Duration: 30 Minutes
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Hello folks and welcome. I'm Stacey
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Knibloe Gale trainer for New Mexico. Glad
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to be with you for our support beginner
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research skills uh with Gale
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in context elementary. So
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with this session, what we want to do is
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just provide an overview of the resource to
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start. But then we're really gonna get in there
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and show how you can find content and
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help build up skills in students as they
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start to learn about research
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and learn about the library and all the things
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that come with it
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Um this is a perfect database to do that with.
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We've got a great looking interface, lots of
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great uh reading level appropriate
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content. And um
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Little tools and bells and whistles, bells and whistles
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that they can kind of take with them up through
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into adulthood when they're uh you know, performing
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any sort of research. Uh We'll also
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talk a bit about how you can share content from
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the resource. So if there are particular things
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you want to get younger kids started with
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with their research and you want to point them in exactly
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the direction you want them to go. There are a few different
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ways you can share content in the resource and we want
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to talk about those too
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and then as always with our sessions we'll wrap
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up with uh support where
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you can go at gale, both kind
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of on demand but also when you want to talk to someone
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uh we have a lot of support out there
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for you to take advantage of. So we'll
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talk about that as well as
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we go through. Jump in with questions any time.
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Uh If you see something on the screen you want to know more
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about. Or want me to click. I'm happy to do that.
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Uh just jump in at any point.
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So let's go ahead and
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dive in here.
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so again just an overview of the resource.
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Just a little more pressure maybe you haven't used it in a while
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Gale and in context. Elementary.
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Um some of you may know it as kids
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info bits. We had a name and interface
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change a couple of years ago and
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I will admit I still tend to call it kids
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info bits here and there but uh it's official
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name Gale In Context: Elementary to kind
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of identify its main audience. Um
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But really if the reading level
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is what you need, of course any user can
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go into this resource. Um it
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is uh
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gonna be the reading level that's really
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the most important for your user. So
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what you'll find in this content or
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or within this resource is content aimed
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at curriculum within an elementary
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uh grade range. You know what's
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being studied in the classroom?
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and then uh supporting that are a variety
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of different sources. So uh reference
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books, magazines, multimedia
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all in one place, lots of
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different subject areas covered here.
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Um Again, looking at what's studied in curriculum,
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but then additional, you know, content as
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well, things to help students, you know, learn
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about social media, learn about technology
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and the like. So uh lots of good
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stuff here.
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and it is let me advance
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my slide here. There we go. Oh, I'm always ahead
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of the slide. So again, supporting curriculum standards
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as you can imagine a lot of research in this database
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done on animals. Uh we'll find lots of
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great content there, but again it's gonna hit
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every major curriculum area as well
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and then and lots of tools to help
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them kind of narrow topics find
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answers to questions and just
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explore the things they're interested in
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and again kind of building up those research
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skills, their information literacy skills
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and kind of these subtle ways and all the different tools
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that you have in the resource as well.
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So we're gonna spend really most of our time
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right in the resource. So let's go
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ahead and dive into the live database.
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and I've already got us logged in here to
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get started,
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So the home page for Gale and context elementary
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really does
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encourage kids kind of natural curiosity.
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There is always a search but
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we like to encourage kids to
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have a look around. So there are
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uh we're gonna actually spend a little more time here back on the
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topics page, so I'm gonna go to the rest of the tabs
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here first
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there are highlighted
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con uh bits of highlighted content from
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some of your eBook collection, whatever's reading
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level appropriate, will show up here. So
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coming from Gale eBooks, you have a nice
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collection from the state library
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aimed at those reading levels so we can
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kind of browse the books that are here.
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and this um collection has been
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pumped up a bit this year, some new titles
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were added. We actually offered a webinar
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on those sessions um a couple
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weeks ago uh when uh
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you received the follow up email from
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this session, I'll put a link to that session
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as well in case you want to explore the recording for that
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so just kind of piking their interest with any
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of these books and if we go ahead and say jump into
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one.
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you're uh able to browse the eBook
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like it's you know sitting in front of you on
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the table you can just
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use the uh the next page
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or if I want a mobile device or any sort
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of touch screen, I'd be able to swipe to get through
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it, you can zoom in and out,
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You've got our text to speech tool here,
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you know, some really handy uh ways to explore
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the content
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you can also browse through
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uh some highlighted news articles coming
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from um our kind of kid themed
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or kid aimed newspaper sources
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Hand pulled some images here to browse
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around again just kind of peeking
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interest here
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on a bit of a bug kick. So I'll go ahead and grab this.
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Uh harvest and image.
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You can do the same for video content.
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and the video content has really grown over
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the last year we had a lot of great stem
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topics but now we're working with some other providers
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to bring in another video content. So
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an eye out for that as well. But again just kind of building
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their on their natural curiosity,
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the home page though that you land
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on is gonna be this topics tab
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and this I think is always a great
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tool when students are starting
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to learn about research, maybe they're picking a topic.
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I imagine a lot of times an animal
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report is the first thing they're gonna do.
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Or maybe a state report, something like
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that.
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on the home page. What we've done
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is just kind of started to organize
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some of the coverage of the database by
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subject area. And I say that because
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our In Context databases are
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built in kind of this portal
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format where we take a topic
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and dedicate a whole home page to
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it. And that's really what you're gonna browse
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as you work with these topic pages or topic
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tree. We often call it as well.
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And it's a great starter for ST students
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to kind of learn about how information
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gets organized. So we don't
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just kind of throw everything up on the shelves
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of willy nilly right. We don't we do the same
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thing in our databases, we start breaking
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them down by category. So if we choose something
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like animals
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We start narrowing down. So again,
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we don't just go to a list of animals. We start
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choosing well do we want reptiles? Do we
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want birds? Do we want dinosaurs, mammals.
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And you kind of take on these big topics and
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start narrowing them down
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and then you'll get to a list.
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So this is especially handy when kids maybe
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have a choice in what they're doing a report
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on. So they can go through these pages.
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They've all got pictures. So you get that kind
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of visual cue of what you're looking
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for. Especially handy for kids who may
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struggle with reading
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or any students where maybe English isn't their
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first language. Uh you've got that
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option as well to uh have those
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those pictures to kind of zero in
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and then once you select
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You land on this dedicated home
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page. So this is the giraffe section of
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the database. The same way we might have a little giraffe
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section on the shelves. So you
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line up with everything we've got for
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giraffes here and we start out with
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some quick facts. So giraffes have long
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nets, they are very tall, they eat plants,
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we get these facts right off the bat
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and then a few extra ones here in our quick facts
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line.
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and then all the different pieces and
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a page layout like this where we're identifying.
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Well these are book articles, these are magazine
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articles, these are news articles,
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you're building up kind of learning about different
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types of media, you know different
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ways we're kind of gathering information and
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what different sources of types are out there.
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So we start building their knowledge around that.
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And so if they've got a report and they have
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to find
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You know two books and they have to find three
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magazines. They're gonna be able to easily
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identify those on the page here.
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As well as of course the multimedia sources
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too. So pictures related topics
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and videos. If there were any we just all
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see it gathered here on this kind of home page
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and you can start here. So
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let's say I'm gonna go back actually to the home page
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I mentioned I'm gonna kind of blend in
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everything all at once. So I'm gonna about to talk about how
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you can share out content with students.
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So let's say they have to do a state report
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if I go ahead and go through geography.
