Duration: 30 Minutes
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Hello, folks, this is Stacy Knibloe, your gale trainer for New Mexico.
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Thanks for joining me for our support. Intermediate research skills with Gale In Context.
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Middle school. What we want to do with this session is, take a look at Gail In Context: Middle School.
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Of course, walk you through the resource. You can find the content you need and help build up those research skills.
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And our middle schoolers. we'll provide a quick overview of the resource.
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But really we're gonna spend most of our time in there finding content, sharing the tools that are there.
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And then speak to how you can share content from the resource as well put it right in students hands.
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And then, as always, we'll wrap up with gale support.
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So where can you go after today, when you've got questions about your gale resources?
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So do feel free to ask questions anytime in the chat or the Q.
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A happy to you know. point out different features as we go through.
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If you see something on the screen, you wanna know more about just let me know any time alrighty.
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Let's dive in so up first gale in context middle school is a premium resource.
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You're gonna find content there. that you would find on the shelf in your library.
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Reference content periodicals. We have creative works, primary sources, and then lots of multimedia to go along with that content as well, and just trying to advance my side.
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Here, There we go the way we built the database is really around curriculum standard.
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So we look at what's happening in state standards and national standards, even international standards.
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We close also listen to our librarians, our teachers, that we work with to provide a really well-rounded resource that you can go to for pretty much any topic area we are building.
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This resource continually, so as things get added to curriculum or curriculums, get our standards, you know.
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Change. we want to make sure you've got the resources here that you need to support the work in the library in the classroom.
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And then, lastly, we want all the tools that fit into your workflow available here, so integrating into Google and Microsoft being able to pull content out of the databases and use them elsewhere.
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And put in tools that kids are learning as part of their research skills.
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So highlights and notes and citation builder, and things like that.
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So. all of the Content, of course, is great, but we want some great tools there, too, to help.
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You have kind of the best of both worlds with something that's easy to use and supports our learners.
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But also has really, really excellent content. so we're gonna go ahead and dive in.
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We'll go ahead and take a look at the resource itself, and of course, available right through L.
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Portal right there on the home page Gale In Context: Middle School.
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I’ve already gone ahead and got myself into the resource though. So here we are on the homepage, and all of our resources start in with a search.
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So when students know what they're after as they often do they can just dive right in with something comfortable a search box, and they're off and running.
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However, I do want to spend a couple of minutes on the homepage here, because I think it is a great way to get familiar with what's here.
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So certainly for teachers, for librarians to know what's in the resource.
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But then I also like it for students who maybe have a choice in what they're working on, and this will give them the opportunity to browse around and find some good stuff.
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So we always at the top of the page. Our have a carousel 4 to 5 topics that change every month, and could have something to do with.
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You know something happening in the news right now, or something so historic.
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Something that's caught our editor's attention I can cycle through these and get engaged by those as well.
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And then we break down accounts of some of the content into these broad categories.
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You can see they line up pretty much along curriculum areas.
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And here we have cultures geography government and so on what's beneath all of these, if I go ahead and select one, are the topic pages that we've built for and this case cultures.
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So a topic page is gonna give you. For example, we go ahead and choose a day of the dead.
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I have an ulterior motive here we're producing some great project, and lesson type tools to go along with the end of our databases coming soon.
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But the topic pages are kind of a home page for a topic.
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We pull everything we have to the topic page, so they always start out with some sort of image.
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And then the beginning of one of our overviews or biography.
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Should this be a person you're looking at just to give you right now.
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Here's what day of the dead is so you get you know informed really quickly.
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And then, as you scroll down all of our other sources to go along with it around dance, so there's a summary here, and then the gray banner, and then, as I scroll down, I can see a few results from each
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of the different types of sources we have, and this is intentional.
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Our database is always break down the different types of sources that are available.
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So again, we want to reinforce what happens during research. right you're using lots of different types of sources.
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So we group these together. so the same way you might find them in the library.
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You know the newspapers are kept here. Reference books are kept here.
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That type of thing. So this, the breakdown of the content types is definitely intentional.
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And then, like you might find in the library when you're doing research. and you go to a shelf and you find that one book you were looking for, You might find related content.
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As well. So our related topics can lead you into other areas.
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You may want to research, and as you select he just moved to the new topic page.
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So all of those topic pages are listed under these browse topics on the homepage, so you're able to go in and get an idea of the content covered in the database.
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Now if something isn't listed on one of these pages it doesn't mean it's not covered in the database.
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It just means it doesn't have a topic page so that's, of course, always where the search is going to come in handy.
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You just put in your topic, and you're often running we pay attention to that, though, too.
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What are people searching for? Do we need a topic page for that So we're never done with our databases.
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You can always use them. you know, to look for something, and the current periodicals really keep up with things.
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So say, particularly in Science Health. Things like that can always be changing.
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Those periodicals are going to keep up And then, as we see something getting, you know, featured more and more search more and more.
