Duration: 30 Minutes
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Welcome and everyone. So today's
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session is focused on the new
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primary source and historical document
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sets found within Gale Literature
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Resource Center.
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My name is Amber Winters and I'm a senior training
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consultant here at Gale
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and I have just a quick agenda here. So first
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we'll talk about the documents, the document
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sets themselves, we'll get an understanding of what exactly
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they are, why we built them things like
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that. Then we'll spend the majority of the time
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though actually clicking into the resource. So you can see
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where your students or your patrons are going to find
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those sets and how they can access them
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as well as some of the different tools that are attached
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to the sets.
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And then at the very end of the session, if
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I'm not able to answer every question as we move through
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today, I'll get all of your questions answered and
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I do have some wrap up contact information
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for you.
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So a nice simple agenda for us all today.
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And again, I do want to remind you just one more time
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if you have questions, put those into
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the Q and A for me and I'll be able to see
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and answer them right away.
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So if anyone is new to Gay Literature Resource
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center, I just want to give a very, very brief
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overview of what to expect. So
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this resource has been kind of built and designed
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to focus on works, authors and topics
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within literature. So it's going to have extensive
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extensive coverage of all
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ros movements and time. So really
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anything from historical to contemporary
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you're going to find within this resource. In
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addition to focusing on the authors
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and the works themselves, we also organize content
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based on key topic areas. So
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if you have someone looking for maybe
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information related to censorship
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or cultural identity or something like that,
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we also organize our content that way. So
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your user users will be able to find content
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or writers, you know, related to
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cultural identity or works related to cultural
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identity right here on this platform.
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And within the platform, we do have a nice variety
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of content types. So we have a huge
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collection of biographies for all
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of the different authors we have within the resource. We also
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have work overviews as well as kind
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of brief descriptions of works, literary
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criticisms, primary sources. And we do have
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quite a few full literary works as
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well and we have news and magazines
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in here. So really,
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we're trying to bring context to the works
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we're providing what's going on currently
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with news and magazines, we're looking at primary sources.
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So we understand the context
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in which the work was written and we're providing information
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about the author as well. So really
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getting a holistic view of whatever piece of literature
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your user is looking for.
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And finally, we have some simple research tools that
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I always want to point out as well. So
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your users will be able to highlight, take notes on
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our platform. They can send information they find
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to their Google or their Microsoft drives depending
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on which they're using. But again, today,
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we're focused strictly on our primary
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source and historical document sets.
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These are collections of materials that we have
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actually had experts curate for us
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that are focused specifically around
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one novel or one work of
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literature. So what we've done is pulled
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for different types of primary and
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historical sources. So not only are
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you going to find, you know, pieces of text like
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letters or things like that or maybe um
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you know, letters from the author or work
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overviews from the past? But you're also going to find
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things like images, videos and audio
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files. So we're trying to make this as engaging
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as possible for your users. So they're going to
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find the content that they need and they're going
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to get a better understanding of what they're looking at
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right now. We have 100 curated sets
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we're continuously trying to build more. But
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again, these are hand curated. So what we've
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decided to do is we've pulled forward 100
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of the most used and studied
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pieces of literature within the, within
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the resource to build these first sets.
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And we'll continue to build out to kind of moving forward
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some sample and title some sample titles
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include the Absolutely True
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Diary of a part time Indian, Brave New World,
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the Crucible, the hate you give Hamlet.
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I know why the Caged Bird Sings. As I mentioned,
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I've pulled forward the Frankenstein one here
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as well. So we've really tried to
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have a nice inclusive list of
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titles that we've started out these sets
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with. So you'll find some that are a little bit
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more current
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like the hate you give and then some of course, that are a bit
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more historical like Hamlet.
