Duration: 30 Minutes
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Hello and welcome everyone today.
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Our Gale 101 session is focused on
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Gale In Context: Global Issues.
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My name is Amber Winters and I'm a senior training
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consultant here with Gale.
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So our agenda for today. First, we'll just
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overview the resource. So what you can expect
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to find, how we've organized it, things like that,
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then we'll talk about some of the key content you'll
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find within the resource as well. So really the goodies
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that your users are going to need to succeed,
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we'll spend the majority of the time actually walking through
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the platform. So you can get a feel of the different
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workflows, how some of the different
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tools and organizational features
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look. And then at the very end of the session,
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I will have some wrap up information with
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some contact for you.
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If you have questions as we move through the session,
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feel free to put them into the Q and A at any
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time. But I have included time
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here at the end as well. So if you don't think
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of your question until the end of the session, or
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if that Q and A gets a little bit bogged down.
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I'll make sure to have everything answered at
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the very latest by the end of the session. But again,
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feel free to ask questions at any time.
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So let's go ahead and get started. Oops, you'll have to excuse
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my header here. It looks like I mistyped.
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So we're talking about
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Gale In Context: Global Issues
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And this resource is really developed for secondary
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and up users. So we're talking your upper
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upper level middle school students
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or maybe your eighth grade students as
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well as high school and undergraduate students.
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And this is also fairly commonly used
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for adult learners as well. So if I
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have any public library patrons on the line
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with users interested in kind
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of what's going on in the world, this is a great resource
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for them as well. So you can really think of it kind
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of high school on up through adults,
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including undergraduate students and people like
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that. Some of our subject
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areas that we've chosen to highlight include things like
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business and economy, conflict and diplomacy.
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We have full curated topic pages
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about countries and territories. So
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if you have maybe students coming in doing a project
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about
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China or Russia or
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a different foreign
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country, we do have information that's been specifically
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curated for them as well. You
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also find information on health and science,
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society and culture as well as politics
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and government. So this is really a focused
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current events resource
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that we have chosen to create specifically
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with global viewpoints
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in mind. So as opposed to seeing everything
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very American centric and learning about, you
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know, global climate change
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from the American point of view.
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With this resource, we're providing information about global
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climate change from the view of
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different countries.
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So this is really giving kind of
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that next step in understanding what's going,
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what's going on around the globe, not just
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within the United States
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and within this platform, just like all of our other
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in context platforms, we have some great tools
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and features that are going to help your users as they start
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to navigate the resource. So if they
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find something important, we have highlighted notes that they
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can use within the platform. If they need
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to translate our articles, they'll be able to
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translate, have the article read aloud
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to them. We have some different text manipulation
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options that will really enhance the accessibility
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for them and make the text as clear
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as possible. We also have a great
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citation generator for all of our materials.
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So if you do have students or
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undergrads, researchers coming
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in and need to have citations created. We
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have a built in citation generator in the platform
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for them. Great way to get some buy in. If
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you are struggling to get students
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in the resource, telling them that they don't need
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to build their own citations anymore. Great
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way to get them engaged.
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And we also have integration with
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both Google and Microsoft. So
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your users, no matter if they're using Google or Microsoft
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will be able to send content over to their drives
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and save it for later. So if they're planning on using
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it for a project, or maybe if this is
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an adult public library patron coming in
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and they're researching a specific topic and
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just want to save that information for later. Maybe
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they can't read it all right now in one setting, or
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maybe they want to save it and share it with their family
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or with a colleague, They'll be
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able to send over to their drives and really have that nice
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effective connection.
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Now, I first want to highlight
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our topic pages that we have created within
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our resource and every in context
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resource has topic pages. What
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we do is we find the most studied,
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most searched, most used topics within
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each of our resources. And we make these
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nice curated pages focused on
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those topics very top. We'll
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have an overview of the resource followed
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by different content buckets with
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our search results related to that resource
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and within Gale In Context: Global Issues,
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we actually have a nice feature
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that our country and territory topic
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pages. So instead of having a topic page
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focused on say
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climate change, again, I'll use that as an example.
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You'll see we have them focused on places
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like Morocco.
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So we've chosen to highlight these
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these countries in those territories to make
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it easier for your users to study one specific
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area. So if maybe they're not necessarily
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interested in just one topic, but they want to know
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everything that's going on in Russia,
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let's say they'll be able to pull up these country
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and territory topic pages
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to find that information. And you'll see, we
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do include the overview at the top here.
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We provided some quick facts here on
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this right hand side of the page.
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So this is great for students again
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who are coming in, who may need these kind of facts
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for a report they're doing, you'll see we
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have information on, you know, the life expectancy,
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the type of government they're going to find within this country
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or this territory. So this is a nice
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kind of clean way to get some quick facts before
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they really dive into the research, research.
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And then again, at the bottom of each of these
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habit pages, you'll see here, all of
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our relevant content is organized
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for your users. So again, if they
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have a project or just have an interest in a specific
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country, having them jump over to
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these topic pages as opposed to searching
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through the platform is a great way for them
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to kind of access a lot of content with
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not a lot of work, which is always
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something that's going to be appealing for your users to
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to access with as few clicks as possible.
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So, we're going to take a look at a lot of different
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topic pages. Today, we'll take a look at how to find
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these country and territory, topic pages
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and then we'll look at some other topic pages as
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well. But before
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we jump into the resource, I want to go over quickly,
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just, some of the different key content
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types you're going to find within this resource. So if you start
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to get questions from your patrons and from your students,
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ask you exactly what you're going to find,
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I wanna kind of highlight some of the key things.
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So the first thing maybe kind
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of expected since this is a, a current events
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platform is going to be our viewpoint
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essays. So we're really providing procon
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information about the hottest habits
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that are going on
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around the globe.
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And what's great is these viewpoint essays
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that we have loaded up within
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our resource here aren't labeled as
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procon essays.
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So if you have users coming in, they kind of have
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to read through this and build their own
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understanding of what this piece of text
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is saying, you know, is this piece of text pro
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this topic, is it con this topic?
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It's really having them kind of engage their critical
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thinking skills and really dig into what
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the author is saying. So these again
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are viewpoint essays. So they are opinion pieces
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that they are a large chunk of this resource
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is just helping your users understand
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where different people are coming from, related
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to different topics.
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We also include reference articles. So these are going
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to be more of your facts. So
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those viewpoint essays are giving opinions. But
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if they need just the facts about a topic,
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re reference articles are going to be a
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great way for them to access that information.
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This reference articles are a nice starting point
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too, especially if you have someone coming
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in just learning about a topic or maybe just learning
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about a country.
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taking a look at these reference articles before
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digging into viewpoint essays and things like
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that is a great way to get them. kind
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of really settled in what they're learning about.
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We also include a huge collection of multimedia
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content. So this is great for
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users who prefer not to read. Of course,
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a lot of people prefer to get their information
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via video or maybe a podcast
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or even images, they'll find those in here.
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This is also great for any teachers that I have on
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the line who maybe need a quick
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bell ringer or something like that. They can just
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find a nice video. Usually our videos are under
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around five minutes so they can find
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a nice quick video about whatever students
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are going to be learning about, share it with them
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and they can watch and kind of explore
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to
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start their lessons.
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In addition, we have some great statistics in
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here as well. So for anyone
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working to teach students how to read charts
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and graphs and all that good stuff, you'll
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find a lot of that within gal and context
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global issues and we, we try to provide
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as much information as possible you'll see under
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the sta statistic.
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A lot of times we'll have a little explanation
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of what this statistic is showing. So
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if you're looking for statistics to integrate
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into your classroom, this is a great place
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for you to look as well as for your users.
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Anyone from the public library, if you're
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looking for contents, maybe to share
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on social media, you're looking for just a a quick
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interesting stat you wanna share out to get some
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interest. This is a great place for you to take
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a look as well within global issues.
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We also have academic journals within this
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resource. So anyone working
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with maybe high school aged older
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high school students, you know, 11th 12th graders
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or for those working with academics
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who are coming in looking for maybe homework
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help or project help. We do have
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academic journals listed in this resource as
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well. So if they're ready to take a step up
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from kind of the general reference information,
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they can do that within gale and context
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global issues.
