Gale Training

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All right. Hello everyone and welcome to

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our Gale 101 gale in Context

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Elementary.

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Uh I'm Stacy Niblo, our team lead

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for the Gale training team. And I'm

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glad to be with you virtually to show off

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this resource. Uh We started offering

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these one on one sessions to kind of give

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folks just a good baseline of information about

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the resource and all the tools within.

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Uh So I'm happy to uh to share that

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with you all today. What we're gonna look

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at is giving an overview

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of the resource kind of how we put

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it together, who our audience is

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and then walk you through a couple product

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integrations that we have. We can actually bring

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in some other content from other gale

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resources into Gale and context elementary.

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And then I'm gonna walk you through the platform. So different

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search paths and different tools that

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you and um

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uh students and young users

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can take advantage of. And then as always,

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we'll wrap up with our contact info at gail,

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how you can reach out to us if you've got questions after

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today. Um I'll also

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take questions though throughout. So feel free to

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send those into the chat or the Q and A any

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time, uh, happy to take those as

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they come to you rather than having you wait to the end

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and, um, you know, maybe

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forget what you were gonna ask. So, feel free to

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ask those or if there's something you'd like to see

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anything in particular, um, feel free to

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share that in the chat or the Q and A as well.

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Um, I am happy to take

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a left turn. So please don't hold

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back. Let me know what you'd like to see and

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we'll wrap up then and get you out of here

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on time. Uh So you can move on to the next part

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of your day. So

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um let's go ahead and dive in with our resource overview.

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So gel and context elementary and let

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me apologize at this point.

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Um I that is how

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I pronounce elementary. It's um

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how we do it here in Western New York where I live.

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So uh you'll hear it a lot more

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through the session. So let's

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go ahead and talk about what this resource offers

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you. So gale in context

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elementary is built as you can imagine

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for our elementary age users.

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So I, I say users,

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but I should probably really define that better as

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elementary reading level uh

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users. So it is content

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geared at grades K through five and

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of course reading level within those ranges.

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And we're gonna talk about ways you can make that a little more

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specific when you're using the resource.

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But along with building that reading

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level appropriate content, we're also building in content

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to fit what's happening in the K

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five classrooms. So we look at

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uh curriculum

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across various states and

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uh sorry, getting a little ahead of my slides here, we look

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at curriculum across various states to

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meet the needs of that classroom

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and any research that's being done

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um as well as providing materials that

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teachers can put to use in the classroom. And of

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course, it's a perfect fit in the library where

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kids are getting their feet wet around research

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and using online resources like this.

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Uh The database is made up

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of periodical articles,

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news, upcoming various news and magazines

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aimed at younger users. We've got

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lots of multimedia and images and video

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and uh you'll also find a good

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base of reference content.

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So good articles to start them

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with to get to know about a topic,

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you know, similar to what they might find in a textbook.

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We also want to build in tools

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that make this resource

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reach everyone. So there are a variety

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of ways you can work with the content.

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You can listen, you can translate it, you can

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uh change the formatting of an article

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to help fit the user.

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You've also got integrations that hopefully

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fit into your workflow as well. So if you are

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a Google or Micro, so school um

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or user, we have ways you can send your

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content right to those tools. And

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of course, we want to build good researchers,

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right? So you're gonna find tools in here like highlights

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and notes and our citation tool to

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help kids do those things they need

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to do when they are researching

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and, and really just kind of build their media literacy

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and, and information literacy.

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And then lastly here, I'll mention again,

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this is a great resource to start

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getting kids used to doing

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research in databases like these and maybe

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staying away from some places that

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uh you know, like Google or Microsoft, uh what's

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they called bing? Um That could be really

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overwhelming or sending them off to sites

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you may not recommend for their readings.

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Um This is a safe place to send

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kids to do research. It's again

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targeted to their age ranges. So

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again, appropriate as we talked about in reading

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level and content and curriculum,

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it also gives them a good place to start getting

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comfortable with searching and maybe filtering

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and again, using all those tools that they

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might need um

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in the research process. So

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we are again, gonna take a look at everything.

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I've got just a few slides to give you kind of the basics

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though of how this database is built.

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So we have a search of

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course, but we also wanna make this

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resource brows we find especially for

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younger users as they're building their information

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literacy.

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It's a great way to kind of show them how we deal with

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information. You take a big topic

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and start narrowing it down. And as

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you can imagine, we target these topics

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based on what's being studied in curriculum.

