Duration: 30 Minutes
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Thank you again everyone for joining me today.
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Today, we have another Gale 101 session.
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This one is focused on Gale In Context: Science.
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My name is Amber Winters and I'm a senior training
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consultant here with Gale.
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So today we're going over really the basics
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of Gale In Context: Science. So you all have
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a nice foundation to get started as
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you kind of dig deeper into the resource. So
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first we'll have a brief overview of
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what we made the resource for what you're going to
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find in the resource. A quick
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mention of the tools that we have available.
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Then we're going to take a look at some of the different key
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content types that you're going to find within this resource.
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And what's great about Gale In Context: Science is
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we actually have some really unique and interesting
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content types that are going to be available to
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you here. So we're going to take a look at those today.
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We'll spend the majority of the time actually looking
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at the resource though. So walking through the workflows,
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seeing how we can best surface content and things
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like that.
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And if you have any questions, you can feel free to
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put those into the Q and A at any time.
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Otherwise, we will have time at the very end of the session
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to answer anything that I wasn't able
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to answer as we move forward. And I do
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have some contact information for you as
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well. So if you need to get in touch with us after
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the webinar, I'll have that contact information
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for you at the very end of the session.
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So let's go ahead and just dive right in here.
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So Gale In Context: Science first
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off is a resource that we've built for secondary
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and up science users, what I like to say
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secondary and up. So really for
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upper level middle school students. So once
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your students are kind of at that upper eighth grade level,
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getting ready to go into high school, you know, your higher
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achiever middle school students may have success
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with this resource. But really the sweet
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spot is going to be your high school students are going
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to get a lot of this resource as well
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as undergraduate students. So those just starting
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off in college. So you find gel and con science
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of course in a lot of secondary
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schools. But you also find it in a lot
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of community colleges, a lot of undergraduate
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universities. So this is a pretty
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versatile resource. It's going to have a lot
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of different
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difficulty levels, a lot of different content
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types that are going to support a wide variety
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of users.
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And while this is a broad resource that's covering
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just kind of science in general, we do have
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some key subject areas that we've really
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focused in on. Those include biology,
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health and medicine, engineering, environmental
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science, as well as space science.
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We do have a pretty large physics
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and chemistry section in here as well.
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So what we try to do is hit a lot
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of the standards that you're going to see
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in the kind of the K 12 arena. So your NGSS
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standards and things like that, you're going to find
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materials that are going to support the most
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studied and most used topics
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kind of within those standards.
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In addition to that, we have some built in support
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learning tools that we're going to take a look at today
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as well. So as your learners are starting
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to read through articles, maybe news reports,
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they can highlight and annotate that text. So
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they remember the key points in the article,
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we have a full translation available on all
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of our articles as well as captions on images
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and things like that.
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We have a read speaker that's going to read
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the articles for your students. So if you have struggling
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readers that read speaker is a really great way
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to make sure this resource is accessible.
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They can also change the fonts. We have
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a citation tool that's going to generate a citation
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for them. We also have Google and Microsoft
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integrations. So if they want to save content
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out of the resource, they can save them
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to either one of their drives, their Google Drive
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or their Microsoft Onedrive and they'll be able to
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hold on to that information to take it out with them later.
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Now, are there any quick questions about
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Gale In Context: Science before we look at some of the different content
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types we have available?
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Ok, let's keep moving forward. Then let's talk
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about some of the different content your students are going
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to find here. So the first and probably
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the most expected is going to be our reference
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articles. So these are giving the facts
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about whatever topic, whatever subject
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your user is looking at. So
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it's going to give both overview as well as more
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detailed information that's really giving them
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the foundation to learn and to kind of
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grow
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with this topic. So before they
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start looking at maybe, you know, current
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events or opinion pieces, these
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reference articles are going to give them that solid
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understanding of the topic so they can kind
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of come to their own conclusions about
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different opinions on different topics
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and things like that.
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We also have a pretty extensive multimedia
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collection within the resource. So they'll find
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things like videos and images as well
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as a big collection of audio files. So things
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like podcasts are often highlighted
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in the audio file section.
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This is great for users who just prefer to get
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their information in a different way than reading
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a text. Also great for learners
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who are struggling readers or maybe those
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who are
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at a lower reading level than their grade
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level would suggest who are still trying to get information
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from this resource.
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The videos, images and audio files are really going
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to help them find the content and the information
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that they need. And a lot of these videos
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and
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audio files are going to be news reports
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and current events and things like that. So it's
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really bringing whatever topic they're learning about,
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kind of into the forefront and kind of bringing the
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the world into the classroom.
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Something that's unique to gale in context science
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as opposed to all of the in context suite
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in general is going to be our interactive simulations.
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And these actually allow students to input information
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and edit variables for this little interactive
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experiment that's going to help them see
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outcomes related to physics, chemistry
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and biology. So a big
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part of the collection is going to be physics. So if we're
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talking about,
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you know, potential verse kinetic energy,
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if we're talking about
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forces of or motion or things
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like that,
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they're going to find these really cool interactive
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simulations here. This one is a roller coaster
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about um the slope angle
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and it's just something nice for them to go through,
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they'll be able to enter an information, they'll hit the start
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button and they get to see it play out in real time.
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So it's not like they're just getting, you know,
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a formula and they're getting a, an example
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piece of text. They're actually seeing it happen
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in real time and they can edit the variables to
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see how the result changes.
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So it's a nice feature we have here in this resource
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right now. We've got, I believe over
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300 of these interactive simulations.
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So we cover quite a few topics in that
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300 collection.
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We also have fully developed experiments
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within the resource and this is great for
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any educators who are on the line or anyone
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working with educators. If they're looking
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for something to supplement a units, this
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one, you'll see, I've pulled forward on acid rain.
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Um But if they're just looking for something to supplement a unit,
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they may want to take a look at these because again, they
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are fully developed. So they include
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a list of all the materials that are going to
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be need be are going to be needed
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a budget, a difficulty level
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to make sure that students are actually going to be able
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to run through the session, step by step
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instructions and a trouble student guide as
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well. So, you know, if something goes wrong,
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we provide a little bit of background to try
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to help figure that out. So again, these are great.
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They're ready to go. Your teachers can download
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them or they can print them and share out
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the instruction with students and really
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get to work. It's kind of a one stop
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shop print and go.
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We also have a news and magazines in this resource
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as well. So if teachers are trying to pull
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the Real World into their lessons, this
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is a great place for them to go. They'll be able to see,
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excuse me, more scholarly
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resources as well as places
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like the New York Times and some other
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magazines and newspapers
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like that, that are going to give kind of that
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current event feel and these are
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updated continuously. So
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they'll be able to see the most current information,
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the most current news within the resource.
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We've also got some great statistics found within
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the resource. So if you're working and helping students
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understand how to read charts
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and graphs, they're going to find a lot of those here
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in this resource. What's nice is they are
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highly visual and we do provide
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information around the chart.
