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
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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
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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
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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
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articles that are like this. So if I want to learn
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more kind of in the same
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area, I can take a look here. We
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also have our article content if I wanna just
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click and jump. So if it's a longer article, we
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have that narrowed down.
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But underneath that, we also have these nice
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related subject links. So now
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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
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background of the science. But how do we actually
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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
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search and maybe get lost a little bit, I
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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
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citation tool, we have a few ways for your
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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
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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
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hop off and back on or anything like that.
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So this is a great way for them to save content
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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
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didn't pull the citation, it doesn't matter
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as long as they save this article, the citation
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is going to appear at the very bottom of the article
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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
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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
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get link and this actually provides
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us with a persistent URL to whatever
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page we're on. So this is great if
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you want to pop something into a syllabus
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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
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that you're sending out to your library patrons.
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You'll be able to just click that, get link,
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copy and paste it where you want to go and your users will
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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,
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use this get link button and don't copy and paste
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out of the address bar.
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Now I'm going to scroll down. We have a highlights and notes
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button, but we'll take a look at that in a second. I
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first want to show you some of the different accessibility
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tools that we have available for users who
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may need
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um some more specialized
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content. So down
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here under the title again, under this kind of dark
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black line, you see we have a few different tools.
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The first one is going to be our translate option.
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When I click it, you'll see here. I have the option to translate
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just this article. So just
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what we're seeing in the text field here. And
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I can also set an interface language
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and that interface language, I'm actually going to click that
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so we can take a look at what that looks like.
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The interface language is going to change all of
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the tools. You'll see my search bars,
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change my explore panel, the titles
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are changed. It's going to change everything
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um aside from the article into whatever
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language I chose, and that actually follows
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your users along throughout the session. So
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if they prefer to navigate through the resource
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in Spanish, they can change it to Spanish
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and it will kind of stay with them throughout the session.
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You'll see at the top here, I can actually change
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this interface language
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by hitting this button here. Let me jump back to English
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so I can actually change the interface in in
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two different sections up top here in the gray
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bar. And in my actual translate
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button where it says set interface language
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next to that, I can also increase or decrease
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the font size
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moving forward. I've got a good
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collection of display options that are going to help
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me kind of really fine tune how I see this information.
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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
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users who prefer that.
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And we can also change our line letter and word
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spacing.
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So you see, I can really customize this to
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make it as easy as possible for me to read
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and this follows me along throughout the session as well.
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So when I'm on my first article and I kind of fine
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tune exactly how I want this to be. When
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I click into my next article, it's going to retain
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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
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our listen tool and I'm not sharing my sound
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so you won't be able to hear it. But when I hit
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that listen tool, it pops for this little kind
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of tool bar here and it's going to read
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through the full article to me. I have this
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little hamburger icon here as well
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and this is going to give me some different options
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to change how it's being read. So if I click into my
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settings here,
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you see, I can change if text is being highlighted
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as it's reading, it defaults to highlighting as
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it reads, it's going to highlight the word
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in the sentence, but I could change it to highlighting
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the sentence only or the word
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only. I can also
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choose my highlight colors and you'll see at the
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bottom here, we get a nice little preview. So
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if I hit play with these settings, this is what
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I'm going to see as it's being read,
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it's going to highlight the sentence in this little
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green and then each word as it's reading,
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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.
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Hopefully they're not using all blue because that
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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
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they can also download an MP3
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version of this if they want to take it with them.
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And they can also use this cool and large
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text option. Again, I'm not
[00:21:47.858]
sharing my sound so you won't hear
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it but you'll see at the bottom here. It's pulling
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forward. But what it's reading, remember
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Ily trended everything to yellow. That's why
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it all looked yellow but whatever colors they chose
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under their settings is going to pop for in those
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colors.
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And I'll quick quickly point out our highlight
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to notes feature. It's pretty self explanatory,
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which is nice. But use your users can
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just click and drag over any piece of text they think
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is important.
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Choose a color.
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If they wanna write notes, they can
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and they can save it.
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And this is session based. So you wanna make sure
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if they do decide
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to take highlights and to kind of annotate
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and talk to the text that they
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get the content out of the resource. The best
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way to do that is to
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send this document over to their drives
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or download it or print it.
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If they send it out any of those ways, the
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highlights and then any notes they took are going to
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stay attached to this article here
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and all of the highlights and notes that are taken
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throughout the session are also going to appear
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here under this little highlights and notes button.
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So if I click into this here, you'll see.
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It's showing me what I highlighted with the colors.
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If I hit view all highlights and notes,
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it's going to kind of give me a, a quick
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view of everything I've highlighted in the session.
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So as I went through the session, if I highlighted
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in, you know, three or four articles, they
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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
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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
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kind of key pieces of content that I decided
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are the most important as I was reading through.
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Now, I have one more quick tool. I want to show
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you all before we end our session today.
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And that's our topic finder. So
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that's found um under our filters
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on a search results page, you can find it there. You
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can also find it under our advanced search.
