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Gale 101- Gale In Context: Environmental Studies

Gale In Context: Environmental Studies is designed to support students, researchers, and educators in exploring and understanding the critical issues surrounding the environment, many focused in human-environment interactions. Diverse content types including Reference Articles, News and Magazines, Conferences, Statistics, Academic Journals, and Multimedia materials engage all types of learners to ensure equitable access and maximize understanding.

View our session to explore the key topics, workflows, and tools designed to support users in effective environmental research, teaching, and learning.

Duration: 30 Minutes
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Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining our

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session today. Today we have another

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Gale 101 session and it's focused

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on Gale In Context: Environmental Studies.

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My name is Amber Winters and I am a senior

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training consultant here with Gale. I have

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a brief agenda for you. First,

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we're going to do just a quick resource

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overview just to review what

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you can expect to find within Gale In Context: Environmental Studies

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Then we'll talk about

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some of the different key content pieces

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that your users are going to find and just some

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different ways that that content can support

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them as they move forward in their learning or in their

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research.

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We'll spend a lot of time actually walking through

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the resource. So I wanna make sure you see all

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of the different workflows we have available as

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well as the different tools and

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features that are going to really help organize

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your users and make sure they can find the content they

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need easily.

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And then at the very end of the session, we will

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have time for any questions that I wasn't able to

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answer as we move along. But I should

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be able to answer questions as they come up. So don't

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feel like you need to wait until the end of the session.

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If you have them, go ahead and type them into the Q and

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A and I'll be able to answer them

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and I will have some wrap up contact information for

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you as well. So moving forward, if you need some additional

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support or have more questions,

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you'll have some contact information for that.

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So let's go ahead and go in now. So Gale In Context:

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environmental studies, this is a more

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advanced research tool.

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So generally, it's going to be the secondary

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level. So high school students all the way

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up through undergrad and graduate students

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as well as adult learners. So generally, this

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is not going to be as beneficial to

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kind of middle school and younger, but

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your high school students, especially those who

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are in A P courses or other advanced science

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courses are going to benefit and again,

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all the way up to adult learners are going to

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be able to take advantage of this resource.

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And just like the name suggests, this is focused

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on science but not just the kind of

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hard facts about science, it's also

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focused on science in the real world

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and science in society. So not

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only are they going to get just kind of the

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the meat about the different scientific topics?

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They're also going to see how you know humans

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are impacting the environment, how these different

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topics play out nationally

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or internationally or just, you know, globally

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altogether, how these scientific

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topics are playing out. They're going to get all

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of that information here on the platform. So it's kind

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of like a, a twofold, they're getting that

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basic knowledge of the topics, but

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then they're seeing how it's playing out in the

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real world.

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In addition to all that great content, we have quite a few

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different tools that we'll look at today that are going to support

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learning. So highlights and note taking

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are available. We have a translation and a read

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speaker. So if you have users who

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are struggling readers or who maybe English as their

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second language and prefer to have text

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in different language, they'll be able to

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use those tools. We also have

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a citation tool. So if I have anyone

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from the K 12 arena or the

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academic arena on the line today, we

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have premade citations for every bit

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of content we have in this resource. So

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not just the text pieces but also the

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images, the videos, the podcasts will have

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citations. For those.

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We are also fully integrated with Google

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and Microsoft. So your users

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will be able to save and share content using

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either one of those drives. Nice

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way to kind of get that information out

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of the platform, make sure they can take it with them.

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Now let's just take a quick minute to talk about

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some of the different content types that are going to be

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really valuable. Now, I'm not going to go through

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every content type because there's a a lot,

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but some of the key ones that I want to point out to you today

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that you may want to bring to your users attention.

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The first is going to be our reference articles

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and of course, this is kind of the the backbone

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of the resource. This is what a lot of people

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think of when they think about a gal and context resource.

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And this is going to provide both overview

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and detailed information, focus on the

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facts of whatever topic they're looking

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at. So these aren't necessarily going to be

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opinion pieces or

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comparative pieces or anything like that. This is just

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giving them the understanding of the facts

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of whatever topic they're going to be looking

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at. We also

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have a huge collection of multimedia content.

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So I'm talking videos, images,

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a lot of audio files, generally a lot of podcasts

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um and things like that that are going to support your learners

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who are maybe not the strongest readers or

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maybe they just prefer to get their information

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through watching or listening.

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They'll have access to these right here in the platform.

