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Another option I have available
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is the ability to send this to my Google Classroom. So what does that look like?
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Well, I just click on the green box
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Go to Google Classroom.
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So your classes, join a class. This is me. I'm the teacher.
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Oh, I wonder if it's because I'm in my incognito.
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shouldn't be.
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Oh, I apologize.
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Let me send this.
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Oh.
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Okay, let me model this for you. Hold on one second. Let me…
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Let me go into my other account.
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Is it this one?
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This is what happens when you try to use incognito windows because you're working on something else at the same time.
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I'm just going to use this drive as an example.
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Okay, real quick, let me just log back in and send this into this Google Drive. Got too many accounts going at the same time.
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I don't know if you've ever done that where you've
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I thought I was creating a quick test account and it changed my entire Google account.
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Don't do that. Don't do that. Now I've got it all like two accounts going, which is kind of a pain and that's uh
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Not what I want.
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Why?
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Salesforce, there we go.
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Okay, so we were in drama.
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Specifically.
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Volume 37.
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And a raisin in the sun.
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Now again, let's try this
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Sending it to my Google Drive or Google Classroom.
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Choose my class. This is what I wanted to share with you.
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Honors English, choose my action.
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I can create an assignment, ask a question, make an announcement, create material.
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I'm going to use make an announcement. It's the quickest one for me to use for during a training.
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I can make…
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Add my instructions here.
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and post.
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When I click view, it's going to open in a new tab.
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And right here, a raisin in the sun
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And there's the link and it'll go directly into, oh, it looks like it went to the login. Oh no, there we go. The picture looked different though. I don't know if you noticed that. So usually the icon will show me the resource itself. For some reason, it's showing me your discus login, but it does take you directly to the exact spot.
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So it might be something going on with how Google is displaying that information based on
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the access through the discus site. So keep that in mind. It is still going to direct you to the exact spot you want your
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users to go to. So it took me directly into Raisin in the Sun and then my users or my students can access that information directly. It's really a quick and easy process.
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If you don't have to log back in, but even when you do, it was still pretty quick. So keep that in mind that you have that feature available and you can put information directly into Google Classroom.
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All right, let me find my incognito window.
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There we go.
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Okay, so that's how Google Classroom works.
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We talked about already Google and Microsoft. You also have the ability to download and email information. So the send to has email.
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Or I can download this. And when I download it, it'll give me that book view version, that PDF version, because we have that original source content.
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So I'll have when I download it or print it off, it'll look
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identical to my book view.
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So it'll look like this.
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All right, let me know if you have any questions on anything I went over there.
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You know, I kind of jumped around a little bit and I want to make sure that you're understanding everything that we have.
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So let's go into our next collection. I want to point out a few other things within this collection and that
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We're going to go into novels for students.
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And we are going to go to volume 66 today.
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And take a look at…
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20,000 leagues under the Sea.
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So also, if you look at the top, before I jump into, we might have some additional, we're going to touch into some of this, but some additional information
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Interacting with literature.
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You have literary chronology.
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Any contributor information is here.
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And then we're going to talk a little bit more about these at the bottom, but you do have glossary of literary terms.
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Cumulative author title and indexed.
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We're going to go directly into 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
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And again, it takes me into that text view
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This one starts with that introduction.
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And we also have a little bit of information about the author.
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media adaptations. And this one has an author biography available.
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After that, we jump into that plot summary.
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So it's taking a look at the individual chapters
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Again, a great way to look at that content.
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before or as you may be reading that novel.
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You'll see the individual chapters, compare and contrast we have available here.
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This one also has
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Scroll down. I have it in my notes.
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Let me go to book view. It might be a little quicker.
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I have critical thinking questions and additional activities for the classroom.
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So here you can see media adaptations as
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So when you're in the text view, it'll provide it in that blue box.
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So it's the same idea, right, that you have this text box in your
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PDF, but in your
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on your text view within the resource, it will be in that blue box. So compare and contrast.
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More character information
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Here we go. So primary source and other links.
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if I were to have scrolled down, I bet you one more page, I would have seen this.
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And then we have some critical thinking questions.
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And the nice thing is with those critical thinking questions, let me see if this will work. I'll go back to text view.
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No, it didn't jump me to that. I'll just scroll down.
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With your highlights and notes, I wanted to share that with you. Okay, so here's primary sources and other links and it's hyperlinked out where with the PDF, you wouldn't have that
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But in the text view, you do. You have that ability to access those additional links.
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And then on the next page is where we have those critical thinking questions.
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So what I can do here is I can utilize my highlights and notes tool
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where it can highlight this question
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I just click and drag.
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Choose my color
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This is question one.
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Save that. And then I can go down
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and find the answer to that question, or maybe I need to add additional content. Maybe it's this section here.
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I'll also put that in yellow because that was question one.