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That's how I'm going to get to it today. So I'm going to click
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into my advanced search button up top here
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and youll see in my gray bar, my search options, I have
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topic finder
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and this tool is really great for helping
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your users find connections between different
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topics. So we'll stick with
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nuclear energy today since that's what we did
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before.
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So when I type in nuclear energy here in my
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topic, Finder search bar,
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it's going to give me this nice interactive
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kind of graphic that's going to let
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me choose something that's related to nuclear
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energy. So this is helping me kind
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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
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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
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kind of narrow it down. So we
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took a look at nuclear energy and maybe I'm interested
[00:25:03.213]
in countries related to nuclear
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energy. I can take a
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look here and narrow it down.
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I can also reset. Maybe I said, oh, no,
[00:25:11.469]
I actually wanted to learn about atomic energy.
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I can click right into there and pull
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that forward.
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And now you'll see, I have some different entries listed on
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this right hand side that are related to
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what I kind of drilled down to in this
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little, graphic here.
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And you'll see there are 15 results here,
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which of course is going to be much better than
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the thousands or
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tens of thousands of results that I would
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have gotten if I were to just run a really basic
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search. So this is a great way to help
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them drill down to the content they're looking for
[00:25:42.059]
and they can quickly click into one of these entries
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theyre pulled forward. This one looks like is a brief
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article
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they can read through and you see we actually highlight
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their search results here.
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So remember we looked up nuclear energy as
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well as atomic energy was our second step.
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So it really kind of narrowed that down for us.
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Now, do we have any questions today about
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anything we went over the contents,
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the features, the tools, anything
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within gal and context environmental studies,
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I don't see any come up. So I'm going to
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go ahead and provide you with some contact
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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.
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But while we wait for that, I do have
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some wrap up information for you. If
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you have any questions about today's session
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about the recording or the certificate of
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attendance, feel free to reach
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out to me again. My name is Amber Winters.
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My email is just
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[email protected]
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If you want to talk a little more specifically about
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how you can use this in your learning community
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or in your library, you can reach out to your
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customer success manager and they can work directly
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with you to give you some best practices
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and examples from some of the other
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individuals they work with. If you don't
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know who your customer success manager is,
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just go ahead and send an email to
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[email protected]
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and we'll forward you to the correct individual
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if you don't have Gale In Context: Environmental Studies
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right now, but you want to talk about gaining access,
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you can reach out to your sales consultant. If you
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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
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if you need some more support materials.
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So if you want to take a look at our other webinars or
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you're looking for a lesson plan or a tip
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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
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for you. And if you have any tech
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questions maybe integrating into your
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learning management system or things like
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that, you can reach out to our technical support
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team. They are available at
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[email protected]
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And now I haven't seen any more questions
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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.
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
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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
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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
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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
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articles that are like this. So if I want to learn
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more kind of in the same
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area, I can take a look here. We
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also have our article content if I wanna just
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click and jump. So if it's a longer article, we
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have that narrowed down.
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But underneath that, we also have these nice
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related subject links. So now
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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
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background of the science. But how do we actually
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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
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search and maybe get lost a little bit, I
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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
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citation tool, we have a few ways for your
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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
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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
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hop off and back on or anything like that.
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So this is a great way for them to save content
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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
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didn't pull the citation, it doesn't matter
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as long as they save this article, the citation
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is going to appear at the very bottom of the article
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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
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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
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get link and this actually provides
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us with a persistent URL to whatever
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page we're on. So this is great if
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you want to pop something into a syllabus
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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
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that you're sending out to your library patrons.
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You'll be able to just click that, get link,
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copy and paste it where you want to go and your users will
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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,
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use this get link button and don't copy and paste
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out of the address bar.
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Now I'm going to scroll down. We have a highlights and notes
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button, but we'll take a look at that in a second. I
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first want to show you some of the different accessibility
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tools that we have available for users who
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may need
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um some more specialized
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content. So down
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here under the title again, under this kind of dark
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black line, you see we have a few different tools.
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The first one is going to be our translate option.
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When I click it, you'll see here. I have the option to translate
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just this article. So just
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what we're seeing in the text field here. And
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I can also set an interface language
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and that interface language, I'm actually going to click that
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so we can take a look at what that looks like.
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The interface language is going to change all of
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the tools. You'll see my search bars,
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change my explore panel, the titles
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are changed. It's going to change everything
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um aside from the article into whatever
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language I chose, and that actually follows
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your users along throughout the session. So
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if they prefer to navigate through the resource
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in Spanish, they can change it to Spanish
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and it will kind of stay with them throughout the session.
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You'll see at the top here, I can actually change
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this interface language
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by hitting this button here. Let me jump back to English
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so I can actually change the interface in in
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two different sections up top here in the gray
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bar. And in my actual translate
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button where it says set interface language
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next to that, I can also increase or decrease
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the font size
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moving forward. I've got a good
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collection of display options that are going to help
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me kind of really fine tune how I see this information.