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Really right next to all of our reference articles

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and all of our other textual

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information. So they'll be able to easily click into

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a video and generally our videos are pretty

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short. We try to

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keep hold of the users attention as much as possible.

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So generally they're gonna be under five

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minutes. Some are even as quick as one or two

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minutes just going over. just

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a quick bit of information. So they'll find those

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on our resource.

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We also have a nice collection of static

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statistics and interactive

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infographics which is a mouthful.

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But these are really great for

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students who are coming and maybe looking for something

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to supplement a research project that

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they're doing. You know, they need to make a presentation and

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they want to have some sort of visual that's

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going to support that. These statistics

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and infographics are really helpful

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for that. So you find those on this resource

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as well.

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We also have a collection of news

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and magazines and these are continuously

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updated because we wanna make sure users

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are getting the most up to date content

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on current events. So these

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are going to be popular news and magazines, you'll also find

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things like trade journal, trade journals

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in here as well.

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But the goal is to just kind of get a holistic

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view of what's going on in the world and what's going

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on. Currently,

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we also have academic journals which are going

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to be really great for your higher level

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users. Again, as I mentioned, generally,

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this resource is for high schoolers on up through

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adult learners. So your academic journals

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may be helpful just starting off with your

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A P students. If you are at the K 12 level,

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they may be ready to kind of dip their toes into

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the academic world. And of course,

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as they move along and as they get to college

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and they're post grad and all that great stuff,

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these academic journals are going to follow them

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along and be ready here for them.

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And finally, we have a lot of case studies and conferences

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that I like to point out as well. So these

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are going to give more real world examples.

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So just like our news and magazine collections,

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but these are going to be reviewing something

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that happened. So a specific event

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that happened

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or if there's a specific conference

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that just kind of went down, it's going

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to give a nice overview of that. So students can

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kind of understand what's going on in the

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world of environmental science.

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Now, I'm going to just go ahead and jump right into

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the resource because I think our time is best

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served there while I jump in though. Are there any

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quick questions about the content

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that your students will find in the resource or

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anything like that?

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OK. I don't see any. So let's go ahead and get

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started then. So I'm already

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signed in here to Gale In Context:

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environmental studies. This is our home page here.

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I'll give you a little walkthrough of this before

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we really dig into the content. So right

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here on this home page, we pull out some issues

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of interest. Generally they change monthly,

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just kind of depending on what's going on. If something

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big happens in the world of environmental studies,

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you may see that popped up here sooner

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again, just kind of depending on what's going on. You see, we have Cicadas

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pulled forward. Um For anyone watching

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this recorded, the double brood is about

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to um, hatch release.

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I'm not quite sure what the term is, but

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they're about to emerge. So we're, we're going

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to have a lot of cicadas. So anyone who's kind

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of in that

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the danger zone of that Cicada infestation,

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we've got that pulled forward so your users can take

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a look and kind of understand what Cicadas

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are scrolling down under

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those in issues of interest.

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We have our browse issues section here

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as well and this comes in really handy for

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users who maybe don't have a search term

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ready to go yet. They don't know exactly what they

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want.

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You know, they know that they want to learn about something

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related to pollution, let's say, but they don't know exactly

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what's related to pollution.

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They can click into our list of topics

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here by clicking them real fast

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and they'll be able to see all of our premade

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topic pages that we've created. So topic

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pages are nice organized pages

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that you can click in and they'll see an overview

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of whatever topic they chose and

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they'll see kind of organized content buckets

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that go through all of the different types of content

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we have available for that topic

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and we've made those for the most used,

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most searched, most studied terms within

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gal and context environmental studies.

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So, if they do decide to go

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this route and kind of browse through our issues, I will mention

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if they don't see something they're looking for.

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If they actually do know something specific, they want

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to take a look at,

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they'll just want to run a search instead of browsing

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through these topics. But this browse issues

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option is really helpful. If they're just looking for

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something kind of popular, they can

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click into

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and you'll see while they're on this browse issues

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page here, they can actually choose different

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topics. So I clicked into pollution,

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but I could also click into maybe legislation

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and organizations. Another really nice

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section is our states and provinces

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section. So if you have, you

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know, students coming into your library maybe need

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to,

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build out a project about their states

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or about you know, some sort of

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environmental issue that's happening in their state.

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They'll be able to do that. They can actually find

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a topic page for their state right here on this

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page and

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pull it forward

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and we do have all 50 states here.