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And finally, we have a nice collection of news
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and magazines as well. So if you want to make
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sure that this content
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is being related to what's currently going on.
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You want users not only to understand the topic
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but also how it's just impacting society
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and how society is impacting the topic.
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Our news and magazines section is going to be
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a great place for you to go and it
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is updated continuously. So as we get
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new information, we're putting
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it within this resource. And what's great about Gale and context
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global issues is we have a lot
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of publications that are
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not um
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American publications. So we're getting publications
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from the actual countries where these
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topics and these issues are being brought up and
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are being fought over or discussed.
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So when we click through this resource, you're going
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to see a lot of the publications that
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we navigate to are from different countries.
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You'll see this one here.
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When I clicked into this, it shows me
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what the publisher is and you'll see. This publication is
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actually from Nigeria, which makes sense
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because this is about Nigeria
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as well as a few other countries. So
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a really nice feature of this resource is to get
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an authentic view of what's going on
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throughout the globe from other people's
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eyes, not from the United States.
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So let's go ahead and jump in the resource so we can all
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take a look. I haven't seen any questions pop
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up in the Q and A. But while I flip my screen
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over. Are there any questions at all about
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kind of that brief overview?
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OK. I don't see any. So
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let's go ahead and explore gil
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and context global issues then.
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So this is our home page here. If you are
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familiar with any other in context resource,
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this is laid out the exact same
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for you. We wanna make sure you have the most
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consistent experience
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possible. So scrolling down on this home page,
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we pull out some different issues of interest.
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These generally change monthly depending on
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what's going on. If something you know, big happens
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in the world that we want to highlight, it might change sooner
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than a month. But generally
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they change monthly.
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Scrolling down underneath that.
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We also have the option for users to just
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browse through some of the different issues we've chosen
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to highlight within this resource and each
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of these issues is actually a topic page. So
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you'll see right now, we have 682
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topic pages within our platform.
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And you'll see, excuse me, we have broken them
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up by category here. So again, if we're looking
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for conflicts, we'll
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have that here. Maybe we want information
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on health and medicine. We have that society and
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culture. So they're nice and broken down.
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And if we are looking for a topic pages related
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to countries or territories, we have actually pulled those
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out separately here as well. You see,
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we have this countries and territories section.
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And we have 200 topic pages here.
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See if I start to scroll down,
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we can just browse through and take a look at those.
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What's great is I can also search for a country and
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pull forward the topic pages.
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So if I'm interested, let's say, in Greece, and I decided
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just to run a basic search on Greece,
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you see when I want, I run my search here.
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I get this little predict predictive
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text that has an image next to it. And
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this is going to pull up the topic page
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for Greece.
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So another great way to access content, they can
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just run their search for whatever country
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or territory.
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Now, before we run a search and actually
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click into a topic page, I'm going to jump
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back to our home page here
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just so we all have a nice clean landing point
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because I also want to show you if I scroll
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back up top here, you'll see. I have this
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browse map option.
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I'm gonna click into this. Now,
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it gives me this little map that I can hover over
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and it's going to show me the difference.
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We call them issues, but each issue is a topic
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page. So the different topic pages we
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have related to our different countries here.
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So you'll see, Russia has seven topic pages
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that are somehow related to them. So you'll see
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just the standard Russia topic page.
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If we want to get a little bit more specific,
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the Russia Ukraine Conflict Space
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Exploration.
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so users can really go through and click through
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this map.
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Maybe. Now they want to take a look at China and you'll see all
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of the topic pages related to China.
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This is just kind of a secondary way for them
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to access information. They can either go in
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through a country's topic page or
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they can click our browse map and
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kind of click through and see some of the different
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topic pages related to that country.
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Now again, I'm going to jump back to home
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one more time just by clicking on my yell and
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contexts, global issues icon
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or logo, I guess you would call it.
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So now I'm going to click into
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a topic page here.
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So let's say your users have a topic in mind.
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You know, they're not interested in browsing right now. They know
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exactly what they need.
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What's great is if they start their search and
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whatever topic they're looking for actually has
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a topic page, they can still navigate
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to it. So I today
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in here, um I'm going to look up global
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water crisis, let's say that's something I'm
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really interested in. So start to
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type my search in and just like when I typed
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in Greece for the country, when
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I start to type in my topic, you'll see a lot of these predictive
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text options here. Have
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these little images next to them. So anytime
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you see this predictive text with an image
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next to it, that means we have a topic
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page related to that topic.
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Sometimes you'll see a predictive text that's just
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a, you know, a, a phrase and
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doesn't have these little images next to it. Those
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are going to pull just the basic search results. So
[00:15:09.940]
if your users are maybe searching for something that's a little
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more um specific or less
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studied, we may not have a topic page develop
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developed for them, then they'll just
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run their basic search and they'll pull content that way.
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But let's click into global water crisis here
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and we'll take a look at this topic page.
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So again, as I mentioned at the very
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top, you're going to have your overview, this
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is giving just the background
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about whatever your topic is. So this isn't
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getting into procon yet. This
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is just giving you the foundation
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you need to continue on with your research. You'll see
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I can hit the blue, read more button
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and we can see the full article. We try not to make these
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articles too long, you know. So we've broken out
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some main ideas that could certainly be beneficial
[00:15:53.119]
for your users.
[00:15:55.210]
And then at the very bottom, we also have some critical
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thinking questions here, but just
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a quick article to make sure your users are comfortable
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with what they're learning about.
[00:16:04.788]
Now, if I jump back here to my
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topic page again,
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scrolling down, you'll see all of the different content
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types we have available here. So again, you'll
[00:16:14.599]
find our viewpoint essays,
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videos, audio, as well as
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images. So all of our multimedia content
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are pulled out into those three separate buckets
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for organization. You'll find magazines
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and news. Sometimes we'll have linked websites
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which are external websites a lot of
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times um
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related to different, government
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organizations or different,
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nonprofits or things
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like that, whatever is related to this topic.
[00:16:41.619]
A lot of time you'll find external website links
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here. Again, we have our academic journals
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listed as well. So if you're working with kind of higher
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level learners, you'll have those
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right here on the topic page as well.
[00:16:53.580]
And you see, once I start to scroll down here, all
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of those contents are pulled out together into different
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content buckets
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and they show the first couple entries for each
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content type.
[00:17:03.788]
And then at the very bottom,
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we also here have related topics.
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So if your users are ready to move forward
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and are maybe just looking for a topic that's
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similar to what they just learned about. This is
[00:17:14.118]
a great way for them to find that information.
[00:17:16.140]
So you'll see, maybe they're interested now in water pollution
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or water rights, they'll be able to click directly
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into those and continue their research forward
[00:17:23.459]
from here.
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Now, I'm actually going to scroll back up and we're
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going to look at
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our viewpoint essays today here.
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So clicking into my viewpoints,
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you see, this starts to look more like a standard
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search results page. You know, if you were to run a basic
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search that this is kind of what you would expect to see.
[00:17:47.598]
What's great is at the top of the page here
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if you know, I clicked in viewpoints. But no, I actually
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want reference, I just want the facts.
[00:17:54.088]
I can click over into reference right up top
[00:17:56.098]
here. And
[00:17:58.900]
I can also use filters on this right hand
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side to really kind of clean up what I'm
[00:18:03.049]
seeing, especially when we're talking about
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global issues. Of course, as you can imagine,
[00:18:07.309]
we're going to get viewpoints from,
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you know, a bunch of different countries, a bunch
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of different areas. So we can start to
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kind of narrow it down to make sure we're getting the information
[00:18:16.029]
we need. You see, I have the option to narrow
[00:18:18.150]
by subjects here.
[00:18:20.009]
So if I want to do that, I could narrow there, see,
[00:18:22.309]
maybe we're interested in El Nino, something
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like that.
[00:18:25.358]
We can narrow down.
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We can also narrow it down based on publication
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title.
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So you see a lot of these publications when they're outside
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of the United States, even the
[00:18:35.769]
few that we have that are actually inside the United States,
[00:18:37.969]
you'll see we show where they're from. So if maybe
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we're interested in Canada specifically,
[00:18:42.750]
I might want to narrow this down just to Canada.
