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So thank you very much, Stacey, for agreeing to do this.
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Happy, to.
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We are Stacey and I have collaborated on some Oregon specific webinars that we thought might be handy for classroom teachers and school library staff, and this one is geared for those of you who may be totally new to the suite of gale products that we offer to all
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libraries, all Oregonians through live, and as I just wanted to introduce Stacey Knibloe is a Gale trainer, and she was assigned to Oregon, and it is her luck as it turns out, because she totally Loves coming to Oregon, when she can, but it's our
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luck to, because she's an awesome trainer, and I forgot to say who I am.
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I am Jen Mau. I am the school library consultant at the State Library.
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If you have questions about the gale databases, you know I can help, and Stacey can.
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But if you have questions more generically about OSLIS, I can definitely help with that. I will turn it over to you, Stacey, and turn off my camera. Thanks.
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Excellent thanks, Jen. Well, I imagine most of you do know.
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Jen already, though, because she's such a great support, and has such excellent idea, so certainly glad to have her with us to take a look at these resources.
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So again, I’m Stacey, and with Gale, and I do love to visit Vermont, I’m actually going to be attending the Oregon Library Association Conference in April, and I do love to visit Vermont I’m actually going to be attending the Oregon. Library Association Conference in April.
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I’m very excited to get to visit so but of course also thrilled to be with you virtually tonight, to take a look at these resources.
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So we have a pretty brief agenda.
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I like to keep it simple, and really let you lead the session.
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But Jen and I's idea behind the settings was again to just really introduce this collection.
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Let you know what to use when and share some best practices, for when you're in the resources, but because you have such a big collection of resources, we thought it would be good to just start with that kind of overview and make sure you know what's in these resources what the you know intended
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audiences is and you know again just down to knowing what to use when the great thing is, is they have a lot of things in common in terms of the way they work.
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So if you're looking for the option to translate an article it's always in the same place.
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That type of thing. So we'll share some of those.
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Kind of commonalities that they all share, which really makes these all very different is the content that's in them.
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And then, of course, we have great support, in Jen, and we want you to know where you can reach out to us at Gale as well, so we'll wrap up with that Gale support.
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So you know how to get in touch after today I will send you'll all get an email around this time tomorrow with the link to the recording and some follow-up links to stuff on our support site and things like that.
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They're really handy as well as all of our contact. Info!
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So, keep an eye out for them, so I like an interactive session, do feel free to make a little use of that chat in the jump.
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In anytime. You've got a question you don't have to hold it to the end, or anything.
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I’ll keep an eye on that. Those 2 options.
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So alrighty, let's go ahead and dive in.
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So Gale is thrilled to be part of the OSLIS program, and you have a wide variety of databases, because this collection is intended, of course, for school libraries, but also for public and academics.
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So there's a real mix of intended audiences here, subject areas and the like, and looking at a list of them just in alphabetical order like this can be kind of overwhelming.
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So the next several slides are going to break down these resources into their subject areas and who they're intended.
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Audiences are, and one of the things you'll get tomorrow is a link to this these slides so that you can kind of refer back to them and have them as kind of a virtual handout from this session.
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So let's look at these more specifically. First, up in our collection of C 12 resources, our product family, as you might say, for the K.
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12 institutions, our daily context resources. This is really where our cage-f products live at Gale we have a whole dedicated team of product managers that work with them, subject specialists that work on them.
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A lot of work goes into producing these databases, and all of them keep a K 12 audience in mind.
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So of course, they get used outside of a K 12 space, but that's really our main users of this collection.
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Of resources. So up first for our younger users, Gale in context, elementary, the daily context product, family combines reference content with periodicals, with multimedia and then depending on the resource you're in.
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There are lots of other sources, too, but they're all built with multi sources in them to kind of give you a little sampling of things you would find in the library.
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Gale in context, elementary same idea. You're going to find content in there from reference books that you might pull off the shelf in an elementary library, you find magazines. They might use.
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We've got some great video and other multimedia content.
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You have, all the curriculum areas covered here, but, as you might guess, popular searches in this database is on animals.
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Is it often what we find here? But you're going to have geography, social studies, coverage.
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You're going to have science, you'll have literature.
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And even you'll find content to kind of serve the whole so you know, dealing with, you know, different emotions and things like that.
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So really, great coverage here for our younger users, and an interface that suits that younger user.
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And then we age up for our middle schools, middle schoolers, Gale.
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In context, middle school is again multi-source lots of different types of sources, but looks at middle school curriculums across the country around the world.
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We talk with librarians, we talk with teachers. What do you need to find in these databases?
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And you know that is evident in the databases.
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I’ll share some things that we have recently added.
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Some things that are coming. As we look at some of these more closely.
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But again good, general, interest, database going to hit all different areas of curriculum, but intended audience reading level.
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-wise is going to be middle schoolers. You'll, of course, make the choice for where you think your students are at.
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The content is available to everybody, so you can get into any of these databases, and if you've got a middle schooler who may be needs that more elementary reading level, you have access to it, and vice versa.
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If you want to jump up with your upper, elementary students into missing middle school content, I’m going to share some ways.
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You can put content right into their hands, too, so you can kind of bypass them, going in and finding it so we'll talk about that, too.
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As you can imagine at our next jump up into our high school students.
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So this database is going to jump up in terms of breadth of content and kind of numbers of content.
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The title list for these databases get bigger as you move up.
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So our high schoolers have access to the most content.
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Within this resource great tools to kind of develop their critical thinking skills.
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I’m sorry for me. Excuse me.
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Problem solving skills again, looking across curriculum. So I wanted these.
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I wanted these 3 resources on the same slide, because they're often a good jumping off point before you dive into other resources.
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There are good starting resource, so say a middle school comes into the library.
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Middle schooler comes into the library. They're looking for help with a project it's Abraham Lincoln.
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This is a good place to get started you're going to find lots of different types of contexts and then content.
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And then, as needed, you can kind of branch out into the others.
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So these are, you know, if this were print concept yeah, the first things you pull off the shelf when you want to help students with their resources.
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Also good place to start for any of our folks who may be your teachers or administrators a good place to find content to, you know, fit the digital needs in your classroom.
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So these 3, we're going to go pop into a little later and show you how some of the more press pack practices for using them.
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But those are kind of our base. K, 12 products again getting started.
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There you are also able to get to contact from National Geographic.
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So we are thrilled to partner with Nat Geo to provide National Geographic kids.
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This is a collection of the magazine going back to 2,009 through the present, plus over 700 full text eBooks that range and reading level from pre-k up to middle school.
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So it is, you know, named after the day after the magazine, but that eBook content is just invaluable.
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So we want to show you some of that. It is also a little different from other products, because we have to treat this as if it's print content.
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So really, you're viewing those magazine pages.
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You're viewing the book pages with our content that we can use at Gale.
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We're able to put it in, you know, whatever kind of format we want with Nat.
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Geo. We do have to adhere to some other rules, but it is an excellent collection.
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You can't be that name. Recognition of Nat. Geo.
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We find on average folks spend double the amount of time in a national geographic resource, and they do our others.
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Which you know. I suppose if we're going to come in second, it's okay to come second to Nat Geo. In terms of time spent.
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But excellent resource. They've got great video content and downloadable images, too.
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So lot of animal research done in this resource, too. But of course, they do a lot of great coverage for other social study subjects, science, and so on.
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And then you also have a collection of standalone e-books in Yealink books.
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This is basically Gale has been a print publisher for years and years, and of course our content is available.
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Is eBooks now. So this is a collection put together by the folks at the State Library of Ready reference e-books, and with our e-books at Gale you have unlimited use, so there's no check-in or checkout any number of kids could be using the same book at the
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same time, no special software is required. We wanted as easy to use and as accessible as possible, and your reading levels here are mix.
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You've got content in there kind of upper elementary.
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And in this collection, so these are also good places to get started as I like the gale eBooks.
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It's kind of like pulling reference book off the shelf.
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It is, you know, again, a good kind of good overviews to get comfortable with the topic. Something you might pull out of a you know textbook. And then, of course, again, yeah, she generally, folks are going to recognize that name and get really engaged with kind of the visual aspect of the of the resources itself.
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So keep going here now. The rest of the resources kind of grouped together by subject area, and these are ones you may jump into initially.
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Or again, you may start in something say for environmental studies, maybe get the basics in context high school, but say, if you're working with an environmental studies class, this might be the first place you start.
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So it can vary when you jump into these. But the rest of the ones we're going to talk about the rest, and you'll notice these are in the gal and context product family.
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So again, specifically developed for K. 12, reading level, Wise.
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These are kind of kind of start with middle school and they're going to vary.
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So Gale in context, environmental studies is going to have content for you know, reference articles for a middle schooler.
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But also case studies that are, you know, could be, you know, 50 pages long.
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So it's when we kind of browse through the resources later on, I’ll show you how we divide up this content so you can kind of target the things that make sense for your students.
