Duration: 30 Minutes
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Hello and welcome to today's Gale 101
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session.
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Today we're going to be taking a look at Gale In Context: Literature.
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My name is Amber Winters,
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and I'm a senior training consultant
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here with Gale.
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So, our agenda for today is pretty straightforward.
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First, we'll just go over an overview of the
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resource, what you can expect to find in the
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resource, who we built it for, all that good
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stuff. We'll spend a little bit of
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time talking about some of the key content. Sorry,
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excuses pop up here.
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My screenshot every once in a while it pops up.
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we'll spend some time talking about
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some of the key content you're going to find within
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the resource as well as some different key features.
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But we'll spend the majority of the time walking through the platform,
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so you can get a feel of the different workflows,
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as well as the different features and tools that your users
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are going to see.
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And at the very end of the session, we will have time
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for questions, and I have some contact information
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for you as well. So,
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Again, if you have questions as we move along in
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the session, feel free to put them into the Q&A,
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or you can wait until the very end, if
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you prefer to do that. But either way, we'll be able to
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get your questions answered.
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So let's go ahead and talk about Gal and context
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literature, so just a brief
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background about this resource.
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this has really been designed for secondary
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level users. So we're talking your high
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school leveled students.
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We've really curated the concept they're going to find in
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here, to help really
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beginner to advanced high school students, take
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a look at all different sorts of literature.
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So, so
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works you may commonly see in various,
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standards and curriculum, and then works that may
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be a little bit outside of that, that students might be interested
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in. They're going to find this resource.
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And we do have focuses both on historical
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and more modern contemporary works as
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well. So,
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students can really find a huge
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collection of information and they can either search
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or browse based on different
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kind of key features, so they can search
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based on genre, eras, or
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themes. So a few different examples of a genre
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might be dystopian literature.
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if we're talking about an era, maybe they want to take
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a look at everything related to the American Romantic
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era.
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if we're looking at themes, maybe their theme that
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they're interested in is identity. They'll click in
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and take a look at
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all of our information related to identity
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as a theme.
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And this resource has also been developed to
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support ELA standards in curriculum. So
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any of my teachers online or librarians
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who are working with ELA teachers,
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not only are your students going to get information
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about the literature that they're reading,
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but we also have topics focused
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on different language arts, kind
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of,
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um. Standards that you're going to find.
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So things like figurative language, elements of fiction,
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poetry terms, things like that. So,
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it's not just strictly for students looking
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on information about works or about authors.
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It's also going to help them understand just language
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arts as a whole, some of the different
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ideas and topics that they're going to run against.
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If they're learning about similes, we can jump into
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this resource and help them understand similes
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better. if they're learning about the elements
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of fiction, again, they'll be able to jump into this
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resource and it's also great for you as educators,
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because you can pull content. We have great reference articles
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about these different language arts topics,
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that you can share it with your students. Maybe you want to
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share it in a discussion board, maybe
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you just want to share it just in class,
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whenever you want to do, you'll be able to do that in this resource
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as well. So it's kind of like twofold. You're
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going to get that nice literature content for your students,
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but you're also going to get that language arts content
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that's going to support you in your classroom
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design as well.
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We have a lot of diverse content in this
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resource, so I think there's another really strong point of
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this resource is we're not just throwing,
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you know, one thing. Your students are going to see
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work overviews, they're going to see plot summaries,
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so once they read.
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read the text if they need to kind of summarize
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it a little bit, or maybe they want to read a summary before
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they dive in.
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We have those pot summaries in the resource. They'll
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also find news in magazines. So,
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especially if this is, you know, a newer piece
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of literature that's in the news a lot right now,
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they'll get that in the resource as well, so it'll pull some
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context related to that work in there
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for them.
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Author biographies are also available, so
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not only are they going to learn about the works
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themselves, but they're going to learn about the people who wrote
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them. they'll find images
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and videos and other multimedia
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content. We do include literature criticism
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here as well.
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And finally, we have some great plot diagrams
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and character maps,
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character maps we're going to take a look
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at today as well. So,
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again, just trying to help students really grasp
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whatever piece of literature they're taking a look at,
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whatever they're reading. They're going to get a nice
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holistic view of this. We also, I didn't
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realize I didn't put it in my list here.
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but we also have a nice collection of primary
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sources. So if your students are reading historical
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work, they may want to take a look at our primary
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sources, and they'll get some understanding
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about what was going on in society when
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that piece of literature was written. So they
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get, again, a little more context about
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why something was written, maybe what was influencing
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the author as it was being written. They'll find
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that in this resource as well.
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And finally, in addition to all of that great
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content, we have a huge collection of
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tools that are going to help your learners
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as they research, as they learn to make sure they
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stay organized and find the information they need.
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So we have things like highlights and notes that are going to
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let your students,
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you know, take notes and find the key pieces
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of information in each of the articles they're reading.
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We have a nice topic finder that can kind of connect
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the dots for students who are
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researching and maybe kind of hit a hit a
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wall a little bit on what they want to. Research.
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We also have full translations available throughout
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the resource.
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Google or Microsoft integration, if your students want
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to save content that way.
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We've got a nice read speaker that's going to read the text
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to your students. We have some text manipulation
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that's going to help enhance accessibility, so
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changing
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the font size and color.
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As well as the font type itself.
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And we also have a full citation generator, which
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is great for getting buy-in for your students. We'll
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take a look at it when we actually
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dig into the resource, but that's a great way
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to get them off of Google
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and other search engines because they don't have to
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build their citation and our resource.
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They find their content, they use our site button,
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copy and paste it wherever they want it to go. So
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we'll look at that today.
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I want to go over just a couple of the key features.
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I really want you all to be aware of. We're actually going to
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work through this workflow today, but I just want to point
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it out ahead of time. So,
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something pretty unique to
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Gaelen context literature is going to be our
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topic trees. So if your
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students prefer to browse, you know, they don't know
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exactly what they're looking for, maybe they just like the
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more visual look of like a point and click
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situation.
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we have great topic trees that are designed
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for students. It starts right on the homepage,
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and they'll be able to go one step at a time. So again,
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as I mentioned, they'll be able to browse by
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genre or era or theme.
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They'll be able to click through those in our topic
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pages and eventually get down to works, or
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to authors, or to topics
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related to whatever they're browsing. So
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it's really again, step by step to get them,
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get them to content.
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This is especially helpful for your students who
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may be struggling at building
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basic or advanced searches.
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of course, we know that's a skill that takes time
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to build. So if you have struggling
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students,
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this is a nice way for them to access
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content too, is to just click through our topic trees,
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and you'll see it's nice and visual here, so they
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get the visuals, they get the text, and
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they'll be able to kind of click through.
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And if they do go down through these topic trees,
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they're going to eventually hit a topic page.
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With our topic pages, what we've done is
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we've created these pages that are nice and organized.
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we have 3 different versions. We
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have topic guides, which are going to be
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on a specific topic like figurative language
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or something like that.
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we have person guides, which is, which are going to
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be about the authors, and we have work
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guides which are going to be about the text
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themselves, whatever they're reading.