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So you'll probably see some familiar topics

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here. Animals is probably, are

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always our most popular, uh uh path

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to go down here. So we see we

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start breaking down. So animals as a whole,

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then mammals, reptiles and amphibians.

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So we're learning a little bit maybe about classification

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there, but also just how information is

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organized.

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And then we drill down to a third level

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to get a little more specific. So here we're getting

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at types of animals

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and then we land on a topic

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page. So the topic pages are

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kind of where we pull in all the information

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we have for a topic.

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It's a good jumping off point to learn

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about something. It's often maybe a unit

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you'd be covering in the classroom or in the library.

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And the way we organize these is to start

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out with a topic overview. So

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you get this simple

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overview too, in this case, Tyrannosaurus

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rex and even just that first paragraph

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that we gives us a little info,

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then we've got some quick facts we can take a look

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at. So some good information around

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um some few, you know, some trivia, maybe almost

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um around the tyrannosaurus rex.

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And then we organize the content the

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same way that it might be organized in your

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classroom or in your library, we

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keep reference books together. We keep

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our nonfiction books together. We keep

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our magazines, our news and so on

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and they can work through those various spaces.

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So of course, we're going to see this in action here in a

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minute. But again, just to give you an idea of how

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we put this database together,

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we also the one to integrate with

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other content from Gale that is

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aimed at that K five age range.

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So if you are also a subscribe, oh sorry,

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not subscriber. If you are also a p

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purchaser of Gale ebooks,

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those that are within that reading

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level are gonna be available

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in your gal and context elementary

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if that's not happening at your library and

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you do have access to both resources.

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Again, I'm gonna share our contact info, you'll want to reach

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out to us and let us know and we can work on that for

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you. So where you'll find the Gale

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Ebook content integrated is actually right on

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the home page. We've got a few browsing

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paths for a specific document

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types or, or uh types of, of information.

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So you'll be able to actually browse those

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ebooks there and then they're also

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integrated with your search results. They'll just get dedicated

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in a books uh content type. So

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you can grab the, the books you need that relate

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to the topic you searched on

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right, we also provide this similar

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integration to National Geographic

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Kids. So again, if you're a subscriber to National

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Geographic Kids, this should be happening

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for you as well. And same thing you're

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actually on the home page from Galen Context Elementary,

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gonna be able to browse issues of the magazine

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and then within your search results,

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you're gonna find content from, of course, the magazine,

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but then also from NET GEO kids

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books that are in that collection and then

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audio and video will be integrated as well.

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So

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um I'm gonna demonstrate from an account that

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has both of these integrations. So we can, we can

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see them in action. Uh

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The content does go to specific

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places. So if you're not a subscriber,

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you wouldn't maybe see the or not, maybe

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you wouldn't see the uh books

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content type on your search results.

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So, um I'll and again, I'll share that when

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we, when we get in there. So let's go ahead and

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get in the la in the library source and

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take a look.

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So I've already gone ahead and logged

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in here. I'm on the home page and let me

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just, I'm gonna make things

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a little bigger for your end of the webinar. I'm also

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gonna just turn off my video. Uh So

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it doesn't distract or block any of the screen here while

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I'm live in the database.

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All righty. So

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uh Gill and Context Elementary home

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page is going to offer a search

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so you can dive right in, but we like

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to encourage curiosity. So

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on the home page, we do have some brows

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areas here relating to specific

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types of content. So we're gonna come back

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and use the topic tree a few times. So let me just show you a

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couple of these others.

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Again, books is where content

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from Gale ebooks would live. So if you've

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purchased Gale ebooks,

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those that are appropriate for K five

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reading levels will flow to this

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brows page. So you can open up this

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Amelia Earhart book

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and actually just start reading it cover to cover

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right from the home page. So again, nice

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and browseable can again, encourage curiosity

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and and find some great content.

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So take a minute to load here.

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Bye.

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Let this fill in. So apologize,

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folks. My internet may be a little slow. I hope it's not interfering

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too much on your end of the uh

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session.

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So letting it load up here while

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it's loading, let me share. We do offer some tools.

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Um This is a um

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mobile responsive resource. Really all

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of our gale resources are. So regardless

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of kind of what

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kind of size screen you're using, what type of device

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you're using our resources should work just fine.

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One of the neat things about the book content

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is of course, we're seeing it as if it's laying

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flat on the table. If you're working from a touch

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screen, you can actually swipe to turn the pages.