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But database is very well named. This is a database that looks at the study of sustainability and the environment which touches, you know, on a lot of different classroom subject areas you know, it's not really just going to go in there.
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When you're that's student city and climate change is going to touch on a lot of different issues.
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You know, bringing jobs and things like that. So really great collection to support a lot of different kind of scientific avenues.
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Gale In Context opposing viewpoints. Probably our most popular database, our most used database in terms of numbers.
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This is based on a print series we published. If you've been in the library for a long time, you might recognize the opposing viewpoints, name the print collection was wildly popular, so of course we've made it an online collection as well, it looks at today's social issues.
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And provides, balanced viewpoints on them, along with that kind of a lot of backing documents.
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So students are developing their own account as they are again using critical thinking skills to kind of make up their mind about different issues, it allows them the content to kind of build an argument around a topic, but also just perform research you know, on that argument and again develop their own opinion.
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So really critical resource for critical thinking, and yet actually even has prompts around critical thinking within the articles.
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So lots of good stuff there again, reading level, wise. We kind of start with middle school, but I think generally you'll find high school is probably the most comfortable in it, but it is often used with middle schoolers as well.
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And then one of my favorite databases, gale and context. To us history.
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So this is resource. Again, very well-known focuses on us history.
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My favorite piece of this resource are all the primary sources that are included.
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So they've become so important, incorrectly. And again I keep coming back to critical thinking.
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But that's one of the great pieces about primary documents is they are having to think critically about that document.
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They're looking at. This letter was written in 1,886.
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What was the Us like at that time? You kind of have to build in and fill in the gaps a little bit or more, maybe do more research to understand and comprehend that content more so really, really great content.
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There we have lots of great reference sources, great periodicals, but for me the primary sources are my favorite piece of that resource.
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So again, these kind of jump up in terms of reading level more for our middle and high schoolers, and have more specific subject areas, something like opposing viewpoints hits a lot of different curriculum areas.
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But it has a particular intent in mind it's looking at, you know, Socialist environmental studies is looking at the environment. Us.
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History is, you know, focusing on us history. So these are ones that aren't quite as general and are good place to dive deeper into a topic.
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Keep looking at by subject. So leaving the Yale in context, product family for a minute, we're actually jumping into our literature product family with Gale LitFinder.
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This is a collection of over a 150,000 full-text poems, as well as full tech short stories, speeches, and plays so it's a great resource, for, of course, in Ela classroom, when they're studying poetry or maybe looking for a short, story to read in class
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it is also going to provide more than 800,000 poetry citations.
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So you can find the poems elsewhere. I like to stick to the full text content, but it can be a great support.
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And again, remember you have unlimited, unlimited use of all of this content.
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So again students could all be in this resource. At the same time studying the same poem and doing, say, a coral reading or something in the classroom.
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So maybe something with the short stories, or even the plays, could be working with those.
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So right content there, and a lot of great ways to find content.
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You can, of course, search by title and author, but you can find, you know, looking for a play about winter, or something like that.
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There are lots of ways to find the content by the type of source.
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It is the subject that covers, and so on.
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We also offer our Gale books and authors, which is a reader's advisory resource.
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It recommends books so certainly for you know the classroom, but also just for fun, you know, finding your next great read, this is guided by hand picked genre experts, many of them authors themselves.
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Some are actually librarians. We recommend books based for children, young adults and adults.
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And you'll find fiction and nonfiction. It doesn't have the actual books.
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These are just the recommended titles, but we have really great ways to be able to search them.
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So the search by genre and story types to say, if you like, mysteries.
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But specifically, you like, you know, private detective stories.
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You can kind of 0 in on those a little more. There's also hundreds of lists based on award winners and librarian picks, which is really fun.
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So great database to find your next great read.
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You also have a big collection of resources around magazines, journals, and newspapers.
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You may not use these quite as much, but they are a great resource.
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Certainly to help prep students if they are headed to college, or certainly want to get them comfortable with news.
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Some newspaper, the newspaper collection is really valuable, reading level, wise, you know, again, probably going to start around middle school.
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Gale. One found news is a great resource to kind of get students into looking at periodicals.
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We have newspapers from around the world across the Us. And, Jen, did you want to add something?
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I wanted to ask a question, for so all of the previous databases had periodicals.
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So can you help explain the difference between those and these that are focused on periodicals?
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And maybe I just.
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Absolutely. Yes, thank you. So whenever you see Gale 1,000 in the little orange bar there, that means that is, from our periodical product family.
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And basically it boils down to these databases are all about periodicals that is, the bulk of their content.
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They might have a handful of reference books or other types of sources.
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For example, in the newspaper database we've got broadcast transcripts and things like that but the bulk of these are going to be magazines, journals, and newspapers where when we're talking about Gale and context databases, or even the literature, databases
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they're trying to blend periodicals with a lot of reference content.
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A lot of primary source content. A lot of multimedia, and really make it a whole library where, when you're looking at Gale, one file databases, I would think of them as a section of the library, the section of library where you've got your magazine listed or sharing you've
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got your magazine or your newspaper newspapers showing.
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It's that section of the library where the gale and context in the literature resources are trying to do more of a whole library approach.
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Thank you. That's a great analogy.
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So the absolutely oh, good! Oh, thank you. So the periodicals are well, actually, all of the databases that have periodicals are updated daily.
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They're feeding in new, but these, of course, they vary up to date.
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It's kind of interesting to see the newspapers rolling.
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You'll see papers from the East coast, or kind of that hemisphere come in, and then the things come from the West coast and that hemisphere throughout the day.
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So it's a great way to look at news, but also, you know, it's a great way to look at news, but it's a great tool for information literacy, right teaching kids about the newspaper where the news is coming from the different sections of the paper.
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You know why is an editorial different from you know?
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Maybe an article on the Home on the front page on page Amazon on the front page.
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So the periodicals are another way to kind of get them comfortable with different types of media.
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And we've been hearing a lot about media literacy this year.
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You also have a collection of scholarly periodicals, and gale academic. One file.
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So these are really going to be more for our college libraries.
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But it's a good tool to kind of get students who are maybe in their last couple of years of high school.
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If they're headed to colleges college start getting them comfortable with journals and research, and the way that those work you've got any ap courses they can be a great support for it as well.
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And these are expensive publication. So they're not usually something you find in in the school library.
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So I would let your teachers know these are theirs as well.
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They can certainly use them in the classroom, but also just for their own use, for professional development.
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And then it's companion, general. One file is general interest.
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Period goes to things you would pick up from the, you know, checkout counter at the grocery store, or things you might find in in the bookstore on the magazine shelves, you know, really runs the gamut in terms of topics, and both of these gale one
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file resources academic, one file and general, one file are kind of Mega publications.
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There, both have over 10,000 sources in each of them.
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So big databases. This is a good one, I would think, for high school students to kind of if they're toe in the water periodicals.
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If you want to focus on sharing that type of research. And again, kind of building their media literacy, you also have a collection called Dl, one file, high school edition, which is kind of a subsequent of gale general one filed a smaller collection it can be a little less overwhelming
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to work with. Because going into these big periodical databases is not unlike going to Google and getting back.
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You know a 100,000 heads. So deal one file. High school addition is a subset and focus on things you would find in the school library, so you know, might be if they're looking at the list of the results recognized.
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Those sources a little more, or eagerly.
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So the rest of the resources are probably going to get more occasional use in the K 12 spaces.
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So the business databases, gale business insights and gale business entrepreneurship will be useful for high school business classes.
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I remember one of my high school business classes we had to start our own business, so certainly get business entrepreneurship would have help to be out there.
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It's got sample business plans, great stuff. I created a PET store business, was my plan, but we have also the business insights which provides research into companies and industries.
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This, I think, would be helpful in economics, classes.
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There's a lot of great financial data in these. But marketing classes, things like that, you've got some great support here for high school business classes.
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Gale. Health and wellness is our consumer. Health, database.
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So it's written for the patient, not the doctor. So if you're you know learning about something and health class, this is going to be a resource again.
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Middle School high school for a lot of the reference content.
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There is going to be a blind, though you will find scholarly and professional publications here, too.
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But the great thing about the health and wellness resource is, it starts with that consumer health first, and then you can dig deeper into the more academic or scholarly content and professional content as needed.
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And then the rest of the gale, one file product family in your collection.
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So again, remember, whenever you hear Gale, one file. That's periodicals.
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So these are collections that focus periodical collections that focus generally on an audience or a subject area.
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So educators, reference complete is a great source for anyone who works in education be a great tool for professional development.
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If people are still pursuing degrees, if you anybody remembers using Eric when they were in school, it's a similar collection.
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We have a lot of overlap with what's available.
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And Eric, Gale. One file. Health and medicine is more for the professional or the academic it's a lot of medical journals.
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Briefly mention Gale, one file high school edition before again periodicals you would find in a high school library.
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Inform me. Académico is a database full of content.
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That was originally written in Spanish, or has been hand translated.
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We're going to talk about a translation feature. We offer in all our databases.