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Now, I'm just going to jump back to home

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so we can all kind of stay on the same page.

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So again, we have all of those browse

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issues options if you, your students prefer

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to browse as opposed to search,

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if your students do prefer to search, if they already

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have a search term in mind. I want to show you

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a nice feature we have. So I'm going to search

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for nuclear energy

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and you'll see when I start typing in here,

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I've got a few different predict

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predictive text entries that are bolded.

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So anytime your users see this drop

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down with these little bolded options, these

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are actually premade topic pages.

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So if your student runs

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a search for nuclear energy here, nuclear

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waste, instead of pulling them to a basic

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search results page, it's actually going to pull them

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to that topic page because

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it's a little more organized for them. So

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let's click into one. We'll click into nuclear

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energy here.

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So this is what our topic page is going to look

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like. So at the top, we have a nice overview.

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I can hit my blue read more button and it'll pull

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forward the full article for me.

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And then underneath that,

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we have our on this page section which is showing

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all of the different content types we

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have related to nuclear energy.

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So you'll see here, we have some academic journals,

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some statistics, news,

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um some audio files, of course, a

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lot of reference

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even some biographies here, which could certainly be

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an interesting thing to kind of dig into.

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So what's great about this on this page section?

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If is, if for whatever reason, maybe we

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didn't have any videos related to nuclear

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energy, this would disappear.

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So your users are only going to see content

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that's actually available on this topic page.

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So it's nice and organized for them. They're not going

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to click into a link that's gonna give them a zero

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results. They're only going to see the options

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that are currently available

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to them. Now,

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when we scroll down a little bit further, you'll see here, we

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have these different contents but content buckets

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listed as I mentioned. So our academic

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journals are pulled out separately. Our case studies

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are separate reference, all that good stuff

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to see if we can scroll all the way down here,

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but we've decided to organize it this way. So

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it's again, really simple for us, your

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users to find content. You know, if they know they

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want to read a news report about

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nuclear energy in Japan or

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about nuclear energy in Michigan,

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they'll be able to go to the news reports

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really simply just click into news and they're

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launched there. So we've decided to kind of pull that

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forward.

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Let's click into one of these content buckets

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though. I'm willing to click into reference

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because maybe I'm a user who's just coming in.

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Um, doesn't really understand what nuclear energy

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is maybe I'm interested in it,

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but I'm just trying to get kind of the basics of

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this topic here. I'm

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gonna click into reference. Now, when I do that, you'll see

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it lists all of my references cut on

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here on this left hand side,

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but there's 556

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reference articles here, which is

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a substantial amount. So we include some

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really great filters on this right hand side here

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to help your users as well. So I definitely

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recommend if you're planning on walking through

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students or if you're a public library, if you have users

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coming in

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and you're trying to walk them through how to use this resource,

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definitely utilize these filters. It's going to make

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it a lot easier to find content. You'll see you can narrow

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it down by subject. So of course,

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we're talking about nuclear energy, but maybe

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we want to talk about the efficiency of nuclear

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energy or maybe we wanna compare fossil fuels

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to nuclear energy. You'll see we can narrow

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this down

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to really get a feel of what we're looking for.

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We can also narrow down the publication date. So

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if we want it to be, you know,

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2020

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we'll be able to do that here. If we like,

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we can also choose the publication title

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if we're in the K 12 arena, anyone on

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the line and you're using Lexile,

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we do have everything lexile in here. So you

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can choose your lexile measure. Of course,

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Most of the content in here is going to be at the higher

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level since this is generally a high school

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and above resource.

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But you do have that option and you also have a search

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within listed here at the very bottom of your filters.

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So this is really nice. Um Again,

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if you have something a little more specific, you want

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to learn about, you can type it into your search

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and then it's just going to run a search through these

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556 reference articles.

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And I will also point out at the top of the page in this

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gray bar here, we actually still have

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all of those different content types that were available

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before. So I don't need to jump back to

[00:13:54.259]
the topic page to get to a different content bucket.

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If I decided now I want to take a look at a video,

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I could just hit right into my videos

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content bucket and you'll see it looks the

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same. I still have all my great filters,

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but now it's my 54 videos listed

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here. Now,

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I want to show you some of the different tools we have available

[00:14:13.200]
while on a document. But before I do,

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I haven't seen any questions pop up in the Q

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and A, but I wanna make sure I'm not missing anything.