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Of course, we've got the arrows here, little progress

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bar at the bottom to be able to move through,

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you can zoom in and out and take advantage

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of our listen tool, which I'm gonna go into a little more detail

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later. The other feature I like

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here when you're working with our ebooks is you

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can switch to a full screen view. So the book

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just takes over your page, uh

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which is a great way again to immerse yourself

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in the content.

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So

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again, if you have gale ebooks,

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you will have that option there.

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We also pull in news content

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to browse through. So maybe looking for current events,

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we've got pictures to browse

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as well. So again, just trying

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to, you know,

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share some ways to discover new content

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and get in, I'm gonna ahead and jump into its picture of an Alpaca

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and there we have it our images.

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If you do right, mouse click over kids can copy

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and paste these. So if they're preparing some sort of presentation

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or something, they can take advantage.

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And of course, we want them

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to cite where they got this content,

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right? So we give them a little helping hand here

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with our citation tool. Now,

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in elementary school, it maybe

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isn't the time you're talking about the difference between

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ML A and A P A and all the various.

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But of course, we do talk about needing to

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site where we found our content.

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So you've got a few different paths here.

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Um But it, it gets them thinking about

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that citation and building a work cited

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page. And again, uh should

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you need specific citation styles? You can

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s select the text and copy and paste

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that right where you need it?

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Um Your citation will also go with

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you to other places. So if you have

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a tool like noodle tools or easy

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bib or even can send this out to Google Drive or Microsoft

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Onedrive can send that citation

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out. So we're gonna talk

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about those integrations a a little more later

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we can, oh, I think I need to, sorry, I need

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to, to go all the way back to the home page. Bear with me just a second

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here while I get all the way back out there.

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And again, I apologize, folks, things that seem to be moving

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a little slowly which is of course

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what happens when you are on

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a uh

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webinar rather than when you're just in the database

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for yourself. So we pull in some of our multimedia

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content as well here on uh the videos

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you can flip through these

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and I'm gonna jump into

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one here again. I love the animals

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content. So taking advantage of a few of these,

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most of our videos are gonna offer a transcript,

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which is nice. I tend to be more of a reader.

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So I, I love to have the transcript but

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uh of course, I think I'm in the minority, especially

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with younger kids. So the video is always appealing.

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They'll all have time for some more amazing

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animals and they're fairly short,

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you know, good way maybe to introduce the topic

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and, and pull a few facts.

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And then lastly,

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if again, you have an integration

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uh with Nat Geo Kids,

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you're gonna be able to browse issues

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of the Nat Geo Kids Magazine right

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here from the home page as well. So gonna

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dive into an issue, it actually displays

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just like the ebooks do. So like we've

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got the magazine flat on the table.

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There is a bit of an embargo with Nat Geo

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Kids Magazine. We do have to wait

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um a certain amount of time before

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we can have the newest issue, but you can go

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back through the entire back file as well.

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We have available.

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So

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we do want to take advantage though of the

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topic tree. So I'm gonna jump all the way back to

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where we started here.

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And again, we like curiosity. So

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there's always an I wonder question on the home page.

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Every time you come back, it pops up a new one,

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but this is where we're going to do some work here

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is through our topic tree. So this will get you into

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all of the content and

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topic pages that we talked about before.

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So as you're browsing these, you can

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see, of course, these are tied to curriculum

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areas. Um And if you start

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down a path, I'm go ahead and select social studies.

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Again, we see how this starts to drill down.

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So we take the large topic of

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social studies and break down into world history

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into us, presidents, us, history,

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native American tribes,

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and then down to our third level where we get

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more specific. So we are finding a

[00:14:16.288]
list of native American tribes.

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And then again, all of the things that you

[00:14:20.759]
start with on the topic tree

[00:14:23.408]
uh are going to end up

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on a topic page or portal page.

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You may hear me call it that as well. We

[00:14:29.918]
start out with that great overview. So right

[00:14:32.000]
away, we find out where the Iroquois um

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live. We have the ability

[00:14:36.639]
to jump in and read more of that

[00:14:38.759]
overview and we're gonna, we're gonna go into

[00:14:40.798]
more articles and talk about our details here, but

[00:14:43.149]
just a click gets into that, of course, that

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content

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and then again, some quick facts so

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we can grab some some quick info

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and then we get into all of the

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information we have for the Iroquois

[00:14:56.119]
and we break this down by content type.

[00:14:58.239]
So we've got book articles, we've got magazine

[00:15:00.460]
articles, we've got biographies, pictures,

[00:15:03.288]
and so on. And then at the bottom

[00:15:05.519]
of the page, you will find related topics.

