Gale Training

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Today, we're going to be talking about our newest

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resource, Gale In Context: Literature.

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My name is Amber Winters and I'm a senior

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training consultant here with Gale and I've got

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a nice agenda for us today. It looks

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short and simple, but what's great is Gale In Context:

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literature has got a lot going on. So it is

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most likely going to take up the full hour today.

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First, I do just want to go over what Gale In Context: Literature

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is because it is a completely

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new resource. It was just launched a few

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months ago here. So nice

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and new to everyone involved and we're going

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to walk through the platform that will most likely take

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the majority of our time just going through all of

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the new tools and features available as

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well as the great content that you and your students are going to be

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able to find.

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And then at the very end of the session again,

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if we have questions, I'm not able to answer

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as we move along today, we'll be able to answer

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them at the end.Otherwise we'll have some

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wrap up as well as some contact information

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for you.

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So let's go ahead and jump right in. So

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galling context literature is really our holistic

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approach to learning literature.

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So this is a secondary leveled resource. So

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it's going to be specifically for ninth

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to 12th grade students

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and it is kind of leveled for students

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really basic to advanced. And what's great

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is we include a lot of different content types that are

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really going to support every learner

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in your school. And we do retain

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both topic browse and searches consistent

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with other Gale In Context resources.

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So if you do have any of the other in context,

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suite resources, it

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will look very familiar to you. We have

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edited and updated the platform just a little

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bit just because of the nature of the content

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and of the resources that we're

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navigating through and presenting to you. But

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the topic browse and search are still

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consistent with those previous in context

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resources.

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And on this platform, we do have full text available

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for many titles. I'll show you where you

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can find those, how they're attached to different

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topic pages. So if you are getting

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your students engaged in some different works,

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they may not have to have a physical text at all.

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You may be able to find that text right here in

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our resource.

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And if you currently have access to gale and context

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for educators, this is fully integrated

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with that. So if you now have Gale and

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Context Literature. It's already in your

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four educators, you'll be able to access the contents

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in a second area for your.

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But let's start talking about the content.

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So our goal of Gael and context literature

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is really, really to provide context

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around the literature that students

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are reading. And I know that's the exact title

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that I just repeated to you Gael and Context Literature.

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But it's true, that's why we named it, that we want

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to make sure that students not only understand

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literature that they're reading, but they understand

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the history around it or the current events

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around it. If it's a more current book, we

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want them to understand the eras, they're going to be

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learning, then we want them to understand the literary movement

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and literary devices. So

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we have quite a bit of information, things like

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work, overviews, newspapers and magazines.

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We've got great biographies and both historical

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and contemporary authors,

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images and videos, podcasts as well.

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Lots of multimedia to help students who may struggle

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with reading. We're trying to bring that multimedia

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content in for them. We also have

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things like great literature criticism to help students

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really engage with the text and think

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a little bit more critically about that text as opposed

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to just kind of, you know, reading and halfway absorbing.

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We really want them to dig into that piece

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of content to really understand, not

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just again what's written but everything

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surrounding how it was written.

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In addition to providing content to context,

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we've really tried to focus our

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content around your curriculum.

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So around your common core standards or

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using other state standards, we've really tried

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to

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be precise in what we've included to make it easier

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for you to find the information that you need. So

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not only do we have information about specific

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works, but you're also going to find information

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on topics like literary themes and devices,

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different eras and literary movements

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to kind of really pull forward,

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not just again the text, but some of the different

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things around the text. So as you're trying to get your students

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to analyze the text, to analyze

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maybe different things that are happening, maybe

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if you're working on the hero's journey, We

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provide you with information about the hero's journey

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with a topic page for students. If they want to take

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a look at that.

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In addition to that, we have a really great feature that we'll take

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a look at. Once we get into our walkthrough, we have

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both interactive plot diagrams

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and character maps. So as you're reading

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your story, if it's a complex story

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with a lot of characters, we'll have a map that

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shows how they're related to each other, maybe

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shows different actions that are taking place with place

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with those characters to really guide students

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to make sure they have it all straight in their head because I'll

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admit I am terrible

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with character names. So those

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character maps are really helpful, helpful

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for me to make sure I know what's going

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on with who plot diagrams, same

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situation they are interactive. So students

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will be able to follow along and get just like a brief summary,

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you know, so maybe it's a review, maybe they've already read

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the text, they can look at the plot diagram

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and just say, you know, look at the bare bones, this is

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what happened.

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And now I can move forward with that with my learning.

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And finally, we do include all of the tools

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that are in our other in context

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resources. So things like our highlights

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and notes our topic finder, we

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can still translate the text in this resource.

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We are still integrated with Google and Microsoft.

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And we do include citations for everything as well.

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So everything you've seen in the previous

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in context resources, we've

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rolled over to this resource to make sure your students

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can research as easily as possible

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and as organized as possible.

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So let's take a quick look at some of the features

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you're going to see within gale and context

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literature. So some of it should look similar

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at the top of the page. We still have our basic

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and advanced search just like our other in context

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resources,

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we've also brought over our browse topics.

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So if you have students who aren't ready to search,

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they don't quite know what they need. We do

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keep that browse topics up top there.

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Something that's new on this home page though

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is our quotes and questions section.

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So these, you'll see here, we've got these little dots meaning

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they rotate kind of in a carousel fashion.

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These are great to engage students. So if they

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hop on the platform, they know they need to

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research, but they're just completely lost. You

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know, it's one of those, I don't know if anyone else does this,

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but you click into something, you just don't even know why you're there.

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This can kind of engage them, this is going to scroll

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along for them so they can take a look at

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some of the quotes and some of the questions that we've

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created and might spark their interest and help them

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start their research.

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And then at the very bottom of the page, we

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do have our topic browse section which

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looks very similar to other in context resources.

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But you'll see we've kind of tiled them out a little

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bit, I guess you can say and edit images

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as well to make just a little bit more visual for

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your students as they start their research.

