Gale Training

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Welcome to your Discus training. Today. Today we are the topic of our training is popular research topics.

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In one of your Discus resources from Gale, and that is Gale in context, opposing viewpoints.

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My name is Tammi Burke. I'm your Gale trainer, and today's session is going to focus more on content.

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I will work in some of the tools and features of your gale.

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In context opposing viewpoints, the beauty of your Gale resources is the tools and features are the same.

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Across the board. So if you've been in one gale, resource, you've seen all of the great tools and features, but I will touch into a few of them today, especially when you're searching for content.

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But we are focusing on exactly that content. Those popular research topics, populate search terms.

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And I've pulled a lot of data together for you all to see what's happening in the State of South Carolina, and also across the Us.

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With Gale in context of opposing viewpoints, and what folks are searching for.

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So with that, let's get started into this brief agenda that I have for you we're going to start always with access to your discus resources.

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Always a great starting point, just in case we have any new folks on the line today, you wanna make sure that you're very comfortable with where you can access your resources we're going to spend the majority of our time exploring content in galing context of posing viewpoints.

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And then I will share with you a few training documents that we have our projects, their student projects that we have available to support research and learning in your classrooms or in your schools for those of you that are.

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I'm not sure if everyone's coming to me from K. 12.

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But coming from a public library, or academic library, I do cover all markets today when we talk about this resource, because it is a resource that can be used at all levels.

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So it is. Gale In Context. Opposing viewpoints is used at the Kate, highly at the K.

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12 level. Some middle school, mainly high school, and then also our public libraries, because the patrons this is has great information.

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This resource, and I'll talk a little bit more about it.

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And then academic level you're gonna see some of the searches that are being done.

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It's very interesting to see how it's being used at that.

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Higher at level to but a great resource that just acrosses everyone.

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It's one of our most popular resources at Gale, so I will leave you at the end with those training materials.

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I'll even show you where to find them, and also contact information for the great folks at Discus.

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And also you have someone on one support at Gale. So first let's talk about access into your discus resources.

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It's really simple. Just go to the fantastic new website and it's sc discus org.

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It's. This is how your users are going into or accessing the resources.

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Then you're very familiar with this link. If this is new to you, I am going to share this link real quick in the chat box so that you have it.

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Now you may be using your individual links to for your library site, and that's fantastic, too, especially if you want to look at your libraries.

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Individual usage. That's a great option for you all.

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So you have a few different paths. It really depends which one you're using in your library.

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Let's talk a little bit about Gale In context opposing viewpoints in case anyone is new to this resource.

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So you fully understand what you're going to find here, you're going to find premium resources.

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So there's trusted reference, content top periodicals.

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You'll find great multimedia, like videos, images, audio there's statistics.

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We have interactive infographics. There's also informed viewpoints.

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So we have some great viewpoints and viewpoint essays available in this resource to support curriculum standards.

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We have frequently studied topics in current social issues and debated topics.

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Science, social studies, and language arts. So this resource, at its we call it the hot topic.

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So it's hot topics. Some of those controversial issues.

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It shows both sides, and we don't determine that this is a pro, and this is a con, but it shows both sides of the argument and really helps students develop those critical thinking skills.

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So all of your users, those critical thinking skills. So all of your users, and at any level can develop those critical thinking skills enhance teaching and learning.

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If it is being used in the higher ed, or in the K 12 classroom, we have Google Microsoft integration, Unlimited.

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Print download an email, and then also a highlights and notes.

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Now, a lot of these features are used in the public library because you have patrons coming in that have a Microsoft account and want to send information directly from the resource to their Microsoft account.

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They can do that. So we'll talk more about some of those features again.

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This is a very focused content or session on content.

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Now I pulled some information together from February of last year in February of this year, and this is searches that happened within Gale In context opposing viewpoints.

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I looked at National, so across the U. S. And also specifically to discus.

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So when we look at K. 12, public and academic on the left hand side, you can see here are some of the top searches so when we're talking about popular research topics, why not go into our top searches and see what's what's being searched for and you can see in you're going

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to see some very, some terms that are going to show up again and again and again.

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The first 3 are some of those terms that are going to show up often in our results here today.

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So abortion, gun control, social media cell phones and schools and cancer culture are the top searches for all marets in 4 discus.

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So in South Carolina, on the right hand side you can see some of the top searches nationally, and how they kind of overlap so nationally all marks number one is the oh, I'm sorry I messed up the order here, so you can see we have gun control the larger the larger the term in the

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word cloud, the more often that is search. So the tap, the top 5 are going to be gun control, abortion, social media again.