[00:18:45.838]
You see, we've got some from Australia, Pakistan,
[00:18:48.858]
Sri Lanka, Yemen,
[00:18:51.500]
we have a lot. I'll just leave it at that
[00:18:53.809]
so we can narrow it down based on publication title
[00:18:56.118]
as well, which sometimes helps users
[00:18:58.380]
find a specific country or region
[00:19:00.680]
of interest.
[00:19:03.380]
Now, let's go ahead and click into one of these here.
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Excuse me.
[00:19:09.809]
Let's just click into
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the second one here. Response
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to essay of South African water crisis
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is disappointing.
[00:19:19.130]
So whenever we click into a viewpoint article
[00:19:21.390]
here towards the top, you're going to find
[00:19:23.750]
kind of an article commentary. So this is giving
[00:19:25.789]
a background, you know why the author wrote this,
[00:19:27.989]
what the author is saying,
[00:19:29.578]
giving you some questions to think
[00:19:31.689]
about as well, which is oftentimes helpful,
[00:19:33.989]
especially if you're working with student you
[00:19:36.150]
know, they're going to be reading this piece, you want them to understand
[00:19:38.368]
why they're reading it. And so we provide some nice
[00:19:40.650]
kind of just critical thinking questions
[00:19:42.900]
for them to get going with their learning.
[00:19:45.559]
And then underneath
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is where you're going to find all of the text. And you see this one isn't
[00:19:49.269]
too long. Again, we try
[00:19:51.348]
to keep our viewpoints on the shorter side, we don't
[00:19:53.459]
want them to have to read a full novel to kind of understand
[00:19:55.789]
what a viewpoint is saying. So a lot of these
[00:19:57.959]
you'll see are generally going to be like shorter articles,
[00:20:00.279]
something you would expect to see
[00:20:02.009]
you know, in a newspaper or something like that.
[00:20:05.750]
And while we're on a document here, let's take a look at
[00:20:07.799]
some of the different tools we have available for your
[00:20:09.890]
users. So as I mentioned previously, the
[00:20:11.930]
first one I want to point out is our citation tool.
[00:20:14.219]
You'll see our button is up top here in our little
[00:20:16.430]
toolbar,
[00:20:18.299]
right? Select this, you'll see. I have the option
[00:20:20.449]
for citations in Mlaap, a Chicago
[00:20:22.578]
or Harvard. So I click any of those.
[00:20:25.209]
I want to change out to a pa I can do that here
[00:20:27.578]
and I can copy and paste this or
[00:20:29.630]
I can send it over to one of my drives.
[00:20:31.739]
If I'm using something like noodle tools, I can send it over
[00:20:33.939]
there and I can save this for later.
[00:20:37.338]
Our citation is also found at the very bottom of
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the article you'll see here in this little gray box,
[00:20:41.650]
same citation and same tools
[00:20:43.858]
you can copy and paste it, you know, put it
[00:20:45.910]
right in your work cited. You
[00:20:47.939]
can send it over to your drives
[00:20:49.920]
and with senses. If you decide to save this article,
[00:20:52.368]
the citation follows it along as well.
[00:20:54.559]
So they'll always have access to a citation even
[00:20:57.059]
if they decided to, you know, pull this article into
[00:20:59.489]
their Google or their Microsoft drives.
[00:21:02.969]
And if they did want to do that, that's actually the next
[00:21:05.088]
button right next to citation is our send to button
[00:21:07.519]
clicking on this little paper airplane,
[00:21:09.539]
you see, gives the option to send to Google Drive
[00:21:11.949]
onedrive or I can email it to myself
[00:21:14.269]
or to others.
[00:21:15.959]
What's great is if I decided I did want to send
[00:21:18.000]
over, let's say to my Google Google Drive and I wasn't
[00:21:20.309]
already signed in. This would prompt me
[00:21:22.328]
to sign in
[00:21:23.309]
and then would just launch me right back here after
[00:21:25.439]
it sent it over. If I signed into
[00:21:27.449]
my pla to my Google Drive before
[00:21:29.858]
I clicked into this, it will just automatically
[00:21:32.539]
recognize that and send over to
[00:21:34.549]
my drive.
[00:21:36.890]
And when these articles go over to your drive, they're
[00:21:38.900]
there forever. So you don't need to worry about them,
[00:21:40.920]
you know, magically disappearing after three months or
[00:21:42.949]
something like that.
[00:21:44.039]
And we do create a folder for your users
[00:21:46.209]
as well. So the first time they send
[00:21:48.318]
something over from Gale In Context: Global Issues,
[00:21:50.670]
they're going to get a nice little folder
[00:21:52.719]
that says gal and context global issues.
[00:21:55.229]
And then anytime they send information over
[00:21:57.439]
after that first time, it's all going to
[00:21:59.449]
go into that one global
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issues folder.
[00:22:03.348]
So we're really trying to organize for them. They're not going
[00:22:05.430]
to have 50 articles kind of randomly cluttering
[00:22:08.000]
their, their Google drives or their one drives.
[00:22:10.309]
If they're using Microsoft, it'll all funnel
[00:22:12.469]
into that one folder that we've made for them.
[00:22:16.489]
They also have the option to either download or
[00:22:18.650]
print this document as well. So if they want
[00:22:20.769]
a copy on their desktop or
[00:22:23.189]
if they want to print out and have an actual
[00:22:25.529]
physical hard copy, they have those options
[00:22:27.789]
here as well.
[00:22:29.309]
And each of these tools is also found
[00:22:31.348]
down here. You'll see my Google drive
[00:22:33.549]
icon, my onedrive email, download
[00:22:35.949]
and print and these again do the
[00:22:38.029]
same thing.
[00:22:39.368]
We just included them in two different places. So hopefully,
[00:22:41.979]
if your students maybe missed the download button up
[00:22:44.019]
top here, hopefully they'll see it down here
[00:22:46.880]
and vice versa.
[00:22:49.299]
Now, next to these sharing options, we also have
[00:22:51.358]
this get link button
[00:22:53.009]
and this link is going to provide a persistent bookmark
[00:22:55.309]
URL. So if you want to
[00:22:57.449]
share this out on social media, maybe put
[00:22:59.640]
it in a syllabus for your class, put it in a discussion
[00:23:01.979]
board or if your user just
[00:23:04.009]
wants to save it for themselves, they'll just
[00:23:06.130]
get link, copy and paste it wherever they want to
[00:23:08.250]
go and it will always be there for
[00:23:10.289]
them. They'll always be able to click into this, this link won't
[00:23:12.449]
break or anything like that.
[00:23:14.170]
And what's great is this get link feature actually
[00:23:16.180]
follows you along throughout most of the
[00:23:18.279]
session. So if you find a topic
[00:23:20.410]
page that you think is interesting, you want to share out
[00:23:22.618]
again, maybe on social media, maybe
[00:23:24.858]
in a discussion board, you can use this
[00:23:26.920]
get link to get a link to that topic page as well.
[00:23:29.160]
So you not only link to contents,
[00:23:31.469]
you know, individual pieces, but you can also
[00:23:33.660]
link the topic pages as well as search results
[00:23:35.989]
pages.
[00:23:37.439]
A nice way for you to hold on to content using my
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gut link.
[00:23:42.578]
Now, in addition to those tools, I do
[00:23:44.789]
want to show you
[00:23:46.209]
scroll down a little bit here, are different
[00:23:48.449]
accessibility tools that are going to help your users
[00:23:51.269]
really engage with this text as
[00:23:53.328]
best as they possibly can. So
[00:23:55.400]
you'll see those are found under the title here on this left
[00:23:57.539]
hand side of the screen.
[00:23:59.439]
The first one is our translate option. So you'll see
[00:24:01.630]
they have the ability to translate the
[00:24:03.818]
article into whatever language they need.
[00:24:07.150]
And they can also set an interface language
[00:24:09.259]
which is going to translate all of the
[00:24:11.338]
tools you see up top here
[00:24:13.400]
as well as the navigation, it's going to translate
[00:24:15.469]
all of that stuff into whatever language they
[00:24:17.559]
chose. So it's kind of like a two step
[00:24:19.618]
translation. The interface is going to translate
[00:24:22.500]
the navigation to make sure users can
[00:24:24.890]
click through the resource effectively.