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So does anyone have any questions before we get

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some keep moving.

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No. OK,

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no problem. So let's go ahead and keep going. Then

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I'm just going to click into my first reference

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article which is just an overview about

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nuclear energy.

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So scrolling down here, we actually have a lot of

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different tools that are going to be helpful

[00:14:43.418]
for your students. The first thing I want to point out is our explore

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panel which is found here on this right

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hand side, this little gray bar,

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you see this is giving us links to more

[00:14:51.979]
articles that are like this. So if I want to learn

[00:14:54.190]
more kind of in the same

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area, I can take a look here. We

[00:14:58.759]
also have our article content if I wanna just

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click and jump. So if it's a longer article, we

[00:15:02.830]
have that narrowed down.

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But underneath that, we also have these nice

[00:15:06.330]
related subject links. So now

[00:15:08.609]
that I've learned a bit about nuclear energy, maybe

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I want to know,

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you know how the power plants work, I kind of know the

[00:15:14.450]
background of the science. But how do we actually

[00:15:16.750]
leverage that in the real world? I can

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click forward in these related subjects and

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pull more results related to those.

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So instead of having to kind of go back and run another

[00:15:25.509]
search and maybe get lost a little bit, I

[00:15:27.678]
can just point and click and really move my research

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forward. So it's a nice feature found in

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our our articles here. Is this nice explore

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panel. And

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as I mentioned, we also have a full citation

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tool available. You can find that here

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at the top of the page in our little toolbar

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here. When I click this, I could choose

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Mlaap a Chicago or Harvard

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versions

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and I can copy and paste this into my

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work cited. I can also send it over

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to my drives or if I'm using noodle tools

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or easy bib, I can send it there as well.

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And it's also found at the very bottom of

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the article here with that same formatting.

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Will I be able to select it

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and copy and paste it wherever I want

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it to go

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scrolling back up here. In addition to that

[00:16:13.759]
citation tool, we have a few ways for your

[00:16:16.129]
users to actually get this content out of

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the article. So if they want to save

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it for later, if they want to share it with a peer

[00:16:22.548]
or maybe a colleague, if we have adult

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learners coming in,

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they'll be able to hit the send to button here right next

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to the citation tool.

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And that's going to give them the option to send over

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to their Google drive, their onedrive or their

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email. What's great is that they choose

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one of these drives and they're not signed

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in on their browser. It's

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going to prompt them to sign in right here and

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then it'll send it over for them. So they won't need to

[00:16:45.109]
hop off and back on or anything like that.

[00:16:47.340]
So this is a great way for them to save content

[00:16:49.639]
if they want to take a look later

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and it does save with the citation as well.

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So if your users found a nice

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bit of content, but they, you know, they

[00:16:58.649]
didn't pull the citation, it doesn't matter

[00:17:00.820]
as long as they save this article, the citation

[00:17:02.859]
is going to appear at the very bottom of the article

[00:17:05.269]
just like it does on this page.

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In addition to that sent to right next door,

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we also have a download option and a print.

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So if they prefer to have a hard copy or if they want

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to have it on their desktop as a PDF,

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they have those tools here.

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And these three tools are actually found down

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here under the title of the page as well. You see

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we have our Google or Microsoft

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icons as well as email, download and print.

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So these actually do the exact same

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as these three, we've put them in two separate places

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just so hopefully, if

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your users don't notice them in one spot, they'll notice

[00:17:38.439]
in the other. So those actually do

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the same thing and just located in two

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different spots here,

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right next to this print button, we have our

[00:17:46.890]
get link and this actually provides

[00:17:49.019]
us with a persistent URL to whatever

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page we're on. So this is great if

[00:17:53.459]
you want to pop something into a syllabus

[00:17:55.759]
or in a discussion board or you want to

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put it

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a link in a social media post

[00:18:00.689]
that you're sending out to your library patrons.

[00:18:03.059]
You'll be able to just click that, get link,

[00:18:05.430]
copy and paste it where you want to go and your users will

[00:18:07.469]
be able to click in. And again, this is persistent.

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So it's not going to break, it's going to be

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there ready for you. You won't have to check it cons

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constantly, it's gonna be ready to go

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and you'll notice it's actually shorter than what

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you find in the address bar here as well.

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So we always recommend if you want to

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get a link to content for your users,

[00:18:25.559]
use this get link button and don't copy and paste

[00:18:27.719]
out of the address bar.