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But we're also seeing cell phones and cell phone showing up here, too.

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And then school start times has a pretty good selection.

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Mental health is up there, too.

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Now let's look specifically at K. 12 top searches that are happening in K 12 schools on the left hand side and discus for discus is school uniforms, homework, social media abortion and music so we're seeing some similarities to what's happening across the or the whole state and

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also nationally, and on the right hand side top searches.

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You're seeing again abortion gun control, social media school, start time and then death penalty made a showing.

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Here, in these results, nationals.

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If you're coming to me from a public library. This is what folks are searching for.

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So top searches and discus are death penalty, gun control, abortion, military draft and book banning.

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And then the National. Our gun control, abortion, social media.

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So we're seeing those again and again, and then school start times and cell phones in school.

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So some connections to schools like again.

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And when I'm sharing these consider so if you're coming to from K.

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12, and you want to highlight content for research projects. Consider those terms that are being searched for, and we are going to go into the resource and cover them.

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And maybe you wanna pull, maybe you wanna to create, use the get link tool and and link it to a topic page and share that information on your library website or with teachers that you know are working on projects with their students same ferry public libraries talking about your programming if this is what's being

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studied in South Carolina, or being searched for in South Carolina.

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Why not pull some of that information out from within this resource?

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And really inform your users, and have that connection to this digital information that they have access to.

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And then academic libraries. Top searches for discus are on the left hand side, and this is specifically to the academic library type.

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Again. The top 3 gun control abortion social media and then cancer culture and electric cars.

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And this is over. The last year. So, looking February to February on the right hand side, you can see National again.

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Let's talk 3 abortion gun control, social media.

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And then this one. There's someone was searching for.

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We had quite a few searches for the New York Times, and then mental health.

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So a little bit of a change there, and that was again.

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That's across the Us. That we're seeing those search results.

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Some tools. I want you to keep in mind.

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To share, content, and I just talked a little bit about this.

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Maybe pulling this into your programming or into your coursework, our classrooms, the get link tool is a great tool to utilize and share that content that we're going to talk about today.

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So talking about popular research topics, let's share some of that information with our users.

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You can also share. If you're coming to us from K.

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12 you can share directly to your Google classroom, and then the sent to option.

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You can send information to Google or Microsoft right from within the resource.

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It's very easy and simple to support accessibility. We have all kinds of great tools translate into over 40 languages, increase or decrease the font size, display options, offers the ability to change the color behind the text and also change the font.

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We even have open dyslexic available, and then the listen feature where you can listen to the text being read aloud to you to encourage that deeper analysis or promote that deeper learning, highlights and notes.

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This is a great tool that we have available. You can mark up a document.

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Send that markup marked up documents directly to Google or Microsoft.

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If you're using either of those print email or download.

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But it's a great way when you're talking about opposing viewpoints.

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Looking at Procon and using that color, coding to analyt those articles is a great idea, and a great way to use it within this particular resource, and then to develop those research skills or critical thinking skills.

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We do have some search options topic finder, which we will touch in today.

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Topic pages which we're definitely going to cover. And then our citation citations are automatically attached to every document, image, video, everything available within your gale in contacts opposing viewpoints, resource.

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We have the citation tool also available, and you can choose where you'd like to export it.

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If you'd like to copy and paste it, or if you'd like to change the format, all those options are available.

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Let me know if there are any questions, please feel free to use that Q&A box.

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One last item I want to mention before we go into the resource is you do have the ability to.

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If you're using a learning management system maybe your higher Ed, and you use canvas or d 2 l.

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Or in the schools, or using schoology or camvas, learning management systems.

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We you can set up your resources that you have from discus your gale resources right in your instructs.

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So right in your individual accounts. It's you can do it globally and add them to your learning management systems.

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And then once they are added Your users or your teachers, your faculty members, can create, assignments and embed information directly into those assignments.

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Discussions, pages, whatever they're working on, and then the users are the students no longer have to leave that that canvas or learning management system or schoology.

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They can access the information right there. So that's that's what you're seeing here is an embedded article, and on the right hand side is an embedded a video.

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So there is some setup, and if this is something you're interested in, I'll provide you with your customer.

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Success managers information at the end. They can work directly with your tech.

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Person, if that's what you'd like them to do, they can do that, or if you're the one that's in charge of that, they can assist you with what you need from Gale admin to add this information to your learning management system, all right.

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So let's explore. We're gonna start first with the discus site, and it is they've done a fantastic job here.

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If I were looking for specifically a resource, I would take a I could take a couple different paths.

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I'm going to show you the shortest, and that's the eighty-y resources.