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We will create topic pages, so you can see. Of course we created one for the Coronavirus recently created one for diabetes.
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We found that was getting searched a lot here so again. we're looking at a lot of different things curriculum.
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But also what's happening in our own resources. and then again, just a dedicated page for that topic.
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So in this case hi so almost like the you know, chapter or unit that you might be covering in the classroom is, we're gonna see a lot of you sleeve around.
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But again, a lot of folks are going to use the search box right We're kind of tuned into those.
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So I’m gonna go ahead and search for it stamped We have you know.
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Find out great overview here of the work it speaks to the authors.
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This has been a you know. Allow a lot of reading lists, and the overviews are always a good place to get started again.
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Kind of like pulling in encyclopedia off the shelf, so mimicking that research experience in the library, starting with an overview and then getting into more specific content.
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And the overviews are gonna give us a nice you know, brief bio for each of the authors.
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We have some quick, fast facts up here at the top and then reading into the work as well, looking at a plot summary, and you'll find a lot of these for you know different novels play short stories things like that
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in the databases. these kind of overviews.
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They give you a plot summary. Look at the characters themes in the work.
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Things like that. so really good place to get started with content.
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And if this is something I wanted to put in front of students, you know. Maybe as we start reading the book, or maybe after just after we finished I you know, maybe these critical thinking questions or something.
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I want them to think about. We have a tool to let you easily put it in front of students.
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We actually have a futures. The first one we'll talk about is get link.
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This a persistent URL or pearl So that URL that it gives me is gonna work every time to bring me back to the same place which isn't that unique, of course, a lot of URLs do that But with this
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you kind of jump over finding the database searching, finding the right article here. you just land right where you want, and it jumps over
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Authentication, too. Usually folks just land right on this article with having to put in a password or a library card number or anything.
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You just land right in the resource, and it's a nice shortcut, and because it's a URL, you can pretty much take it anywhere it can go into, you know certainly a website, and email a tweet you know
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wherever a URL would normally go and you'll see these more often than that I’ve got it here in the article.
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But if I go back out to the results or the topic page here, you know, have other good stuff, more deeper biographies for each of the authors, some overviews on the different themes in the work.
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Some magazine articles again. get link there at the top of the page.
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I can put my students right in front of this content or my young readers book Discussion Group.
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If I’m saying at the public library again, these URLs are going to work for everybody.
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So really handy feature. So you also we go ahead and go back.
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I’m gonna grab one of the highlights I wanted to share here.
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We can see the big curriculum areas right Us.
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History, world history, literature, and so on. the social issues. I like to point out, because this is opt in a handy place.
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If you're working with students, I say maybe they have to write a persuasive paper, these are a lot of topics generally with a lot of different opinions. and this is a safe place to send kids to do research into these different
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areas. And what I like about starting with the topic page, say, for example, sports right, huge topic.
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What kind of sports are we talking about issues within sports? Are we talking about?
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You get a good overview. so students can kind of if they're approaching a topic as is Monolith.
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They can then use the portal to kind of narrow down and see.
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Well, what are we talking about? You know, in reference? What are some ways I could maybe narrow this down, or I can actually put together content for them.
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If I want to kind of get them started we can we're gonna look how to do that, too.
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So the portals give you everything, and if I want to narrow down within this portal there is a search within results tool.
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So let's say maybe we want to focus we've read a few articles and looked around.
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And maybe we, wanna you know, 0 in on a more specific subject something like
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And college athletes. So and this is actually sorry.
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Forgive my pause There! this is something I actually help my nephew with in in middle school last year.
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Yeah, do you do some persuasive writing and I was interested in this topic?
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And what's nice is we know just from our search really the relevant sort is gonna help us out.
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But we were searching within that sports portal so we're getting targeted content.
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Here and again get Link is gonna be a handy tool.
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So if I know this is maybe something a teacher's gonna be discussing in class, I can use.
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Get Link and take them right to this results list. You could also go kind of put together sets of content for people, whether it be students or teachers.
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As I go into each article I could use. Get link for this.
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Let me talk about another tool that's really become very popular. So within our databases you can always pull the content out and kind of keep track of it.
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Keep track of your research. So, as a student, I might want to gather it into a folder in Google drive. I have that option here.
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I could also use Microsoft one drive. We can email it to ourselves.
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We can download, we can print, and all of these items are also up above in the toolbar that follows us.
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So should I move off the top of the page here. I still have sent you, so I can put together a packet of information.
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Or, again, if this is my own research, send it all over to Google Drive.
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So let me do that when you choose. send you. you just choose.
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Do we want to send Google driver one driver? We send it to email.
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And if this is the first time you're doing it will prompt and ask you just to give us permission to send this document to your Google drive, and then it's there, and the blink of an eye I’m gonna send a
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few more of those, so we can see a better example of this.
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So let me grab in a couple more, articles also again. Just send to send over to Google drive and maybe go grab some newspaper articles and send those over Hi and what they'll do is go to a folder named
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after the database you're using so we're in Gail and context, Middle School.