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But in inform a. That content is all either. Again, originally written in Spanish, or has been hand translated.
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This is largely an academic it kind of evolved over time into a more academic journal database, but it doesn't have newspapers, and some general interest magazines.
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So if you have Spanish classes at school, I think it would be an interesting experiment to, you know.
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Have students, kind of navigate their way through it, or even, you know, find, say something from a newspaper, and translate, you know themselves.
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But of course, if you have any native speakers, it's a great collection as well.
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To have content in a native language, and then the legal track is legal journals, as you can imagine, and then you also have about 20 plus subject specific periodical collections that focus on subject areas.
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So there are small you some of them might only have 2 or 300 sources in them, something like that culture collection or the Information Science Collection, which might be very interesting for our library staff here has all our library journals in it, but those are kind of based on what kind of courses.
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You might have in your school, and how popular they may be.
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So again, these are resources you may not use as often, but when you need them it's good to have them so all right.
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Now it's better a lot of time in the slides.
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I want to actually get into the resources and share some of the as you can see, the content.
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You can see some of the tools in action. As we mentioned.
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It's great to work with this content, because they all have similar things in common.
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So let's actually see that in action. So you can.
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Of course, access this content right through us. Oh, gee! We have!
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Yeah, I, just wanted to point out, really quick. I put it into the chat.
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I would when I first started with the gale databases I would get a lot of questions about I don't know which one to use when.
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And so I created a Pdf, that's like a comparison table and a lot of what Stacey just mentioned.
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So you it's but it's focused on the K 12 ones, and it's at the bottom of the find.
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Information page on us lists for educators. So whether you're secondary or elementary, this link here, if you scroll to the bottom of that.
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Yeah, thank you. So in the gale section, I think it's the first bullet.
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If you are wondering which Gale K. 12 database to use when consult the.
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And so it has a target audience and content column, and then a content.
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This is the last column is kind of like odds and ends like this is part of a power search.
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If you do a power search or this one will not show up in a power search.
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That kind of information. So that can be handy for you as you're learning, but it can also be handy for any educators.
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Other educators in your buildings.
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Excellent. Yeah, this is great. Jim.
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So, because I’m not there in Oregon with you all, I’m going to actually go into the resources a different way, using our Vo menu here.
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And what I want to do, I’m going to get actually a few of these resources open at the same time.
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So I can show you again the commonalities that they all have bear with me while I get that going.
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I used to set this all up before I would start the webinar, but our databases have a built in time out period.
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So if you walk away from your computer for a while or anything, it just logs you out, and you kind of lose your pace and have to log in again.
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And that's what would happen in my webinar.
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So, now I launch what I need already. So here's a look at Gale in context, elementary.
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This is again built for a younger user. But one of the things you'll see our databases kind of all have certain things in common.
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So they're home pages while this one's very colorful and iPad, driven, and you know, bigger buttons.
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If we pop over to Yealink context, middle school, similar, we've got a you know, header image here.
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We've got a search within it. We've got our toolbar, and then we can browse just like the way elementary does.
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It's just kind of looks a little different. Same thing.
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If I pop to the homepage for Yealink Context high School.
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So it's easy to move between these resources, even something from the gale.
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One file, again, remember, periodicals are our goal here in OneFile.
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Similar ideas. Search right there at the top toolbars, and this actually offers a browse.
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Not all of the one fall resources due, but you know common header in all of these databases, you can easily switch between them. Alright.
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So let's take a look at the browse.
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I do love, browsing in our databases.
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I think it is a really great way for you to get comfortable with what's here.
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It's also, you know, students may not think of it as browsing, but it's a great way that it sparks their curiosity on different topics.
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We have an I wonder question here, always on the homepage they can browse through books in the collection news, and so on, coming soon.
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You'll actually be able to browse National Geographic kids from here as well.
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That's coming the other thing that's great about browse is, it helps grow kids, information literacy skills.
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We've got these subject areas here. So you know, we've got a whole world of information out there.
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How does that information get broken down? So we start breaking it down by subject areas and start getting narrower and narrow.
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So if we go into social studies, then we start breaking down us presidents, explorers, government, native American tribes, and then we get a list of native American tribes.
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So it's giving kids this kind of look at how information gets put together.
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And then, as you select, we go to in the Galen context, databases. We go to.
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We call it. Everybody calls us something different. Portal, page, traffic page is basically the home page for everything we have for that topic.
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Everything relevant, I should say not just a mere mention of the topic.
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But you know something really about the topic. We always start out with an overview that you can then click into quick reading.
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You get some quick facts here at the top, and then we break down the content like we.
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It's broken down in the library. So here are books.
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Here are magazines. Here's our news. Here's our videos.
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Whatever those may be, we look, group, keep the light content together.
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We call them our content types so they vary, depending on, you know which resource you're in.
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The content types. We'll see related topics. So again, discovery finding more content, Jen, go ahead!
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I was going to mention that the topic page at the top, the article that has been selected by Gale editors here it would be
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a really good way to help students develop background knowledge. You know.
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I don't know about you, but I can't tell you how many times kids came to the library and said, I have to do a research paper. Okay, what's it about?
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Abraham Lincoln, well, what do you want to know about him?
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I don't know. Well, okay. And so they have no background knowledge, no keywords to, or, you know, subtopics to look into.
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So these topic articles are excellent for helping students develop just enough background knowledge and key words to launch them into better searching.
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That's it. That's a perfect use for them.
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Jen is some of them will actually give you keywords.
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Now what they call it, but it's that's the ideas, you know, giving them other search terms and things like that.
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So, yeah. Thanks. Jen, so let's see, how does this work when we're in middle school again, we've got browse by subject area down here at the bottom, and you have a slightly different look and feel, you know, we're aging up with our user so it's not
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quite as graphical, not quite as colorful, but we then we get a list.
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So, for example, for reading the book fee in class, here we have that topic. Page.
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So we start out again with an overview can read more, get some basics about the book, get some quick facts.
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And that is, we scroll again, grouping those documents together.
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So reference articles on the themes they construct.
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The historical context of the work file for the author and keep moving through here and again periodicals.
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Here. We want to keep these databases up to date.
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So you're always going to have those periodicals. But notice how we kind of place the emphasis on the reference.
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That kind of introductory type. Articles first again, have related subjects.
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Same idea in Yale and Context high school. But of course things have gotten bigger right with the deal and context high school.
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We have a lot more sources, but again, still breaking things down.
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By subject area here, we'll pop into, say, science and help.
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And again mentioned before that periodicals are updated daily.
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But we don't assign an updated tag just because of new periodicals.
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This means our editors have gone in. Maybe they've changed out and updated the topic overview.
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Or they've added a lot of new reference content.
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Maybe there's a new video source there, or something like that.
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So that uploaded tag is only for a significant update to the page.
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Not just because there's, you know, 3 new newspaper articles.
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And again you can kind of jump around here and take a look.
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We'll go jump to one more topic page, and you can see again.
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Layout very similar, but just a little more sophisticated. You know there is a little more text, heavy.
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Things to keep an eye out for, and I haven't pointed it out, but they've been both the middle school and high school, but you'll see we have reading level indicators and Lexile scores for the oracles in the Yealink context databases and several of the others but
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always in the K 12 products. So these are handy. We're going to talk about these more in our webinar we're offering in April.
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Go into a little bit more about reading level differentiation, but just wanted to point them out here.
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Our advanced search can help you. 0 in on that type of content.
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And then, lastly, let's take a look at a periodical resource here.
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So we do have a browse here. You might not find it in all the periodical databases.
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But really, where you're going to see the difference is, let me pop into sorry.
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What did I have? My, we have basically popular search terms from this subject area.
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So we, this database is huge we don't want to give a huge list here, though, just some of the top searches like you say, standardized testing.
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You can see it looks pretty different. These are topic pages that you end up with in the periodical databases.
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It's all about giving you these magazines. Journals, book well, some book content.
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And it's a multi medium. But you can see just from the hit counts where the bulk of our content is coming from magazine academic journals, and this is a little bit more like a traditional kind of scrolling of results just sting on one another same thing happens when
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you search. So it doesn't have that topic. Page, that nice getting started page with research when you're in the one file resources.
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So which is again why I mentioned. Those are always good to get started with.
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So, looking at some of this other content, let me jump back to.
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Beyond context elementary. You can also, just, of course, send a search out from any page.
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It's always available up there in the top of the resource, and if you start typing, we always have a search assist, which is great.
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Some terrible speller, but also just for your knowledge.
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It's a little bit of a clue when you see something in bold that's being suggested.
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That means you're going to end up at a topic page.
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We have a topic page for that topic. There's certainly content covered in the databases that doesn't have topic pages.
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We create new ones every month. So they build and build, for example, the book, the was one that got added within the last 6 months or so when I showed in middle school earlier.
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So you'll see more of them pop up, but I can I can show you what it looks like when you don't have one as well.
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So yeah. Landed on something familiar. Start with that overview.
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Let's see what looks different, though, when you come into, say, middle school, and we don't have a topic page on topic.