[00:18:31.779]
Now I'm going to scroll down. We have a highlights and notes

[00:18:33.838]
button, but we'll take a look at that in a second. I

[00:18:35.969]
first want to show you some of the different accessibility

[00:18:38.289]
tools that we have available for users who

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may need

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um some more specialized

[00:18:43.309]
content. So down

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here under the title again, under this kind of dark

[00:18:47.439]
black line, you see we have a few different tools.

[00:18:49.818]
The first one is going to be our translate option.

[00:18:52.328]
When I click it, you'll see here. I have the option to translate

[00:18:54.640]
just this article. So just

[00:18:56.880]
what we're seeing in the text field here. And

[00:18:58.989]
I can also set an interface language

[00:19:01.368]
and that interface language, I'm actually going to click that

[00:19:03.489]
so we can take a look at what that looks like.

[00:19:05.660]
The interface language is going to change all of

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the tools. You'll see my search bars,

[00:19:09.809]
change my explore panel, the titles

[00:19:12.170]
are changed. It's going to change everything

[00:19:14.699]
um aside from the article into whatever

[00:19:16.848]
language I chose, and that actually follows

[00:19:19.140]
your users along throughout the session. So

[00:19:21.420]
if they prefer to navigate through the resource

[00:19:23.910]
in Spanish, they can change it to Spanish

[00:19:26.380]
and it will kind of stay with them throughout the session.

[00:19:29.930]
You'll see at the top here, I can actually change

[00:19:32.019]
this interface language

[00:19:33.759]
by hitting this button here. Let me jump back to English

[00:19:37.130]
so I can actually change the interface in in

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two different sections up top here in the gray

[00:19:41.318]
bar. And in my actual translate

[00:19:43.459]
button where it says set interface language

[00:19:47.009]
next to that, I can also increase or decrease

[00:19:49.348]
the font size

[00:19:51.328]
moving forward. I've got a good

[00:19:53.430]
collection of display options that are going to help

[00:19:55.598]
me kind of really fine tune how I see this information.

[00:19:58.598]
You'll see, I can choose the background color.

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I can choose a font. We do have

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a dyslexia font available for your, your

[00:20:05.479]
users who prefer that.

[00:20:07.029]
And we can also change our line letter and word

[00:20:09.140]
spacing.

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So you see, I can really customize this to

[00:20:13.029]
make it as easy as possible for me to read

[00:20:15.979]
and this follows me along throughout the session as well.

[00:20:18.529]
So when I'm on my first article and I kind of fine

[00:20:20.699]
tune exactly how I want this to be. When

[00:20:22.930]
I click into my next article, it's going to retain

[00:20:25.219]
that formatting.

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I'm going to go back to my default settings today.

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So right next to our display options, we also have

[00:20:32.959]
our listen tool and I'm not sharing my sound

[00:20:35.068]
so you won't be able to hear it. But when I hit

[00:20:37.108]
that listen tool, it pops for this little kind

[00:20:39.549]
of tool bar here and it's going to read

[00:20:41.699]
through the full article to me. I have this

[00:20:43.789]
little hamburger icon here as well

[00:20:46.338]
and this is going to give me some different options

[00:20:48.479]
to change how it's being read. So if I click into my

[00:20:50.588]
settings here,

[00:20:52.160]
you see, I can change if text is being highlighted

[00:20:54.729]
as it's reading, it defaults to highlighting as

[00:20:56.969]
it reads, it's going to highlight the word

[00:20:59.078]
in the sentence, but I could change it to highlighting

[00:21:01.618]
the sentence only or the word

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only. I can also

[00:21:05.900]
choose my highlight colors and you'll see at the

[00:21:07.959]
bottom here, we get a nice little preview. So

[00:21:10.180]
if I hit play with these settings, this is what

[00:21:12.338]
I'm going to see as it's being read,

[00:21:14.539]
it's going to highlight the sentence in this little

[00:21:16.598]
green and then each word as it's reading,

[00:21:18.959]
it will be highlighted in this blue.

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So we can easily change that kind of get

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a feel of what that would look like if we changed it up here.

[00:21:27.019]
Hopefully they're not using all blue because that

[00:21:29.029]
would not be s or all yellow because

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that would not be super great.

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Um But they'll be able to change all of that here and then

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close it out.

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We hit the hamburger icon and again, I do want to mention

[00:21:39.348]
they can also download an MP3

[00:21:41.410]
version of this if they want to take it with them.