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And this is an answer. And then I might want to add
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add more of my own notes here or a summary of that information and save.
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And I can scroll back up and do that for the next question. So you can see you can utilize those
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three different colors this is question three
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Two, you get the idea.
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Now what's happening is a couple of things.
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My highlights and notes section is being built out. So if you look on this toolbar in the upper right hand corner, I have highlights and notes.
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It's being built out. So I can be in multiple documents highlighting away and that highlights and notes section will continuously build out. It is session based.
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So I'll have to make sure I do something with that information before I leave my session.
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Or it will be lost. So my best practice that I always share is
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to send this marked up document
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to my Google Drive. Let's keep it simple or Microsoft OneDrive. You can email, download or print also.
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But if I send it to Google or Microsoft, any of those places, I have it
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Lease that document marked up in case I forget to come back in.
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And use my highlights and notes feature.
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I have that document till I choose to delete it works the same way. Nice thing is though, now it's all marked up.
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And any notes I've taken will be here too. So what happens is these two chunks of text or three, because I had one down below, will live below my source citation.
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At the bottom of my Google Doc or Microsoft Word doc
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And my notes will be there too.
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So I have that information, but I also have under highlights and notes.
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I'm going to click on view all highlights and notes.
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I have this section that's being built out.
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And this, again, session based.
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But you can see here's question one.
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Here's my answer. I can edit my notes.
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So I can add in any additional information that I want.
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Maybe I need more. I definitely would need more here. Add more notes.
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So I would add more information here. But the nice thing is, is I have this chunk of text
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And I can come back in here and add more notes.
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Or if you're talking to students about
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plagiarism and you want to have them put
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information into their own words, they can do that here in real time.
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My bibliography is at the bottom.
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And what I can do with this information
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is I can send it.
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I can send it to Google Drive, OneDrive email, download or print.
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All those options are available. And I like to call these digital notes. Now, again, great when you're using these
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Collections.
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an anthology you're annotating
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This is something that is done a lot, right? It's being taught, hopefully at the middle school level, that students are learning that, maybe even younger, but definitely at the high school level. And they don't have to worry about losing their post-it notes. I mean, I had a, I remember one of my kids came home and she was excited. She got a great grade on her
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When she was annotating in her anthology and they actually handed in the books, the teachers looked at it and gave them a grade on it.
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And that's a great way to do that. But I asked her, okay, so when you go back and you're like preparing for an exam or a test, you have to use that information again or for a paper, she's like mainly for a paper, but sometimes yes.
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On the exam. And I said, so do you ever lose any of the post-it notes was my question and and
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She thankfully is in a good position and didn't. She also would follow up with some notes after. But here in this situation with the Gale ebooks, you don't have to worry about losing any of those post-it notes.
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If you are doing any annotating, because you're sending the marked up document to your Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive, or you're just sending these highlights and notes, this is a quick way to review before you have that exam. Also, if you're sending it to Google or Microsoft, you can hand it in digitally to your teacher. Your teacher can add their notes to your document and send it back to you. So just think of it as another step, a great way to supplement
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implement the curriculum, another tool. And again, something that is being used at higher levels. So if it's middle school, they're using this in high school. High school, they're using this at higher ed, annotating
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Text is a very important skill that students are learning.
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A great tool that you can use right within your Gale resources is to utilize your highlights and notes tool.
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Okay, let me know if you have any questions on that. You can also change that format of the citation.
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And you can do this here in highlights and notes. You can also do this
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Here at the document level, when I'm on the document. And then at the very bottom, this one is quite long.
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At the very bottom, you'll also find that citation and the ability to change that format before you send it download email or print.
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Okay, so we talked about all those great tools. We talked about the get link tool. You're seeing how that content is available. You have additional content like primary sources and critical thinking questions.
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These are great too for critical overviews or maybe criticism.
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that you're utilizing, this is the content that you're going to find available within these resources, within these collections. So great to use for those critical overviews.
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or any lit crit that students are using.
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are needing to do within the classroom.
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So again, table of contents is here in the upper right hand corner too.
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So let's dive into our next collection. I want to share with you poetry for students.
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Go back to my home page.
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And this time we're going to go into the series of poetry for students.
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And again, don't forget you have that search within the series, so I could do a quick search, but I know exactly where
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this poem is that I want.
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And this is that you do also have in the series some best of
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So this is the best of poetry for students.
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And we're going to go into one of my favorites, Oh Captain My Captain.
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It's taking a little bit to load here.
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There we go.
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When we are in even the poems, so drama, short stories.
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poetry, novels, you're going to find this explore panel.
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The Explore panel is a great way to find supplemental information related to the document that you're on.
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And you also will find related subjects available.
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So being that this is a tragedy, this poem is actually
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A funeral ode to President Lincoln following his assassination.
