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Last Updated: September 06, 2024

Gale 101- Gale In Context: High School

View our webinar designed specifically for beginners to explore Gale In Context: High School. This session will provide a comprehensive overview of the platform's cross-curricular content, features, and functionality, to equip you with the necessary skills to navigate and utilize its vast resources effectively.

Duration: 30 Minutes
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Hello, everyone and welcome to our Gale

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101 session. Today we're talking about

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Gale In Context: High School. My

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name is Amber Winters and I am a senior training

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consultant here with Gale

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and I'm excited to be working with you all today.

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So a quick agenda here. First, we're going to just

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go over what the resource itself is,

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what you can expect to find some

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of the different features available. Then

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we'll talk about some of the key content you're going

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to see specifically the key content

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types. So things like biographies.

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we'll go over all of the good stuff you're going to find,

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but we'll spend the majority of the time actually

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walking through the resource so we can kind of get

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a feel of what your users are going to

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be experiencing. So some of the workflows

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that might be beneficial for them. We'll take

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a look at filtering, we'll take a look at topic pages.

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We're going to try to hit everything we can in the resource

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today with our 30 minutes

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and then at the very end of the session, we should have

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some time for any questions you have

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that I wasn't able to hit as

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we move along the session and I do have some contact

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information for you as well.

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But again, if you do have questions, don't feel like

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you need to wait until the very end of the session, I

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would love to answer them for you as they come up.

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So feel free when you think of them to put

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them into that Q and A and I'll be able to get those answered.

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So, Galen context high school, now this

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is an age appropriate resource that we've developed

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specifically for high schoolers as you

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would expect from the title.

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Um And it is developed though from beginner

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to advanced high school level students.

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So those in ninth grade who are just starting

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to kind of dig into that higher level content

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all the way up to 12th graders who are actually

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getting into academic works and kind of starting

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to explore academic journals, every

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level between that they're going to find

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content here within this resource.

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And this is a very broad resource. It is

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cross curricular. So you'll find things

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related to el A to social studies,

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current events, science, social

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emotional learning. We've got great

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financial literacy information.

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The list goes on and on. You'll find all of that

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right here in this resource. So it is really

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kind of um

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far reaching resource. And if

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you're on the line as a librarian who's planning

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on getting this information out to your teachers.

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Just know that this resource is probably

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going to cover the majority of your school.

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So definitely I recommend getting this out to

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everyone that you can because they'll find content

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here in the resource.

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And in addition to all that great coverage,

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we have, we also have a lot of built in tools

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here that are going to support your learners.

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So things like highlights and notes, if

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your users kind of want to talk to the text

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as they're reading, we have translation

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capabilities, both the documents themselves

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in the platform. So all of the tools can

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be translated. We have a read speaker,

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text manipulation. It's going to allow your users

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to change the font, the color, the size,

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great citation tool. We're also integrated

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with both Google and Microsoft drives

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if they want to save content that way and

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also with Google classroom. So if you are

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using Google Classroom for your classes, you

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can actually send information directly from

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our resource to your Google classroom

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platform, which is a really nice feature to have.

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So let's talk a little bit about some of the key

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content types that we're going to see as we click

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through the resource today. So the first probably

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the most expected is going to be our reference

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articles. So that's giving us just the

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fact about the facts about whatever we're

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learning about. We have basic reference articles

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that are going to provide the foundation

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for further learning. And we also have

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some more advanced reference articles that are really getting

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into specifics about a topic and

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really kind of specializing into one

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hyper focused topic.

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We also have a giant collection of news and

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magazines and many of them are loaded daily,

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of course, depending on how often they're published.

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But again, these are cross curricular and

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they're going to really link the real

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world to what they're learning in the classroom.

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So this is giving that current events

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look, it's going to help your, you your students

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or your library patrons coming in

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kind of understand why they're learning

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what they're learning.

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We also have multimedia content from within

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this resource. And of course, this is going to be really

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handy for your users who may be struggling

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readers or just for those who prefer

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to watch their

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information as opposed to reading it.

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They'll find videos, they'll find great

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images. We also have a huge collection

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of audio files, specifically podcasts.

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I like to point out because of course, podcasts are usually

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fairly short

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and a little bit easier to hold on to than,

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you know, a longer news broadcast or something

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like that. So we do have a lot of podcasts as

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well. Again, cross curricular. So they'll find

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information on quite a few different

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topics and subjects. They'll find that

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right here within the resource.