[00:24:27.098]
And the article translation is going to translate
[00:24:29.539]
the stuff that you see in the middle of the
[00:24:31.588]
screen here. So it's going to translate that full article
[00:24:33.848]
for them
[00:24:36.539]
moving forward from translate. We also have the option
[00:24:38.769]
to increase or decrease the font size.
[00:24:41.689]
We have some additional display options here as
[00:24:43.699]
Well, you'll see I can change the color background.
[00:24:47.279]
Let me scroll down so you can see what that looks like here.
[00:24:50.750]
I can also change my font. You'll see, I have a few
[00:24:52.868]
different font options. We do have a dyslexia font.
[00:24:55.390]
So if you have users who find that's beneficial,
[00:24:58.509]
they can change over to their dyslexia font
[00:25:00.729]
here. And
[00:25:02.799]
I can also change my line letter and word spacing.
[00:25:06.459]
Again. We're really trying to make this as customizable
[00:25:08.858]
as possible to ensure that users
[00:25:11.229]
can access this information in the best way
[00:25:13.250]
for them. And what's great is once they set
[00:25:15.259]
this up for their first article, you know, they choose
[00:25:17.269]
their colors, all that good stuff, they hit
[00:25:19.279]
done.
[00:25:20.140]
This formatting is going to follow them along
[00:25:22.390]
throughout the session.
[00:25:24.239]
So as they click into new articles, click
[00:25:26.390]
into new contents, they won't need
[00:25:28.509]
to worry about setting that each and every time it's going
[00:25:30.640]
to follow them along as long as they stayed signed
[00:25:32.930]
into the resource.
[00:25:34.959]
I'm going to actually go back to my defaults though.
[00:25:38.689]
Here we go right
[00:25:41.098]
next to the display option. We also have our listen
[00:25:43.368]
tool right at the top of the page. So
[00:25:45.439]
if your users, I'm just going to pause this here. If
[00:25:47.608]
your users pref prefer to have the content
[00:25:49.818]
read to them as opposed to reading it themselves,
[00:25:52.759]
they'll hit this play and it will read through the entire article
[00:25:55.160]
for them even if there is an image with
[00:25:57.209]
a caption, it'll read the caption on that image
[00:25:59.239]
for them as well and it does read in the
[00:26:01.338]
language they've translated to. So if they
[00:26:03.410]
translated to Spanish first and
[00:26:05.578]
then wanted to have this article read to them, it
[00:26:07.618]
would read to them in Spanish.
[00:26:12.269]
Now, one final tool, I want to show you before
[00:26:14.479]
we end the day today, it's going to be
[00:26:16.489]
our highlights and notes tool. So if you're
[00:26:18.650]
working with students, let's say you really prefer
[00:26:20.939]
that they talk to the text as they're reading
[00:26:23.098]
pieces of content to really get a nice understanding.
[00:26:25.670]
They'll be able to do that on the platform right here. They can
[00:26:27.739]
just click and drag over something they think is important.
[00:26:30.578]
You'll see this little gray box opens up and I can
[00:26:32.630]
choose a color to highlight in, let's choose purple
[00:26:34.750]
today. If I want to add a note in
[00:26:36.769]
here, I could certainly do that.
[00:26:40.289]
Hopefully, notes are better than mine
[00:26:42.199]
and I can click and drag on anything I think is important.
[00:26:45.250]
This is also great for, you know,
[00:26:47.279]
public library, just general users who are coming
[00:26:49.529]
in who are reading longer articles
[00:26:51.618]
and want to, you know, retain little bits of
[00:26:53.630]
information, things that are important. Maybe
[00:26:55.759]
they're reading through and there's a great statistical bit
[00:26:57.799]
of information in one of these articles. They can
[00:26:59.959]
click and drag over it and highlight
[00:27:02.009]
that for themselves
[00:27:04.660]
and these highlights and notes are session based.
[00:27:06.799]
So once your user clicks
[00:27:08.809]
off the platform or is signed out due to
[00:27:10.890]
inactivity, these highlights aren't
[00:27:13.150]
saved anymore because we don't recognize them
[00:27:15.170]
as the same person getting off and back on
[00:27:17.348]
because we don't have named user accounts. So
[00:27:19.449]
if they do decide they want to highlight and
[00:27:21.479]
annotates while on the platform,
[00:27:23.618]
they want to make sure they get this document off
[00:27:25.920]
the platform before they sign off. They can
[00:27:27.979]
do that in any of the ways I mentioned before, they can
[00:27:30.118]
send it over to their drives,
[00:27:32.289]
they can download it or they can print it and it's going
[00:27:34.509]
to retain these highlights and any notes they took
[00:27:36.719]
for them for them as well.
[00:27:40.000]
We also store highlights and notes in one other
[00:27:42.170]
kind of a nice neat little place. If
[00:27:44.250]
you take a look at my toolbar up top here
[00:27:46.469]
on this very right hand side, I have a highlights and
[00:27:48.578]
notes button that has a three next to it.
[00:27:50.799]
If I click into this and then hit view
[00:27:53.160]
all highlights and notes,
[00:27:56.279]
this is going to show me just the
[00:27:58.338]
pieces that I highlighted. So you'll see. I
[00:28:00.430]
have my article here.
[00:28:02.338]
I have the bit of text that I highlighted
[00:28:04.868]
with the highlight color and then I have
[00:28:07.000]
any notes that I took and I can edit those notes here.
[00:28:10.500]
And what's great is as I'm on the same session.
[00:28:12.650]
So as I'm clicking through different documents,
[00:28:14.848]
maybe I highlight three or four documents,
[00:28:17.328]
they're each going to appear on this page, kind of
[00:28:19.348]
listed one after another
[00:28:21.209]
you'll see at the bottom. There's also a bibliography
[00:28:23.328]
that will continue to run as you're in through this session.
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So we have everything
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organized on this page as well and your users
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can send this over to their drives or download
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or print this as well. So if they decide they
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don't want to save, you know, full articles
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each time they read an article, they can just
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highlight and take notes and then
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send this bit of information over to
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their drives instead of a full article.
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And it does hold on to these direct links as
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well. So if they click back into
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this and realize they do want to actually read the
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article,
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they can click right back.
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It's where they were.
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And now we've come to the end of our time today.
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I do want to make sure I've answered all
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questions. I haven't seen any. But
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please, if you have questions, put them into the Q
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and A for me now and I'll be able to answer those
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while you're typing. If anyone is typing,
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I do want to give you some contact information
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if you have any questions about our session today
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or any other, you know, training related questions.
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Feel free to reach out to me again. My name is
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Amber Winters. My email is just
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[email protected]
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If you want to get a little bit more specific and
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how you can use this with your learning community,
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you can reach out to your customer success manager.
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You can either reach out directly or if you don't
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know who your customer success manager is, just
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send an email to
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[email protected] and we'll forward you
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to the correct person and you can really dive into
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some best practices that are, that may be
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beneficial for you and your learning community
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specifically.
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If right now, you don't have access to
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Gale In Context: Global Issues.
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but you, you want access,
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you can reach out to your sales consultant again, either reach
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out to them directly or you can go
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to support.gale.com/repfinder
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put in your information and we'll forward you to the correct
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individuals
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and you can also go to our support site for
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any other support information that you need.
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So if you need um maybe
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another webinar to take a look at you want a tip sheet,
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a resource guide, you want a student activity,
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you want some marketing materials, all of
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those are going to be found on our support site. So
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again, that's support.gale.com
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and it looks like we do have a quick question here in
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the Q and A. So the question is, are
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the viewpoint summaries written by staff or
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A I generated? So they are all written by
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people.
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Uh Some are written by Gale. Gale is also
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a publisher in addition to creating these uh these
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resources. So you'll find some that are published
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by Gale and you'll find some that are published
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by our publishing partners as
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well. But right now they are published and written by
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uh by humans.
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OK? No, I haven't seen any other questions.