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so we've organized these pages to make it really
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simple for your users to find everything
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they do. So you have a screenshot here,
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of a work guide that's
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for American born Chinese that
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work. you'll see we have a full overview
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of the top. We have these nice essential questions
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here as well to kind of get your students' brains moving
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before they really dive in.
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we give information on the author with a
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link to that author's work sorry,
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that author's person guide.
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We have related topics, and then underneath we have
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all of the results related to this work.
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So again, eventually your students are going to land
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on one of these topic pages. It could be about a person
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or a or a topic or a
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work,
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but if they just start to click and browse, they're
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going to get here and it's going to be nice and neat
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and organized for them.
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If they're searching for something, so let's say they search
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instead of point and click
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for American born Chinese,
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if they search for that, it would pull them to this topic
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page as well. So we're really trying to,
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I don't want to say heard that sounds terrible, but really
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trying to point
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students into the direction of these different guides
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and topic pages,
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because we have really worked to organize
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them and make them really simple for students
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to understand and to kind of click through.
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And many of our works also include
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full text options, so you'll be able to
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have your students
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read through the full text of different works.
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I will show you how you can find that.
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right now it's not every work we have in the resource,
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but we do have quite a few
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available. So if your students need access to
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that, they don't have a physical text or a
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physical copy of it,
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they may be able to find it with their resource, so we're
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going to take a look at that as well today.
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So, let's go ahead and dive right in. Now,
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I haven't seen any questions come in in the Q&A,
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but while I'm switching over here,
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does anyone have any questions
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before we really dive in?
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OK, I don't see any, so let's go ahead and get going.
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so before we really dive into our
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topic tree kind of walk through,
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I want to show you where you can find a list of
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our full text works because that's
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a question that comes up a lot.
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so to find that while you're in Gal and context literature,
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and by the way, this is just the home page of that resource.
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If you go to browse topics, this little light bulb
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here. You'll
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see we're taking to this page, and this is actually part
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of the topic tree that we're going to be navigating
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through. Um, but we're going to click
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on view all topics today. And when I
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do that, you'll see it's a little bit less visual,
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because we're trying to fit every topic within this
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resource on one page here. You'll
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see quite a few of them are updated, and
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then some of them have full text flags.
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But we actually have a category section up
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top here under the title, and if
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I hit my drop down,
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you'll see I have full text or excerpt.
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I can never say that word,
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options here, so you'll see
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we have those listed here. So down below,
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these are all of the titles right now that we
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have full text access to.
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And what's great is the full text is connected
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to those work pages,
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the topic pages that I mentioned before.
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So your students will be able to click directly into those
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and read through if they want to.
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So again,
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if you're looking for just a list of the full text
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works, browse topics, this button up top
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here. Click down
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into my drop down.
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I'm sorry.
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View all topics first,
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over here on this left hand side, and then click down
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into my dropdown, and it's going to pull me
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forward to that.
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Well, let's jump back to the homepage here and assume
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that we're not looking for a full list, we're actually looking
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for a piece of content that might be interesting to
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us. So,
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right here on the homepage,
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let me scroll down a bit, you'll see we do have
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a few topics of interest that we pull
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forward.
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Excuse me.
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so for anyone watching this recording, this is actually
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being recorded in November, so you'll
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see,we have our topics
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of interest include a lot of, Native
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American information because, of course, it's Native
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American Heritage Month.
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So this does change monthly and a lot of times it
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will follow along with what's going on,
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if there's a certain observance in a month, or
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if there's just something special going on in the world,
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we'll pull that forward in our topics of interest
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up top here.
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Down under that, we also have just some kind of
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thought provoking questions and
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ideas and quotes that students might enjoy
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kind of clicking through,
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so you'll
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Attached to a specific work.
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I'll be able to hit view topic to take a look at that
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work. If I click over
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here,
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again, sometimes you'll find quotes. If it's a
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quote here, it's got this little quotation
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instead, and we're going to click into
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Benjamin Franklin's
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person page or person guide.
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So just little things that might interest your
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students might get them, you know, kind of thinking
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before they start their research. You'll find those here
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under this quotes and questions section.
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And then down down under that is
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where you're going to find this nice topic
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tree kind of starting point. So
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you'll see we've broken it down by genres, eras,
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English language arts and themes.
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So we can start right here if we want to. If I know I
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want to take a look at a genre, I can click into that.
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But you see, we've also chosen to highlight
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33 3 genres.
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so I can click directly into a genre if I wanted to,
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and just skip over that first genre section.
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So if I'm interested in world literature,
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I can click directly in there.
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But let's click out just into genres so we
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can see all of them here.
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OK. Now this should look familiar to
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when I just clicked into that browse topics
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button because this is actually the same page.
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again, you'll see we started with genres, we
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have it listed here.
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If I decided as I'm going through, you know what, no, I don't
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actually want to to look through genres.
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I'm actually interested in arrows. I can easily
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click over to arrows now,
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and we'll see all of the errors we have highlighted here.
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So we'll stick in genres today.
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You'll see, I can scroll down here and it's showing me
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how many topics I have
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within each of these content buckets. So those topics
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are going to be both works and people.
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So related authors and related works to
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whatever
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section you're looking at here. So let's
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click further. Let's go into African American literature
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today. So let's just this first tile here.
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Now, when I do that, we're going to see all of these different
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works pages for these works that we've chosen
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to highlight here.
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And it does default to showing works, but if I clicked
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into African American literature, and I
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actually wanted to learn about some authors,
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kind of within this genre, you'll see
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instead of books, which is listed here, I can click over
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into authors,
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and I have authors related to the genre here.
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Let's jump back to books.
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So going through, I can find something that interests me.
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You'll see each of these that shows who the
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author is, and I can actually click directly into the
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author here as well. So, if
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I don't want to look at the work, but I want to look at the author,
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I have that option
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available for me.
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So let's scroll down let's take a look at
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their eyes. We're watching God today. So
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we have this one listed here. I'm going to
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view topic page to be launched into that work guide
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here. And
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now we can kind of take a look at what we have available. So, as
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I mentioned, we have a full overview that's going to be
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right at the top of the page.
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If I click into this, it is going to pull forward just like a
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piece of text. So, this is giving a
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background on this work, on the author,
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it's giving some essential questions, a plot summary,
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things like that.
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I can either hit the back button in the browser now, or
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I can hit the title of the book to be launched
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back to that work page.
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next to kind of this brief overview,
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you're going to find if there's a full text or
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an excerpt, you're going to have the option to read
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that here.
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even if there's not, um, a full
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text to read, you're still going to get an image of
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the cover right here, just to have a nice
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visual.
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On each of our topic pages right next door to
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that, we're also going to have a video related
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to whatever they're reading about. It could be
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related to the author, it could be related
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to the work itself, it could be related to
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the movement that was taking place when the
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work was written, but it's going to be a short
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video
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related to
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the the work itself
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found here.
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Now scrolling down below that,
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we again list some essential questions. So,
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these are actually nice, even to copy and paste
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and throw in a discussion board or
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maybe have this posted as a bell ringer
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before you get started, you know, these are just quick questions
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that get your students thinking.
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We'll have them listed on all of our works pages.