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So we're going to explain
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what's on the X axis, what's on the Y axis
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and how that information is actually
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lined up for them. So it's really going to help them
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understand
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different scientific topics
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both from a US point of view
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as well as a global point of view.
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In addition to that, we do also have academic
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journals. So again, if you have higher
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level students, maybe your upper
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high school students, your 11th, 12th graders,
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or if you're working with undergraduate students
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and they need academic research, they'll be able
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to find those scholarly journals right
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here in the resource. And we do let them know if
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something is peer reviewed, we have a nice little
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check mark that shows up, that we'll
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take a look at once we get in the resource that's really
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going to make sure they understand that the materials
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they're looking at are in fact academic peer
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reviewed and appropriate for research
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projects.
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And finally, we have a
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pretty extensive collection of biographies
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within this resource as well focused on
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both historical and contemporary
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scientists. So if
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your users are more looking for maybe
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inspiration, they want to be a scientist as well and
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they want to see, you know, what other scientists
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have done. Maybe they want to find someone like them
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in the the science field, their topic
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of interest, they'll be able to do that within
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this resource here. We've got a pretty
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a nicely built out set of biographies
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and they'll be able to kind of see the background on scientists,
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what the scientists did in their lives.
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Um Any awards they won the discoveries
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they made is a really nice way for them
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to find representation in science
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right here on this platform.
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No, I
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excuse me, I want to spend the rest
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of our time here actually clicking through the workflow.
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So you guys can see it in action. You can better
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understand what your users are going to see.
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Well, I switch over here to my
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platform though. Does anyone have any questions
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about the content we have available
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for you
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or anything like that?
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Ok. We've got a quiet crowd today. So
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let's go ahead and get started. Then this is the home page
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here of Gale In Context: Science
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right here towards the top. You'll see. We've pulled
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forward topics of interest and these change
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generally monthly depending on what's going on for
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anyone watching the recording. This
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is the double brood cicada year.
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So the 13 year and the 17th year
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are both going to emerge. So
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it's gonna be pretty loud. So we've decided to pull forward insects
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for students who are maybe be interested in seeing what's going
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on and I can click through and see what else
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we've pulled forward. We have game theory here as
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well as bees this month.
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So again, this generally is going to change monthly.
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If some, you know, big thing happens in
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science in one month, a lot of times
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we'll pull that topic forward because of course, students
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are most likely going to be searching for that.
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So the eclipse was highlighted earlier
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things like that
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then scrolling down here still on the home page.
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We have this nice browse topics section
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and each of these links are links to topic
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pages that we've created for these topics.
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And topic pages are organized
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kind of landing points about different topics
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that we've curated. We've pulled together
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all of the different results related to that topic.
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We've provided an overview. So it's like a nice
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landing point for your students to learn about a different
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topic.
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And we built these topics for the most
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studied the most search and the most used topics
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within the resource.
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And you see here on the home page, if I don't know exactly
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what I'm looking for, you know, I'm just kind of browsing around
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seeing what I see. This is a great place to
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start here so I can choose whatever
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section I want to take a look at. Maybe I'm
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looking for something related to biology.
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I can click here into my biology which has 246
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topic pages
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and I can scroll down to see whats available here.
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Now, these topic pages are not
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the only content found within this resource.
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If your students are looking for something that's maybe
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a little bit more specific. What they're going
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to want to do is run a search and they'll most likely
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find information. They just won't have
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that hand curated topic page.
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Those topic pages are just save
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for those most searched and most U used
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terms.
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And while browsing topics, I can also
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click here in my little drop down. So I clicked into bio
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biology. Maybe I actually want to know about
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health and medicine.
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I can move forward here and see my health and medicine topics.
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Now, I'll also be directed to topic pages
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when I search here as well. So I'm going to jump
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back to home just for a nice landing point
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and I am going to run a search here
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for,
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let's do climate change.
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So once I start to type in here, you'll see,
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I have some predictive text that's giving me
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um suggestions about what I might want to search
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and you'll see these top two are bolded.
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Oops, we have a quick question. So I'm going to take a look here.
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Um I noticed interactive models as a content type
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and the, and this it took me to Gale
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Interactive Science.
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Um Mary Jo. So the interactive models
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found within Gale In Context: Science
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are separate from Gale Interactive: Science.
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That's actually a separate resource.
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So you won't find any Gale interactive Science
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activities within this resource here.
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That's only going to be in that platform
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and vice versa. The interactive simulations
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are only going to be in this platform.
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OK. So again, I started typing
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in here. My predictive text is providing me
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with two bolded options
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and these bolded options are topic pages.
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So instead of running my search and getting just the basic
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search results page, if I click into
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one of these, it's going to take me to a topic page
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instead
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which I do always recommend for your users,
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especially if they are kind of in the younger
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high school age. And they may be
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struggle with search with search
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terms and pulling their own information. These topic pages
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are a great way for them to get started.
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And I will mentioned we have a nice get link button up
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top here. So if you're actually pulling
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content for your students, you can use
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this get link and share it out to them.
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So instead of having them run a search, try to find
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climate change information. If you just want them to
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start on this landing point,
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they can use that get link and pull a person
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URL right to this page. So that's another nice
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feature we have here.
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Now, while they're on this, our topic pages
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here at the very top, they're going to see an over
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overview of the topic. So this is going
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to give them that quick background knowledge
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to make sure they know what they're kind of researching.
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Then underneath that, you'll see we have
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pulled forward here. All of the different content
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types we have available for this resource,
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you'll see them all listed here. So we pulled
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forward some featured content if we
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have reference statistics, images
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experiments. And what's great is if
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let's say for this topic, I actually didn't
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have any videos, let's
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say this video option would actually disappear.
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So they're never going to see like a zero next
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to any of these. They're only going to see content
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types that we have for this resource.
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I'm sorry for this topic.
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And now as we scroll down here, you'll see, we pull them into
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different content buckets here as well. So it
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shows usually around the first
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three
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entries for whatever content
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bucket here. So you'll see our experiments listed here,
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a simulation
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and then scrolling all the way down. Da da
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da. We also include related topics and each
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of these topics are also a topic page
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as well. So as they're moving forward,
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you know, they're learning about climate change and
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it's talking a lot about carbon dioxide
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and they just don't know what that is. They can click
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into our carbon dioxide topic page,
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learn about that. Maybe they want to move
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from there to learn a bit about the
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greenhouse effect.
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They'll be able to do that as well. So they can actually
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click through these topic pages and not even
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have to run a search. So this is really
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guiding them to the content that they may need without
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them having to build search terms. you
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know, maybe struggle with that a little bit because of course,
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our beginner researchers sometimes
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have a difficulty running searches. So this
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is helping to kind of relieve
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that pain point a little bit.
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Now scrolling up here, I mentioned we have those
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greats
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simulations and experiments. So I wanna show
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you what those look like. And luckily with this topic,
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we actually have both. So our
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simulations you'll see they have their own content bucket
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right here.
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So I'm going to click into this first one
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and you'll see right away. It gives me a warning that
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I'm not viewing this at full size.