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We've really tried to include all of those and what's
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great about the more
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ones that when I first started looking at this, I saw
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how do we have a lot of primary documents for
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the hate you give? But
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when you take a look at these more currents,
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these more current works, we
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have information covering the
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topics within the works. So it might take a look
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at the civil rights movement have
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some primary source related to that. It
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may have interviews with the author. Of course,
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they're not super old when we think primary
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sources. A lot of times students think, you know, really old
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stuff, but
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you know, an interview with the author whenever
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that, that piece of text came out
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is also considered a primary source.
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So they'll find those there as well. So it's a nice
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mix of really kind of historical
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text as well as more modern text
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within this resource.
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And each of our document sets have been hand
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curated by experts in their field.
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Most of them are professors at various
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universities. So at the bottom of
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each of our historical document
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sets, we actually have this nice little kind
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of background about the person who curated
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the set just to give your students or
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your users
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a little background of
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the person who chose these different
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documents to highlight and they get a little bit
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of information about the individual which might
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help them understand why they chose those
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documents. Because as you could imagine,
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we have over I think 100,000
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primary sources within this resource.
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So, you know, you're going to want
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to know why they chose these five.
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Of course, there are much more than five that are related
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to these resources. Why did this individual
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think that those five were the most important
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to highlight? So we have these little
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kind of bios at the very end
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of the tech sets to help students and
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help your users understand that.
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So let's go ahead and take a look,
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see where you can find these, how you can use them, how
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you can share them all that good stuff.
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Um Do we have any questions before we get
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moving here?
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Here we go. This is the home page of Gael
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Literature Resource Center.
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And each of our historical text sets
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are actually attached to literature
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works pages.
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So each of our pieces of text
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are actually kind of pulled together
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on nice organized pages for your
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users. And that's where I've chosen to house
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the historical sets. So what your
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users will have to do is either you can
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browse our works. You see, we pull forward a few
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on our home page
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or you hit our browse works button to
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find a work that you're interested in.
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Of course, I need to sign in
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and you'll see it pull forward here or
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we can search for a work to see if
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it has a historical document set. So
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I'm just going to search for, I know why the Caged
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Bird Sings.
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And you'll see when I start typing in my search bar
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up top here. I get some predictive text
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and the first one I have here is bolded. That
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means I have that nice works page
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created for me. So let's click into
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that here.
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And now while I'm on this works page, you'll see, I get
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an overview of the work itself.
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I get some information about the author when it was
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published. All that good stuff. Some related topics
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scrolling down underneath.
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This is where you'll find our primary source
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in historical document sets.
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So the best way to find these sets is to first
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choose what work you want to kind of
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engage with. So if it's
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a play, if it's a novel, if it's a poem,
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you wanna first figure out which
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you want to take a look at and then move
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from there. And I will mention underneath this
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historical document set is where
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you're going to find all of the other bits
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of content related to.
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I know why the Caged Bird sings.
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But now let's click into one of these here. So
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we have five documents within this historical
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document set that usually stays around
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five. There may be, you know, plus or minus
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one or two, but it's usually around five documents
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when I click into this. Now I'm pulled to this separate
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page here. So at the very top, again,
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I'm getting a brief overview
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of this piece, this
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piece of literature.
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And then underneath that, it's showing me what
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primary sources we have listed on this page
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here. So you see this one has the
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film adaptation, a video
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of Maya Angelou reading from a poem,
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an excerpt from a television documentary
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and another interview um
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and some add additional writings by
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Maya Angelou. So if I scroll down here,
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now I'm going to see all of those bits of information
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and we do split them up into two different sections.
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So you'll see here. Multimedia is going
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to be listed first. So that's going to include
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video. Sometimes you might find
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images, podcasts or other types
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of audio, all of those will be under
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multimedia.
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And then underneath that, we list any
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articles that have been attached. So this
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article section is where you'll find like written interviews,
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memoirs. Maybe
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it's a news report from back in the day,
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you know, related to something within
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this piece of text, you'll
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find those articles here.
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And then again, as I mentioned
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right here at the bottom, this is giving the information
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about the person who created this,
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excuse me, this
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historical document set. So we'll get a little
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bit of information about her.