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I can then again start breaking this down
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so we're talking about you know different land
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formations, we've got some of that but then we've
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got the way that geography is made
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out around the globe. So say if we go into U. S.
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States again we just get these lists.
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So state capital is showing here
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well grab New Mexico
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and say I know all of my
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say third graders are gonna
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be studying
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and do I have to do a report on new Mexico.
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I want them to land here rather than
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coming into the database
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and searching or going through the browse
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tool. I just want to put them right here.
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the way you can do that is
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to take advantage of our get link
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tool. Get link is gonna
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appear in this toolbar that
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goes across the top of the database
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and you'll see it on most pages. What
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it's gonna give you is a persistent
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U. R. L. Or pearl
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that you can then place wherever
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you would normally put A U. R. L. So link it
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on your library's website a teacher could
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put it on their web page. Or if you have a learning
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management system you could post the link
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there, you can put it
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in an email again wherever A
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U. R. L. Would go.
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And what's great about it is when kids
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click on it, they land right here, they
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kind of jump over those other um
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you know longer paths to get to this
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content and they're there with your shortcut just
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like this. So
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It's a great way to draw them into
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the library resources. It's a great way
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for you to push content out. So
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let's say you're at the public library and you know
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that this is what's happening in fourth grade.
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You could put it there, you could share
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it on your uh web page
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to kind of push out to parents or even into
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a newsletter that you're sending out
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in school libraries. You could push this out,
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you know, to your teachers in fourth grade
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to let them know the library has this great resource.
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So get link is really powerful.
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It's a great way for you to draw folks in
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to your library provided resources
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So we're gonna talk about some other ways but get link
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is probably the simplest.
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It just gives you U. R. L. That you can then take anywhere
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Not that the others are that difficult but
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um the U. R. L. It's kind of universal.
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Right? So All
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right, let's take a look. We're gonna now
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use the search tool or actually, you know
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what? Let me show you around the topic trees a bit more.
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I want to uh talk about some of the newer
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content and uh recently updated
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content. So, we're never done with
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our databases. We're always continuing
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to work on them. And we listen to feedback.
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We get from our libraries from
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our school libraries,
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our teachers and fill
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in what's needed. We're also
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been undergoing and looking, doing a biased
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review of our content and that'll be ongoing as
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well. So did things need rewriting?
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Um we're working with different groups to kind of advise
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us on those things. So there's been a lot of work going
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on in the resources um as
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there always is, but um been some special
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attention. So I wanted to point out under the people
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section.
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and you'll find some of this under the history as well.
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We have uh bumped up our coverage
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of Native Americans. So this is and
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there have been a few other areas we focused on too.
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But this is just um
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I wanted to highlight here. It kind of goes
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along with some of the new content in your
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in your new eBooks from this year.
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So we've built up this list as
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well. We've also done
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some work to round out jump
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back.
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coverage for kind of English
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classes. Um we're gonna have,
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you know, of course, still the study of literature. But
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if we jump to say reading writing and language, there's
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a lot of great content to go along with
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other things we may talk about when we're when
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we're, you know, looking at E. L. A. So,
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you know, different.
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uh topics. But some of these, I wanted to
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point out because they'd be really handy in terms
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of building research skills. So here
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on our main idea. We talk
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about what a main idea is
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and you know the way it plays a role
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in text.
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The other thing that's good to look out
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for is when you are
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uh looking at your book, articles
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or biographies.
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You might notice a lot of articles
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like this where it's the same title. It's
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the same source. It's the same copyright.
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What's different is the content
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level indicator. There's a box next to
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it. Level one and level two here just with those
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dots,
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Those are our two uh content
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levels for elementary kind of level reading
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level one is gonna be kind of K through
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two and level two is gonna be grades
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three through five, you know, kind of broad strokes.
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What we've done is level
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this article, we've taken it and
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rewritten it at two different reading levels.
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So this is handy for reading level differentiation
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when you need it in the classroom or in the library.
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Um you can kind of point the students to the ones you
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think fit. If we take a look at say the level one
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We start out right away with the words to no
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glossary. So I don't have to look
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up a definition. It's gonna be right here in the database
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for me.
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And you can see we've got short sentences, short
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paragraphs
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and when you're in an article that's been leveled,
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you're gonna have the option to
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Switch between the two. They're always linked
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together
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so I can switch over to the level two
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and here's the same article just written at a slightly
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higher level. So rather than starting with the glossary,
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we start out with a few ideas
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we can see the paragraphs are a little longer
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here
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or we're still talking about the same thing.
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So you're gonna see that throughout the resource
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and really and most of the Gale
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and context databases. So that
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leveled content is another thing we've
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been working on and because we're our own
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publisher at Gale we can do that.
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So that's why you'll see it. I'm just gonna jump
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back out to that
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main page again, that's why you're
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gonna see it with book articles and biographies,
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because that's what we write at. Yale, we write reference content
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so we can't take an article from, say, scholastic
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news and rewrite it ourselves.
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Right, So you're just gonna see it under book articles
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and uh
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and biographies.
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All right, let me pause here see if anything's come into
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the chat or the Q. And A.
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No, we're in good shape. Alrighty. So let's
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go ahead. And now I do want to uh dive in with the
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search because when students already know what they're
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doing their research project on, they
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can of course dive in with the search
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So let's say they're working on the rock cycle.
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and again, whenever we've got a dedicated
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page like this, a topic page we're gonna
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land right on and I'll show you another search later
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where that doesn't happen. So you can get a uh
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look at that format as well. But
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again, nice layout here. We start out with
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some information,
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And again, break down the content by the types
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of sources it's coming from.
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And I did want to share some video
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content. You have
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um always a broadcast transcript
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to go along with the video.
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But then also the video
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itself
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is gonna have those captioning enabled,
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just gonna jump ahead. So we can get past the opening
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music there.
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rock
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shift. And we have of course
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options for changing that.
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Sorry, I'm just gonna ahead and pause that. So I'm not speaking over
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the video, but these can be a great way to
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introduce the topic. Students can maybe some
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ga gather some key words from,
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you know, the short uh broadcast transcript
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here
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and come up with keywords to search on
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and help build up uh again,
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kind of skills around using
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information sources like this.
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and then you'll also see, I'm gonna just go ahead
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and jump in to say some of our magazine results
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here, move in
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The articles are uh
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gonna be text based although if we
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have the rights to the images for the magazines, those
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will show up here too.
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What's great about though having a text
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based article is you get to take advantage
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of all of the tools that come with that
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text. So things like the text to speech
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tool. So we could have the article read to us
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There's a font size tool here, display
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options, translation
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and then the info button is important, especially
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if we're learning about research skills.
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The info button is gonna give us all the details
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about the articles in the elementary
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database. We like to keep the article display
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as simple as possible. So that's why
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the info button kind of pops open
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these details at the top.
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Um
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It is uh
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you know,
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and I kind of have a cleaner look without
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it. But in our other databases,
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this information is always shown at the top of
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the article but you do have to enable it here in the
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elementary database. But this is the kind of thing we
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tell kids to look for, where is it
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coming from? Who wrote it? When is it coming
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from? And you get those details? So
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when you're in any article just
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jump around here into something else.
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Just a quick click of that info button will
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bring it open and you can uh get
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those details
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now the others. Um Actually let me show you display
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options. This is a bit newer.