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It starts off at the smaller size. So
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we can see this little bit of information at the top
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here and we can see our explore panel, but
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we can actually choose this blue open activity
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button and
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it's going to be bigger here. So this is talking
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about the greenhouse effect. Of course, we're not going to read
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the whole thing here, but we can hit our start
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button and this is starting to show us
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what the greenhouse effect is. So
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you say they're just going to walk through step by step,
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you'll see they changed here, the albedo that's
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being seen,
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they will go through all of it.
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And once I kind of run through the premade activity,
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you'll see it is at first having them
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set things to specific sets here.
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Once they actually complete the full thing, they'll be able
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to mess with these little
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these little bars here
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to change this up. So they'll be able to see
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how temperatures are changed based on these
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different features here.
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And again, we've got over 300
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of these. So they're going to be covering a lot of different
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topics here. This is just one that's related
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to greenhouse gasses.
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And I just click out of that and then that pulls me back to
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this main page for this activity. Again,
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gives me that attention. It will work
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in this smaller window you see here.
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But um it is a little bit harder to see.
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So we do have that open activity button listed underneath
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there. Now,
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I'm just going to go back to our topic page here because
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I want to show you what an experiment looks like as
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well.
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So again, our experiments have their own content
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buckets listed here
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and I can actually click into all experiments if I
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want to. You'll see, I have six here related to
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this activity.
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And what's nice is some of them are traditional experiments
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that you would think of, you know, where they're running
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something in a lab, you know, they're actually physically doing
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something, but some of them are closer to like
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scientific projects.
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So like this Disappearing Island speech,
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this is
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more of a research activity where students
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are actually going to research an
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island that's currently at risk
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to become a disappearing island with the sea level
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rise.
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And they're going to kind of research
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that island and they're going to present
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a speech that's trying to, you know,
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convince world leaders to change what
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they're doing.
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So if
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I scroll down here, of course, this one, the approximate budget
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is going to be free. The materials are just
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going to be materials needed to research this topic.
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Again, we have our troubleshooting here and our step
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by steps.
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So we got a nice simple way to just
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have another activity. You know, if your teachers,
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I know they don't frequently have days where they just
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have nothing to do. But if they need a sub
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plan or something like that or they just need an experiment
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available. This is a nice place for them to look under
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this experiment section.
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Now, I'm going to jump back to our topic
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page one more time this time. Instead of using the
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back button, I do want to mention you'll see
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you have a nice little breadcrumb trail here. So
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you'll see, I can jump back to my topic page
[00:19:37.039]
right here
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and get pulled forward. So let's take a look
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at some of the filtering tools and other tools
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that we have available on documents. I'm
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just going to click into my reference materials here
[00:19:48.989]
so we can take a look so related to
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global warming climate change right now. I have
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272 reference articles
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which of course is, it's too much,
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it's too much for your students. They're not going to go through 272
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articles. So we include some great filters
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on this right hand side here. That's really going to help
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your students out. The first one I like to mention
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is the subjects drop down. So, of course,
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the main subject,
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oh my gosh. Excuse me,
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the main subject
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is going to be global warming and climate change. Of course.
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But then if they want to get a little bit more specific,
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maybe they want to learn about how
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um you know, the humans are interacting with the
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environment. They can click here
[00:20:27.779]
scrolling down if they're interested in sea level
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or maybe how fossil fuels are related to climate
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change, they can really narrow it down right
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there to pull it forward.
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We also have the option to narrow down by document
[00:20:39.539]
type. So this is getting a little bit more specific
[00:20:41.568]
than just being a reference article. You'll see
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there are topic overviews, brief
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articles,
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disease overview which
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will be somehow related to climate change. I'm not quite sure,
[00:20:51.858]
but you'll see they have some different options here.
[00:20:53.949]
It looks like we even have a primary source listed,
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which is interesting
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so they can change that up top here.
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For any educators who are using
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this resource, if you are kind of looking
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by lexile level, if you have students who
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need a lower level bit of information,
[00:21:09.108]
you can do that on the resource here as well under
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that lexile measure.
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So let's go ahead and click into one of these, I'll click
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into greenhouse effect and greenhouse
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gasses. Now, I will point out
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you'll see this little gray flag listed down here
[00:21:22.618]
that says leveled. That means this
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document can actually be found at two different content
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levels. So one higher level and one lower
[00:21:29.140]
level. So if you have
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a, a class that really needs those
[00:21:33.828]
two different levels, you know, you have a wide variety of students,
[00:21:36.348]
some struggling readers, some
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who are a little more advanced,
[00:21:40.880]
you can find a lot of articles in this resource
[00:21:43.608]
that have those two different levels. You see, I can
[00:21:45.699]
toggle between my reading levels up top here
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and they are al exile levels.
[00:21:51.729]
But you see there is a a lower
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level reading option
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and a higher level. And these are going to both provide
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the same information for your students just
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at the at the different levels. The one will
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have shorter sents, shorter
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paragraphs, easier vocab while the other
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one will be a little bit more advanced. So that
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toggle is a great way to make sure that your students
[00:22:11.920]
are getting the content that's going to be best for them.
[00:22:16.568]
Now scrolling down here, I do want to point out all of the
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tools we have available when we're on an actual
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document here. So our citation
[00:22:23.170]
tool is always available in our little toolbar
[00:22:25.400]
up top here.
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And this will provide citations either at Mlaap,
[00:22:29.309]
a Chicago or Harvard versions.
[00:22:31.578]
They can export this out of here or they
[00:22:33.680]
can select it and copy and paste it into
[00:22:36.338]
whatever they're working on this
[00:22:38.358]
is a great way to get by in both from teachers
[00:22:40.630]
and students because, you know, students
[00:22:42.670]
don't want to build their own citations, they don't like it.
[00:22:45.229]
So if they're in this resource, they don't have to,
[00:22:47.289]
they can copy and paste, they're ready to go.
[00:22:49.750]
All of our citations are also found at the very
[00:22:51.809]
bottom of a page here as well. And again,
[00:22:54.219]
same functionality, they can copy and paste it,
[00:22:56.279]
they can export it, they can choose
[00:22:58.400]
what edition or what type of citation they
[00:23:00.459]
want up top there,
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scroll back up here
[00:23:05.900]
and they can also get this information out of the resource.
[00:23:08.368]
So if they want to save this for later, they
[00:23:10.608]
can use our send to download or print
[00:23:12.729]
options. So our send to button
[00:23:14.910]
lets them send over to either a Google or
[00:23:17.078]
a Microsoft Onedrive or it lets them
[00:23:19.108]
email this document.
[00:23:20.509]
So this is great if they are, you know, going to
[00:23:22.529]
be using it for a project, but they don't have time
[00:23:24.680]
to get it all done while they're sitting in front of their computer,
[00:23:27.368]
they can save it to one of their drives. So they don't
[00:23:29.400]
have to come back and look for it again. It's already there
[00:23:31.449]
and ready to go for them.
