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Last Updated: November 13, 2024

For FEL: Empowering Middle School Minds: Gale In Context: Middle School

Get ready to energize the school year with a powerful training session focused on empowering middle school minds with Gale In Context: Middle School from the Florida Electronic Library (FEL). View this training recording as we explore the wealth of content and tools available within Gale In Context: Middle School, designed specifically to support middle school students in their academic journey. Discover how this comprehensive resource can enhance research skills, foster critical thinking, and engage students across various subjects. From interactive multimedia to age-appropriate content, we'll delve into the features that make Gale In Context: Middle School a game-changer in the classroom. Don't miss this opportunity to equip yourself with the knowledge and strategies to empower middle school students for continued success this school year. Let's unleash the full potential of Gale In Context: Middle School and inspire a love for learning!
Duration: 45 Minutes
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Welcome to your training for the Florida Electronic Library. Today's session is empowering middle school minds, Scaling Context Middle School.

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My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Galel. And I thank you so much for taking time out of your day this morning.

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to join me for this training session. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask in the Q&A box.

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Our focus today is on one of your FEL resources that you have from Gale, and that is Gale and Context Middle School. We're going to look at content and tools.

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But we are also going to talk about how this resource can help students develop research skills

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critical thinking skills, and we're going to talk about various subjects as they relate to curriculum.

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And then I'm going to show you some great multimedia that we have available.

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So let's get started with

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Our agenda.

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Talking about access first and then an overview of Gale and Context Middle School.

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We will be spending time browsing and searching, and I'll show you some of the different tools that you have available within the resource to browse and search.

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Through that content, again.

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Learning to develop those research skills using the tools available within the resource, and then focusing on different content also.

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We'll talk about other features and tools like the tools we have available to support accessibility. Any questions that you have, please feel free to use that Q&A box.

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I will stay on at the end of today's training to answer any additional questions, and then I will provide you with contact information, my own, and then also your Gale customer success managers.

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And they are your one-on-one support in all things Gale. They're just there for support

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And I can really help you with any questions that you may have.

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Access to your FEL resources, you can use the FEL site.

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And this has just recently been revamped. So if it looks a little different when you click in there.

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It's because they received some updates a couple months ago. So once you access the Florida Electronic Library website, you can access any of the resources, including ebooks and resources from other vendors. It all lives there.

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In one spot, we now have this opportunity to browse by grade level right at the top of the page so you can quickly jump into middle school

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and browse the resources that are available for middle school.

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Let's talk a little bit about Gale and Context Middle School.

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This resource was designed and developed for sixth through eighth grade students. It's cross-curricular, general reference. You're going to find trusted reference content, periodicals.

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All kinds of multimedia, videos, images, audio, great primary sources.

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their creative work, statistics.

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There's also experiment activities all available within this resource.

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To support curriculum standards, you'll find frequently studied topics in history and geography, science, health, literature, and the arts, and so much more.

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And then to enhance teaching and learning, we have integrated many, many years ago now with Google and Microsoft, including Google Classroom.

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You have unlimited print, download, and email available. And then our highlights and notes feature is a very popular tool.

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that is used at all levels.

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And our middle schoolers definitely enjoy utilizing that tool for annotating

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And just exploring through looking for main ideas, quotes, facts that they can use in their projects and papers.

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This is a great resource to supplement the sixth through eighth grade curriculum.

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Because you're going to find up-to-date information here.

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but also great for social studies because of those primary sources, literature, or I should say ELA for those creative works.

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Even math versus the statistics that you're going to find within this resource.

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So supporting, again, cross-curricular

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Some tools I want to share with you and talk about before we jump into the resource is the tools that we have that support accessible learning.

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Like the translate tool. And this translation offers over 50 languages

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At the article level, we also have the interface translation, meaning it'll translate the navigational tools within the resource.

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And we're at 34 languages for that one. You can increase or decrease the font size.

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Display options make the display choices available to improve that readability, and I'm going to model that for you in the next slide.

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But it is a newer feature in the last couple of years.

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where you can change the font and the color behind the text

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So it's a great option for users and it sticks with them throughout their session.

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You have the listen feature where you can hear the text read aloud. You can download it as an MP3. So those that don't have access to the internet at home can download it on their device.