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This basically will set the
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article view so what does the text
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look like on the page? We can
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make adjustments based on the needs of
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our of our learner. So I have a nephew
[00:17:48.578]
who um has a processing
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issue and he needs text
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to be on a green or blue background to really comprehend
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it. So there I could set that green
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background for him. I can change
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the font that we're using if you know he
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reads better with something that's got serifs, I can switch
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to Garamond
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or if you've got um students
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with uh dyslexia, I can switch
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to open dyslexic.
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and it's just setting the stage, you can change the spacing
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to make the reading a little easier.
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And when you've done that,
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it sets a cookie on your device. So if
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I go out to another article
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you choose something else here, I'll grab
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uh century, it just
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remembers, and it keeps
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those display options intact.
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So, really handy.
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Now. I'm gonna go ahead and set these back to their defaults
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and I want to share really one of our
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favorite features. Um for
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or at least I should say for students is our citation
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tool. So of course in the research
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pro process, students are gonna have to keep track
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of where they're getting information and then they'll need
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to, you know, include that in their report
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bibliography work, cited, foot notes, whatever
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sort of citation method they're using.
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We've got a site tool, it's gonna be up here
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in the toolbar just you know, near the get
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link. and that's gonna
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give me different citation style options.
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So in elementary school we may not get be
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getting as specific as this you
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know they need to use M. L. A. Ninth edition
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or something like that but it starts them thinking
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on that path. You really need to include
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where you found your info and
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these are all ready to go
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and if you have a tool like noodle
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tools or easy bib or something like that, you can export
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these out but always showing this.
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It will also go with the article.
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So if I print this article out, just
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gives me a nice clean print of the article,
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The citation is always embedded
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at the end of the article. You're always gonna be able to
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know where you got your content
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So
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you've got some other tools here. I just kind of to show
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you the breadth of the database. I want to do a couple
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of searches so you can see some of the content
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areas. So I'm gonna do a quick search here. I mentioned before
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we've got support per se.
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Learning about digital citizenship
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and things like social media and the like
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there's lots of great support here. So
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we have a page dedicated to social media
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and let's say I've got a student who
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is, you know, studying this as
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they're reading through an article. We
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have a feature called highlights and notes.
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So, you know, if I've got a piece of paper in front of me,
[00:20:23.890]
I might go through it with a highlighter marker and make
[00:20:25.910]
notes in the margins. That's essentially
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what I can do here. As I
[00:20:31.539]
I'm reading content if I find something
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I want to use or call out
[00:20:35.739]
in some way I can click and drag as if I'm
[00:20:37.779]
gonna copy it.
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And then the highlights and notes bar pops up
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and I can use different colors. So
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maybe I might be identifying
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my uh, you know, yellow items
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as something. That's a fact. And
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I might identify something that
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is more. And I'm just randomly
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selecting something here. So don't hold me to
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this because say I'm gonna use green for things that are
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opinion.
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so I can make little notes here.
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and can do that throughout my time in
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the resource. I can go into another
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article. Let me just grab something
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here.
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Oh looks like this was probably looks like we might
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be missing the image, grab something.
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we can again
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just kind of keep Mac
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marking up the articles as
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you go through and as you're doing this
[00:21:27.140]
it's keeping track of everything
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in the background
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ok. That we're marking up
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and as you come across something
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You wanna make sure to grab it
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Ok because
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the next time you log in these
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will have been cleared out. Our highlights
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and notes are good for the user's current
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session only
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meaning that we are not tracking
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users past their session. We clear out your
[00:21:57.368]
search history, we start a new
[00:21:59.519]
session every time when you log
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in we don't really know
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that I'm me doing this, it doesn't
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really know that this is Stacey doing it.
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So I need to take all this
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with me before I go and I can
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do that a couple ways I mentioned the print.
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Print will bring my highlights and notes. It's
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gonna highlight the text
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and the print out. And then at the bottom it
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reprints the highlighted passages and
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shows your note.
[00:22:26.500]
ok? You can also
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Use it from highlights and notes up in
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the corner here. You can see I just have
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one for this article but then it gives me the
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option of viewing all highlights and notes
[00:22:38.318]
and we can see the other highlights and notes
[00:22:40.459]
I've created through those three other articles.
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And if this is all I need, if I just want my
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highlights and notes, I can print this,
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I can send two
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which is gonna send it over to google drive
[00:22:51.759]
for me or one drive or email,
[00:22:54.459]
And this is a really handy feature. It's
[00:22:56.588]
a great way to kind of keep track of all your research
[00:22:58.979]
in the cloud if you are a google
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or Microsoft user
[00:23:03.920]
and send all your research to one place.
[00:23:06.400]
Let me show you what. Oops. Didn't quite
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finish typing the U. R. L. There.
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You can find it in a data
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error in a folder named after the database you
[00:23:17.910]
were using. So Gale and context elementary.
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There is my highlighted articles
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that I just sent over.
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and there they are.
[00:23:29.209]
And notice how there are links. These are hyperlinks
[00:23:31.608]
to get back into the full article. If I need
[00:23:33.689]
that, I can also send
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the full article over if I go back into
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another one.
[00:23:40.239]
OK, we have the send to option
[00:23:42.618]
here too. So I can send the whole article
[00:23:44.630]
over if that's what I want.
[00:23:46.519]
And again, it's gonna land in a folder
[00:23:48.779]
named after what you're using. So here
[00:23:51.019]
in my Gale and context elementary,
[00:23:53.598]
Here's the whole article. If uh
[00:23:56.059]
let me catch up with me here,
[00:23:57.809]
it'll be the whole article. It will be if we have
[00:23:59.900]
the rights to the images. It'll come over too.
[00:24:02.059]
It'll have the citation in it. It's
[00:24:04.430]
all gonna be there.
[00:24:06.400]
it's like it's taken a minute to load
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well, while it's working on that,
[00:24:11.380]
once the articles are here,
[00:24:14.189]
it's mine to do with what I like.
[00:24:16.279]
So I can take this article, these highlights
[00:24:18.769]
and move it to a folder.
[00:24:20.939]
You know, maybe create a new one for my research
[00:24:23.380]
topic.
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and
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It moves it over there. I can
[00:24:33.358]
go ahead and move this one too.
[00:24:38.608]
right. And then that's where they live. Once it's
[00:24:40.759]
here it's mine to do with what I like. So as
[00:24:42.838]
a student, I can keep this organized
[00:24:45.170]
by my different projects or my classrooms.
[00:24:48.699]
It's just going to, oh might
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be at the bottom here. Where's my newest
[00:24:52.858]
folder?
[00:24:54.239]
Oh I might need to refresh.
[00:25:02.608]
Oh, oh maybe I I'm sorry, I might
[00:25:04.618]
have put it somewhere else. I thought it was on the home page.
[00:25:06.818]
Well I'll have you trust me to
[00:25:08.910]
go with that folder I created but looks
[00:25:11.118]
like it's lost in my folder structure there. But
[00:25:13.608]
it's a great way again to keep track of your
[00:25:15.618]
research and make sure you have access to it any
[00:25:17.650]
time. But again with
[00:25:19.660]
highlights and notes you've got
[00:25:21.670]
to grab it somehow. The
[00:25:23.709]
articles are gonna blank
[00:25:26.140]
out again when you leave the database. We
[00:25:28.269]
just clear everything out. So good
[00:25:30.719]
thing to keep in mind
[00:25:32.509]
Right? So there are other
[00:25:34.578]
ways you can share content too. If
[00:25:36.890]
I go back, let me go ahead and grab uh Actually
[00:25:39.299]
let's browse some more. We've gone into
[00:25:41.358]
a few subject areas actually I'll use animals because
[00:25:43.608]
again, lots of searches
[00:25:45.789]
here, so we'll go ahead and grab another one of these.