[00:23:34.229]
And these options are also found down here with
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these buttons. You'll see, we have our Google button, our
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Microsoft and the email, download
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and print these. Do the same thing. We've
[00:23:42.858]
just added a little bit of redundancy to make sure students
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can see them one place or another. If they
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don't see them up here, hopefully they'll see them down here.
[00:23:50.358]
Again. We have our get link which is going to provide
[00:23:52.519]
a persistent URL. So if students
[00:23:54.818]
maybe want to share this with their peers,
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if you wanna share it with a student,
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um if you wanna share it with a colleague, you
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can use this get link, send it over to them and they'll
[00:24:03.529]
be able to click directly into this article really
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simply.
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Now, in addition to all of those sharing tools, we also
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have some great accessibility tools here
[00:24:14.348]
and they are listed down here under the title
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under this Little Black Bar.
[00:24:18.140]
The first one is going to be our translate option.
[00:24:20.219]
So we'll be able to translate the article into whatever
[00:24:22.420]
language we need
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and we can also set our interface language.
[00:24:26.219]
What's that? What that's going to do is it's going to change
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all of the buttons and the resource, the
[00:24:31.000]
search bar, everything is going to be in a different language.
[00:24:34.088]
Let's go ahead and change that so we can take a look.
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So you'll see now my search bar is in Spanish,
[00:24:40.519]
which is what I changed it to all of my tools up top
[00:24:42.789]
here are in Spanish,
[00:24:44.338]
my explore panel, the buttons here are in
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Spanish. This is a great
[00:24:48.559]
feature for your students to use, right? As
[00:24:50.588]
soon as they click into the resource. So if they are
[00:24:52.699]
struggling with English right
[00:24:54.818]
now, they are not necessarily able to navigate
[00:24:57.338]
using English buttons, they can translate
[00:24:59.348]
over to Spanish. What's great is
[00:25:01.358]
they can actually do that at the top of the page here as
[00:25:03.459]
well. You see where it says Spanish,
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they can drop down
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and they really change that and that does follow
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along throughout the duration of the session.
[00:25:12.809]
So all of their navigation will be in whatever language
[00:25:15.140]
they need. Moving
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forward from our transit option, we also have the
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option to increase or decrease the font
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size as needed.
[00:25:23.368]
Next to that. We have some display options.
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So I can change the background of my text
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here. I can change the font.
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I do have a dyslexia font if needed
[00:25:33.689]
and I can also change the line letter and word spacing.
[00:25:36.259]
So this feature I think is
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really handy because this is letting them fully
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customize what they see. It's not kind of
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a you know, pick option A or pick option
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B. It's really change your font, then choose your spacing,
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then choose your colors. So it's
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really helping them kind of see this the best
[00:25:51.789]
way they can. And this follows them along
[00:25:53.848]
throughout a session as well. So once they get to their
[00:25:55.930]
first article, they can edit their
[00:25:58.318]
their settings to make this exactly
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how they want to read it and moving forward, it's going
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to be the same deal
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now, right next to that. I do have my listen
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tool here as well. So if they prefer to have the article
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read to them,
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they'll hit that listen tool and they'll play through it and
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I'll read the full article to them, including
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the sidebar here. Um If there's
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an image, I don't think this has an image in it
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does not. But if there's an image with a caption,
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it's going to read that caption as well, it'll
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read the full text to them. And
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what's great is it reads in whatever language
[00:26:31.390]
you have this translated to. So if your students
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translated this article to Spanish first
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and then wanted to have it read to them
[00:26:37.989]
when they hit this play button, it would read that to them
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in Spanish as opposed to English
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and one last tool on this resource
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before I show you one thing under advanced
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search is going to be our highlights and notes. So
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this is great for students who are trying to just
[00:26:54.430]
remember key bits of information and articles.
[00:26:56.959]
They can just click and drag over any piece
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of text they think is important,
[00:27:01.219]
highlight it. They can put a note if they want to
[00:27:05.969]
and they can save it and they can do that as much
[00:27:08.219]
or as little as they want to, as many documents
[00:27:10.779]
as they want
[00:27:13.509]
within the resource. But this is session
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based here.
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So if they do decide they want to annotate and they
[00:27:19.630]
want to highlight, they need to make sure they get this
[00:27:21.689]
out of the platform. They can do that by
[00:27:23.969]
sending to their drives by downloading or by
[00:27:26.068]
printing. It's going to hold on to those highlights and those
[00:27:28.250]
notes for them.
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Now, I have just one more feature. I wanna show you before
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our session ends for the day, but before I do that,
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are there any questions about any of the tools
[00:27:39.890]
we took a look at or any of the topic,
[00:27:42.229]
page navigation or anything like that?
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OK. I don't see any. So I want to show
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you one more kind of little feature here.
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It's found under our advanced search. So if you're
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ever curious about,
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you know, everything we have in our simulations
[00:27:59.890]
content bucket, if you want to see all of the experiments
[00:28:02.410]
we have available or if you just wanna search
[00:28:04.640]
through experiments or simulations, if
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you do go to our advanced search and
[00:28:09.068]
you scroll down here,
[00:28:10.640]
we have all of these great content types listed.
[00:28:13.479]
So I can click into simulations and I can,
[00:28:15.949]
you know, run a search maybe for physics or something
[00:28:18.180]
like that or if I just click into it
[00:28:20.259]
and run a search without entering in a search
[00:28:22.618]
term, I'm actually going to see all
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of the simulations we have available in the resource.
[00:28:27.088]
So if you're ever curious,
[00:28:29.299]
just what we have available in those different content
[00:28:31.400]
buckets, or if you just want to make sure
[00:28:33.588]
you're only pulling experiments. Maybe again,
[00:28:35.680]
if you're an educator just looking for something to supplement
[00:28:37.890]
a lesson with,
[00:28:39.299]
use our advanced search. So then you're not trying to
[00:28:41.309]
weed through, you know, the reference articles that
[00:28:43.380]
we may have available as well as the videos.
[00:28:45.779]
You can just click into experiments, run your
[00:28:47.858]
search and you'll just pull that content
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type. It's a great feature we have here in the resource.
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OK. Now, I'm going to go ahead and jump back
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to my slides here because I do have some wrap up information
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for you. I haven't seen any additional questions,
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but if you have them, please put those in the Q and
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A for me and I can get them answered.
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But if you have questions for me, once the session
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is done, feel free to send me an email. It's just
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[email protected].
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If you want to talk a little bit more about how you can
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use this with your learning community, maybe you want to get a little
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more specific, wanna talk best practices.
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Your customer success manager can work with
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you on that. If you don't know who your customers
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success manager is, you can
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send an email to [email protected]
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we'll forward you
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to the correct individual and you could talk a little bit
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more about how it's this resource is going to
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best work in your learning community.
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If you don't have Gale In Context: Science,
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but you want to talk about it, you can reach out to your sales
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consultant. If you don't know who that is,
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you can go to support.gale.com/repfinder
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you'll be able to put in your information and
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we'll find the correct person for you
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if you need additional supports. If you
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want to take a look back at our recorded webinars, if
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you need a
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student activity, a flyer, a tip
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sheet, a resource guide, you're going to find all of that
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on our support site, which is support.gale.com.