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Oh, shoot! I forgot! Invasive species was always my! No, I see I've given myself.
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I forgot. I always forget they create this, but I have it in my notes.
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So when you send out a search that doesn't have a topic page that matches exactly.
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This is what your results look like. You come back and you have a more stacked result.
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What you is also a big benefit from a page like this I probably don't need it too much, because, you know, I don't have an overwhelming amount of hits here, but if you look off to the right, the filter your results is really handy, it allows you to narrow your hits by publication.
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Date, subject, area, document type is a great one, but it allows you to filter and kind of massage that results. Let's get it down to what you need.
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It!
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Let me show you where that really comes in handy. I’m actually going to leave German one.
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Oh, sure! Go ahead, Jen.
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Can I say something sorry it can if you want to go back to that other page that showed the topic the filtering one.
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Yes.
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If I've gotten a complaint, so to speak, about the gale databases, it would be that sometimes we can't find anything meaty or enough.
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That is meaty. And so, if you are in all of, let's say, a results.
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Page that has tons and tons of results. And you go to document type like Stacey did.
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And you see where it says, article versus brief Article.
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So article is going to be your meteor content as would cover story and if you're in opposing viewpoints, what are what?
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What are those topics that I don't know?
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There's pages for those that are, yeah.
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Oh, critical essays, yeah.
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Critical essays or overviews. I think it might be called so.
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Topic overview, I think, is, yeah.
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That's a way, yeah, so that's a way for somebody to hone in on.
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I really want the meaty stuff. Go to your document type and sort accordingly.
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Absolutely yeah, just apply narrow it down because the people who are working behind the scenes assign those document types too.
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So document type. It is a database trading. You have a favorite limit, or that's my document type.
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It is so valuable, absolutely, and I’ll tell you where I specially appreciate it is in the big periodical database.
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So if we pop into the news resource, for example, and I want to research on the frame development in Ohio.
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Again, kind of thinking what's happening right now. Look at the number.
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Hits. I have over 7,000 new. There are some news magazines in the collection newsletters, things like that.
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So we've got some other bits, too, but it's oversight.
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It's a lot of content. So something like document type is really valuable.
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You can choose, say, editorial you know, if we're looking for more of an opinion piece kind of scroll through there.
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She can get an idea. Now, are all of these specifically about this recent train, derailment in Ohio.
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Probably not something like publication data, you know. Just put in the date of the event, and only get news from them.
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So the filters are really handy, and I kind of like sending my search out and then filtering down.
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But you can always use our advanced search in any of these databases to put in your search parameters and apply your limits when you issue the search too.
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So this is where you can come and put in those reading level limiters as well so in advanced search is really powerful.
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And I. You know it may be easy for me to say this, but I think it's pretty easy to use.
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We've got a lot of on screen instructions here.
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So again. This might be something we'll investigate more in our April session, but advanced search and we have a great help file, too.
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So always at the bottom of the page. Yeah, so all right.
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The last thing I want to talk about is how you work with the documents.
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So you've gotten your search results down. You've found articles you want to use. Let me go ahead and jump into, just going to pop back into high school here, and as we go ahead and jump into an entry.
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You'll and actually let me pop into one and elementary 2 for a second.
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So we can see there are a couple slight differences in the way we display.
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So what can you do with the content you found? We want you to be able to, of course, read it easily, but not everyone is able to read it, you know. Some want to hear it?
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Some need it translated. So as you move between the resources, what you'll find is just here in context, elementary.
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The buttons are over here to the far right in the other databases.
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They're going to appear right here in the document. I think that might be something that's changing for me in context, elementary.
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I think they're going to put them in line with the documents.
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It's something. But I haven't got final word on that.
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But these are all the ways we can interact with that text that's available.
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So these are important. We want to reach all our students. The listen option will have the article read to you, and you have.
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Mental disorders. Mental health disorders also called mental illnesses.
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There are some settings I can go into to make adjustments for how it's doing that we have an On demand language, translation.
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Now, this is a machine translation. So you know, it's not going to be the way you hand translate it. But it can help students who's per language, English.
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We got some font size options, but really you could do a lot with a lot more with the text, with the display options.
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So get the most comfortable reading experience I have a nephew who has a processing issue.
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He really needs text to be on a bluer, a green background.
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There we go! I can enable that for him, and what's great is as you make these changes, and if I pop into other articles, let me just go ahead to the overview here, it remembers the setting.
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So any display option changes I make. I can switch to save the dyslexia open dyslexic, but I can change the spacing of the text.
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It's going to remember that. And as I move into the next article, it will keep those settings really valuable.
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So keep an eye on the clock here always more things to show you I’m going to pop back into Yale Middle School will kind of wrap things up there and show you ways.
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You can push this content out. So we have up here in the upper right hand corner in the toolbar so, using my annotate tool here, all the different ways, I can kind of push the content out to someone or pull it to myself so that I've got it when I need it we have of course, options.
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For printing, and just do a nice print I choose sent to.
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I can send this off to Google, drive and keep it in my cloud.
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Same thing for one drive. I can just email it out. I have the option of downloading it as well.
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So maybe I want to Pdf, I can keep track of moving on to my e-reader.
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You've got a citation tool, so no excuses for not creating a works site.
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And Page, we've got different version or different files. We have different ways.
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You can export and use those tools.
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Don't you know that your middle schoolers are going to love?
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That author's name, Bob Buts.
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Absolutely. This is a serendipity at its best.
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Here you can also again push content out like sending it to your cloud, and then sharing from there or you can make use of our get link button here.
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It gives you a persistent URL. You can then place anywhere on your website on, you know, if you use something like canvas or any sort of you know, learning management system like that, we actually if you look at the very top banner, you can share this document, right?
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To your Google classroom and pass it through there so and send the links out to kids.
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So lots of ways to get this into their hands. We have lots of different ways to let this content live outside of the resource.
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So I know we'll be popped into a few of the resources that have access to.
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But again, these are features they all have in common, so I haven't seen anything in the chat or the but if there’s anything in particular you want to see.
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But just noticing. We're running a little long here, so let me pop back and share our support.
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So again, and the idea of having this is a handout for you later.
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I've got just a couple of slides on the accessibility, and the workflow tools support that gale.com slash training.
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You can find a lot of great tools we've created escape rooms around our databases that you could use in the library or the classroom.
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We haven't even have a way you can create your own, a template for it.
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We also have the instructional materials. So tutorials about how to different tools work.
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We have lesson plans, you can use. We've got, of course, all the recordings of our sessions and things like that.
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There's also lots of great free marketing materials so you can kind of spread the word about these resources without having to recreate the wheel.
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Lots of good stuff out on this site again. I’ll put a link in my follow-up email for tomorrow.
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That will come to you. But then, of course, you can also reach out to your yes, yeah, a 1 million escape room that the students could do actually, today on our calendar, we offered a session around this topic on how to create your own.
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But we have one's ready to go for elementary middle school and high school for the in context, resources.
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So, and actually, I’ll just you know what I’ll put links to them in the handouts.
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You can find them directly. Let me just make a note to do that, and I’ll put a link to the recording as well.
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In case you want to tune into that. So there are lots of fun we have.
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We added 3 trainers to the team last year, and they are all former teachers.
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So the content that they're producing is just amazing.
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And that Roddy Bush is our creator of the escape room tools.
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They're great. So you want to reach out to Gale.
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We are happy to hear from you again. I’m your trainer.
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Just give me a call. Shoot me an email. You can get in touch with our tech support team.
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Should you need something or have a question? If we don't have the answers, we know where to get them, so we can brought a tech support myself.
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We can all get in touch with the product teams and track down answers.
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So lots of good stuff on our social media channels find great success stories and promotion of updates to the databases and things like that.
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And we are offering another session related to us, as in April, so Jen is spread the word about that.
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She can register, to attend and like today is, if you can't attend, you always get a link to the recordings. You can always tune in later as well.
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So oh, great Jen, thanks, I was just going to do that.
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So we want you to let us know you thought of the session today, and I actually have these on a slide with some QR codes.
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You want to use those 2. But Jen is very helpful with the links in the chat.
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I’ll put them in the follow-up email, too.
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So if you want to, you know, take care of it. Tomorrow you'll have those.
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Then as well. So, Jenny thing to add.
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No, I just want to thank you, Stacey. And I want to thank all of our attendees.
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I know this was the end of your workday, and you know there's a lot to learn here.
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So, if you find that you're like, wait, stay see! Or Jen said something, and I can't remember. Please reach out to either one of us.
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We will be very glad to help you. There are no stupid questions.
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Absolutely. Yeah. We want to hear from you.
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Thanks so much, everybody, for attending feel free to stick around.
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If you've got questions, I’m going to keep things open and interactive here.
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So feel free to stick around, but it again, if you're all set like, Jen said, we know you're at the end of your school day, so we want to let you go get on with your evening.
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So thanks everybody for tuning in and hopefully, we'll catch you on another session down the road.
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Thanks, all.