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They're all going to this folder which gets created automatically.
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I didn't have to create that ahead of time and there are those articles.
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Now you can see I’ve got a few other things here from previous sessions.
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Once the articles are here, their mind to do with what I like.
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So I could actually select these 3, and maybe send them over to a folder.
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And I’ll just create here on my main drive a new one
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Okay, move. those items there go grab them and this is Oops where there is again mine to do with what I like.
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If I’m working on this project with others I can use the share feature and share this folder, I can share it with my teacher.
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I can share it with my librarian, Whoever you know, I want again all the power here that you would normally have.
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Hi, and with the documents look like if we go ahead and jump into one, is really we've just turned them into a document.
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Technically it's a word document, because we were when we were sending it over on Google Doc Format.
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It did some really weird formatting. So we technically these are word documents.
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But well actually let me don't check you up silver documents.
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But of course I can save them if I go to file.
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Save it as a Google doc, and be fine but it's all here.
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I can work with this content. I can make comments It even brought over my citation, which we'll talk a little bit more about a minute, but it brought over everything.
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If this article had any images, those would be here, too, and I can keep track of all my research in one place.
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Alright. The other neat thing you can do, let me jump to another article is Mark up the content.
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I mentioned the highlights and notes to it briefly before.
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So if this were on paper, I’d be going through it with a highlighter marker making notes in the margins, too, we have the ability to actually do that in the resource, if I click and drag like I’m gonna
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copy on text. It pops up the highlights and notes bar, and I can use whatever highlighter color I like here meeting.
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Make a note to myself. wanna Use this quote and my paper save.
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And when I send this over to Google, drive again, it's good to go to my Gale In Context middle school folder, is that where we always send things first?
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So let me just grab it there. It brings over your highlights and notes It's gonna have the text highlighted using the color that I used there.
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We can see it, and then at the bottom it reprints your highlighted text and gives your notes.
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Now you do have to do that, because Gale databases don't require end Users to kind of sign in and identify themselves.
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Privacy is important, especially when you're working with people under 18. So our databases let you in because you are, you know, have access to all the El Portal resources.
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You know it doesn't ask for anything more than that just to make sure that you have access to the databases.
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So it doesn't really know who I am when I’m creating these highlights and notes, and when we leave the database.
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If I close out my browser, it clears out everything I did during my session.
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It clears out any highlights and notes it keeps, or it gets rid of mine.
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Search history. it's building in the background so you really do need to take these highlights and notes with you before you go.
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It's again. Google drive. We could print we could download. all of those are gonna bring my article and my highlights and notes. So you just use one of those retrieval options.
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We call them so. let me just pause here. check on the chat in the Q.
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A from pitching so very handy feature. again.
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Great way for students to keep track of what they're researching So let's go ahead and look at a few more items here.
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Oh, actually, you know what? Well, We'll do that with our next search.
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We want to talk about site tool so alright let's Say, we've got, I believe, in eighth grade.
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It looked like in New Mexico you're setting the American revolution.
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And when you're using the search you'll notice of course we get a search assist which I’m a terrible speller.
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So it's a lifesaver for me but it also kind of gives you a little flu.
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If you see a term suggested in bold like I’ve got for American Revolution here, we know we're gonna end up on a portal page which is handy.
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So we've got of course, a great portal dedicated to the American Revolution.
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Lots of good stuff here, and one of the pieces I really love in the Middle School database is our primary sources.
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These play such a huge role in research you know having kids kind of define the difference between primary and secondary sources starts, you know, pretty early, making them part of the research process is always important.
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And I think they're just often fascinating to you know, putting yourself in that time in history and with the database, you know.
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Of course we're gonna have the big documents you know the Declaration of Independence.
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The Constitution, the Gettysburg address and those are, you know, not too hard to find online.
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So I always like to highlight the things that aren't as easily found.
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But the even with those big documents I do think it's worthwhile to take a look at our version, because if we jump into one of these entries here, there's always a commentary to go along with the text of the
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primary documents. you get a context for it you get this setting.
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You're not just dropped into this primary source and then trying to figure out from there why it's important who's involved?
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So the commentary, I think, is really valuable. No, we have over a 100 primary sources for this topic, and if we look over on the right under filter, your results there are ways to mirror this down the subjects tool is really handy So This could
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help isolate, maybe, you know. Look at some of the standards you need to meet and pull different topics into this.
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But the one I really like again, if I’m seeking out more personal type content things that are made a little harder to find online easily.
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We have this tool that we can use to find certain types of documents.
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So diary and entries memoirs. We have personal accounts, Diary.
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And then just apply my limits here and there. we go so it's a great way to narrow your hits down, but also just you know.
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Seek out content. So if we go ahead and jump in, say this entry: life at Valley Forge sounds like it could be intriguing.
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So this is apps absolutely. this is me. Folks might tipping over a 10 year.