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We also have a pretty large collection of

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biographies. I say large for all of these collections

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because we do, we have a, a

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very, very huge collection

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of materials. But our biographies are really great because

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they include both historical figures

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and contemporary figures. And I think that's

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a really vital parts of

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a research database of a learning resource.

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Like this

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is a lot of times your users want to see

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themselves reflected in biographies

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and they want to learn about the people who are big

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deals right now. You know, they want to learn about the

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musicians, they're listening to

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you see, I pulled for lebron James,

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you know, they want to learn about the athletes they're watching.

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So they'll find all of that content here. Of

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course, in addition to the historical figures that you

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would expect to see within the resource,

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we also have a collection of primary sources,

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both for us history and world history.

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So if you do need your users starting

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to kind of get into that and understand the difference

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between primary and secondary sources,

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they'll find content for that. They'll see things

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like political cartoons, speeches,

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letters,

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manuscripts, courts,

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you know, summaries. So really

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kind of a full

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holistic big view of history in

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our primary sources. And they are

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labeled as primary sources in the resource,

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which I think is really beneficial for

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students who may struggle to understand

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the difference between a primary and a secondary

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source, we've labeled them as primary sources

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so we can help guide them before they can kind of figure

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it out on their own. We want to give them that little

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leg up and label it for them.

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And finally, this is unique to Gale In

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Context: High School, as opposed to the other

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In Context resources like Gale

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in context middle school, we start to include

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academic journals here. So again, your 12th

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graders who are getting ready to you

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know, jump into college, jump into university

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and they're starting to look at that more

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detailed more complex

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information. They'll find that in this resource.

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And what's great is all of our academic journals are

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actually labeled as peer reviewed.

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So if you want to make sure your users

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are accessing peer-reviewed content

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and they're not quite sure when they

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click on something, it will let them know it'll get a little

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checkmark saying it's peer reviewed. So they'll be

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able to see that.

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And another great feature of having these academic

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journals right here on this platform is if

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they decide to click into an academic journal

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and they just, you know, get completely overwhelmed, his

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information is too in depth, it's too advanced

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for them. They can really simply just back

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out of that article and find maybe a reference

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article about the same topic, but

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just at that lower level. So

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they can like dip their toes into the academic field.

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They don't have to go to a fully academic

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support a fully

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academic resource. Um They

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can just kind of dig in here and they'll get both the academic

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side of things and the lower level resource

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reference content.

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Now, I just want to spend the rest of our time looking

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at the resource here. Are there any questions

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quickly about the content types that

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you are going to be available or

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the tools that I briefly mentioned anything like that?

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OK.

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I don't see any. So let's go ahead and jump

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here. It's almost timed out.

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So let's go ahead and jump right to the home page

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of Galen context High School. This is what your

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users are going to see as soon as they sign

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in. So just a little lay of the land

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here, of course, you'll see our advanced search and

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our basic search are going to be right at the top here

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in our banner.

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We have a lot of really great content.

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If we scroll down, that's going to be beneficial for

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users as well. First, we have some topics

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of interest that we like to pull out and these usually

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change monthly. Anyone watching

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the recording this month, This is being recorded

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in April. So you see, we've pulled forward Arab American

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Heritage Month,

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we can click through, we have environmentalism pulled

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forward and track and field

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this month. So they do change monthly

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sometimes sooner if something you know, big

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happens in the world and we want to highlight that for

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students, for users. they may see that pulled

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forward, but generally they change monthly

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kind of depending on what's going on in the world.

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And when we scroll down below that, we

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have these different topics listed out here.

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Again, as I mentioned, this is a cross curricular resource.

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So you'll see we've got sections related to

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literature social studies.

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So little things like government business.

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We have a science and health section here

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and we do have all of our biographies pulled out

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separately in their own section as well.

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And all of these that are listed are actually going to

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be topic pages.

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So what we do is we curate

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these pages for some of the top search and

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tap used terms within the resource

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and we really lay them out nice and organized

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for users who will be able to see an overview

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and then all of the different

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all of the different results. So reference

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articles, magazines, videos,

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all the good stuff. They'll see that right on the topic

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page.

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And you'll see if I click into any of these.

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Our topic page list is pretty extensive.