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you will find you can see more tragedies that are available and it'll take you to additional content that you have within your collection.
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We talked about the interlinking already here.
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But as you can see, similar content, right? But now we're focused on
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poetry. And we're looking at the theme. Maybe we're looking at the theme of tragedy. We're looking at the different styles of
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poetry. Poetry is very different and can be difficult for students to understand. So you might be looking at the different styles. Here's the actual poem.
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Here's a summary of the poem.
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And then we go into each stanza and talk a little bit further because again
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you do have that poetry can be challenging and i
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I was an English major in college and it was challenging even then to learn a little bit about it. And I wish that we would have
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you know they really wanted us to develop that critical thinking and the not just critical thinking, but the
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looking at lit crit and looking at
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at that higher ed level.
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And we didn't get this type of support. We had to discuss it in class and I would have loved to have a little bit more of support talking about the individual stanzas and a little bit more understanding to go along with those poems. So I get it why, you know, of course, that was our major. That was what we did, but
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to give students that
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better understanding at the high school level. We have that content available here within these series. Then we're talking about themes. We go directly into themes. So it's not just on the poem itself, but you get themes within this.
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within this collection or within this document too.
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Again, that compare and contrast. So you're going to find similar features. This one also has critical thinking questions available.
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And then we have style. So themes
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style this is a rhyme.
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And talks a little bit more about poems and when they utilize that certain style.
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So it's not just on the
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The poem itself, you're getting additional information. Again, all things that are being taught at that ELA level.
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Let me go back to
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this page because I want to point out
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that you do have additional information here at the bottom.
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So…
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We have our glossary of literary terms.
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Which can be really helpful.
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So it's not just on the
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individual, and you'll find these at the bottom of
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of each of the series, of each of the volumes. You'll find it at the bottom.
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This additional information, but you have that glossary of terms. So you have additional content, additional support for your students
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cumulative author and title index
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information available and where you can find that
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what volumes you'll find. So again, if you're looking for a certain author.
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You can always do a basic search and find that content.
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Or use advanced search
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But you can also utilize, maybe this is a skill that you're teaching to your students.
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that cumulative author and title index.
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And you can see national and ethnicity
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Subject and theme.
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So if I were looking for
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And I can quickly jump where they're hyperlinked out.
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The road not taken. This is choice, psychology. So this is really helpful when you're talking about that subject or theme.
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And you have that alphabetical option here, or I can put in a term.
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Still I rise, Maya Angelou, it takes me directly to
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the article.
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If I were to, we already did a topic
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finder search, but if I were to do a basic search
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I want to show you the difference.
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And the basic search will take you to, you can see each of the individual documents
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A summary, how many pages. This is a poem explanation
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And I can go directly to that document by clicking on the title.
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But this is what your search, when you do a basic search, this is how the results will show.
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And you can see where it's coming from. This is coming from novels. This is coming from poetry. So it looks through all of your ebooks at once.
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All right, we're right towards the end. The only other ebook I wanted to jump into is short stories.
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And because Halloween is right around the corner.
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I want you to know that you have the legend of Sleepy Hollow available.
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So it might be a fun one to highlight and share.
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with your teachers that you do have this available. Again, you have all those great tools to support accessibility, the media adaptations are here.
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I can print this off. I can download this. So if I want individual copies for my students, I have that.
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And then on that table of contents, one other thing I wanted to point out is
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At the top, why study literature at all? So we have those types of, this is in, again, we're in the short stories for students. So you're going to see that additional type of content available, looking at themes or authors, but this is
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information on why study literature at all.
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Okay.
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Let me know if you have any questions. I'm happy to stay on if you do have any additional questions, but let me quickly share with you where you can go for support, your discus folks.
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are right here. Hopefully you're familiar. Again, you can find that information on the discus or on the discus site. You can find that support information, but here's a direct email.
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And then to support
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Let me put this in the chat.
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Real quick, this site is we've created specifically for discus and it has all of your support materials. Now you're accessing through the discus
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site so you don't need the access URLs and mark records, but in the training center, we have tip sheets and tutorials. We have recorded webinars.
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training decks, resource guides, any upcoming webinars, you'll find them there. We also have escape rooms. We have templates and actual built escape rooms. That's a newer
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item that we have added, we have tic-tac-toe. We have all kinds of
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excuse me, all kinds of different student activities available on the Gale support site, including book studies.
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You see this document that you can utilize and great marketing materials. Here's an example of marketing materials. This is specifically
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For our four students series available on Gale eBooks.
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So you can link that out directly in take students directly into that content.
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And that wraps our session. I thank you so much for your time today. Again, my name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale. And if you'd like to take the survey, just click continue or you can scan the QR code. We'd love to get your feedback. I do share that it's anonymous.
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Thanks, everyone.