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We're mobile responsive too, so you can access these resources directly from your cell phone.

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or any device that you're on.

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And then that enhanced text visibility. So enlarging the text and pulling it out onto the page. And that's an option with our listen.

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feature. The display options, again, making the display choices to improve readability. Once you open up display options, this box pops out.

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You have the ability to change the color behind the text, change the font, increase the line letter and word spacing.

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Now, if I've chosen open dyslexic.

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This is what it would look like, and I've increased the line, letter, and word spacing there too.

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Slightly, you can increase it even more.

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So this, again, is a feature that will stick with me throughout my session. So once I set it up on the first article.

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it'll stay with me.

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We also have level documents in Gale In Context resources. So you'll see the level topic overviews

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Where this will provide in the topic overviews or topic guide that we have.

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On the topic pages.

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We have multi-leveled overviews available for each topic on those topic pages. And what it does is it provides users with both a basic and advanced version of the same overview, that same topic overview.

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And it also allows educators to differentiate instruction. And then we have at the article level leveled content, which meets the teacher's need in the classroom as well as the student's needs

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At all reading levels. So you'll see the different content levels, these little boxes over to the right.

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Which will give you an indicator of what

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level that document is at. So level three is generally middle school

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We have five different levels. Ones and twos are elementary

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three is middle school and then fours and fives go up into high school.

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I always tell folks if they remember that a level three is middle school, that'll help them out.

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If you are needing those lower levels, level ones and twos.

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Gale In Context Elementary is also available from the Florida Electronic Library, so you can have students access that or simply

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grab articles for them using our GitLink tool or sending it to Google Drive and share those articles with students. You can share documents at a lower reading level

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with your students so they don't feel like they have to access Gale In Context Elementary.

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And, you know, keeps them feeling

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safe in their safe place without having to open that younger resource for them. So you can also filter by level documents here below the filter your results.

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You can see too, when we have multi-level documents, and these are overviews that Gale, we publish our own content and we also work with fantastic publishers.

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But you will see if we've published that content, we have the ability to change

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the level of that content so you can very easily change that Lexile measure at the top of the page to jump to either higher or lower level. In this case, it would be a lower level.

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And you can see I'm at a level three, but we have a 1080 or a 790. So both are available. And here's the difference between the two.

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This is the higher level to my left and to my right is the lower.

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reading level and this too, the text features changed a little bit. So here we have fast facts

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Where on the right, we have main ideas at that lower reading level. And that'll vary depending on the article. It's not always consistent that you have main ideas

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are just in the lower reading levels, so keep that in mind too.

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To share content, we have a variety of options. I've already talked about a few. We have the Get Link tool, and GitLink provides

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Persistent URL back to any spot within the resource.

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You have the ability to share to Google Classroom.

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So Google Classroom is at the top of your page. If you're set up as a teacher, when you sign in with Google, you can immediately share information directly to Google Classroom.

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You can also send content directly to email, Google, or Microsoft. We have our quick send option here.

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but it also lives under the paper airplane.

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The paper airplane this

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contextual toolbar floats with you and sticks to the page as I scroll down.

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So I won't have to scroll back up to the top to send this information anywhere. I can use my contextual toolbar and click on that paper airplane and I'll model that for you today.

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All right. If there's any questions, please feel free to use that Q&A box. I will be monitoring it throughout today's training.

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But with that, let's jump into Gale In Context Middle School.

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It does time out after 20 minutes. I logged in a little while ago.

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and was exploring some content as I was preparing for our session today.

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I did sign in real quick with Google. You can sign in with Google or Microsoft right at the top of your page.

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And when I sign in, I'm on my own computer, so of course it remembers that

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my sign in and login information as I do many trainings.

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The first time students sign in, they will be asked for permission and we are just asking for permission to put information into their Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive.

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We don't keep any of their information. Privacy is very important to us. So when they leave this session or they close out their browser.

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that connection will be severed. They'll have to sign back in the next time they use the resource. But the beauty of this resource is

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is every time they're in Gale In Context Middle School and send information to their Google Drive, it'll always land in the same folder titled Gale and Context Middle School.