So thank you very much, Stacey, for agreeing to do this.
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Happy, to.
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We are Stacey and I have collaborated on some Oregon specific webinars that we thought might be handy for classroom teachers and school library staff, and this one is geared for those of you who may be totally new to the suite of gale products that we offer to all
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libraries, all Oregonians through live, and as I just wanted to introduce Stacey Knibloe is a Gale trainer, and she was assigned to Oregon, and it is her luck as it turns out, because she totally Loves coming to Oregon, when she can, but it's our
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luck to, because she's an awesome trainer, and I forgot to say who I am.
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I am Jen Mau. I am the school library consultant at the State Library.
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If you have questions about the gale databases, you know I can help, and Stacey can.
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But if you have questions more generically about OSLIS, I can definitely help with that. I will turn it over to you, Stacey, and turn off my camera. Thanks.
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Excellent thanks, Jen. Well, I imagine most of you do know.
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Jen already, though, because she's such a great support, and has such excellent idea, so certainly glad to have her with us to take a look at these resources.
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So again, I’m Stacey, and with Gale, and I do love to visit Vermont, I’m actually going to be attending the Oregon Library Association Conference in April, and I do love to visit Vermont I’m actually going to be attending the Oregon. Library Association Conference in April.
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I’m very excited to get to visit so but of course also thrilled to be with you virtually tonight, to take a look at these resources.
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So we have a pretty brief agenda.
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I like to keep it simple, and really let you lead the session.
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But Jen and I's idea behind the settings was again to just really introduce this collection.
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Let you know what to use when and share some best practices, for when you're in the resources, but because you have such a big collection of resources, we thought it would be good to just start with that kind of overview and make sure you know what's in these resources what the you know intended
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audiences is and you know again just down to knowing what to use when the great thing is, is they have a lot of things in common in terms of the way they work.
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So if you're looking for the option to translate an article it's always in the same place.
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That type of thing. So we'll share some of those.
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Kind of commonalities that they all share, which really makes these all very different is the content that's in them.
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And then, of course, we have great support, in Jen, and we want you to know where you can reach out to us at Gale as well, so we'll wrap up with that Gale support.
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So you know how to get in touch after today I will send you'll all get an email around this time tomorrow with the link to the recording and some follow-up links to stuff on our support site and things like that.
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They're really handy as well as all of our contact. Info!
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So, keep an eye out for them, so I like an interactive session, do feel free to make a little use of that chat in the jump.
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In anytime. You've got a question you don't have to hold it to the end, or anything.
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I’ll keep an eye on that. Those 2 options.
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So alrighty, let's go ahead and dive in.
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So Gale is thrilled to be part of the OSLIS program, and you have a wide variety of databases, because this collection is intended, of course, for school libraries, but also for public and academics.
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So there's a real mix of intended audiences here, subject areas and the like, and looking at a list of them just in alphabetical order like this can be kind of overwhelming.
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So the next several slides are going to break down these resources into their subject areas and who they're intended.
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Audiences are, and one of the things you'll get tomorrow is a link to this these slides so that you can kind of refer back to them and have them as kind of a virtual handout from this session.
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So let's look at these more specifically. First, up in our collection of C 12 resources, our product family, as you might say, for the K.
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12 institutions, our daily context resources. This is really where our cage-f products live at Gale we have a whole dedicated team of product managers that work with them, subject specialists that work on them.
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A lot of work goes into producing these databases, and all of them keep a K 12 audience in mind.
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So of course, they get used outside of a K 12 space, but that's really our main users of this collection.
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Of resources. So up first for our younger users, Gale in context, elementary, the daily context product, family combines reference content with periodicals, with multimedia and then depending on the resource you're in.
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There are lots of other sources, too, but they're all built with multi sources in them to kind of give you a little sampling of things you would find in the library.
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Gale in context, elementary same idea. You're going to find content in there from reference books that you might pull off the shelf in an elementary library, you find magazines. They might use.
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We've got some great video and other multimedia content.
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You have, all the curriculum areas covered here, but, as you might guess, popular searches in this database is on animals.
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Is it often what we find here? But you're going to have geography, social studies, coverage.
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You're going to have science, you'll have literature.
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And even you'll find content to kind of serve the whole so you know, dealing with, you know, different emotions and things like that.
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So really, great coverage here for our younger users, and an interface that suits that younger user.
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And then we age up for our middle schools, middle schoolers, Gale.
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In context, middle school is again multi-source lots of different types of sources, but looks at middle school curriculums across the country around the world.
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We talk with librarians, we talk with teachers. What do you need to find in these databases?
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And you know that is evident in the databases.
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I’ll share some things that we have recently added.
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Some things that are coming. As we look at some of these more closely.
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But again good, general, interest, database going to hit all different areas of curriculum, but intended audience reading level.
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-wise is going to be middle schoolers. You'll, of course, make the choice for where you think your students are at.
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The content is available to everybody, so you can get into any of these databases, and if you've got a middle schooler who may be needs that more elementary reading level, you have access to it, and vice versa.
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If you want to jump up with your upper, elementary students into missing middle school content, I’m going to share some ways.
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You can put content right into their hands, too, so you can kind of bypass them, going in and finding it so we'll talk about that, too.
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As you can imagine at our next jump up into our high school students.
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So this database is going to jump up in terms of breadth of content and kind of numbers of content.
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The title list for these databases get bigger as you move up.
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So our high schoolers have access to the most content.
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Within this resource great tools to kind of develop their critical thinking skills.
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I’m sorry for me. Excuse me.
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Problem solving skills again, looking across curriculum. So I wanted these.
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I wanted these 3 resources on the same slide, because they're often a good jumping off point before you dive into other resources.
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There are good starting resource, so say a middle school comes into the library.
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Middle schooler comes into the library. They're looking for help with a project it's Abraham Lincoln.
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This is a good place to get started you're going to find lots of different types of contexts and then content.
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And then, as needed, you can kind of branch out into the others.
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So these are, you know, if this were print concept yeah, the first things you pull off the shelf when you want to help students with their resources.
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Also good place to start for any of our folks who may be your teachers or administrators a good place to find content to, you know, fit the digital needs in your classroom.
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So these 3, we're going to go pop into a little later and show you how some of the more press pack practices for using them.
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But those are kind of our base. K, 12 products again getting started.
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There you are also able to get to contact from National Geographic.
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So we are thrilled to partner with Nat Geo to provide National Geographic kids.
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This is a collection of the magazine going back to 2,009 through the present, plus over 700 full text eBooks that range and reading level from pre-k up to middle school.
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So it is, you know, named after the day after the magazine, but that eBook content is just invaluable.
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So we want to show you some of that. It is also a little different from other products, because we have to treat this as if it's print content.
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So really, you're viewing those magazine pages.
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You're viewing the book pages with our content that we can use at Gale.
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We're able to put it in, you know, whatever kind of format we want with Nat.
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Geo. We do have to adhere to some other rules, but it is an excellent collection.
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You can't be that name. Recognition of Nat. Geo.
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We find on average folks spend double the amount of time in a national geographic resource, and they do our others.
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Which you know. I suppose if we're going to come in second, it's okay to come second to Nat Geo. In terms of time spent.
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But excellent resource. They've got great video content and downloadable images, too.
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So lot of animal research done in this resource, too. But of course, they do a lot of great coverage for other social study subjects, science, and so on.
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And then you also have a collection of standalone e-books in Yealink books.
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This is basically Gale has been a print publisher for years and years, and of course our content is available.
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Is eBooks now. So this is a collection put together by the folks at the State Library of Ready reference e-books, and with our e-books at Gale you have unlimited use, so there's no check-in or checkout any number of kids could be using the same book at the
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same time, no special software is required. We wanted as easy to use and as accessible as possible, and your reading levels here are mix.
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You've got content in there kind of upper elementary.
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And in this collection, so these are also good places to get started as I like the gale eBooks.
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It's kind of like pulling reference book off the shelf.
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It is, you know, again, a good kind of good overviews to get comfortable with the topic. Something you might pull out of a you know textbook. And then, of course, again, yeah, she generally, folks are going to recognize that name and get really engaged with kind of the visual aspect of the of the resources itself.
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So keep going here now. The rest of the resources kind of grouped together by subject area, and these are ones you may jump into initially.
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Or again, you may start in something say for environmental studies, maybe get the basics in context high school, but say, if you're working with an environmental studies class, this might be the first place you start.
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So it can vary when you jump into these. But the rest of the ones we're going to talk about the rest, and you'll notice these are in the gal and context product family.
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So again, specifically developed for K. 12, reading level, Wise.
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These are kind of kind of start with middle school and they're going to vary.
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So Gale in context, environmental studies is going to have content for you know, reference articles for a middle schooler.
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But also case studies that are, you know, could be, you know, 50 pages long.
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So it's when we kind of browse through the resources later on, I’ll show you how we divide up this content so you can kind of target the things that make sense for your students.
