Duration: 45 Minutes
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Welcome to your training for the Florida Electronic Library. Today's session is kindergarten through fifth grade school success, exploring Gale In Context Elementary. My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale.
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And I've had the pleasure of training folks in
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In person and virtually for a number of years and I look forward to training you all today on not only Gale and Context Elementary.
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But how this resource supports the curriculum and curriculum searches, the content that's available, great multimedia within this resource, all available to supplement
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or support the curriculum. You'll also find this is safe vetted content available within this resource and it does truly encourage a love of learning. We know at this age
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that students are very inquisitive and curious and this resource, the platform itself is very user friendly.
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And students love to access the information, again, exploring those topics that they're interested in or that they're learning about in class.
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Any questions that you have throughout today's training, please feel free to use the Q&A box.
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First, we're going to start with access and an overview of Gale In Context Elementary.
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So I always like to share the access point. It's very easy if you are in the state of Florida to access that information on the FEEL
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site or feel portal.
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all of your digital resources are available there.
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But you also have access to direct URLs for your individual libraries. So if you would like to use those, which I do suggest because if you're looking to track usage.
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You want to see maybe top search terms, see what resources are being accessed the most.
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It can even help build your collection if you're looking to build out your collection. Those usage reports are very visual and
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are very helpful to you all as you are doing any of those items or maybe a
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a review of your resources, that's always a helpful tool too or to see if did my programming, my outreach or what's happening in the schools
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Did I see an effect? Did it boost this resource?
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So always great information to have and that's why using your direct URLs, you're able to capture that for your specific library.
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We're going to be spending the majority of our time browsing and searching through content, and I'm going to share with you also the resource features and tools
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that are available in Gale In Context Elementary. Any questions, please feel free to ask.
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You can also ask at the end, I will stay on at the end of today's training and answer any additional questions. And of course, you'll have my contact information
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At the end of today's training, I will also share your Gale Customer Success Manager, their inbox, so you can reach out to them directly.
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And ask any questions that you have. They are your one-on-one support. They are post-sales support. They are just there to make sure that you get the most out of your Gale resources.
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And their information will also be in the follow-up email that I send to you. So you'll have it
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multiple times if you'd like to reach out to them.
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Accessing your FEL resources, you can go through the Florida Electronic Library site.
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I actually just received in the last couple months a little bit of a facelift. So you're going to see
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Some new changes there when you access the site. I think it looks beautiful, done a great job, and hopefully you feel the same way when you're accessing that information. This is what it looks like now.
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So we've got our elementary is where we're going today. So elementary, middle school, high school, college, right on the home page, but you still have the ability to browse
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resources by these areas here below.
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And then we have some featured resources at the bottom of the page and these will change out depending on
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What is being utilized in the Florida Electronic Library?
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So let's talk a little bit about Gale In Context Elementary.
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Gale In Context Elementary is cross-curricular. It's designed for kindergarten through fifth grade students.
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You will find great tools and features within this resource. The content allows users to search through over 16,000 images
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We also have videos and charts and graphs available in Gale In Context Elementary. So rich multimedia available.
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We have interface dictation. So we do have the ability to toggle the sound on and off. That really helps students navigate through this resource. It'll read wherever their mouse lands, it'll read that text.
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And I'll model that for you today.
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And then we have our I wonder questions. And these are updated daily. You'll see that they really do encourage that inquisitiveness and spark curiosity, especially with our younger users.
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And then to access the content, we have a very visual topic tree, and this helps students visually find that content related to their search.
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So it's in this resource.
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According to our analytics, the
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elementary students are pointing and clicking almost 100% of the time. So the topic tree is very visual.
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We kept that in mind when we did the redesign a couple years ago.
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And we want to make sure it's as user-friendly as possible.
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for our younger users. So they are pointing and clicking and using these topic
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Topic categories on the home page and drilling down through that topic tree as they explore that content and look for information that they are interested in.
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to support the experience, we also have rich content available in books. So the Florida Electronic Library has purchased a selection
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of K-5 ebooks.
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And they do live here also. So what we've done is we've integrated them into Gale In Context Elementary so that it's more of a one-stop shop for your younger users. They do still exist.
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In the Gale eBooks platform, but they're also here because we did want to make it as simple as possible for students to access all of that information. So you'll see them on the home page linked out as
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As you're seeing in the screenshot, but they will also show up in your search results if they apply to the term that you're searching.
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Or if you've used the topic tree and maybe you're on a topic page, same idea. You'll see those books
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If there are any available, they will show up in the search results.
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News is from publications that are designed and written for kids. You'll also find all of our fun facts under the news tab.
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Pictures are a great way to enhance research and presentation. So it's a great way for project students to use the pictures and anything they're doing in school.
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They can quickly search using a term or scroll through and look at the images themselves. Of course, these are also going to show up in search results.
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But we put them here on the home page because that was an ask by our teachers.
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that they could easily, the students could easily get to those pictures and images, infographics, illustrations, diagrams, everything that we have available.
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And then the last section is videos. So to further engage those young learners, we have all kinds of videos available.
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to support their learning, safe, authenticated
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videos with closed captioning and also transcripts available for all of them.
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We have great topic overview pages, so from the homepage, if I select animals, I do get this high level
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piece of information at the top
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And it's just an overview of that topic.
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From there, I have my visual topic tree where I can drill down and easily explore content.
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under those subjects, like say mammals, for example.
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Once I select a topic page, so once I've gone into one of those subtopics.
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and select a topic page.
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I'm provided with, at the top, we have a topic overview. So an image and topic overview. So it's a high level overview of the topic with summaries
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And it's written at student level, at the student's level. And we have two levels available, a level one and a level two, and those are our content levels.
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Content levels are related to Lexile measure, and I'm going to share all of that with you today.
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So that you know what you have available in the resource and how you can quickly find that content that is at
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the student's reading level.
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We also have quick facts in the center of the topic page on every topic page. And these really provide those ready to use
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Information, it's perfect for student reports, general interests
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to, again, when that sparking that curiosity even further.
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We have a very powerful platform with leveled content, as I mentioned in the last screen.
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one of those topic overviews, we have leveled content. You can see level one or level two. I can change this content.
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And change the text on the page to a higher level if I need that or lower level if I need that. I can also filter all of my content
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by content level, which is very easy to do.
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When you are in a topic page or in search results, you'll find the ability to filter.
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all of your content down and you can filter it by content level or Lexile measure.
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Highlights and notes is a great feature that allows students to annotate and track questions and ideas.
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It's a way to highlight within the text and they can save just their highlights and notes or they can save their entire
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documents, very easily send that to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive.
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They can listen and translate articles. We're at over 50 languages, actually 57 languages.
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So they can translate the text
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On the page into over 57 languages.
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And they can also listen to the text being read aloud to them in 27 different languages.
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or don't have as many of the read aloud, but it is the ones that are used most often that you're going to find there.
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for that read aloud feature.
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or text-to-speech feature.
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A few tools I want you to keep in mind before we jump into Gale In Context Elementary.
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You have the ability to share and save content using the GitLink tool.
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You can provide you with a persistent URL back to any spot within the resource.
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So you can share that URL.
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On your library page, you can share, your teachers can share it in lesson plans or with parents or maybe in a newsletter.
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Anywhere that they want students to be able to access that content, you can use
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the get link tool and I'll model that for you today and talk to you a little further about how it can be used.
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You also have the ability to share content directly to Google Classroom.
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It's very simple to do right from within the resource. And then sending information to Google and Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive is also very simple.
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Including even after I've used my highlights and notes tool and marked up the document, I can send that
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directly to my Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive.
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We have great tools available to support accessibility, like the translate feature, as I mentioned, but you also have the ability to increase the font size.
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Listen to the text. And then we have display options, including the ability to change the color behind the text.
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And also change the font. We even have open dyslexic available.