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Now, moving on from the home page, if they

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do decide to click into the browse topics option,

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they're going to be pulled here to this page

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and you'll see on this left hand side, they can browse

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through different topic types. So genres,

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eras, English language arts, which is going to be

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literary devices and things like that

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and themes

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and on this browse they'll be able to click into any

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of these tiles and they're actually taken

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to different works that are related

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to whatever topic they took a look at.

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So we're going to take a look. There's two different ways

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to find content related to a topic.

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If I want to know about, let's say satire,

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you'll see here, I can click my satire. Little

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tile and I'll be pulled to different

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titles that are related to satire.

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But if I actually want to learn about the topic,

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satire itself, as opposed to books related

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to it, I can also run a search up top

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and be pulled specifically to information about

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satire. So it's really a a two

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way street in finding content. And today we're going

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to take a look at both of them.

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Now, moving on one more time are

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really kind of the crown jewel of this

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resource that I love to show is

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our topic pages related to different

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works, different texts. So this

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is a fairly different

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format compared to other in context

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resources. And we've done that for a specific

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reason. So we've included the title

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of whatever the work is as well as a brief overview

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that your students will be able to click into.

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We've also added a new feature here

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we will have the full text listed. So if

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it is available for this piece of work,

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you'll see we have the title here and you'll have a link

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to go and check that out. We've also

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included in this banner, a video related

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to a specific theme within the text. And these

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will vary of course based on whatever the text

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is. But it's a really nice short

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intro video. So again, if you have struggling

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readers who really prefer to get their knowledge

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through videos through other multimedia pieces

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of information

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right here in the banner, we've decided

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to do that to allow them to find that content

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really easily

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underneath that. We've included essential questions.

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Again, these are specifically related

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to whatever text they're looking at right now.

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So they are different for every

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topic in this resource. It's another great

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way to just get them engaged and get them thinking

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if they haven't taken a look at the text yet, this

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may be a good place for them to start. If

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they've already read the text, this may be a good place

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for them to kind of review and dig deeper within

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the text. So these essential questions

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have been added, you'll see really at the beginning

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of the page to make sure students are

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coming at the text from the right angle to

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make sure they're ready to think more deeply

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than just reading through. And you

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know, answering some basic questions about characters

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and plot and things like that

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underneath that we've pulled forward related

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topics. So in other in context

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resources, this is actually towards the bottom

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of a topic page, we've decided to pull it up

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even ahead of our different pieces of content

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just to make sure our students can kind of move forward.

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So you'll see with this text, we have a few

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different related bits of information. You'll see,

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we have one era and then two different titles

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available.

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So students can click into those and continue their research.

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And then finally at the very bottom of the page,

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you're going to find all of our different organized

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content buckets and this is very, very

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similar to our other in context resources.

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You'll see, we've pulled out the different content

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types and then our buckets are organized

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so students can just point and click to whatever they need.

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They're not navigating through a search results page.

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They're really getting that precise bit of information

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that they're looking for.

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Now, let's take a look at this resource. I am very

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excited to go through it with everyone. It's definitely

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a, a fun kind of click through.

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So let's go ahead and get started here. Hopefully,

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I didn't get signed out. It's been sitting for a second

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before I start to really navigate through. Do

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we have any questions about gale and context literature,

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kind of the background of it?

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OK.

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I don't see any. So we'll go ahead and get started

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here. So let's start off on our home page.

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So again, this will look fairly similar to other

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in context resources. So if you have those,

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you may be a bit familiar

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scrolling down here, we will have our topics of

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interest and these will kind

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of change periodically. So you'll see right now,

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we have two text pieces

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as well as an author. We've decided to highlight

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scrolling down from there. You'll see again our quoted

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questions here. So for your students who don't

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exactly know what they want to look at or what

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they want to do,

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you may want to recommend, they just go here.

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You start to score through. You see all of these different

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questions and it does show,

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which book this is related

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to. So if we hit view topic, it's going

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to pull us to the mask of the red death. In

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this case,

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as we scroll through. If we have

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a quote as opposed to a question,

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you'll see here. It gives us these little quotation marks

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and it tells us who made who said

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or wrote the quote. And then we

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can pull forward to that topic as well and

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this individual is going to pull forward

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for us.

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But before we click into a topic page here,

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let's continue on, on our home page.

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So scrolling down from here is where we're going to find

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our browse topics. And again,

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when we're clicking through and browsing either

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down at the bottom of this page or

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using the browse topics button up top

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here. We're

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going to be pulling titles related to different

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topics. Ok. So as opposed to topics

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themselves, this is actually going to pull

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us to different pieces of text.

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So if I want to click through, let's say I'm really

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interested in themes today.

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I wanna see some of the different things we themes we

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have available.

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I can click here and I'm taking to all of these

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different themes you'll see on this left

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hand side, I can change this browse

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at any time. So if I maybe instead

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want to take a look at English language, arts

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or eras

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or genres, I can do

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that. Let's stick with themes here.

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Let's click today into prejudice and discrimination.

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Of course, it's something that we cover frequently

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in our el a classes and of course, want to continue

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covering. So we do have that pulled out

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as a special theme here. And again,

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it's pulling forward different bits of texts

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that are related to the topic.

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So this isn't a background about

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you know, prejudice, this is about

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different texts that are related

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to prejudice. So they'll be able to click through these,

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maybe find one that they're interested in that they haven't read

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yet and they'll be able to navigate to that

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bit of information.

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And we do try to include as many

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texts in here as we can both historical

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and contemporary. So you'll see more

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contemporary works that are kind of lined up right next

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to some older works,

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historical works that are typically studied.

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So we try to keep that as abroad and

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as inclusive as possible, you'll see the

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hate you give has been pulled here fairly

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prominently as well. Just because that is a popular

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book book that students are currently reading.

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So we want to make sure it's easily found

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within this resource as well.