[00:25:49.309]
Thanks
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You can also take
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advantage say we're gonna Eagles
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research
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of sharing content
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via google classroom if
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you are a google classroom user, this
[00:26:03.130]
icon may look familiar if you are
[00:26:05.358]
basically what it does is take
[00:26:07.390]
that get link
[00:26:09.969]
and embed it in a classroom
[00:26:12.219]
item so you just choose where you want
[00:26:14.479]
this to go,
[00:26:16.088]
make it an assignment. And these will be familiar options
[00:26:18.719]
if you use google classroom
[00:26:20.930]
and then I'm gonna give a very brief
[00:26:23.519]
uh bit of instruction here. It's embedded.
[00:26:26.598]
The link to this Eagles
[00:26:28.660]
page
[00:26:30.910]
and just can confirm that it went through
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and it takes a minute for it to pop up here. I'm always
[00:26:35.459]
impatient. So I'm gonna go right to the classroom
[00:26:37.989]
so we can see it embedded there and then with
[00:26:40.029]
a click your students land right where
[00:26:42.088]
you want them to.
[00:26:43.848]
So great way again to get
[00:26:45.920]
them into library resources.
[00:26:50.088]
So All right, I'm gonna pop back. I'm gonna close out
[00:26:52.189]
some of these windows. I've got a lot
[00:26:54.299]
of them open
[00:26:55.848]
Alrighty
[00:26:57.858]
So let me check the chat. We're gonna go ahead and start
[00:26:59.939]
wrapping up here and I'm gonna check
[00:27:02.259]
my notes. I think I've covered
[00:27:04.390]
everything I wanted to.
[00:27:07.750]
in good shape. So,
[00:27:11.890]
that was a look at how you can kind
[00:27:14.029]
of spark research skills and help grow
[00:27:16.088]
research skills and Gale in context. Elementary
[00:27:18.959]
just a quick recap of the different
[00:27:21.088]
ways you can share content. So get link
[00:27:23.189]
is again kind of the most universal
[00:27:25.299]
to U. R. You can put it wherever you need
[00:27:27.568]
it. send to google drive
[00:27:29.868]
and Microsoft one drive. Especially
[00:27:32.150]
because they are often in everybody's workflow
[00:27:34.588]
already. They're using them for one reason
[00:27:36.809]
or another, whether it be personal
[00:27:38.930]
or school or work related. A lot
[00:27:41.219]
of these are familiar tools and folks already
[00:27:43.358]
are comfortable, can just send our content
[00:27:45.640]
there and continue to work with it.
[00:27:47.838]
And then of course google co uh classroom
[00:27:50.420]
is linked right in our resources, but you can
[00:27:52.449]
actually import content into other learning
[00:27:54.509]
management systems like canvas and
[00:27:56.719]
and school if you're in a school setting.
[00:27:59.108]
Uh blackboard, you know, tends to be more
[00:28:01.219]
academic, we can work with that. There are,
[00:28:03.358]
you know, lots of these out there that that we can work
[00:28:05.469]
with and pull the content into so you can get it into people's
[00:28:07.789]
hands easily.
[00:28:09.939]
so when questions should come up
[00:28:11.959]
you can feel free to reach out to your Gale team.
[00:28:14.180]
We've got lots of great on demand, Support
[00:28:16.459]
for our resources out at support dot Gale
[00:28:18.598]
dot com slash n. M. When
[00:28:20.838]
you get to that page, it will prompt you to choose
[00:28:22.979]
your library from the list and then we customize
[00:28:25.699]
the support site to your library. So
[00:28:28.160]
you will get support from wherever you have
[00:28:30.180]
from gale. Uh which is really nice.
[00:28:32.219]
We have over 100 databases, so this would just
[00:28:34.400]
pair down to the ones that that you actually have
[00:28:36.509]
in your collection.
[00:28:37.890]
and I've just linked a bunch of um listed
[00:28:40.279]
a bunch of the Gale and context elementary
[00:28:42.449]
uh support we have but there's much more than
[00:28:44.529]
this, we have training uh decks
[00:28:46.930]
that you can use if you're gonna go out and maybe
[00:28:49.660]
spread the word about this resource, we've got
[00:28:51.729]
a presentation that you can just customize to suit
[00:28:53.799]
your needs and you're off and running.
[00:28:55.719]
We have tip sheets, we have recorded sessions
[00:28:58.279]
and we've got lots of great free marketing materials
[00:29:00.578]
that you can use um and share
[00:29:03.000]
uh the or spread the word about these
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resources. So lots
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of good stuff out there, no need to recreate
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the wheel. We've got a lot of good stuff going there.
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but then of course when you want to talk to a person
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you can feel free to reach out to your team at gale. Again
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I'm your trainer, you'll get a follow up
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email from me, feel free to email me or give
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me a call any time. Uh Our tech
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support is available, they're at the 800
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number, you can also email them
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and then your account rep is always a good person to
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get to know uh at Yale. They can,
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you know, help advise you if you're looking to Bring
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any other resources
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but I would say probably the best person to get
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to know at Gale is your customer success manager.
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They just help you be successful with the resources.
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They can help you with uh marketing ideas,
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they can take your feedback on the resources.
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They are really just a huge
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font of knowledge and if they don't have the
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answer they know where to go to get it. So
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excellent resource in them
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so do not suffer in
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silence again. Do reach out.
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and with that I'll say thank you so much for tuning
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again, tuning in. Uh Again I apologize
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for the mix up. Uh that was completely my fault.
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I am not very time zone friendly
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so I apologize uh for starting the session
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an hour early and I'm being surprised when nobody was
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there. So
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my mistake. Uh but do keep
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an eye out once I've made that mistake, I don't tend to
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make it again. So um to keep
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an eye out for other sessions. We have a few
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more coming up this month to help support the start
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of the school season. Uh But then you can
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also just keep in mind our general calendar
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where we offer uh really interesting sessions
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uh all the time. So definitely
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keep an eye out for those and of course we record all
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of these as well so you can always tune in after. It's not
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something you're able to attend live. So
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Thanks everybody for tuning in. I'm gonna stick
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around and see if there are any questions. I'm happy to take
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those. But again, thanks so much for
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your time today and hopefully we'll see you on another
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session down the road. Thanks everybody
Hello folks and welcome. I'm Stacey
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Knibloe Gale trainer for New Mexico. Glad
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to be with you for our support beginner
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research skills uh with Gale
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in context elementary. So
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with this session, what we want to do is
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just provide an overview of the resource to
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start. But then we're really gonna get in there
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and show how you can find content and
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help build up skills in students as they
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start to learn about research
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and learn about the library and all the things
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that come with it
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Um this is a perfect database to do that with.
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We've got a great looking interface, lots of
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great uh reading level appropriate
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content. And um
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Little tools and bells and whistles, bells and whistles
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that they can kind of take with them up through
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into adulthood when they're uh you know, performing
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any sort of research. Uh We'll also
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talk a bit about how you can share content from
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the resource. So if there are particular things
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you want to get younger kids started with
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with their research and you want to point them in exactly
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the direction you want them to go. There are a few different
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ways you can share content in the resource and we want
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to talk about those too
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and then as always with our sessions we'll wrap
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up with uh support where
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you can go at gale, both kind
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of on demand but also when you want to talk to someone
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uh we have a lot of support out there
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for you to take advantage of. So we'll
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talk about that as well as
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we go through. Jump in with questions any time.