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So this is just what's found under business and economics.

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If I go here and hit view all,

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you'll see. We've got a very large collection

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of topic pages here

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and these aren't the only topics in the resource.

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Of course, if your user coming in with something that's

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a little bit more specific, um, that's

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may be studied in your state a

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lot, but maybe not nationally, they may

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not have a topic page created just yet because

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it's not as broadly studied. if

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that's the case, if they kind of browse through this

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to see if there's a topic page and they don't see one,

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of course, they'll just run their search and they'll pull content

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that way.

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But if they are studying something that is

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frequently studied or, you know, in the news today

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or something like that,

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they'll probably find a topic page for that. And I definitely

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recommend directing your students to try

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to find topic pages for whatever they're learning

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about. So

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again, they can browse through

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just by clicking into any of these sections

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or if they decided to run a search,

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instead I'm gonna search today for

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Cryptocurrency because I feel like that's fairly,

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popular.

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So if they decided to run a search instead

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of, um, kind of browsing through these topics

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on this page, you'll see when they start to search

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here. I have one option that's bolded

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at the very top of my predictive text and

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that's showing me that have a topic page.

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So instead of running a search, like if I ran a search

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for Crystal, um, and just getting

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a search results page where all of the results

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are listed, if I click into that bolded

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one I'm taken to the topic page

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and this is organized for me.

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So this is especially helpful for

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your users who are maybe not

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super organized in their research just

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yet. You know, maybe they're kind of beginner researchers

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and it's hard for them to pull the content they

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need or

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maybe it's difficult for them to build their own search

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terms. We're trying to alleviate that

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that stress here and we've pulled forward

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forward these topic pages.

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These are also great. If you are an educator

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on the line

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and you're trying to find content for students, you can

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actually pull a topic page,

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use this little get link button up top here

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and you can actually send this topic page over to

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your students. So if you just want them

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all on the Cryptocurrency topic page,

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you're doing a lesson, you want them to be able to

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explore the results without, without having

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to kind of get them to run their own searches necessarily,

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you use this get link and they have access

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to this great topic page. So at the very

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top of every topic page, there's going to be just

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a nice brief overview and this is giving

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the background about that topic. So it's really setting

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the stage for that deeper learning. So we'll have

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the overview of the top here and this is

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always going to be um a reference document,

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of course, unless it's about a person, then it'll be

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a biography. But if it's about a topic, it's

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going to be a reference article.

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And if we scroll down here on this topic page,

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you'll see it's showing us the different content

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types that we've pulled results for so

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specific to Cryptocurrency. You'll see. We've

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got a few reference articles, a lot of audio.

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Um, we do have one biography, not quite

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sure what it's about, we can scroll down and find out a lot

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of magazine and news results. Of course,

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Cryptocurrency is frequently

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making headlines. So we have a lot of news and

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magazines. We've got some images and some

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videos and we even have a couple academic journal

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entries related to Cryptocurrency

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scrolling down from there. I'm going to see these different

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content buckets that, that are including

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those different content types. So reference

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contents, um oftentimes we'll

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pull out some featured content, sometimes it's videos,

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sometimes it's articles

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changes from time to time scrolling

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down beneath that here, you'll see our

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video and our images are listed and then

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at the very bottom of the page, I wanna scroll all the way

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down here.

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We have related topics. So

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these are also topic pages that are going to

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be related to Cryptocurrency. So this is

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a really nice way for your users to keep

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learning again without running a search. So they learned

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about Cryptocurrency a bit.

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Maybe now they're really interested just in like standard

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money and banking, you know, they want to know just how regular

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old, you know, archaic

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banking works. If we're not talking about Cryptocurrency,

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they can click into money and banking and get

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to that topic page. So a really nice

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way to point and click to find content again

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without even having to run a search.

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Now, I'm going to scroll back up here a bit and

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I'm going to click into all of my reference articles

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because maybe I just want to take a look at something

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that's just giving me the facts of, of a topic.

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So I'm gonna click into reference here

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and when I click into that title, it's going

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to pull forward all of my results. You see, we have 12

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listed here

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and now I have some different options for filtering

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on this right hand side here. Luckily,

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this topic page itself is pretty filtered already.

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Of course, with 12 entries. Um,

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other topic pages that are a little bit more broad,

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they could get, you know, hundreds of reference articles,

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maybe even thousands. If that's

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the case, they

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should consider using filters to kind of narrow down.