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Now, before we do click into a title,

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I do want to show you how it works if you want to

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learn about a topic as opposed to find a

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book related to that topic. So

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let's run a search, let's say, for the Harlem Renaissance

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kind of look at a movement as opposed to

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just a straight up theme

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or topic. So when I start to type

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in, you'll see, I get some of these bold options

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and these are predictive text just like you

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find in our other in context

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resources and they're pulling directly the

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topic pages. And so you'll see here, there are topic

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pages about people. We do have

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a text here. And then again, I'm

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going to search for the Harlem Renaissance, which is the

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first one. So I'm going to navigate to that

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and our topic pages related to arrows,

[00:14:20.629]
literary movements, literary devices

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are going to look exactly like our topic

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pages within our other in context, resources.

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So at the very top, we have our full overview

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that's going to go over the history of the Harlem

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Renaissance you know, the factors

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related to it, what exactly happened,

[00:14:36.779]
how it impacts today. They'll find that information,

[00:14:39.219]
then just overview up top

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and then scrolling down,

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they still have a really great content buckets

[00:14:45.700]
here. So you'll see, we have our references,

[00:14:48.158]
biographies for individuals who are a part

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of that. Harlem Renaissance,

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primary sources, a lot of our information

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of our topics, excuse me, have primary

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sources attached. So it's a great way

[00:14:59.340]
to get students engaged with that. And

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what I love is that they are in fact labeled

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primary sources. So students who

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maybe are still having a difficulty understanding

[00:15:08.340]
the difference between a primary and a secondary

[00:15:10.509]
source. They're going to know that they're looking

[00:15:12.609]
at primary sources just by clicking into this content

[00:15:15.058]
bucket, which is a really nice feature.

[00:15:17.759]
We've pulled forward our videos in a separate content

[00:15:20.178]
bucket as well. You'll see audio visual

[00:15:22.710]
plot summaries for different texts that may be

[00:15:24.779]
related to the Harlem Renaissance.

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And then at the very bottom, we have some related topics

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as well. You'll see for this, we have three

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different individuals related to the Harlem Renaissance

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that we've pulled forward as related topics.

[00:15:40.158]
So again, these topic pages are going to look

[00:15:42.460]
very similar to the other

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in context resources.

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The topic page change that you're going

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to see is going to be related to specific

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text specific works. So

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let's go ahead and take a look at one of those. I'm going

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to just run a search again as opposed to clicking

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through my browse because I know what I want

[00:15:59.690]
to take a look at. I want to take a look at there will come soft

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rains

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and when I run my search, you'll see again. I have my

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predictive text here.

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And now this is launching me into that

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text topic page of view.

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So it is more curated and it

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is tailored specifically to be related

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to um a book as opposed to

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just a topic or about an individual.

[00:16:24.269]
So again, we have our full overview up top

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here and I can click to navigate into

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this

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and it's going to give me that background about the work

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we do include essential questions here

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as well. And you'll see they'll be able to read

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through and kind of get started with their,

[00:16:38.389]
their research

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to get back to my main topic page.

[00:16:42.250]
I can either hit the back button in the browser

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or I can hit the title

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of the work here.

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Now from here, as I mentioned in my slides previously,

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if we do have the the full text

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for a work, it's going to appear here, it's

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going to say read book. So for

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this, we actually do have the full text. So if

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I decide to click into this.

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It actually pulls me forward

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in a new tab here. So you'll see this

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actually comes from Gill College collection

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and you don't have access to the full collection

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through this resource. But we do pull

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our full text from that collection.

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So you'll see here, they'll be able to click through

[00:17:21.529]
and read all the way through. Sometimes they'll get

[00:17:23.769]
little introductions, things like that

[00:17:26.029]
to kind of get them ready to read the,

[00:17:28.098]
the text, but they'll be able to go all the way

[00:17:30.209]
through

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and take a look at this.

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And this does include all of the text

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tools and features, sharing options

[00:17:39.269]
that we have within the main resource. We'll

[00:17:41.430]
take a look at those in a second once we're in the main

[00:17:43.509]
resource, but they do have them available here.

[00:17:46.400]
Students will also be able to search within the book as

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well if they want to do that

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and we do a list table of contents here.

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Now let's close out of that tab.

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So right next to the title here, we

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have our video and we do have videos for

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all of our different text pieces.

[00:18:05.809]
Again, it's going to vary what they're based

[00:18:07.890]
on based on the book itself. But we do have

[00:18:10.019]
that listed there really prominent for students

[00:18:12.088]
if they want to click into that

[00:18:15.039]
underneath our essential questions.

[00:18:17.219]
This is great, of course for students to take a look

[00:18:19.368]
at their own. But this could also prompt you as an educator.

[00:18:21.640]
Maybe you're just kind of struggling with exactly

[00:18:24.140]
what you want them to take from a text. Maybe

[00:18:26.239]
you just want a quick, you know, Bell Ringer question

[00:18:28.598]
to have them look at while you're taking attendance.

[00:18:30.660]
This may be helpful for you. You might find a really

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interesting essential question that you hadn't thought of previously

[00:18:35.289]
and you can share that with students as

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opposed to having them find it. You can share it and you can have

[00:18:39.400]
them navigate through this platform, find

[00:18:41.420]
an answer for you

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right next to our essential questions. We

[00:18:45.660]
have our author section. So it's providing information

[00:18:48.170]
on that author.

[00:18:49.459]
And you'll see, we do have a view more about author

[00:18:51.828]
button clicking into that

[00:18:53.920]
is going to pull us to that author's topic page.

[00:18:56.309]
If they have a topic page,

[00:18:58.838]
you'll see they also have a video attached

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to them again, depending on the type of works

[00:19:03.390]
that the author writes. Of course, he writes

[00:19:05.660]
dystopian fiction. So that's

[00:19:07.890]
what you're going to find on his page here

[00:19:10.689]
and you'll scroll down and it'll look just like a topic

[00:19:12.818]
page with all of this great information

[00:19:15.189]
attached for your students.