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But I can also go in grade level, and I can go to high school or middle school and find that I also have the ability to go into subject.

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Now I know exactly what I'm looking for. I want to posing viewpoints.

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So I'm going to go into a Toz resources, and I'm going to switch this to Gale.

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Apply, and you can see all of your gale resources that you have available, including opposing viewpoints.

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So this is how I would quickly access this particular resource.

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Now a lot of times your users aren't going to understand that opposing viewpoints is Gale.

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They're just looking for content. Right? So maybe this isn't the path they're going to take.

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But I wanted to show you for that quick reference. I do already have this open.

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I am going to quickly sign in with Google today.

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So once I'm signed in, I am set up as a teacher, so I can add information directly into my Google classroom.

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If you have any questions, don't forget to use that box, and I want to point out a few items.

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On the home page before we start diving into some of those popular searches that we have available.

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So at the very top, we do have the ability to transmit the navigational tools into over 34 languages.

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So any of these tools here in the contextual toolbar over here, any tools that help you navigate the resource you can change at the very top of your screen.

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Wherever you see this little translate icon, you have that ability to change, and this one changes.

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You can see the interface language. So those navigational tools can sign in with Google and Microsoft.

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And I already talked about Google classroom on the homepage. You're also always going to see in the Banner basic and advanced search over to the right.

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We have what we call the contextual toolbar. And this will change, depending on where I'm at within the resource and what tools I need.

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I always have issues of interests, scrolling here at the top, and those change every month, and then below are my subject categories with topic, pages and topic pages are a curated collection of information.

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We look at curriculum standards, we look at usage, we listen to you all, and what's being studied, and then our editors will curate that collection under that sub.

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That subject, so renewable energy. You can see here, and all of the content is organized underneath that subject.

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And this is really great when you're talking about research topics.

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This is really helpful to have these curated collections.

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Now question came through what grades can opposing viewpoints be used for?

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So, Allison, this is really it is the think about.

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It's controversial issues, right? It's hot topics.

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So it is designed for high school, but it is also being used at middle school.

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Just do you aware of what content is there if you are using this at the middle school level?

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Okay, and then all the way up, it's used by our public libraries, patrons are using in this resource all the time, and then definitely at the higher ed or academic level, this resource is used often, okay, let me know if there are any other questions thanks for asking about that as

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I scroll down. I just want to point out I'm not going to jump into these 2 areas, but we do have some educator resources like curriculum standards.

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So, if we do have any K 12 folks today, and you need to filter by a particular curriculum standard, you, we have both state and national here.

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This is a great way to do that. You can select your standard and then find content related to it.

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And then we have some great educator resources here. There's some graphic organizers which, when you're talking about research, that is a great tool I'm gonna share a couple, others that we have available on the Gale support site, too.

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Okay, so we have these great topics already organized. And we have these topic pages curated for us with this great collection of information.

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But we have more than this available within the resource.

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So if you're doing a search, you're not seeing a term in energy and environmentalism.

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We have 53 topic pages, but maybe you're not seeing what you're looking for.

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That's okay. Just do a search. Chances are you're going to pull back some information.

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We always have the National Debate topic here, too. So if that's something that you need, we have every year, and they're always available under national debate topics so you're going to find that information.

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And my available within that section anytime. You see an updated or new tag, new means.

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It's a brand new topic page. So here in science technology and ethics, we have a new anti-science topic.

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Page updated means that the image or the essay overview, or both, on the topic page, have been updated.

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So we're constantly changing that information all the time.

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If you're ever in Gale In context, biography, you'll see those updated tags, especially if you know somebody's passed away.

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Our content, editors are in there very quickly to make that update.

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I remember I was doing a training on the resource, and I was covering talking about Harry Potter, and I talked about Hagrid, and it was just days after he had passed, and it was already Updated in the resource and the contents being updated throughout the day every day.

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So, because you have so much content available in coming from book articles and also magazines and newspapers and academic journals, all of that content's being updated throughout the day.

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Every day. Okay. So I just wanna select I'm gonna jump into a national debate topics. So when you're talking about research, this is a great one to take a look at.

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But then we're going to take another path, and I'm going to use one of our popular search terms that we that we saw in our in our results from the usage reports.

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So I want to point out that the you can see all of the national Debate topics here and again.

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This is a collection of information related to this year's national Debate topic, but you can see some other topics that are also listed here, too. We'll have if I wanted to go to any of those other subject categories, and I don't want to go all the way back to the home

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page, and then, whenever you want to go back to the home page, you just click into the banner.

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But I want to jump to invite energy and environmentalism.

