Duration: 30 Minutes
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Stacey Knibloe: Good afternoon and welcome everyone. I'm Stacey Knibloe, your Gale trainer, for NOVELny. Thanks for joining me for our supporting elementary students throughout the school year with Gale NOVELny resources.
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Stacey Knibloe: I'm going to share my contact info again at the end. Just wanted to say hello up here, upfront and come off video cause I'm going to turn that off for the rest of the session. Just so it doesn't take up extra bandwidth for everybody. But also later on, when folks are viewing the recording that that video, and it takes the place of some of the areas of the screen, and I don't want to block anything for folks who are tuning in later. So
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Stacey Knibloe: Hello! And I may pop back later when we're wrapping up
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Stacey Knibloe: so welcome to our session. I've got a agenda for us, but I always like to let you know it's your session, so feel free to share in the chat. And the QA. What you really want to see.
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Stacey Knibloe: I certainly have our 30 min of content to share with you, but I want to make sure you're getting what you need out of this training. So do make liberal use of that chat. And QA. I'm going to keep my eye on it throughout the session. So if you don't think of anything now and then, you see something on the screen later that sparks something, feel free to use that at any point. So my idea, though, is, we will give you a good look at what gallon context
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Stacey Knibloe: elementary is, share some best practices. Point out some tools. I think you'll find most useful when working with
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Stacey Knibloe: students. And you know our younger kids.
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Stacey Knibloe: And then I want to walk through all the tools that are available through our support site to kind of get kids involved in the resource to kind of maybe kick off research, or, you know, give you a little activity. That might be something you could do in the library with the kids. So
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Stacey Knibloe: then we will wrap up with what we always do, how you can get in touch with us after today. So if you've got questions, things come to you later. We want you to know about your Gale support team. So we'll share that info. You'll also receive an email around this time tomorrow that has links to things. I talked about a link to the recording. Of course, all of our contact. Info you'll receive an attendance certificate as well for attending live. So
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Stacey Knibloe: all of those should come around this time tomorrow, and you can then, of course, always reach out with that info when you're looking for more help from your Gale team. So
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Stacey Knibloe: let's go ahead and dive in. So just a little reminder. Gale is thrilled to be part of the NOVELny program, and we were especially thrilled this summer to be able to make some additions to the content that's available there. So this slide is just a little reminder, maybe a refresher of all the resources that come to you through the NOVELny program and those with the little star, the new ones that came on this summer started officially, July one, although we installed
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Stacey Knibloe: to give libraries a head start on getting access set up. So you all have access to everything. This session, though we are going to focus on Gale in context, elementary, which is.
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Stacey Knibloe: you know, perfect, fit for our K 5 age kids, but also others. You know, this is a database where we do have you know, middle schoolers, maybe that need to dip down into these reading levels. You know, students that maybe struggle with English. The you know, the content here is at a lower reading level. So that's 1 of the huge benefits I think, of novel, New York, having all of its content available to everyone, is, you can kind of go up and down in these resources as you need to.
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Stacey Knibloe: So with Gale In conducts elementary, though, as we build it, we are thinking of that. K. 5 learner. So we're looking at. What's being studied in K 5 classrooms? What are our education standards in various states?
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Stacey Knibloe: What are national standards, and what are we hearing from our libraries and our teachers? What do they want to see in these resources. So we're very responsive. We're keeping an eye on what's happening in education. So I can give you a couple of examples of what we've done with Gale In context over the last couple of years in response to different standards. You know, we've we're seeing a lot of states implementing financial literacy standards, or, you know, making it a focus. So we've beefed up our content there. We've seen the same for
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Stacey Knibloe: are currently working on some standards for geography and things like that. So these resources are never done right? We're always adding new content and updating as needed. So we also know it's going to be a spot where kids are just kind of starting their information literacy journeys, their media literacy journeys, their research skills.
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Stacey Knibloe: So we want a database that helps suit, you know that learner. And they're younger, right? So we've got a very visual interface. It's colorful. It's icon driven lots of pictures, you know, bigger fonts, things like that. So it's a
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Stacey Knibloe: fun place to kind of get them involved in research and learning. And we're going to share again some best practices for using it. So let's go ahead and dive in, and we'll just do a couple
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Stacey Knibloe: You know examples of how you might use it again, share some best practices, and then, we'll
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Stacey Knibloe: pop out and actually share something you could do in the library with the students, or maybe something that could happen in the classroom.
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Stacey Knibloe: So let me go ahead and get out to the resource itself here. So we have
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Stacey Knibloe: a homepage, and most of our resources that are going to encourage discovery. The Gale and context, database is are always going to offer you a search. So you can dive right in. Kids come in. They know they're doing their animal report on dolphins. They can dive right in with a search.
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Stacey Knibloe: but often we're kind of getting their feet wet with research, right? So maybe they're looking around a little bit, or especially like this for library staff and for teachers. You can kind of browse around from the homepage. We've got topics
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Stacey Knibloe: tool here that'll let us drill down into different areas of the databases. We've got a news
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Stacey Knibloe: tab so we can see some current newspaper articles or magazines. We've got some pictures to browse around. We've been doing a lot of infographics. So these have kind of been leading our pictures browse here for a while, so we can take a look.
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Stacey Knibloe: We've got an infographic here Arctic fox in Arctic fox. Interesting facts, and I love these again for inner libraries in our classrooms, and this is something that might be fun to print out. Put on the wall, you know. Put some interesting facts out there.
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Stacey Knibloe: Hi! We also have oh, whoops I
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Stacey Knibloe: back to the homepage.
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Stacey Knibloe: We also have our browsable videos tool.
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Stacey Knibloe: So you can again maybe engage kids with some video content. Lots of stem related videos here, along with others with stem, is a big focus there and then, although I don't see it here. I do just want to mention it for those libraries that may subscribe to National Geographic Kids, or have purchased Gale eBooks. You might see some additional content when you're in this resource. If you have some eBooks, you'd actually see them browsable here, and if you have the net, Geo. Content, that will be its own
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Stacey Knibloe: piece of a results page. So just to mention that we won't see it. NOVELny, is strictly for has strictly gallon context elementary on it. So that's what I'm going to use. But again, that's something in addition, some of you may see.
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Stacey Knibloe: So already, let's take a look at this content. Now, of course, there is tons of classroom support in the resource. So if we are maybe working with a science teacher, social studies teacher again. I love the browse so you can kind of give an idea of the coverage here, and these change over time as well. You know. We may add an extra bubble. We recently, within the last couple of years, have done that with native American tribes.
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Stacey Knibloe: and what I love about these bubbles is you've got the images to go along with them. So kids kind of get visual confirmation as they're browsing through. You'll see this. I particularly. You know the animals path is always a fun one to go down.
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Stacey Knibloe: I remember we did our animal report in 4th grade. So it's just stuck in my memory. I picked koalas. They were my favorite but you've got this visual confirmation. So of course, that's also handy for students, where maybe, if their reading isn't as strong yet. Or, again, if you're working with students where maybe English isn't their 1st language, those images are really important.