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Next to that, we have our author information.
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This is just very brief, of course, but if
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they want to know more, they'll hit view more
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about author.
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And this is going to pull now to her
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person page. So it's going to give
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all of the information, all of the background about her.
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You'll see again, she has a video attached
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to this,
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uh, just to give some background and to give some
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kind of engaging content for your
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students.
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Let's stick with our work page today.
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So, underneath this information, we'll also have
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some related topics here, so we want to move
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forward
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with that we can. A lot of times the related topics
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will be other works that are similar. They
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could be authors that are similar to the author that wrote
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this book or see this one has things
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like imagery and plot and plot diagrams
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that your users can click into.
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And then underneath that, at the very bottom, this is
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where we have all of the related
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content related to this work. So we've
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chosen to kind of organize this in a nice
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clean way for your students. So, if they're
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looking for a reference article, they'll find that here.
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A lot of the reference works are going to be
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kind of related to the the
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text themselves, as opposed to being strictly
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about the text. So you'll see like,
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Harlem Renaissance listed here, because of course,
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this is directly related to that movement.
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next to that we'll have biographies, of course, these
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are going to be a lot of biographies about the author,
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as expected.
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I'm scrolling down, I'm going to skip infographics
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for a second because I'm gonna click into these in a second,
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but infographics is where you're going to find
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those character maps and those plot diagrams,
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which I personally think are amazing.
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but we also have a content bucket for
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videos, images.
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Scrolling down, we have a full plot summary section.
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And what's nice is for most of our works, we have
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more than one plot summary article, and
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they're usually at different reading levels.
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So if you have students who are maybe struggling
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readers, they may want to read the lower level. If
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you take a look at the two we have here.
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even just the word count you'll see is pretty
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different. This one's a 3000 word.
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So it's a 9000 word plot summary.
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And we do have, oops, we do have all of these
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lexiles as well,
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if we were to click into plot summary.
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You can see the Lexile here, and
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also this little
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content level measures. We have
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throughout all of the resources, we have
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content levels from 1 to 51
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being an elementary level piece
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of content,
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kind of 3 through 5 is going to start
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being upper middle school, and
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then 5 will be upper high school getting into
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like college and adult education.
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So, you'll see we have a level 3
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and a level 4 in here. So these
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are going to be great for your slightly um
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Less advanced students in this level 3,
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and then you're more advanced students with this level 4.
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Now jumping back here to that topic page.
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so on the plot summary, you'll see we have magazines
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here as well, news, literature
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criticism. A lot of times we link to
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websites here as well. So you'll see we have
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websites,
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specifically related to the author. We
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also have a digital archive website we connect
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to so this can help your students kind
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of move their learning forward as well.
[00:19:25.009]
And we don't have any primary sources related
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to this particular work, but
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if we did, that would have its own content
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bucket here as well. You would see primary
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sources listed.
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Now, let's take a look at those infographics I mentioned,
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because these, again, I think are really great for
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students. So if I click into this,
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I'm going to pull forward all of them. Let's do
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the plot diagram today.
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So when I click in,
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this is actually interactive. It might take a quick
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second to load here, but this is actually interactive,
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so I can click
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and read about the exposition,
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the conflict, the rising action,
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and I can go through and read all of this.
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So this is not a huge, you know,
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a huge thing to share out. It's not this huge
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bulky piece of content that your students will have to click
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through, but it's really nice just
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as a review, you know, if you read the book a little
[00:20:14.598]
while ago and you're kind of coming back to it,
[00:20:17.239]
share out this nice,
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this nice plot plot diagram,
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and they'll be able to kind of click through to remind
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themselves what happened.
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The character maps are also interactive.
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Let me jump back here.
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And these are great, as you're reading. I
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don't know about any of you, but I
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am terrible at remembering names when I'm reading,
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and oftentimes can't remember how they're related
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to each other.
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This is a great way to kind of organize
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your thoughts here. You'll see we have this
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graph, it's showing the main protagonist,
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and then it's showing all of the different people,
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how they're kind of related to her and related to each
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other.
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So, I like to have something like this
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pulled up as I'm reading. So when I get lost
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and forget who is who.
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I'll be able to just hover over and then I'll be able to
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see the connections here right on this page.
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And we have a quick question that all pieces of literature
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have the infographic with pot diagram or
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character maps.
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will this be something that is added to other
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texts? yeah, Lisa, you're right, these
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are not found on every piece of work that
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we have within the resource.
[00:21:19.789]
Um, I can verify with our product team
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and email you to see what the roadmap looks like for
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adding more. Um, I would assume they're
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planning on adding more, but I can't say for sure,
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just because I'm
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Does not, don't have that insight. So,
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let me email my product team, Lisa, and I'll
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send you an email after the session is done,
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to let you know kind of where they are on that roadmap.
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OK, so let's go ahead and jump back to
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our
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topic page again.
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Because I do want to.
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show you a little bit of the tools that you're going to
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find in our contents. so,
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let's just click the full overview. Actually,
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you know what,
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let's change it up. Let's click into one of the plot summaries
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today, because those are kind of
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used frequently in this resource. So, let's
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just click into this first one here.
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Now, when I click into any piece of text, I get a lot
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of different tool options. So, the first
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one I want to point out is the citation.
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So that's found right up here in our toolbar, the first
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one. You see, we have the option
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to
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cite in ELA APA Chicago or
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Harvard versions.
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We have the option to copy and paste
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if you need your students just to put it in their work sign
[00:22:34.818]
in. They also have the option
[00:22:36.939]
to export this into things like noodle
[00:22:38.939]
tools, EasyB, if they're using
[00:22:40.979]
Google or Microsoft OneDrives,
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they can throw them in their drives as well.
[00:22:46.130]
And that citation is also found at the very bottom,
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there we go, of each article as well. So they
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have that same version of the citation,
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it does the same thing. You can copy and paste it,
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send it wherever you want it to go.
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In addition to that, they can also send this
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document itself to different places. So,
[00:23:04.640]
if they want to hold on to these documents and look
[00:23:06.759]
at it later, or just
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have it for reference, or maybe they want to share it with their peers,
[00:23:11.559]
they can do that by choosing the
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send to button up top here.
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And you'll see I have the option to send over to either one of
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my drives. So if I'm using Google or using
[00:23:20.699]
OneDrive, I can send it over,
[00:23:22.420]
or I could choose to email it to myself or
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to others.
[00:23:26.789]
I can also download this to my desktop and
[00:23:28.809]
save it on my desktop as a PDF. I could print
[00:23:31.009]
it out as well, whichever whichever
[00:23:33.289]
your users prefer.
[00:23:35.689]
And these tools are also found down here.
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You'll see in my Google, Microsoft,
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email download and print buttons. Again,
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they do the same thing. We've just added a little bit
[00:23:45.348]
of redundancy to make sure students are
[00:23:47.348]
actually seeing these buttons and able to utilize
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them. Right
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next to the print button, we also have this nice get
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link button.
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And this is going to provide a persistent URL
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to whatever page I'm currently on.
[00:24:00.259]
And what's nice is it's not only going to be documents,
[00:24:02.750]
but if I'm on a search results page, I can use
[00:24:04.750]
the get link.