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You can see here, I can go to any of these topic page, such as global warming and climate change.

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This is also may not be showing up in searches, but this is definitely a popular topic.

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You'll find a lot of popular topics in energy, environmentalism, global warming.

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Climate change is really popular, renewable energy is another one that we see a lot of searches for.

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And then I notice that I don't know if you, if you notice this in the academics, the electric cars.

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So we have a topic page on electric and hybrid electric vehicles and cars available here.

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Anything related to. So if we have water, pollution, or wind, our sustainability, these are all really popular topics within this resource.

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Another area. Let's take. Let's take a look at a couple different topics.

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So business and economics. What we have in this section I always think of AI, and we have that in this section.

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It's probably in the technology section. That's one of those topics that people are talking about, that we that are that's here within this resource.

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I mean, it's it. You've got some people that have different viewpoints on that, and you're going to see both sides here.

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Income inequality is showing up in business, Us. Economy that actually showed up in a search.

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More recently, from the last month it was actually a public library search on opposing viewpoints by folks from South Carolina, so that you S.

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Economy is something that folks are interested in within this resource.

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Do you like savings time? That's coming up?

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That's definitely something to talk about. Let's take another look at another section.

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Family issues, drugs and athletes. This is a really popular one, too, that we see a lot depending on the time of year.

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Of course, gun control school violence. Those things are popping up.

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Not surprising some of those terms that we were seeing abortion, especially within the last year, and how laws are changing in certain States. Also, gun control.

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There, you know, school shootings, unfortunately, have been happening I'm in Michigan, so, and have a daughter that goes to Michigan State.

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So that was hit home very much, thank God, she's okay.

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But you know, those types of things really hit home, and you're going to see depending on what's trending.

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People are coming into this resource. Resource, and they're doing their searches.

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But they're also picking these topics for research.

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And this is at. Now now think about this. You think of K. 12.

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You think of academic but also faculty members. So we have faculty members that are utilizing this resource for their research as they're getting published law and politics, national debate.

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We talked about science, technology and ethics, society and culture, war and diplomacy.

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Science and technology as one I wanted to share with you interesting.

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Oh, science, okay. But where you have the animal rights is another one that showed up but artificial intelligence is one that shows up a lot.

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So just sharing with you some of the content. Some of the topic pages you have available.

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I encourage you to take a look and see what all is available.

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Within this resource one of the top terms we saw again and again, that is a little less controversial, is social media.

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So I'm not going to pick the top 2 a I'll let you explore those on your own.

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But for today's training, we're going to take a look at social media now, what I want to share with you is if I am using my basic search, I start to type in a term.

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And I want to know if there's a topic Page related to it.

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Do you see their bolded at the end, listed at the top?

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I know that those are top pages, so I can see here.

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I have 2 fake news on social media, one of my favorite topic pages, because that one's been around for a while.

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But I talk about fake news, I mean, I work for Gale we talk about this all the time.

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You all are coming from libraries. You talked about this all the time.

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It draw me crazy when people are going to tick tock, or twitter, or something like that, to get their news, and I just gave you air quotes, please come into the resources right?

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And look at the information that's there. And with these resources I'm going to go into social media.

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You are going to find. Still those you know newspapers where you can get those editorials and I try to even just talking.

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And in trainings, not so much because you all are very aware of it.

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But when I have an opportunity to talk to students, my children, my daughter has a bunch of friends over from college, is there on spring, break and talk to them about, you know.

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Ask them questions, what are you talking about? What are you learning about?

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And where do you go to get this information, poor kids? There, my own focus group, there probably won't be coming back soon.

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But you know this is what we need to know, and and this is, you know, we're all kind of tasked with this job of sharing information and it's not just kids.

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We have adults that really need to expand the horizons and utilize the information that they can find in their library resources.

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So this topic page so on. Social media. As this was a search, we saw.

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It's a very popular topic across the board. Let's take a look at how we can utilize this topic.

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Page. So something I can do is if I want to share this, I can use the get link to all.

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So I wanna share it on my library website. I wanna send this out to my team I know that faculty members are discussing this.

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There's a great course focused on social media or communication.

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Maybe in the communication department. So let's get Link provides a persistent URL back to this page.

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And all of this content is organized and curated for you.

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Now I'm going to show you what to do. Once you have all this content.

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So there's a lot of great content here at the very top.

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Here's the image and the essay overview, and I am gonna click into these first because I wanna share with you.

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It is a document. We do have reading levels. So somebody asks about middle school.

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We do have reading levels here, as you can see, middle school, and over to the right.

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I wanna point out the content levels. So middle school reading level is generally.