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But database is very well named. This is a database that looks at the study of sustainability and the environment which touches, you know, on a lot of different classroom subject areas you know, it's not really just going to go in there.
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When you're that's student city and climate change is going to touch on a lot of different issues.
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You know, bringing jobs and things like that. So really great collection to support a lot of different kind of scientific avenues.
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Gale In Context opposing viewpoints. Probably our most popular database, our most used database in terms of numbers.
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This is based on a print series we published. If you've been in the library for a long time, you might recognize the opposing viewpoints, name the print collection was wildly popular, so of course we've made it an online collection as well, it looks at today's social issues.
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And provides, balanced viewpoints on them, along with that kind of a lot of backing documents.
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So students are developing their own account as they are again using critical thinking skills to kind of make up their mind about different issues, it allows them the content to kind of build an argument around a topic, but also just perform research you know, on that argument and again develop their own opinion.
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So really critical resource for critical thinking, and yet actually even has prompts around critical thinking within the articles.
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So lots of good stuff there again, reading level, wise. We kind of start with middle school, but I think generally you'll find high school is probably the most comfortable in it, but it is often used with middle schoolers as well.
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And then one of my favorite databases, gale and context. To us history.
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So this is resource. Again, very well-known focuses on us history.
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My favorite piece of this resource are all the primary sources that are included.
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So they've become so important, incorrectly. And again I keep coming back to critical thinking.
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But that's one of the great pieces about primary documents is they are having to think critically about that document.
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They're looking at. This letter was written in 1,886.
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What was the Us like at that time? You kind of have to build in and fill in the gaps a little bit or more, maybe do more research to understand and comprehend that content more so really, really great content.
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There we have lots of great reference sources, great periodicals, but for me the primary sources are my favorite piece of that resource.
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So again, these kind of jump up in terms of reading level more for our middle and high schoolers, and have more specific subject areas, something like opposing viewpoints hits a lot of different curriculum areas.
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But it has a particular intent in mind it's looking at, you know, Socialist environmental studies is looking at the environment. Us.
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History is, you know, focusing on us history. So these are ones that aren't quite as general and are good place to dive deeper into a topic.
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Keep looking at by subject. So leaving the Yale in context, product family for a minute, we're actually jumping into our literature product family with Gale LitFinder.
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This is a collection of over a 150,000 full-text poems, as well as full tech short stories, speeches, and plays so it's a great resource, for, of course, in Ela classroom, when they're studying poetry or maybe looking for a short, story to read in class
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it is also going to provide more than 800,000 poetry citations.
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So you can find the poems elsewhere. I like to stick to the full text content, but it can be a great support.
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And again, remember you have unlimited, unlimited use of all of this content.
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So again students could all be in this resource. At the same time studying the same poem and doing, say, a coral reading or something in the classroom.
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So maybe something with the short stories, or even the plays, could be working with those.
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So right content there, and a lot of great ways to find content.
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You can, of course, search by title and author, but you can find, you know, looking for a play about winter, or something like that.
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There are lots of ways to find the content by the type of source.
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It is the subject that covers, and so on.
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We also offer our Gale books and authors, which is a reader's advisory resource.
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It recommends books so certainly for you know the classroom, but also just for fun, you know, finding your next great read, this is guided by hand picked genre experts, many of them authors themselves.
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Some are actually librarians. We recommend books based for children, young adults and adults.
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And you'll find fiction and nonfiction. It doesn't have the actual books.
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These are just the recommended titles, but we have really great ways to be able to search them.
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So the search by genre and story types to say, if you like, mysteries.
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But specifically, you like, you know, private detective stories.
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You can kind of 0 in on those a little more. There's also hundreds of lists based on award winners and librarian picks, which is really fun.
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So great database to find your next great read.
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You also have a big collection of resources around magazines, journals, and newspapers.
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You may not use these quite as much, but they are a great resource.
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Certainly to help prep students if they are headed to college, or certainly want to get them comfortable with news.
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Some newspaper, the newspaper collection is really valuable, reading level, wise, you know, again, probably going to start around middle school.
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Gale. One found news is a great resource to kind of get students into looking at periodicals.
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We have newspapers from around the world across the Us. And, Jen, did you want to add something?
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I wanted to ask a question, for so all of the previous databases had periodicals.
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So can you help explain the difference between those and these that are focused on periodicals?
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And maybe I just.
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Absolutely. Yes, thank you. So whenever you see Gale 1,000 in the little orange bar there, that means that is, from our periodical product family.
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And basically it boils down to these databases are all about periodicals that is, the bulk of their content.
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They might have a handful of reference books or other types of sources.
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For example, in the newspaper database we've got broadcast transcripts and things like that but the bulk of these are going to be magazines, journals, and newspapers where when we're talking about Gale and context databases, or even the literature, databases
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they're trying to blend periodicals with a lot of reference content.
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A lot of primary source content. A lot of multimedia, and really make it a whole library where, when you're looking at Gale, one file databases, I would think of them as a section of the library, the section of library where you've got your magazine listed or sharing you've
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got your magazine or your newspaper newspapers showing.
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It's that section of the library where the gale and context in the literature resources are trying to do more of a whole library approach.
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Thank you. That's a great analogy.
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So the absolutely oh, good! Oh, thank you. So the periodicals are well, actually, all of the databases that have periodicals are updated daily.
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They're feeding in new, but these, of course, they vary up to date.
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It's kind of interesting to see the newspapers rolling.
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You'll see papers from the East coast, or kind of that hemisphere come in, and then the things come from the West coast and that hemisphere throughout the day.
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So it's a great way to look at news, but also, you know, it's a great way to look at news, but it's a great tool for information literacy, right teaching kids about the newspaper where the news is coming from the different sections of the paper.
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You know why is an editorial different from you know?
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Maybe an article on the Home on the front page on page Amazon on the front page.
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So the periodicals are another way to kind of get them comfortable with different types of media.
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And we've been hearing a lot about media literacy this year.
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You also have a collection of scholarly periodicals, and gale academic. One file.
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So these are really going to be more for our college libraries.
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But it's a good tool to kind of get students who are maybe in their last couple of years of high school.
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If they're headed to colleges college start getting them comfortable with journals and research, and the way that those work you've got any ap courses they can be a great support for it as well.
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And these are expensive publication. So they're not usually something you find in in the school library.
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So I would let your teachers know these are theirs as well.
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They can certainly use them in the classroom, but also just for their own use, for professional development.
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And then it's companion, general. One file is general interest.
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Period goes to things you would pick up from the, you know, checkout counter at the grocery store, or things you might find in in the bookstore on the magazine shelves, you know, really runs the gamut in terms of topics, and both of these gale one
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file resources academic, one file and general, one file are kind of Mega publications.
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There, both have over 10,000 sources in each of them.
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So big databases. This is a good one, I would think, for high school students to kind of if they're toe in the water periodicals.
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If you want to focus on sharing that type of research. And again, kind of building their media literacy, you also have a collection called Dl, one file, high school edition, which is kind of a subsequent of gale general one filed a smaller collection it can be a little less overwhelming
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to work with. Because going into these big periodical databases is not unlike going to Google and getting back.
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You know a 100,000 heads. So deal one file. High school addition is a subset and focus on things you would find in the school library, so you know, might be if they're looking at the list of the results recognized.
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Those sources a little more, or eagerly.
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So the rest of the resources are probably going to get more occasional use in the K 12 spaces.
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So the business databases, gale business insights and gale business entrepreneurship will be useful for high school business classes.
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I remember one of my high school business classes we had to start our own business, so certainly get business entrepreneurship would have help to be out there.
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It's got sample business plans, great stuff. I created a PET store business, was my plan, but we have also the business insights which provides research into companies and industries.
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This, I think, would be helpful in economics, classes.
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There's a lot of great financial data in these. But marketing classes, things like that, you've got some great support here for high school business classes.
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Gale. Health and wellness is our consumer. Health, database.
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So it's written for the patient, not the doctor. So if you're you know learning about something and health class, this is going to be a resource again.
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Middle School high school for a lot of the reference content.
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There is going to be a blind, though you will find scholarly and professional publications here, too.
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But the great thing about the health and wellness resource is, it starts with that consumer health first, and then you can dig deeper into the more academic or scholarly content and professional content as needed.
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And then the rest of the gale, one file product family in your collection.
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So again, remember, whenever you hear Gale, one file. That's periodicals.
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So these are collections that focus periodical collections that focus generally on an audience or a subject area.
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So educators, reference complete is a great source for anyone who works in education be a great tool for professional development.
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If people are still pursuing degrees, if you anybody remembers using Eric when they were in school, it's a similar collection.
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We have a lot of overlap with what's available.
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And Eric, Gale. One file. Health and medicine is more for the professional or the academic it's a lot of medical journals.
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Briefly mention Gale, one file high school edition before again periodicals you would find in a high school library.
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Inform me. Académico is a database full of content.
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That was originally written in Spanish, or has been hand translated.
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We're going to talk about a translation feature. We offer in all our databases.