[00:19:18.949]
Let's click back one more time though, to

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stick with our

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works page.

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So underneath that again, you'll see our related

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topics here. So we have another text

[00:19:30.618]
by the same author. We have a

[00:19:32.630]
literary device here. Well, two technically

[00:19:35.078]
literary devices here so the illusion

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as well as the setting. So if your students

[00:19:39.348]
need to kind of learn more about those

[00:19:41.469]
different topics, they can click directly into

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those.

[00:19:44.959]
And we have again another topic page

[00:19:47.160]
and just a background about what it is.

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And I just want to mention it's great that all of this is

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really found kind of on a little hub.

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We call it a topic page, but it's really a hub

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of all of this information for your students.

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And I want to point out you can actually

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get a link to these pages. So

[00:20:07.568]
if you know you're going to be studying, there will come

[00:20:09.838]
soft brains and you want to have this ready to go for

[00:20:11.900]
your students and maybe you don't want to just direct

[00:20:14.279]
them through the resource. You doesn't want them to get there,

[00:20:16.568]
use this get link, you can excuse

[00:20:19.068]
me, share it via email, put

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it in a syllabus, put it in a discussion board

[00:20:23.219]
post, wherever you get

[00:20:25.318]
the content to your students, you can get this

[00:20:27.348]
persistent URL and they're going to be

[00:20:29.410]
launched right to this page and they'll be able to start

[00:20:31.430]
the research from here. So if you do

[00:20:33.529]
find a hub, that's really perfect for what you're

[00:20:35.549]
studying. Use that get link and keep

[00:20:37.608]
it, save it for later. It's a great way to do that.

[00:20:42.900]
Now, let's scroll down even further

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because now I want to take a look at some of the different

[00:20:47.118]
text options we have available

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and we do have a search within results button up top

[00:20:51.539]
here. So if they want to narrow down their

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results before they even start exploring,

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they certainly can do that.

[00:20:57.539]
And we have our different content buckets listed

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here. So you'll see reference,

[00:21:01.809]
infographics, news, all that great stuff,

[00:21:04.078]
plot summary,

[00:21:05.890]
you'll find all of that information here. Sometimes

[00:21:08.279]
you'll find other things. So there may not be

[00:21:10.529]
um let's say there's no news reports for

[00:21:12.680]
the specific text. Then

[00:21:14.719]
this won't appear here. Let's say there's no infographics,

[00:21:17.000]
it won't appear. It looks like this one right now

[00:21:19.108]
doesn't have any primary sources attached.

[00:21:21.449]
So you see it doesn't appear here.

[00:21:23.598]
So what's great is if we don't have a specific

[00:21:25.868]
content type for the text you're looking at,

[00:21:28.059]
we don't have that listed under the different content

[00:21:30.318]
types to confuse students.

[00:21:33.750]
So scrolling down. Now you'll see our different

[00:21:36.130]
content buckets listed here.

[00:21:40.098]
And when I want to first point out, I mentioned

[00:21:42.219]
briefly in my slides, we have

[00:21:44.469]
those great plot diagrams and character

[00:21:46.539]
diagrams and we have a plot diagram

[00:21:48.729]
here. Both of those

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are going to fall under our infographics

[00:21:53.088]
section.

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So we can click, let's take a look at the plot diagram.

[00:22:01.568]
Here we go. So you'll see we've really organized

[00:22:04.009]
it in a way that students typically study literature.

[00:22:06.608]
So they'll get the exposition all

[00:22:08.828]
the way to the resolution.

[00:22:10.680]
And I'm going to actually make this bigger.

[00:22:12.689]
You'll see, I can hit that computer button and make this

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full screen

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and I can click into any of these.

[00:22:19.049]
So the exposition,

[00:22:21.709]
if I want to take a look at the conflict, you see, I can go all the way

[00:22:23.858]
through

[00:22:25.068]
to the very end. And this is just obviously very

[00:22:27.368]
basic. It's kind of giving them the bare bones

[00:22:29.670]
about this text, but it's a great way

[00:22:31.989]
just for them to quickly refresh their memory

[00:22:34.150]
or quickly get them prepared for what they're about

[00:22:36.410]
to read.

[00:22:38.739]
And it's readily available on this platform.

[00:22:41.009]
You'll notice it actually has a citation here as well.

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So if they plan on using it somewhere else, they certainly

[00:22:45.630]
can and they can keep that citation there

[00:22:47.660]
with them. Click

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back there, there we go.

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So underneath those infographics, I will mention

[00:22:56.078]
we also have plot summaries. So those

[00:22:58.219]
are different than plot diagrams. The

[00:23:00.259]
diagrams are going to be shorter and interactive

[00:23:02.759]
while plot summaries are going to be just

[00:23:05.000]
that a full summary of the plot. So those are

[00:23:07.049]
going to be text and they're generally

[00:23:09.160]
going to be longer because they're covering everything

[00:23:11.328]
that's been written in the work.

[00:23:15.789]
Now, let's scroll back up top here. I'm going

[00:23:17.979]
to click into all of my reference content

[00:23:20.108]
today because I want

[00:23:22.229]
you to see some of the different filters that we have available

[00:23:24.769]
that's going to help your students out quite a bit.

[00:23:28.180]
So you'll see here, we've got 11 reference works

[00:23:30.289]
related to this text. And on this

[00:23:32.368]
right hand side here, you'll see we can narrow that down.

[00:23:35.160]
So maybe we want to change it based on publication

[00:23:37.358]
title,

[00:23:39.059]
publication date. If we want to make sure we're only

[00:23:41.088]
seeing the most current bits of information,

[00:23:43.199]
we can certainly do that.

[00:23:44.979]
We can also narrow it down based on subjects. So

[00:23:47.118]
one step further here

[00:23:53.680]
and now scrolling over here on this left hand side,

[00:23:56.380]
we'll be able to kind of take a look to see what we

[00:23:58.739]
think will be best for our research.