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I oftentimes find these subjects filter

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is helpful. So we're on Cryptocurrency.

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But if specifically we want to know, you know how

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artificial intelligence is related to Cryptocurrency,

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we can click right here and we'll narrow it down just

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to two articles instead of those 12.

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So this is a great way to, for them to narrow down

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and find content again since this

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is a pretty um

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already filter topic page and we are down

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to the 12 reference articles. We may not need

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to use as many filters. But

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I do want to mention that they're here and ready to go

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for your users.

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I can also easily change between different

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content types in this gray bar up top here.

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So clicked into reference, but maybe I want

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to see some of the featured stuff that we've pulled

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forward. I can click right over here into

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our featured content.

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Usually it's around three

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pieces of content. Sometimes it's a couple more,

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but usually it's around three.

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And I can scroll down and take a look and see

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if there's anything interesting to me. And let's

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say there is, let's say this first one, the mistakes

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to avoid when buying Cryptocurrency,

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pretty important to know I can click into this

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here and I will be poor, pulled forward

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to my article.

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And once your users are on this article, there's

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a lot they can do to make sure that this

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is um you know, a successful learning

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experience for them. There are a lot of different tools

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that are going to help them out. The first is going

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to be our citation option. So if this is

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a student coming in learning about this,

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maybe using those documents

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in a paper they're writing or for a project,

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we have a citation button right up top here

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in our toolbar.

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When they click into this, they'll have a premade

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citation, either Mlaap, a Chicago

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or Harvard versions and

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they can copy and paste this into their reference

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page. You'll see they can also export it over.

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So if they're using you know, a Google

[00:16:07.469]
drive or a Onedrive or maybe noodle tools,

[00:16:09.558]
they can get the citation over that way to save

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it to wherever they need it to go.

[00:16:15.340]
They can also save this full document.

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So if this is something you want to take a look

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at, but maybe they don't, don't have time right now. They're

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just kind of

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intelligence gathering and they'll take a deeper dive

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later on. They're going to want to use

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either the send to button here, this little

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paper plane

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that's going to let them send over to Google or Onedrive

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or email to themselves

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or they're going to want to hit this download

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or this print option, the download, just download

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downloads as a PDF onto their computer.

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Of course, print as you would expect, prints

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the article.

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in addition to having those tools

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up top here, they're also found down

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below underneath the title of the article

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as well. So these buttons, you'll see they're a little

[00:16:56.750]
bit more separate as opposed to being just under

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the send to button. We've pulled out

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Google drive onedrive

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and email. So these do the same thing

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we've just included them in two different spots just to

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make sure your use, your users find them easily.

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In addition to that, I already briefly

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mentioned get link when I was on a topic page,

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you can also use get link to get to a document.

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So if you want to share this out with your class or

[00:17:20.630]
maybe you want to put it on your discussion board,

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you can just copy this link, paste it to your

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board in your syllabus in your

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rubric. If you're having them complete

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a project wherever you want to go, and when

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they click into this link, they're going

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to be pulled right to this article. Or if

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you link to an image or

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a video,

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they actually won't need to worry about authentication.

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Of course, if they decide to move forward and the resource,

[00:17:44.660]
maybe run some of their own research,

[00:17:46.828]
however, you authenticate, they'll be prompted

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to do that at that point. So if you,

[00:17:51.059]
you know, need a password or if you are

[00:17:53.338]
authenticating with Google or with Microsoft,

[00:17:55.689]
they'll have to do it at that point. But with

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this specific link, they'll be able to get

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to this document without having to worry about remembering

[00:18:02.160]
a password.

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So really nice for homework. You know, if you're

[00:18:05.338]
setting this home for students to read, I

[00:18:08.088]
there's nothing worse than telling them to click into this

[00:18:10.108]
and then all of them forgot their password and have no

[00:18:12.250]
way of getting in contact with you until the next

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day when it's due.

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we're, we're trying to alleviate that. So with

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that get link, they'll automatically have access

[00:18:20.108]
to this article will be able to read through the full

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thing. And then if they need

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to later on,

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um

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they can sign in to move forward within

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G and contacts high school.

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So in addition to those kind of saving and

[00:18:33.930]
sharing tools,

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we have some different tools that are going to make this text

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a bit more accessible for a lot of your users.