[00:15:08.070]
So again, great discovery tool, we

[00:15:10.139]
can branch off into

[00:15:12.500]
another tribe, you know, maybe go down another

[00:15:14.729]
path. But always there are ways

[00:15:16.969]
to kind of get to more content. So

[00:15:19.129]
love to encourage that curiosity

[00:15:21.149]
and discovery in our our younger users.

[00:15:23.830]
So let me jump back to the home page.

[00:15:26.070]
We're gonna go down a few more paths here from the topic

[00:15:28.418]
tree. And in this case, I'm gonna go into

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science.

[00:15:32.590]
And again, we start breaking these down

[00:15:34.788]
and then get to our, our lower level

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list of topics I'm going to weather

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and climate here.

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So it has been a interesting weather

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season. Uh, overall, I think regardless

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of where you live, so

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take a look at this.

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So I'm gonna jump into weather as a whole.

[00:15:53.168]
And again, we're gonna land on that topic

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page. Start right out with an overview,

[00:15:57.379]
get into some quick facts, but I wanted

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to show you and here we go. Actually,

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here's what the integration looks like.

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If we have Gale ebooks or Nat Geo Kids,

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the nonfiction books, um,

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from NASA Geographic Kids. And

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then again, any age appropriate ebooks

[00:16:12.729]
that you've purchased from Gale will actually go to this content

[00:16:15.070]
type over there on the right. You can see the book covers

[00:16:17.239]
everybody though will have our book articles.

[00:16:19.369]
This is the reference content that's coming out

[00:16:21.408]
of Gale and Context Elementary itself.

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And one of the great things about it, actually, let's

[00:16:25.908]
go ahead and look at the entire list of results here

[00:16:28.590]
is we keep it really simple if you've

[00:16:30.629]
attended any other Gale webinars or maybe subscribed

[00:16:32.729]
to other databases.

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You'll see Gale and Context elementary has

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really its own look and feel. But there are a few

[00:16:38.450]
things we do in all of our databases. When you're looking

[00:16:40.690]
at search results, you can always see the date where it comes

[00:16:42.928]
from. And, and I'm gonna use

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my little annotate tool here. Our

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content types, our co or sorry,

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not types our content levels.

[00:16:51.408]
So these boxes, we have five

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of them. They are

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gonna be found in all of the gal and context

[00:16:58.399]
resources and a few others.

[00:17:00.639]
And basically what they're telling you is

[00:17:03.308]
a range of reading level. So

[00:17:05.410]
when you're in gal in context elementary, you're gonna see

[00:17:07.529]
a lot of the green and blue boxes. Green

[00:17:10.259]
is a level one with just one dot

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And level two there in blue,

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it has the two dots.

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If you look over to the right, we have

[00:17:18.719]
ways to filter our results which we'll we'll

[00:17:20.858]
talk about a little more but one of them is

[00:17:22.949]
content level. So

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you've got the ability to filter your results

[00:17:27.299]
into level one or level two. Again,

[00:17:29.420]
those are our kind of Oh sorry, not again, I haven't

[00:17:31.568]
explained. So level one is generally gonna be lower

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elementary reading level and uh level

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two is gonna be upper elementary, then middle school

[00:17:38.459]
for level three,

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level four is gonna be more high school

[00:17:42.279]
and then level five more, you know, scholarly

[00:17:44.789]
or academic.

[00:17:46.439]
So it's got a, a lexile

[00:17:48.709]
range there assigned as well. We're gonna talk about

[00:17:51.229]
um which you can get even more

[00:17:53.269]
specific with when you're looking for reading level

[00:17:55.449]
too from advanced search. But let's let me,

[00:17:57.598]
let me show you another feature around what

[00:17:59.630]
we've done with reading level. So Gale

[00:18:01.809]
is a publisher,

[00:18:03.828]
we have a lot of our own content

[00:18:06.289]
in these databases. And the great thing about

[00:18:08.380]
that is we can do what we like with our own

[00:18:10.459]
content.

[00:18:11.358]
So what we've chosen to do

[00:18:13.828]
is level

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a lot of our reference and biography

[00:18:18.608]
content.