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You'll find some great information there.
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And finally, I have included technical support here
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as well. So if you have any tech questions or
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any tech
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issue that you need to talk to someone about,
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you can reach out to them. Their email is just [email protected]
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They can help
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you out there.
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Now again, I've not seen any questions come in.
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So I'm going to go ahead and end our session here today.
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And I do appreciate everyone for being on
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the line. If you think of any questions,
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please feel free to reach out via one of these channels
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and hopefully we will see you all in future sessions.
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Bye bye now.
Thank you again everyone for joining me today.
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Today, we have another Gale 101 session.
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This one is focused on Gale In Context: Science.
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My name is Amber Winters and I'm a senior training
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consultant here with Gale.
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So today we're going over really the basics
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of Gale In Context: Science. So you all have
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a nice foundation to get started as
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you kind of dig deeper into the resource. So
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first we'll have a brief overview of
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what we made the resource for what you're going to
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find in the resource. A quick
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mention of the tools that we have available.
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Then we're going to take a look at some of the different key
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content types that you're going to find within this resource.
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And what's great about Gale In Context: Science is
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we actually have some really unique and interesting
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content types that are going to be available to
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you here. So we're going to take a look at those today.
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We'll spend the majority of the time actually looking
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at the resource though. So walking through the workflows,
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seeing how we can best surface content and things
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like that.
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And if you have any questions, you can feel free to
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put those into the Q and A at any time.
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Otherwise, we will have time at the very end of the session
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to answer anything that I wasn't able
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to answer as we move forward. And I do
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have some contact information for you as
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well. So if you need to get in touch with us after
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the webinar, I'll have that contact information
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for you at the very end of the session.
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So let's go ahead and just dive right in here.
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So Gale In Context: Science first
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off is a resource that we've built for secondary
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and up science users, what I like to say
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secondary and up. So really for
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upper level middle school students. So once
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your students are kind of at that upper eighth grade level,
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getting ready to go into high school, you know, your higher
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achiever middle school students may have success
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with this resource. But really the sweet
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spot is going to be your high school students are going
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to get a lot of this resource as well
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as undergraduate students. So those just starting
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off in college. So you find gel and con science
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of course in a lot of secondary
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schools. But you also find it in a lot
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of community colleges, a lot of undergraduate
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universities. So this is a pretty
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versatile resource. It's going to have a lot
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of different
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difficulty levels, a lot of different content
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types that are going to support a wide variety
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of users.
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And while this is a broad resource that's covering
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just kind of science in general, we do have
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some key subject areas that we've really
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focused in on. Those include biology,
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health and medicine, engineering, environmental
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science, as well as space science.
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We do have a pretty large physics
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and chemistry section in here as well.
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So what we try to do is hit a lot
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of the standards that you're going to see
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in the kind of the K 12 arena. So your NGSS
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standards and things like that, you're going to find
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materials that are going to support the most
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studied and most used topics
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kind of within those standards.
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In addition to that, we have some built in support
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learning tools that we're going to take a look at today
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as well. So as your learners are starting
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to read through articles, maybe news reports,
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they can highlight and annotate that text. So
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they remember the key points in the article,
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we have a full translation available on all
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of our articles as well as captions on images
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and things like that.
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We have a read speaker that's going to read
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the articles for your students. So if you have struggling
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readers that read speaker is a really great way
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to make sure this resource is accessible.
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They can also change the fonts. We have
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a citation tool that's going to generate a citation
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for them. We also have Google and Microsoft
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integrations. So if they want to save content
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out of the resource, they can save them
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to either one of their drives, their Google Drive
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or their Microsoft Onedrive and they'll be able to
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hold on to that information to take it out with them later.
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Now, are there any quick questions about
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Gale In Context: Science before we look at some of the different content
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types we have available?
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Ok, let's keep moving forward. Then let's talk
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about some of the different content your students are going
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to find here. So the first and probably
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the most expected is going to be our reference
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articles. So these are giving the facts
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about whatever topic, whatever subject
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your user is looking at. So
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it's going to give both overview as well as more
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detailed information that's really giving them
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the foundation to learn and to kind of
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grow
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with this topic. So before they
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start looking at maybe, you know, current
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events or opinion pieces, these
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reference articles are going to give them that solid
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understanding of the topic so they can kind
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of come to their own conclusions about
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different opinions on different topics
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and things like that.
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We also have a pretty extensive multimedia
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collection within the resource. So they'll find
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things like videos and images as well
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as a big collection of audio files. So things
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like podcasts are often highlighted
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in the audio file section.
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This is great for users who just prefer to get
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their information in a different way than reading
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a text. Also great for learners
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who are struggling readers or maybe those
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who are
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at a lower reading level than their grade
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level would suggest who are still trying to get information
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from this resource.
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The videos, images and audio files are really going
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to help them find the content and the information
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that they need. And a lot of these videos
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and
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audio files are going to be news reports
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and current events and things like that. So it's
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really bringing whatever topic they're learning about,
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kind of into the forefront and kind of bringing the
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the world into the classroom.
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Something that's unique to gale in context science
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as opposed to all of the in context suite
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in general is going to be our interactive simulations.
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And these actually allow students to input information
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and edit variables for this little interactive
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experiment that's going to help them see
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outcomes related to physics, chemistry
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and biology. So a big
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part of the collection is going to be physics. So if we're
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talking about,
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you know, potential verse kinetic energy,
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if we're talking about
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forces of or motion or things
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like that,
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they're going to find these really cool interactive
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simulations here. This one is a roller coaster
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about um the slope angle
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and it's just something nice for them to go through,
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they'll be able to enter an information, they'll hit the start
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button and they get to see it play out in real time.
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So it's not like they're just getting, you know,
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a formula and they're getting a, an example
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piece of text. They're actually seeing it happen
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in real time and they can edit the variables to
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see how the result changes.
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So it's a nice feature we have here in this resource
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right now. We've got, I believe over
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300 of these interactive simulations.
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So we cover quite a few topics in that
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300 collection.
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We also have fully developed experiments
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within the resource and this is great for
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any educators who are on the line or anyone
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working with educators. If they're looking
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for something to supplement a units, this
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one, you'll see, I've pulled forward on acid rain.
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Um But if they're just looking for something to supplement a unit,
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they may want to take a look at these because again, they
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are fully developed. So they include
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a list of all the materials that are going to
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be need be are going to be needed
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a budget, a difficulty level
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to make sure that students are actually going to be able
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to run through the session, step by step
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instructions and a trouble student guide as
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well. So, you know, if something goes wrong,
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we provide a little bit of background to try
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to help figure that out. So again, these are great.
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They're ready to go. Your teachers can download
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them or they can print them and share out
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the instruction with students and really
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get to work. It's kind of a one stop
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shop print and go.