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Uh If you see something on the screen you want to know more
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about. Or want me to click. I'm happy to do that.
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Uh just jump in at any point.
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So let's go ahead and
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dive in here.
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so again just an overview of the resource.
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Just a little more pressure maybe you haven't used it in a while
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Gale and in context. Elementary.
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Um some of you may know it as kids
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info bits. We had a name and interface
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change a couple of years ago and
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I will admit I still tend to call it kids
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info bits here and there but uh it's official
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name Gale In Context: Elementary to kind
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of identify its main audience. Um
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But really if the reading level
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is what you need, of course any user can
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go into this resource. Um it
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is uh
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gonna be the reading level that's really
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the most important for your user. So
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what you'll find in this content or
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or within this resource is content aimed
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at curriculum within an elementary
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uh grade range. You know what's
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being studied in the classroom?
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and then uh supporting that are a variety
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of different sources. So uh reference
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books, magazines, multimedia
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all in one place, lots of
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different subject areas covered here.
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Um Again, looking at what's studied in curriculum,
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but then additional, you know, content as
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well, things to help students, you know, learn
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about social media, learn about technology
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and the like. So uh lots of good
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stuff here.
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and it is let me advance
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my slide here. There we go. Oh, I'm always ahead
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of the slide. So again, supporting curriculum standards
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as you can imagine a lot of research in this database
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done on animals. Uh we'll find lots of
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great content there, but again it's gonna hit
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every major curriculum area as well
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and then and lots of tools to help
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them kind of narrow topics find
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answers to questions and just
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explore the things they're interested in
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and again kind of building up those research
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skills, their information literacy skills
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and kind of these subtle ways and all the different tools
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that you have in the resource as well.
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So we're gonna spend really most of our time
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right in the resource. So let's go
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ahead and dive into the live database.
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and I've already got us logged in here to
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get started,
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So the home page for Gale and context elementary
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really does
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encourage kids kind of natural curiosity.
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There is always a search but
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we like to encourage kids to
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have a look around. So there are
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uh we're gonna actually spend a little more time here back on the
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topics page, so I'm gonna go to the rest of the tabs
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here first
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there are highlighted
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con uh bits of highlighted content from
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some of your eBook collection, whatever's reading
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level appropriate, will show up here. So
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coming from Gale eBooks, you have a nice
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collection from the state library
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aimed at those reading levels so we can
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kind of browse the books that are here.
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and this um collection has been
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pumped up a bit this year, some new titles
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were added. We actually offered a webinar
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on those sessions um a couple
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weeks ago uh when uh
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you received the follow up email from
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this session, I'll put a link to that session
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as well in case you want to explore the recording for that
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so just kind of piking their interest with any
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of these books and if we go ahead and say jump into
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one.
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you're uh able to browse the eBook
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like it's you know sitting in front of you on
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the table you can just
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use the uh the next page
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or if I want a mobile device or any sort
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of touch screen, I'd be able to swipe to get through
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it, you can zoom in and out,
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You've got our text to speech tool here,
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you know, some really handy uh ways to explore
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the content
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you can also browse through
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uh some highlighted news articles coming
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from um our kind of kid themed
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or kid aimed newspaper sources
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Hand pulled some images here to browse
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around again just kind of peeking
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interest here
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on a bit of a bug kick. So I'll go ahead and grab this.
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Uh harvest and image.
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You can do the same for video content.
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and the video content has really grown over
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the last year we had a lot of great stem
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topics but now we're working with some other providers
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to bring in another video content. So
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an eye out for that as well. But again just kind of building
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their on their natural curiosity,
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the home page though that you land
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on is gonna be this topics tab
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and this I think is always a great
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tool when students are starting
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to learn about research, maybe they're picking a topic.
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I imagine a lot of times an animal
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report is the first thing they're gonna do.
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Or maybe a state report, something like
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that.
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on the home page. What we've done
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is just kind of started to organize
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some of the coverage of the database by
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subject area. And I say that because
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our In Context databases are
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built in kind of this portal
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format where we take a topic
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and dedicate a whole home page to
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it. And that's really what you're gonna browse
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as you work with these topic pages or topic
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tree. We often call it as well.
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And it's a great starter for ST students
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to kind of learn about how information
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gets organized. So we don't
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just kind of throw everything up on the shelves
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of willy nilly right. We don't we do the same
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thing in our databases, we start breaking
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them down by category. So if we choose something
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like animals
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We start narrowing down. So again,
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we don't just go to a list of animals. We start
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choosing well do we want reptiles? Do we
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want birds? Do we want dinosaurs, mammals.
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And you kind of take on these big topics and
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start narrowing them down
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and then you'll get to a list.
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So this is especially handy when kids maybe
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have a choice in what they're doing a report
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on. So they can go through these pages.
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They've all got pictures. So you get that kind
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of visual cue of what you're looking
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for. Especially handy for kids who may
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struggle with reading
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or any students where maybe English isn't their
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first language. Uh you've got that
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option as well to uh have those
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those pictures to kind of zero in
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and then once you select
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You land on this dedicated home
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page. So this is the giraffe section of
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the database. The same way we might have a little giraffe
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section on the shelves. So you
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line up with everything we've got for
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giraffes here and we start out with
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some quick facts. So giraffes have long
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nets, they are very tall, they eat plants,
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we get these facts right off the bat
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and then a few extra ones here in our quick facts
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line.
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and then all the different pieces and
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a page layout like this where we're identifying.
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Well these are book articles, these are magazine
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articles, these are news articles,
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you're building up kind of learning about different
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types of media, you know different
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ways we're kind of gathering information and
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what different sources of types are out there.
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So we start building their knowledge around that.
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And so if they've got a report and they have
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to find
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You know two books and they have to find three
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magazines. They're gonna be able to easily
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identify those on the page here.
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As well as of course the multimedia sources
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too. So pictures related topics
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and videos. If there were any we just all
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see it gathered here on this kind of home page
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and you can start here. So
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let's say I'm gonna go back actually to the home page
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I mentioned I'm gonna kind of blend in
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everything all at once. So I'm gonna about to talk about how
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you can share out content with students.
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So let's say they have to do a state report
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if I go ahead and go through geography.
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I can then again start breaking this down
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so we're talking about you know different land
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formations, we've got some of that but then we've
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got the way that geography is made
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out around the globe. So say if we go into U. S.
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States again we just get these lists.
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So state capital is showing here
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well grab New Mexico
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and say I know all of my
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say third graders are gonna
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be studying
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and do I have to do a report on new Mexico.
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I want them to land here rather than
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coming into the database
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and searching or going through the browse
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tool. I just want to put them right here.
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the way you can do that is
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to take advantage of our get link
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tool. Get link is gonna
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appear in this toolbar that
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goes across the top of the database
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and you'll see it on most pages. What
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it's gonna give you is a persistent
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U. R. L. Or pearl
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that you can then place wherever
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you would normally put A U. R. L. So link it
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on your library's website a teacher could
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put it on their web page. Or if you have a learning
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management system you could post the link
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there, you can put it
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in an email again wherever A
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U. R. L. Would go.