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This is the diary from a surgeon who was serving it Valley Forge, and we've got some journal entries covering the most difficult period of the Revolutionary War, and you know, actual quotes.
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You know, hearing what I was like it's you know again.
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These personal accounts a diary entries, give you know a kind of different look at history.
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It's not that you know long view that we have of it. This is more up, close and personal, for what things are really like for people.
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So again, Maybe I wanna put this in front of my students, and we talked about.
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Get link. We could use, you know, sending something to Google drive and sharing it from there.
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We also, though, if you are a Google school, have the ability to take advantage of, are shared a Google classroom up here at the top of page.
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This is an easy way to kind of incorporate content into your workflow.
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So share a classroom is just gonna start down the path of sharing to your classroom stream, and you've got the
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I just go ahead and use my grade 11 us history class here that I’ve got the same workflow that you have when you're creating items from your classroom stream, and forgive my very brief instructions
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here. But what we've done is really just embed that get Link URL to the assignment, and it then just floats to your classroom stream.
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Students will see it I’m little impatient so I’m gonna go right to the instructions, and we'll have Oh, give it a second here, that link to show up right from there.
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They can click. So we can integrate into other learning management systems.
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Google classroom is the only one that we have embedded right here in the database.
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But if you have Schoology or Canvas, or something like that, we can easily integrate into those resources as well.
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Let me go ahead and close some of these tabs here. So lots of great content here, I would encourage you to just kind of have a look around and see what's here.
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And how it can suit your students, and of course, a great tool to kind of get them started with research, showing them. You know the difference between the database and a Google, or you know, Bing search things like that
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I wanted to just quickly here before we wrap up. to also mention if I go back out to our results here, I’m actually going all the way back out to the for the American. Revolution. if we go ahead and jump into the reference content just
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Briefly, I wanted to point out, You know, middle school, and just in general you can have a really wide reading level range with your students, and we have 2 tools to kind of help you out.
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Here the lifestyle is shown for each article, and we include our content level.
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These little colored boxes is more visual queues.
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So if I over here on the right, under our filter tools, if I filter by content level, it will actually show you the Lexile scores that go along with each of them.
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So level. 3 is generally going to be middle school you'll have a lot of those in this database. but you'll also see maybe if we're kind of stretching a bit with our students jumping up into level 5 maybe more
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high school level. Or, of course, if you need to, dropping down a little, maybe into level 2, you can always use the filter to isolate to reading levels.
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We also have that capability, though in advance. so you can kind of stop.
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With that I go ahead and move to advanced search. This is where you are, the boss.
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You know the search up above and the banner just lets you take a search term and you're off and running.
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But with advanced search you can put a lot of parameters around your search before you send it out, so you can choose content types.
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If I know I need news articles and primary sources.
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I can do that document. types I can start with those publication title I’m.
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Looking for something from the Washington Post Content level and let sales Scores are here as well, so I can use the content levels, which are pretty broad.
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But if you know you need something more specific, we've got a few ranges here for Lexile’s, you can also just enter in your own score and start from there.
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So say I’m looking for level 3 and maybe even level 2 content for the revolution.
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I can tie that together and isolate my results.
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So great way to find content targeted for the reading levels. you need and be able to provide some differentiated learning as needed.
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All right, so let's go ahead. and start wrapping up here. I’m gonna bring us back to the PowerPoint and just wanted to reiterate the ways.
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You can push content out to your users. so get Link again.
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Pretty universal to URL. It can go anywhere, send to push this right into the cloud and work with it from there. and then, of course, pull content into Google classroom or other learning management systems.
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You want to integrate into something like Canvas or schoology can reach out to your Kl. team, and we can get that ball rolling for you which leads me to gale support.
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So we've got a support site we've customized for our New Mexico resources.
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If you visit the site, it will prompt you to choose your institution from a list, and then the site just customizes right to your institution.
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We have I apologize I guess I don't have any middle school on the side.
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But trust me, we absolutely have them. Lesson plan, scavenger, Hans, tutorials, all of that.
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The marketing materials tied to middle school as well.
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So lots of good stuff on that page and then of course when you want to talk to a person you can reach out to us directly again.
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I’m your trainer you'll get a email follow up for me.
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From this session tomorrow, and you can go further in response to that.
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Or of course you can reach out to customer success they're a great team Again, if you wanted to integrate into a learning management system. they can help you with that, as the tech support.
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Your rep is always a good person to get to go to, to get to know at Yale.
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Pardon me so North no started to help for you to reach out to, and of course you've got great support at the State Library, too.
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So definitely let us know what you we can do for you with that I’ll say thank you, and keeping an eye on our webinar calendars to look for more sessions we are happy to you know take feedback on what you'd
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like to see on those calendars as well. so definitely.
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Let us know when you leave the webinar today. a survey will pop up.
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We'd love to hear your feedback so thanks folks so much for tuning in.
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I’m, gonna stick around and see if there are any more questions. but if you're all set, feel free to go ahead and sign up, and we'll catch you on another session down the road.