[00:24:05.949]
if I'm on a topic page, I want to save the topic
[00:24:08.029]
page and share it out with my students, I can get a link
[00:24:10.068]
to that as well.
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So it's a really nice way to share out content. If you are
[00:24:13.549]
pulling information for your students,
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use the get link and you can send them that link
[00:24:18.029]
wherever you want them to to see it,
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and it is persistent, so it won't break on you.
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Now, in addition to all of those collaboration and sharing
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tools, if I scroll down just a little bit
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here,
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we have all of our accessibility tools listed
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listed right here on this left hand side.
[00:24:36.088]
So, if your students need to translate their articles,
[00:24:38.250]
this is where they'll do that. You'll see my little translate
[00:24:40.410]
button. I can
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drop down and choose my language, and it will translate everything
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for me.
[00:24:45.729]
Besides, it even translates captions on images.
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So if you're in a document that has a lot of images
[00:24:50.289]
attached, the captions will be in that language
[00:24:52.568]
as well.
[00:24:54.910]
Moving on from translate, I can also increase or
[00:24:56.989]
decrease the font size
[00:24:58.828]
as needed, whatever it's gonna work best for
[00:25:00.868]
me as a user.
[00:25:02.680]
Next set, we also have our display options
[00:25:04.759]
button, and this is letting us get
[00:25:06.799]
even more specific with how we like to
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read the text. So I could change the
[00:25:10.920]
background color of the text.
[00:25:13.180]
I can also change the fonts. We do
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have a dyslexia font available for students
[00:25:17.209]
if they prefer.
[00:25:19.299]
And I can change the line letter and word spacing here
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as well. And
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what's nice is if I do change all of this,
[00:25:26.180]
really kind of set up my preference exactly how I
[00:25:28.209]
want to read this, it's going to stay with
[00:25:30.328]
me throughout my session. So as long as I
[00:25:32.368]
stay signed in, I don't, you know, sign out
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or close out of the browser or something like that,
[00:25:37.009]
each of my articles as I move forward are going to
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have these kind of preset
[00:25:41.108]
settings.
[00:25:42.809]
So your students will always have that nice
[00:25:44.880]
feel, however they set it up the first time they click
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in. I'm going to put this back
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to my default settings though,
[00:25:51.348]
because that's what I prefer when I'm reading through.
[00:25:54.809]
so right next to our display options, you'll
[00:25:56.890]
also find our listen tool,
[00:25:58.890]
and this is going to read the full article to students.
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What's great is it does read in
[00:26:03.608]
whatever language this is translated to. So
[00:26:05.608]
if your students
[00:26:06.809]
first translated this article into Spanish,
[00:26:09.289]
and then hit listen, it's going to
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read to them in Spanish.
[00:26:13.170]
So, again, just another layer of,
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excuse me,
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another layer of accessibility here. They
[00:26:18.848]
can really choose how they want to kind
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of consume this information.
[00:26:22.858]
How they want it to be provided to them.
[00:26:26.979]
And one more tool I want to show you before
[00:26:29.009]
we kind of close out for the day is just our highlights
[00:26:31.170]
and notes. So, if your students are maybe
[00:26:33.368]
going through and doing a lot of research, they're pulling a
[00:26:35.449]
lot of information,
[00:26:36.989]
a lot of times it's nice for them to be able to kind of talk
[00:26:39.108]
to the text, or to highlight the key points that they
[00:26:41.170]
want to hold on to for something.
[00:26:43.209]
They can easily do that just by clicking and dragging
[00:26:45.529]
over
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a piece of text that they think is important.
[00:26:49.088]
They can choose a color, they can add notes
[00:26:51.328]
if they want to, you know, use this for my project,
[00:26:53.489]
or hey, this is really cool,
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whatever note they want to do, they can add that.
[00:26:57.848]
And when they do that,
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When they choose to take this document out of the platform,
[00:27:02.479]
any of the ways I mentioned before, by sending it
[00:27:04.640]
to their drives,
[00:27:05.838]
downloading it, printing it, or
[00:27:08.199]
emailing it.
[00:27:10.140]
They'll actually hold on to those highlights, and they'll have the
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notes at the bottom of the document as well.
[00:27:15.559]
So, again, if your students are trying to pull
[00:27:17.689]
content and, you know, they're reading through a lot, and
[00:27:19.719]
they just want to highlight those key points,
[00:27:22.098]
or highlights of those features going to be really beneficial
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for them. All
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of these highlights and notes are also housed in a 2nd
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location under our highlights and notes
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button up top here.
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So if your students were to go through and highlight,
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let's say, you know, 3 or 4 articles,
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all of the highlights, so the highlight
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color,
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what exactly they highlighted, and any notes
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they took, are going to appear here on this one page.
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And we also include a running bibliography here.
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So your students can actually choose to send this
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over to their drives, you'll see I have a send to button
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or a download or print.
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Uh, and they can just hold on to the bits of information
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they think is important, as opposed to sending over,
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you know, each of the three articles themselves.
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They can just send over these little bits of information
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they highlighted.
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And then if they did want to go back to the full text,
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you'll see we provide a link back
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to that full text here as well for your students.
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And our highlights and notes here are session
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based, so you wanna make sure
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your students get this information
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off the platform before they,
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before they close out. So, if they're going
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to walk away for lunch or whatever
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they're doing, just make sure they get all of
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the content out of the platform, because you don't want them
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to get signed out, not
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realize it and lose all of that great information. So
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just make sure.
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They get it out again by sending it over to their
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drives, by emailing it, downloading it,
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or printing it, so they can hold on to that information
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for later.
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And now we've hit the end of our time. Again, I'm
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not seeing any additional questions come in.
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looks like we have a question here, a line
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just popped up.
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So, Lisa has a question about the website
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resources that we provide. So we're on those
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topic pages some of them will have
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links to different websites.
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they are all vetted by Gayle. Yep,
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Lisa, so we don't throw any on there that
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aren't trusted sources and
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vetted by Galle.
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But I will say they are external, so when your students
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click on them, they will be launched to whatever
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website that is, but it is a vetted website by
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Gale. OK,
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let me go ahead and jump back here to my slides then
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give you guys a little wrap up information before
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we go.
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So if you think of more questions, again, Lisa, I
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have your name written down to get you an answer
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about those plot diagrams.
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but if anyone thinks of any questions when the session
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is done, feel free to send me an email. Again,
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my name is Amber Winters,
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and my email is [email protected].
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If you want to talk a little bit more specifically about
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how this resource can work with your learning
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community, maybe some best practices you can use
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based on
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the demographic makeup of your school, or
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based on the type of class you're targeting.
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You can reach out to your customer success manager.
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If you don't know who that is, you can send an
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email to [email protected]
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and we'll forward you to the correct person. You can set up
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a time to talk, and they can go over some of the
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best practices they have that would work well
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with your learning community.
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If you don't have Gale In Context: Literature right
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now, but you want to talk about it, reach out to your sales
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consultant. If you don't know who that is, go
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to support.gale.com/repfinder.
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You'll be able to put in your information and be directed
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to the correct individual.