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That is, unless they change the name of that folder, then a new folder will be creative because the resource is looking specifically for

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Gale In Context: Middle School. So that's a great way to a little tip

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And students are working on research projects, when they're done with that project, if they title that folder that they've been working in

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whatever it is they're working on, maybe it's the Holocaust.

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And they title it Holocaust, then the next time they're in this resource, a new folder will be created.

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All right, so we have the ability to also at the top sign in

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Or I'm sorry, not sign in. We just talked about that. We have the ability to translate

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the navigational tools. So this will translate and help me navigate through the resource

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I'm just going to choose Spanish.

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So you can see it quickly translates my navigational tools on the page. And this again will stay with me

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Throughout my training session. So in my contextual toolbar over here to the right.

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And again, in my basic search, we can see some of this information has been translated.

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go back to English. I just open that back up.

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On the homepage, I have, and let's talk about our contextual toolbar first

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The contextual toolbar, this will change. The tools in here will change depending on where I'm at within the resource and what tools I need. For example, at the document level.

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I'm going to need that citation tool.

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So you'll see this change right now from the homepage, I can browse all of my topic pages. Now, topic pages are curated collections of information.

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They're connected to the curriculum.

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We also look at usage.

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They are our content editors and subject matter specialists are the ones that work on these topic pages.

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And you'll see lots of great topic pages for all the things that are being studied in Florida.

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So organized here

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I have the ability to click into browse all topics or as I scroll down, you can see I have topics of interest. These change every month at the top of my page.

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And then as I continue to scroll down, I have the ability to browse any of these subject categories or these topics.

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So let's say I did want to go into literature

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You can see we have many literary works, authors, but also

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items like figurative language.

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or literary devices in literary genres. So we have all kinds of different topic pages available.

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Within this resource. Anytime I want to go back to the homepage, I just click into the

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Over here on the title of the resource and it'll always take me back in any of your Gale resources

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to the homepage.

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At the bottom, we have, so this is a great browsing option using our topic pages. We also have a search option.

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And that's Topic Finder. Topic Finder is a visual representation of your search results. It lives here on the homepage, but it also always lives

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Under Advanced Search.

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And then I'm going to show you where else it lives once we do dive in a little bit deeper into

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one of our topic pages or any search results. You'll see it in your search results. You're able to access Topic Finder. If I access it from the home page or from advanced search to kick off my search.

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It opens this way. It doesn't pull any content in because I need to put in a search term.

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So let's say I want to put in a search term of invasive species.

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You can see here my search term has been entered. It pulls back all of these tiles

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That's the visualization I'm in. I do also have the option to change that to the wheel

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It's purely preference.

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And the larger the tile, the deeper the color, the more information I have. And it's looking at the first hundred words from a subset at the top results. So these are your

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keywords that's what's being shown in your results

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And it's like, like I said, the top hits, the top results

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If I click into invasive species where I'm at plants specifically.

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It's interactive.

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And I can quickly drill down to ecosystems and on the right hand side, it gives me five

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different documents could be an image, a video

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an article, it just takes me to five different topic or results for my topic.

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And that is invasive species

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And looking specifically at ecosystems.

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Going back to that home page.

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At the bottom, we also have curriculum standards and educator resources.

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If I wanted to search by curriculum standards, and usually I do this a little later in the session, but since we're here.

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Let's jump right in. I have that ability and I was doing some exploration before

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the session and it remembered that. But let's say i'm going into

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state standards. I have both state standards and national authorities available

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Specifically looking at Florida.

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I have my let's go to state academic standards

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And go into science.

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Actually, let's go to social studies.

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And I'm interested in Holocaust education. So this is very specific. I could go to grade six, seven or eight

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for social studies, but we've also

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have in the framework, the social studies framework for state academic standards.

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You have the Holocaust education grades six through eight. So I'm specifically

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I'm picking this one because it is a smaller standard. If I were to, let me model at least real quick.

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Seventh grade, you can see it opens up

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And you have geography, economics, civics.

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and government available.

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If I go to Holocaust, and it always opens that first standard up over here to the right is where you have the ability to see

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the resources related to that standard.

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Let me go into Holocaust education.

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And you, again, it opens that standard up

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I can click on see resources

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And it'll take me to all of that content related to that standard that we have available.