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And we say generally, because students don't fit into a box.

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So generally. It's a level 3. So we have one through 5, with 3, being middle school.

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So you can see fours and fives are going to be high school into undergrad, but we do have some level.

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3 is available within this resource, too, and I can change it from a 1480 to a 1260, which takes it down to a level 4.

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So you can do that with the essay overviews pretty much all of the information.

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Now we've been adding it for a couple years.

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That's been published by Gale. We have that ability to change our content because we wrote it so I'm gonna go back up to that higher level.

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And I do wanna point out a few items that you're going to see.

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Here is, you may see main ideas. You may see fast facts, or or you may see different text features, timelines.

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It really depends on the topic I am on but the essay overviews are a great jumping off point.

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Maybe you have users that are looking to do. They're working on a project, and they're doing research.

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And they're really not sure if this is a topic that they want to do, have them.

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Look at the essay overview first. It's also a great place to quickly pull out some information, some facts that you have, because these again the written by Gale, but they're an overview of this topic.

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So you're going to get a little bit of everything here.

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Oh, and this one happens to have you are going to see critical thinking questions on some of the doctors.

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This one does have critical thinking questions which are fantastic to use in any level of classroom at the very bottom on all of our documents.

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As I mentioned here's your citation. I can change that format.

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So if I am using Apa or Chicago or Harvard, I have that ability.

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I can export this citation, and I can change this citation before I decide.

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If I want to send it to Google Microsoft or I wanna email, it.

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So I can change it to Apa, and it'll turn it into a Google Doc if I'm sending it to Google, and it'll stay attached to my document couple things. I wanna point out.

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And here's a tip and trick we do have interlinking.

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So here, if I wanted conspiracy theory articles on so social media related to social media here, I can jump to another category or another article similar to the one I'm on.

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So that interlinking, you see, it's all hyperlinked out.

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It offers another opportunity for exploration into some of these topics, when scrolling up.

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You also have this great explore panel. This is another way to utilize this popular search term for your research projects.

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So I can look at the more like this. This is more supplemental information that I have available.

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This one also. This article has a table of contents or article contents, and then I can see these related subjects too.

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So I'm on social media. But maybe I' to jump to right of privacy or online social networks, online activism.

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That would be a good one. Personal information always good to know.

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Let's go back to that homepage. I shouldn't say home, Page.

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The topic page, as you can see, I have all of this great content.

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These are all of my content types in the center featured viewpoints are hand selected documents by our content.

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Editors, chances are, and I can almost 100% guarantee you are going to see both sides of the issue.

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If we have content related available in the featured viewpoints.

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This is another great jumping off point. If a student or a user isn't really sure of what side they're on, have them take a look at the featured viewpoints.

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This is a great place for them to start. You also have viewpoints, and these viewpoints are full of our viewpoint.

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Essays, and I'll talk to you about that in a minute.

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The differences, featured viewpoints, hand selected information.

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It's going to be a variety of information here.

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You could see I have something from the Washington Post, something from the New York Times, something that we've published on the right hand side.

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These are all viewpoint essays. So they're slightly different.

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They start with a commentary, and then go into the content, and they're also questions.

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So similar to our critical thinking questions. We call these questions to consider, so that's the difference between those 2 buckets or content types.

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As I scroll down, I'm going to see all of this content listed below reference.

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We have some great infographics which will touch into statistics primary sources, images, videos, audio magazines, news.

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We have any safe vetted websites. Those are here great academic journals, and then here are all the related topic.

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Pages so I'm on social media. You can see where I can jump to cell phones and schools.

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Maybe someone did. Maybe that's why we're seeing that in our results, technology and society specifically go to Twitter.

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So all of this information is available just from the topic page.

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If I wanted to share this in my coursework, in my classroom, in my library programming, I can quickly use the get link to all.

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If I'm using Google classroom, I can do the same thing.

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I just click into classroom. And from there I'll be able to make an announcement.

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Make an assignment whatever I want to do, and it'll pull this topic page right into my classroom and share it.

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Email with my students.

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Okay. So we talked about sharing options. Let's talk a little bit I'm gonna go into.

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Let's go into viewpoints and then I do want to touch into infographics.

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So in viewpoints, I just want to point out what a viewpoint essay is.

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So you understand, just gonna select this first one. So our viewpoint essay start with this article commentary, and then they have, as you read, consider the following questions, and then you have your article at the very bottom, you have your source citation, right?

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And these source citations are longer. You'll see 2 ones for the commentary and one is for the actual article.

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Now one way to use highlights and notes, and this is a different way to use.