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So going to go ahead and end our session for
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the day. If you do think of questions, please
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feel free to reach out through any one of these channels.
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Uh And hopefully we'll see you all in future sessions.
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Please enjoy the rest of your day.
Hello and welcome everyone today.
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Our Gale 101 session is focused on
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Gale In Context: Global Issues.
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My name is Amber Winters and I'm a senior training
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consultant here with Gale.
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So our agenda for today. First, we'll just
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overview the resource. So what you can expect
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to find, how we've organized it, things like that,
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then we'll talk about some of the key content you'll
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find within the resource as well. So really the goodies
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that your users are going to need to succeed,
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we'll spend the majority of the time actually walking through
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the platform. So you can get a feel of the different
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workflows, how some of the different
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tools and organizational features
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look. And then at the very end of the session,
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I will have some wrap up information with
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some contact for you.
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If you have questions as we move through the session,
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feel free to put them into the Q and A at any
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time. But I have included time
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here at the end as well. So if you don't think
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of your question until the end of the session, or
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if that Q and A gets a little bit bogged down.
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I'll make sure to have everything answered at
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the very latest by the end of the session. But again,
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feel free to ask questions at any time.
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So let's go ahead and get started. Oops, you'll have to excuse
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my header here. It looks like I mistyped.
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So we're talking about
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Gale In Context: Global Issues
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And this resource is really developed for secondary
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and up users. So we're talking your upper
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upper level middle school students
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or maybe your eighth grade students as
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well as high school and undergraduate students.
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And this is also fairly commonly used
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for adult learners as well. So if I
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have any public library patrons on the line
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with users interested in kind
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of what's going on in the world, this is a great resource
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for them as well. So you can really think of it kind
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of high school on up through adults,
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including undergraduate students and people like
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that. Some of our subject
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areas that we've chosen to highlight include things like
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business and economy, conflict and diplomacy.
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We have full curated topic pages
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about countries and territories. So
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if you have maybe students coming in doing a project
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about
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China or Russia or
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a different foreign
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country, we do have information that's been specifically
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curated for them as well. You
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also find information on health and science,
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society and culture as well as politics
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and government. So this is really a focused
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current events resource
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that we have chosen to create specifically
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with global viewpoints
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in mind. So as opposed to seeing everything
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very American centric and learning about, you
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know, global climate change
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from the American point of view.
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With this resource, we're providing information about global
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climate change from the view of
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different countries.
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So this is really giving kind of
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that next step in understanding what's going,
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what's going on around the globe, not just
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within the United States
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and within this platform, just like all of our other
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in context platforms, we have some great tools
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and features that are going to help your users as they start
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to navigate the resource. So if they
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find something important, we have highlighted notes that they
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can use within the platform. If they need
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to translate our articles, they'll be able to
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translate, have the article read aloud
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to them. We have some different text manipulation
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options that will really enhance the accessibility
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for them and make the text as clear
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as possible. We also have a great
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citation generator for all of our materials.
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So if you do have students or
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undergrads, researchers coming
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in and need to have citations created. We
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have a built in citation generator in the platform
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for them. Great way to get some buy in. If
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you are struggling to get students
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in the resource, telling them that they don't need
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to build their own citations anymore. Great
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way to get them engaged.
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And we also have integration with
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both Google and Microsoft. So
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your users, no matter if they're using Google or Microsoft
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will be able to send content over to their drives
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and save it for later. So if they're planning on using
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it for a project, or maybe if this is
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an adult public library patron coming in
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and they're researching a specific topic and
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just want to save that information for later. Maybe
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they can't read it all right now in one setting, or
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maybe they want to save it and share it with their family
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or with a colleague, They'll be
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able to send over to their drives and really have that nice
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effective connection.
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Now, I first want to highlight
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our topic pages that we have created within
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our resource and every in context
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resource has topic pages. What
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we do is we find the most studied,
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most searched, most used topics within
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each of our resources. And we make these
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nice curated pages focused on
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those topics very top. We'll
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have an overview of the resource followed
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by different content buckets with
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our search results related to that resource
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and within Gale In Context: Global Issues,
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we actually have a nice feature
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that our country and territory topic
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pages. So instead of having a topic page
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focused on say
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climate change, again, I'll use that as an example.
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You'll see we have them focused on places
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like Morocco.
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So we've chosen to highlight these
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these countries in those territories to make
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it easier for your users to study one specific
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area. So if maybe they're not necessarily
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interested in just one topic, but they want to know
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everything that's going on in Russia,
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let's say they'll be able to pull up these country
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and territory topic pages
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to find that information. And you'll see, we
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do include the overview at the top here.
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We provided some quick facts here on
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this right hand side of the page.
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So this is great for students again
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who are coming in, who may need these kind of facts
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for a report they're doing, you'll see we
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have information on, you know, the life expectancy,
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the type of government they're going to find within this country
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or this territory. So this is a nice
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kind of clean way to get some quick facts before
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they really dive into the research, research.
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And then again, at the bottom of each of these
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habit pages, you'll see here, all of
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our relevant content is organized
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for your users. So again, if they
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have a project or just have an interest in a specific
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country, having them jump over to
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these topic pages as opposed to searching
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through the platform is a great way for them
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to kind of access a lot of content with
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not a lot of work, which is always
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something that's going to be appealing for your users to
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to access with as few clicks as possible.
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So, we're going to take a look at a lot of different
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topic pages. Today, we'll take a look at how to find
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these country and territory, topic pages
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and then we'll look at some other topic pages as
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well. But before
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we jump into the resource, I want to go over quickly,
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just, some of the different key content
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types you're going to find within this resource. So if you start
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to get questions from your patrons and from your students,
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ask you exactly what you're going to find,
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I wanna kind of highlight some of the key things.
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So the first thing maybe kind
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of expected since this is a, a current events
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platform is going to be our viewpoint
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essays. So we're really providing procon
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information about the hottest habits
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that are going on
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around the globe.
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And what's great is these viewpoint essays
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that we have loaded up within
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our resource here aren't labeled as
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procon essays.
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So if you have users coming in, they kind of have
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to read through this and build their own
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understanding of what this piece of text
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is saying, you know, is this piece of text pro
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this topic, is it con this topic?
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It's really having them kind of engage their critical
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thinking skills and really dig into what
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the author is saying. So these again
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are viewpoint essays. So they are opinion pieces
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that they are a large chunk of this resource
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is just helping your users understand
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where different people are coming from, related
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to different topics.
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We also include reference articles. So these are going
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to be more of your facts. So
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those viewpoint essays are giving opinions. But
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if they need just the facts about a topic,
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re reference articles are going to be a
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great way for them to access that information.
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This reference articles are a nice starting point
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too, especially if you have someone coming
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in just learning about a topic or maybe just learning
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about a country.
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taking a look at these reference articles before
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digging into viewpoint essays and things like
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that is a great way to get them. kind
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of really settled in what they're learning about.
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We also include a huge collection of multimedia
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content. So this is great for
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users who prefer not to read. Of course,
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a lot of people prefer to get their information
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via video or maybe a podcast
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or even images, they'll find those in here.
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This is also great for any teachers that I have on
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the line who maybe need a quick
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bell ringer or something like that. They can just
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find a nice video. Usually our videos are under
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around five minutes so they can find
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a nice quick video about whatever students
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are going to be learning about, share it with them
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and they can watch and kind of explore
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to
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start their lessons.
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In addition, we have some great statistics in
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here as well. So for anyone
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working to teach students how to read charts
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and graphs and all that good stuff, you'll
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find a lot of that within gal and context
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global issues and we, we try to provide
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as much information as possible you'll see under
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the sta statistic.
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A lot of times we'll have a little explanation
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of what this statistic is showing. So
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if you're looking for statistics to integrate
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into your classroom, this is a great place
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for you to look as well as for your users.
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Anyone from the public library, if you're
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looking for contents, maybe to share
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on social media, you're looking for just a a quick
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interesting stat you wanna share out to get some
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interest. This is a great place for you to take
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a look as well within global issues.