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And this is what your search results look like

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When there's not a topic page. So if I were to just do a basic search and I wasn't using a topic guide, this is what my search results would look like.

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I can go back to the standards by selecting back to standards.

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I can also share all of this content with my students using the Get Link tool.

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Remember, GitLink provides a persistent URL back to any spot within the resource, including

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search results from a particular standard.

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All right, let's go back to that home page

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The last section over here to the right, educator resources, you're going to find some great

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tools available for educators including

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links directly to content, training materials, and student activities that are available on our Gale support site. I'm going to share the Gale support site with you all.

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Because it's a great resource.

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For our librarians and media specialists

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But Educator Resources does also live here within the resource.

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And so teachers can go directly to that section.

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All right, let's look at one of these topic pages. We clicked into literature.

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Actually, since we already clicked into a topic page, let me do a basic search

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Because with our middle schoolers, our analytics show that they're about 50, 50, 50% of the time they're selecting a topic page 50% of the time.

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they're doing a basic search. And I am going to do a basic search on invasive species.

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And when I have a topic guide available or topic page available, I will see that in my search results. It comes to the top there.

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You can see I have a little image

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And then it is identified as a topic guide.

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So I can very easily go right into that topic guide. I don't even have to finish putting in my term or I can select

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from my search assist below but

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I do really love these topic guides.

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Because they have this curated collection of information for our students. It makes it a little bit easier for them.

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to explore through that content and find exactly what they're looking for.

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quickly. So I have an image and topic overview here at the top.

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On this page in the center is where I'm going to find all of my different content types.

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So magazines and images and videos related topics are going to be related topic guides.

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or topic pages, also audio files that we have available. Reference is going to be coming from encyclopedia content.

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Or those reference books, that's what reference is going to be coming from.

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I can at any time quickly filter down and search within my results.

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So again, if I were looking for plants, I could type in plants right here and just filter this down.

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to invasive species and plants.

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As I scroll down, you can see

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With audio files, we have 115. We're showing one there in our bucket.

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But we have 115 available. And then any related topic pages. So plants is here, endangered species, for example, ecosystems, we talked a little bit about already too.

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At the very top of the page with the image and essay overview, when I click read more.

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You can see I am at a level three

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But I'm at a 1030 Lexile measure.

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This one is giving me fast facts.

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And then it's at a higher reading level.

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If I need a little bit lower reading level, I can change it to the 800.

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Different image.

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This one has main ideas instead of fast facts. So again, those text features will vary.

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Depending on the content.

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And then this is a lower reading level.

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Oh, and this one has a did you know question. So you will see these types of questions

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great for

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those critical thinking skills, developing those critical thinking skills.

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So I've been showing you different ways to

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Access content and find content, developing those research skills by browsing and searching

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But this also, you'll find some questions built into, and this is because we do publish our own content. We're able to

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provide this information, we're able to ask these questions. So you'll find these types of questions

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available to help develop those critical thinking skills.

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And I do find a lot of them in obviously in our own published content, but also we started adding

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Critical thinking questions, late 2017, I see them a lot in the overviews.

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like we're now, I'll see them in reference.

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I also see them sometimes in biographies.

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So keep that in mind.

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All right, let's go back out to that topic page. We talked about GitLink.

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Let's talk about Google Classroom. So again, GitLink.

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I can provide a link back to this topic page.

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I could, let's talk a little bit further about GitLink.

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I could be in reference and let's say I want to filter my results.

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I have publication date, subjects, document type.

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Publication title, Laxal Measure, content levels, and the ability again to search within.

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If I wanted to use content levels and let's say I'm building a tech set.

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And I want level threes, but I also want some level fours because I want to challenge my students a little bit. And I know I have students that are at this reading level.

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So I can apply that and it'll filter down all of my content at once.

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So you can see it did filter it down slightly all at once.

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Now, again, I can provide a git link.

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back to this content that I filtered down.

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Or I can pull it into Google Classroom.

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I also can.

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At the document level, use those same tools, GitLink or pull this into Google Classroom.

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You can see my explore panel will continuously build out if I have any articles

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that are similar to this one or related to this one. I might have a more like this. This one has article contents.

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It also has related subjects I can jump to another subject area.

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So it offers that supplemental information.