Hello, folks, this is Stacy Knibloe, your gale trainer for New Mexico.
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Thanks for joining me for our support. Intermediate research skills with Gale In Context.
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Middle school. What we want to do with this session is, take a look at Gail In Context: Middle School.
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Of course, walk you through the resource. You can find the content you need and help build up those research skills.
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And our middle schoolers. we'll provide a quick overview of the resource.
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But really we're gonna spend most of our time in there finding content, sharing the tools that are there.
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And then speak to how you can share content from the resource as well put it right in students hands.
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And then, as always, we'll wrap up with gale support.
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So where can you go after today, when you've got questions about your gale resources?
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So do feel free to ask questions anytime in the chat or the Q.
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A happy to you know. point out different features as we go through.
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If you see something on the screen, you wanna know more about just let me know any time alrighty.
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Let's dive in so up first gale in context middle school is a premium resource.
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You're gonna find content there. that you would find on the shelf in your library.
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Reference content periodicals. We have creative works, primary sources, and then lots of multimedia to go along with that content as well, and just trying to advance my side.
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Here, There we go the way we built the database is really around curriculum standard.
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So we look at what's happening in state standards and national standards, even international standards.
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We close also listen to our librarians, our teachers, that we work with to provide a really well-rounded resource that you can go to for pretty much any topic area we are building.
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This resource continually, so as things get added to curriculum or curriculums, get our standards, you know.
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Change. we want to make sure you've got the resources here that you need to support the work in the library in the classroom.
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And then, lastly, we want all the tools that fit into your workflow available here, so integrating into Google and Microsoft being able to pull content out of the databases and use them elsewhere.
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And put in tools that kids are learning as part of their research skills.
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So highlights and notes and citation builder, and things like that.
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So. all of the Content, of course, is great, but we want some great tools there, too, to help.
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You have kind of the best of both worlds with something that's easy to use and supports our learners.
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But also has really, really excellent content. so we're gonna go ahead and dive in.
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We'll go ahead and take a look at the resource itself, and of course, available right through L.
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Portal right there on the home page Gale In Context: Middle School.
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I’ve already gone ahead and got myself into the resource though. So here we are on the homepage, and all of our resources start in with a search.
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So when students know what they're after as they often do they can just dive right in with something comfortable a search box, and they're off and running.
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However, I do want to spend a couple of minutes on the homepage here, because I think it is a great way to get familiar with what's here.
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So certainly for teachers, for librarians to know what's in the resource.
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But then I also like it for students who maybe have a choice in what they're working on, and this will give them the opportunity to browse around and find some good stuff.
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So we always at the top of the page. Our have a carousel 4 to 5 topics that change every month, and could have something to do with.
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You know something happening in the news right now, or something so historic.
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Something that's caught our editor's attention I can cycle through these and get engaged by those as well.
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And then we break down accounts of some of the content into these broad categories.
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You can see they line up pretty much along curriculum areas.
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And here we have cultures geography government and so on what's beneath all of these, if I go ahead and select one, are the topic pages that we've built for and this case cultures.
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So a topic page is gonna give you. For example, we go ahead and choose a day of the dead.
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I have an ulterior motive here we're producing some great project, and lesson type tools to go along with the end of our databases coming soon.
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But the topic pages are kind of a home page for a topic.
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We pull everything we have to the topic page, so they always start out with some sort of image.
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And then the beginning of one of our overviews or biography.
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Should this be a person you're looking at just to give you right now.
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Here's what day of the dead is so you get you know informed really quickly.
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And then, as you scroll down all of our other sources to go along with it around dance, so there's a summary here, and then the gray banner, and then, as I scroll down, I can see a few results from each
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of the different types of sources we have, and this is intentional.
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Our database is always break down the different types of sources that are available.
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So again, we want to reinforce what happens during research. right you're using lots of different types of sources.
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So we group these together. so the same way you might find them in the library.
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You know the newspapers are kept here. Reference books are kept here.
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That type of thing. So this, the breakdown of the content types is definitely intentional.
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And then, like you might find in the library when you're doing research. and you go to a shelf and you find that one book you were looking for, You might find related content.
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As well. So our related topics can lead you into other areas.
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You may want to research, and as you select he just moved to the new topic page.
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So all of those topic pages are listed under these browse topics on the homepage, so you're able to go in and get an idea of the content covered in the database.
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Now if something isn't listed on one of these pages it doesn't mean it's not covered in the database.
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It just means it doesn't have a topic page so that's, of course, always where the search is going to come in handy.
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You just put in your topic, and you're often running we pay attention to that, though, too.
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What are people searching for? Do we need a topic page for that So we're never done with our databases.
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You can always use them. you know, to look for something, and the current periodicals really keep up with things.
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So say, particularly in Science Health. Things like that can always be changing.
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Those periodicals are going to keep up And then, as we see something getting, you know, featured more and more search more and more.
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We will create topic pages, so you can see. Of course we created one for the Coronavirus recently created one for diabetes.