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We also have a news and magazines in this resource
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as well. So if teachers are trying to pull
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the Real World into their lessons, this
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is a great place for them to go. They'll be able to see,
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excuse me, more scholarly
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resources as well as places
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like the New York Times and some other
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magazines and newspapers
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like that, that are going to give kind of that
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current event feel and these are
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updated continuously. So
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they'll be able to see the most current information,
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the most current news within the resource.
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We've also got some great statistics found within
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the resource. So if you're working and helping students
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understand how to read charts
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and graphs, they're going to find a lot of those here
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in this resource. What's nice is they are
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highly visual and we do provide
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information around the chart.
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So we're going to explain
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what's on the X axis, what's on the Y axis
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and how that information is actually
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lined up for them. So it's really going to help them
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understand
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different scientific topics
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both from a US point of view
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as well as a global point of view.
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In addition to that, we do also have academic
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journals. So again, if you have higher
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level students, maybe your upper
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high school students, your 11th, 12th graders,
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or if you're working with undergraduate students
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and they need academic research, they'll be able
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to find those scholarly journals right
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here in the resource. And we do let them know if
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something is peer reviewed, we have a nice little
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check mark that shows up, that we'll
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take a look at once we get in the resource that's really
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going to make sure they understand that the materials
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they're looking at are in fact academic peer
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reviewed and appropriate for research
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projects.
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And finally, we have a
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pretty extensive collection of biographies
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within this resource as well focused on
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both historical and contemporary
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scientists. So if
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your users are more looking for maybe
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inspiration, they want to be a scientist as well and
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they want to see, you know, what other scientists
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have done. Maybe they want to find someone like them
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in the the science field, their topic
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of interest, they'll be able to do that within
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this resource here. We've got a pretty
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a nicely built out set of biographies
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and they'll be able to kind of see the background on scientists,
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what the scientists did in their lives.
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Um Any awards they won the discoveries
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they made is a really nice way for them
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to find representation in science
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right here on this platform.
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No, I
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excuse me, I want to spend the rest
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of our time here actually clicking through the workflow.
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So you guys can see it in action. You can better
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understand what your users are going to see.
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Well, I switch over here to my
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platform though. Does anyone have any questions
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about the content we have available
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for you
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or anything like that?
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Ok. We've got a quiet crowd today. So
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let's go ahead and get started. Then this is the home page
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here of Gale In Context: Science
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right here towards the top. You'll see. We've pulled
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forward topics of interest and these change
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generally monthly depending on what's going on for
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anyone watching the recording. This
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is the double brood cicada year.
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So the 13 year and the 17th year
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are both going to emerge. So
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it's gonna be pretty loud. So we've decided to pull forward insects
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for students who are maybe be interested in seeing what's going
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on and I can click through and see what else
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we've pulled forward. We have game theory here as
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well as bees this month.
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So again, this generally is going to change monthly.
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If some, you know, big thing happens in
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science in one month, a lot of times
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we'll pull that topic forward because of course, students
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are most likely going to be searching for that.
[00:10:45.700]
So the eclipse was highlighted earlier
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things like that
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then scrolling down here still on the home page.
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We have this nice browse topics section
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and each of these links are links to topic
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pages that we've created for these topics.
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And topic pages are organized
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kind of landing points about different topics
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that we've curated. We've pulled together
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all of the different results related to that topic.
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We've provided an overview. So it's like a nice
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landing point for your students to learn about a different
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topic.
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And we built these topics for the most
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studied the most search and the most used topics
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within the resource.
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And you see here on the home page, if I don't know exactly
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what I'm looking for, you know, I'm just kind of browsing around
[00:11:26.759]
seeing what I see. This is a great place to
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start here so I can choose whatever
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section I want to take a look at. Maybe I'm
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looking for something related to biology.
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I can click here into my biology which has 246
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topic pages
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and I can scroll down to see whats available here.
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Now, these topic pages are not
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the only content found within this resource.
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If your students are looking for something that's maybe
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a little bit more specific. What they're going
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to want to do is run a search and they'll most likely
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find information. They just won't have
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that hand curated topic page.
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Those topic pages are just save
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for those most searched and most U used
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terms.
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And while browsing topics, I can also
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click here in my little drop down. So I clicked into bio
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biology. Maybe I actually want to know about
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health and medicine.
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I can move forward here and see my health and medicine topics.
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Now, I'll also be directed to topic pages
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when I search here as well. So I'm going to jump
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back to home just for a nice landing point
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and I am going to run a search here
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for,
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let's do climate change.
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So once I start to type in here, you'll see,
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I have some predictive text that's giving me
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um suggestions about what I might want to search
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and you'll see these top two are bolded.
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Oops, we have a quick question. So I'm going to take a look here.
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Um I noticed interactive models as a content type
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and the, and this it took me to Gale
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Interactive Science.
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Um Mary Jo. So the interactive models
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found within Gale In Context: Science
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are separate from Gale Interactive: Science.
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That's actually a separate resource.
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So you won't find any Gale interactive Science
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activities within this resource here.
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That's only going to be in that platform
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and vice versa. The interactive simulations
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are only going to be in this platform.
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OK. So again, I started typing
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in here. My predictive text is providing me
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with two bolded options
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and these bolded options are topic pages.
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So instead of running my search and getting just the basic
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search results page, if I click into
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one of these, it's going to take me to a topic page
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instead
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which I do always recommend for your users,
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especially if they are kind of in the younger
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high school age. And they may be
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struggle with search with search
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terms and pulling their own information. These topic pages
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are a great way for them to get started.
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And I will mentioned we have a nice get link button up
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top here. So if you're actually pulling
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content for your students, you can use
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this get link and share it out to them.
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So instead of having them run a search, try to find
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climate change information. If you just want them to
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start on this landing point,
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they can use that get link and pull a person
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URL right to this page. So that's another nice
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feature we have here.
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Now, while they're on this, our topic pages
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here at the very top, they're going to see an over
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overview of the topic. So this is going
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to give them that quick background knowledge
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to make sure they know what they're kind of researching.
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Then underneath that, you'll see we have
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pulled forward here. All of the different content
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types we have available for this resource,
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you'll see them all listed here. So we pulled
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forward some featured content if we
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have reference statistics, images
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experiments. And what's great is if
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let's say for this topic, I actually didn't
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have any videos, let's
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say this video option would actually disappear.
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So they're never going to see like a zero next
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to any of these. They're only going to see content
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types that we have for this resource.
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I'm sorry for this topic.
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And now as we scroll down here, you'll see, we pull them into
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different content buckets here as well. So it
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shows usually around the first
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three
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entries for whatever content
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bucket here. So you'll see our experiments listed here,
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a simulation
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and then scrolling all the way down. Da da
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da. We also include related topics and each
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of these topics are also a topic page
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as well. So as they're moving forward,
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you know, they're learning about climate change and
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it's talking a lot about carbon dioxide
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and they just don't know what that is. They can click
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into our carbon dioxide topic page,
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learn about that. Maybe they want to move
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from there to learn a bit about the
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greenhouse effect.