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We also have academic journals within this
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resource. So anyone working
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with maybe high school aged older
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high school students, you know, 11th 12th graders
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or for those working with academics
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who are coming in looking for maybe homework
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help or project help. We do have
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academic journals listed in this resource as
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well. So if they're ready to take a step up
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from kind of the general reference information,
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they can do that within gale and context
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global issues.
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And finally, we have a nice collection of news
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and magazines as well. So if you want to make
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sure that this content
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is being related to what's currently going on.
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You want users not only to understand the topic
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but also how it's just impacting society
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and how society is impacting the topic.
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Our news and magazines section is going to be
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a great place for you to go and it
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is updated continuously. So as we get
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new information, we're putting
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it within this resource. And what's great about Gale and context
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global issues is we have a lot
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of publications that are
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not um
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American publications. So we're getting publications
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from the actual countries where these
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topics and these issues are being brought up and
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are being fought over or discussed.
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So when we click through this resource, you're going
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to see a lot of the publications that
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we navigate to are from different countries.
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You'll see this one here.
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When I clicked into this, it shows me
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what the publisher is and you'll see. This publication is
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actually from Nigeria, which makes sense
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because this is about Nigeria
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as well as a few other countries. So
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a really nice feature of this resource is to get
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an authentic view of what's going on
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throughout the globe from other people's
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eyes, not from the United States.
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So let's go ahead and jump in the resource so we can all
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take a look. I haven't seen any questions pop
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up in the Q and A. But while I flip my screen
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over. Are there any questions at all about
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kind of that brief overview?
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OK. I don't see any. So
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let's go ahead and explore gil
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and context global issues then.
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So this is our home page here. If you are
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familiar with any other in context resource,
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this is laid out the exact same
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for you. We wanna make sure you have the most
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consistent experience
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possible. So scrolling down on this home page,
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we pull out some different issues of interest.
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These generally change monthly depending on
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what's going on. If something you know, big happens
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in the world that we want to highlight, it might change sooner
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than a month. But generally
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they change monthly.
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Scrolling down underneath that.
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We also have the option for users to just
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browse through some of the different issues we've chosen
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to highlight within this resource and each
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of these issues is actually a topic page. So
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you'll see right now, we have 682
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topic pages within our platform.
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And you'll see, excuse me, we have broken them
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up by category here. So again, if we're looking
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for conflicts, we'll
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have that here. Maybe we want information
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on health and medicine. We have that society and
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culture. So they're nice and broken down.
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And if we are looking for a topic pages related
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to countries or territories, we have actually pulled those
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out separately here as well. You see,
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we have this countries and territories section.
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And we have 200 topic pages here.
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See if I start to scroll down,
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we can just browse through and take a look at those.
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What's great is I can also search for a country and
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pull forward the topic pages.
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So if I'm interested, let's say, in Greece, and I decided
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just to run a basic search on Greece,
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you see when I want, I run my search here.
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I get this little predict predictive
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text that has an image next to it. And
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this is going to pull up the topic page
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for Greece.
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So another great way to access content, they can
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just run their search for whatever country
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or territory.
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Now, before we run a search and actually
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click into a topic page, I'm going to jump
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back to our home page here
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just so we all have a nice clean landing point
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because I also want to show you if I scroll
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back up top here, you'll see. I have this
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browse map option.
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I'm gonna click into this. Now,
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it gives me this little map that I can hover over
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and it's going to show me the difference.
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We call them issues, but each issue is a topic
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page. So the different topic pages we
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have related to our different countries here.
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So you'll see, Russia has seven topic pages
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that are somehow related to them. So you'll see
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just the standard Russia topic page.
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If we want to get a little bit more specific,
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the Russia Ukraine Conflict Space
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Exploration.
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so users can really go through and click through
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this map.
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Maybe. Now they want to take a look at China and you'll see all
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of the topic pages related to China.
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This is just kind of a secondary way for them
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to access information. They can either go in
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through a country's topic page or
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they can click our browse map and
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kind of click through and see some of the different
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topic pages related to that country.
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Now again, I'm going to jump back to home
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one more time just by clicking on my yell and
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contexts, global issues icon
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or logo, I guess you would call it.
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So now I'm going to click into
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a topic page here.
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So let's say your users have a topic in mind.
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You know, they're not interested in browsing right now. They know
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exactly what they need.
[00:14:25.960]
What's great is if they start their search and
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whatever topic they're looking for actually has
[00:14:30.359]
a topic page, they can still navigate
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to it. So I today
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in here, um I'm going to look up global
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water crisis, let's say that's something I'm
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really interested in. So start to
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type my search in and just like when I typed
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in Greece for the country, when
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I start to type in my topic, you'll see a lot of these predictive
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text options here. Have
[00:14:51.200]
these little images next to them. So anytime
[00:14:53.570]
you see this predictive text with an image
[00:14:55.869]
next to it, that means we have a topic
[00:14:58.219]
page related to that topic.
[00:15:00.359]
Sometimes you'll see a predictive text that's just
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a, you know, a, a phrase and
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doesn't have these little images next to it. Those
[00:15:07.080]
are going to pull just the basic search results. So
[00:15:09.940]
if your users are maybe searching for something that's a little
[00:15:12.000]
more um specific or less
[00:15:14.359]
studied, we may not have a topic page develop
[00:15:16.700]
developed for them, then they'll just
[00:15:18.729]
run their basic search and they'll pull content that way.
[00:15:22.250]
But let's click into global water crisis here
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and we'll take a look at this topic page.
[00:15:29.080]
So again, as I mentioned at the very
[00:15:31.090]
top, you're going to have your overview, this
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is giving just the background
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about whatever your topic is. So this isn't
[00:15:37.250]
getting into procon yet. This
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is just giving you the foundation
[00:15:42.200]
you need to continue on with your research. You'll see
[00:15:44.219]
I can hit the blue, read more button
[00:15:46.489]
and we can see the full article. We try not to make these
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articles too long, you know. So we've broken out
[00:15:50.719]
some main ideas that could certainly be beneficial
[00:15:53.119]
for your users.
[00:15:55.210]
And then at the very bottom, we also have some critical
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thinking questions here, but just
[00:15:59.399]
a quick article to make sure your users are comfortable
[00:16:01.879]
with what they're learning about.
[00:16:04.788]
Now, if I jump back here to my
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topic page again,
[00:16:10.178]
scrolling down, you'll see all of the different content
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types we have available here. So again, you'll
[00:16:14.599]
find our viewpoint essays,
[00:16:16.849]
videos, audio, as well as
[00:16:18.928]
images. So all of our multimedia content
[00:16:21.000]
are pulled out into those three separate buckets
[00:16:23.119]
for organization. You'll find magazines
[00:16:25.629]
and news. Sometimes we'll have linked websites
[00:16:28.269]
which are external websites a lot of
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times um
[00:16:32.769]
related to different, government
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organizations or different,
[00:16:37.048]
nonprofits or things
[00:16:39.219]
like that, whatever is related to this topic.
[00:16:41.619]
A lot of time you'll find external website links
[00:16:43.808]
here. Again, we have our academic journals
[00:16:46.019]
listed as well. So if you're working with kind of higher
[00:16:48.210]
level learners, you'll have those
[00:16:50.239]
right here on the topic page as well.
[00:16:53.580]
And you see, once I start to scroll down here, all
[00:16:55.668]
of those contents are pulled out together into different
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content buckets
[00:16:59.779]
and they show the first couple entries for each
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content type.
[00:17:03.788]
And then at the very bottom,
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we also here have related topics.
[00:17:07.920]
So if your users are ready to move forward
[00:17:09.979]
and are maybe just looking for a topic that's
[00:17:12.059]
similar to what they just learned about. This is
[00:17:14.118]
a great way for them to find that information.
[00:17:16.140]
So you'll see, maybe they're interested now in water pollution
[00:17:18.739]
or water rights, they'll be able to click directly
[00:17:20.979]
into those and continue their research forward
[00:17:23.459]
from here.
[00:17:27.029]
Now, I'm actually going to scroll back up and we're
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going to look at
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our viewpoint essays today here.
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So clicking into my viewpoints,
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you see, this starts to look more like a standard
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search results page. You know, if you were to run a basic
[00:17:43.989]
search that this is kind of what you would expect to see.