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It is, I suggested, using it for annotating or procon.

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But maybe you wanted to create an assignment, and you wanted your students to. You.

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Maybe you choose each question as a different color, and I should label these question one.

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Oops! That's an excellent point. There we go.

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Question 2. You get the idea right? Question 3 is, gonna be I did blue.

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Let's do green. Okay? So maybe I want to assign this to my students.

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I've highlighted them each color. I am going to send this to my Google drive because I want to share this document that I've marked up.

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And I need to keep the markups so to do that anytime.

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You've done any highlighting on the document. You can send the entire document to Google Microsoft email.

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You can also download or print. I highly suggestive using Google or Microsoft, send the document there.

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It turns it into a Google, Doc, or word, Doc, and it saves everything you've marked up, and any notes you've taken.

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So maybe you are sharing this with your students, and you want them to complete this assignment.

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You're getting them thinking they're getting them, using those critical thinking skills.

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This is your assignment, or maybe you're doing close reading.

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We have a flipped classroom, I mean so many different ways that you can utilize this information.

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But for today I want to assign this. So I've hated the questions, and I want my students to find the information related to question number One and highlight it in.

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Hello! And then here in their notes, they can add any points that they will be discussing.

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I'm just gonna write discussion points and be prepared to meet with their group meet as a group, a whole group small group, whatever the case may be.

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Okay, this also helps them develop those research skills highlights.

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And notes. Sometimes I have a lot of librarians, media specialists who will do many lessons on this, and this is at all levels.

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I mean, hopefully, your students are getting this information and high school before they go on to higher. Ed.

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But sometimes those higher Ed students need that support to middle schoolers.

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Hopefully. They've already been really good at finding the main ideas.

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But they might need a little bit more support, especially when they're first coming into middle school.

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This tool is available in all of your gale resources. It's a shared tool and feature when I send it again.

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It's all marked up exactly as I want it, and then what happens is these chunks of text and the notes that I've attached to each one will live below my source. Citation.

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So I'll have this yellow section, and then notes. I've taken.

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So Google, Doc, and then below the citation, you're going to find everything you've marked up, but also still within the document.

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So everything's ready to go. You don't have to do anything on your end.

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What's also happening. Let me go back out to some of our content. Here.

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So again, best practice. I'm gonna send it to my Google drive.

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So I have that entire document. I'm gonna go back out.

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And now I'm going to let me filter down by subject real quick.

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So let's do on social networks. Let's say, and it filters down all of my information at once.

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Again, I can use get link or pull this into Google classroom.

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Same idea for reading levels if I did want more of that middle school content, I can choose or select or multi select my reading levels.

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Remember, level 3 is generally middle school, and it will filter down all of my content at once. So that's a great way to see what content you have available.

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And again, you can share it with your students, or if you have want to put this in your library programming, or courses that you know students are going to be studying our projects.

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They're working on, you can utilize that. Get link, tool.

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So I filtered down. I filtered by subject, and you can see all of the content is filtered down.

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Too. I can remove that and go back to all of my information.

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Let's talk about some of this content that I'm seeing.

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So we're gonna first go into the very cool thing graphics because these are interactive. And I'm just going to select this first one from 2022.

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Social media platforms used by Us. Journalists. Interesting march. So I can manipulate this interactive.

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So this is by platform. I can look at by age, group.

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I get that a lot you're old. Mom used Facebook.

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Yeah, thanks kids. I do use Facebook. And I do like Facebook, but you know, they're in different places.

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So you're looking at looking at 18 to 29.

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They're using Twitter. And here we have I'm not gonna say which age group I'm in.

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But well, Twitter is still pretty high across the board, except for when you get into 65 in.

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Above, and I am not in that range yet, but you know, you see, Facebook is used a little bit more here, interesting to see where Youtube lands.

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And then you have by race and ethnicity. Bye, Jeff, this one is almost identical, except for here that Instagram that makes a little sense right below.

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I'm also seeing percentage of adults who regularly get news from social media platforms.

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Facebook is number one on that list. Let's see, did that change?

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No, I didn't. Okay, so this is information, this, these interactive infographics are really helpful.

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And you can see we still have this more like this panel.

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So, even from a graphic, you can go to another section or more information within the resource.

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Oh, I went all the way out great images that we have available.

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You're not gonna see a ton of primary sources when you talk about social media.

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But you may see some primary sources connected. Every single image also has a caption to go along with it, and the citation, of course, we have great video content.

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Our videos are closed, captioned, and you'll also find the transcripts available here.

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Academic journals, news magazines, all of audio files.

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We have over 3,000 audio files on this topic.