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And what's great about it is when kids
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click on it, they land right here, they
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kind of jump over those other um
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you know longer paths to get to this
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content and they're there with your shortcut just
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like this. So
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It's a great way to draw them into
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the library resources. It's a great way
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for you to push content out. So
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let's say you're at the public library and you know
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that this is what's happening in fourth grade.
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You could put it there, you could share
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it on your uh web page
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to kind of push out to parents or even into
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a newsletter that you're sending out
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in school libraries. You could push this out,
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you know, to your teachers in fourth grade
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to let them know the library has this great resource.
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So get link is really powerful.
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It's a great way for you to draw folks in
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to your library provided resources
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So we're gonna talk about some other ways but get link
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is probably the simplest.
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It just gives you U. R. L. That you can then take anywhere
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Not that the others are that difficult but
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um the U. R. L. It's kind of universal.
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Right? So All
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right, let's take a look. We're gonna now
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use the search tool or actually, you know
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what? Let me show you around the topic trees a bit more.
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I want to uh talk about some of the newer
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content and uh recently updated
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content. So, we're never done with
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our databases. We're always continuing
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to work on them. And we listen to feedback.
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We get from our libraries from
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our school libraries,
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our teachers and fill
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in what's needed. We're also
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been undergoing and looking, doing a biased
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review of our content and that'll be ongoing as
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well. So did things need rewriting?
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Um we're working with different groups to kind of advise
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us on those things. So there's been a lot of work going
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on in the resources um as
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there always is, but um been some special
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attention. So I wanted to point out under the people
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section.
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and you'll find some of this under the history as well.
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We have uh bumped up our coverage
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of Native Americans. So this is and
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there have been a few other areas we focused on too.
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But this is just um
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I wanted to highlight here. It kind of goes
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along with some of the new content in your
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in your new eBooks from this year.
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So we've built up this list as
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well. We've also done
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some work to round out jump
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back.
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coverage for kind of English
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classes. Um we're gonna have,
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you know, of course, still the study of literature. But
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if we jump to say reading writing and language, there's
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a lot of great content to go along with
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other things we may talk about when we're when
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we're, you know, looking at E. L. A. So,
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you know, different.
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uh topics. But some of these, I wanted to
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point out because they'd be really handy in terms
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of building research skills. So here
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on our main idea. We talk
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about what a main idea is
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and you know the way it plays a role
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in text.
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The other thing that's good to look out
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for is when you are
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uh looking at your book, articles
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or biographies.
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You might notice a lot of articles
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like this where it's the same title. It's
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the same source. It's the same copyright.
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What's different is the content
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level indicator. There's a box next to
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it. Level one and level two here just with those
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dots,
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Those are our two uh content
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levels for elementary kind of level reading
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level one is gonna be kind of K through
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two and level two is gonna be grades
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three through five, you know, kind of broad strokes.
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What we've done is level
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this article, we've taken it and
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rewritten it at two different reading levels.
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So this is handy for reading level differentiation
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when you need it in the classroom or in the library.
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Um you can kind of point the students to the ones you
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think fit. If we take a look at say the level one
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We start out right away with the words to no
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glossary. So I don't have to look
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up a definition. It's gonna be right here in the database
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for me.
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And you can see we've got short sentences, short
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paragraphs
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and when you're in an article that's been leveled,
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you're gonna have the option to
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Switch between the two. They're always linked
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together
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so I can switch over to the level two
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and here's the same article just written at a slightly
[00:13:55.210]
higher level. So rather than starting with the glossary,
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we start out with a few ideas
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we can see the paragraphs are a little longer
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here
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or we're still talking about the same thing.
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So you're gonna see that throughout the resource
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and really and most of the Gale
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and context databases. So that
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leveled content is another thing we've
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been working on and because we're our own
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publisher at Gale we can do that.
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So that's why you'll see it. I'm just gonna jump
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back out to that
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main page again, that's why you're
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gonna see it with book articles and biographies,
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because that's what we write at. Yale, we write reference content
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so we can't take an article from, say, scholastic
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news and rewrite it ourselves.
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Right, So you're just gonna see it under book articles
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and uh
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and biographies.
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All right, let me pause here see if anything's come into
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the chat or the Q. And A.
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No, we're in good shape. Alrighty. So let's
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go ahead. And now I do want to uh dive in with the
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search because when students already know what they're
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doing their research project on, they
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can of course dive in with the search
[00:14:57.090]
So let's say they're working on the rock cycle.
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and again, whenever we've got a dedicated
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page like this, a topic page we're gonna
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land right on and I'll show you another search later
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where that doesn't happen. So you can get a uh
[00:15:08.918]
look at that format as well. But
[00:15:11.729]
again, nice layout here. We start out with
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some information,
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And again, break down the content by the types
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of sources it's coming from.
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And I did want to share some video
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content. You have
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um always a broadcast transcript
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to go along with the video.
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But then also the video
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itself
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is gonna have those captioning enabled,
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just gonna jump ahead. So we can get past the opening
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music there.
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rock
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shift. And we have of course
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options for changing that.
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Sorry, I'm just gonna ahead and pause that. So I'm not speaking over
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the video, but these can be a great way to
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introduce the topic. Students can maybe some
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ga gather some key words from,
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you know, the short uh broadcast transcript
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here
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and come up with keywords to search on
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and help build up uh again,
[00:16:02.178]
kind of skills around using
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information sources like this.
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and then you'll also see, I'm gonna just go ahead
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and jump in to say some of our magazine results
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here, move in
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The articles are uh
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gonna be text based although if we
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have the rights to the images for the magazines, those
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will show up here too.
[00:16:24.330]
What's great about though having a text
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based article is you get to take advantage
[00:16:29.029]
of all of the tools that come with that
[00:16:31.298]
text. So things like the text to speech
[00:16:33.379]
tool. So we could have the article read to us
[00:16:35.820]
There's a font size tool here, display
[00:16:38.330]
options, translation
[00:16:40.729]
and then the info button is important, especially
[00:16:43.379]
if we're learning about research skills.
[00:16:46.149]
The info button is gonna give us all the details
[00:16:48.399]
about the articles in the elementary
[00:16:50.940]
database. We like to keep the article display
[00:16:53.219]
as simple as possible. So that's why
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the info button kind of pops open
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these details at the top.
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Um
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It is uh
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you know,
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and I kind of have a cleaner look without
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it. But in our other databases,
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this information is always shown at the top of
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the article but you do have to enable it here in the
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elementary database. But this is the kind of thing we
[00:17:14.509]
tell kids to look for, where is it
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coming from? Who wrote it? When is it coming
[00:17:18.838]
from? And you get those details? So
[00:17:20.979]
when you're in any article just
[00:17:23.039]
jump around here into something else.
[00:17:26.880]
Just a quick click of that info button will
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bring it open and you can uh get
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those details
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now the others. Um Actually let me show you display
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options. This is a bit newer.
[00:17:37.900]
This basically will set the
[00:17:40.039]
article view so what does the text
[00:17:42.088]
look like on the page? We can
[00:17:44.118]
make adjustments based on the needs of
[00:17:46.160]
our of our learner. So I have a nephew
[00:17:48.578]
who um has a processing
[00:17:50.618]
issue and he needs text
[00:17:52.750]
to be on a green or blue background to really comprehend
[00:17:55.229]
it. So there I could set that green
[00:17:57.430]
background for him. I can change
[00:17:59.489]
the font that we're using if you know he
[00:18:01.509]
reads better with something that's got serifs, I can switch
[00:18:03.709]
to Garamond
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or if you've got um students
[00:18:07.289]
with uh dyslexia, I can switch
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to open dyslexic.