[00:17:47.598]
What's great is at the top of the page here
[00:17:49.670]
if you know, I clicked in viewpoints. But no, I actually
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want reference, I just want the facts.
[00:17:54.088]
I can click over into reference right up top
[00:17:56.098]
here. And
[00:17:58.900]
I can also use filters on this right hand
[00:18:01.029]
side to really kind of clean up what I'm
[00:18:03.049]
seeing, especially when we're talking about
[00:18:05.189]
global issues. Of course, as you can imagine,
[00:18:07.309]
we're going to get viewpoints from,
[00:18:09.390]
you know, a bunch of different countries, a bunch
[00:18:11.489]
of different areas. So we can start to
[00:18:13.559]
kind of narrow it down to make sure we're getting the information
[00:18:16.029]
we need. You see, I have the option to narrow
[00:18:18.150]
by subjects here.
[00:18:20.009]
So if I want to do that, I could narrow there, see,
[00:18:22.309]
maybe we're interested in El Nino, something
[00:18:24.529]
like that.
[00:18:25.358]
We can narrow down.
[00:18:26.930]
We can also narrow it down based on publication
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title.
[00:18:31.358]
So you see a lot of these publications when they're outside
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of the United States, even the
[00:18:35.769]
few that we have that are actually inside the United States,
[00:18:37.969]
you'll see we show where they're from. So if maybe
[00:18:40.239]
we're interested in Canada specifically,
[00:18:42.750]
I might want to narrow this down just to Canada.
[00:18:45.838]
You see, we've got some from Australia, Pakistan,
[00:18:48.858]
Sri Lanka, Yemen,
[00:18:51.500]
we have a lot. I'll just leave it at that
[00:18:53.809]
so we can narrow it down based on publication title
[00:18:56.118]
as well, which sometimes helps users
[00:18:58.380]
find a specific country or region
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of interest.
[00:19:03.380]
Now, let's go ahead and click into one of these here.
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Excuse me.
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Let's just click into
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the second one here. Response
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to essay of South African water crisis
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is disappointing.
[00:19:19.130]
So whenever we click into a viewpoint article
[00:19:21.390]
here towards the top, you're going to find
[00:19:23.750]
kind of an article commentary. So this is giving
[00:19:25.789]
a background, you know why the author wrote this,
[00:19:27.989]
what the author is saying,
[00:19:29.578]
giving you some questions to think
[00:19:31.689]
about as well, which is oftentimes helpful,
[00:19:33.989]
especially if you're working with student you
[00:19:36.150]
know, they're going to be reading this piece, you want them to understand
[00:19:38.368]
why they're reading it. And so we provide some nice
[00:19:40.650]
kind of just critical thinking questions
[00:19:42.900]
for them to get going with their learning.
[00:19:45.559]
And then underneath
[00:19:46.838]
is where you're going to find all of the text. And you see this one isn't
[00:19:49.269]
too long. Again, we try
[00:19:51.348]
to keep our viewpoints on the shorter side, we don't
[00:19:53.459]
want them to have to read a full novel to kind of understand
[00:19:55.789]
what a viewpoint is saying. So a lot of these
[00:19:57.959]
you'll see are generally going to be like shorter articles,
[00:20:00.279]
something you would expect to see
[00:20:02.009]
you know, in a newspaper or something like that.
[00:20:05.750]
And while we're on a document here, let's take a look at
[00:20:07.799]
some of the different tools we have available for your
[00:20:09.890]
users. So as I mentioned previously, the
[00:20:11.930]
first one I want to point out is our citation tool.
[00:20:14.219]
You'll see our button is up top here in our little
[00:20:16.430]
toolbar,
[00:20:18.299]
right? Select this, you'll see. I have the option
[00:20:20.449]
for citations in Mlaap, a Chicago
[00:20:22.578]
or Harvard. So I click any of those.
[00:20:25.209]
I want to change out to a pa I can do that here
[00:20:27.578]
and I can copy and paste this or
[00:20:29.630]
I can send it over to one of my drives.
[00:20:31.739]
If I'm using something like noodle tools, I can send it over
[00:20:33.939]
there and I can save this for later.
[00:20:37.338]
Our citation is also found at the very bottom of
[00:20:39.439]
the article you'll see here in this little gray box,
[00:20:41.650]
same citation and same tools
[00:20:43.858]
you can copy and paste it, you know, put it
[00:20:45.910]
right in your work cited. You
[00:20:47.939]
can send it over to your drives
[00:20:49.920]
and with senses. If you decide to save this article,
[00:20:52.368]
the citation follows it along as well.
[00:20:54.559]
So they'll always have access to a citation even
[00:20:57.059]
if they decided to, you know, pull this article into
[00:20:59.489]
their Google or their Microsoft drives.
[00:21:02.969]
And if they did want to do that, that's actually the next
[00:21:05.088]
button right next to citation is our send to button
[00:21:07.519]
clicking on this little paper airplane,
[00:21:09.539]
you see, gives the option to send to Google Drive
[00:21:11.949]
onedrive or I can email it to myself
[00:21:14.269]
or to others.
[00:21:15.959]
What's great is if I decided I did want to send
[00:21:18.000]
over, let's say to my Google Google Drive and I wasn't
[00:21:20.309]
already signed in. This would prompt me
[00:21:22.328]
to sign in
[00:21:23.309]
and then would just launch me right back here after
[00:21:25.439]
it sent it over. If I signed into
[00:21:27.449]
my pla to my Google Drive before
[00:21:29.858]
I clicked into this, it will just automatically
[00:21:32.539]
recognize that and send over to
[00:21:34.549]
my drive.
[00:21:36.890]
And when these articles go over to your drive, they're
[00:21:38.900]
there forever. So you don't need to worry about them,
[00:21:40.920]
you know, magically disappearing after three months or
[00:21:42.949]
something like that.
[00:21:44.039]
And we do create a folder for your users
[00:21:46.209]
as well. So the first time they send
[00:21:48.318]
something over from Gale In Context: Global Issues,
[00:21:50.670]
they're going to get a nice little folder
[00:21:52.719]
that says gal and context global issues.
[00:21:55.229]
And then anytime they send information over
[00:21:57.439]
after that first time, it's all going to
[00:21:59.449]
go into that one global
[00:22:01.568]
issues folder.
[00:22:03.348]
So we're really trying to organize for them. They're not going
[00:22:05.430]
to have 50 articles kind of randomly cluttering
[00:22:08.000]
their, their Google drives or their one drives.
[00:22:10.309]
If they're using Microsoft, it'll all funnel
[00:22:12.469]
into that one folder that we've made for them.
[00:22:16.489]
They also have the option to either download or
[00:22:18.650]
print this document as well. So if they want
[00:22:20.769]
a copy on their desktop or
[00:22:23.189]
if they want to print out and have an actual
[00:22:25.529]
physical hard copy, they have those options
[00:22:27.789]
here as well.
[00:22:29.309]
And each of these tools is also found
[00:22:31.348]
down here. You'll see my Google drive
[00:22:33.549]
icon, my onedrive email, download
[00:22:35.949]
and print and these again do the
[00:22:38.029]
same thing.
[00:22:39.368]
We just included them in two different places. So hopefully,
[00:22:41.979]
if your students maybe missed the download button up
[00:22:44.019]
top here, hopefully they'll see it down here
[00:22:46.880]
and vice versa.
[00:22:49.299]
Now, next to these sharing options, we also have
[00:22:51.358]
this get link button
[00:22:53.009]
and this link is going to provide a persistent bookmark
[00:22:55.309]
URL. So if you want to
[00:22:57.449]
share this out on social media, maybe put
[00:22:59.640]
it in a syllabus for your class, put it in a discussion
[00:23:01.979]
board or if your user just
[00:23:04.009]
wants to save it for themselves, they'll just
[00:23:06.130]
get link, copy and paste it wherever they want to
[00:23:08.250]
go and it will always be there for
[00:23:10.289]
them. They'll always be able to click into this, this link won't
[00:23:12.449]
break or anything like that.