[00:24:00.759]
And they will point out this defaults to sorting by

[00:24:02.920]
sorting by relevance. You can also

[00:24:05.390]
sort by newest or by document title

[00:24:07.559]
if you like, but it does sort default

[00:24:09.979]
to sorting by relevance.

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That's a hard sentence to say.

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We do have the date listed underneath though and you'll

[00:24:16.170]
see a lot of the most relevance are actually

[00:24:18.500]
fairly current here as well.

[00:24:21.828]
We can kind of scroll down. You'll see

[00:24:23.949]
it gives information about themes in construction,

[00:24:26.598]
the Martian chronicles, all that

[00:24:28.650]
good stuff.

[00:24:30.519]
Let's click. I really like the idea

[00:24:32.578]
of the historical context text

[00:24:35.078]
around this resource. So let's click into

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this

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here.

[00:24:40.039]
Now, as I scroll down, you'll see, it's giving me that

[00:24:42.189]
background, that information that I may not

[00:24:44.279]
just have in my head. This is

[00:24:46.299]
telling me what the author was

[00:24:48.420]
dealing with when he was writing this because if

[00:24:50.469]
he's dealing with something different than me, then he may

[00:24:52.519]
be coming at something in a completely

[00:24:54.640]
different mindset and from a completely different side

[00:24:56.789]
of things. So this is really going to help

[00:24:58.979]
your students understand not only what's

[00:25:01.239]
written but why it was written and

[00:25:03.299]
how it was written.

[00:25:05.439]
So you'll see if we can scroll down here and I have

[00:25:07.598]
this great explore panel. So if I

[00:25:09.608]
want more information related to

[00:25:11.699]
or I'm sorry, more information that's like this piece

[00:25:13.949]
of text, I can click into the more

[00:25:15.989]
like this. If I want to move

[00:25:18.019]
forward from this text to different subjects

[00:25:20.199]
that are kind of close to this, you'll see,

[00:25:22.309]
I'll be able to do that under here. So

[00:25:24.410]
we've got related subjects like the Cold War, the 19

[00:25:26.709]
fifties, specific information

[00:25:29.140]
related to the short story and related

[00:25:31.180]
to the author here.

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So these are again going to push us forward in

[00:25:34.989]
our research, making sure we don't get stuck

[00:25:37.318]
sitting at one spot and maybe get a little bit

[00:25:39.489]
um a little bit stagnant

[00:25:41.729]
in our research.

[00:25:44.029]
So now let's take a look at some of the different tools

[00:25:46.160]
that we have available for your students. So when they

[00:25:48.289]
do find this content that's going to be helpful

[00:25:50.750]
for whatever they're doing, whatever they're researching,

[00:25:53.009]
or if you yourself have pulled this content

[00:25:55.309]
for students, there's quite a bit of information

[00:25:57.469]
and quite a bit of tools that you can use

[00:25:59.489]
to kind of work with this.

[00:26:01.559]
So first off, I will always point out our citation

[00:26:04.130]
feature found on every document,

[00:26:06.598]
every video, every podcast, every

[00:26:08.858]
picture, every anything

[00:26:11.108]
we have a citation tool attached.

[00:26:13.608]
So if your students are using this in a project,

[00:26:16.000]
they can really easily click and pull that citation.

[00:26:18.489]
I like to mention this is a great way to get student

[00:26:20.660]
buy-in into using these resources as opposed

[00:26:22.739]
to just, you know, Googling.

[00:26:24.180]
If they're Googling, they're writing out their citation,

[00:26:26.559]
they're building it on their own. If they're using this

[00:26:28.719]
resource, you know, aside from the fact

[00:26:30.858]
that we've already curated all of this content for them,

[00:26:33.160]
We've also made this citation, you'll see

[00:26:35.259]
they could choose Mlaap a Chicago or Harvard

[00:26:38.029]
and they can export it. Of course, they could just copy

[00:26:40.039]
and paste it somewhere, but they can export

[00:26:42.118]
it to one of their drives. If they like if they're using

[00:26:44.358]
noodle tools or easy bib, it's

[00:26:46.368]
right there ready for them. A really simple way

[00:26:48.439]
to get it,

[00:26:51.140]
they can also send this document somewhere.

[00:26:53.420]
So if I hit my send two button, I can

[00:26:55.430]
use Google drive my Onedrive or email.

[00:26:57.539]
So if I find this really helpful, but I need

[00:26:59.549]
to, you know, hop off the computer for the day. I can't

[00:27:01.670]
continue with my research.

[00:27:03.430]
Just see if it send it over to the drive and then it's

[00:27:05.449]
ready to go for them, it goes over in a folder

[00:27:07.769]
labeled gale and contact literature. So they're going

[00:27:09.969]
to know exactly where it ends up.

[00:27:12.219]
It will go over with a link attached

[00:27:14.420]
so they can get back to this document

[00:27:16.660]
within the resource

[00:27:18.699]
and it's also an editable document. So

[00:27:20.739]
if they want to maybe copy and paste,

[00:27:22.959]
make highlights,

[00:27:24.489]
take notes within their drive,

[00:27:26.680]
they'll be able to do that as well.

[00:27:30.709]
And moving over from, from our send too,

[00:27:32.930]
you'll see. We do have our download and print options.

[00:27:35.250]
So if they want to take the documents,

[00:27:37.979]
that way they'll be able to do that. It downloads

[00:27:40.328]
as a PDF or of course, it prints

[00:27:42.608]
as a document. next

[00:27:44.789]
to that is our Get link. And I did mention

[00:27:47.088]
using this get link when you're on a

[00:27:49.199]
works topic page.

[00:27:51.279]
We also have it attached to all

[00:27:53.309]
of our different documents and our different

[00:27:55.559]
content buckets. So if maybe

[00:27:57.838]
students clicked into all of the reference

[00:27:59.848]
works for a piece of text and they

[00:28:01.858]
want to save all of them, they can click that

[00:28:03.939]
get link and they'll get the persistent URL to

[00:28:06.000]
that page.