[00:18:41.699]
So the first is going to be our translate button, which

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you'll see is found right here under this black bar,

[00:18:47.469]
you'll see I can drop this down and I can translate into

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quite a few different languages

[00:18:52.019]
here. And I can also

[00:18:54.318]
set my interface language which is going to

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change all of the buttons and all of my

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navigation into whatever language I choose.

[00:19:01.449]
So I'll be able to translate at any time.

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I can also increase and decrease the font

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size as needed

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next to that under my little display options

[00:19:11.219]
button. I have quite a few different options

[00:19:13.299]
here. I can change the background color of the text

[00:19:15.640]
that I'm going to be reading.

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I can change the font,

[00:19:20.318]
I can also change the line letter and word spacing.

[00:19:23.618]
So our goal with this is to make it really

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simple for your users to get the exact

[00:19:27.989]
experience they need you know, for

[00:19:30.170]
me, this screen is very distracting. I don't think

[00:19:32.219]
I'd be able to read on the screen, but of course, for someone

[00:19:34.489]
else, it could be really helpful to kind

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of narrow their focus a little bit.

[00:19:38.489]
So we're making it

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really kind of

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easy to find and easy to use to make sure

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they get the, the view that they need.

[00:19:45.838]
And this does follow them along throughout the

[00:19:47.890]
session. So

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if they changed it to this open dyslexic

[00:19:51.479]
font in this article, the next article,

[00:19:53.750]
they click, it'll be the same deal. It'll have that

[00:19:55.890]
font, they can go back to the default

[00:19:58.150]
settings at any time right here.

[00:20:01.219]
And now we're back to normal

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right next to that display options. We also have

[00:20:05.910]
our listen tool and that's going to

[00:20:07.959]
just read through the full article for me. You see when

[00:20:09.979]
I hit that button, it's going to pull forward this

[00:20:12.118]
little, um this little

[00:20:14.199]
panel that's going to let me read it.

[00:20:16.358]
It also gives me the option to download this as an

[00:20:18.400]
MP3. If I want to take the

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read speaker with me or later on,

[00:20:22.640]
I can do that.

[00:20:23.789]
And this does read in whatever language I translated

[00:20:26.338]
this article to. So if I translated

[00:20:28.578]
this to Spanish first and I wanted to have

[00:20:30.689]
it read to me after I translate when

[00:20:32.779]
I hit listen, it will just automatically

[00:20:34.799]
read to me in Spanish, I won't need to

[00:20:36.858]
worry about translating that in any way,

[00:20:39.618]
they are just kind of linked together.

[00:20:43.818]
Now, one last tool I want to mention when we're on

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our document is our highlights and notes tool.

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So if you prefer to have your students kind

[00:20:50.439]
of talk to the text, find key points

[00:20:52.739]
in their articles and highlight them to try to save

[00:20:55.049]
them. Remember them for later,

[00:20:57.039]
they can just click and drag over any piece

[00:20:59.338]
of text within the resource. We

[00:21:01.390]
get this little dialogue box pop up, we could

[00:21:03.400]
choose a color. I can add a note

[00:21:05.410]
if I want to

[00:21:10.420]
and I can save it and I can go through and highlight

[00:21:12.500]
as much as I want. I can add notes

[00:21:14.650]
or not. I can choose different colors

[00:21:17.140]
but I can go through and really just mark this text

[00:21:19.400]
up and this is session

[00:21:21.559]
based. I will warn you. So if your

[00:21:24.068]
users sign off because they're going to

[00:21:26.078]
do something else or if they, you know, leave

[00:21:28.189]
it open on their browser too long and they're signed

[00:21:30.289]
out due to inactivity, this content

[00:21:32.630]
is going to be gone.

[00:21:33.959]
So make sure if they're going to be leaving their computers,

[00:21:36.449]
but they want to save their highlights. They

[00:21:38.608]
need to get this document out of the resource

[00:21:41.029]
and they can do that in any of the ways that I mentioned

[00:21:43.529]
sending over to their drive, emailing

[00:21:45.848]
it, downloading or printing it,

[00:21:47.578]
any of those ways are going to retain those highlights

[00:21:50.239]
and any notes they took for your users.