[00:23:14.170]
And what's great is this get link feature actually
[00:23:16.180]
follows you along throughout most of the
[00:23:18.279]
session. So if you find a topic
[00:23:20.410]
page that you think is interesting, you want to share out
[00:23:22.618]
again, maybe on social media, maybe
[00:23:24.858]
in a discussion board, you can use this
[00:23:26.920]
get link to get a link to that topic page as well.
[00:23:29.160]
So you not only link to contents,
[00:23:31.469]
you know, individual pieces, but you can also
[00:23:33.660]
link the topic pages as well as search results
[00:23:35.989]
pages.
[00:23:37.439]
A nice way for you to hold on to content using my
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gut link.
[00:23:42.578]
Now, in addition to those tools, I do
[00:23:44.789]
want to show you
[00:23:46.209]
scroll down a little bit here, are different
[00:23:48.449]
accessibility tools that are going to help your users
[00:23:51.269]
really engage with this text as
[00:23:53.328]
best as they possibly can. So
[00:23:55.400]
you'll see those are found under the title here on this left
[00:23:57.539]
hand side of the screen.
[00:23:59.439]
The first one is our translate option. So you'll see
[00:24:01.630]
they have the ability to translate the
[00:24:03.818]
article into whatever language they need.
[00:24:07.150]
And they can also set an interface language
[00:24:09.259]
which is going to translate all of the
[00:24:11.338]
tools you see up top here
[00:24:13.400]
as well as the navigation, it's going to translate
[00:24:15.469]
all of that stuff into whatever language they
[00:24:17.559]
chose. So it's kind of like a two step
[00:24:19.618]
translation. The interface is going to translate
[00:24:22.500]
the navigation to make sure users can
[00:24:24.890]
click through the resource effectively.
[00:24:27.098]
And the article translation is going to translate
[00:24:29.539]
the stuff that you see in the middle of the
[00:24:31.588]
screen here. So it's going to translate that full article
[00:24:33.848]
for them
[00:24:36.539]
moving forward from translate. We also have the option
[00:24:38.769]
to increase or decrease the font size.
[00:24:41.689]
We have some additional display options here as
[00:24:43.699]
Well, you'll see I can change the color background.
[00:24:47.279]
Let me scroll down so you can see what that looks like here.
[00:24:50.750]
I can also change my font. You'll see, I have a few
[00:24:52.868]
different font options. We do have a dyslexia font.
[00:24:55.390]
So if you have users who find that's beneficial,
[00:24:58.509]
they can change over to their dyslexia font
[00:25:00.729]
here. And
[00:25:02.799]
I can also change my line letter and word spacing.
[00:25:06.459]
Again. We're really trying to make this as customizable
[00:25:08.858]
as possible to ensure that users
[00:25:11.229]
can access this information in the best way
[00:25:13.250]
for them. And what's great is once they set
[00:25:15.259]
this up for their first article, you know, they choose
[00:25:17.269]
their colors, all that good stuff, they hit
[00:25:19.279]
done.
[00:25:20.140]
This formatting is going to follow them along
[00:25:22.390]
throughout the session.
[00:25:24.239]
So as they click into new articles, click
[00:25:26.390]
into new contents, they won't need
[00:25:28.509]
to worry about setting that each and every time it's going
[00:25:30.640]
to follow them along as long as they stayed signed
[00:25:32.930]
into the resource.
[00:25:34.959]
I'm going to actually go back to my defaults though.
[00:25:38.689]
Here we go right
[00:25:41.098]
next to the display option. We also have our listen
[00:25:43.368]
tool right at the top of the page. So
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if your users, I'm just going to pause this here. If
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your users pref prefer to have the content
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read to them as opposed to reading it themselves,
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they'll hit this play and it will read through the entire article
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for them even if there is an image with
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a caption, it'll read the caption on that image
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for them as well and it does read in the
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language they've translated to. So if they
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translated to Spanish first and
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then wanted to have this article read to them, it
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would read to them in Spanish.
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Now, one final tool, I want to show you before
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we end the day today, it's going to be
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our highlights and notes tool. So if you're
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working with students, let's say you really prefer
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that they talk to the text as they're reading
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pieces of content to really get a nice understanding.
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They'll be able to do that on the platform right here. They can
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just click and drag over something they think is important.
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You'll see this little gray box opens up and I can
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choose a color to highlight in, let's choose purple
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today. If I want to add a note in
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here, I could certainly do that.
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Hopefully, notes are better than mine
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and I can click and drag on anything I think is important.
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This is also great for, you know,
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public library, just general users who are coming
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in who are reading longer articles
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and want to, you know, retain little bits of
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information, things that are important. Maybe
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they're reading through and there's a great statistical bit
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of information in one of these articles. They can
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click and drag over it and highlight
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that for themselves
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and these highlights and notes are session based.
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So once your user clicks
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off the platform or is signed out due to
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inactivity, these highlights aren't
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saved anymore because we don't recognize them
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as the same person getting off and back on
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because we don't have named user accounts. So
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if they do decide they want to highlight and
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annotates while on the platform,
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they want to make sure they get this document off
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the platform before they sign off. They can
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do that in any of the ways I mentioned before, they can
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send it over to their drives,
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they can download it or they can print it and it's going
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to retain these highlights and any notes they took
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for them for them as well.
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We also store highlights and notes in one other
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kind of a nice neat little place. If
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you take a look at my toolbar up top here
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on this very right hand side, I have a highlights and
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notes button that has a three next to it.
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If I click into this and then hit view
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all highlights and notes,
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this is going to show me just the
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pieces that I highlighted. So you'll see. I
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have my article here.
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I have the bit of text that I highlighted
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with the highlight color and then I have
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any notes that I took and I can edit those notes here.
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And what's great is as I'm on the same session.
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So as I'm clicking through different documents,
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maybe I highlight three or four documents,
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they're each going to appear on this page, kind of
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listed one after another
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you'll see at the bottom. There's also a bibliography
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that will continue to run as you're in through this session.
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So we have everything
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organized on this page as well and your users
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can send this over to their drives or download
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or print this as well. So if they decide they
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don't want to save, you know, full articles
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each time they read an article, they can just
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highlight and take notes and then
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send this bit of information over to
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their drives instead of a full article.
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And it does hold on to these direct links as
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well. So if they click back into
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this and realize they do want to actually read the
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article,
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they can click right back.
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It's where they were.
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And now we've come to the end of our time today.
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I do want to make sure I've answered all
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questions. I haven't seen any. But
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please, if you have questions, put them into the Q
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and A for me now and I'll be able to answer those
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while you're typing. If anyone is typing,
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I do want to give you some contact information
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if you have any questions about our session today
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or any other, you know, training related questions.
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Feel free to reach out to me again. My name is
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Amber Winters. My email is just
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[email protected]
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If you want to get a little bit more specific and
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how you can use this with your learning community,
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you can reach out to your customer success manager.
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You can either reach out directly or if you don't
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know who your customer success manager is, just
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send an email to
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[email protected] and we'll forward you
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to the correct person and you can really dive into
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some best practices that are, that may be
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beneficial for you and your learning community
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specifically.
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If right now, you don't have access to
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Gale In Context: Global Issues.
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but you, you want access,
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you can reach out to your sales consultant again, either reach
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out to them directly or you can go
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to support.gale.com/repfinder
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put in your information and we'll forward you to the correct
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individuals
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and you can also go to our support site for
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any other support information that you need.
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So if you need um maybe
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another webinar to take a look at you want a tip sheet,
[00:30:19.299]
a resource guide, you want a student activity,
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you want some marketing materials, all of
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those are going to be found on our support site. So
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again, that's support.gale.com
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and it looks like we do have a quick question here in
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the Q and A. So the question is, are
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the viewpoint summaries written by staff or
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A I generated? So they are all written by
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people.
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Uh Some are written by Gale. Gale is also
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a publisher in addition to creating these uh these
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resources. So you'll find some that are published
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by Gale and you'll find some that are published
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by our publishing partners as
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well. But right now they are published and written by
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uh by humans.
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OK? No, I haven't seen any other questions.
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So going to go ahead and end our session for
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the day. If you do think of questions, please
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feel free to reach out through any one of these channels.
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Uh And hopefully we'll see you all in future sessions.
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Please enjoy the rest of your day.