[00:28:07.479]
So again, a really powerful tool that

[00:28:09.900]
can sometimes be overlooked.

[00:28:12.068]
And I do want to point out if you are planning

[00:28:14.219]
on saving this information, sending it to students

[00:28:16.509]
always use get link as opposed to

[00:28:18.529]
the address bar. You'll see first off

[00:28:20.689]
get link is way shorter, but

[00:28:22.769]
also the address bar could break, you know, we could update

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the platform a little bit and now it's no longer linked

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to the document or to whatever page you were on.

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Not gonna happen when they get link, that's persistent,

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really helpful. If you are putting that on a syllabus,

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maybe for a project that you're going to be using,

[00:28:37.670]
you know, in years to come or maybe multiple semesters,

[00:28:40.259]
you won't have to worry about clicking

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back and making sure that the link didn't break. It's going

[00:28:44.549]
to be there and available to you.

[00:28:49.009]
Now, all of those tools are also found

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down here under the title here.

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You'll see. I have my send to Google drive,

[00:28:55.318]
my one drive and then my download and

[00:28:57.390]
print options, all that good stuff. So this

[00:28:59.689]
does the exact same as the tools up

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here. We've just included it in two spots just

[00:29:03.858]
to make sure students can easily find it.

[00:29:07.719]
Now, on this left hand side here, this

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is what we have. I like to call them text manipulation

[00:29:12.279]
tools, but they're just tools to make this

[00:29:14.900]
information as accessible as it possibly

[00:29:17.328]
can be for students. So the first one

[00:29:19.338]
is our translate button,

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you'll see, they'll be able to translate the article in quite

[00:29:24.509]
a few different languages

[00:29:26.670]
and they can also set an interface language

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and I'm going to set this to a different language

[00:29:30.709]
today. So we can take a look.

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I'm going to click Spanish.

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So you'll see when I change that my search

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bar, all of my tools, my explorer

[00:29:39.049]
panel are now in that language.

[00:29:42.289]
And what's great is this actually follows me along throughout

[00:29:44.500]
the session. So if you do have students

[00:29:46.529]
who need Spanish, who

[00:29:48.618]
need Arabic, who need French, whatever the language

[00:29:50.989]
may be, they can start off

[00:29:53.618]
the session before they even get going by changing

[00:29:56.000]
the platform language.

[00:29:58.289]
And then they'll know how to click back and forth. They'll know

[00:30:00.380]
where they're going within the resource.

[00:30:03.229]
So again, you can translate that here

[00:30:05.568]
or you can actually translate it at any time

[00:30:07.779]
up top here.

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So I drop that down. Let's go back to English.

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There we go. Here we are.

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It's a really simple way to translate here.

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In addition to that translation, we also have

[00:30:23.598]
options to increase or decrease the font

[00:30:25.660]
size as students need it.

[00:30:28.118]
Next to that. We've got some other great display

[00:30:30.269]
options that are going to help them fine tune

[00:30:32.519]
what they're seeing on the screen. They can choose

[00:30:34.559]
the background color.

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So whatever works the best for them,

[00:30:38.489]
they can choose a different font. So we do

[00:30:40.630]
have a dyslexia font available. If

[00:30:42.719]
that's better for students to read, we have

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it ready for them right here and this does work with all

[00:30:47.049]
of our text. So any piece of information

[00:30:49.269]
they're reading through, they'll be able to hit that open

[00:30:51.519]
dyslexic option.

[00:30:53.670]
They can also change the line letter and word spacing.

[00:30:56.739]
So again, struggling readers,

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we are really trying to make this as accessible

[00:31:01.160]
as possible. They can fine tune

[00:31:03.229]
their settings. You'll see they can change any parameter

[00:31:05.400]
on its own

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to really make it as easy as possible to get that

[00:31:09.900]
information. I'm going to go back to my

[00:31:11.959]
default settings today though.

[00:31:15.739]
So right next to those display options, we also

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have our listen tool,

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pause that because I'm not sharing my audio.

[00:31:22.799]
when they hit that listen tool, you'll see it pops up this

[00:31:24.939]
player and it's going to read the full text to them

[00:31:27.519]
and it does read in whatever language

[00:31:29.618]
the text is translated to. So if your students

[00:31:31.989]
translated this piece into Spanish

[00:31:34.459]
and then hit play, it does read to them

[00:31:36.500]
all the way through in Spanish, which is a nice

[00:31:38.670]
feature again to increase that accessibility

[00:31:41.358]
for them and they can

[00:31:43.390]
actually download this as well. So if

[00:31:45.699]
they want to take this mp3 with them, maybe,

[00:31:48.039]
you know, on the bus on the way home, maybe

[00:31:50.118]
right before practice. And they just want to kind of

[00:31:52.259]
listen to this text as opposed to reading

[00:31:54.519]
it, they can just download that mp3 and

[00:31:56.640]
do it wherever they want to

[00:31:59.390]
close that back up here.

[00:32:01.789]
Now, one more document tool, I want to show you before

[00:32:04.019]
I get into the topic finder and how great it works

[00:32:06.318]
with all of this literature. Information.

[00:32:08.618]
is there highlights and notes and this is really,

[00:32:10.750]
really great to get students organized

[00:32:12.848]
and engaged in their research. They

[00:32:15.140]
can click and highlight over anything they think is important.

[00:32:17.630]
Let's say this sentence.

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There we go. They think this is important. They

[00:32:22.539]
can click and highlight over

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or

[00:32:29.009]
they can hopefully take better notes than me

[00:32:32.799]
and they can highlight anything that they think is important.

[00:32:36.858]
And I will mention this is session based.