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Stacey Knibloe: And then, of course, as you select these topics. You land on what we call a topic page or portal page. We probably use that interchangeably. It's to basically just pulled all the information we have for drafts to this page. So we start out with almost well, not almost. This is a reference overview you would find at the top of the page. We offer some quick facts
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Stacey Knibloe: and then break down the resources by the types of sources they're coming from. So books, magazines, news, pictures, video and so on, and they can branch off into related topics. So again, we love that discovery. But this is also help building up kids
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Stacey Knibloe: information literacy around a topic. Right? So what are the other things we talk about when we talk about giraffes? Right? What do they have in common? Where do they live? That kind of thing. So
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Stacey Knibloe: I want to show a particular area of interest. So you know, our school librarians are often tasked with
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Stacey Knibloe: helping to build media literacy skills,
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Stacey Knibloe: and our students information literacy skills. It may be part of a goal of your library to do that.
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Stacey Knibloe: And I wanted to point out if we go down the literature path, you know. Of course, we're going to have bubbles here to get to authors and books and stories and read about those things. But if you pop into the reading, writing, and language bubble here
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Stacey Knibloe: you'll find, of course, we've got, you know.
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Stacey Knibloe: discussion around what different genres are, and you know, different literary terms and themes and things like that. But you've also got these tools that you can put to work around media and information literacy like Factor opinion bubble. Here we've got a few others.
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Stacey Knibloe: as you kind of scroll through this list point of view, that type of thing. And this is a great way to help jump. Start those discussions with the kids. So
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Stacey Knibloe: you know, as they are doing research as they're learning, being able to discern the difference between fact and opinion is important. So again, we've got a whole portal dedicated to that.
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Stacey Knibloe: And one of the great things you'll find in Gale and context, elementary as well as your other Gale resources is if we pop into any entry.
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Stacey Knibloe: it's going to provide.
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Stacey Knibloe: you know, of course, our content.
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Stacey Knibloe: But lots of tools to work with that content. And when you're in the elementary database you're going to see and let me just use my annotate tool here
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Stacey Knibloe: on the right hand side of the screen. We've got a row of icons to help us comprehend this article and a few different options, so let me clear out that circle. So I can actually click on. These
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Stacey Knibloe: go. So the most popular is our listen, button. This has been in our databases for a long time. And we recently made some updates. So even if you're a long time user, maybe showing you something a little new here with the listen tool. So we
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Stacey Knibloe: the fact or opinion, I'm going to go ahead. And fact and opinion pause that while I'm talking about it, the partner we work with on this, read speaker made some streamlined adjustments to the tool. And one of the neat things is, it offers
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Stacey Knibloe: lots of different settings for the listen tool. So you can go into those just through the Hamburger menu here. It's also added. It added its own enlarged text feature. You can always download the Mp3. So those are, you know, popular tools. We've still got them on the menu. But if we go into the settings
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Stacey Knibloe: you can change the way that the reading is working. So it's highlighting text. As it reads it, you can actually disable that some folks find it distracting. If I want to use different colors. I can change that, and it gives you a little preview. So you kind of know what you're in for before you
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Stacey Knibloe: you change that setting, you can also slow it down. We've got the little speedometer here so we can slow it down, or we can speed it up kind of depending. If you've got students who maybe use a screen reader. Often
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Stacey Knibloe: they may want to speed it up. If I've got a student where maybe English isn't their 1st language. I may want to slow it down so you've got that option again can play around with the fonts. There's really a lot of features within the tool you can turn on one of my favorites is to enable the pop up button. I'm actually rooting for this to become a standard feature or a standard default setting
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Stacey Knibloe: that's turned on. So what it's going to do is offer a pop up button when you select text. So I've got the listen going now. So of course it's going to read the whole article to me. Maybe I don't want the whole article, but I do want, you know this sentence.
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Stacey Knibloe: or through all 3 sentences. Ever since I've selected here this line.
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Stacey Knibloe: it pops open that. Listen, button. There, we're going to talk about the other window that popped open the highlights and notes, but it will just read that to me.
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Stacey Knibloe: I guess it can be handy, maybe for a single word. The 1st sentence is a fact.
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Stacey Knibloe: a writer can prove it.
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Stacey Knibloe: A person's height can be measured.
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Stacey Knibloe: So we get that pop up wherever we need it. If we highlight the text. So really one of the, I think, coolest new things about the new read speaker. We also adjusted the voice and chose another voice that was a little more appealing to younger users since we find that's where it's getting used most often. So
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Stacey Knibloe: again, we're never done with our databases, and we work. We work with our partners to make sure they're not either. So
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Stacey Knibloe: we also have our text tool, and that just enlarges the text of the article. So you can always use your zoom button inside a browser to enlarge the whole page. But our font tool just changes. The article doesn't change the way your browser acts, so those are kind of handy. The display options will let you use some tools that
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Stacey Knibloe: go ahead.
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Stacey Knibloe: so I'm not clicking that not opening.
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Stacey Knibloe: Bear with me, folks, let me just there we go. That's what I was looking for. The this will change the way the page looks. So if I have just a preference or a need for these other display options. I've got them so open. Dyslexic font has been a popular choice, we find. You know. Certainly it's a tool for students with dyslexia, but we also find that a lot of folks
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Stacey Knibloe: prefer it. You read faster with this, with the Dyslexic font something about the way the lines are weighted, or something like that. So
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Stacey Knibloe: What's nice is when you change these settings, it sets a cookie, and the next article will display the same way.
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Stacey Knibloe: So I pop out, go into something else
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Stacey Knibloe: and say opinion, writing here.
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Stacey Knibloe: It's keeping those settings.
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Stacey Knibloe: And then, lastly, we have our on demand translation tool. So this is going to let us translate the article into about 50 different languages.
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Stacey Knibloe: And what's great is better than half of these.
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Stacey Knibloe: You'll see the listen button sticks around. It gives you a preview of the translation, and this is a machine translation so
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Stacey Knibloe: good to check it out. Probably not how we want to learn to speak Spanish, but
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Stacey Knibloe: can be a big help for
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Stacey Knibloe: users work Spanish as their 1st language.
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Stacey Knibloe: and there we have it, and notice that the listen button has stuck around, so I can still hear it read in Spanish, so not every language will offer that, but a good number of them will.
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Stacey Knibloe: So I'm actually going to go switch back to English.
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Stacey Knibloe: and we'll go ahead now. I came down a couple of different browse paths I do want to share. Just the search tool is very
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Stacey Knibloe: easy to use, you know. It's a nice empty search box when folks see that they like to use those. So I'm going to go ahead and search on an animal we created a new
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Stacey Knibloe: portal page for, but I cannot pronounce it. But that's okay. I need the reminder that we have here on our portal page of how to pronounce it so that I cannot remember that it doesn't stick for me yet, so that
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Stacey Knibloe: Xo Lotto, we have a new portal page for so this was, we found it was getting searched, and so we dedicated some content to it. But often when you search for something like this where we have a portal page, that's where you're going to land. If we don't have a portal page, it doesn't mean there's not content here. But you go to a more traditional looking results screen.