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So again, meeting those varying needs of students
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To encourage analysis, highlights, and notes, I briefly mentioned that, and this really does promote that deeper learning with color coding and annotation.
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It's a feature that's available within all of your Gale resources.
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And then to develop research skills or develop those early research skills, we have the topic tree, as I mentioned before.
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In this resource, very easy to find content. Those topic pages are curated collections of information. We look at usage, but we also look at curriculum, both state and national standards.
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And our subject matter specialists and content editors are the ones that develop and create those topic pages.
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Our citations are attached to every document, image, video, everything that is available within your Gale resources, but you also have the citation tool separately.
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that you can utilize to just grab the citation so
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I'll model that for you today. Also, and hopefully that is a mini lesson that maybe you are teaching your upper elementary students.
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We're also integrated with learning management systems. So if you are using Canvas or Schoology in your buildings.
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You can add your Gale resources, even the ones from the Florida Electronic Library, right into
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those resources. So it provides that single sign-on capability for students, but it also is a very easy way for teachers
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to embed content directly into an assignment, into a discussion, onto a page.
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right from within, if they access through their learning management system
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they'll be able to embed that content directly into any of those areas I just mentioned.
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So it's a really seamless way for students
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find content where they are learning and also
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For teachers, it helps them supplement the curriculum in a place where they are sharing information with their students or creating assignments for their students.
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There is some setup on the backside.
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And our CSMs can help direct you to that information and helping or your tech folks if you want to introduce your tech folks.
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to our technology folks, they can help with that process.
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All right, let's jump into the resources. We'll come back to Gale's support at the end of today's training
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Before I jump in, I do want to share with you that you do have a Florida Electronic Library Gale support site.
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And let me just share that what it looks like with you. I'm going to post this
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URL in the chat.
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So that you can access that. So this is a really good spot to bookmark. You can very easily find your library name. You can see all of the upcoming webinars that we have. Here's today's. This will drop off after today's session.
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But below, we also have the resources, ebooks, all of the training materials and marketing materials available. And I'll talk a little bit more about this at the end of today's training.
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Let's jump right into Gale In Context Elementary.
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Again, if you have any questions, please feel free to use that Q&A box.
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I've already signed in with Google at the top of the page, so Google and Microsoft.
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in Google Classroom. Now, when you are
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want to meet students where they're learning using Google Classroom or sending information to your Google Drive and sharing it with students or to your OneDrive, sharing it with students.
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is going to be a really helpful tool and we try to make it as easy as possible within this resource.
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Not only that, but we have the ability to translate the platform into multiple languages. So again, meeting students where they're learning and meeting their varying needs
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You have up to 34 languages that you can translate the platform into. So that would translate
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all of my navigational tools.
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As you can see here, I just translated everything to Italian and it'll help me navigate through the resource.
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Go back to English.
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At the top of my page, I have my basic search and advanced search. Over to the right in my contextual toolbar, I have the ability to toggle the sound on and off.
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Browse all of my topics. I have a title list. Search history is session based.
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And then I have my get link tool and highlights and notes, which we'll talk more about those later.
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Toggling the sound on and off, let me do that for you.
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Pictures. News.
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I wonder. What year was Abraham Lincoln first elected president?
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Pictures.
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So you can see how this tool
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helps your students navigate through the resource and it's separate than
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are the ability to listen to the text being read aloud when they're at the document level.
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The first category, subject category we are in is
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topics and you can see all of the topics we have below
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If I go into animals
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You can see that high level piece of information at the top.
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I can quickly jump into mammals, part of your curriculum.
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Again, high level piece of information
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And then below we have topic pages on
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a variety of mammals.
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Now, we do have cats and dogs.
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Always top searches or always, I should say top
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topic pages that students are accessing, they love to learn about their pets.
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And I will say, especially in Florida, we'll see a little bit of a spike during shark week and sharks.
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So keep that in mind. But it's always great to see what students are searching for.
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And what they're exploring, especially if you're looking to curate a collection of information in your library, maybe you're pulling some books together.
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That's why using your direct URLs can be really helpful because you can see what's happening at your library.
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At that high level piece of information. It's not the individual you're not going to see that this individual student searched for this item, but you'll see that in your usage reports.
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at least those top topics that are being searched for.
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at your library.
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All right, let's go back to that home page. If you have any questions again, please feel free to ask in the Q&A box
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If I go to books, it takes me to my entire book collection.
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Now I am accessing through the Florida Electronic Library's site. So these are all of the ebooks that they have purchased.
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for all of the schools.
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And you may have more. You may have additional Gale ebooks that you've purchased through your school or your district.
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And you would see those also loaded onto this account. So they would all be in one spot.
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When I click into a title
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It's going to load here a second. It does give me a PDF of that title.
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So you can see it takes me beyond
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the first couple pages. So it took me past the front cover and the title page and the copyright page and the table of contents took me
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directly into that content. And that was an ask by our teachers
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So that students are accessing that content right away.
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I can turn the page.
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I can also listen to this text being read aloud. I can zoom in and zoom out.
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I could make this whole screen, let me make it whole screen and show you.
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So this is what it looks like whole screen.
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I still have my tools up top.
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So if I want to listen to the text being read aloud.
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And this is our new read speaker. It does take a little
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They mainly live in forests in parts of Russia.
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Colossal cats.
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So it does take just a couple seconds longer to load.
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Let me go back.
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Tap again and it'll take me to the next page.
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Over to the left, we have that table of contents.
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We also have the dictionary.
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I'm sorry, you can search within and then the dictionary. So I can search within for a term.
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Or if I am struggling with a word, I can use the pull
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that information from the Webster's Elementary Dictionary.
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This will take me to the additional books I have available.
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And that's just in the subject category of environment
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So from this particular bookshelf
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And then the last one is the citation information.
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I also have the text view available.
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Text view looks a little different because it's focusing on the text, but at this point I can
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have it read aloud to me. I can also translate the text. Now what I've noticed that it does do
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is it puts the text on one page and then the next page is the image.
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A little bit different than when I'll show you through a topic page.
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what it looks like, it looks a little bit different here.
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So let me
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go back out to that home page.
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There we go. News articles. It takes us to the news articles at the top of the page and below are the fun facts.
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And this is for this month.
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It's bald eagles Month this month
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I don't know if you knew that.
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You also have pictures available.
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And as you can see, we've got a lot. We must be adding more recently, a lot of infographics.
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We have available, but we also have great images available too. So for example, if I do a search on plants.
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it will pull back all of these great images and also illustrations.
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So we do have both labeled and unlabeled illustrations available within this resource. Plants is a topic that is part of your curriculum.
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One that's studied often. So you can see we have multiple pages
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of content to support.
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plants and trees and all of that great information that you're studying.
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If I go to videos
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Refresh my screens. Videos.
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I can see it's still pulling in my plant
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search for some reason.
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There we go.
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Okay, there we go so
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Same idea for videos. I can put in any
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Like if I'm interested in the
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Let's do space, see what we can.
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With space, you can see some of the videos I have available. Most of them are shorter videos, but we do have some longer ones that have been added recently.
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So you're going to find those available.
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In the resource. Anytime I want to go back to that homepage, I just click into the banner.
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And it takes me right back to the home page.
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All right, so we talked a little bit about plants, so let's dive into
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Well, before we do that, let's go to geography because part of your curriculum is learning about Florida.
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So if we go to US states, so I clicked on geography
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I'm going to US states.
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And we'll go directly to Florida.
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We have an image and topic overview at the top of the page.
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We have some quick facts about Florida.
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Below that, we have our book articles, magazines, newspapers, biographies, lots of pictures, including infographics like this one.
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Which is part of your curriculum, learning about the Florida state symbols
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And this would be a great one to share with students
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Very easy to pull it into Google Classroom.
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So one way to do that is to sign in with Google.
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And then I can click on Google Classroom.
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Select my class.
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Choose my action.
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Maybe I want them to, let's just make an announcement.