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But in inform a. That content is all either. Again, originally written in Spanish, or has been hand translated.
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This is largely an academic it kind of evolved over time into a more academic journal database, but it doesn't have newspapers, and some general interest magazines.
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So if you have Spanish classes at school, I think it would be an interesting experiment to, you know.
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Have students, kind of navigate their way through it, or even, you know, find, say something from a newspaper, and translate, you know themselves.
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But of course, if you have any native speakers, it's a great collection as well.
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To have content in a native language, and then the legal track is legal journals, as you can imagine, and then you also have about 20 plus subject specific periodical collections that focus on subject areas.
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So there are small you some of them might only have 2 or 300 sources in them, something like that culture collection or the Information Science Collection, which might be very interesting for our library staff here has all our library journals in it, but those are kind of based on what kind of courses.
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You might have in your school, and how popular they may be.
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So again, these are resources you may not use as often, but when you need them it's good to have them so all right.
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Now it's better a lot of time in the slides.
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I want to actually get into the resources and share some of the as you can see, the content.
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You can see some of the tools in action. As we mentioned.
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It's great to work with this content, because they all have similar things in common.
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So let's actually see that in action. So you can.
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Of course, access this content right through us. Oh, gee! We have!
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Yeah, I, just wanted to point out, really quick. I put it into the chat.
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I would when I first started with the gale databases I would get a lot of questions about I don't know which one to use when.
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And so I created a Pdf, that's like a comparison table and a lot of what Stacey just mentioned.
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So you it's but it's focused on the K 12 ones, and it's at the bottom of the find.
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Information page on us lists for educators. So whether you're secondary or elementary, this link here, if you scroll to the bottom of that.
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Yeah, thank you. So in the gale section, I think it's the first bullet.
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If you are wondering which Gale K. 12 database to use when consult the.
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And so it has a target audience and content column, and then a content.
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This is the last column is kind of like odds and ends like this is part of a power search.
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If you do a power search or this one will not show up in a power search.
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That kind of information. So that can be handy for you as you're learning, but it can also be handy for any educators.
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Other educators in your buildings.
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Excellent. Yeah, this is great. Jim.
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So, because I’m not there in Oregon with you all, I’m going to actually go into the resources a different way, using our Vo menu here.
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And what I want to do, I’m going to get actually a few of these resources open at the same time.
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So I can show you again the commonalities that they all have bear with me while I get that going.
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I used to set this all up before I would start the webinar, but our databases have a built in time out period.
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So if you walk away from your computer for a while or anything, it just logs you out, and you kind of lose your pace and have to log in again.
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And that's what would happen in my webinar.
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So, now I launch what I need already. So here's a look at Gale in context, elementary.
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This is again built for a younger user. But one of the things you'll see our databases kind of all have certain things in common.
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So they're home pages while this one's very colorful and iPad, driven, and you know, bigger buttons.
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If we pop over to Yealink context, middle school, similar, we've got a you know, header image here.
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We've got a search within it. We've got our toolbar, and then we can browse just like the way elementary does.
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It's just kind of looks a little different. Same thing.
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If I pop to the homepage for Yealink Context high School.
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So it's easy to move between these resources, even something from the gale.
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One file, again, remember, periodicals are our goal here in OneFile.
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Similar ideas. Search right there at the top toolbars, and this actually offers a browse.
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Not all of the one fall resources due, but you know common header in all of these databases, you can easily switch between them. Alright.
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So let's take a look at the browse.
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I do love, browsing in our databases.
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I think it is a really great way for you to get comfortable with what's here.
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It's also, you know, students may not think of it as browsing, but it's a great way that it sparks their curiosity on different topics.
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We have an I wonder question here, always on the homepage they can browse through books in the collection news, and so on, coming soon.
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You'll actually be able to browse National Geographic kids from here as well.
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That's coming the other thing that's great about browse is, it helps grow kids, information literacy skills.
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We've got these subject areas here. So you know, we've got a whole world of information out there.
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How does that information get broken down? So we start breaking it down by subject areas and start getting narrower and narrow.
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So if we go into social studies, then we start breaking down us presidents, explorers, government, native American tribes, and then we get a list of native American tribes.
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So it's giving kids this kind of look at how information gets put together.
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And then, as you select, we go to in the Galen context, databases. We go to.
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We call it. Everybody calls us something different. Portal, page, traffic page is basically the home page for everything we have for that topic.
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Everything relevant, I should say not just a mere mention of the topic.
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But you know something really about the topic. We always start out with an overview that you can then click into quick reading.
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You get some quick facts here at the top, and then we break down the content like we.
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It's broken down in the library. So here are books.
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Here are magazines. Here's our news. Here's our videos.
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Whatever those may be, we look, group, keep the light content together.
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We call them our content types so they vary, depending on, you know which resource you're in.
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The content types. We'll see related topics. So again, discovery finding more content, Jen, go ahead!
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I was going to mention that the topic page at the top, the article that has been selected by Gale editors here it would be
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a really good way to help students develop background knowledge. You know.
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I don't know about you, but I can't tell you how many times kids came to the library and said, I have to do a research paper. Okay, what's it about?
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Abraham Lincoln, well, what do you want to know about him?
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I don't know. Well, okay. And so they have no background knowledge, no keywords to, or, you know, subtopics to look into.
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So these topic articles are excellent for helping students develop just enough background knowledge and key words to launch them into better searching.
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That's it. That's a perfect use for them.
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Jen is some of them will actually give you keywords.
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Now what they call it, but it's that's the ideas, you know, giving them other search terms and things like that.
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So, yeah. Thanks. Jen, so let's see, how does this work when we're in middle school again, we've got browse by subject area down here at the bottom, and you have a slightly different look and feel, you know, we're aging up with our user so it's not
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quite as graphical, not quite as colorful, but we then we get a list.
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So, for example, for reading the book fee in class, here we have that topic. Page.
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So we start out again with an overview can read more, get some basics about the book, get some quick facts.
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And that is, we scroll again, grouping those documents together.
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So reference articles on the themes they construct.
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The historical context of the work file for the author and keep moving through here and again periodicals.
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Here. We want to keep these databases up to date.
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So you're always going to have those periodicals. But notice how we kind of place the emphasis on the reference.
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That kind of introductory type. Articles first again, have related subjects.
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Same idea in Yale and Context high school. But of course things have gotten bigger right with the deal and context high school.
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We have a lot more sources, but again, still breaking things down.
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By subject area here, we'll pop into, say, science and help.
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And again mentioned before that periodicals are updated daily.
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But we don't assign an updated tag just because of new periodicals.
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This means our editors have gone in. Maybe they've changed out and updated the topic overview.
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Or they've added a lot of new reference content.
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Maybe there's a new video source there, or something like that.
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So that uploaded tag is only for a significant update to the page.
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Not just because there's, you know, 3 new newspaper articles.
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And again you can kind of jump around here and take a look.
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We'll go jump to one more topic page, and you can see again.
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Layout very similar, but just a little more sophisticated. You know there is a little more text, heavy.
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Things to keep an eye out for, and I haven't pointed it out, but they've been both the middle school and high school, but you'll see we have reading level indicators and Lexile scores for the oracles in the Yealink context databases and several of the others but
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always in the K 12 products. So these are handy. We're going to talk about these more in our webinar we're offering in April.
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Go into a little bit more about reading level differentiation, but just wanted to point them out here.
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Our advanced search can help you. 0 in on that type of content.
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And then, lastly, let's take a look at a periodical resource here.
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So we do have a browse here. You might not find it in all the periodical databases.
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But really, where you're going to see the difference is, let me pop into sorry.
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What did I have? My, we have basically popular search terms from this subject area.
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So we, this database is huge we don't want to give a huge list here, though, just some of the top searches like you say, standardized testing.
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You can see it looks pretty different. These are topic pages that you end up with in the periodical databases.
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It's all about giving you these magazines. Journals, book well, some book content.
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And it's a multi medium. But you can see just from the hit counts where the bulk of our content is coming from magazine academic journals, and this is a little bit more like a traditional kind of scrolling of results just sting on one another same thing happens when
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you search. So it doesn't have that topic. Page, that nice getting started page with research when you're in the one file resources.
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So which is again why I mentioned. Those are always good to get started with.
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So, looking at some of this other content, let me jump back to.
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Beyond context elementary. You can also, just, of course, send a search out from any page.
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It's always available up there in the top of the resource, and if you start typing, we always have a search assist, which is great.
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Some terrible speller, but also just for your knowledge.
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It's a little bit of a clue when you see something in bold that's being suggested.
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That means you're going to end up at a topic page.
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We have a topic page for that topic. There's certainly content covered in the databases that doesn't have topic pages.
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We create new ones every month. So they build and build, for example, the book, the was one that got added within the last 6 months or so when I showed in middle school earlier.
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So you'll see more of them pop up, but I can I can show you what it looks like when you don't have one as well.
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So yeah. Landed on something familiar. Start with that overview.
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Let's see what looks different, though, when you come into, say, middle school, and we don't have a topic page on topic.