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Stacey Knibloe: The other thing I wanted to mention all of the listen tools, the display options help raise comprehension. But what I also wanted to point out is the different reading levels that are available in the resource. So with our Gale resources, and actually, you know, bear with me folks, I'm going to pop out to the slides for a minute, because I want to mention
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Stacey Knibloe: the range that we have. So bear with me. I'm doing this a little out of order from my plan, but I think
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Stacey Knibloe: this is the better path. So for the Gale In context resources, all of them. Not just Gale In context, elementary. We have 5 content levels. We call them, these lower, elementary, upper, elementary, and so on. So when we're in Gale In context, elementary, we're going to see mostly the lower and upper elementary reading levels. But this is an automated tool so often it's, you know, may skew something
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Stacey Knibloe: as it thinks it has more words, or it does, you know, have more words, or it's got more complicated words. You're always the best judge, but this can be a good tool to kind of point you in the right direction. So everything has been assigned a content level. And
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Stacey Knibloe: let's go back to the database. It gets a Lexile score as well. So let me go ahead and jump into my, and I've already forgotten how to pronounce it. So, axolotl, let's go into one of my overviews here. You can see the Lexile score if you click the little article info button here over on the far right.
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Stacey Knibloe: and it will open up the article details so we can see the date and the like. But you can see the Lexile measure here, too. That's also going to be available at a results list but can always get the exact Lexile score. And what you'll notice here in this case is for this overview. I actually can change the Lexile score. Gale is a publisher. We put a lot of our own content in these databases, and that means we can do what we like with it. So we have taken a lot of our reference content and leveled it, written it at 2 different reading levels.
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Stacey Knibloe: And
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Stacey Knibloe: you can select again the change from the Lexile score. And this one's going to be a little shorter, maybe
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Stacey Knibloe: shorter words, shorter paragraphs, and the like.
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Stacey Knibloe: You can also do that just here from the upper left hand corner you'll see a level one and a level 2.
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Stacey Knibloe: So if I need some reading level differentiation in my classroom in my library, wherever
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Stacey Knibloe: you're going to have that option with a lot of the Gale reference. Content. Now we won't have that feature. Let me jump back out to the results in, say, a magazine article or something like that, you know, New York Times for kids. We can't take their content and just rewrite it. So you'll see it just under book articles and biographies. That's where Gale's content tends to flow.
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Stacey Knibloe: So alrighty. Let's take a look at a few more things. I do want to pop into some of the magazine articles. We haven't looked at any of those yet. So again, remember, it's remembering my display settings. So
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Stacey Knibloe: say, this is an article I want to share with students. Maybe it's little we're going to talk about this, you know, in the classroom, or
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Stacey Knibloe: want to make it assigned reading. There are a few different ways for me to get it into their hands. One is our get link. And again, I'll just use my tool here to point this out. Get. Link is going to give you a persistent URL or pearl that you could then post on a web page on a live guide in the email wherever you would normally put a URL. And it'll bring users right to this article, just bypass everything and land right in that article.
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Stacey Knibloe: You can also share the Google classroom. And it just builds a classroom item, you know, the same way you normally would, adding content, we just build in that URL and that link to the classroom. Item, whether it's an assignment announcement, it just steps you through and embeds that link to this article.
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Stacey Knibloe: and then one of my favorite features is you can send to
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Stacey Knibloe: Google Drive, or Microsoft OneDrive. So if that's part of your workflow, you know, in the classroom or in the library, you have the option to put this content in the cloud, so I could build a whole folder of content for my students around me.
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Stacey Knibloe: Axolotl. What it's going to do is put it in a folder named after the database I'm using went to Gale In contacts elementary. And there it is. And once it's here it's mine to do with what I like I can share. So say I'm in a book club with 4th graders, and we're reading a book with this animal in it. I can share this out to the kids in the book Club. I can even, you know, mark this up. I can edit it as needed. I may not want it to start with level 3. So I can, you know, get rid of that and delete it.
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Stacey Knibloe: There's no digital rights management here once it's here, it's yours, and you can do what you like with it. You can, of course, move it around, too, if I want to put it in a folder.
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Stacey Knibloe: I can move it to a different folder. It doesn't have to stay here.
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Stacey Knibloe: So it's a really powerful way to take this content from the resource and make it part of what you're doing with students in the classroom in the library.
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Stacey Knibloe: So let me pause here for a second. See if we've got anything in the chat or the Q. And a. That I might want to address.
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Stacey Knibloe: we're in good shape. So
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Stacey Knibloe: the content here. Oh, the other thing I want to point out before we take a look at some examples of tools you can use with this in the classroom is, if I go ahead and jump into advanced search.
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Stacey Knibloe: Students don't tend to use this as much. It's not difficult to use, but you know usually that that single search box at the top of the pages is what they're after. But I was to mention it for our folks in the library, because it's got all the filters and limits you may want. So if you're looking for a particular Lexile measure for an article, we've got those limits here. You can enter your own, or you could use a broader
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Stacey Knibloe: content levels those 5 levels that we looked at before you can even, you know, choose, I want. I'm looking for videos. I know teachers doing something around weather in the classroom soon and want some, you know. Video content.
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Stacey Knibloe: You could just tie your search right to that and find in this case weather videos. And what's great is I mentioned that. Get Link before here that persistent URL. That's that the get link button is going to give us. So I can just copy and paste this. Send it off in an email to my teacher. Hey, I know you've got a weather unit coming up. Here's some great videos. I know you were looking for that type of content and share this whole list with them
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Stacey Knibloe: just with that one link you're giving them. So really shows the value of these library materials for the classroom.
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Stacey Knibloe: And of course.
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Stacey Knibloe: you could use Google Classroom again. You could use, you know, export some of these, although the videos do need to be streaming. But lots of ways to get this content in people's hands.
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Stacey Knibloe: So let's talk about how you might do that with some of the materials we've created. So we are lucky at Gale on the training team and that we have a lot of former teachers on the team. And while I'm sorry they're not in the classroom anymore, I am thrilled to have them on our team because the explosion of Pre made learning materials that exist now on our support site is totally due to their work and the
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Stacey Knibloe: what they brought with them from their classrooms. And it's, you know, interesting. We've got people from all different grade levels as well as subject. So it's really been amazing to kind of see this content.
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Stacey Knibloe: We have things like graphic organizers. So this is a great tool in the library. Again, as you're building up their research skills, you can certainly print these out, make them available.
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Stacey Knibloe: We've got scavenger hunt. So again, a little activity you might do with kids to kind of get them using the resource and learning about a topic.
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Stacey Knibloe: We have our
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Stacey Knibloe: tools here that help you use tools within the resource. So the highlights and notes tool again, as kids are building up research skills. And they're marking content up. Here are some ways they can do that with the resources.
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Stacey Knibloe: We've got novel studies as well.
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Stacey Knibloe: and one area that has been especially fun are the digital escape rooms that are actually, you can't fill them out on paper. But you're using the digital tools to escape. And these are a lot of fun again. Great way to get kids using the resource with a fun activity
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Stacey Knibloe: and trading cards another one. This is something that maybe could be a little more independent. A lot of times these were used in summer reading programs and things. So kids could trade trading cards around different people and topics.
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Stacey Knibloe: And then, lastly, we're going to actually take a look at a lesson plan. So the screen sets I've been sharing are for kind of all of the Gale In context databases. So I want to share one. Specifically, we've created for gallon context, elementary. But let me show you how you can get to all of this content.
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Stacey Knibloe: So I'm going to share this URL. Later, when we are
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Stacey Knibloe: wrap up, slide with all of our contact. Info, but you may already be familiar with it. support.gall.com slash. NOVELny is our dedicated support site for NOVELny, and when you come here. The 1st thing it wants you to do is select your library from the list.