[00:21:56.459]
Now we keep all of our highlights and notes in one

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more section here. If you

[00:22:00.390]
take a look at this very top in this toolbar,

[00:22:02.400]
I have my highlights and notes button here.

[00:22:04.959]
When I click into this, you'll see, it's showing me what

[00:22:07.250]
I've highlighted on this article and the colors

[00:22:09.559]
I highlighted with.

[00:22:11.318]
But if I click this view all highlights,

[00:22:15.059]
this is actually going to show me everything I've highlighted

[00:22:17.469]
throughout the entire session. So if

[00:22:19.500]
I were to have highlighted through, you know, two or

[00:22:21.578]
three articles, I would have each of those articles

[00:22:23.689]
listed,

[00:22:25.219]
I would have a running bibliography. Of course,

[00:22:27.469]
right now, I just have this one article that I highlighted.

[00:22:30.160]
But if I highlighted more than one, I'd have that

[00:22:32.209]
running bibliography listed here,

[00:22:34.420]
you'll see I can add or edit my notes

[00:22:36.568]
if needed and I can actually send

[00:22:38.939]
download or print this specific page here.

[00:22:41.380]
So if I maybe don't want to save the full article,

[00:22:43.689]
I just wanna save those little clips that I

[00:22:46.009]
that I found that I really like, I can

[00:22:48.328]
go to the highlights and notes page and just hit

[00:22:50.358]
my send to my download or my print

[00:22:52.469]
and it will do that for me.

[00:22:56.739]
Now, I do have one more quick tool. I want to take

[00:22:58.880]
a look at our topic finder. But before

[00:23:01.019]
I do, does anyone have any questions about

[00:23:03.309]
navigating the platform about some of

[00:23:05.380]
the tools we went over about topic pages,

[00:23:08.289]
anything like that at all?

[00:23:13.469]
Ok. I don't see anything.

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So let's go ahead and take a look. Then we've got a couple

[00:23:17.799]
of minutes. So I definitely want to show you this. Um,

[00:23:20.199]
our topic finder is going to appear. If

[00:23:22.618]
you run a basic search, it's going to appear near

[00:23:24.818]
your filters on the right hand side

[00:23:26.939]
or we can actually go to it directly through

[00:23:29.068]
our advanced search. And that's what I'm gonna do today.

[00:23:31.858]
So I'm going to click advanced search here.

[00:23:35.568]
Now, the top under my search options,

[00:23:37.719]
you'll see my option here for topic

[00:23:39.920]
finder.

[00:23:43.170]
And this is a nice interactive. It's going to be

[00:23:45.180]
helpful for any users who maybe

[00:23:47.739]
have trouble building their own search terms and are

[00:23:49.828]
searching for something really broad that's pulling,

[00:23:52.029]
you know, thousands and thousands of results.

[00:23:54.380]
Of course, that's really frustrating and can

[00:23:56.390]
sometimes turn users off of using these

[00:23:58.420]
resources. So this is a nice way

[00:24:00.578]
to kind of get around that. So if I run a search

[00:24:02.969]
I'll search today. Oh inflation,

[00:24:05.239]
I must have searched for inflation before.

[00:24:07.269]
let's run a search for inflation because of

[00:24:09.299]
course, that is seems to be everywhere

[00:24:11.309]
in the news. No matter where you are, you're gonna hear

[00:24:13.430]
the term inflation. So of course,

[00:24:15.660]
high school students are probably trying to figure

[00:24:17.729]
out exactly what inflation is and what that means

[00:24:19.818]
for them. So when I run my search

[00:24:22.009]
for inflation,

[00:24:23.068]
you'll see. I get some kind, some topics that are

[00:24:25.259]
related to inflation. So I'm going to

[00:24:27.299]
be able to start stepping down and

[00:24:29.719]
narrowing my results about inflation

[00:24:32.299]
to make sure I'm not pulling forward

[00:24:34.279]
thousands and thousands of articles that might not

[00:24:36.338]
be exactly what I need.

[00:24:38.759]
So I click into inflation. Maybe

[00:24:41.309]
I'm interested now in consumer prices. You

[00:24:43.400]
know, how exactly is inflation impacting

[00:24:45.868]
the price of goods? I can click

[00:24:47.930]
here and

[00:24:50.049]
now I'm pulled forward to another level here.