[00:18:19.568]
So you won't see this for every single article

[00:18:22.170]
that that is in the database from Gale,

[00:18:24.348]
but you'll see it for a lot of them. Again in

[00:18:26.410]
reference and biography, we can't

[00:18:28.660]
take an article from say The New York Times

[00:18:30.949]
for Kids and rewrite it. You know, that's,

[00:18:33.170]
that's gonna break some permissions them. So

[00:18:35.463]
we can only do that with content we've written. So

[00:18:37.614]
that's what we've done. We've leveled it, taken

[00:18:39.634]
the same article and written it at two different reading

[00:18:41.875]
levels. So you can always get

[00:18:43.993]
from one to the other. They'll both show

[00:18:46.203]
up in your results list. And again, you wanna look for that

[00:18:48.275]
content level indicator

[00:18:50.045]
to show you which, which you've got.

[00:18:52.959]
So let me clear these drawings so we can

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uh I

[00:18:57.390]
get back to

[00:18:58.818]
looking at this content. So I landed

[00:19:00.858]
here in level two and over here to the far

[00:19:03.209]
right. We've got a row of buttons and we're gonna get

[00:19:05.299]
back to most of them. But the one to the

[00:19:07.338]
very far right article info

[00:19:09.348]
is gonna open up and show you

[00:19:11.358]
the lexile measure. So for this article,

[00:19:13.598]
I'm working with an 840

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I can open that up and I can switch from here

[00:19:18.219]
to that level one that is at a 470

[00:19:20.949]
you'll see my tab changed up above

[00:19:23.750]
and jump to that lower reading level so I can

[00:19:25.858]
make the call, right. What's gonna be most appropriate

[00:19:28.358]
for the the student that I'm working with

[00:19:30.410]
or my classroom or

[00:19:32.459]
you know, the group of kids I have in the library. So

[00:19:34.969]
our level one article here starts out with words to

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know. So we've got a glossary built in. So

[00:19:39.150]
we know what atmosphere is, we know what temperature

[00:19:41.469]
is and you can see we've got short

[00:19:43.529]
sentences, short paragraphs

[00:19:46.088]
and we do a lot of work kind of behind the scenes

[00:19:48.309]
too about how the article looks

[00:19:50.368]
what, you know, the, the size of

[00:19:52.449]
the text. But you can always

[00:19:54.529]
play around with this too.

[00:19:56.680]
I scroll back up to the top of the article.

[00:19:58.868]
Remember those four but or not

[00:20:00.930]
four, those uh six buttons over

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here to the far, right?

[00:20:04.420]
One of them is a text size tool.

[00:20:06.818]
So if I scroll down a bit, so you can see this again,

[00:20:08.868]
you can see the text has gotten bigger you can

[00:20:10.979]
also take advantage of like I did at the

[00:20:13.029]
start of the session, the zoom options

[00:20:15.059]
in your browser and make the whole thing bigger.

[00:20:17.578]
Uh But if you just want to work with the text, we've got

[00:20:19.608]
the button there for you to do it,

[00:20:22.108]
you can also change the way the text

[00:20:24.219]
displays.

[00:20:26.049]
So I've got a nephew who has

[00:20:28.598]
a processing issue where he really needs

[00:20:30.719]
text to be on a blue or a green background

[00:20:33.209]
to see it clearly. So I can switch

[00:20:35.449]
to the green background for him. I

[00:20:37.630]
can make different font choices. If I prefer

[00:20:39.900]
something with some SARS on it, we've got Gammon

[00:20:42.279]
there, I could work with, we offer the open dyslexic

[00:20:44.838]
font as well, which was a big request

[00:20:47.279]
um from our users. You

[00:20:49.318]
can also change the spacing

[00:20:51.559]
of the text. So I'm just gonna put these all to most.

[00:20:53.868]
You can kind of see the um

[00:20:56.380]
work that it does. So let me scroll down back to

[00:20:58.449]
the text here. So you can see the whole font has changed

[00:21:00.969]
again. Our spacing has changed

[00:21:03.209]
and the great thing is it

[00:21:05.269]
will remember those settings. So if

[00:21:07.289]
I switch over to level

[00:21:09.449]
two article,

[00:21:11.529]
it's gonna apply those settings, right?

[00:21:13.789]
So looking at our level two, which

[00:21:15.799]
I think was an 870 lexile, you can see

[00:21:17.949]
here, longer sentences,

[00:21:19.959]
longer paragraphs, you know, we've got more

[00:21:21.989]
texts to work with here, right?

[00:21:24.180]
So it's

[00:21:25.729]
jumping up that reading level

[00:21:27.759]
uh in a few different ways.

[00:21:30.539]
So very handy. Again, you're gonna see

[00:21:32.559]
this quite a bit for reference

[00:21:34.890]
and biography uh and your results.