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And moving forward, if you need additional support
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related to Gale In Context: Literature or any Gale
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resource, really,
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go to our support site, which is just support.gale.com.
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You'll have lots more training materials,
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some marketing materials, you'll find lesson plans,
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student activities,
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uh, other recorded webinars. It's a
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a huge collection of materials to really help
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you engage with our resources and
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bring them into your classroom. So, again, that's
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just support.gale.com.
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Now, again, not seeing any questions, so I'm going to go
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ahead and end the session. If you do have questions, reach
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out any of the ways I just mentioned.
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Otherwise, hopefully we'll see you all in future
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sessions, and please enjoy the rest
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of your day.
Hello and welcome to today's Gale 101
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session.
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Today we're going to be taking a look at Gale In Context: Literature.
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My name is Amber Winters,
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and I'm a senior training consultant
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here with Gale.
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So, our agenda for today is pretty straightforward.
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First, we'll just go over an overview of the
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resource, what you can expect to find in the
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resource, who we built it for, all that good
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stuff. We'll spend a little bit of
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time talking about some of the key content. Sorry,
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excuses pop up here.
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My screenshot every once in a while it pops up.
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we'll spend some time talking about
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some of the key content you're going to find within
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the resource as well as some different key features.
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But we'll spend the majority of the time walking through the platform,
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so you can get a feel of the different workflows,
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as well as the different features and tools that your users
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are going to see.
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And at the very end of the session, we will have time
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for questions, and I have some contact information
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for you as well. So,
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Again, if you have questions as we move along in
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the session, feel free to put them into the Q&A,
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or you can wait until the very end, if
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you prefer to do that. But either way, we'll be able to
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get your questions answered.
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So let's go ahead and talk about Gal and context
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literature, so just a brief
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background about this resource.
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this has really been designed for secondary
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level users. So we're talking your high
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school leveled students.
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We've really curated the concept they're going to find in
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here, to help really
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beginner to advanced high school students, take
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a look at all different sorts of literature.
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So, so
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works you may commonly see in various,
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standards and curriculum, and then works that may
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be a little bit outside of that, that students might be interested
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in. They're going to find this resource.
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And we do have focuses both on historical
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and more modern contemporary works as
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well. So,
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students can really find a huge
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collection of information and they can either search
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or browse based on different
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kind of key features, so they can search
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based on genre, eras, or
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themes. So a few different examples of a genre
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might be dystopian literature.
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if we're talking about an era, maybe they want to take
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a look at everything related to the American Romantic
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era.
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if we're looking at themes, maybe their theme that
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they're interested in is identity. They'll click in
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and take a look at
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all of our information related to identity
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as a theme.
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And this resource has also been developed to
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support ELA standards in curriculum. So
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any of my teachers online or librarians
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who are working with ELA teachers,
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not only are your students going to get information
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about the literature that they're reading,
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but we also have topics focused
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on different language arts, kind
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of,
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um. Standards that you're going to find.
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So things like figurative language, elements of fiction,
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poetry terms, things like that. So,
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it's not just strictly for students looking
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on information about works or about authors.
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It's also going to help them understand just language
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arts as a whole, some of the different
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ideas and topics that they're going to run against.
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If they're learning about similes, we can jump into
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this resource and help them understand similes
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better. if they're learning about the elements
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of fiction, again, they'll be able to jump into this
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resource and it's also great for you as educators,
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because you can pull content. We have great reference articles
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about these different language arts topics,
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that you can share it with your students. Maybe you want to
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share it in a discussion board, maybe
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you just want to share it just in class,
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whenever you want to do, you'll be able to do that in this resource
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as well. So it's kind of like twofold. You're
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going to get that nice literature content for your students,
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but you're also going to get that language arts content
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that's going to support you in your classroom
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design as well.
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We have a lot of diverse content in this
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resource, so I think there's another really strong point of
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this resource is we're not just throwing,
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you know, one thing. Your students are going to see
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work overviews, they're going to see plot summaries,
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so once they read.
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read the text if they need to kind of summarize
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it a little bit, or maybe they want to read a summary before
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they dive in.
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We have those pot summaries in the resource. They'll
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also find news in magazines. So,
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especially if this is, you know, a newer piece
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of literature that's in the news a lot right now,
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they'll get that in the resource as well, so it'll pull some
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context related to that work in there
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for them.
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Author biographies are also available, so
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not only are they going to learn about the works
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themselves, but they're going to learn about the people who wrote
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them. they'll find images
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and videos and other multimedia
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content. We do include literature criticism
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here as well.
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And finally, we have some great plot diagrams
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and character maps,
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character maps we're going to take a look
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at today as well. So,
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again, just trying to help students really grasp
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whatever piece of literature they're taking a look at,
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whatever they're reading. They're going to get a nice
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holistic view of this. We also, I didn't
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realize I didn't put it in my list here.
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but we also have a nice collection of primary
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sources. So if your students are reading historical
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work, they may want to take a look at our primary
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sources, and they'll get some understanding
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about what was going on in society when
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that piece of literature was written. So they
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get, again, a little more context about
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why something was written, maybe what was influencing
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the author as it was being written. They'll find
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that in this resource as well.
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And finally, in addition to all of that great
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content, we have a huge collection of
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tools that are going to help your learners
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as they research, as they learn to make sure they
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stay organized and find the information they need.
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So we have things like highlights and notes that are going to
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let your students,
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you know, take notes and find the key pieces
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of information in each of the articles they're reading.
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We have a nice topic finder that can kind of connect
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the dots for students who are
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researching and maybe kind of hit a hit a
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wall a little bit on what they want to. Research.
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We also have full translations available throughout
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the resource.
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Google or Microsoft integration, if your students want
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to save content that way.
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We've got a nice read speaker that's going to read the text
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to your students. We have some text manipulation
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that's going to help enhance accessibility, so
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changing
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the font size and color.
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As well as the font type itself.
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And we also have a full citation generator, which
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is great for getting buy-in for your students. We'll
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take a look at it when we actually
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dig into the resource, but that's a great way
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to get them off of Google
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and other search engines because they don't have to
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build their citation and our resource.
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They find their content, they use our site button,
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copy and paste it wherever they want it to go. So
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we'll look at that today.
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I want to go over just a couple of the key features.
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I really want you all to be aware of. We're actually going to
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work through this workflow today, but I just want to point
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it out ahead of time. So,
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something pretty unique to
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Gaelen context literature is going to be our
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topic trees. So if your
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students prefer to browse, you know, they don't know
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exactly what they're looking for, maybe they just like the
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more visual look of like a point and click
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situation.
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we have great topic trees that are designed
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for students. It starts right on the homepage,
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and they'll be able to go one step at a time. So again,
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as I mentioned, they'll be able to browse by
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genre or era or theme.
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They'll be able to click through those in our topic
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pages and eventually get down to works, or
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to authors, or to topics
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related to whatever they're browsing. So
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it's really again, step by step to get them,
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get them to content.
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This is especially helpful for your students who
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may be struggling at building
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basic or advanced searches.