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Oh, shoot! I forgot! Invasive species was always my! No, I see I've given myself.
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I forgot. I always forget they create this, but I have it in my notes.
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So when you send out a search that doesn't have a topic page that matches exactly.
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This is what your results look like. You come back and you have a more stacked result.
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What you is also a big benefit from a page like this I probably don't need it too much, because, you know, I don't have an overwhelming amount of hits here, but if you look off to the right, the filter your results is really handy, it allows you to narrow your hits by publication.
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Date, subject, area, document type is a great one, but it allows you to filter and kind of massage that results. Let's get it down to what you need.
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It!
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Let me show you where that really comes in handy. I’m actually going to leave German one.
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Oh, sure! Go ahead, Jen.
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Can I say something sorry it can if you want to go back to that other page that showed the topic the filtering one.
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Yes.
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If I've gotten a complaint, so to speak, about the gale databases, it would be that sometimes we can't find anything meaty or enough.
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That is meaty. And so, if you are in all of, let's say, a results.
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Page that has tons and tons of results. And you go to document type like Stacey did.
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And you see where it says, article versus brief Article.
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So article is going to be your meteor content as would cover story and if you're in opposing viewpoints, what are what?
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What are those topics that I don't know?
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There's pages for those that are, yeah.
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Oh, critical essays, yeah.
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Critical essays or overviews. I think it might be called so.
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Topic overview, I think, is, yeah.
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That's a way, yeah, so that's a way for somebody to hone in on.
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I really want the meaty stuff. Go to your document type and sort accordingly.
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Absolutely yeah, just apply narrow it down because the people who are working behind the scenes assign those document types too.
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So document type. It is a database trading. You have a favorite limit, or that's my document type.
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It is so valuable, absolutely, and I’ll tell you where I specially appreciate it is in the big periodical database.
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So if we pop into the news resource, for example, and I want to research on the frame development in Ohio.
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Again, kind of thinking what's happening right now. Look at the number.
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Hits. I have over 7,000 new. There are some news magazines in the collection newsletters, things like that.
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So we've got some other bits, too, but it's oversight.
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It's a lot of content. So something like document type is really valuable.
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You can choose, say, editorial you know, if we're looking for more of an opinion piece kind of scroll through there.
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She can get an idea. Now, are all of these specifically about this recent train, derailment in Ohio.
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Probably not something like publication data, you know. Just put in the date of the event, and only get news from them.
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So the filters are really handy, and I kind of like sending my search out and then filtering down.
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But you can always use our advanced search in any of these databases to put in your search parameters and apply your limits when you issue the search too.
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So this is where you can come and put in those reading level limiters as well so in advanced search is really powerful.
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And I. You know it may be easy for me to say this, but I think it's pretty easy to use.
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We've got a lot of on screen instructions here.
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So again. This might be something we'll investigate more in our April session, but advanced search and we have a great help file, too.
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So always at the bottom of the page. Yeah, so all right.
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The last thing I want to talk about is how you work with the documents.
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So you've gotten your search results down. You've found articles you want to use. Let me go ahead and jump into, just going to pop back into high school here, and as we go ahead and jump into an entry.
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You'll and actually let me pop into one and elementary 2 for a second.
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So we can see there are a couple slight differences in the way we display.
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So what can you do with the content you found? We want you to be able to, of course, read it easily, but not everyone is able to read it, you know. Some want to hear it?
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Some need it translated. So as you move between the resources, what you'll find is just here in context, elementary.
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The buttons are over here to the far right in the other databases.
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They're going to appear right here in the document. I think that might be something that's changing for me in context, elementary.
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I think they're going to put them in line with the documents.
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It's something. But I haven't got final word on that.
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But these are all the ways we can interact with that text that's available.
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So these are important. We want to reach all our students. The listen option will have the article read to you, and you have.
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Mental disorders. Mental health disorders also called mental illnesses.
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There are some settings I can go into to make adjustments for how it's doing that we have an On demand language, translation.
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Now, this is a machine translation. So you know, it's not going to be the way you hand translate it. But it can help students who's per language, English.
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We got some font size options, but really you could do a lot with a lot more with the text, with the display options.
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So get the most comfortable reading experience I have a nephew who has a processing issue.
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He really needs text to be on a bluer, a green background.
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There we go! I can enable that for him, and what's great is as you make these changes, and if I pop into other articles, let me just go ahead to the overview here, it remembers the setting.
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So any display option changes I make. I can switch to save the dyslexia open dyslexic, but I can change the spacing of the text.
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It's going to remember that. And as I move into the next article, it will keep those settings really valuable.
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So keep an eye on the clock here always more things to show you I’m going to pop back into Yale Middle School will kind of wrap things up there and show you ways.
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You can push this content out. So we have up here in the upper right hand corner in the toolbar so, using my annotate tool here, all the different ways, I can kind of push the content out to someone or pull it to myself so that I've got it when I need it we have of course, options.
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For printing, and just do a nice print I choose sent to.
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I can send this off to Google, drive and keep it in my cloud.
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Same thing for one drive. I can just email it out. I have the option of downloading it as well.
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So maybe I want to Pdf, I can keep track of moving on to my e-reader.
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You've got a citation tool, so no excuses for not creating a works site.
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And Page, we've got different version or different files. We have different ways.
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You can export and use those tools.
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Don't you know that your middle schoolers are going to love?
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That author's name, Bob Buts.
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Absolutely. This is a serendipity at its best.
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Here you can also again push content out like sending it to your cloud, and then sharing from there or you can make use of our get link button here.
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It gives you a persistent URL. You can then place anywhere on your website on, you know, if you use something like canvas or any sort of you know, learning management system like that, we actually if you look at the very top banner, you can share this document, right?
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To your Google classroom and pass it through there so and send the links out to kids.
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So lots of ways to get this into their hands. We have lots of different ways to let this content live outside of the resource.
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So I know we'll be popped into a few of the resources that have access to.
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But again, these are features they all have in common, so I haven't seen anything in the chat or the but if there’s anything in particular you want to see.
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But just noticing. We're running a little long here, so let me pop back and share our support.
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So again, and the idea of having this is a handout for you later.
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I've got just a couple of slides on the accessibility, and the workflow tools support that gale.com slash training.
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You can find a lot of great tools we've created escape rooms around our databases that you could use in the library or the classroom.
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We haven't even have a way you can create your own, a template for it.
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We also have the instructional materials. So tutorials about how to different tools work.
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We have lesson plans, you can use. We've got, of course, all the recordings of our sessions and things like that.
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There's also lots of great free marketing materials so you can kind of spread the word about these resources without having to recreate the wheel.
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Lots of good stuff out on this site again. I’ll put a link in my follow-up email for tomorrow.
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That will come to you. But then, of course, you can also reach out to your yes, yeah, a 1 million escape room that the students could do actually, today on our calendar, we offered a session around this topic on how to create your own.
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But we have one's ready to go for elementary middle school and high school for the in context, resources.
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So, and actually, I’ll just you know what I’ll put links to them in the handouts.
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You can find them directly. Let me just make a note to do that, and I’ll put a link to the recording as well.
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In case you want to tune into that. So there are lots of fun we have.
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We added 3 trainers to the team last year, and they are all former teachers.
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So the content that they're producing is just amazing.
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And that Roddy Bush is our creator of the escape room tools.
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They're great. So you want to reach out to Gale.
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We are happy to hear from you again. I’m your trainer.
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Just give me a call. Shoot me an email. You can get in touch with our tech support team.
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Should you need something or have a question? If we don't have the answers, we know where to get them, so we can brought a tech support myself.
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We can all get in touch with the product teams and track down answers.
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So lots of good stuff on our social media channels find great success stories and promotion of updates to the databases and things like that.
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And we are offering another session related to us, as in April, so Jen is spread the word about that.
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She can register, to attend and like today is, if you can't attend, you always get a link to the recordings. You can always tune in later as well.
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So oh, great Jen, thanks, I was just going to do that.
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So we want you to let us know you thought of the session today, and I actually have these on a slide with some QR codes.
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You want to use those 2. But Jen is very helpful with the links in the chat.
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I’ll put them in the follow-up email, too.
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So if you want to, you know, take care of it. Tomorrow you'll have those.
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Then as well. So, Jenny thing to add.
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No, I just want to thank you, Stacey. And I want to thank all of our attendees.
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I know this was the end of your workday, and you know there's a lot to learn here.
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So, if you find that you're like, wait, stay see! Or Jen said something, and I can't remember. Please reach out to either one of us.
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We will be very glad to help you. There are no stupid questions.
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Absolutely. Yeah. We want to hear from you.
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Thanks so much, everybody, for attending feel free to stick around.
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If you've got questions, I’m going to keep things open and interactive here.
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So feel free to stick around, but it again, if you're all set like, Jen said, we know you're at the end of your school day, so we want to let you go get on with your evening.
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So thanks everybody for tuning in and hopefully, we'll catch you on another session down the road.
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Thanks, all.