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Lot of them are coming from morning addition. All things considered, BBC, you'll find weekend.

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Edition, Sunday. All different sorts here, so great way for users.

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If they're looking for an interview and want to pull that into their research, that they're doing to utilize this audio content.

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Okay, so we talked about highlights notes. Let me go into another document.

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That's what I wanted to do. Let's go into academic journals, and I'm just going to select this first one.

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From January.

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What I can do. I'm gonna highlight. So here's objectives. I'm gonna highlight. This just chunk of text.

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Again. Best practice. Send this to your Google drive. But I want to access all of my highlights and notes. And this has been being built out as I'm working within this resource.

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You can see. Here's the article I was just in, and here's the one I was in before.

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I have that ability to edit my notes so great tool to use when you are facilitate or conducting research, to add in your notes.

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And this is a section that I can just send these digital notes with the bibliography attached to any of those same places.

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I can send the article Google email download print.

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If I wanted my citations. The citation tool works at the document level, but also here.

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So here's my works cited. I can send or export this to Noodle.

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Tools or easy bib. If I just want my citations, it works the same way at the document level.

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You have it attached to the document, and you can just pull the singular citation if you choose to.

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I can also label my colors, and it creates a nice legend over here to the left, and then just Sunday, it is session based.

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So if you are using this section, make sure that you send the information somewhere before you leave this session.

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The last thing I want to share with you is the accessibility tools, and I'm just going to touch on these.

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Briefly I mentioned them during the training, but translate or during the Powerpoint translate, I talked about 40 languages here's increased decrease.

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The one I really want to show you is the display options where you have that ability to change the color behind the text, change the font, increase the line letter and word spacing, and the nice thing is you set this up once in the session it sticks with you the entire time so to meet

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those varying needs of users all they have to do is the first document.

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Set this tool up, and then it will stay with the entire time.

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They're searching through this resource when they leave or log out.

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Then it'll clear, or you can clear it here at the box.

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I can also list to the text being read aloud to me if I've translated we're at 40 languages here, we're at 24, and the most popular ones are here that you can listen to it being read aloud, and then here's all my quick send Options.

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But if let's say I get to this point, and I want to send this information or grab a link to this information, this contextual toolbar floats down the screen with me.

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Okay, so that's the content I wanted to share with you.

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Don't forget you have those great topic pages another way to find information under advanced search course.

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We have all the great advanced search tools not going to go over those as are fairly intuitive, and we have some search tips available here.

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But you have some pre limiters that you can set before you do your searches.

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I want to share with you. Topic finder.

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And this time I'm going to put in a different term.

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Let's do book Banning.

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This is an interactive visual tool of your search results that you have available.

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It's also available when you are on a topic page I'm below that filter box.

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You can pull in your topic page into topic, finder. If you would like to do that, that option is available.

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I'll show you that in a minute, but you can see here it pulls back in the tile view.

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I also have wheel, and it does look at the first 100 words.

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It's also looking at the titles of those keywords that are showing that are showing up in the graphics are the most often found in the text.

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So I looked at Book Banning. Let's look at Book Banning and High School.

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I click into it. I zoom in. Here's school libraries, and I have 5 articles on the right hand side images, videos.

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It could be any of our content.

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So this is a great tool to utilize. It also covers some key terms that may be your users hadn't necessarily thought about, but it's an interactive tool it always lives in advanced search.

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You'll find top-finder we are talking about putting it on the homepage.

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I don't have a timeline on that, but that discussion has come up.

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Okay, so we talked about a lot of the tools we explored some of those topics in our issues.

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Our browse issues section. So you can see what all is available.

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Great topics in society and culture. This is a really good one to take a look at when you're talking about some of those controversial or hot topics.

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We saw a lot of them in our search, our usage that we were taking a look at so that those popular search terms this, you're going to find a lot of them here, too.

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I do want to share with you your Gale support site and let me.

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I'm not gonna do that in the slides. I'm gonna do that here.

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So you do have your so discus site. Let me share that one.

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But the one I'm gonna go to. I'm gonna actually go into support up here at the top.

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And this is a great way sorry before I leave this you can find your school name or your I'm sorry.

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Your library name, and find your. I'm gonna just choose this regional library.

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Click proced. And this will take me to all of my direct Urls.

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For my products that I have from different it's taken a couple seconds to load.

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So you have your under here. There's products. So process.

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Here's my direct. You Urls, my location id for my individual library is built in.

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So my usage will roll up to my site. I can get my ebooks.

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Here's where all the training lives too, and lives on your discus site.