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of course, we know that's a skill that takes time
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to build. So if you have struggling
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students,
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this is a nice way for them to access
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content too, is to just click through our topic trees,
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and you'll see it's nice and visual here, so they
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get the visuals, they get the text, and
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they'll be able to kind of click through.
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And if they do go down through these topic trees,
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they're going to eventually hit a topic page.
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With our topic pages, what we've done is
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we've created these pages that are nice and organized.
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we have 3 different versions. We
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have topic guides, which are going to be
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on a specific topic like figurative language
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or something like that.
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we have person guides, which is, which are going to
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be about the authors, and we have work
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guides which are going to be about the text
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themselves, whatever they're reading.
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so we've organized these pages to make it really
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simple for your users to find everything
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they do. So you have a screenshot here,
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of a work guide that's
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for American born Chinese that
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work. you'll see we have a full overview
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of the top. We have these nice essential questions
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here as well to kind of get your students' brains moving
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before they really dive in.
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we give information on the author with a
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link to that author's work sorry,
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that author's person guide.
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We have related topics, and then underneath we have
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all of the results related to this work.
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So again, eventually your students are going to land
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on one of these topic pages. It could be about a person
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or a or a topic or a
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work,
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but if they just start to click and browse, they're
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going to get here and it's going to be nice and neat
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and organized for them.
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If they're searching for something, so let's say they search
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instead of point and click
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for American born Chinese,
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if they search for that, it would pull them to this topic
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page as well. So we're really trying to,
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I don't want to say heard that sounds terrible, but really
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trying to point
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students into the direction of these different guides
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and topic pages,
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because we have really worked to organize
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them and make them really simple for students
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to understand and to kind of click through.
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And many of our works also include
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full text options, so you'll be able to
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have your students
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read through the full text of different works.
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I will show you how you can find that.
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right now it's not every work we have in the resource,
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but we do have quite a few
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available. So if your students need access to
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that, they don't have a physical text or a
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physical copy of it,
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they may be able to find it with their resource, so we're
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going to take a look at that as well today.
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So, let's go ahead and dive right in. Now,
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I haven't seen any questions come in in the Q&A,
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but while I'm switching over here,
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does anyone have any questions
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before we really dive in?
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OK, I don't see any, so let's go ahead and get going.
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so before we really dive into our
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topic tree kind of walk through,
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I want to show you where you can find a list of
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our full text works because that's
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a question that comes up a lot.
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so to find that while you're in Gal and context literature,
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and by the way, this is just the home page of that resource.
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If you go to browse topics, this little light bulb
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here. You'll
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see we're taking to this page, and this is actually part
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of the topic tree that we're going to be navigating
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through. Um, but we're going to click
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on view all topics today. And when I
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do that, you'll see it's a little bit less visual,
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because we're trying to fit every topic within this
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resource on one page here. You'll
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see quite a few of them are updated, and
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then some of them have full text flags.
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But we actually have a category section up
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top here under the title, and if
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I hit my drop down,
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you'll see I have full text or excerpt.
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I can never say that word,
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options here, so you'll see
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we have those listed here. So down below,
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these are all of the titles right now that we
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have full text access to.
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And what's great is the full text is connected
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to those work pages,
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the topic pages that I mentioned before.
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So your students will be able to click directly into those
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and read through if they want to.
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So again,
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if you're looking for just a list of the full text
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works, browse topics, this button up top
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here. Click down
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into my drop down.
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I'm sorry.
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View all topics first,
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over here on this left hand side, and then click down
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into my dropdown, and it's going to pull me
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forward to that.
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Well, let's jump back to the homepage here and assume
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that we're not looking for a full list, we're actually looking
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for a piece of content that might be interesting to
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us. So,
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right here on the homepage,
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let me scroll down a bit, you'll see we do have
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a few topics of interest that we pull
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forward.
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Excuse me.
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so for anyone watching this recording, this is actually
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being recorded in November, so you'll
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see,we have our topics
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of interest include a lot of, Native
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American information because, of course, it's Native
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American Heritage Month.
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So this does change monthly and a lot of times it
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will follow along with what's going on,
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if there's a certain observance in a month, or
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if there's just something special going on in the world,
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we'll pull that forward in our topics of interest
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up top here.
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Down under that, we also have just some kind of
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thought provoking questions and
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ideas and quotes that students might enjoy
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kind of clicking through,
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so you'll
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Attached to a specific work.
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I'll be able to hit view topic to take a look at that
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work. If I click over
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here,
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again, sometimes you'll find quotes. If it's a
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quote here, it's got this little quotation
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instead, and we're going to click into
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Benjamin Franklin's
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person page or person guide.
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So just little things that might interest your
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students might get them, you know, kind of thinking
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before they start their research. You'll find those here
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under this quotes and questions section.
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And then down down under that is
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where you're going to find this nice topic
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tree kind of starting point. So
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you'll see we've broken it down by genres, eras,
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English language arts and themes.
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So we can start right here if we want to. If I know I
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want to take a look at a genre, I can click into that.
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But you see, we've also chosen to highlight
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33 3 genres.
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so I can click directly into a genre if I wanted to,
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and just skip over that first genre section.
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So if I'm interested in world literature,
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I can click directly in there.
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But let's click out just into genres so we
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can see all of them here.
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OK. Now this should look familiar to
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when I just clicked into that browse topics
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button because this is actually the same page.
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again, you'll see we started with genres, we
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have it listed here.
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If I decided as I'm going through, you know what, no, I don't
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actually want to to look through genres.
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I'm actually interested in arrows. I can easily
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click over to arrows now,
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and we'll see all of the errors we have highlighted here.
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So we'll stick in genres today.
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You'll see, I can scroll down here and it's showing me
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how many topics I have
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within each of these content buckets. So those topics
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are going to be both works and people.
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So related authors and related works to
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whatever
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section you're looking at here. So let's
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click further. Let's go into African American literature
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today. So let's just this first tile here.
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Now, when I do that, we're going to see all of these different
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works pages for these works that we've chosen
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to highlight here.
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And it does default to showing works, but if I clicked
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into African American literature, and I
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actually wanted to learn about some authors,
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kind of within this genre, you'll see
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instead of books, which is listed here, I can click over
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into authors,
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and I have authors related to the genre here.
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Let's jump back to books.
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So going through, I can find something that interests me.
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You'll see each of these that shows who the
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author is, and I can actually click directly into the
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author here as well. So, if
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I don't want to look at the work, but I want to look at the author,
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I have that option
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available for me.
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So let's scroll down let's take a look at
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their eyes. We're watching God today. So
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we have this one listed here. I'm going to
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view topic page to be launched into that work guide
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here. And
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now we can kind of take a look at what we have available. So, as
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I mentioned, we have a full overview that's going to be
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right at the top of the page.
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If I click into this, it is going to pull forward just like a
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piece of text. So, this is giving a
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background on this work, on the author,
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it's giving some essential questions, a plot summary,
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things like that.
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I can either hit the back button in the browser now, or
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I can hit the title of the book to be launched
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back to that work page.
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next to kind of this brief overview,
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you're going to find if there's a full text or
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an excerpt, you're going to have the option to read
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that here.