[00:24:52.160]
You'll see right now, I've got 67 results

[00:24:54.779]
related to inflation and

[00:24:56.818]
consumer prices if that's

[00:24:59.098]
still too many. And I just, I don't want to scroll down

[00:25:01.568]
through all of these 67 articles.

[00:25:03.858]
I can take a step lower here. Ok,

[00:25:05.890]
so maybe I'm interested. Um You

[00:25:07.930]
know, I heard

[00:25:09.400]
prices rose and I wanted to specifically

[00:25:12.029]
see what prices rose or why

[00:25:14.059]
or maybe I want to take a look at gasoline

[00:25:16.400]
inflation. I can click into any one

[00:25:18.500]
of those. If I click into gasoline, you'll see now

[00:25:20.969]
I'm at five results as opposed

[00:25:23.049]
to that 67. So

[00:25:25.150]
this is really stepping your users

[00:25:27.489]
right down to the content that they need.

[00:25:29.578]
It's a really nice alternative to kind

[00:25:31.588]
of trying to weed through a search results page

[00:25:35.949]
and right underneath this, I can hit my reset

[00:25:38.000]
button at any time

[00:25:40.400]
and start right back from the top here

[00:25:42.608]
and my search does stay at the top as well.

[00:25:44.650]
So if I want to search instead of

[00:25:46.670]
inflation for something else, I'll

[00:25:48.838]
be able to change it right here as well.

[00:25:56.059]
Now, we've got just a few minutes left and I do have some

[00:25:58.118]
wrap up information for you all. So while I switch

[00:26:00.410]
back over to my slides, um,

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oops, give

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me a second here.

[00:26:11.529]
There it goes.

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Apparently I'm having trouble with my keyboard today.

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Um If you have any questions, go

[00:26:18.088]
ahead and type them into the Q and A and I'll be

[00:26:20.160]
sure to take a look at those, but I do want

[00:26:22.239]
to give you some wrap up information. So if you have any

[00:26:24.390]
questions about our session today,

[00:26:26.479]
you can reach out to me. again, my name

[00:26:28.650]
is Amber Winters. My email is just

[00:26:30.729]
[email protected]

[00:26:32.959]
If you want to talk about how you can use this

[00:26:35.068]
resource with your learning community,

[00:26:37.269]
maybe you want to talk about how you can

[00:26:39.318]
increase usage or just how you can be more successful

[00:26:41.858]
in general with this resource. You wanna

[00:26:43.979]
reach out to your customer success manager.

[00:26:46.670]
If you don't know who that is, just send a quick email

[00:26:48.910]
[email protected],

[00:26:50.969]
they'll be able to work with

[00:26:53.029]
you to kind of go through some best practices

[00:26:55.410]
that they've used with other public

[00:26:57.449]
libraries or K 12 libraries depending

[00:26:59.568]
on where you're uh you're joining us. From,

[00:27:01.979]
they'll be able to help you with that and pull some great ideas

[00:27:04.130]
that you can implement in your community

[00:27:06.549]
if you don't have access to Gale In Context: High School

[00:27:08.709]
right now, but you want it, reach

[00:27:10.838]
out to your sales consultant. If you don't know who that

[00:27:13.029]
is, you can go to support.gale.com/repfinder.

[00:27:17.380]
You put in your information and we'll let you know who you need

[00:27:19.500]
to reach out to.

[00:27:21.348]
And I do also want to mention our support

[00:27:23.439]
site which is support.gale.com. You'll

[00:27:25.598]
find recorded webinars like the one you just watched

[00:27:27.858]
today. We also have lesson plans,

[00:27:29.979]
tip sheets,

[00:27:31.368]
shorter tutorials, marketing

[00:27:34.338]
materials, anything you could imagine you'll find on

[00:27:36.348]
our support site, which is support.gale.com.

[00:27:38.608]
I would suggest taking a look and finally

[00:27:40.848]
one more contact for you all,

[00:27:43.309]
just our technical support team. So

[00:27:45.539]
um if you're interested in

[00:27:47.279]
integrating this with your L MS or just have some

[00:27:49.400]
other sort of techie uh question, you

[00:27:51.759]
can reach out to them. Their email is

[00:27:53.939]
[email protected]

[00:27:55.150]
They are excellent and amazing

[00:27:57.309]
as well. Thank you everyone for being on

[00:27:59.410]
the line today and hopefully we will see

[00:28:01.519]
you in future sessions.
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