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and it's just setting the stage, you can change the spacing
[00:18:14.180]
to make the reading a little easier.
[00:18:19.098]
And when you've done that,
[00:18:21.160]
it sets a cookie on your device. So if
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I go out to another article
[00:18:26.239]
you choose something else here, I'll grab
[00:18:28.809]
uh century, it just
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remembers, and it keeps
[00:18:33.000]
those display options intact.
[00:18:35.358]
So, really handy.
[00:18:38.328]
Now. I'm gonna go ahead and set these back to their defaults
[00:18:42.680]
and I want to share really one of our
[00:18:44.729]
favorite features. Um for
[00:18:46.750]
or at least I should say for students is our citation
[00:18:49.368]
tool. So of course in the research
[00:18:51.509]
pro process, students are gonna have to keep track
[00:18:53.848]
of where they're getting information and then they'll need
[00:18:55.868]
to, you know, include that in their report
[00:18:58.150]
bibliography work, cited, foot notes, whatever
[00:19:00.489]
sort of citation method they're using.
[00:19:03.108]
We've got a site tool, it's gonna be up here
[00:19:05.250]
in the toolbar just you know, near the get
[00:19:07.299]
link. and that's gonna
[00:19:09.489]
give me different citation style options.
[00:19:12.019]
So in elementary school we may not get be
[00:19:14.108]
getting as specific as this you
[00:19:16.209]
know they need to use M. L. A. Ninth edition
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or something like that but it starts them thinking
[00:19:20.549]
on that path. You really need to include
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where you found your info and
[00:19:25.000]
these are all ready to go
[00:19:27.559]
and if you have a tool like noodle
[00:19:29.900]
tools or easy bib or something like that, you can export
[00:19:32.500]
these out but always showing this.
[00:19:34.880]
It will also go with the article.
[00:19:37.239]
So if I print this article out, just
[00:19:39.390]
gives me a nice clean print of the article,
[00:19:43.029]
The citation is always embedded
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at the end of the article. You're always gonna be able to
[00:19:47.229]
know where you got your content
[00:19:50.019]
So
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you've got some other tools here. I just kind of to show
[00:19:54.509]
you the breadth of the database. I want to do a couple
[00:19:56.608]
of searches so you can see some of the content
[00:19:58.618]
areas. So I'm gonna do a quick search here. I mentioned before
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we've got support per se.
[00:20:02.949]
Learning about digital citizenship
[00:20:05.170]
and things like social media and the like
[00:20:07.229]
there's lots of great support here. So
[00:20:09.880]
we have a page dedicated to social media
[00:20:12.779]
and let's say I've got a student who
[00:20:14.848]
is, you know, studying this as
[00:20:16.949]
they're reading through an article. We
[00:20:19.000]
have a feature called highlights and notes.
[00:20:21.729]
So, you know, if I've got a piece of paper in front of me,
[00:20:23.890]
I might go through it with a highlighter marker and make
[00:20:25.910]
notes in the margins. That's essentially
[00:20:27.949]
what I can do here. As I
[00:20:31.539]
I'm reading content if I find something
[00:20:33.680]
I want to use or call out
[00:20:35.739]
in some way I can click and drag as if I'm
[00:20:37.779]
gonna copy it.
[00:20:39.098]
And then the highlights and notes bar pops up
[00:20:41.318]
and I can use different colors. So
[00:20:43.559]
maybe I might be identifying
[00:20:45.910]
my uh, you know, yellow items
[00:20:48.078]
as something. That's a fact. And
[00:20:50.880]
I might identify something that
[00:20:53.199]
is more. And I'm just randomly
[00:20:55.250]
selecting something here. So don't hold me to
[00:20:57.390]
this because say I'm gonna use green for things that are
[00:20:59.578]
opinion.
[00:21:00.890]
so I can make little notes here.
[00:21:03.380]
and can do that throughout my time in
[00:21:05.439]
the resource. I can go into another
[00:21:07.529]
article. Let me just grab something
[00:21:09.719]
here.
[00:21:12.500]
Oh looks like this was probably looks like we might
[00:21:14.568]
be missing the image, grab something.
[00:21:18.739]
we can again
[00:21:20.818]
just kind of keep Mac
[00:21:22.759]
marking up the articles as
[00:21:25.059]
you go through and as you're doing this
[00:21:27.140]
it's keeping track of everything
[00:21:29.289]
in the background
[00:21:31.309]
ok. That we're marking up
[00:21:34.039]
and as you come across something
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You wanna make sure to grab it
[00:21:41.750]
Ok because
[00:21:43.739]
the next time you log in these
[00:21:46.140]
will have been cleared out. Our highlights
[00:21:48.390]
and notes are good for the user's current
[00:21:51.029]
session only
[00:21:52.848]
meaning that we are not tracking
[00:21:55.209]
users past their session. We clear out your
[00:21:57.368]
search history, we start a new
[00:21:59.519]
session every time when you log
[00:22:01.640]
in we don't really know
[00:22:04.160]
that I'm me doing this, it doesn't
[00:22:06.469]
really know that this is Stacey doing it.
[00:22:09.170]
So I need to take all this
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with me before I go and I can
[00:22:13.420]
do that a couple ways I mentioned the print.
[00:22:16.229]
Print will bring my highlights and notes. It's
[00:22:18.410]
gonna highlight the text
[00:22:20.500]
and the print out. And then at the bottom it
[00:22:22.598]
reprints the highlighted passages and
[00:22:24.650]
shows your note.
[00:22:26.500]
ok? You can also
[00:22:29.279]
Use it from highlights and notes up in
[00:22:31.299]
the corner here. You can see I just have
[00:22:33.559]
one for this article but then it gives me the
[00:22:35.588]
option of viewing all highlights and notes
[00:22:38.318]
and we can see the other highlights and notes
[00:22:40.459]
I've created through those three other articles.
[00:22:43.130]
And if this is all I need, if I just want my
[00:22:45.269]
highlights and notes, I can print this,
[00:22:47.459]
I can send two
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which is gonna send it over to google drive
[00:22:51.759]
for me or one drive or email,
[00:22:54.459]
And this is a really handy feature. It's
[00:22:56.588]
a great way to kind of keep track of all your research
[00:22:58.979]
in the cloud if you are a google
[00:23:01.160]
or Microsoft user
[00:23:03.920]
and send all your research to one place.
[00:23:06.400]
Let me show you what. Oops. Didn't quite
[00:23:08.608]
finish typing the U. R. L. There.
[00:23:13.519]
You can find it in a data
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error in a folder named after the database you
[00:23:17.910]
were using. So Gale and context elementary.
[00:23:20.880]
There is my highlighted articles
[00:23:23.170]
that I just sent over.
[00:23:27.650]
and there they are.
[00:23:29.209]
And notice how there are links. These are hyperlinks
[00:23:31.608]
to get back into the full article. If I need
[00:23:33.689]
that, I can also send
[00:23:35.729]
the full article over if I go back into
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another one.
[00:23:40.239]
OK, we have the send to option
[00:23:42.618]
here too. So I can send the whole article
[00:23:44.630]
over if that's what I want.
[00:23:46.519]
And again, it's gonna land in a folder
[00:23:48.779]
named after what you're using. So here
[00:23:51.019]
in my Gale and context elementary,
[00:23:53.598]
Here's the whole article. If uh
[00:23:56.059]
let me catch up with me here,
[00:23:57.809]
it'll be the whole article. It will be if we have
[00:23:59.900]
the rights to the images. It'll come over too.