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And if you're trying to pull content, let's say for
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students, if I have anyone in the K 12 arena
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joining me today, if you're trying to pull
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content for students and you really enjoy this document
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set or any document set here and
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you want to share it out with your students, we actually have a
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really nice way for you to do that instead
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of trying to direct your students on how to find it.
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If you use this, get link button up top here
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right next to the person search.
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This is gonna provide you with a persistent URL
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to this page and it's not going to break.
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Um So if you want to put this
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in a syllabus in a rubric, if you want to share
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it on a discussion board. If you just want to email
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it to your students, let's say
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use this gut link and just paste
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that wherever you want to go. And then students
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will be, will be pulled directly to this page
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to kind of start their learning
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and I can click into any of these here. So if I want
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to first click into the film adaptation,
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let's say
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I'll click into this,
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you'll see this one. I hit play video because
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our partner that we're working with has actually
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kept it on their platform. So I'll
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continue
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and you'll see now, I've got the whole video listed here, so
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or showing here. So I'll be able to play this
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whole video. So if you're looking like some looking
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for something like that for students who are
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going to be coming into your class, maybe you want them to
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compare the, the
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the movie versus the actual text
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itself. They can do that here
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if I jump back now
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and let's click into one of these articles instead.
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And we have a really nice question in the Q
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and A here. So do students need to
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log in first when directed by the URL?
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So we're talking about that get link button that I mentioned
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mentioned just a little bit ago. They
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won't have to sign in to access
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the link. So they'll be able to click into the link
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and go directly to the document
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set. But when they try to move forward
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from that set, so if they decide they want to
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learn more about this book or maybe look at a different
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piece of literature at that point,
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they'll be asked to authenticate. So, however, they do,
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normally, if you use a password,
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um if your IP authenticated, then they won't need
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to worry about authenticating. But once
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they try to click forward in the resource,
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that's when they'll authenticate, but they'll be able to
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get directly into the link, the link to the text
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set
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when you send it to them.
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OK. So I just click it now into
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a piece of text within the text
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are historical document sets.
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Just so you can see what this looks like. So this looks very
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similar to what you're just going to find if you
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just click into any piece of text
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within the resource, this one looks like
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is an interview here.
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So your students will still be able to read through all
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of this. And from here, they can use any of
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the tools we have within the standard
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literature resource center platform.
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So you'll see they have all of their
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text manipulation tools. Still, they'll
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be able to send over to their drives. If they want to save
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this content or download or print it, they
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can still highlight and take notes. So
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everything they would normally be able to do within the resource,
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they'll still be able to do that if they go in through these
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historical text sets.
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Now, let me go ahead and click back here.
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Another thing I want to mention, let me scroll down
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here.
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I'm just going to click into this origin of the work
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option here.
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S no,
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it's not popping up here. Um So
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some of our primary sources can
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actually be found in HTML formatting
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or in the original formatting as a PDF.
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Um I thought this one had that attached but it does
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not. But what that does is if
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it's maybe a letter written out that
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has been sent somewhere, you'll immediately
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see it in this html formatting where we're just providing
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the text, but they will have an option at
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the top of the page to change over to a PDF.
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So they can see what that letter
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or whatever other type of primary source looks
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like have that available as well.
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And you might not have mo no might not
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have noticed, but we actually have a breadcrumb
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trail at the top of the page here where I can easily click
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back and forth from wherever I am.
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So you'll see here. I'm on my primary source
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and historical documents. If you want to jump
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back to the main works page and take
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a look at some of the other different types of content
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I have available. I can just go right
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here to the title
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and then I'm pulled back to this main page
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again where your historical document
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sets are still listed here and the rest of the
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content is found down below.
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Now, I do want to mention that right now,
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not every
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piece of literature has one of these historical
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document sets again, as I mentioned
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right now, we're up to 100 of these hand curated
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sets. So
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there may come a time where your student
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runs into a
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um a piece of literature that
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doesn't have some
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attached, but we do still have primary sources
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listed on our results page. So
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I'm actually quickly going,
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my head doesn't have one
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of these historical documents set. So you can see what that looks
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like. So all quiet on the western front
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doesn't have one right now.