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Click Go.
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put in whatever message I want my students
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to receive. I can even assign this to a particular group of students.
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So this is also great when you're for differentiating
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In your classroom or scaffolding in the classroom, because when you're working with small groups of students that maybe do need that additional support, you can scaffold the information
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that you're providing for them. Give them that smaller piece of the pie of information that you have available on the state of Florida.
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And that helps support their learning.
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in a place where they feel comfortable are accessing that information regularly if they're using Google Classroom. And then in that small group setting, even if it's
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a virtual setting. I can post that once I post it.
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I have the opportunity to view.
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And it will open in a new tab when I click View.
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right here at the top, and it does take a couple seconds before it generates.
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And there I have access to those Florida state symbols.
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I open that up and it takes me right to that exact spot.
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You're in the state of Florida, so you are automatically being geo authenticated, meaning that your students will not be prompted
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For a password, they will be able to go directly into that content.
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Because what it's doing is looking at their location, even if they're at home.
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And authenticating them and providing them direct access into the resource.
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That's always a question I receive and I always want to make sure I cover it because every state is a little different, to be honest with you.
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Okay, so back to the resource.
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Again, we were just taking a look at some of those infographics for our topic page on the state of Florida.
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Below that, we do have some related topics and looking at surrounding states that you have with Alabama and Georgia and talking about the Seminole Indians there.
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But great images outside of those infographics, we also have great images available and these images have captions.
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And they can be used if students are using them in projects or maybe they have a poster that they're working on and they want to utilize the images in the resource.
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That's great. Hopefully you're also talking to them about source citation
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Because that's part of it. These are available for students to use in any of their schoolwork.
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All right, let's go back out to the homepage. Anytime I want to go to the homepage, I can either click on the banner
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Or you can see I can use my breadcrumb trail here.
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I'm going to use the banner.
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So we talked about geography.
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We have great
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Biographical information.
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available for people.
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from historic figures
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to athletes and artists.
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to our US presidents and scientists and inventors.
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We also have, going back to our home page
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Under literature.
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you're going to find authors reading and writing language, literary genres, books and stories.
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Going into literary genres.
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Information on Greek mythology and graphic novels and fairy tales.
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Legends and poetry, short stories and science fiction all available here. Difference between fiction and nonfiction.
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Under social studies.
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So you can see we have
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Explorers, again U.S. presidents, so you might see some of our
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topics in multiple
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places because they do apply to social studies, US presidents applies here too
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As does historic figures.
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But we have information on explorers and world holidays and world history.
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Along with US history.
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and so many other topics.
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So a lot of great content available and you can see how easy it is to drill down and find that content.
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Now, plants is a part of every curriculum, so I always like to share this one and you can see
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Not as many subject categories here because it is a smaller focus.
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You could see we have plant related subjects. We also have trees and types of plants.
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talking a little bit about plants at that high level.
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Below, we have
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information, all kinds of information on different types of plants
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And then we also have our I Wonder question. And since we're on plants, the question relates to
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plants. I'm going to go into types of plants
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Again, we have that image and topic overview. I'm going to click on keep reading.
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And this is going to share with you how we have level one and level two now.
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Our level one is generally lower elementary. Our level two is generally upper elementary.
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We do have some words to know.
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And so we have some vocabulary words here available on the level one.
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And then we have our article.
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If I scroll back up.
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our level two
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This one has main ideas.
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And then goes into our article.
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Over to the right, I have my tools to support accessibility.
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So we have our listen option where I can listen to the text being read aloud to me.
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Again, it takes a couple seconds to load.
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Types of plants
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I have some features.
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I just paused that. I have some features under the more button.
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some settings. So it does highlight the word in blue and the sentence in green. If I wanted to change that, you can see the choices I have available. I can also change the text color.
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I can change the highlighting options completely if I just want the sentence or the word or no highlighting at all, I have that option available.
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At the very top, I have the ability to slow down the speed.
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or speed it up.
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These features apply to this text box. So if I increase the
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font size, it's just going to increase the font size in this text box.
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Another feature I have available under the More button is the ability to enlarge the text.
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So all I have to do is toggle this on and this will stick with me throughout my session. So once I turn it on in my very first document, every time I click the listen button
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The enlarged text option will appear. And I love this for younger students because you have many emergent readers.
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And it pulls that text out onto the page. So let me show you what it looks like.
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Northern giant horsetails
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it adds this text box at the bottom of the page.
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I can increase that font size.
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And this also, this feature also applies to your ebook. So even though the ebooks are in that PDF format.
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If I were to click on that
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listen button and open the enlarged text, I would still have this feature.
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So it can't highlight the PDF version of that ebook
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It can in the text view, but in the book view it can't. But you can use this feature
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If you wanted to still get that book view, but also listen to the text and see it being read aloud to you. So keep that in mind that you have that feature available.
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I can also decrease that font size.
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But most often they want to increase and then click play and it'll continue
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Northern giant horsetails are a type of fern.
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It'll continue to read its reading, this caption right now. Read down the page.
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I can also download this as an MP3 if I don't have internet access
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At home, I can listen to it on my device. We are mobile responsive though, so if students are accessing from phones.
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I'm not sure how much, probably more than I would like to believe is happening at the elementary level where students are having
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Phones at a younger age
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I know I tried to hold off for quite some time with my kids and it was not elementary school, but I know we're seeing more of them now at that younger level.
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But it is available even on their parents. If their parents are accessing these resources, they want to download this as an MP3 so students can listen to it. They can do that right here.
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Let me know if you have any questions on that functionality.
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We have the ability to, let me go to a document that has a little bit more
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Text.
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Let's see if this one does. Now we have images at the top. I wanted to share with you a little bit more text-heavy document.
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So I can model. We do have some
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You can see book articles to the left and books to the right. These are the ebooks part of the collection that you have. If you do not see a books section.
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then that is because there are no e-books for that topic. So FEL or your school library
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has not purchased books for that collection. So that's why if you don't see it, that's why.
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But you will have book articles available.
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Let me go into a biography maybe that'll
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might give me an image at the top again. Yeah. Okay. Let's just run with it. I wanted to share with you the ability to increase and decrease the font size.
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it still does even with this text box at the top.
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I have display options.
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That's the next one where I can change the color behind the text.
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I can choose from these four different fonts, including open dyslexic.
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And for those students that
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may need it with this font or without this font.
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They can increase their line letter and word spacing. Great for students that are having any tracking issues.
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I know my son was one of those students and now he's a sophomore in college.
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So it did not slow him down but
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It would have been a very helpful tool, especially when reading digitally to be able to increase that line letter and word spacing to help with those tracking issues.
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And you can see what the text looks like. And this will also stick with me throughout my session.
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So I can go to another article or even change a level
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Let's go down to the level one. You can see it sticks with me.
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to go back
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to my original settings, I just open display options back up and it's in the bottom left hand corner.
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I have the ability to translate the text into over 57 languages.
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So if I'm interested in Spanish
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It gives me a sample first of that text.
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And then gives me the ability to complete that translation.
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We take the sample first because
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Students are curious and they do like to click on a bunch of different languages.
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So we just give them a sample and then they canceling
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Check out the next language. And then you also remember if you translate we're at
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57 languages here, we're at 27 where you have translated and can hear the text read aloud. And you'll notice too, when you translate and complete that translation.
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The listen button will be there and that language we have available to listen to.
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The information icon at the end
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is this publication information.
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All right, let me go into another topic. So I'm trying to touch into a few topics.
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Because I want to cover as much as possible when we talk about your curriculum so you understand
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You have all kinds of great content here.
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So let's go into animal related subjects.
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And animal behavior, you also have animal adaptations
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We've talked about
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the Google Classroom tool, but let's talk about GitLink. GitLink provides persistent URL back to any spot within the resource, including a topic page.
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Or if I were at the document level.
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I could use GitLink here also.
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So again, a persistent URL back to any spot
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If I go into one of my
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Actually, let me go back.