[00:24:02.059]
It'll have the citation in it. It's
[00:24:04.430]
all gonna be there.
[00:24:06.400]
it's like it's taken a minute to load
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well, while it's working on that,
[00:24:11.380]
once the articles are here,
[00:24:14.189]
it's mine to do with what I like.
[00:24:16.279]
So I can take this article, these highlights
[00:24:18.769]
and move it to a folder.
[00:24:20.939]
You know, maybe create a new one for my research
[00:24:23.380]
topic.
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and
[00:24:31.059]
It moves it over there. I can
[00:24:33.358]
go ahead and move this one too.
[00:24:38.608]
right. And then that's where they live. Once it's
[00:24:40.759]
here it's mine to do with what I like. So as
[00:24:42.838]
a student, I can keep this organized
[00:24:45.170]
by my different projects or my classrooms.
[00:24:48.699]
It's just going to, oh might
[00:24:50.779]
be at the bottom here. Where's my newest
[00:24:52.858]
folder?
[00:24:54.239]
Oh I might need to refresh.
[00:25:02.608]
Oh, oh maybe I I'm sorry, I might
[00:25:04.618]
have put it somewhere else. I thought it was on the home page.
[00:25:06.818]
Well I'll have you trust me to
[00:25:08.910]
go with that folder I created but looks
[00:25:11.118]
like it's lost in my folder structure there. But
[00:25:13.608]
it's a great way again to keep track of your
[00:25:15.618]
research and make sure you have access to it any
[00:25:17.650]
time. But again with
[00:25:19.660]
highlights and notes you've got
[00:25:21.670]
to grab it somehow. The
[00:25:23.709]
articles are gonna blank
[00:25:26.140]
out again when you leave the database. We
[00:25:28.269]
just clear everything out. So good
[00:25:30.719]
thing to keep in mind
[00:25:32.509]
Right? So there are other
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ways you can share content too. If
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I go back, let me go ahead and grab uh Actually
[00:25:39.299]
let's browse some more. We've gone into
[00:25:41.358]
a few subject areas actually I'll use animals because
[00:25:43.608]
again, lots of searches
[00:25:45.789]
here, so we'll go ahead and grab another one of these.
[00:25:49.309]
Thanks
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You can also take
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advantage say we're gonna Eagles
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research
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of sharing content
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via google classroom if
[00:26:00.858]
you are a google classroom user, this
[00:26:03.130]
icon may look familiar if you are
[00:26:05.358]
basically what it does is take
[00:26:07.390]
that get link
[00:26:09.969]
and embed it in a classroom
[00:26:12.219]
item so you just choose where you want
[00:26:14.479]
this to go,
[00:26:16.088]
make it an assignment. And these will be familiar options
[00:26:18.719]
if you use google classroom
[00:26:20.930]
and then I'm gonna give a very brief
[00:26:23.519]
uh bit of instruction here. It's embedded.
[00:26:26.598]
The link to this Eagles
[00:26:28.660]
page
[00:26:30.910]
and just can confirm that it went through
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and it takes a minute for it to pop up here. I'm always
[00:26:35.459]
impatient. So I'm gonna go right to the classroom
[00:26:37.989]
so we can see it embedded there and then with
[00:26:40.029]
a click your students land right where
[00:26:42.088]
you want them to.
[00:26:43.848]
So great way again to get
[00:26:45.920]
them into library resources.
[00:26:50.088]
So All right, I'm gonna pop back. I'm gonna close out
[00:26:52.189]
some of these windows. I've got a lot
[00:26:54.299]
of them open
[00:26:55.848]
Alrighty
[00:26:57.858]
So let me check the chat. We're gonna go ahead and start
[00:26:59.939]
wrapping up here and I'm gonna check
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my notes. I think I've covered
[00:27:04.390]
everything I wanted to.
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in good shape. So,
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that was a look at how you can kind
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of spark research skills and help grow
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research skills and Gale in context. Elementary
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just a quick recap of the different
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ways you can share content. So get link
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is again kind of the most universal
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to U. R. You can put it wherever you need
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it. send to google drive
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and Microsoft one drive. Especially
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because they are often in everybody's workflow
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already. They're using them for one reason
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or another, whether it be personal
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or school or work related. A lot
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of these are familiar tools and folks already
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are comfortable, can just send our content
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there and continue to work with it.
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And then of course google co uh classroom
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is linked right in our resources, but you can
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actually import content into other learning
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management systems like canvas and
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and school if you're in a school setting.
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Uh blackboard, you know, tends to be more
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academic, we can work with that. There are,
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you know, lots of these out there that that we can work
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with and pull the content into so you can get it into people's
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hands easily.
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so when questions should come up
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you can feel free to reach out to your Gale team.
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We've got lots of great on demand, Support
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for our resources out at support dot Gale
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dot com slash n. M. When
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you get to that page, it will prompt you to choose
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your library from the list and then we customize
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the support site to your library. So
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you will get support from wherever you have
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from gale. Uh which is really nice.
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We have over 100 databases, so this would just
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pair down to the ones that that you actually have
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in your collection.
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and I've just linked a bunch of um listed
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a bunch of the Gale and context elementary
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uh support we have but there's much more than
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this, we have training uh decks
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that you can use if you're gonna go out and maybe
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spread the word about this resource, we've got
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a presentation that you can just customize to suit
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your needs and you're off and running.
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We have tip sheets, we have recorded sessions
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and we've got lots of great free marketing materials
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that you can use um and share
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uh the or spread the word about these
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resources. So lots
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of good stuff out there, no need to recreate
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the wheel. We've got a lot of good stuff going there.
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but then of course when you want to talk to a person
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you can feel free to reach out to your team at gale. Again
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I'm your trainer, you'll get a follow up
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email from me, feel free to email me or give
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me a call any time. Uh Our tech
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support is available, they're at the 800
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number, you can also email them
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and then your account rep is always a good person to
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get to know uh at Yale. They can,
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you know, help advise you if you're looking to Bring
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any other resources
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but I would say probably the best person to get
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to know at Gale is your customer success manager.
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They just help you be successful with the resources.
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They can help you with uh marketing ideas,
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they can take your feedback on the resources.
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They are really just a huge
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font of knowledge and if they don't have the
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answer they know where to go to get it. So
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excellent resource in them
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so do not suffer in
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silence again. Do reach out.
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and with that I'll say thank you so much for tuning
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again, tuning in. Uh Again I apologize
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for the mix up. Uh that was completely my fault.
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I am not very time zone friendly
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so I apologize uh for starting the session
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an hour early and I'm being surprised when nobody was
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there. So
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my mistake. Uh but do keep
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an eye out once I've made that mistake, I don't tend to
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make it again. So um to keep
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an eye out for other sessions. We have a few
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more coming up this month to help support the start
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of the school season. Uh But then you can
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also just keep in mind our general calendar
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where we offer uh really interesting sessions
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uh all the time. So definitely
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keep an eye out for those and of course we record all
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of these as well so you can always tune in after. It's not
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something you're able to attend live. So
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Thanks everybody for tuning in. I'm gonna stick
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around and see if there are any questions. I'm happy to take
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those. But again, thanks so much for
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your time today and hopefully we'll see you on another
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session down the road. Thanks everybody