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You'll see again. I ran my search up top here.
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I've got my bolded options going to pull me forward
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to this organized page
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and then you'll see right here. This is where that historical
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site would be. So, since this one doesn't
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have one just yet,
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if they scroll down on
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our resource, our results
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here, you'll see all of the different types of content.
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We have some biographies, some
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literature criticism. One of the options
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is primary sources and literary works
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so I can scroll down and find that content bucket here
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and you'll see we do still have some primary source
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content. The difference is this isn't hand
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curated. So
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um it's not kind of organized
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and nice and neat for your students and it may not
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be as
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directly related or as kind of
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organized as what you would see in
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those historical document sets and
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a lot of times within those sets as well, we're pulling
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forward primary sources that are
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not directly related to the
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literary work necessarily. they
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may be a primary source related to a political
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movement that impacted the work or something like
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that. So that's how that set
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development is just a little bit different than the standard
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results you're going to find here under
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this primary sources box.
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Hm. Ok.
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No, that's been a pretty quick session today
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even with our technical difficulties. So again,
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if you're looking for those historical document
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sets, you need to find your piece
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of literature first, either by browsing
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works or by searching for it
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when you click into it. If we have one available,
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if I clicked into ferns
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sein, it's gonna
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be right here,
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I'll be able to click in
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and pull it forward.
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So again, best way to find these content,
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figure out what piece of literature you want
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to take a look at first and then move forward from
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there. Now,
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that's what I have for you all today. I'm going to go ahead and
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jump back to my slides since I haven't
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seen any questions come
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up here.
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If you do have questions, go ahead and pop those into the Q
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and A for me.
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And I have some, just wrap up information for
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you as well. If you think of additional questions
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once we're done on the session today, feel free to send
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me an email. It's just
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[email protected]. I thank everyone
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for being on the line with me today and hopefully we'll
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see you all in future sessions.
Welcome and everyone. So today's
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session is focused on the new
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primary source and historical document
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sets found within Gale Literature
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Resource Center.
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My name is Amber Winters and I'm a senior training
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consultant here at Gale
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and I have just a quick agenda here. So first
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we'll talk about the documents, the document
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sets themselves, we'll get an understanding of what exactly
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they are, why we built them things like
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that. Then we'll spend the majority of the time
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though actually clicking into the resource. So you can see
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where your students or your patrons are going to find
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those sets and how they can access them
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as well as some of the different tools that are attached
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to the sets.
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And then at the very end of the session, if
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I'm not able to answer every question as we move through
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today, I'll get all of your questions answered and
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I do have some wrap up contact information
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for you.
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So a nice simple agenda for us all today.
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And again, I do want to remind you just one more time
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if you have questions, put those into
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the Q and A for me and I'll be able to see
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and answer them right away.
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So if anyone is new to Gay Literature Resource
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center, I just want to give a very, very brief
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overview of what to expect. So
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this resource has been kind of built and designed
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to focus on works, authors and topics
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within literature. So it's going to have extensive
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extensive coverage of all
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ros movements and time. So really
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anything from historical to contemporary
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you're going to find within this resource. In
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addition to focusing on the authors
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and the works themselves, we also organize content
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based on key topic areas. So
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if you have someone looking for maybe
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information related to censorship
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or cultural identity or something like that,
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we also organize our content that way. So
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your user users will be able to find content
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or writers, you know, related to
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cultural identity or works related to cultural
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identity right here on this platform.
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And within the platform, we do have a nice variety
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of content types. So we have a huge
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collection of biographies for all
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of the different authors we have within the resource. We also
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have work overviews as well as kind
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of brief descriptions of works, literary
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criticisms, primary sources. And we do have
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quite a few full literary works as
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well and we have news and magazines
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in here. So really,
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we're trying to bring context to the works
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we're providing what's going on currently
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with news and magazines, we're looking at primary sources.