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even if there's not, um, a full
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text to read, you're still going to get an image of
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the cover right here, just to have a nice
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visual.
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On each of our topic pages right next door to
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that, we're also going to have a video related
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to whatever they're reading about. It could be
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related to the author, it could be related
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to the work itself, it could be related to
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the movement that was taking place when the
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work was written, but it's going to be a short
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video
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related to
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the the work itself
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found here.
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Now scrolling down below that,
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we again list some essential questions. So,
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these are actually nice, even to copy and paste
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and throw in a discussion board or
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maybe have this posted as a bell ringer
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before you get started, you know, these are just quick questions
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that get your students thinking.
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We'll have them listed on all of our works pages.
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Next to that, we have our author information.
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This is just very brief, of course, but if
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they want to know more, they'll hit view more
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about author.
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And this is going to pull now to her
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person page. So it's going to give
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all of the information, all of the background about her.
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You'll see again, she has a video attached
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to this,
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uh, just to give some background and to give some
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kind of engaging content for your
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students.
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Let's stick with our work page today.
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So, underneath this information, we'll also have
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some related topics here, so we want to move
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forward
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with that we can. A lot of times the related topics
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will be other works that are similar. They
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could be authors that are similar to the author that wrote
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this book or see this one has things
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like imagery and plot and plot diagrams
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that your users can click into.
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And then underneath that, at the very bottom, this is
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where we have all of the related
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content related to this work. So we've
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chosen to kind of organize this in a nice
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clean way for your students. So, if they're
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looking for a reference article, they'll find that here.
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A lot of the reference works are going to be
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kind of related to the the
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text themselves, as opposed to being strictly
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about the text. So you'll see like,
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Harlem Renaissance listed here, because of course,
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this is directly related to that movement.
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next to that we'll have biographies, of course, these
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are going to be a lot of biographies about the author,
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as expected.
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I'm scrolling down, I'm going to skip infographics
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for a second because I'm gonna click into these in a second,
[00:17:42.348]
but infographics is where you're going to find
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those character maps and those plot diagrams,
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which I personally think are amazing.
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but we also have a content bucket for
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videos, images.
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Scrolling down, we have a full plot summary section.
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And what's nice is for most of our works, we have
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more than one plot summary article, and
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they're usually at different reading levels.
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So if you have students who are maybe struggling
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readers, they may want to read the lower level. If
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you take a look at the two we have here.
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even just the word count you'll see is pretty
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different. This one's a 3000 word.
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So it's a 9000 word plot summary.
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And we do have, oops, we do have all of these
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lexiles as well,
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if we were to click into plot summary.
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You can see the Lexile here, and
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also this little
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content level measures. We have
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throughout all of the resources, we have
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content levels from 1 to 51
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being an elementary level piece
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of content,
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kind of 3 through 5 is going to start
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being upper middle school, and
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then 5 will be upper high school getting into
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like college and adult education.
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So, you'll see we have a level 3
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and a level 4 in here. So these
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are going to be great for your slightly um
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Less advanced students in this level 3,
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and then you're more advanced students with this level 4.
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Now jumping back here to that topic page.
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so on the plot summary, you'll see we have magazines
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here as well, news, literature
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criticism. A lot of times we link to
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websites here as well. So you'll see we have
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websites,
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specifically related to the author. We
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also have a digital archive website we connect
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to so this can help your students kind
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of move their learning forward as well.
[00:19:25.009]
And we don't have any primary sources related
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to this particular work, but
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if we did, that would have its own content
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bucket here as well. You would see primary
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sources listed.
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Now, let's take a look at those infographics I mentioned,
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because these, again, I think are really great for
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students. So if I click into this,
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I'm going to pull forward all of them. Let's do
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the plot diagram today.
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So when I click in,
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this is actually interactive. It might take a quick
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second to load here, but this is actually interactive,
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so I can click
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and read about the exposition,
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the conflict, the rising action,
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and I can go through and read all of this.
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So this is not a huge, you know,
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a huge thing to share out. It's not this huge
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bulky piece of content that your students will have to click
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through, but it's really nice just
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as a review, you know, if you read the book a little
[00:20:14.598]
while ago and you're kind of coming back to it,
[00:20:17.239]
share out this nice,
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this nice plot plot diagram,
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and they'll be able to kind of click through to remind
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themselves what happened.
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The character maps are also interactive.
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Let me jump back here.
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And these are great, as you're reading. I
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don't know about any of you, but I
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am terrible at remembering names when I'm reading,
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and oftentimes can't remember how they're related
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to each other.
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This is a great way to kind of organize
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your thoughts here. You'll see we have this
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graph, it's showing the main protagonist,
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and then it's showing all of the different people,
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how they're kind of related to her and related to each
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other.
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So, I like to have something like this
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pulled up as I'm reading. So when I get lost
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and forget who is who.
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I'll be able to just hover over and then I'll be able to
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see the connections here right on this page.
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And we have a quick question that all pieces of literature
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have the infographic with pot diagram or
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character maps.
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will this be something that is added to other
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texts? yeah, Lisa, you're right, these
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are not found on every piece of work that
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we have within the resource.
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Um, I can verify with our product team
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and email you to see what the roadmap looks like for
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adding more. Um, I would assume they're
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planning on adding more, but I can't say for sure,
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just because I'm
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Does not, don't have that insight. So,
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let me email my product team, Lisa, and I'll
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send you an email after the session is done,
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to let you know kind of where they are on that roadmap.
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OK, so let's go ahead and jump back to
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our
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topic page again.
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Because I do want to.
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show you a little bit of the tools that you're going to
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find in our contents. so,
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let's just click the full overview. Actually,
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you know what,
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let's change it up. Let's click into one of the plot summaries
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today, because those are kind of
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used frequently in this resource. So, let's
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just click into this first one here.
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Now, when I click into any piece of text, I get a lot
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of different tool options. So, the first
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one I want to point out is the citation.
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So that's found right up here in our toolbar, the first
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one. You see, we have the option
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to
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cite in ELA APA Chicago or
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Harvard versions.
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We have the option to copy and paste
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if you need your students just to put it in their work sign
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in. They also have the option
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to export this into things like noodle
[00:22:38.939]
tools, EasyB, if they're using
[00:22:40.979]
Google or Microsoft OneDrives,
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they can throw them in their drives as well.
[00:22:46.130]
And that citation is also found at the very bottom,
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there we go, of each article as well. So they
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have that same version of the citation,
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it does the same thing. You can copy and paste it,
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send it wherever you want it to go.
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In addition to that, they can also send this
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document itself to different places. So,
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if they want to hold on to these documents and look
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at it later, or just
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have it for reference, or maybe they want to share it with their peers,
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they can do that by choosing the
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send to button up top here.
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And you'll see I have the option to send over to either one of
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my drives. So if I'm using Google or using
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OneDrive, I can send it over,
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or I could choose to email it to myself or
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to others.
[00:23:26.789]
I can also download this to my desktop and
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save it on my desktop as a PDF. I could print
[00:23:31.009]
it out as well, whichever whichever
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your users prefer.
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And these tools are also found down here.