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Stacey Knibloe: Yeah, I'm coming to you from Lancaster, New York. So I'm going to go ahead and select our middle school.
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Stacey Knibloe: And what it's going to do is just reset the whole support page so that it is focusing on what you get from Gale, because Gale produces hundreds of resources right? So we don't want you to have to weed through all of the content that's here. If you set kind of what we call sign in to the support site, it targets your resources from Gale, and the 1st thing we give you is your access information for all these databases. So your URLs.
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Stacey Knibloe: and of course many of you already have those all set up. So you're good to go there. But if I click on Gale and context elementary.
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Stacey Knibloe: what it's going to do is then give me all of the support materials for that resource, technical, you know, like our here, we see our direct URLs, our icons, things like that if you want to use them. But if you look over to the right hand side of the page. Then you'll see all the training materials and marketing materials. So we've got 96 different training materials that could apply to Gale and context elementary, and we relaunched our support page to suit the type of
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Stacey Knibloe: resource. Sure. And so, since I signed in and as a school and this would happen with public libraries as well. We start out with. If you're just getting to know the database, we've got some getting started materials. Then, if you want to turnkey this and train your teachers, or maybe train the other librarians in your district or the other librarians at different branches, you've got this train yourself, section, and then, if you want to dive deeper into your own learning with this resource, you've got lots of options, but keep scrolling.
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Stacey Knibloe: Then we get to all the fine lessons and activities that involve Gale and context elementary. And you can see there are a good number here. There's even an escape room template, so you can always, of course, use ours. But we've got a template for you if you want to create your own.
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Stacey Knibloe: So the one I thought we'd take a look at. Here is the bee and honey lesson plan.
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Stacey Knibloe: and these are again great for the classroom, or if we're doing an activity with the kids in the library. You know, we've got all of this spelled out exactly how you could use the database. So in this case, we're using
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Stacey Knibloe: some articles from Gale In context, elementary to help talk about bees and honey and the role they play in our ecosystems. And we've tried to make it as easy as possible for everybody to kind of find what they need for this. The 1st thing we're going to do is have folks look up a couple of articles, and we just give the titles here, but then provide the citations later. So you can also find them that way. But we want to find the unlabeled bee diagram. Let's go do that.
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Stacey Knibloe: So just searching on the title
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Stacey Knibloe: whoops not it. Well, and here's where our databases always help me out because I am a terrible typer sometimes. So it found the article for me, even though I left out a letter. So there are quite a few of these in the resource, these unlabeled diagrams.
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Stacey Knibloe: Alright. And this is something. Again, I can send this right to Google drive.
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Stacey Knibloe: And then, once it's here refresh. So it pops up. We send over really quickly.
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Stacey Knibloe: This is now built into a Google Doc. And I can edit this. And
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Stacey Knibloe: you know. Do what I like with it, maybe make it its own worksheet. But of course we've got the lesson plan kind of guiding us for what we're going to do with this as well.
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Stacey Knibloe: Alright. And we're going to be setting up stations. Kids can take advantage of 4 different items that we're going to find in the resource and
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Stacey Knibloe: come back together. But this just gives a great way for kids to, of course, learn something new, but get them into these resources and get them in the habit of using things from the library right? And taking advantage of these tools. So
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Stacey Knibloe: there is a lot more where this came from again. I just kind of briefly scrolling here, but you can see there's a lot of content here to build on so ocean trade, ocean creatures, trading cards, parts of a poetry escape room.
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Stacey Knibloe: There's just a lot of good stuff. And like our databases, we're not done. We're continuing to produce this type of content. So you can expect these to update and get added to over time
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Stacey Knibloe: so definitely encourage you to check those things out
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Stacey Knibloe: alrighty. So let's pop back. Oh, hang on! I've got something in the Q. And a
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Stacey Knibloe: oh, absolutely. Yep! I'll make a note of that, Marianne. I'll get you. Make sure you get the recording just being here because you logged in it should automatically send you. But I'll just double check that it will
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Stacey Knibloe: alrighty. So let me go ahead. I can see we're at our stop time. So I'm just going to give a little reminder about those tools we talked about. So we already saw this slide again, talking about the reading levels.
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Stacey Knibloe: But remember those other tools we discussed as well to help raise comprehension.
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Stacey Knibloe: Oh, and that actually, I mean, I can make these slides available to everybody, too.
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Stacey Knibloe: But let's go ahead and talk about a couple of things to keep in mind. So
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Stacey Knibloe: you also have access to Gale and context middle school. So if you want to kind of jump up a bit, maybe if you're working with 5th graders.
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Stacey Knibloe: you can jump up into Gale In context middle School. The interface is a slightly more sophisticated but still really easy to use, and still has all the tools that we talked about.
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Stacey Knibloe: Alright. Also think about Gale books and authors. This is a new one that became available this summer. It is a reader's advisory tool to point you to your next great read. So it is built to find children's young adult and adult fiction and nonfiction, so you can, of course.
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Stacey Knibloe: find, read alikes say, by looking up a book you've liked, and we'll give you read a likes, other things to read, but there's also fun searches. So if I'm looking for a book about aardvarks. I can. I can find that and just a little fun fact. There are over 450 books that have a librarian as a main character. So one of the things you can search on is main character.
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Stacey Knibloe: So again, let's wrap up with Gale support, and where you can go after today for questions. So this is the site I use to get to all of those materials. I went to support.Gale.com slash novel, New York.
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Stacey Knibloe: and selected again. I went with my local middle school here Lancaster Middle School.
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Stacey Knibloe: and then
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Stacey Knibloe: clicked on Gale In context elementary and got a wealth of info. You can do that for all of the other resources as well. So the new ones, once you've had access to for a long time. There is a ton of stuff out there, not just training materials, marketing materials as well. So I can kind of promote these within the school, within the library. Within my community I have lots of tools. You don't have to recreate the wheel.
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Stacey Knibloe: and then, of course, if you're looking for help in that area. You would like to maybe have someone help you with a promotion plan, or you want to understand your Gale usage reporting a little better. We've got teams at Gale for that. Our K. 12. Public and special libraries work with our customer success team and our academic libraries work with our academic outreach and engagement services team, and you have a wealth of information with these folks again.
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Stacey Knibloe: Many of them are right out of the classroom themselves. So they have their own experience to help inform the way they're sharing with you. You can also, of course, if you're not sure where else to start, feel free to start with me again. I'm your trainer. If I don't have the answer. I'm a librarian as well, so I know where to go to get it so feel free to start with me. Tech support, of course, is always available.
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Stacey Knibloe: and you can always find your Gale account rep. And then again, all that on demand. Support at the support site is really valuable. So lots of paths to go down when you're looking for help, don't suffer in silence. Do reach out to your Gale team.
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Stacey Knibloe: So apologize, folks, we've run a little over. I'm going to stick around for a few more minutes, see if there are any questions, but thanks so much for tuning in again. Keep an eye out. Tomorrow you'll receive your attendance certificate for attending live, and you'll get around this time the follow up email that comes to you from Zoom. I'll have all this contact info as well as links to other great stuff from the support site in that email. So thanks everybody for tuning in.