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They'll be able to do that as well. So they can actually
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click through these topic pages and not even
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have to run a search. So this is really
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guiding them to the content that they may need without
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them having to build search terms. you
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know, maybe struggle with that a little bit because of course,
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our beginner researchers sometimes
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have a difficulty running searches. So this
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is helping to kind of relieve
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that pain point a little bit.
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Now scrolling up here, I mentioned we have those
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greats
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simulations and experiments. So I wanna show
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you what those look like. And luckily with this topic,
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we actually have both. So our
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simulations you'll see they have their own content bucket
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right here.
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So I'm going to click into this first one
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and you'll see right away. It gives me a warning that
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I'm not viewing this at full size.
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It starts off at the smaller size. So
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we can see this little bit of information at the top
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here and we can see our explore panel, but
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we can actually choose this blue open activity
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button and
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it's going to be bigger here. So this is talking
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about the greenhouse effect. Of course, we're not going to read
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the whole thing here, but we can hit our start
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button and this is starting to show us
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what the greenhouse effect is. So
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you say they're just going to walk through step by step,
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you'll see they changed here, the albedo that's
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being seen,
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they will go through all of it.
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And once I kind of run through the premade activity,
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you'll see it is at first having them
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set things to specific sets here.
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Once they actually complete the full thing, they'll be able
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to mess with these little
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these little bars here
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to change this up. So they'll be able to see
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how temperatures are changed based on these
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different features here.
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And again, we've got over 300
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of these. So they're going to be covering a lot of different
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topics here. This is just one that's related
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to greenhouse gasses.
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And I just click out of that and then that pulls me back to
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this main page for this activity. Again,
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gives me that attention. It will work
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in this smaller window you see here.
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But um it is a little bit harder to see.
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So we do have that open activity button listed underneath
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there. Now,
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I'm just going to go back to our topic page here because
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I want to show you what an experiment looks like as
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well.
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So again, our experiments have their own content
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buckets listed here
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and I can actually click into all experiments if I
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want to. You'll see, I have six here related to
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this activity.
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And what's nice is some of them are traditional experiments
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that you would think of, you know, where they're running
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something in a lab, you know, they're actually physically doing
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something, but some of them are closer to like
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scientific projects.
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So like this Disappearing Island speech,
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this is
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more of a research activity where students
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are actually going to research an
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island that's currently at risk
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to become a disappearing island with the sea level
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rise.
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And they're going to kind of research
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that island and they're going to present
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a speech that's trying to, you know,
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convince world leaders to change what
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they're doing.
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So if
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I scroll down here, of course, this one, the approximate budget
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is going to be free. The materials are just
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going to be materials needed to research this topic.
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Again, we have our troubleshooting here and our step
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by steps.
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So we got a nice simple way to just
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have another activity. You know, if your teachers,
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I know they don't frequently have days where they just
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have nothing to do. But if they need a sub
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plan or something like that or they just need an experiment
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available. This is a nice place for them to look under
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this experiment section.
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Now, I'm going to jump back to our topic
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page one more time this time. Instead of using the
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back button, I do want to mention you'll see
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you have a nice little breadcrumb trail here. So
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you'll see, I can jump back to my topic page
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right here
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and get pulled forward. So let's take a look
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at some of the filtering tools and other tools
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that we have available on documents. I'm
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just going to click into my reference materials here
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so we can take a look so related to
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global warming climate change right now. I have
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272 reference articles
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which of course is, it's too much,
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it's too much for your students. They're not going to go through 272
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articles. So we include some great filters
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on this right hand side here. That's really going to help
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your students out. The first one I like to mention
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is the subjects drop down. So, of course,
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the main subject,
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oh my gosh. Excuse me,
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the main subject
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is going to be global warming and climate change. Of course.
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But then if they want to get a little bit more specific,
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maybe they want to learn about how
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um you know, the humans are interacting with the
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environment. They can click here
[00:20:27.779]
scrolling down if they're interested in sea level
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or maybe how fossil fuels are related to climate
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change, they can really narrow it down right
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there to pull it forward.
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We also have the option to narrow down by document
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type. So this is getting a little bit more specific
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than just being a reference article. You'll see
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there are topic overviews, brief
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articles,
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disease overview which
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will be somehow related to climate change. I'm not quite sure,
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but you'll see they have some different options here.
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It looks like we even have a primary source listed,
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which is interesting
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so they can change that up top here.
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For any educators who are using
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this resource, if you are kind of looking
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by lexile level, if you have students who
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need a lower level bit of information,
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you can do that on the resource here as well under
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that lexile measure.
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So let's go ahead and click into one of these, I'll click
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into greenhouse effect and greenhouse
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gasses. Now, I will point out
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you'll see this little gray flag listed down here
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that says leveled. That means this
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document can actually be found at two different content
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levels. So one higher level and one lower
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level. So if you have
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a, a class that really needs those
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two different levels, you know, you have a wide variety of students,
[00:21:36.348]
some struggling readers, some
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who are a little more advanced,
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you can find a lot of articles in this resource
[00:21:43.608]
that have those two different levels. You see, I can
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toggle between my reading levels up top here
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and they are al exile levels.
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But you see there is a a lower
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level reading option
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and a higher level. And these are going to both provide
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the same information for your students just
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at the at the different levels. The one will
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have shorter sents, shorter
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paragraphs, easier vocab while the other
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one will be a little bit more advanced. So that
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toggle is a great way to make sure that your students
[00:22:11.920]
are getting the content that's going to be best for them.
[00:22:16.568]
Now scrolling down here, I do want to point out all of the
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tools we have available when we're on an actual
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document here. So our citation
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tool is always available in our little toolbar
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up top here.
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And this will provide citations either at Mlaap,
[00:22:29.309]
a Chicago or Harvard versions.
[00:22:31.578]
They can export this out of here or they
[00:22:33.680]
can select it and copy and paste it into
[00:22:36.338]
whatever they're working on this
[00:22:38.358]
is a great way to get by in both from teachers
[00:22:40.630]
and students because, you know, students
[00:22:42.670]
don't want to build their own citations, they don't like it.
[00:22:45.229]
So if they're in this resource, they don't have to,
[00:22:47.289]
they can copy and paste, they're ready to go.
[00:22:49.750]
All of our citations are also found at the very
[00:22:51.809]
bottom of a page here as well. And again,
[00:22:54.219]
same functionality, they can copy and paste it,
[00:22:56.279]
they can export it, they can choose
[00:22:58.400]
what edition or what type of citation they
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want up top there,
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scroll back up here
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and they can also get this information out of the resource.
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So if they want to save this for later, they
[00:23:10.608]
can use our send to download or print
[00:23:12.729]
options. So our send to button
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lets them send over to either a Google or
[00:23:17.078]
a Microsoft Onedrive or it lets them
[00:23:19.108]
email this document.