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All right, let's go back to that topic page

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And let's say I wanted to share this in Google Classroom. I've talked about GitLink. All the same places.

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where I can use GitLink, I can also use Google Classroom.

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So let's open up Google Classroom.

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I can share this with my

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That's a little, well, it could be biology. Let's say this is science right at the middle school level, it'd be more science than biology

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Possibly. I can choose my action, create an assignment, ask a question, make an announcement, create material.

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Let's say I want to make an announcement.

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I click go. This is where I can put in any instructions.

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This can be to my class now

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If I'm using Google Classroom and let's say I have filtered this down to all just level threes, or I looked in the resource and found level twos.

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This feature is available in all of your Gale resources, including Gale and Context Elementary. So remember I talked about those

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Students that might need a lower reading level.

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And maybe they don't want to go in or they might be a little embarrassed if they are going into an elementary resource.

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This is a way for teachers to differentiate instruction

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And share content with those students so you can assign it to just that smaller group that needs an additional support.

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So I could filter this down to just level threes, or if I were in elementary.

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I could filter down

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that content and assign it to my students and then they wouldn't be opening up to that homepage of Gale In Context Elementary, but you're still differentiating instruction. So keep that in mind as an option too.

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GitLink works the same way where you can just share a link or simply send information to your Google Drive, print it off, email it.

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However, you're sharing information with students. But in this case, we're sharing this entire topic page

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with our entire class.

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So I'm going to post this.

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In view, when I click view, it's going to open in a new tab.

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It does take a couple seconds before it loads. As you can see here it's

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going to pop up here in a minute, which will give me the ability to access that link.

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There we go. So here is my announcement. I just put invasive species. I might want to put a little bit more information there or I can add a class comment.

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But it'll take my students directly to that topic page.

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No additional authentication is needed. They can go right here to the topic page.

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And again, this works at the

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Topic page, I can filter my results. I can share that in Google Classroom or GitLink.

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I can also be at that document level and share that in Google Classroom or using GitLink.

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All different ways that I can continuously share that same information and pull it right into my Google Classroom.

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or use the get link tool.

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Okay, now I mentioned Topic Finder from the homepage. When you're on a topic page, it does live here.

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in my contextual toolbar.

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But it also lives, let me click into reference

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Here. So below my filter your results, I also have topic finder.

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And what this will do if I utilize it from a topic page, it'll just pull in this content.

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So I've already have this curated content, but I really like to browse

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using that visualization and that interaction.

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So as a user, then I might want to use Topic Finder.

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Again, I can use from the contextual toolbar are here on the

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Lower in the page both work the same.

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And you can see here, it's pulling in invasive species. Now, if you remember when I did a

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topic search using topic finder from the homepage, it pulled in a lot of content.

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Because again, it was looking at those keywords, the first hundred words, where here I know that this curated content

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is on the subject of invasive species. So not just the mention of invasive species, and that's what keyword looks for to look for

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That term, invasive species, it'll look at the first, it'll look at the title, look at the first hundred words, and then it'll pull that content into Topic Finder.

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Where here, if I'm accessing from a topic guide.

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I know that it's looking more at that subject of invasive species. So a little different in my results.

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But it's a good way for you all to see the difference and understand the difference between the two.

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Again, I can click on ecosystems and now it takes me to seven documents. So a little bit easier, a little bit more bite-sized for our middle schoolers.

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I can go back to my results.

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And again, back to that topic page.

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Okay, let's talk about some additional content.

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Right on the home page.

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And then we're going to jump into the tools to support accessibility.

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But right on the homepage, we have these scrolling

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talking about hurricanes which hurricanes

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I know many of you this

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This session was originally scheduled for October and we had to bump it up. We did bump it a month.

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You had other things on your minds that you were

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I'm having to worry about so

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Hurricanes is there on the homepage and I hope you all are doing well.

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And recovering from the hurricanes that came through Florida.

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voting an electoral college

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explore this topic.

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Again, topic and image overview there at the top

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But you can see a lot of content. So biographies, magazines, images, news, video content, 63 different primary sources available.

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We also have creative works and audio files.

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I can find great biographies that we have available.

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Here's some images, election day. This is from 2012 in Florida.