Stacey Knibloe: Good afternoon and welcome everyone. I'm Stacey Knibloe, your Gale trainer, for NOVELny. Thanks for joining me for our supporting elementary students throughout the school year with Gale NOVELny resources.
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Stacey Knibloe: I'm going to share my contact info again at the end. Just wanted to say hello up here, upfront and come off video cause I'm going to turn that off for the rest of the session. Just so it doesn't take up extra bandwidth for everybody. But also later on, when folks are viewing the recording that that video, and it takes the place of some of the areas of the screen, and I don't want to block anything for folks who are tuning in later. So
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Stacey Knibloe: Hello! And I may pop back later when we're wrapping up
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Stacey Knibloe: so welcome to our session. I've got a agenda for us, but I always like to let you know it's your session, so feel free to share in the chat. And the QA. What you really want to see.
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Stacey Knibloe: I certainly have our 30 min of content to share with you, but I want to make sure you're getting what you need out of this training. So do make liberal use of that chat. And QA. I'm going to keep my eye on it throughout the session. So if you don't think of anything now and then, you see something on the screen later that sparks something, feel free to use that at any point. So my idea, though, is, we will give you a good look at what gallon context
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Stacey Knibloe: elementary is, share some best practices. Point out some tools. I think you'll find most useful when working with
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Stacey Knibloe: students. And you know our younger kids.
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Stacey Knibloe: And then I want to walk through all the tools that are available through our support site to kind of get kids involved in the resource to kind of maybe kick off research, or, you know, give you a little activity. That might be something you could do in the library with the kids. So
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Stacey Knibloe: then we will wrap up with what we always do, how you can get in touch with us after today. So if you've got questions, things come to you later. We want you to know about your Gale support team. So we'll share that info. You'll also receive an email around this time tomorrow that has links to things. I talked about a link to the recording. Of course, all of our contact. Info you'll receive an attendance certificate as well for attending live. So
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Stacey Knibloe: all of those should come around this time tomorrow, and you can then, of course, always reach out with that info when you're looking for more help from your Gale team. So
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Stacey Knibloe: let's go ahead and dive in. So just a little reminder. Gale is thrilled to be part of the NOVELny program, and we were especially thrilled this summer to be able to make some additions to the content that's available there. So this slide is just a little reminder, maybe a refresher of all the resources that come to you through the NOVELny program and those with the little star, the new ones that came on this summer started officially, July one, although we installed
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Stacey Knibloe: to give libraries a head start on getting access set up. So you all have access to everything. This session, though we are going to focus on Gale in context, elementary, which is.
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Stacey Knibloe: you know, perfect, fit for our K 5 age kids, but also others. You know, this is a database where we do have you know, middle schoolers, maybe that need to dip down into these reading levels. You know, students that maybe struggle with English. The you know, the content here is at a lower reading level. So that's 1 of the huge benefits I think, of novel, New York, having all of its content available to everyone, is, you can kind of go up and down in these resources as you need to.
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Stacey Knibloe: So with Gale In conducts elementary, though, as we build it, we are thinking of that. K. 5 learner. So we're looking at. What's being studied in K 5 classrooms? What are our education standards in various states?
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Stacey Knibloe: What are national standards, and what are we hearing from our libraries and our teachers? What do they want to see in these resources. So we're very responsive. We're keeping an eye on what's happening in education. So I can give you a couple of examples of what we've done with Gale In context over the last couple of years in response to different standards. You know, we've we're seeing a lot of states implementing financial literacy standards, or, you know, making it a focus. So we've beefed up our content there. We've seen the same for
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Stacey Knibloe: are currently working on some standards for geography and things like that. So these resources are never done right? We're always adding new content and updating as needed. So we also know it's going to be a spot where kids are just kind of starting their information literacy journeys, their media literacy journeys, their research skills.
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Stacey Knibloe: So we want a database that helps suit, you know that learner. And they're younger, right? So we've got a very visual interface. It's colorful. It's icon driven lots of pictures, you know, bigger fonts, things like that. So it's a
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Stacey Knibloe: fun place to kind of get them involved in research and learning. And we're going to share again some best practices for using it. So let's go ahead and dive in, and we'll just do a couple
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Stacey Knibloe: You know examples of how you might use it again, share some best practices, and then, we'll
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Stacey Knibloe: pop out and actually share something you could do in the library with the students, or maybe something that could happen in the classroom.
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Stacey Knibloe: So let me go ahead and get out to the resource itself here. So we have
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Stacey Knibloe: a homepage, and most of our resources that are going to encourage discovery. The Gale and context, database is are always going to offer you a search. So you can dive right in. Kids come in. They know they're doing their animal report on dolphins. They can dive right in with a search.
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Stacey Knibloe: but often we're kind of getting their feet wet with research, right? So maybe they're looking around a little bit, or especially like this for library staff and for teachers. You can kind of browse around from the homepage. We've got topics
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Stacey Knibloe: tool here that'll let us drill down into different areas of the databases. We've got a news
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Stacey Knibloe: tab so we can see some current newspaper articles or magazines. We've got some pictures to browse around. We've been doing a lot of infographics. So these have kind of been leading our pictures browse here for a while, so we can take a look.
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Stacey Knibloe: We've got an infographic here Arctic fox in Arctic fox. Interesting facts, and I love these again for inner libraries in our classrooms, and this is something that might be fun to print out. Put on the wall, you know. Put some interesting facts out there.
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Stacey Knibloe: Hi! We also have oh, whoops I
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Stacey Knibloe: back to the homepage.
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Stacey Knibloe: We also have our browsable videos tool.
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Stacey Knibloe: So you can again maybe engage kids with some video content. Lots of stem related videos here, along with others with stem, is a big focus there and then, although I don't see it here. I do just want to mention it for those libraries that may subscribe to National Geographic Kids, or have purchased Gale eBooks. You might see some additional content when you're in this resource. If you have some eBooks, you'd actually see them browsable here, and if you have the net, Geo. Content, that will be its own
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Stacey Knibloe: piece of a results page. So just to mention that we won't see it. NOVELny, is strictly for has strictly gallon context elementary on it. So that's what I'm going to use. But again, that's something in addition, some of you may see.
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Stacey Knibloe: So already, let's take a look at this content. Now, of course, there is tons of classroom support in the resource. So if we are maybe working with a science teacher, social studies teacher again. I love the browse so you can kind of give an idea of the coverage here, and these change over time as well. You know. We may add an extra bubble. We recently, within the last couple of years, have done that with native American tribes.
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Stacey Knibloe: and what I love about these bubbles is you've got the images to go along with them. So kids kind of get visual confirmation as they're browsing through. You'll see this. I particularly. You know the animals path is always a fun one to go down.
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Stacey Knibloe: I remember we did our animal report in 4th grade. So it's just stuck in my memory. I picked koalas. They were my favorite but you've got this visual confirmation. So of course, that's also handy for students, where maybe, if their reading isn't as strong yet. Or, again, if you're working with students where maybe English isn't their 1st language, those images are really important.