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So we understand the context
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in which the work was written and we're providing information
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about the author as well. So really
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getting a holistic view of whatever piece of literature
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your user is looking for.
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And finally, we have some simple research tools that
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I always want to point out as well. So
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your users will be able to highlight, take notes on
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our platform. They can send information they find
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to their Google or their Microsoft drives depending
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on which they're using. But again, today,
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we're focused strictly on our primary
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source and historical document sets.
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These are collections of materials that we have
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actually had experts curate for us
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that are focused specifically around
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one novel or one work of
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literature. So what we've done is pulled
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for different types of primary and
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historical sources. So not only are
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you going to find, you know, pieces of text like
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letters or things like that or maybe um
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you know, letters from the author or work
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overviews from the past? But you're also going to find
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things like images, videos and audio
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files. So we're trying to make this as engaging
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as possible for your users. So they're going to
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find the content that they need and they're going
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to get a better understanding of what they're looking at
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right now. We have 100 curated sets
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we're continuously trying to build more. But
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again, these are hand curated. So what we've
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decided to do is we've pulled forward 100
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of the most used and studied
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pieces of literature within the, within
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the resource to build these first sets.
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And we'll continue to build out to kind of moving forward
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some sample and title some sample titles
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include the Absolutely True
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Diary of a part time Indian, Brave New World,
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the Crucible, the hate you give Hamlet.
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I know why the Caged Bird Sings. As I mentioned,
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I've pulled forward the Frankenstein one here
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as well. So we've really tried to
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have a nice inclusive list of
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titles that we've started out these sets
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with. So you'll find some that are a little bit
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more current
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like the hate you give and then some of course, that are a bit
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more historical like Hamlet.
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We've really tried to include all of those and what's
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great about the more
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ones that when I first started looking at this, I saw
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how do we have a lot of primary documents for
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the hate you give? But
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when you take a look at these more currents,
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these more current works, we
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have information covering the
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topics within the works. So it might take a look
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at the civil rights movement have
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some primary source related to that. It
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may have interviews with the author. Of course,
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they're not super old when we think primary
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sources. A lot of times students think, you know, really old
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stuff, but
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you know, an interview with the author whenever
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that, that piece of text came out
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is also considered a primary source.
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So they'll find those there as well. So it's a nice
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mix of really kind of historical
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text as well as more modern text
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within this resource.
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And each of our document sets have been hand
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curated by experts in their field.
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Most of them are professors at various
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universities. So at the bottom of
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each of our historical document
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sets, we actually have this nice little kind
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of background about the person who curated
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the set just to give your students or
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your users
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a little background of
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the person who chose these different
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documents to highlight and they get a little bit
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of information about the individual which might
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help them understand why they chose those
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documents. Because as you could imagine,
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we have over I think 100,000
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primary sources within this resource.
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So, you know, you're going to want
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to know why they chose these five.
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Of course, there are much more than five that are related
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to these resources. Why did this individual
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think that those five were the most important
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to highlight? So we have these little
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kind of bios at the very end
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of the tech sets to help students and
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help your users understand that.
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So let's go ahead and take a look,
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see where you can find these, how you can use them, how
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you can share them all that good stuff.
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Um Do we have any questions before we get
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moving here?
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Here we go. This is the home page of Gael
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Literature Resource Center.
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And each of our historical text sets
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are actually attached to literature
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works pages.
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So each of our pieces of text
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are actually kind of pulled together
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on nice organized pages for your
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users. And that's where I've chosen to house
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the historical sets. So what your
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users will have to do is either you can
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browse our works. You see, we pull forward a few
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on our home page
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or you hit our browse works button to
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find a work that you're interested in.
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Of course, I need to sign in
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and you'll see it pull forward here or
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we can search for a work to see if
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it has a historical document set. So
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I'm just going to search for, I know why the Caged
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Bird Sings.
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And you'll see when I start typing in my search bar
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up top here. I get some predictive text
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and the first one I have here is bolded. That
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means I have that nice works page
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created for me. So let's click into
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that here.