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I want to share with you, if I click into a content type like book articles, not directly into
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one of those book articles, but I click into book articles
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At this point, this is where I have the ability to filter my results. I can filter by publication date, subject.
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document type. Now I will point out document type, you can multi-select. I'm in book articles, so it's going to limit it a little bit. If I go to all content types.
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document type, you can see it opens up a little bit more
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Subjects is singular, but document type you can multi-select.
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I also have publication title.
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Author, language.
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So if you haven't, this is being pulled in
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Because you actually have
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There might be…
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Interesting. I was expecting to see your ebooks up here.
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Sometimes it's the ebooks that of course you have all of these documents available in Spanish.
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Because you can translate each of them, as I just shared with you. But you also have a publication, seven different publications available in Spanish.
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And usually I see that coming from your ebooks. It might be coming from magazines.
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Which is, like I said, they've been adding new content
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So, and we usually do right around the beginning of the month. I think it happened on the 30th of last month.
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Publisher information, person about.
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We also have name of work.
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Author items by, what really applies is content levels.
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So content levels, you can see a level one, it's up to a 500 Lexile measure where level two is 501 to 850.
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Anything above that, level three is a little bit higher. You may have students reading at that higher level. Hopefully their comprehension is there too.
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So you will find some higher level included also. And I see it a lot in our magazines and newspapers, those higher levels.
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Don't forget that that listen feature is available if you do have students that are at that higher reading level and maybe
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They want to listen to the text also be read aloud to them or students that
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are fine with listening to the text being read aloud, can comprehend it.
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And utilize, even though it's at a little bit higher reading level.
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I love, too, our content levels
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for creating text sets.
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Along with our great video content.
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to pull that in because really it gets students engaged with the content that you have available and you're also providing a little bit higher level
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to challenge them. You have that ability to search within.
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And can put a term in there and filter everything down at once as I can.
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let's say I'm filtering down my subject
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I can filter everything down at once with one click.
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And that adds that filter. And I can still use GitLink and Google Classroom even at this point, even to my filtered results.
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So I can use it to a topic page, to filtered results, search if I were to do a basic search, I could use it there.
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And then all the way down to that individual document level.
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our video content.
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As I mentioned, you have closed captioning available and the transcript.
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You can translate the transcript, but it does not translate the closed captioning. So I just want to keep that in mind, but I can listen to it.
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hibernates in winter.
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These Arctic plants grow close to the ground and flower quickly.
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Take care.
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So we have that closed captioning. I can turn it off if I wanted to.
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And also make this whole screen.
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Okay, the video does start playing immediately, but the volume is off so you're
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students will have to make sure that they turn that volume on to listen to.
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the video.
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Okay, so we talked about all of our tools to support accessibility. We also talked about the toolbar at the top.
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And all of the features that we have available. We talked about a lot of
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curriculum content to support your curriculum.
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Let me share with you one more item, and that's our highlights and notes feature.
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Let me go. I'm going to go all the way back out to that home page
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And this time I'm going to
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Let's go into what haven't we touched into science. Let's go into science.
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And I love space and astronomy. Let's do space and astronomy. Oh my goodness, this would be a popular one, right? Animals in space with kids.
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Let's talk about gravity is usually a big part of curriculum.
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Okay, so highlights and notes, and I'm going to pick this magazine article
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Making Art with Science
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I can click and drag over a chunk of text. Now I did have a librarian
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many years ago now, share with me how great this feature is if students are working even at the elementary level on, say, a paper and they need
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Information for the opening, the body, and the conclusion and how they could use three different colors.
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So keep that in mind as an idea. It's also great for annotating. When students are reading text, if there's a term that
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that piques their interest or as they're reading through the text, they can add those annotation notes
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If there's like, again, I said a word, but also maybe it's a sentence and it's similar to the post-it notes that they use in when they're doing any reading.
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If you have any teachers that are using that method, this is a great idea to use the same method, but digitally. So keep that in mind as you're working with teachers.
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But I can click on the color I want. I can add any notes.
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And save that information. Now this would be really great. I had fifth graders that I worked with that were working on a project together and they were all in Google Drive and they were saving information and putting information into Google Drive.
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And this is also an option with
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highlighting there within this digital resource. So I can send this directly to my Google Drive. I've marked it up.
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I can send it to Google Drive. It turns it into a Google Doc.
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And it's there until I choose to delete it. Let me go into my drive.
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And here's the article, but it will land in a folder titled Gale In Context Elementary.
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Let me go to my drive.
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Here it is. So to land in this folder
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And…
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Where is it? Here it is.
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And it turns it into a Google Doc.
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There's a text I've highlighted.
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And then below my citation will be the text I've highlighted, any notes I've taken. So this would be a great opportunity if students are working together
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to share this information in their Google Drive and share it with their group.
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Because if they are looking for maybe someone, there are different topics they're looking for and pulling content together in this group project.
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They can all be searching within the resource together, but yet
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searching for different things, right? And still supporting that same end project that they're working on.
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By highlighting and adding
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That's always a really helpful tool for them to work together also.
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Another feature is with highlights and notes.
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is our highlights and notes area here that's being built out. This is session based, so that's what this message is, is be sure to do something with this information before you leave this session
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But I can just send this to my Google Drive, OneDrive email.
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download or print. And then my citations are here. Bibliography is already attached, but I have my citation tool
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Just as I do at the document level, I have that citation tool in my toolbar, but I also have it here in highlights and notes.
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So if I were in multiple articles.
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highlighting away, this would continuously build out.
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So I'd have multiple citations available. So there's my work cited and you can see the ways that I can export it.
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All right, let me know if you have any questions.
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I would like to take you back to
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the PowerPoint real quick and share with you where you can go for additional support
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And that is your Gale support site.
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And I did share this at the beginning of the session in the chat.
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So it's the same link. You're going to find all of your access URLs there, your product information, mark records, database icons, widgets, the ability to contact your customer success manager.
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All there on the support site.
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You also will have in the training center tip sheets and tutorials. We have recorded webinars and training decks.
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All of our PowerPoint slides have all of our training notes. You'll find lesson plans, student activities and projects, and scavenger hunts all there on the support site.
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Also, I just recently added a FEL toolkit
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that takes you to particular spots within our training materials.
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to help you find content. So you'll see that also in the training center when you access that link, go directly to training
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scroll down to the bottom and you'll see the toolkit.
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We also have great marketing materials, bookmarks, posters.
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digital assets, email templates, communication templates, social media posts, and so much more.
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And then we do, I do want to point out, and they are great. We do have escape rooms available for this resource, scientists and inventors, and we have one on poetry.
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Ready to go if you would like to do an escape room.
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They are a hit. I actually have been doing them in trainings with adults and they love them. So, and therefore they're designed for elementary.
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So, of course, the adults get through it very quickly where it would take a little bit longer with our elementary students, but they absolutely love them and it's so fun to see how competitive folks are.
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As they're working through the escape room, something fun to do. Even with your, if you're training folks in your building, might be a fun thing for you to do with them too.
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Again, my name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale, and I thank you all for taking time out of your day
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To learn a little bit more about Gale In Context Elementary and explore the resource and learn how it can support your curriculum.
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If you have any further questions for your customer success manager, you can reach out to them directly.
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Tech support is here also for your learning management system if you need that support, would like to add your Gale resources into your learning management system such as Canvas or Schoology.
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please reach out to them directly and they can help with that process.
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Our folks at FEL, and it's completely anonymous unless you want me to contact you back, please leave your information and let me know in the comments section.
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what you're looking for support with.
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But even if you'd like to say, yes, I would love more training on this, let me know.
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in the comments, because again, I share that with our folks at FEL as we plan future training sessions.
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But I thank you all for your time today. And if you have any questions, I will stay on the line. If you'd like to share your success stories.
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please feel free to tag us
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Thanks, everyone, and have a great rest of your day.