[00:23:20.509]
So this is great if they are, you know, going to
[00:23:22.529]
be using it for a project, but they don't have time
[00:23:24.680]
to get it all done while they're sitting in front of their computer,
[00:23:27.368]
they can save it to one of their drives. So they don't
[00:23:29.400]
have to come back and look for it again. It's already there
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and ready to go for them.
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And these options are also found down here with
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these buttons. You'll see, we have our Google button, our
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Microsoft and the email, download
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and print these. Do the same thing. We've
[00:23:42.858]
just added a little bit of redundancy to make sure students
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can see them one place or another. If they
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don't see them up here, hopefully they'll see them down here.
[00:23:50.358]
Again. We have our get link which is going to provide
[00:23:52.519]
a persistent URL. So if students
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maybe want to share this with their peers,
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if you wanna share it with a student,
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um if you wanna share it with a colleague, you
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can use this get link, send it over to them and they'll
[00:24:03.529]
be able to click directly into this article really
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simply.
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Now, in addition to all of those sharing tools, we also
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have some great accessibility tools here
[00:24:14.348]
and they are listed down here under the title
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under this Little Black Bar.
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The first one is going to be our translate option.
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So we'll be able to translate the article into whatever
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language we need
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and we can also set our interface language.
[00:24:26.219]
What's that? What that's going to do is it's going to change
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all of the buttons and the resource, the
[00:24:31.000]
search bar, everything is going to be in a different language.
[00:24:34.088]
Let's go ahead and change that so we can take a look.
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So you'll see now my search bar is in Spanish,
[00:24:40.519]
which is what I changed it to all of my tools up top
[00:24:42.789]
here are in Spanish,
[00:24:44.338]
my explore panel, the buttons here are in
[00:24:46.390]
Spanish. This is a great
[00:24:48.559]
feature for your students to use, right? As
[00:24:50.588]
soon as they click into the resource. So if they are
[00:24:52.699]
struggling with English right
[00:24:54.818]
now, they are not necessarily able to navigate
[00:24:57.338]
using English buttons, they can translate
[00:24:59.348]
over to Spanish. What's great is
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they can actually do that at the top of the page here as
[00:25:03.459]
well. You see where it says Spanish,
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they can drop down
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and they really change that and that does follow
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along throughout the duration of the session.
[00:25:12.809]
So all of their navigation will be in whatever language
[00:25:15.140]
they need. Moving
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forward from our transit option, we also have the
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option to increase or decrease the font
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size as needed.
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Next to that. We have some display options.
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So I can change the background of my text
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here. I can change the font.
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I do have a dyslexia font if needed
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and I can also change the line letter and word spacing.
[00:25:36.259]
So this feature I think is
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really handy because this is letting them fully
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customize what they see. It's not kind of
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a you know, pick option A or pick option
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B. It's really change your font, then choose your spacing,
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then choose your colors. So it's
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really helping them kind of see this the best
[00:25:51.789]
way they can. And this follows them along
[00:25:53.848]
throughout a session as well. So once they get to their
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first article, they can edit their
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their settings to make this exactly
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how they want to read it and moving forward, it's going
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to be the same deal
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now, right next to that. I do have my listen
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tool here as well. So if they prefer to have the article
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read to them,
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they'll hit that listen tool and they'll play through it and
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I'll read the full article to them, including
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the sidebar here. Um If there's
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an image, I don't think this has an image in it
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does not. But if there's an image with a caption,
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it's going to read that caption as well, it'll
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read the full text to them. And
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what's great is it reads in whatever language
[00:26:31.390]
you have this translated to. So if your students
[00:26:33.400]
translated this article to Spanish first
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and then wanted to have it read to them
[00:26:37.989]
when they hit this play button, it would read that to them
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in Spanish as opposed to English
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and one last tool on this resource
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before I show you one thing under advanced
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search is going to be our highlights and notes. So
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this is great for students who are trying to just
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remember key bits of information and articles.
[00:26:56.959]
They can just click and drag over any piece
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of text they think is important,
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highlight it. They can put a note if they want to
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and they can save it and they can do that as much
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or as little as they want to, as many documents
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as they want
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within the resource. But this is session
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based here.
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So if they do decide they want to annotate and they
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want to highlight, they need to make sure they get this
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out of the platform. They can do that by
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sending to their drives by downloading or by
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printing. It's going to hold on to those highlights and those
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notes for them.
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Now, I have just one more feature. I wanna show you before
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our session ends for the day, but before I do that,
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are there any questions about any of the tools
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we took a look at or any of the topic,
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page navigation or anything like that?
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OK. I don't see any. So I want to show
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you one more kind of little feature here.
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It's found under our advanced search. So if you're
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ever curious about,
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you know, everything we have in our simulations
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content bucket, if you want to see all of the experiments
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we have available or if you just wanna search
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through experiments or simulations, if
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you do go to our advanced search and
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you scroll down here,
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we have all of these great content types listed.
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So I can click into simulations and I can,
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you know, run a search maybe for physics or something
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like that or if I just click into it
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and run a search without entering in a search
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term, I'm actually going to see all
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of the simulations we have available in the resource.
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So if you're ever curious,
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just what we have available in those different content
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buckets, or if you just want to make sure
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you're only pulling experiments. Maybe again,
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if you're an educator just looking for something to supplement
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a lesson with,
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use our advanced search. So then you're not trying to
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weed through, you know, the reference articles that
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we may have available as well as the videos.
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You can just click into experiments, run your
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search and you'll just pull that content
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type. It's a great feature we have here in the resource.
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OK. Now, I'm going to go ahead and jump back
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to my slides here because I do have some wrap up information
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for you. I haven't seen any additional questions,
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but if you have them, please put those in the Q and
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A for me and I can get them answered.
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But if you have questions for me, once the session
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is done, feel free to send me an email. It's just
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[email protected].
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If you want to talk a little bit more about how you can
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use this with your learning community, maybe you want to get a little
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more specific, wanna talk best practices.
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Your customer success manager can work with
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you on that. If you don't know who your customers
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success manager is, you can
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send an email to [email protected]
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we'll forward you
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to the correct individual and you could talk a little bit
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more about how it's this resource is going to
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best work in your learning community.
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If you don't have Gale In Context: Science,
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but you want to talk about it, you can reach out to your sales
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consultant. If you don't know who that is,
[00:29:44.930]
you can go to support.gale.com/repfinder
[00:29:47.670]
you'll be able to put in your information and
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we'll find the correct person for you
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if you need additional supports. If you
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want to take a look back at our recorded webinars, if
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you need a
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student activity, a flyer, a tip
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sheet, a resource guide, you're going to find all of that
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on our support site, which is support.gale.com.
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You'll find some great information there.
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And finally, I have included technical support here
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as well. So if you have any tech questions or
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any tech
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issue that you need to talk to someone about,
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you can reach out to them. Their email is just [email protected]
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They can help
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you out there.
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Now again, I've not seen any questions come in.
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So I'm going to go ahead and end our session here today.
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And I do appreciate everyone for being on
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the line. If you think of any questions,
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please feel free to reach out via one of these channels
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and hopefully we will see you all in future sessions.
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Bye bye now.