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We found that was getting searched a lot here so again. we're looking at a lot of different things curriculum.
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But also what's happening in our own resources. and then again, just a dedicated page for that topic.
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So in this case hi so almost like the you know, chapter or unit that you might be covering in the classroom is, we're gonna see a lot of you sleeve around.
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But again, a lot of folks are going to use the search box right We're kind of tuned into those.
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So I’m gonna go ahead and search for it stamped We have you know.
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Find out great overview here of the work it speaks to the authors.
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This has been a you know. Allow a lot of reading lists, and the overviews are always a good place to get started again.
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Kind of like pulling in encyclopedia off the shelf, so mimicking that research experience in the library, starting with an overview and then getting into more specific content.
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And the overviews are gonna give us a nice you know, brief bio for each of the authors.
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We have some quick, fast facts up here at the top and then reading into the work as well, looking at a plot summary, and you'll find a lot of these for you know different novels play short stories things like that
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in the databases. these kind of overviews.
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They give you a plot summary. Look at the characters themes in the work.
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Things like that. so really good place to get started with content.
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And if this is something I wanted to put in front of students, you know. Maybe as we start reading the book, or maybe after just after we finished I you know, maybe these critical thinking questions or something.
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I want them to think about. We have a tool to let you easily put it in front of students.
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We actually have a futures. The first one we'll talk about is get link.
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This a persistent URL or pearl So that URL that it gives me is gonna work every time to bring me back to the same place which isn't that unique, of course, a lot of URLs do that But with this
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you kind of jump over finding the database searching, finding the right article here. you just land right where you want, and it jumps over
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Authentication, too. Usually folks just land right on this article with having to put in a password or a library card number or anything.
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You just land right in the resource, and it's a nice shortcut, and because it's a URL, you can pretty much take it anywhere it can go into, you know certainly a website, and email a tweet you know
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wherever a URL would normally go and you'll see these more often than that I’ve got it here in the article.
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But if I go back out to the results or the topic page here, you know, have other good stuff, more deeper biographies for each of the authors, some overviews on the different themes in the work.
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Some magazine articles again. get link there at the top of the page.
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I can put my students right in front of this content or my young readers book Discussion Group.
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If I’m saying at the public library again, these URLs are going to work for everybody.
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So really handy feature. So you also we go ahead and go back.
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I’m gonna grab one of the highlights I wanted to share here.
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We can see the big curriculum areas right Us.
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History, world history, literature, and so on. the social issues. I like to point out, because this is opt in a handy place.
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If you're working with students, I say maybe they have to write a persuasive paper, these are a lot of topics generally with a lot of different opinions. and this is a safe place to send kids to do research into these different
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areas. And what I like about starting with the topic page, say, for example, sports right, huge topic.
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What kind of sports are we talking about issues within sports? Are we talking about?
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You get a good overview. so students can kind of if they're approaching a topic as is Monolith.
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They can then use the portal to kind of narrow down and see.
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Well, what are we talking about? You know, in reference? What are some ways I could maybe narrow this down, or I can actually put together content for them.
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If I want to kind of get them started we can we're gonna look how to do that, too.
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So the portals give you everything, and if I want to narrow down within this portal there is a search within results tool.
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So let's say maybe we want to focus we've read a few articles and looked around.
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And maybe we, wanna you know, 0 in on a more specific subject something like
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And college athletes. So and this is actually sorry.
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Forgive my pause There! this is something I actually help my nephew with in in middle school last year.
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Yeah, do you do some persuasive writing and I was interested in this topic?
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And what's nice is we know just from our search really the relevant sort is gonna help us out.
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But we were searching within that sports portal so we're getting targeted content.
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Here and again get Link is gonna be a handy tool.
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So if I know this is maybe something a teacher's gonna be discussing in class, I can use.
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Get Link and take them right to this results list. You could also go kind of put together sets of content for people, whether it be students or teachers.
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As I go into each article I could use. Get link for this.
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Let me talk about another tool that's really become very popular. So within our databases you can always pull the content out and kind of keep track of it.
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Keep track of your research. So, as a student, I might want to gather it into a folder in Google drive. I have that option here.
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I could also use Microsoft one drive. We can email it to ourselves.
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We can download, we can print, and all of these items are also up above in the toolbar that follows us.
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So should I move off the top of the page here. I still have sent you, so I can put together a packet of information.
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Or, again, if this is my own research, send it all over to Google Drive.
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So let me do that when you choose. send you. you just choose.
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Do we want to send Google driver one driver? We send it to email.
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And if this is the first time you're doing it will prompt and ask you just to give us permission to send this document to your Google drive, and then it's there, and the blink of an eye I’m gonna send a
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few more of those, so we can see a better example of this.
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So let me grab in a couple more, articles also again. Just send to send over to Google drive and maybe go grab some newspaper articles and send those over Hi and what they'll do is go to a folder named
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after the database you're using so we're in Gail and context, Middle School.