Welcome to your training for the Florida Electronic Library. Today's session is kindergarten through fifth grade school success, exploring Gale In Context Elementary. My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale.
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And I've had the pleasure of training folks in
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In person and virtually for a number of years and I look forward to training you all today on not only Gale and Context Elementary.
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But how this resource supports the curriculum and curriculum searches, the content that's available, great multimedia within this resource, all available to supplement
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or support the curriculum. You'll also find this is safe vetted content available within this resource and it does truly encourage a love of learning. We know at this age
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that students are very inquisitive and curious and this resource, the platform itself is very user friendly.
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And students love to access the information, again, exploring those topics that they're interested in or that they're learning about in class.
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Any questions that you have throughout today's training, please feel free to use the Q&A box.
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First, we're going to start with access and an overview of Gale In Context Elementary.
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So I always like to share the access point. It's very easy if you are in the state of Florida to access that information on the FEEL
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site or feel portal.
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all of your digital resources are available there.
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But you also have access to direct URLs for your individual libraries. So if you would like to use those, which I do suggest because if you're looking to track usage.
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You want to see maybe top search terms, see what resources are being accessed the most.
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It can even help build your collection if you're looking to build out your collection. Those usage reports are very visual and
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are very helpful to you all as you are doing any of those items or maybe a
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a review of your resources, that's always a helpful tool too or to see if did my programming, my outreach or what's happening in the schools
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Did I see an effect? Did it boost this resource?
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So always great information to have and that's why using your direct URLs, you're able to capture that for your specific library.
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We're going to be spending the majority of our time browsing and searching through content, and I'm going to share with you also the resource features and tools
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that are available in Gale In Context Elementary. Any questions, please feel free to ask.
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You can also ask at the end, I will stay on at the end of today's training and answer any additional questions. And of course, you'll have my contact information
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At the end of today's training, I will also share your Gale Customer Success Manager, their inbox, so you can reach out to them directly.
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And ask any questions that you have. They are your one-on-one support. They are post-sales support. They are just there to make sure that you get the most out of your Gale resources.
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And their information will also be in the follow-up email that I send to you. So you'll have it
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multiple times if you'd like to reach out to them.
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Accessing your FEL resources, you can go through the Florida Electronic Library site.
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I actually just received in the last couple months a little bit of a facelift. So you're going to see
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Some new changes there when you access the site. I think it looks beautiful, done a great job, and hopefully you feel the same way when you're accessing that information. This is what it looks like now.
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So we've got our elementary is where we're going today. So elementary, middle school, high school, college, right on the home page, but you still have the ability to browse
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resources by these areas here below.
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And then we have some featured resources at the bottom of the page and these will change out depending on
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What is being utilized in the Florida Electronic Library?
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So let's talk a little bit about Gale In Context Elementary.
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Gale In Context Elementary is cross-curricular. It's designed for kindergarten through fifth grade students.
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You will find great tools and features within this resource. The content allows users to search through over 16,000 images
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We also have videos and charts and graphs available in Gale In Context Elementary. So rich multimedia available.
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We have interface dictation. So we do have the ability to toggle the sound on and off. That really helps students navigate through this resource. It'll read wherever their mouse lands, it'll read that text.
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And I'll model that for you today.
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And then we have our I wonder questions. And these are updated daily. You'll see that they really do encourage that inquisitiveness and spark curiosity, especially with our younger users.
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And then to access the content, we have a very visual topic tree, and this helps students visually find that content related to their search.
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So it's in this resource.
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According to our analytics, the
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elementary students are pointing and clicking almost 100% of the time. So the topic tree is very visual.
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We kept that in mind when we did the redesign a couple years ago.
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And we want to make sure it's as user-friendly as possible.
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for our younger users. So they are pointing and clicking and using these topic
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Topic categories on the home page and drilling down through that topic tree as they explore that content and look for information that they are interested in.
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to support the experience, we also have rich content available in books. So the Florida Electronic Library has purchased a selection
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of K-5 ebooks.
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And they do live here also. So what we've done is we've integrated them into Gale In Context Elementary so that it's more of a one-stop shop for your younger users. They do still exist.
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In the Gale eBooks platform, but they're also here because we did want to make it as simple as possible for students to access all of that information. So you'll see them on the home page linked out as
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As you're seeing in the screenshot, but they will also show up in your search results if they apply to the term that you're searching.
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Or if you've used the topic tree and maybe you're on a topic page, same idea. You'll see those books
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If there are any available, they will show up in the search results.
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News is from publications that are designed and written for kids. You'll also find all of our fun facts under the news tab.
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Pictures are a great way to enhance research and presentation. So it's a great way for project students to use the pictures and anything they're doing in school.
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They can quickly search using a term or scroll through and look at the images themselves. Of course, these are also going to show up in search results.
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But we put them here on the home page because that was an ask by our teachers.
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that they could easily, the students could easily get to those pictures and images, infographics, illustrations, diagrams, everything that we have available.
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And then the last section is videos. So to further engage those young learners, we have all kinds of videos available.
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to support their learning, safe, authenticated
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videos with closed captioning and also transcripts available for all of them.
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We have great topic overview pages, so from the homepage, if I select animals, I do get this high level
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piece of information at the top
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And it's just an overview of that topic.
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From there, I have my visual topic tree where I can drill down and easily explore content.
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under those subjects, like say mammals, for example.
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Once I select a topic page, so once I've gone into one of those subtopics.
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and select a topic page.
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I'm provided with, at the top, we have a topic overview. So an image and topic overview. So it's a high level overview of the topic with summaries
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And it's written at student level, at the student's level. And we have two levels available, a level one and a level two, and those are our content levels.
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Content levels are related to Lexile measure, and I'm going to share all of that with you today.
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So that you know what you have available in the resource and how you can quickly find that content that is at
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the student's reading level.
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We also have quick facts in the center of the topic page on every topic page. And these really provide those ready to use
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Information, it's perfect for student reports, general interests
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to, again, when that sparking that curiosity even further.
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We have a very powerful platform with leveled content, as I mentioned in the last screen.
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one of those topic overviews, we have leveled content. You can see level one or level two. I can change this content.
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And change the text on the page to a higher level if I need that or lower level if I need that. I can also filter all of my content
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by content level, which is very easy to do.
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When you are in a topic page or in search results, you'll find the ability to filter.
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all of your content down and you can filter it by content level or Lexile measure.
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Highlights and notes is a great feature that allows students to annotate and track questions and ideas.
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It's a way to highlight within the text and they can save just their highlights and notes or they can save their entire
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documents, very easily send that to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive.
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They can listen and translate articles. We're at over 50 languages, actually 57 languages.
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So they can translate the text
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On the page into over 57 languages.
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And they can also listen to the text being read aloud to them in 27 different languages.
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or don't have as many of the read aloud, but it is the ones that are used most often that you're going to find there.
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for that read aloud feature.
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or text-to-speech feature.
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A few tools I want you to keep in mind before we jump into Gale In Context Elementary.
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You have the ability to share and save content using the GitLink tool.
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You can provide you with a persistent URL back to any spot within the resource.
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So you can share that URL.
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On your library page, you can share, your teachers can share it in lesson plans or with parents or maybe in a newsletter.
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Anywhere that they want students to be able to access that content, you can use
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the get link tool and I'll model that for you today and talk to you a little further about how it can be used.
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You also have the ability to share content directly to Google Classroom.
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It's very simple to do right from within the resource. And then sending information to Google and Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive is also very simple.
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Including even after I've used my highlights and notes tool and marked up the document, I can send that
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directly to my Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive.
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We have great tools available to support accessibility, like the translate feature, as I mentioned, but you also have the ability to increase the font size.
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Listen to the text. And then we have display options, including the ability to change the color behind the text.
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And also change the font. We even have open dyslexic available.