[00:32:38.910]
So if you are directing your students to highlight

[00:32:41.309]
key points to save for later,

[00:32:43.338]
you want to make sure they get this information out of

[00:32:45.390]
the platform. So they can do that by sending

[00:32:47.699]
it to their drives, they can download it, they can print

[00:32:49.949]
it. They just need to get it off here

[00:32:52.118]
because once they sign off for the day or

[00:32:54.160]
they close out of their browser or they

[00:32:56.279]
leave it sitting and they're signed off due to inactivity.

[00:32:59.479]
Anything they did is gone.

[00:33:01.068]
So just make sure if you are having them run

[00:33:03.140]
through and highlight information that

[00:33:05.289]
they save it, they put it somewhere that's not in this

[00:33:07.358]
platform.

[00:33:10.469]
Now, all of these highlights and notes that I'm taking

[00:33:12.479]
are all going to kind of collect

[00:33:14.828]
right here under our highlights and

[00:33:16.868]
notes button.

[00:33:17.890]
You'll see when I click into it. It's showing

[00:33:20.108]
me the text to highlight as well as the notes.

[00:33:22.529]
If I hit this view, all highlights and notes

[00:33:24.618]
button it's

[00:33:26.910]
actually going to pull forward every highlight

[00:33:29.019]
and every note I took within this session.

[00:33:31.578]
So if I went through and read, you know, five

[00:33:33.809]
articles about five different books or maybe

[00:33:36.209]
five articles about five

[00:33:38.279]
different authors, and I took some different

[00:33:40.368]
highlights and I took some notes, they'll all appear here,

[00:33:42.739]
you'll see, they'll get the title of the

[00:33:44.818]
text as well as the hyperlink back to it.

[00:33:47.410]
And then the full highlight that I took

[00:33:49.680]
any notes that I took and I can edit

[00:33:51.799]
those notes here

[00:33:53.509]
and underneath a running bibliography.

[00:33:55.930]
So if I highlighted more than one article,

[00:33:59.150]
they would slowly start to appear under here,

[00:34:01.818]
you'll see. We do give a safe warning on this page.

[00:34:04.239]
Well, this is really helpful, it does disappear.

[00:34:06.449]
So again, they'll need to get it out of the platform.

[00:34:09.030]
But this is a great way for them to kind of take

[00:34:11.250]
electronic notes so they can highlight

[00:34:14.079]
and kind of mark up anything they think is important.

[00:34:16.699]
You'll see, they can make labels. So you'll see

[00:34:18.869]
I had two colors that I highlighted with.

[00:34:21.199]
So maybe this first one, let's see

[00:34:23.250]
is an introduction. This one is supporting

[00:34:25.530]
an argument that I'm making about something.

[00:34:28.760]
No, I've got this highlight legend here. So

[00:34:31.128]
if I do go through this and really annotate

[00:34:33.679]
and highlight all of the things I think are important,

[00:34:36.260]
you'll see, I can choose to send this over

[00:34:38.398]
to a drive

[00:34:39.887]
or I can download it or I can print it. So if

[00:34:42.018]
I do send it over to a drive, it's going

[00:34:44.137]
to keep this formatting. So I'm still

[00:34:46.358]
going to have the title of the text with a hyperlink

[00:34:49.239]
all of the information and then

[00:34:51.278]
another one underneath it.

[00:34:53.269]
And this is also going to go over

[00:34:55.469]
as a an editable document.

[00:34:59.300]
so your students can

[00:35:01.659]
change up what they need to hear. Maybe

[00:35:03.668]
they want to include some additional notes, they'll be able

[00:35:05.918]
to do that in their drive really simply.

[00:35:08.519]
So again, great way to really

[00:35:10.539]
organize, especially if they spent a large

[00:35:12.570]
chunk of time in the resource, you know, finding

[00:35:14.688]
a lot of content.

[00:35:16.208]
Sometimes they're just not going to keep up with that.

[00:35:18.289]
So this is a good way to do it. It's also

[00:35:20.510]
a great way to make sure they're not sending, you know,

[00:35:22.539]
10 articles to their drive

[00:35:24.550]
and, you know, they're going to maybe not read 10 full

[00:35:26.708]
articles, they can highlight a piece

[00:35:28.849]
of those articles and then when this goes over

[00:35:30.989]
to their drive, they've got the hyperlink.

[00:35:33.010]
So if they decide, oh yeah, I do actually want

[00:35:35.090]
to read through this full text or

[00:35:37.188]
take a look at this picture or whatever it is.

[00:35:39.489]
I have that right here. I can click directly back

[00:35:41.668]
to it and you'll see since

[00:35:43.829]
I'm on the same session, I still have

[00:35:45.929]
all of my great highlights and notes available here.

[00:35:48.679]
And I can just read through again.

[00:35:53.070]
Now, I realize I have not stopped to ask

[00:35:55.128]
if anyone has questions. None have popped up

[00:35:57.289]
in the Q and A. But before I take a look

[00:35:59.398]
at topic finder, I'll just ask now

[00:36:01.458]
any questions for me about anything that we went

[00:36:03.590]
through? Ok.

[00:36:09.510]
Well, I don't see any. So let's go ahead and get

[00:36:11.570]
going. I, again, I have one

[00:36:13.769]
more, um,

[00:36:15.829]
one more feature I want you to take a look at today,

[00:36:18.010]
which is going to be the topic finder. And

[00:36:20.378]
you can find the topic finder either

[00:36:22.530]
I'm actually clicking back into our reference results

[00:36:24.769]
page that we got that we got to

[00:36:26.889]
from our works topic page.

[00:36:29.010]
You can either find the topic finder on this

[00:36:31.128]
page. So if you run a search or

[00:36:33.320]
if you click into a content bucket, topic

[00:36:35.449]
finder will appear here

[00:36:37.668]
or you can go up under our advanced

[00:36:40.110]
search.

[00:36:43.628]
And then topic finder is the third option here

[00:36:45.688]
in this little gray bar. So let's click into

[00:36:47.989]
it. This is great

[00:36:50.128]
again to find connections.