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So we have, again, on this topic because

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You will find a mix of, because we do update content daily, so you're going to find some new content, but on some of the topics, especially when you're talking about social studies.

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You're going to find some historical pieces in here too. So something like this where we're seeing images from 2012 available. And some of those voting machines and what did it look like and how

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How have we grown? Where are we at now?

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reference content. We've talked a little bit about, but you can see here

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democracy, women's suffrage movement, Voting Rights Act.

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voter turnout. So lots of great information that we have available.

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We looked at images. Let's look at primary sources.

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And you can see where some of these date back to.

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And with the primary sources, you'll find that, let's click into this one.

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This is from discovering his u.s history

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We start with some information at the top. Sometimes it's a commentary you'll see that's pulled out.

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And then we go into that primary source.

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They're all they're fairly consistent where you have that information at the top

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Talking a little bit about the topic first, let me go back to primary sources and show you.

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difference. Let's try this one.

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Yeah, so this one has that commentary at the top

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And then it'll go into more information and then the primary source. This is a longer document.

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If I were to go into, there's one I like to use all the time it's

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a letter

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So this primary source

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I can filter down. If I go back to primary sources, I can use my document type

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And I can specifically look at maybe I'm interested in just letters or memoirs.

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There's speeches available here.

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broadcast

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Oh my goodness, this morning, broadcast transcripts available

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Personal accounts, I love the personal accounts. Sometimes you'll see diaries and diary entries. This one has a memoir.

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I do like the letters.

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Just selecting this first one, Susan B. Anthony is the author.

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So you get a commentary from Susan, commentary first on the letter

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And then the actual letter.

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So great primary source content we have available within Gale In Context Middle School.

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Let me share with you

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I wanted to, I touched into literature and I know that part of your curriculum is analyzing the interaction between character development

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Setting, plot, literary texts.

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This is something we see a part of many curriculums as it should be

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So in that literature section, going back to the home page.

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Jumping into literature.

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I had mentioned that we have

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Figurative language.

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We also have literary devices, literary genres, just to name a few.

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Some of the books I know, diary, like Island of the Blue Dolphins.

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Let's go to

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We have it under. There it is. Anne Frank, the diary of a Young Girl.

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one of the books that part of your curriculum

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So you have the, again, image and essay overview. Something I want to point out here.

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is we do have a primary source

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But what I love to show in this one is

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and images

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You have pages from her actual diary.

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So these types of

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documents and images and not just primary sources, but we have available within this resource.

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So students can really explore that and get a deeper understanding and build their knowledge, but connect.

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to what they're learning about.

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as you're covering your curriculum standards.

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Okay. Well, good. We're doing, oh, I did. I wanted to share one more thing

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The tools to support accessibility.

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We have the ability to translate the text.

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into over 50 languages

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I'm just going to show you Spanish real quick.

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And we get our first start is

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Below, you will see that we have

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a sample. You have to complete that translation

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So here we go, complete translation. What we provide a sample first

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We use Google Translate.

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To translate the documents.

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And I have to complete that translation. Once I do, then all of my tools to support accessibility will be back.

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We provided that because

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students like to explore different languages, but maybe they just want to see what it looks like.

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they don't necessarily want to necessarily want

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or need that language.

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So for example.

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they might want to look at what Chinese looks like.

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So that's kind of why we put that in there.

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And then you have the ability to decrease or increase that font size.

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Display options is where I can change the color behind the text.

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I can change that font size or the font itself and then increase the line letter and word spacing.

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Click done. And again, this is something that will stick with me

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When I go to the next article.

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I'm accessing the next document. It'll stick with me throughout my session.

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I leave this session all i have to do

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is close the browser and it'll clear that information

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Or if you open that box back up, I can go back to default settings and click done.

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I can listen to the text being read aloud to me.

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And this should start reading the title here at the top.

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And Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Now let me show you under this more button

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We have some basic settings which changes the

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the color that's being highlighted, the color of the text, you have some features there that you can change.

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to control what this tool is doing, but I want to focus on the enlarged text.

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You also have this is where you have the ability to download this as an MP3.

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If I turn on this enlarged text, and this is another feature that will stick with me throughout my session.

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and click play.

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About this work.

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it pulls the text out onto the page, as you can see here.