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Stacey Knibloe: And then, of course, as you select these topics. You land on what we call a topic page or portal page. We probably use that interchangeably. It's to basically just pulled all the information we have for drafts to this page. So we start out with almost well, not almost. This is a reference overview you would find at the top of the page. We offer some quick facts
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Stacey Knibloe: and then break down the resources by the types of sources they're coming from. So books, magazines, news, pictures, video and so on, and they can branch off into related topics. So again, we love that discovery. But this is also help building up kids
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Stacey Knibloe: information literacy around a topic. Right? So what are the other things we talk about when we talk about giraffes? Right? What do they have in common? Where do they live? That kind of thing. So
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Stacey Knibloe: I want to show a particular area of interest. So you know, our school librarians are often tasked with
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Stacey Knibloe: helping to build media literacy skills,
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Stacey Knibloe: and our students information literacy skills. It may be part of a goal of your library to do that.
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Stacey Knibloe: And I wanted to point out if we go down the literature path, you know. Of course, we're going to have bubbles here to get to authors and books and stories and read about those things. But if you pop into the reading, writing, and language bubble here
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Stacey Knibloe: you'll find, of course, we've got, you know.
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Stacey Knibloe: discussion around what different genres are, and you know, different literary terms and themes and things like that. But you've also got these tools that you can put to work around media and information literacy like Factor opinion bubble. Here we've got a few others.
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Stacey Knibloe: as you kind of scroll through this list point of view, that type of thing. And this is a great way to help jump. Start those discussions with the kids. So
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Stacey Knibloe: you know, as they are doing research as they're learning, being able to discern the difference between fact and opinion is important. So again, we've got a whole portal dedicated to that.
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Stacey Knibloe: And one of the great things you'll find in Gale and context, elementary as well as your other Gale resources is if we pop into any entry.
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Stacey Knibloe: it's going to provide.
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Stacey Knibloe: you know, of course, our content.
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Stacey Knibloe: But lots of tools to work with that content. And when you're in the elementary database you're going to see and let me just use my annotate tool here
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Stacey Knibloe: on the right hand side of the screen. We've got a row of icons to help us comprehend this article and a few different options, so let me clear out that circle. So I can actually click on. These
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Stacey Knibloe: go. So the most popular is our listen, button. This has been in our databases for a long time. And we recently made some updates. So even if you're a long time user, maybe showing you something a little new here with the listen tool. So we
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Stacey Knibloe: the fact or opinion, I'm going to go ahead. And fact and opinion pause that while I'm talking about it, the partner we work with on this, read speaker made some streamlined adjustments to the tool. And one of the neat things is, it offers
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Stacey Knibloe: lots of different settings for the listen tool. So you can go into those just through the Hamburger menu here. It's also added. It added its own enlarged text feature. You can always download the Mp3. So those are, you know, popular tools. We've still got them on the menu. But if we go into the settings
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Stacey Knibloe: you can change the way that the reading is working. So it's highlighting text. As it reads it, you can actually disable that some folks find it distracting. If I want to use different colors. I can change that, and it gives you a little preview. So you kind of know what you're in for before you
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Stacey Knibloe: you change that setting, you can also slow it down. We've got the little speedometer here so we can slow it down, or we can speed it up kind of depending. If you've got students who maybe use a screen reader. Often
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Stacey Knibloe: they may want to speed it up. If I've got a student where maybe English isn't their 1st language. I may want to slow it down so you've got that option again can play around with the fonts. There's really a lot of features within the tool you can turn on one of my favorites is to enable the pop up button. I'm actually rooting for this to become a standard feature or a standard default setting
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Stacey Knibloe: that's turned on. So what it's going to do is offer a pop up button when you select text. So I've got the listen going now. So of course it's going to read the whole article to me. Maybe I don't want the whole article, but I do want, you know this sentence.
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Stacey Knibloe: or through all 3 sentences. Ever since I've selected here this line.
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Stacey Knibloe: it pops open that. Listen, button. There, we're going to talk about the other window that popped open the highlights and notes, but it will just read that to me.
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Stacey Knibloe: I guess it can be handy, maybe for a single word. The 1st sentence is a fact.
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Stacey Knibloe: a writer can prove it.
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Stacey Knibloe: A person's height can be measured.
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Stacey Knibloe: So we get that pop up wherever we need it. If we highlight the text. So really one of the, I think, coolest new things about the new read speaker. We also adjusted the voice and chose another voice that was a little more appealing to younger users since we find that's where it's getting used most often. So
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Stacey Knibloe: again, we're never done with our databases, and we work. We work with our partners to make sure they're not either. So
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Stacey Knibloe: we also have our text tool, and that just enlarges the text of the article. So you can always use your zoom button inside a browser to enlarge the whole page. But our font tool just changes. The article doesn't change the way your browser acts, so those are kind of handy. The display options will let you use some tools that
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Stacey Knibloe: go ahead.
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Stacey Knibloe: so I'm not clicking that not opening.
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Stacey Knibloe: Bear with me, folks, let me just there we go. That's what I was looking for. The this will change the way the page looks. So if I have just a preference or a need for these other display options. I've got them so open. Dyslexic font has been a popular choice, we find. You know. Certainly it's a tool for students with dyslexia, but we also find that a lot of folks
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Stacey Knibloe: prefer it. You read faster with this, with the Dyslexic font something about the way the lines are weighted, or something like that. So
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Stacey Knibloe: What's nice is when you change these settings, it sets a cookie, and the next article will display the same way.
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Stacey Knibloe: So I pop out, go into something else
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Stacey Knibloe: and say opinion, writing here.
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Stacey Knibloe: It's keeping those settings.
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Stacey Knibloe: And then, lastly, we have our on demand translation tool. So this is going to let us translate the article into about 50 different languages.
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Stacey Knibloe: And what's great is better than half of these.
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Stacey Knibloe: You'll see the listen button sticks around. It gives you a preview of the translation, and this is a machine translation so
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Stacey Knibloe: good to check it out. Probably not how we want to learn to speak Spanish, but
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Stacey Knibloe: can be a big help for
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Stacey Knibloe: users work Spanish as their 1st language.
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Stacey Knibloe: and there we have it, and notice that the listen button has stuck around, so I can still hear it read in Spanish, so not every language will offer that, but a good number of them will.
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Stacey Knibloe: So I'm actually going to go switch back to English.
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Stacey Knibloe: and we'll go ahead now. I came down a couple of different browse paths I do want to share. Just the search tool is very
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Stacey Knibloe: easy to use, you know. It's a nice empty search box when folks see that they like to use those. So I'm going to go ahead and search on an animal we created a new
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Stacey Knibloe: portal page for, but I cannot pronounce it. But that's okay. I need the reminder that we have here on our portal page of how to pronounce it so that I cannot remember that it doesn't stick for me yet, so that
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Stacey Knibloe: Xo Lotto, we have a new portal page for so this was, we found it was getting searched, and so we dedicated some content to it. But often when you search for something like this where we have a portal page, that's where you're going to land. If we don't have a portal page, it doesn't mean there's not content here. But you go to a more traditional looking results screen.