[00:21:37.328]
So let me jump back out to the rest of our results

[00:21:39.699]
and we'll take a look at a few others.

[00:21:43.229]
So we looked at book content already. You've also

[00:21:45.259]
got periodical content, we've got magazines

[00:21:47.489]
and news sources aimed at

[00:21:49.519]
our younger users. There might be a few in there

[00:21:51.578]
for our professionals for say our librarians

[00:21:53.959]
in the elementary library for our teachers.

[00:21:56.439]
But most of the content is really aimed

[00:21:58.549]
at that younger user with that younger reading level.

[00:22:00.759]
But jump into news, we've got a few

[00:22:02.858]
news sources aimed at kids like news or sorry

[00:22:05.199]
like kids post.

[00:22:06.598]
But if I wanna seek something out, you'll see

[00:22:08.650]
again those filter options over on the right. One of those

[00:22:10.858]
is to be able to isolate to publication title

[00:22:13.449]
and we were able to add the New York Times

[00:22:15.479]
for kids in the last year or so.

[00:22:17.539]
So I'm just gonna go ahead and isolate to that

[00:22:20.328]
narrow down to two entries here. And as I jump

[00:22:22.640]
in again, we're gonna see,

[00:22:25.229]
I've got those

[00:22:26.660]
uh display options that I set before

[00:22:29.039]
it's just remembering them.

[00:22:30.699]
Now, I am gonna go ahead and set those back

[00:22:32.969]
to the default because I want to take

[00:22:35.078]
advantage of a couple of these other tools and it just, I think

[00:22:37.180]
appears a little better

[00:22:38.709]
when I'm demoing it from here.

[00:22:40.880]
So another way we can make

[00:22:42.949]
something more readable for students, maybe raise

[00:22:45.348]
their, um, comprehension of it is

[00:22:47.670]
to have them listen. So one,

[00:22:49.699]
they might just be maybe better listeners than they

[00:22:51.828]
are readers.

[00:22:53.170]
The listen is also handy if you've got students

[00:22:55.400]
where maybe English isn't their first language

[00:22:58.049]
and they hear it a little better than they do

[00:23:00.525]
yet. The listen tool is gonna

[00:23:02.535]
let us read the entire article.

[00:23:04.875]
Now it acts like summer weather is going

[00:23:06.963]
to the extreme. It acts a little differently

[00:23:09.295]
than a screen reader does. Um It

[00:23:11.473]
isn't going to read, you know, from

[00:23:13.634]
the banner and all of that, it just starts with

[00:23:15.644]
the article title and goes from there. You

[00:23:17.723]
can also see it's highlighting as it's reading

[00:23:20.324]
and then there are settings, you can go into that little

[00:23:22.555]
gear icon will let you make other

[00:23:24.674]
adjustments. You can make this the most comfortable or

[00:23:26.805]
needed reading experience.

[00:23:29.489]
You can also translate

[00:23:32.180]
our text. So this is an on demand translation.

[00:23:34.890]
So it's, you know, not how I want to learn to speak

[00:23:37.189]
a different language, but it can be a huge help

[00:23:39.549]
when you've got kids where maybe again, English

[00:23:41.789]
isn't their first language. And you want to

[00:23:43.818]
give him a helping hand,

[00:23:45.509]
we can translate it, gives you a little preview of the

[00:23:47.519]
translation, then you can choose to complete it

[00:23:49.618]
and there we go

[00:23:51.848]
and you'll see that listen button sticks around

[00:23:53.930]
for, I think, better than half, I think about three quarters

[00:23:56.150]
of the languages in our list.

[00:23:58.348]
So, um, we can also hear this

[00:24:00.660]
in Spanish.

[00:24:02.799]
Hi. So you're gonna see those options for all of

[00:24:04.868]
the articles, uh, that are available

[00:24:06.959]
in their text. Face. The books that come from

[00:24:09.068]
Nat Geo Kids and the, uh, books that

[00:24:11.118]
come from Gale ebooks won't have a translation

[00:24:13.588]
option, but you will have the listen option.

[00:24:16.000]
So they're there. You're working with kind of a PDF

[00:24:18.130]
there. So, all

[00:24:20.180]
right, let's go ahead. We're gonna try search. I love

[00:24:22.269]
the, the brows

[00:24:23.598]
chic tree, but of course, we often can see

[00:24:25.689]
a search box and we use it. We know what we're after.