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So again, meeting those varying needs of students
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To encourage analysis, highlights, and notes, I briefly mentioned that, and this really does promote that deeper learning with color coding and annotation.
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It's a feature that's available within all of your Gale resources.
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And then to develop research skills or develop those early research skills, we have the topic tree, as I mentioned before.
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In this resource, very easy to find content. Those topic pages are curated collections of information. We look at usage, but we also look at curriculum, both state and national standards.
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And our subject matter specialists and content editors are the ones that develop and create those topic pages.
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Our citations are attached to every document, image, video, everything that is available within your Gale resources, but you also have the citation tool separately.
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that you can utilize to just grab the citation so
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I'll model that for you today. Also, and hopefully that is a mini lesson that maybe you are teaching your upper elementary students.
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We're also integrated with learning management systems. So if you are using Canvas or Schoology in your buildings.
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You can add your Gale resources, even the ones from the Florida Electronic Library, right into
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those resources. So it provides that single sign-on capability for students, but it also is a very easy way for teachers
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to embed content directly into an assignment, into a discussion, onto a page.
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right from within, if they access through their learning management system
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they'll be able to embed that content directly into any of those areas I just mentioned.
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So it's a really seamless way for students
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find content where they are learning and also
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For teachers, it helps them supplement the curriculum in a place where they are sharing information with their students or creating assignments for their students.
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There is some setup on the backside.
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And our CSMs can help direct you to that information and helping or your tech folks if you want to introduce your tech folks.
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to our technology folks, they can help with that process.
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All right, let's jump into the resources. We'll come back to Gale's support at the end of today's training
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Before I jump in, I do want to share with you that you do have a Florida Electronic Library Gale support site.
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And let me just share that what it looks like with you. I'm going to post this
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URL in the chat.
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So that you can access that. So this is a really good spot to bookmark. You can very easily find your library name. You can see all of the upcoming webinars that we have. Here's today's. This will drop off after today's session.
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But below, we also have the resources, ebooks, all of the training materials and marketing materials available. And I'll talk a little bit more about this at the end of today's training.
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Let's jump right into Gale In Context Elementary.
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Again, if you have any questions, please feel free to use that Q&A box.
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I've already signed in with Google at the top of the page, so Google and Microsoft.
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in Google Classroom. Now, when you are
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want to meet students where they're learning using Google Classroom or sending information to your Google Drive and sharing it with students or to your OneDrive, sharing it with students.
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is going to be a really helpful tool and we try to make it as easy as possible within this resource.
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Not only that, but we have the ability to translate the platform into multiple languages. So again, meeting students where they're learning and meeting their varying needs
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You have up to 34 languages that you can translate the platform into. So that would translate
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all of my navigational tools.
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As you can see here, I just translated everything to Italian and it'll help me navigate through the resource.
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Go back to English.
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At the top of my page, I have my basic search and advanced search. Over to the right in my contextual toolbar, I have the ability to toggle the sound on and off.
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Browse all of my topics. I have a title list. Search history is session based.
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And then I have my get link tool and highlights and notes, which we'll talk more about those later.
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Toggling the sound on and off, let me do that for you.
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Pictures. News.
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I wonder. What year was Abraham Lincoln first elected president?
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Pictures.
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So you can see how this tool
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helps your students navigate through the resource and it's separate than
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are the ability to listen to the text being read aloud when they're at the document level.
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The first category, subject category we are in is
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topics and you can see all of the topics we have below
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If I go into animals
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You can see that high level piece of information at the top.
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I can quickly jump into mammals, part of your curriculum.
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Again, high level piece of information
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And then below we have topic pages on
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a variety of mammals.
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Now, we do have cats and dogs.
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Always top searches or always, I should say top
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topic pages that students are accessing, they love to learn about their pets.
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And I will say, especially in Florida, we'll see a little bit of a spike during shark week and sharks.
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So keep that in mind. But it's always great to see what students are searching for.
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And what they're exploring, especially if you're looking to curate a collection of information in your library, maybe you're pulling some books together.
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That's why using your direct URLs can be really helpful because you can see what's happening at your library.
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At that high level piece of information. It's not the individual you're not going to see that this individual student searched for this item, but you'll see that in your usage reports.
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at least those top topics that are being searched for.
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at your library.
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All right, let's go back to that home page. If you have any questions again, please feel free to ask in the Q&A box
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If I go to books, it takes me to my entire book collection.
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Now I am accessing through the Florida Electronic Library's site. So these are all of the ebooks that they have purchased.
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for all of the schools.
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And you may have more. You may have additional Gale ebooks that you've purchased through your school or your district.
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And you would see those also loaded onto this account. So they would all be in one spot.
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When I click into a title
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It's going to load here a second. It does give me a PDF of that title.
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So you can see it takes me beyond
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the first couple pages. So it took me past the front cover and the title page and the copyright page and the table of contents took me
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directly into that content. And that was an ask by our teachers
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So that students are accessing that content right away.
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I can turn the page.
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I can also listen to this text being read aloud. I can zoom in and zoom out.
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I could make this whole screen, let me make it whole screen and show you.
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So this is what it looks like whole screen.
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I still have my tools up top.
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So if I want to listen to the text being read aloud.
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And this is our new read speaker. It does take a little
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They mainly live in forests in parts of Russia.
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Colossal cats.
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So it does take just a couple seconds longer to load.
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Let me go back.
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Tap again and it'll take me to the next page.
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Over to the left, we have that table of contents.
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We also have the dictionary.
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I'm sorry, you can search within and then the dictionary. So I can search within for a term.
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Or if I am struggling with a word, I can use the pull
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that information from the Webster's Elementary Dictionary.
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This will take me to the additional books I have available.
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And that's just in the subject category of environment
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So from this particular bookshelf
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And then the last one is the citation information.
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I also have the text view available.
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Text view looks a little different because it's focusing on the text, but at this point I can
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have it read aloud to me. I can also translate the text. Now what I've noticed that it does do
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is it puts the text on one page and then the next page is the image.
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A little bit different than when I'll show you through a topic page.
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what it looks like, it looks a little bit different here.
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So let me
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go back out to that home page.
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There we go. News articles. It takes us to the news articles at the top of the page and below are the fun facts.
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And this is for this month.
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It's bald eagles Month this month
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I don't know if you knew that.
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You also have pictures available.
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And as you can see, we've got a lot. We must be adding more recently, a lot of infographics.
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We have available, but we also have great images available too. So for example, if I do a search on plants.
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it will pull back all of these great images and also illustrations.
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So we do have both labeled and unlabeled illustrations available within this resource. Plants is a topic that is part of your curriculum.
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One that's studied often. So you can see we have multiple pages
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of content to support.
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plants and trees and all of that great information that you're studying.
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If I go to videos
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Refresh my screens. Videos.
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I can see it's still pulling in my plant
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search for some reason.
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There we go.
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Okay, there we go so
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Same idea for videos. I can put in any
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Like if I'm interested in the
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Let's do space, see what we can.
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With space, you can see some of the videos I have available. Most of them are shorter videos, but we do have some longer ones that have been added recently.
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So you're going to find those available.
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In the resource. Anytime I want to go back to that homepage, I just click into the banner.
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And it takes me right back to the home page.
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All right, so we talked a little bit about plants, so let's dive into
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Well, before we do that, let's go to geography because part of your curriculum is learning about Florida.
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So if we go to US states, so I clicked on geography
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I'm going to US states.
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And we'll go directly to Florida.
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We have an image and topic overview at the top of the page.
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We have some quick facts about Florida.
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Below that, we have our book articles, magazines, newspapers, biographies, lots of pictures, including infographics like this one.
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Which is part of your curriculum, learning about the Florida state symbols
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And this would be a great one to share with students
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Very easy to pull it into Google Classroom.
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So one way to do that is to sign in with Google.
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And then I can click on Google Classroom.
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Select my class.
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Choose my action.
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Maybe I want them to, let's just make an announcement.
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Click Go.