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They're all going to this folder which gets created automatically.
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I didn't have to create that ahead of time and there are those articles.
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Now you can see I’ve got a few other things here from previous sessions.
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Once the articles are here, their mind to do with what I like.
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So I could actually select these 3, and maybe send them over to a folder.
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And I’ll just create here on my main drive a new one
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Okay, move. those items there go grab them and this is Oops where there is again mine to do with what I like.
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If I’m working on this project with others I can use the share feature and share this folder, I can share it with my teacher.
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I can share it with my librarian, Whoever you know, I want again all the power here that you would normally have.
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Hi, and with the documents look like if we go ahead and jump into one, is really we've just turned them into a document.
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Technically it's a word document, because we were when we were sending it over on Google Doc Format.
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It did some really weird formatting. So we technically these are word documents.
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But well actually let me don't check you up silver documents.
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But of course I can save them if I go to file.
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Save it as a Google doc, and be fine but it's all here.
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I can work with this content. I can make comments It even brought over my citation, which we'll talk a little bit more about a minute, but it brought over everything.
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If this article had any images, those would be here, too, and I can keep track of all my research in one place.
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Alright. The other neat thing you can do, let me jump to another article is Mark up the content.
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I mentioned the highlights and notes to it briefly before.
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So if this were on paper, I’d be going through it with a highlighter marker making notes in the margins, too, we have the ability to actually do that in the resource, if I click and drag like I’m gonna
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copy on text. It pops up the highlights and notes bar, and I can use whatever highlighter color I like here meeting.
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Make a note to myself. wanna Use this quote and my paper save.
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And when I send this over to Google, drive again, it's good to go to my Gale In Context middle school folder, is that where we always send things first?
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So let me just grab it there. It brings over your highlights and notes It's gonna have the text highlighted using the color that I used there.
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We can see it, and then at the bottom it reprints your highlighted text and gives your notes.
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Now you do have to do that, because Gale databases don't require end Users to kind of sign in and identify themselves.
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Privacy is important, especially when you're working with people under 18. So our databases let you in because you are, you know, have access to all the El Portal resources.
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You know it doesn't ask for anything more than that just to make sure that you have access to the databases.
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So it doesn't really know who I am when I’m creating these highlights and notes, and when we leave the database.
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If I close out my browser, it clears out everything I did during my session.
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It clears out any highlights and notes it keeps, or it gets rid of mine.
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Search history. it's building in the background so you really do need to take these highlights and notes with you before you go.
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It's again. Google drive. We could print we could download. all of those are gonna bring my article and my highlights and notes. So you just use one of those retrieval options.
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We call them so. let me just pause here. check on the chat in the Q.
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A from pitching so very handy feature. again.
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Great way for students to keep track of what they're researching So let's go ahead and look at a few more items here.
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Oh, actually, you know what? Well, We'll do that with our next search.
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We want to talk about site tool so alright let's Say, we've got, I believe, in eighth grade.
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It looked like in New Mexico you're setting the American revolution.
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And when you're using the search you'll notice of course we get a search assist which I’m a terrible speller.
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So it's a lifesaver for me but it also kind of gives you a little flu.
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If you see a term suggested in bold like I’ve got for American Revolution here, we know we're gonna end up on a portal page which is handy.
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So we've got of course, a great portal dedicated to the American Revolution.
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Lots of good stuff here, and one of the pieces I really love in the Middle School database is our primary sources.
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These play such a huge role in research you know having kids kind of define the difference between primary and secondary sources starts, you know, pretty early, making them part of the research process is always important.
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And I think they're just often fascinating to you know, putting yourself in that time in history and with the database, you know.
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Of course we're gonna have the big documents you know the Declaration of Independence.
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The Constitution, the Gettysburg address and those are, you know, not too hard to find online.
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So I always like to highlight the things that aren't as easily found.
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But the even with those big documents I do think it's worthwhile to take a look at our version, because if we jump into one of these entries here, there's always a commentary to go along with the text of the
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primary documents. you get a context for it you get this setting.
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You're not just dropped into this primary source and then trying to figure out from there why it's important who's involved?
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So the commentary, I think, is really valuable. No, we have over a 100 primary sources for this topic, and if we look over on the right under filter, your results there are ways to mirror this down the subjects tool is really handy So This could
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help isolate, maybe, you know. Look at some of the standards you need to meet and pull different topics into this.
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But the one I really like again, if I’m seeking out more personal type content things that are made a little harder to find online easily.
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We have this tool that we can use to find certain types of documents.
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So diary and entries memoirs. We have personal accounts, Diary.
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And then just apply my limits here and there. we go so it's a great way to narrow your hits down, but also just you know.
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Seek out content. So if we go ahead and jump in, say this entry: life at Valley Forge sounds like it could be intriguing.
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So this is apps absolutely. this is me. Folks might tipping over a 10 year.