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You'll see in my Google, Microsoft,
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email download and print buttons. Again,
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they do the same thing. We've just added a little bit
[00:23:45.348]
of redundancy to make sure students are
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actually seeing these buttons and able to utilize
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them. Right
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next to the print button, we also have this nice get
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link button.
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And this is going to provide a persistent URL
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to whatever page I'm currently on.
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And what's nice is it's not only going to be documents,
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but if I'm on a search results page, I can use
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the get link.
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if I'm on a topic page, I want to save the topic
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page and share it out with my students, I can get a link
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to that as well.
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So it's a really nice way to share out content. If you are
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pulling information for your students,
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use the get link and you can send them that link
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wherever you want them to to see it,
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and it is persistent, so it won't break on you.
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Now, in addition to all of those collaboration and sharing
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tools, if I scroll down just a little bit
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here,
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we have all of our accessibility tools listed
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listed right here on this left hand side.
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So, if your students need to translate their articles,
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this is where they'll do that. You'll see my little translate
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button. I can
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drop down and choose my language, and it will translate everything
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for me.
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Besides, it even translates captions on images.
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So if you're in a document that has a lot of images
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attached, the captions will be in that language
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as well.
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Moving on from translate, I can also increase or
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decrease the font size
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as needed, whatever it's gonna work best for
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me as a user.
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Next set, we also have our display options
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button, and this is letting us get
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even more specific with how we like to
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read the text. So I could change the
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background color of the text.
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I can also change the fonts. We do
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have a dyslexia font available for students
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if they prefer.
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And I can change the line letter and word spacing here
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as well. And
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what's nice is if I do change all of this,
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really kind of set up my preference exactly how I
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want to read this, it's going to stay with
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me throughout my session. So as long as I
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stay signed in, I don't, you know, sign out
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or close out of the browser or something like that,
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each of my articles as I move forward are going to
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have these kind of preset
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settings.
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So your students will always have that nice
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feel, however they set it up the first time they click
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in. I'm going to put this back
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to my default settings though,
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because that's what I prefer when I'm reading through.
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so right next to our display options, you'll
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also find our listen tool,
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and this is going to read the full article to students.
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What's great is it does read in
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whatever language this is translated to. So
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if your students
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first translated this article into Spanish,
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and then hit listen, it's going to
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read to them in Spanish.
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So, again, just another layer of,
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excuse me,
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another layer of accessibility here. They
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can really choose how they want to kind
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of consume this information.
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How they want it to be provided to them.
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And one more tool I want to show you before
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we kind of close out for the day is just our highlights
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and notes. So, if your students are maybe
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going through and doing a lot of research, they're pulling a
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lot of information,
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a lot of times it's nice for them to be able to kind of talk
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to the text, or to highlight the key points that they
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want to hold on to for something.
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They can easily do that just by clicking and dragging
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over
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a piece of text that they think is important.
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They can choose a color, they can add notes
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if they want to, you know, use this for my project,
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or hey, this is really cool,
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whatever note they want to do, they can add that.
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And when they do that,
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When they choose to take this document out of the platform,
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any of the ways I mentioned before, by sending it
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to their drives,
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downloading it, printing it, or
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emailing it.
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They'll actually hold on to those highlights, and they'll have the
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notes at the bottom of the document as well.
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So, again, if your students are trying to pull
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content and, you know, they're reading through a lot, and
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they just want to highlight those key points,
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or highlights of those features going to be really beneficial
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for them. All
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of these highlights and notes are also housed in a 2nd
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location under our highlights and notes
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button up top here.
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So if your students were to go through and highlight,
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let's say, you know, 3 or 4 articles,
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all of the highlights, so the highlight
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color,
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what exactly they highlighted, and any notes
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they took, are going to appear here on this one page.
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And we also include a running bibliography here.
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So your students can actually choose to send this
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over to their drives, you'll see I have a send to button
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or a download or print.
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Uh, and they can just hold on to the bits of information
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they think is important, as opposed to sending over,
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you know, each of the three articles themselves.
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They can just send over these little bits of information
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they highlighted.
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And then if they did want to go back to the full text,
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you'll see we provide a link back
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to that full text here as well for your students.
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And our highlights and notes here are session
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based, so you wanna make sure
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your students get this information
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off the platform before they,
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before they close out. So, if they're going
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to walk away for lunch or whatever
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they're doing, just make sure they get all of
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the content out of the platform, because you don't want them
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to get signed out, not
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realize it and lose all of that great information. So
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just make sure.
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They get it out again by sending it over to their
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drives, by emailing it, downloading it,
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or printing it, so they can hold on to that information
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for later.
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And now we've hit the end of our time. Again, I'm
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not seeing any additional questions come in.
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looks like we have a question here, a line
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just popped up.
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So, Lisa has a question about the website
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resources that we provide. So we're on those
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topic pages some of them will have
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links to different websites.
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they are all vetted by Gayle. Yep,
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Lisa, so we don't throw any on there that
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aren't trusted sources and
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vetted by Galle.
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But I will say they are external, so when your students
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click on them, they will be launched to whatever
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website that is, but it is a vetted website by
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Gale. OK,
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let me go ahead and jump back here to my slides then
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give you guys a little wrap up information before
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we go.
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So if you think of more questions, again, Lisa, I
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have your name written down to get you an answer
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about those plot diagrams.
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but if anyone thinks of any questions when the session
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is done, feel free to send me an email. Again,
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my name is Amber Winters,
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and my email is [email protected].
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If you want to talk a little bit more specifically about
[00:29:53.618]
how this resource can work with your learning
[00:29:55.660]
community, maybe some best practices you can use
[00:29:58.019]
based on
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the demographic makeup of your school, or
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based on the type of class you're targeting.
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You can reach out to your customer success manager.
[00:30:05.989]
If you don't know who that is, you can send an
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email to [email protected]
[00:30:11.400]
and we'll forward you to the correct person. You can set up
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a time to talk, and they can go over some of the
[00:30:15.559]
best practices they have that would work well
[00:30:17.828]
with your learning community.
[00:30:19.910]
If you don't have Gale In Context: Literature right
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now, but you want to talk about it, reach out to your sales
[00:30:24.309]
consultant. If you don't know who that is, go
[00:30:26.509]
to support.gale.com/repfinder.
[00:30:29.989]
You'll be able to put in your information and be directed
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to the correct individual.
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And moving forward, if you need additional support
[00:30:37.420]
related to Gale In Context: Literature or any Gale
[00:30:39.729]
resource, really,
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go to our support site, which is just support.gale.com.
[00:30:44.019]
You'll have lots more training materials,
[00:30:46.299]
some marketing materials, you'll find lesson plans,
[00:30:48.739]
student activities,
[00:30:50.380]
uh, other recorded webinars. It's a
[00:30:52.660]
a huge collection of materials to really help
[00:30:54.818]
you engage with our resources and
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bring them into your classroom. So, again, that's
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just support.gale.com.
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Now, again, not seeing any questions, so I'm going to go
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ahead and end the session. If you do have questions, reach
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out any of the ways I just mentioned.
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Otherwise, hopefully we'll see you all in future
[00:31:11.400]
sessions, and please enjoy the rest
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of your day.