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But you. It also lives here, too. If you're working within this resource, we have marketing materials for all of your resources, technical documents and Vpad information.

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Now, I'm gonna go to home because I'm gonna go to the general support site.

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It should keep me logged in here, so I still will only see resources that I have access to at my library site.

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I can sign out and see everything, so do I need to sign in to access the training center or the market materials.

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No, I don't need to, but just be prepared that you're going to see resources for everything.

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Okay. It does also connect you directly to your customer success manager.

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And then remember, discuss office help. Desk is where you want to go first.

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But if you're looking for usage reports or something specific like that, or need that any information Gale related learning management system setup, these are the folks that can help you your customer success managers, because they can get you into your Gale admin you can go to product.

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Support, and you can fill browse by product. So if I go this route, I apologize.

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I know I'm a couple of minutes over. If I go this route I can find everything I need for opposing viewpoints, and it gives me my URL, my database icons.

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But what I want to share with you is all of these training documents.

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Okay, so we have things like this lesson plan on animal experimentation.

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I also have. Here's the great debate project.

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So I have some projects on the right hand side. You can see the different types constructing arguments, graphic organizer.

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Let me share that with you. So I have this graphic organizer that I can use in my classroom my library programming don't know how much.

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It's very colorful so I don't know if you would be using it at the higher Ed level or not.

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But we have those types of tools that connect this resource to learning.

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I love this one persuasive paper guide it's one of my favorites.

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The first page is writing, you know, tips helping, writing a persuasive paper, select a topic, review the debate, find support of evidence, and the second page is to help organize that information.

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What's your topic? Here's how you can access.

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So this you can write or add in copy and paste in your URL to this resource, from your library connect the library to the classroom.

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Whatever level they're at. Topic viewpoint, sporting evidence arguments and to dispute.

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So that's the types of materials that you're going to find to support.

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That that research that's happening, those popular topics that are being researched.

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We have tic-tac-toe, we have an escape room template.

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You're going to see all kinds of oh, this is a new one to that text structure.

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Graphic organizer. Let me share that with you. That's brand new.

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So it looks similar to the other one. The graphic organizer shared with you.

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But it has this. I love this section here the topic and the details.

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So it's a great way for those visual learners like myself to organize my content.

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So might be helpful. Middle School High School level for those of you that are at working with those students.

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Okay. All right. So let me go back to my Powerpoint and share with you.

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Let me know if there are any questions.

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There we go. So here again to reach your help desk at Discus you can go to the discus site and you'll find their contact information under contact us.

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But I will share this link or this email address, if you need support in the chat.

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And we covered the Gale support site.

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A few, just a few other. Here's the that persuasive paper.

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There's the tic-tac-toe we have.

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Oh, we also have short video tutorials available they're like, under 3 min.

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So if you want to share topic pages, or you want to promote it, put on your library website, share it in a newsletter.

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This is it. These videos are great to link out. And then we have great marketing materials.

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You'll also find all of your mark records and technical documents.

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I shared a lot of this information already that you're going to find there great social media posts.

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We have some templates available for you, too. So that's in the marketing center on that support page.

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And that again was support. dotgil.com. That's a general page.

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Your customer. Success, managers. They're your one on one support.

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This will also be included their contact information will be included in your follow-up email.

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So if you don't want to write this down, that's okay.

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But for those watching the recording, if they're very easy, you can connect with them.

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Training survey should pop up when you leave today but if you'd like to scan the QR.

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Code, and give us your feedback, feel, it. Please feel free to do so.

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Comment. Section. If there's anything I'd love to get feedback on the training.

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But if you'd also like to add in any support, you're needing with discus and trainings, you're looking for, we're always looking for new ideas, and we're adding information or new new trainings moving forward love to hear what we can help you with and then again, my name is

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Tammi Burke. I'm your senior Gale trainer.

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I thank you so much for your time today looks like I have a couple things come through.

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Oh, next scale. Webinar. Thank you, Linda. She's sharing it is April eighteenth.

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I'm gonna post that in the support Poetry month studies with gale resources.

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I used to have a slide that I would add that in, and I thanks Lyna.

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I forgot. So thank you for your time, and you will find all of our updcoming trainings right here on the support dotgale com discus page, and I will put that.

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Let me see if I can grab that real quick.

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Nope, it logged me out. I can put that in the chat, too.

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I? Or did I already add it? Oh, I did! It's already there.

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It's in the chat box. Okay? So that wraps our session. Thank you.

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Everyone for your time. Today, and thanks for staying with me.

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The couple extra minutes here I will stand line if there's any questions, but have a good rest of your day, and I hope to see you next month. Thanks. Everyone.