[00:21:43.568]
And they can also use this cool and large

[00:21:45.699]
text option. Again, I'm not

[00:21:47.858]
sharing my sound so you won't hear

[00:21:50.059]
it but you'll see at the bottom here. It's pulling

[00:21:52.289]
forward. But what it's reading, remember

[00:21:54.949]
Ily trended everything to yellow. That's why

[00:21:57.049]
it all looked yellow but whatever colors they chose

[00:21:59.539]
under their settings is going to pop for in those

[00:22:01.618]
colors.

[00:22:05.348]
And I'll quick quickly point out our highlight

[00:22:07.489]
to notes feature. It's pretty self explanatory,

[00:22:09.618]
which is nice. But use your users can

[00:22:11.809]
just click and drag over any piece of text they think

[00:22:13.969]
is important.

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Choose a color.

[00:22:17.088]
If they wanna write notes, they can

[00:22:19.949]
and they can save it.

[00:22:22.039]
And this is session based. So you wanna make sure

[00:22:24.059]
if they do decide

[00:22:25.989]
to take highlights and to kind of annotate

[00:22:28.269]
and talk to the text that they

[00:22:30.049]
get the content out of the resource. The best

[00:22:32.098]
way to do that is to

[00:22:33.719]
send this document over to their drives

[00:22:35.900]
or download it or print it.

[00:22:38.180]
If they send it out any of those ways, the

[00:22:40.259]
highlights and then any notes they took are going to

[00:22:42.299]
stay attached to this article here

[00:22:46.239]
and all of the highlights and notes that are taken

[00:22:48.250]
throughout the session are also going to appear

[00:22:50.519]
here under this little highlights and notes button.

[00:22:53.608]
So if I click into this here, you'll see.

[00:22:55.640]
It's showing me what I highlighted with the colors.

[00:22:58.019]
If I hit view all highlights and notes,

[00:23:01.479]
it's going to kind of give me a, a quick

[00:23:03.910]
view of everything I've highlighted in the session.

[00:23:06.180]
So as I went through the session, if I highlighted

[00:23:08.390]
in, you know, three or four articles, they

[00:23:10.630]
would all appear here with the highlights. I took

[00:23:13.029]
the color and any notes

[00:23:15.029]
underneath that, it also provides a nice bibliography

[00:23:17.739]
here. So again, if I had highlighted through three

[00:23:19.880]
or four articles, all of those would appear

[00:23:22.068]
down here below in the bibliography

[00:23:26.189]
and I actually have the ability to send this over

[00:23:28.380]
to my drive as well or download or print

[00:23:30.618]
it. So if I don't want to maybe

[00:23:32.680]
save, you know, three or four articles, it just seems like

[00:23:34.809]
a lot, I can save just this highlight

[00:23:36.930]
to notes page and it actually provides me

[00:23:39.019]
with a persistent URL so I can go back

[00:23:41.219]
to the article if I want to. But

[00:23:43.309]
when I save this all, I'm going to see are these

[00:23:45.459]
kind of key pieces of content that I decided

[00:23:47.739]
are the most important as I was reading through.

[00:23:53.568]
Now, I have one more quick tool. I want to show

[00:23:55.630]
you all before we end our session today.

[00:23:57.910]
And that's our topic finder. So

[00:24:00.078]
that's found um under our filters

[00:24:02.259]
on a search results page, you can find it there. You

[00:24:04.299]
can also find it under our advanced search.

[00:24:06.739]
That's how I'm going to get to it today. So I'm going to click

[00:24:08.949]
into my advanced search button up top here

[00:24:14.009]
and youll see in my gray bar, my search options, I have

[00:24:16.209]
topic finder

[00:24:19.818]
and this tool is really great for helping

[00:24:22.150]
your users find connections between different

[00:24:24.449]
topics. So we'll stick with

[00:24:26.469]
nuclear energy today since that's what we did

[00:24:28.529]
before.

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So when I type in nuclear energy here in my

[00:24:33.699]
topic, Finder search bar,

[00:24:35.430]
it's going to give me this nice interactive

[00:24:38.608]
kind of graphic that's going to let

[00:24:40.630]
me choose something that's related to nuclear

[00:24:42.848]
energy. So this is helping me kind

[00:24:44.880]
of drill down to find a more precise

[00:24:47.029]
topic. This is nice for

[00:24:49.328]
your users who are coming in with big search

[00:24:51.424]
term and you know that they're going to find a lot of content,

[00:24:54.045]
maybe not exactly what they're looking for.