[00:24:28.309]
So just gonna do a quick search here for Ruby Bridges,

[00:24:30.689]
we have a search assist. I'm a terrible speller.

[00:24:32.969]
So that's a big help. Um But

[00:24:35.209]
it also can just help you find maybe more specific

[00:24:37.410]
search term.

[00:24:38.858]
So again, we start right out a bit of an overview

[00:24:41.250]
and so on

[00:24:42.539]
and we've got again,

[00:24:44.719]
a lot of great content here again

[00:24:46.779]
at varying reading levels. So again,

[00:24:49.250]
we can always go in and take a look at that content

[00:24:51.640]
isolate by content level.

[00:24:53.739]
But let's say I wanna start with that, you

[00:24:55.868]
can always apply these filters after

[00:24:58.078]
you've performed a search. But if you start

[00:25:00.358]
with advanced search, you can actually put those filters

[00:25:02.670]
in place to start. So if there's a particular

[00:25:04.729]
source, you know, you want your results from,

[00:25:06.989]
we can come to advanced search and

[00:25:09.219]
limit.

[00:25:10.739]
Pardon me, we can limit our search

[00:25:12.750]
by publication title. If I choose from the

[00:25:14.779]
dropbox here or um some

[00:25:16.858]
of these also, you'll see duplicated down below.

[00:25:19.400]
Uh But a couple of my favorites here

[00:25:21.479]
are those content and uh lexile

[00:25:23.650]
limiters. So content level is gonna use

[00:25:25.838]
those gale defined levels one through five

[00:25:29.400]
lexile measure though, gives a bit of

[00:25:31.469]
a range for you to pick from. And you

[00:25:33.509]
can see you can, you can multi select,

[00:25:36.078]
OK, you could also put in your own

[00:25:38.088]
lexile measure or score. So you

[00:25:40.229]
can really target reading levels. The

[00:25:42.529]
other thing we offer here that

[00:25:44.868]
is very popular to use is

[00:25:46.939]
there's actually a filter for and I'm gonna

[00:25:49.108]
circle it just so we

[00:25:51.259]
let me see it.

[00:25:53.039]
Sorry folks bear with me while I,

[00:25:55.140]
I'm debating if I want to use the annotate

[00:25:57.348]
tool anymore. It always takes me so long to get started with it.

[00:25:59.799]
Here we go. The level documents

[00:26:02.568]
limiter. So this will make sure

[00:26:04.608]
I'm gonna have my articles at two

[00:26:06.969]
different reading levels. So if I've got a

[00:26:08.979]
mixed classroom, maybe I've got some advanced readers,

[00:26:11.299]
I've got some readers who maybe need a little help.

[00:26:14.180]
I can isolate and get

[00:26:16.680]
only level documents. Now,

[00:26:18.890]
this is fairly limiting because again,

[00:26:23.640]
we can only filter the content

[00:26:25.709]
that we publish at Yale. So this is really gonna

[00:26:27.739]
limit me to, uh, articles

[00:26:30.150]
from. Oh, sorry, I, I apologize.

[00:26:32.420]
I had the, um,

[00:26:34.219]
I think I had my lexile scores selected

[00:26:36.229]
there too.

[00:26:37.529]
Let me stop. Let me jump back to advance search and,

[00:26:39.910]
and, uh, start fresh.

[00:26:42.189]
Sorry about that folks. I thought I cleared them.

[00:26:50.449]
Right. Yeah,

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that is. There we go.

[00:26:53.630]
So again, this will be biographies,

[00:26:55.848]
maybe some reference articles and

[00:26:58.049]
there we have our leveled content.

[00:27:00.180]
So again, we always see both in the search results,

[00:27:02.279]
but you can easily switch back and forth between the two.

[00:27:05.400]
And if I wanna target this for my

[00:27:07.449]
students, if this is a biography, I want them to

[00:27:09.578]
read, you know, maybe a homework assignment or we're gonna

[00:27:11.660]
read it together in the library

[00:27:14.578]
and I wanna make sure my kids are getting this

[00:27:16.650]
level one biography of Bridges.

[00:27:19.789]
There are a few different ways I can put it right in their hands.

[00:27:22.170]
One is and probably the simplest

[00:27:24.390]
because it works with everything

[00:27:26.098]
in the upper right hand corner here

[00:27:28.318]
in our, our toolbar,

[00:27:30.630]
we have our get link and

[00:27:32.910]
this is a persistent URL

[00:27:35.009]
or pearl

[00:27:36.789]
that was sorry, let me get rid of that circle.