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And now while I'm on this works page, you'll see, I get
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an overview of the work itself.
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I get some information about the author when it was
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published. All that good stuff. Some related topics
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scrolling down underneath.
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This is where you'll find our primary source
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in historical document sets.
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So the best way to find these sets is to first
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choose what work you want to kind of
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engage with. So if it's
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a play, if it's a novel, if it's a poem,
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you wanna first figure out which
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you want to take a look at and then move
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from there. And I will mention underneath this
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historical document set is where
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you're going to find all of the other bits
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of content related to.
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I know why the Caged Bird sings.
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But now let's click into one of these here. So
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we have five documents within this historical
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document set that usually stays around
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five. There may be, you know, plus or minus
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one or two, but it's usually around five documents
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when I click into this. Now I'm pulled to this separate
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page here. So at the very top, again,
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I'm getting a brief overview
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of this piece, this
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piece of literature.
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And then underneath that, it's showing me what
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primary sources we have listed on this page
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here. So you see this one has the
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film adaptation, a video
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of Maya Angelou reading from a poem,
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an excerpt from a television documentary
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and another interview um
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and some add additional writings by
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Maya Angelou. So if I scroll down here,
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now I'm going to see all of those bits of information
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and we do split them up into two different sections.
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So you'll see here. Multimedia is going
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to be listed first. So that's going to include
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video. Sometimes you might find
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images, podcasts or other types
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of audio, all of those will be under
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multimedia.
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And then underneath that, we list any
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articles that have been attached. So this
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article section is where you'll find like written interviews,
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memoirs. Maybe
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it's a news report from back in the day,
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you know, related to something within
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this piece of text, you'll
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find those articles here.
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And then again, as I mentioned
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right here at the bottom, this is giving the information
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about the person who created this,
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excuse me, this
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historical document set. So we'll get a little
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bit of information about her.
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And if you're trying to pull content, let's say for
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students, if I have anyone in the K 12 arena
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joining me today, if you're trying to pull
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content for students and you really enjoy this document
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set or any document set here and
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you want to share it out with your students, we actually have a
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really nice way for you to do that instead
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of trying to direct your students on how to find it.
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If you use this, get link button up top here
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right next to the person search.
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This is gonna provide you with a persistent URL
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to this page and it's not going to break.
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Um So if you want to put this
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in a syllabus in a rubric, if you want to share
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it on a discussion board. If you just want to email
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it to your students, let's say
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use this gut link and just paste
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that wherever you want to go. And then students
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will be, will be pulled directly to this page
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to kind of start their learning
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and I can click into any of these here. So if I want
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to first click into the film adaptation,
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let's say
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I'll click into this,
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you'll see this one. I hit play video because
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our partner that we're working with has actually
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kept it on their platform. So I'll
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continue
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and you'll see now, I've got the whole video listed here, so
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or showing here. So I'll be able to play this
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whole video. So if you're looking like some looking
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for something like that for students who are
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going to be coming into your class, maybe you want them to
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compare the, the
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the movie versus the actual text
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itself. They can do that here
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if I jump back now
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and let's click into one of these articles instead.
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And we have a really nice question in the Q
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and A here. So do students need to
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log in first when directed by the URL?
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So we're talking about that get link button that I mentioned
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mentioned just a little bit ago. They
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won't have to sign in to access
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the link. So they'll be able to click into the link
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and go directly to the document
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set. But when they try to move forward
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from that set, so if they decide they want to
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learn more about this book or maybe look at a different
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piece of literature at that point,
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they'll be asked to authenticate. So, however, they do,
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normally, if you use a password,
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um if your IP authenticated, then they won't need
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to worry about authenticating. But once
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they try to click forward in the resource,
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that's when they'll authenticate, but they'll be able to
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get directly into the link, the link to the text
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set
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when you send it to them.
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OK. So I just click it now into
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a piece of text within the text
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are historical document sets.