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I can control it still from this point because it's

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Title, and Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Because it's going to continuously scroll down the page.

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I can increase this font size or decrease it.

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Again, I can play.

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Diary.

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published.

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And I can stop it at any time too.

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Another feature is highlights and notes. Let me go to another article.

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I'm going to go to one that…

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Okay.

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So I have the ability to highlight a chunk of text and just click the listen button.

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And it will just read this chunk of text.

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But also, when I highlight, I have the ability to use my highlights and notes feature.

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I can highlight that text.

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add in any notes I want.

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Save that information.

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If there's a word I'm struggling with.

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like let's say museum

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And I click Define, it gives me a page out of the Webster's dictionary.

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I can highlight another chunk of text.

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Maybe I'm using this for a project.

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paper

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And maybe these are some facts I want to use and save.

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Now, best practice

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I always tell

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Anyone that I train, but especially share this with your students. If I am marking up a document and I want to keep that document.

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I want to use the send option.

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I want to keep it marked up. So I'll want to send it either to Google Drive or OneDrive. I can email it. It'll remain marked up. It'll turn it into a Google Doc or a Microsoft

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Word doc so i

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will have it exactly in that let's say I'm saying sending it to Google. It'll turn it into a Google Doc and then it'll

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be marked up exactly how I have it. And not only that

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but my

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Chunks of text I've highlighted will live below the citation.

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And my notes will be there too. So I have everything I need

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sitting waiting for me in my folder titled

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Gale In Context: middle school

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And in a marked up document. So I have that send to download or print all options. Now, if I use GitLink, it's not going to save what I've highlighted.

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So as a teacher, if I'm highlighting and marking up a document for students.

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I will also want to send it to my Google Drive.

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The Git link will take you back to this article

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But it won't save

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the information that you've highlighted. It's not static. It's a persistent URL, but it's not static. And you want it that way because if we ever update any information.

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You'll want that updated information, right? That updated content. So you do want it to remain that way. So tip.

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for teachers is to also send it to their Google Drive.

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What's also happening is, let me go into another document.

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Let's just choose.

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This biography, which is where we, oh, this is a different one

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information about Anne Frake, if I want to highlight this.

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Maybe I'm answering a question. Looking, diving, critical thinking skills

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I can, again, best practice send this to my Google Drive.

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But what's happening is my highlights and notes is being built out here over to the right hand side.

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View all highlights and notes.

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This will take you to your highlights and notes screen.

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And this is session based. That's what this warning is. So make sure you download or send this somewhere before you leave this resource

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Otherwise, this information will be lost.

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I like to call these digital notes.

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You also have the ability to edit your notes.

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before you send them

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So I can edit my notes. I've had teachers share that they use this for

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You know, informational reading, but they talk to students about annotating and they'll use this as a mentor or a

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Yeah, mentor text.

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So at the beginning, when they're teaching this skill, this is a great mini lesson for librarians and media specialists.

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to share with students, again, developing those research skills, not only teaching browsing and searching, but also

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how to annotate and grab that content. I like, again, to call them digital notes. So if they're working on a project and they send this information to their Google Drive because you have those options.

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to send to Google OneDrive email.

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download or print. They're all up here, but let's say I send it to my Google Drive.

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then I can share it with my teacher

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They can add some notes, they can see where I'm at in my project. It's a great way to just do so many things.

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Also, I've had students work

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together if they're working on a group project.

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They're able to send this to their Google Drive and share it or share it in a folder and they can work together in this project. They're grabbing information and working on a group project. This is a great way to share that information.

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And when I send it, my bibliography will be attached. I can change that format to

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If I need it to APA 7th edition

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but also my work cited page over here to the right

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my citation tool, you'll see it at the document level. All our citations are attached to everything within our resources.

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And you do have the ability to change it to

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APA Chicago and Harvard.

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Our citation tool here

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We'll just pull in the citations from the articles I've highlighted.

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So here's your works cited page.

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Which is also another great

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tool, again, developing those research skills, but it's a kind of a bit of a tip for students.

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that they need their work cited or their bibliography, they can just grab it here, send it wherever they're

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you know or export it to wherever that whatever they're using

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And then they have that information. Again, it is attached at the bottom.