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put in whatever message I want my students
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to receive. I can even assign this to a particular group of students.
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So this is also great when you're for differentiating
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In your classroom or scaffolding in the classroom, because when you're working with small groups of students that maybe do need that additional support, you can scaffold the information
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that you're providing for them. Give them that smaller piece of the pie of information that you have available on the state of Florida.
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And that helps support their learning.
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in a place where they feel comfortable are accessing that information regularly if they're using Google Classroom. And then in that small group setting, even if it's
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a virtual setting. I can post that once I post it.
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I have the opportunity to view.
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And it will open in a new tab when I click View.
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right here at the top, and it does take a couple seconds before it generates.
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And there I have access to those Florida state symbols.
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I open that up and it takes me right to that exact spot.
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You're in the state of Florida, so you are automatically being geo authenticated, meaning that your students will not be prompted
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For a password, they will be able to go directly into that content.
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Because what it's doing is looking at their location, even if they're at home.
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And authenticating them and providing them direct access into the resource.
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That's always a question I receive and I always want to make sure I cover it because every state is a little different, to be honest with you.
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Okay, so back to the resource.
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Again, we were just taking a look at some of those infographics for our topic page on the state of Florida.
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Below that, we do have some related topics and looking at surrounding states that you have with Alabama and Georgia and talking about the Seminole Indians there.
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But great images outside of those infographics, we also have great images available and these images have captions.
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And they can be used if students are using them in projects or maybe they have a poster that they're working on and they want to utilize the images in the resource.
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That's great. Hopefully you're also talking to them about source citation
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Because that's part of it. These are available for students to use in any of their schoolwork.
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All right, let's go back out to the homepage. Anytime I want to go to the homepage, I can either click on the banner
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Or you can see I can use my breadcrumb trail here.
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I'm going to use the banner.
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So we talked about geography.
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We have great
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Biographical information.
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available for people.
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from historic figures
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to athletes and artists.
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to our US presidents and scientists and inventors.
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We also have, going back to our home page
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Under literature.
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you're going to find authors reading and writing language, literary genres, books and stories.
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Going into literary genres.
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Information on Greek mythology and graphic novels and fairy tales.
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Legends and poetry, short stories and science fiction all available here. Difference between fiction and nonfiction.
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Under social studies.
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So you can see we have
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Explorers, again U.S. presidents, so you might see some of our
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topics in multiple
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places because they do apply to social studies, US presidents applies here too
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As does historic figures.
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But we have information on explorers and world holidays and world history.
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Along with US history.
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and so many other topics.
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So a lot of great content available and you can see how easy it is to drill down and find that content.
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Now, plants is a part of every curriculum, so I always like to share this one and you can see
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Not as many subject categories here because it is a smaller focus.
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You could see we have plant related subjects. We also have trees and types of plants.
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talking a little bit about plants at that high level.
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Below, we have
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information, all kinds of information on different types of plants
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And then we also have our I Wonder question. And since we're on plants, the question relates to
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plants. I'm going to go into types of plants
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Again, we have that image and topic overview. I'm going to click on keep reading.
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And this is going to share with you how we have level one and level two now.
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Our level one is generally lower elementary. Our level two is generally upper elementary.
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We do have some words to know.
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And so we have some vocabulary words here available on the level one.
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And then we have our article.
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If I scroll back up.
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our level two
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This one has main ideas.
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And then goes into our article.
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Over to the right, I have my tools to support accessibility.
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So we have our listen option where I can listen to the text being read aloud to me.
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Again, it takes a couple seconds to load.
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Types of plants
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I have some features.
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I just paused that. I have some features under the more button.
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some settings. So it does highlight the word in blue and the sentence in green. If I wanted to change that, you can see the choices I have available. I can also change the text color.
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I can change the highlighting options completely if I just want the sentence or the word or no highlighting at all, I have that option available.
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At the very top, I have the ability to slow down the speed.
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or speed it up.
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These features apply to this text box. So if I increase the
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font size, it's just going to increase the font size in this text box.
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Another feature I have available under the More button is the ability to enlarge the text.
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So all I have to do is toggle this on and this will stick with me throughout my session. So once I turn it on in my very first document, every time I click the listen button
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The enlarged text option will appear. And I love this for younger students because you have many emergent readers.
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And it pulls that text out onto the page. So let me show you what it looks like.
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Northern giant horsetails
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it adds this text box at the bottom of the page.
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I can increase that font size.
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And this also, this feature also applies to your ebook. So even though the ebooks are in that PDF format.
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If I were to click on that
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listen button and open the enlarged text, I would still have this feature.
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So it can't highlight the PDF version of that ebook
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It can in the text view, but in the book view it can't. But you can use this feature
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If you wanted to still get that book view, but also listen to the text and see it being read aloud to you. So keep that in mind that you have that feature available.
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I can also decrease that font size.
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But most often they want to increase and then click play and it'll continue
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Northern giant horsetails are a type of fern.
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It'll continue to read its reading, this caption right now. Read down the page.
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I can also download this as an MP3 if I don't have internet access
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At home, I can listen to it on my device. We are mobile responsive though, so if students are accessing from phones.
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I'm not sure how much, probably more than I would like to believe is happening at the elementary level where students are having
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Phones at a younger age
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I know I tried to hold off for quite some time with my kids and it was not elementary school, but I know we're seeing more of them now at that younger level.
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But it is available even on their parents. If their parents are accessing these resources, they want to download this as an MP3 so students can listen to it. They can do that right here.
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Let me know if you have any questions on that functionality.
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We have the ability to, let me go to a document that has a little bit more
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Text.
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Let's see if this one does. Now we have images at the top. I wanted to share with you a little bit more text-heavy document.
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So I can model. We do have some
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You can see book articles to the left and books to the right. These are the ebooks part of the collection that you have. If you do not see a books section.
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then that is because there are no e-books for that topic. So FEL or your school library
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has not purchased books for that collection. So that's why if you don't see it, that's why.
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But you will have book articles available.
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Let me go into a biography maybe that'll
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might give me an image at the top again. Yeah. Okay. Let's just run with it. I wanted to share with you the ability to increase and decrease the font size.
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it still does even with this text box at the top.
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I have display options.
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That's the next one where I can change the color behind the text.
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I can choose from these four different fonts, including open dyslexic.
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And for those students that
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may need it with this font or without this font.
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They can increase their line letter and word spacing. Great for students that are having any tracking issues.
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I know my son was one of those students and now he's a sophomore in college.
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So it did not slow him down but
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It would have been a very helpful tool, especially when reading digitally to be able to increase that line letter and word spacing to help with those tracking issues.
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And you can see what the text looks like. And this will also stick with me throughout my session.
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So I can go to another article or even change a level
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Let's go down to the level one. You can see it sticks with me.
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to go back
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to my original settings, I just open display options back up and it's in the bottom left hand corner.
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I have the ability to translate the text into over 57 languages.
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So if I'm interested in Spanish
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It gives me a sample first of that text.
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And then gives me the ability to complete that translation.
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We take the sample first because
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Students are curious and they do like to click on a bunch of different languages.
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So we just give them a sample and then they canceling
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Check out the next language. And then you also remember if you translate we're at
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57 languages here, we're at 27 where you have translated and can hear the text read aloud. And you'll notice too, when you translate and complete that translation.
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The listen button will be there and that language we have available to listen to.
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The information icon at the end
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is this publication information.
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All right, let me go into another topic. So I'm trying to touch into a few topics.
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Because I want to cover as much as possible when we talk about your curriculum so you understand
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You have all kinds of great content here.
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So let's go into animal related subjects.
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And animal behavior, you also have animal adaptations
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We've talked about
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the Google Classroom tool, but let's talk about GitLink. GitLink provides persistent URL back to any spot within the resource, including a topic page.
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Or if I were at the document level.
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I could use GitLink here also.
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So again, a persistent URL back to any spot
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If I go into one of my
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Actually, let me go back.