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This is the diary from a surgeon who was serving it Valley Forge, and we've got some journal entries covering the most difficult period of the Revolutionary War, and you know, actual quotes.
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You know, hearing what I was like it's you know again.
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These personal accounts a diary entries, give you know a kind of different look at history.
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It's not that you know long view that we have of it. This is more up, close and personal, for what things are really like for people.
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So again, Maybe I wanna put this in front of my students, and we talked about.
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Get link. We could use, you know, sending something to Google drive and sharing it from there.
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We also, though, if you are a Google school, have the ability to take advantage of, are shared a Google classroom up here at the top of page.
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This is an easy way to kind of incorporate content into your workflow.
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So share a classroom is just gonna start down the path of sharing to your classroom stream, and you've got the
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I just go ahead and use my grade 11 us history class here that I’ve got the same workflow that you have when you're creating items from your classroom stream, and forgive my very brief instructions
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here. But what we've done is really just embed that get Link URL to the assignment, and it then just floats to your classroom stream.
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Students will see it I’m little impatient so I’m gonna go right to the instructions, and we'll have Oh, give it a second here, that link to show up right from there.
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They can click. So we can integrate into other learning management systems.
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Google classroom is the only one that we have embedded right here in the database.
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But if you have Schoology or Canvas, or something like that, we can easily integrate into those resources as well.
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Let me go ahead and close some of these tabs here. So lots of great content here, I would encourage you to just kind of have a look around and see what's here.
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And how it can suit your students, and of course, a great tool to kind of get them started with research, showing them. You know the difference between the database and a Google, or you know, Bing search things like that
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I wanted to just quickly here before we wrap up. to also mention if I go back out to our results here, I’m actually going all the way back out to the for the American. Revolution. if we go ahead and jump into the reference content just
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Briefly, I wanted to point out, You know, middle school, and just in general you can have a really wide reading level range with your students, and we have 2 tools to kind of help you out.
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Here the lifestyle is shown for each article, and we include our content level.
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These little colored boxes is more visual queues.
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So if I over here on the right, under our filter tools, if I filter by content level, it will actually show you the Lexile scores that go along with each of them.
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So level. 3 is generally going to be middle school you'll have a lot of those in this database. but you'll also see maybe if we're kind of stretching a bit with our students jumping up into level 5 maybe more
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high school level. Or, of course, if you need to, dropping down a little, maybe into level 2, you can always use the filter to isolate to reading levels.
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We also have that capability, though in advance. so you can kind of stop.
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With that I go ahead and move to advanced search. This is where you are, the boss.
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You know the search up above and the banner just lets you take a search term and you're off and running.
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But with advanced search you can put a lot of parameters around your search before you send it out, so you can choose content types.
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If I know I need news articles and primary sources.
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I can do that document. types I can start with those publication title I’m.
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Looking for something from the Washington Post Content level and let sales Scores are here as well, so I can use the content levels, which are pretty broad.
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But if you know you need something more specific, we've got a few ranges here for Lexile’s, you can also just enter in your own score and start from there.
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So say I’m looking for level 3 and maybe even level 2 content for the revolution.
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I can tie that together and isolate my results.
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So great way to find content targeted for the reading levels. you need and be able to provide some differentiated learning as needed.
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All right, so let's go ahead. and start wrapping up here. I’m gonna bring us back to the PowerPoint and just wanted to reiterate the ways.
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You can push content out to your users. so get Link again.
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Pretty universal to URL. It can go anywhere, send to push this right into the cloud and work with it from there. and then, of course, pull content into Google classroom or other learning management systems.
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You want to integrate into something like Canvas or schoology can reach out to your Kl. team, and we can get that ball rolling for you which leads me to gale support.
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So we've got a support site we've customized for our New Mexico resources.
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If you visit the site, it will prompt you to choose your institution from a list, and then the site just customizes right to your institution.
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We have I apologize I guess I don't have any middle school on the side.
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But trust me, we absolutely have them. Lesson plan, scavenger, Hans, tutorials, all of that.
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The marketing materials tied to middle school as well.
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So lots of good stuff on that page and then of course when you want to talk to a person you can reach out to us directly again.
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I’m your trainer you'll get a email follow up for me.
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From this session tomorrow, and you can go further in response to that.
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Or of course you can reach out to customer success they're a great team Again, if you wanted to integrate into a learning management system. they can help you with that, as the tech support.
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Your rep is always a good person to get to go to, to get to know at Yale.
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Pardon me so North no started to help for you to reach out to, and of course you've got great support at the State Library, too.
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So definitely let us know what you we can do for you with that I’ll say thank you, and keeping an eye on our webinar calendars to look for more sessions we are happy to you know take feedback on what you'd
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like to see on those calendars as well. so definitely.
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Let us know when you leave the webinar today. a survey will pop up.
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We'd love to hear your feedback so thanks folks so much for tuning in.
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I’m, gonna stick around and see if there are any more questions. but if you're all set, feel free to go ahead and sign up, and we'll catch you on another session down the road.