[00:27:39.750]
That will give me

[00:27:41.680]
a way to link this, say if we use

[00:27:43.699]
something like seesaw or even just,

[00:27:45.890]
you know, if I've got my own web page or

[00:27:48.098]
I wanna link it in um you

[00:27:50.108]
know, another L MS like clever or

[00:27:52.130]
something like that.

[00:27:53.650]
Oh, sorry, not clever. Um

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Am I thinking of?

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Well, I'll uh canvas.

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That's what I was thinking of.

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That URL will go anywhere.

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It is just a URL, but it always

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comes back to the same place. So I would always

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be sending whoever clicks it right

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back to this level one biography. So

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it's even something you might share

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with a colleague to let them know it's there

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um really handy. So get link really

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simple gives you URL, you can use it wherever

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to guide your users, right? Where you want them,

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those of you that are Google classroom

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users, you might have recognized

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our Google classroom

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icon up here at the very top of the page.

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Similar idea I'm gonna be

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able to put my students right where I want

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them. But it just starts me down the path to

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adding to my Google classroom page.

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So you choose your subject

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and uh you know, basically

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it's the same path you use when you are

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adding something to your Google classroom anyway,

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and forgive my very brief instructions here.

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What it's gonna do is embed a link

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actually that gap link to this

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article. So when I sign it to my students

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and it gives me a chance to view it just to check

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things out.

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I can't, oh It takes a minute for it to

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show up there. Oh, did I not?

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Yeah, make an assignment

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um

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instructions that's important. See, there's that

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link embedded for my students. So

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you land right there.

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So really handy.

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The other integration I wanna mention and

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we're gonna wrap up here in a minute to let you go

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is you can pull content out to

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your Gale or sorry Google Drive

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or Microsoft Onedrive.

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There's a little send to button here at

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the top, send it to Google Drive or onedrive is a great

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way for kids to keep track of their research. Before

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they do that, you can take advantage of our highlights

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and notes tool, they can mark up this article.

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So again, another kind of skill they're

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learning as they're learning about doing

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research and

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I can give myself a little note. And

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when I send it to Google Drive or when

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I print it, those highlights

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and notes are gonna go with it,

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they only last for your session. So you do

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wanna print, you wanna send it to Google or Microsoft,

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you want to

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uh maybe download it. So you

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keep those highlights and notes to protect

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user privacy, we clear them out when you leave the database,

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which is, you know, user privacy is always important,

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especially when you're working with kids under 18. So

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can take advantage of our highlights

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and notes tool to help again, build up their

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uh their research skills. So

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lots of good stuff here. I'm just double

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checking my notes. We hit everything I wanted

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to share with you. So let me pop back to our

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slides and we'll wrap up and get

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you on your way.

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So this information will be in

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my follow up email. So if anybody has to scoot,

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I apologize. I see we're a minute over. Um

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uh, this will come in a follow up email that'll

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uh arrive around this time tomorrow. But you can always

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reach out to me again, Stacy Nibble,

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I'm your gail trainer today.

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Uh Feel free to also go reach out to our

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customer success managing team.

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They are folks who help

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you be successful with the resources. So if you've got

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a project going on in the library or maybe

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you wanna raise usage, you're getting ready

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to show this off to you teachers. Um

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We have a great team who can help you,

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you know, uh solve a lot of problems, but

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also, you know, create some success

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and then technical support is available. If you

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have questions, you have a trouble getting into the databases,

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questions about authentication, uh database

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usage, senior stats, things like that.

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Tech support is always there. You could of

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course, always reach out to your gale account rep

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if you're interested in looking at more content from Gale.

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And then we've got lots of great materials

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out on our support site, tutorials about

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using the databases. We've got lots

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of activities you can use in the library or the

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classroom. We have escape rooms, we've

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got scavenger hunts

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and there's a ton of free marketing material as well.

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So if you're trying to draw people into these resources,

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we've got lots of bookmarks and uh digital

[00:31:53.029]
signage and, and things you can

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post your social media all ready to

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go uh on the support site.

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So that's everything I wanted to

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share. I'm gonna stick around and see if there are

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any questions. But thanks so much folks for

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tuning in. I apologize. They did run a couple of minutes over.

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Um I can never, you know, hold back

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from showing you all these things in our databases.

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So I appreciate uh if you're able

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to stay. But again, questions should come

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to you later. Again, feel free to reach out to me

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or someone else on your gale team.

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Happy to hear from you. So thanks

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everybody for tuning in.