[00:24:56.453]
They can actually start off in topic finder and

[00:24:58.674]
kind of narrow it down. So we

[00:25:00.693]
took a look at nuclear energy and maybe I'm interested

[00:25:03.213]
in countries related to nuclear

[00:25:05.483]
energy. I can take a

[00:25:07.509]
look here and narrow it down.

[00:25:09.219]
I can also reset. Maybe I said, oh, no,

[00:25:11.469]
I actually wanted to learn about atomic energy.

[00:25:14.660]
I can click right into there and pull

[00:25:16.680]
that forward.

[00:25:18.209]
And now you'll see, I have some different entries listed on

[00:25:20.299]
this right hand side that are related to

[00:25:22.368]
what I kind of drilled down to in this

[00:25:24.519]
little, graphic here.

[00:25:26.880]
And you'll see there are 15 results here,

[00:25:28.920]
which of course is going to be much better than

[00:25:30.939]
the thousands or

[00:25:32.969]
tens of thousands of results that I would

[00:25:35.098]
have gotten if I were to just run a really basic

[00:25:37.209]
search. So this is a great way to help

[00:25:39.338]
them drill down to the content they're looking for

[00:25:42.059]
and they can quickly click into one of these entries

[00:25:45.318]
theyre pulled forward. This one looks like is a brief

[00:25:47.400]
article

[00:25:48.939]
they can read through and you see we actually highlight

[00:25:51.779]
their search results here.

[00:25:54.410]
So remember we looked up nuclear energy as

[00:25:56.689]
well as atomic energy was our second step.

[00:25:58.739]
So it really kind of narrowed that down for us.

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Now, do we have any questions today about

[00:26:08.769]
anything we went over the contents,

[00:26:10.809]
the features, the tools, anything

[00:26:13.189]
within gal and context environmental studies,

[00:26:19.750]
I don't see any come up. So I'm going to

[00:26:22.769]
go ahead and provide you with some contact

[00:26:24.858]
information. If you do have questions, keep

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typing them in the Q and A and I'll be able to answer those.

[00:26:29.199]
But while we wait for that, I do have

[00:26:31.380]
some wrap up information for you. If

[00:26:33.539]
you have any questions about today's session

[00:26:35.759]
about the recording or the certificate of

[00:26:37.858]
attendance, feel free to reach

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out to me again. My name is Amber Winters.

[00:26:42.140]
My email is just

[00:26:44.250]
[email protected]

[00:26:46.009]
If you want to talk a little more specifically about

[00:26:48.160]
how you can use this in your learning community

[00:26:50.368]
or in your library, you can reach out to your

[00:26:52.459]
customer success manager and they can work directly

[00:26:54.799]
with you to give you some best practices

[00:26:57.430]
and examples from some of the other

[00:26:59.559]
individuals they work with. If you don't

[00:27:01.828]
know who your customer success manager is,

[00:27:03.868]
just go ahead and send an email to

[00:27:05.969]
[email protected]

[00:27:08.729]
and we'll forward you to the correct individual

[00:27:11.608]
if you don't have Gale In Context: Environmental Studies

[00:27:13.618]
right now, but you want to talk about gaining access,

[00:27:16.318]
you can reach out to your sales consultant. If you

[00:27:18.328]
don't know who that is, you can just go to support.gale.com/repfinder

[00:27:22.578]
and we'll forward you to the correct individual

[00:27:25.709]
if you need some more support materials.

[00:27:27.979]
So if you want to take a look at our other webinars or

[00:27:30.039]
you're looking for a lesson plan or a tip

[00:27:32.130]
sheet or a student activity or a flyer,

[00:27:34.719]
you can go to our support site, which is support.gale.com.

[00:27:37.910]
You'll find a great collection of information there

[00:27:39.969]
for you. And if you have any tech

[00:27:42.239]
questions maybe integrating into your

[00:27:44.289]
learning management system or things like

[00:27:46.410]
that, you can reach out to our technical support

[00:27:48.900]
team. They are available at

[00:27:51.118]
[email protected]

[00:27:55.858]
And now I haven't seen any more questions

[00:27:58.608]
come in.

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So I'm going to go ahead and end off our session today

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and I appreciate everyone for being on the line with

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me and hopefully I'll see you in

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future sessions. Bye bye now.
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