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Stacey Knibloe: The other thing I wanted to mention all of the listen tools, the display options help raise comprehension. But what I also wanted to point out is the different reading levels that are available in the resource. So with our Gale resources, and actually, you know, bear with me folks, I'm going to pop out to the slides for a minute, because I want to mention
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Stacey Knibloe: the range that we have. So bear with me. I'm doing this a little out of order from my plan, but I think
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Stacey Knibloe: this is the better path. So for the Gale In context resources, all of them. Not just Gale In context, elementary. We have 5 content levels. We call them, these lower, elementary, upper, elementary, and so on. So when we're in Gale In context, elementary, we're going to see mostly the lower and upper elementary reading levels. But this is an automated tool so often it's, you know, may skew something
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Stacey Knibloe: as it thinks it has more words, or it does, you know, have more words, or it's got more complicated words. You're always the best judge, but this can be a good tool to kind of point you in the right direction. So everything has been assigned a content level. And
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Stacey Knibloe: let's go back to the database. It gets a Lexile score as well. So let me go ahead and jump into my, and I've already forgotten how to pronounce it. So, axolotl, let's go into one of my overviews here. You can see the Lexile score if you click the little article info button here over on the far right.
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Stacey Knibloe: and it will open up the article details so we can see the date and the like. But you can see the Lexile measure here, too. That's also going to be available at a results list but can always get the exact Lexile score. And what you'll notice here in this case is for this overview. I actually can change the Lexile score. Gale is a publisher. We put a lot of our own content in these databases, and that means we can do what we like with it. So we have taken a lot of our reference content and leveled it, written it at 2 different reading levels.
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Stacey Knibloe: And
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Stacey Knibloe: you can select again the change from the Lexile score. And this one's going to be a little shorter, maybe
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Stacey Knibloe: shorter words, shorter paragraphs, and the like.
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Stacey Knibloe: You can also do that just here from the upper left hand corner you'll see a level one and a level 2.
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Stacey Knibloe: So if I need some reading level differentiation in my classroom in my library, wherever
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Stacey Knibloe: you're going to have that option with a lot of the Gale reference. Content. Now we won't have that feature. Let me jump back out to the results in, say, a magazine article or something like that, you know, New York Times for kids. We can't take their content and just rewrite it. So you'll see it just under book articles and biographies. That's where Gale's content tends to flow.
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Stacey Knibloe: So alrighty. Let's take a look at a few more things. I do want to pop into some of the magazine articles. We haven't looked at any of those yet. So again, remember, it's remembering my display settings. So
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Stacey Knibloe: say, this is an article I want to share with students. Maybe it's little we're going to talk about this, you know, in the classroom, or
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Stacey Knibloe: want to make it assigned reading. There are a few different ways for me to get it into their hands. One is our get link. And again, I'll just use my tool here to point this out. Get. Link is going to give you a persistent URL or pearl that you could then post on a web page on a live guide in the email wherever you would normally put a URL. And it'll bring users right to this article, just bypass everything and land right in that article.
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Stacey Knibloe: You can also share the Google classroom. And it just builds a classroom item, you know, the same way you normally would, adding content, we just build in that URL and that link to the classroom. Item, whether it's an assignment announcement, it just steps you through and embeds that link to this article.
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Stacey Knibloe: and then one of my favorite features is you can send to
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Stacey Knibloe: Google Drive, or Microsoft OneDrive. So if that's part of your workflow, you know, in the classroom or in the library, you have the option to put this content in the cloud, so I could build a whole folder of content for my students around me.
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Stacey Knibloe: Axolotl. What it's going to do is put it in a folder named after the database I'm using went to Gale In contacts elementary. And there it is. And once it's here it's mine to do with what I like I can share. So say I'm in a book club with 4th graders, and we're reading a book with this animal in it. I can share this out to the kids in the book Club. I can even, you know, mark this up. I can edit it as needed. I may not want it to start with level 3. So I can, you know, get rid of that and delete it.
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Stacey Knibloe: There's no digital rights management here once it's here, it's yours, and you can do what you like with it. You can, of course, move it around, too, if I want to put it in a folder.
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Stacey Knibloe: I can move it to a different folder. It doesn't have to stay here.
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Stacey Knibloe: So it's a really powerful way to take this content from the resource and make it part of what you're doing with students in the classroom in the library.
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Stacey Knibloe: So let me pause here for a second. See if we've got anything in the chat or the Q. And a. That I might want to address.
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Stacey Knibloe: we're in good shape. So
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Stacey Knibloe: the content here. Oh, the other thing I want to point out before we take a look at some examples of tools you can use with this in the classroom is, if I go ahead and jump into advanced search.
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Stacey Knibloe: Students don't tend to use this as much. It's not difficult to use, but you know usually that that single search box at the top of the pages is what they're after. But I was to mention it for our folks in the library, because it's got all the filters and limits you may want. So if you're looking for a particular Lexile measure for an article, we've got those limits here. You can enter your own, or you could use a broader
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Stacey Knibloe: content levels those 5 levels that we looked at before you can even, you know, choose, I want. I'm looking for videos. I know teachers doing something around weather in the classroom soon and want some, you know. Video content.
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Stacey Knibloe: You could just tie your search right to that and find in this case weather videos. And what's great is I mentioned that. Get Link before here that persistent URL. That's that the get link button is going to give us. So I can just copy and paste this. Send it off in an email to my teacher. Hey, I know you've got a weather unit coming up. Here's some great videos. I know you were looking for that type of content and share this whole list with them
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Stacey Knibloe: just with that one link you're giving them. So really shows the value of these library materials for the classroom.
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Stacey Knibloe: And of course.
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Stacey Knibloe: you could use Google Classroom again. You could use, you know, export some of these, although the videos do need to be streaming. But lots of ways to get this content in people's hands.
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Stacey Knibloe: So let's talk about how you might do that with some of the materials we've created. So we are lucky at Gale on the training team and that we have a lot of former teachers on the team. And while I'm sorry they're not in the classroom anymore, I am thrilled to have them on our team because the explosion of Pre made learning materials that exist now on our support site is totally due to their work and the
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Stacey Knibloe: what they brought with them from their classrooms. And it's, you know, interesting. We've got people from all different grade levels as well as subject. So it's really been amazing to kind of see this content.
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Stacey Knibloe: We have things like graphic organizers. So this is a great tool in the library. Again, as you're building up their research skills, you can certainly print these out, make them available.
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Stacey Knibloe: We've got scavenger hunt. So again, a little activity you might do with kids to kind of get them using the resource and learning about a topic.
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Stacey Knibloe: We have our
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Stacey Knibloe: tools here that help you use tools within the resource. So the highlights and notes tool again, as kids are building up research skills. And they're marking content up. Here are some ways they can do that with the resources.
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Stacey Knibloe: We've got novel studies as well.
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Stacey Knibloe: and one area that has been especially fun are the digital escape rooms that are actually, you can't fill them out on paper. But you're using the digital tools to escape. And these are a lot of fun again. Great way to get kids using the resource with a fun activity
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Stacey Knibloe: and trading cards another one. This is something that maybe could be a little more independent. A lot of times these were used in summer reading programs and things. So kids could trade trading cards around different people and topics.
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Stacey Knibloe: And then, lastly, we're going to actually take a look at a lesson plan. So the screen sets I've been sharing are for kind of all of the Gale In context databases. So I want to share one. Specifically, we've created for gallon context, elementary. But let me show you how you can get to all of this content.
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Stacey Knibloe: So I'm going to share this URL. Later, when we are
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Stacey Knibloe: on my
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Stacey Knibloe: wrap up, slide with all of our contact. Info, but you may already be familiar with it. support.gall.com slash. NOVELny is our dedicated support site for NOVELny, and when you come here. The 1st thing it wants you to do is select your library from the list.