[00:36:52.329]
So not only are we trying to help students

[00:36:54.728]
understand the context around different

[00:36:56.760]
pieces of work? We also want them

[00:36:58.789]
to see how they're connected to each other in

[00:37:00.829]
different events.

[00:37:02.059]
So our topic I find is great for that. Let's we

[00:37:04.550]
looked at some dystopian literature

[00:37:06.820]
today. So let's look at dystopia.

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Just take a quick sec, quick second here

[00:37:13.519]
there. We go.

[00:37:14.409]
So you'll see. Now I have this nice interactive

[00:37:16.949]
kind of graphic here. I'll be able

[00:37:19.010]
to kind of click through and find different bits of information.

[00:37:21.619]
So you'll see. I have Utopia listed here.

[00:37:23.688]
Maybe I don't know what Utopia is or I don't

[00:37:25.849]
know how they're related to each other. I can

[00:37:28.079]
click into Utopia and kind of move forward

[00:37:30.188]
with that information.

[00:37:31.648]
There we go.

[00:37:32.659]
So I click into this and now I can see some of the

[00:37:34.668]
different kind of subcategories that are related

[00:37:36.889]
to Utopia

[00:37:38.389]
to again pull my research forward.

[00:37:40.728]
And you'll see now on this right hand

[00:37:42.929]
side, I've got all the results listed

[00:37:45.019]
here. So I can go through these, you'll get, you'll

[00:37:47.110]
see, I get a little bit of information

[00:37:49.458]
and then I can click through if I think it's something important

[00:37:51.820]
here and I can reset

[00:37:53.949]
these tiles at any point.

[00:37:57.228]
Maybe now I want to take a look at something else.

[00:37:59.360]
Um Let's say the Hunger Games, if that's something

[00:38:01.489]
that I'm reading, how is that related to dystopia?

[00:38:03.949]
Of course, it's pretty obvious to us, but

[00:38:06.429]
it may not be something that students directly

[00:38:08.648]
connect with each other. So that's a great way to make

[00:38:10.789]
that connection. not just to,

[00:38:13.090]
you know, traditionally studied texts

[00:38:15.188]
but also texts that are a little bit more contemporary.

[00:38:20.019]
In addition to this tile visualization, we

[00:38:22.110]
also have a wheel version. So

[00:38:24.349]
if students kind of prefer a little bit

[00:38:26.489]
more organization. This wheel may

[00:38:28.570]
be good for them. You'll see they can see the categories

[00:38:31.179]
as well as the subcategories right here.

[00:38:33.668]
A nice simple way to find that information.

[00:38:42.500]
Right now. We have reached the end

[00:38:44.510]
of the session. I haven't had any questions, so we've

[00:38:46.699]
got some time to spare. Is there

[00:38:48.739]
anything you want to take a look at that? I didn't cover

[00:38:51.010]
today before we end off before

[00:38:53.250]
I give you some wrap up contact information. All

[00:38:55.489]
right. No takers, no problem.

[00:38:57.739]
Let's go ahead and jump back here too

[00:39:01.878]
these slides because I do have some contact information.

[00:39:04.539]
So if you currently have this resource

[00:39:06.679]
and maybe you want to go over it more in depth or you

[00:39:08.728]
just want to review what we went

[00:39:10.789]
over today or maybe talk about best practices

[00:39:13.239]
to getting it into the classroom or things like that

[00:39:15.510]
or maybe best practices and promoting it.

[00:39:17.780]
You can just reach out to your customer success

[00:39:19.820]
manager. If you already know who that is, just send him

[00:39:21.878]
an email. If not, you can send an

[00:39:23.898]
email to [email protected]

[00:39:25.958]
and we'll forward you to the

[00:39:27.989]
correct individual

[00:39:29.849]
if you don't have Gale In Context: Literature, but you're

[00:39:31.938]
interested, reach out to your sales consultants

[00:39:34.489]
again. If you know who that is, just call

[00:39:36.550]
them, send them an email, they're ready and excited

[00:39:38.829]
to talk about, talk to you about this. Resource. Everyone

[00:39:41.059]
here is really excited about it.

[00:39:42.539]
If you don't know who your sales consultant is,

[00:39:44.719]
just go to support.gale.com/repfinder

[00:39:46.829]
and you can put in

[00:39:48.878]
your information and it'll let you know who you should contact.

[00:39:51.679]
We've got some great support tools for this resource

[00:39:53.958]
as well. So if you're just starting to promote this

[00:39:56.139]
to your teachers, to your learning community,

[00:39:58.489]
we have some stuff already premade for you to

[00:40:00.590]
do that on our

[00:40:01.704]
site, which is support.gale.com. So

[00:40:03.804]
you'll find a resource guide, you'll find

[00:40:05.994]
flyers. This webinar is going to be posted

[00:40:08.454]
there. Um Hopefully within the next two

[00:40:10.465]
days, you'll find all of that content.

[00:40:12.474]
So you don't have to reinvent the wheel. You can get the word

[00:40:14.534]
out about this excellent resource

[00:40:16.773]
without really having to lift the finger, you know, just

[00:40:18.894]
send it in the email and you're good to go.

[00:40:20.750]
And then finally, I do have a session survey.

[00:40:23.128]
If you have the time to take it, I would really appreciate

[00:40:25.489]
it. You'll see. I've got a QR code on the screen.

[00:40:27.820]
You can also just take it in your browser.

[00:40:30.280]
Once you sign off of our session today, it's gonna pop

[00:40:32.349]
up for you. Love to hear feedback

[00:40:34.849]
you have about the resource about the session,

[00:40:37.418]
um thoughts about the future,

[00:40:39.570]
whatever it is, please feel free to send

[00:40:41.610]
info there. And now I'm gonna close out our session

[00:40:43.668]
because again, I haven't seen any questions come

[00:40:45.708]
in from you all, but I do appreciate you for being on

[00:40:47.719]
the line and hopefully we'll see you

[00:40:49.840]
in future sessions. Bye bye now.