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Just so you can see what this looks like. So this looks very
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similar to what you're just going to find if you
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just click into any piece of text
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within the resource, this one looks like
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is an interview here.
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So your students will still be able to read through all
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of this. And from here, they can use any of
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the tools we have within the standard
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literature resource center platform.
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So you'll see they have all of their
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text manipulation tools. Still, they'll
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be able to send over to their drives. If they want to save
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this content or download or print it, they
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can still highlight and take notes. So
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everything they would normally be able to do within the resource,
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they'll still be able to do that if they go in through these
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historical text sets.
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Now, let me go ahead and click back here.
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Another thing I want to mention, let me scroll down
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here.
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I'm just going to click into this origin of the work
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option here.
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S no,
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it's not popping up here. Um So
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some of our primary sources can
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actually be found in HTML formatting
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or in the original formatting as a PDF.
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Um I thought this one had that attached but it does
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not. But what that does is if
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it's maybe a letter written out that
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has been sent somewhere, you'll immediately
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see it in this html formatting where we're just providing
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the text, but they will have an option at
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the top of the page to change over to a PDF.
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So they can see what that letter
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or whatever other type of primary source looks
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like have that available as well.
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And you might not have mo no might not
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have noticed, but we actually have a breadcrumb
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trail at the top of the page here where I can easily click
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back and forth from wherever I am.
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So you'll see here. I'm on my primary source
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and historical documents. If you want to jump
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back to the main works page and take
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a look at some of the other different types of content
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I have available. I can just go right
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here to the title
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and then I'm pulled back to this main page
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again where your historical document
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sets are still listed here and the rest of the
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content is found down below.
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Now, I do want to mention that right now,
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not every
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piece of literature has one of these historical
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document sets again, as I mentioned
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right now, we're up to 100 of these hand curated
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sets. So
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there may come a time where your student
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runs into a
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um a piece of literature that
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doesn't have some
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attached, but we do still have primary sources
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listed on our results page. So
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I'm actually quickly going,
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my head doesn't have one
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of these historical documents set. So you can see what that looks
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like. So all quiet on the western front
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doesn't have one right now.
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You'll see again. I ran my search up top here.
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I've got my bolded options going to pull me forward
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to this organized page
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and then you'll see right here. This is where that historical
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site would be. So, since this one doesn't
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have one just yet,
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if they scroll down on
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our resource, our results
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here, you'll see all of the different types of content.
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We have some biographies, some
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literature criticism. One of the options
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is primary sources and literary works
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so I can scroll down and find that content bucket here
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and you'll see we do still have some primary source
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content. The difference is this isn't hand
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curated. So
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um it's not kind of organized
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and nice and neat for your students and it may not
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be as
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directly related or as kind of
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organized as what you would see in
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those historical document sets and
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a lot of times within those sets as well, we're pulling
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forward primary sources that are
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not directly related to the
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literary work necessarily. they
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may be a primary source related to a political
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movement that impacted the work or something like
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that. So that's how that set
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development is just a little bit different than the standard
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results you're going to find here under
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this primary sources box.
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Hm. Ok.
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No, that's been a pretty quick session today
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even with our technical difficulties. So again,
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if you're looking for those historical document
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sets, you need to find your piece
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of literature first, either by browsing
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works or by searching for it
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when you click into it. If we have one available,
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if I clicked into ferns
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sein, it's gonna
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be right here,
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I'll be able to click in
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and pull it forward.
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So again, best way to find these content,
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figure out what piece of literature you want
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to take a look at first and then move forward from
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there. Now,
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that's what I have for you all today. I'm going to go ahead and
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jump back to my slides since I haven't
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seen any questions come
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up here.
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If you do have questions, go ahead and pop those into the Q
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and A for me.
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And I have some, just wrap up information for
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you as well. If you think of additional questions
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once we're done on the session today, feel free to send
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me an email. It's just
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[email protected]. I thank everyone
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for being on the line with me today and hopefully we'll
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see you all in future sessions.