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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
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users who prefer that.
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And we can also change our line letter and word
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spacing.
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So you see, I can really customize this to
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make it as easy as possible for me to read
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and this follows me along throughout the session as well.
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So when I'm on my first article and I kind of fine
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tune exactly how I want this to be. When
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I click into my next article, it's going to retain
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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
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our listen tool and I'm not sharing my sound
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so you won't be able to hear it. But when I hit
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that listen tool, it pops for this little kind
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of tool bar here and it's going to read
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through the full article to me. I have this
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little hamburger icon here as well
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and this is going to give me some different options
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to change how it's being read. So if I click into my
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settings here,
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you see, I can change if text is being highlighted
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as it's reading, it defaults to highlighting as
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it reads, it's going to highlight the word
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in the sentence, but I could change it to highlighting
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the sentence only or the word
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only. I can also
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choose my highlight colors and you'll see at the
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bottom here, we get a nice little preview. So
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if I hit play with these settings, this is what
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I'm going to see as it's being read,
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it's going to highlight the sentence in this little
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green and then each word as it's reading,
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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.
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Hopefully they're not using all blue because that
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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
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they can also download an MP3
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version of this if they want to take it with them.
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And they can also use this cool and large
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text option. Again, I'm not
[00:21:47.858]
sharing my sound so you won't hear
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it but you'll see at the bottom here. It's pulling
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forward. But what it's reading, remember
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Ily trended everything to yellow. That's why
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it all looked yellow but whatever colors they chose
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under their settings is going to pop for in those
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colors.
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And I'll quick quickly point out our highlight
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to notes feature. It's pretty self explanatory,
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which is nice. But use your users can
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just click and drag over any piece of text they think
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is important.
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Choose a color.
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If they wanna write notes, they can
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and they can save it.
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And this is session based. So you wanna make sure
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if they do decide
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to take highlights and to kind of annotate
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and talk to the text that they
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get the content out of the resource. The best
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way to do that is to
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send this document over to their drives
[00:22:35.900]
or download it or print it.
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If they send it out any of those ways, the
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highlights and then any notes they took are going to
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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
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here under this little highlights and notes button.
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So if I click into this here, you'll see.
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It's showing me what I highlighted with the colors.
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If I hit view all highlights and notes,
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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
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in, you know, three or four articles, they
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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
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save, you know, three or four articles, it just seems like
[00:23:34.809]
a lot, I can save just this highlight
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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
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kind of key pieces of content that I decided
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are the most important as I was reading through.
[00:23:53.568]
Now, I have one more quick tool. I want to show
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you all before we end our session today.
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And that's our topic finder. So
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that's found um under our filters
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on a search results page, you can find it there. You
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can also find it under our advanced search.
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That's how I'm going to get to it today. So I'm going to click
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into my advanced search button up top here
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and youll see in my gray bar, my search options, I have
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topic finder
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and this tool is really great for helping
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your users find connections between different
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topics. So we'll stick with
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nuclear energy today since that's what we did
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before.
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So when I type in nuclear energy here in my
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topic, Finder search bar,
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it's going to give me this nice interactive
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kind of graphic that's going to let
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me choose something that's related to nuclear
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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
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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
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kind of narrow it down. So we
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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
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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.
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I can click right into there and pull
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that forward.
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And now you'll see, I have some different entries listed on
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this right hand side that are related to
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what I kind of drilled down to in this
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little, graphic here.
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And you'll see there are 15 results here,
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which of course is going to be much better than
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the thousands or
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tens of thousands of results that I would
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have gotten if I were to just run a really basic
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search. So this is a great way to help
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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
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article
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they can read through and you see we actually highlight
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their search results here.
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So remember we looked up nuclear energy as
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well as atomic energy was our second step.
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So it really kind of narrowed that down for us.
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Now, do we have any questions today about
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anything we went over the contents,
[00:26:10.809]
the features, the tools, anything
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within gal and context environmental studies,
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I don't see any come up. So I'm going to
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go ahead and provide you with some contact
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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
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some wrap up information for you. If
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you have any questions about today's session
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about the recording or the certificate of
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attendance, feel free to reach
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out to me again. My name is Amber Winters.
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My email is just
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[email protected]
[00:26:46.009]
If you want to talk a little more specifically about
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how you can use this in your learning community
[00:26:50.368]
or in your library, you can reach out to your
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customer success manager and they can work directly
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with you to give you some best practices
[00:26:57.430]
and examples from some of the other
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individuals they work with. If you don't
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know who your customer success manager is,
[00:27:03.868]
just go ahead and send an email to
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[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
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right now, but you want to talk about gaining access,
[00:27:16.318]
you can reach out to your sales consultant. If you
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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.
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So if you want to take a look at our other webinars or
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you're looking for a lesson plan or a tip
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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
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[email protected]
[00:27:55.858]
And now I haven't seen any more questions
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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.