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So it will live in their Google Drive if they forget to do that, but it is a great tool that they have available here also.

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All right, we covered all of our tools and features. I did want to talk a little bit about

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We're right at the end of our session.

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But I wanted to talk about

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you also have

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Let's go into US history.

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some great video content available.

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And I don't know, I like to always jump into

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Let's go into Franklin D. Roosevelt and see what we have.

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We only have one video.

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Let me do it. Let's do global warming.

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And climate change. We'll stick with those

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There are 173 videos. So science, we have a few more videos, but I wanted to share with you

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that in your videos, your audio files, you have transcripts. And in videos, we also have closed captioning available.

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So here's one from the New York Times, just real quick.

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Closed captioning.

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And then the transcript.

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If I need to translate, I can translate the transcript.

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Not the closed captioning or the video, but I can translate the transcript. So that option is available.

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So those are all of our tools to support accessibility. Talk to you about highlights and notes.

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how to save content, share content.

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And then the content that's available. We have, again, to support your curriculum.

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We have the ability to

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filter by curriculum standards, but you will find many of the topic pages

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that are aligned to or related to your curriculum standards.

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So lots of great topics and topic pages. We have our topic guides we have available.

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Let me go back to my PowerPoint and share with you where you can go if you need additional support.

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And that is our Gale support site. I'm going to share this link in the chat.

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This is a really good one to bookmark. We've created this page specifically for the Florida Electronic Library.

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I shared it at the beginning of today's training session. This is where the training recording will live, but you'll also find

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All of your access information, so your direct URLs.

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And why do I suggest using those direct URLs? Usage.

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You will be able to track usage for your library if you're using your direct URLs. If you prefer to use the Florida Electronic Library site, that's great too.

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Just know that that usage will actually roll up to the

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Nearest public library. So keep that in mind.

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So if you're a public library and you want to just use the FEL site, you can do that. But it really gives you, if you're using your access URLs, your direct URLs for your site, it gives you more of a granular look.

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at what's happening in your library and our usage dashboard is very visual. It's great to pull all that content together.

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You'll also find title lists there, your mark records, database icons, widgets, the ability to contact your customer success manager.

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In the training center, we have so many student activities available for Gale In Context Middle School, like

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escape rooms. We have tic-tac-toe.

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We have all kinds of different unique activities available and projects within

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the training center. You'll also find tip sheets and tutorials and recorded webinars. We've created PowerPoint decks

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So slide decks available for you with all of our training notes, lesson plans, scavenger hunts. I talked about projects already.

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You also will find training toolkits, which are a step-by-step click sheet

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to our training content. So we've curated it, take you from the basics

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So getting started to where you can go for help. We also give you instructions on

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The tools that are available if you want to facilitate your own trainings in your building.

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Marketing materials, you'll find bookmarks and posters and email templates, blog templates all available. Every social media

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shape and size you need are all available on the Gale Support site.

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So again, I shared that link. It'll also be included in the follow-up email.

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I'm going to end the session here. Hopefully you have time for a quick survey since you're attending the live session. If you just click continue.

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My name is Tammi Burke. Select me from the drop down menu and provide us with some feedback. I would love to hear what you have to say or any additional training you're looking for for your FEL resources.

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Feel free to leave that in the comments too. I look at those.

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A couple times a month, I'll share some of that information internally. I also share it with our fantastic colleague, not colleague, I should say partner at the Florida Electronic Library. It's anonymous.

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So please feel free to share whatever information you would like there.

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And feel free to leave some comments.

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Technical support if you need them are here. Gale Customer Success Manager. I mentioned that I would share their information. Here's their email address. It'll also be in your follow-up email.

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If you'd like to use your phone to take that survey, please feel free to scan that QR code.

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Or if you're watching this recording, you can do the same.

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That wraps our session for today. Thank you all for taking time out of your morning to spend it with me.

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I hope you join us again in the future. We actually have another training session this week focused on high school. So if you'd like to join us again, or if you're watching this recording.

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Be on the lookout on the support site here that I'm sharing with you.

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That's where all of our training

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sessions are posted and there will be one for high schoolers too. So thanks everyone.

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If you have any questions, let me know. I'll stay on.

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But have a great rest of your day.
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