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Stacey Knibloe: Yeah, I'm coming to you from Lancaster, New York. So I'm going to go ahead and select our middle school.
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Stacey Knibloe: And what it's going to do is just reset the whole support page so that it is focusing on what you get from Gale, because Gale produces hundreds of resources right? So we don't want you to have to weed through all of the content that's here. If you set kind of what we call sign in to the support site, it targets your resources from Gale, and the 1st thing we give you is your access information for all these databases. So your URLs.
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Stacey Knibloe: and of course many of you already have those all set up. So you're good to go there. But if I click on Gale and context elementary.
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Stacey Knibloe: what it's going to do is then give me all of the support materials for that resource, technical, you know, like our here, we see our direct URLs, our icons, things like that if you want to use them. But if you look over to the right hand side of the page. Then you'll see all the training materials and marketing materials. So we've got 96 different training materials that could apply to Gale and context elementary, and we relaunched our support page to suit the type of
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Stacey Knibloe: resource. Sure. And so, since I signed in and as a school and this would happen with public libraries as well. We start out with. If you're just getting to know the database, we've got some getting started materials. Then, if you want to turnkey this and train your teachers, or maybe train the other librarians in your district or the other librarians at different branches, you've got this train yourself, section, and then, if you want to dive deeper into your own learning with this resource, you've got lots of options, but keep scrolling.
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Stacey Knibloe: Then we get to all the fine lessons and activities that involve Gale and context elementary. And you can see there are a good number here. There's even an escape room template, so you can always, of course, use ours. But we've got a template for you if you want to create your own.
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Stacey Knibloe: So the one I thought we'd take a look at. Here is the bee and honey lesson plan.
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Stacey Knibloe: and these are again great for the classroom, or if we're doing an activity with the kids in the library. You know, we've got all of this spelled out exactly how you could use the database. So in this case, we're using
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Stacey Knibloe: some articles from Gale In context, elementary to help talk about bees and honey and the role they play in our ecosystems. And we've tried to make it as easy as possible for everybody to kind of find what they need for this. The 1st thing we're going to do is have folks look up a couple of articles, and we just give the titles here, but then provide the citations later. So you can also find them that way. But we want to find the unlabeled bee diagram. Let's go do that.
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Stacey Knibloe: So just searching on the title
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Stacey Knibloe: whoops not it. Well, and here's where our databases always help me out because I am a terrible typer sometimes. So it found the article for me, even though I left out a letter. So there are quite a few of these in the resource, these unlabeled diagrams.
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Stacey Knibloe: Alright. And this is something. Again, I can send this right to Google drive.
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Stacey Knibloe: And then, once it's here refresh. So it pops up. We send over really quickly.
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Stacey Knibloe: This is now built into a Google Doc. And I can edit this. And
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Stacey Knibloe: you know. Do what I like with it, maybe make it its own worksheet. But of course we've got the lesson plan kind of guiding us for what we're going to do with this as well.
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Stacey Knibloe: Alright. And we're going to be setting up stations. Kids can take advantage of 4 different items that we're going to find in the resource and
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Stacey Knibloe: come back together. But this just gives a great way for kids to, of course, learn something new, but get them into these resources and get them in the habit of using things from the library right? And taking advantage of these tools. So
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Stacey Knibloe: there is a lot more where this came from again. I just kind of briefly scrolling here, but you can see there's a lot of content here to build on so ocean trade, ocean creatures, trading cards, parts of a poetry escape room.
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Stacey Knibloe: There's just a lot of good stuff. And like our databases, we're not done. We're continuing to produce this type of content. So you can expect these to update and get added to over time
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Stacey Knibloe: so definitely encourage you to check those things out
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Stacey Knibloe: alrighty. So let's pop back. Oh, hang on! I've got something in the Q. And a
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Stacey Knibloe: oh, absolutely. Yep! I'll make a note of that, Marianne. I'll get you. Make sure you get the recording just being here because you logged in it should automatically send you. But I'll just double check that it will
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Stacey Knibloe: alrighty. So let me go ahead. I can see we're at our stop time. So I'm just going to give a little reminder about those tools we talked about. So we already saw this slide again, talking about the reading levels.
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Stacey Knibloe: But remember those other tools we discussed as well to help raise comprehension.
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Stacey Knibloe: Oh, and that actually, I mean, I can make these slides available to everybody, too.
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Stacey Knibloe: But let's go ahead and talk about a couple of things to keep in mind. So
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Stacey Knibloe: you also have access to Gale and context middle school. So if you want to kind of jump up a bit, maybe if you're working with 5th graders.
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Stacey Knibloe: you can jump up into Gale In context middle School. The interface is a slightly more sophisticated but still really easy to use, and still has all the tools that we talked about.
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Stacey Knibloe: Alright. Also think about Gale books and authors. This is a new one that became available this summer. It is a reader's advisory tool to point you to your next great read. So it is built to find children's young adult and adult fiction and nonfiction, so you can, of course.
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Stacey Knibloe: find, read alikes say, by looking up a book you've liked, and we'll give you read a likes, other things to read, but there's also fun searches. So if I'm looking for a book about aardvarks. I can. I can find that and just a little fun fact. There are over 450 books that have a librarian as a main character. So one of the things you can search on is main character.
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Stacey Knibloe: So again, let's wrap up with Gale support, and where you can go after today for questions. So this is the site I use to get to all of those materials. I went to support.Gale.com slash novel, New York.
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Stacey Knibloe: and selected again. I went with my local middle school here Lancaster Middle School.
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Stacey Knibloe: and then
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Stacey Knibloe: clicked on Gale In context elementary and got a wealth of info. You can do that for all of the other resources as well. So the new ones, once you've had access to for a long time. There is a ton of stuff out there, not just training materials, marketing materials as well. So I can kind of promote these within the school, within the library. Within my community I have lots of tools. You don't have to recreate the wheel.
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Stacey Knibloe: and then, of course, if you're looking for help in that area. You would like to maybe have someone help you with a promotion plan, or you want to understand your Gale usage reporting a little better. We've got teams at Gale for that. Our K. 12. Public and special libraries work with our customer success team and our academic libraries work with our academic outreach and engagement services team, and you have a wealth of information with these folks again.
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Stacey Knibloe: Many of them are right out of the classroom themselves. So they have their own experience to help inform the way they're sharing with you. You can also, of course, if you're not sure where else to start, feel free to start with me again. I'm your trainer. If I don't have the answer. I'm a librarian as well, so I know where to go to get it so feel free to start with me. Tech support, of course, is always available.
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Stacey Knibloe: and you can always find your Gale account rep. And then again, all that on demand. Support at the support site is really valuable. So lots of paths to go down when you're looking for help, don't suffer in silence. Do reach out to your Gale team.
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Stacey Knibloe: So apologize, folks, we've run a little over. I'm going to stick around for a few more minutes, see if there are any questions, but thanks so much for tuning in again. Keep an eye out. Tomorrow you'll receive your attendance certificate for attending live, and you'll get around this time the follow up email that comes to you from Zoom. I'll have all this contact info as well as links to other great stuff from the support site in that email. So thanks everybody for tuning in.