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I want to share with you, if I click into a content type like book articles, not directly into
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one of those book articles, but I click into book articles
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At this point, this is where I have the ability to filter my results. I can filter by publication date, subject.
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document type. Now I will point out document type, you can multi-select. I'm in book articles, so it's going to limit it a little bit. If I go to all content types.
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document type, you can see it opens up a little bit more
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Subjects is singular, but document type you can multi-select.
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I also have publication title.
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Author, language.
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So if you haven't, this is being pulled in
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Because you actually have
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There might be…
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Interesting. I was expecting to see your ebooks up here.
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Sometimes it's the ebooks that of course you have all of these documents available in Spanish.
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Because you can translate each of them, as I just shared with you. But you also have a publication, seven different publications available in Spanish.
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And usually I see that coming from your ebooks. It might be coming from magazines.
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Which is, like I said, they've been adding new content
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So, and we usually do right around the beginning of the month. I think it happened on the 30th of last month.
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Publisher information, person about.
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We also have name of work.
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Author items by, what really applies is content levels.
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So content levels, you can see a level one, it's up to a 500 Lexile measure where level two is 501 to 850.
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Anything above that, level three is a little bit higher. You may have students reading at that higher level. Hopefully their comprehension is there too.
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So you will find some higher level included also. And I see it a lot in our magazines and newspapers, those higher levels.
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Don't forget that that listen feature is available if you do have students that are at that higher reading level and maybe
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They want to listen to the text also be read aloud to them or students that
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are fine with listening to the text being read aloud, can comprehend it.
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And utilize, even though it's at a little bit higher reading level.
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I love, too, our content levels
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for creating text sets.
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Along with our great video content.
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to pull that in because really it gets students engaged with the content that you have available and you're also providing a little bit higher level
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to challenge them. You have that ability to search within.
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And can put a term in there and filter everything down at once as I can.
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let's say I'm filtering down my subject
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I can filter everything down at once with one click.
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And that adds that filter. And I can still use GitLink and Google Classroom even at this point, even to my filtered results.
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So I can use it to a topic page, to filtered results, search if I were to do a basic search, I could use it there.
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And then all the way down to that individual document level.
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our video content.
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As I mentioned, you have closed captioning available and the transcript.
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You can translate the transcript, but it does not translate the closed captioning. So I just want to keep that in mind, but I can listen to it.
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hibernates in winter.
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These Arctic plants grow close to the ground and flower quickly.
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Take care.
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So we have that closed captioning. I can turn it off if I wanted to.
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And also make this whole screen.
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Okay, the video does start playing immediately, but the volume is off so you're
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students will have to make sure that they turn that volume on to listen to.
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the video.
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Okay, so we talked about all of our tools to support accessibility. We also talked about the toolbar at the top.
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And all of the features that we have available. We talked about a lot of
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curriculum content to support your curriculum.
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Let me share with you one more item, and that's our highlights and notes feature.
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Let me go. I'm going to go all the way back out to that home page
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And this time I'm going to
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Let's go into what haven't we touched into science. Let's go into science.
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And I love space and astronomy. Let's do space and astronomy. Oh my goodness, this would be a popular one, right? Animals in space with kids.
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Let's talk about gravity is usually a big part of curriculum.
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Okay, so highlights and notes, and I'm going to pick this magazine article
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Making Art with Science
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I can click and drag over a chunk of text. Now I did have a librarian
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many years ago now, share with me how great this feature is if students are working even at the elementary level on, say, a paper and they need
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Information for the opening, the body, and the conclusion and how they could use three different colors.
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So keep that in mind as an idea. It's also great for annotating. When students are reading text, if there's a term that
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that piques their interest or as they're reading through the text, they can add those annotation notes
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If there's like, again, I said a word, but also maybe it's a sentence and it's similar to the post-it notes that they use in when they're doing any reading.
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If you have any teachers that are using that method, this is a great idea to use the same method, but digitally. So keep that in mind as you're working with teachers.
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But I can click on the color I want. I can add any notes.
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And save that information. Now this would be really great. I had fifth graders that I worked with that were working on a project together and they were all in Google Drive and they were saving information and putting information into Google Drive.
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And this is also an option with
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highlighting there within this digital resource. So I can send this directly to my Google Drive. I've marked it up.
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I can send it to Google Drive. It turns it into a Google Doc.
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And it's there until I choose to delete it. Let me go into my drive.
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And here's the article, but it will land in a folder titled Gale In Context Elementary.
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Let me go to my drive.
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Here it is. So to land in this folder
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And…
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Where is it? Here it is.
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And it turns it into a Google Doc.
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There's a text I've highlighted.
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And then below my citation will be the text I've highlighted, any notes I've taken. So this would be a great opportunity if students are working together
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to share this information in their Google Drive and share it with their group.
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Because if they are looking for maybe someone, there are different topics they're looking for and pulling content together in this group project.
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They can all be searching within the resource together, but yet
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searching for different things, right? And still supporting that same end project that they're working on.
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By highlighting and adding
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That's always a really helpful tool for them to work together also.
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Another feature is with highlights and notes.
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is our highlights and notes area here that's being built out. This is session based, so that's what this message is, is be sure to do something with this information before you leave this session
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But I can just send this to my Google Drive, OneDrive email.
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download or print. And then my citations are here. Bibliography is already attached, but I have my citation tool
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Just as I do at the document level, I have that citation tool in my toolbar, but I also have it here in highlights and notes.
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So if I were in multiple articles.
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highlighting away, this would continuously build out.
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So I'd have multiple citations available. So there's my work cited and you can see the ways that I can export it.
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All right, let me know if you have any questions.
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I would like to take you back to
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the PowerPoint real quick and share with you where you can go for additional support
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And that is your Gale support site.
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And I did share this at the beginning of the session in the chat.
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So it's the same link. You're going to find all of your access URLs there, your product information, mark records, database icons, widgets, the ability to contact your customer success manager.
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All there on the support site.
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You also will have in the training center tip sheets and tutorials. We have recorded webinars and training decks.
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All of our PowerPoint slides have all of our training notes. You'll find lesson plans, student activities and projects, and scavenger hunts all there on the support site.
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Also, I just recently added a FEL toolkit
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that takes you to particular spots within our training materials.
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to help you find content. So you'll see that also in the training center when you access that link, go directly to training
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scroll down to the bottom and you'll see the toolkit.
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We also have great marketing materials, bookmarks, posters.
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digital assets, email templates, communication templates, social media posts, and so much more.
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And then we do, I do want to point out, and they are great. We do have escape rooms available for this resource, scientists and inventors, and we have one on poetry.
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Ready to go if you would like to do an escape room.
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They are a hit. I actually have been doing them in trainings with adults and they love them. So, and therefore they're designed for elementary.
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So, of course, the adults get through it very quickly where it would take a little bit longer with our elementary students, but they absolutely love them and it's so fun to see how competitive folks are.
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As they're working through the escape room, something fun to do. Even with your, if you're training folks in your building, might be a fun thing for you to do with them too.
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Again, my name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale, and I thank you all for taking time out of your day
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To learn a little bit more about Gale In Context Elementary and explore the resource and learn how it can support your curriculum.
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If you have any further questions for your customer success manager, you can reach out to them directly.
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Tech support is here also for your learning management system if you need that support, would like to add your Gale resources into your learning management system such as Canvas or Schoology.
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please reach out to them directly and they can help with that process.
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Our folks at FEL, and it's completely anonymous unless you want me to contact you back, please leave your information and let me know in the comments section.
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what you're looking for support with.
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But even if you'd like to say, yes, I would love more training on this, let me know.
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in the comments, because again, I share that with our folks at FEL as we plan future training sessions.
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But I thank you all for your time today. And if you have any questions, I will stay on the line. If you'd like to share your success stories.
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please feel free to tag us
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Thanks, everyone, and have a great rest of your day.