Duration: 30 Minutes
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Tammi Burke: So welcome to your training session for the Tennessee Electronic Library today's session is on your new resource that just launched yesterday, and that is gale in context, environmental studies. My name is Tammi Burke. I'm your Gale trainer any questions that you have throughout the session. Please feel free to use that Q. A. Box.
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Tammi Burke: So we have a brief agenda before I go over the agenda, I want to talk about the focus of today's session, and it is on your newest scaling context, resource, gal and context. Environmental studies. It's a great resource to supplement secondary science instruction, and also at the academic level, those environmental studies courses that are happening in within your higher ed
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Tammi Burke: higher ed campuses those courses. This is a great resource to support that, too. We'll explore content tools and features, and i'll also share with you tips and tricks within the gale resource. So i'll start with an overview of Gale In context, environmental studies. We'll explore the content, features and workflow tools. And then any questions please feel free to ask throughout and use that Q. A. Box. I will share with you where you can go for additional training materials and also contact information. A folks that get
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Tammi Burke: to access your Tennessee electronic library resources. You can go to this site, and also you can use your direct urls to each resource. So if you have all of your digital resources from the Tennessee Electronic Library, plus your own on a library website. We have direct urls for you available on the gale support site and let me put that link.
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Tammi Burke: I got to remove the training. You'll find your training materials here, too, and marketing materials on this site. But let me put this link in the chat for you all, so that this is a really good one to bookmark
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Tammi Burke: on your computers.
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Tammi Burke: So let's talk about Gale In context, environmental studies, and what you're going to find within this resource you're going to find a premi resources so trusted reference, top periodicals, videos, images, audio files. We have case studies, academic journals and biographies available within this resource, and they are organized by topic pages. So you have some topic pages available that are organized on certain topics. But you have more than that
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Tammi Burke: available within this resource, and i'll talk through that a little bit more. So you can understand what I mean when we go live into the resource
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Tammi Burke: to support classroom and courses. We have frequently studied topics in K. Twelve and academic, including Earth systems, global change chemistry, pollution, and energy just to name a few
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Tammi Burke: and to enhance teaching and learning. We have the integration of Google and Microsoft and unlimited print download and email also highlights and notes is a great tool. , that is available within your in context. Resource.
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Tammi Burke: Talk a little bit more about environmental studies. It does provide students with comprehensive information, empowering learners to critically analyze and also understand important topics that affect people around the world,
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Tammi Burke: topics of study and events within Earth systems global change pollution populations, and so much more are available within this resource.
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Tammi Burke: Some tools I want you to keep in mind, and I will model these for you today,
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Tammi Burke: and that is how to share content. You have some different options available, like Get Link, which creates a persistent url back to any spot within the resource. You have the ability to share to Google classroom, but you also have the ability to share to learning management systems. So if you're using canvas or schoology, or d two l. We have that ability to share content, or embed content directly into an assignment, a page, or a discussion which is great for that single sign on capability.
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Tammi Burke: That does take a little bit of setup on on your end with our customer success managers. But we can work that out and help you with that process. There's a lot of options available. You also have the ability to share content by sending it, sending it to Google drive, sending it to Microsoft. One drive you can email, download or also print the information off.
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Tammi Burke: We have great tools to support accessibility, and these are shared tools and features across all of your gale resources. Where you have the ability to translate, you can change the font size. Listen to the text being read aloud and then change the display. Options, such as the font and the page color behind the text are also available
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Tammi Burke: to encourage analysis, highlights and notes to promote that deeper learning annotation. really helps students with their color coding. Or if you're working with teachers or professors, if they want to highlight information in an article and then share it with their their students. That's a great option to to use that tool
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Tammi Burke: and then to develop those research skills. We have topic pages within environmental studies, and that's unique in your in context resources as compared to your one file resources, you have these great topic pages available, and how they're organized with an essay and topic overview. You also have topic finder, which is a visual interactive tool and search option that's available. And then, citations. We have the citation tool where you can just pull the citation for the docent image video, whatever
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Tammi Burke: you're on, but it's also attached to every single item within this resource. So you're always going to find the citation at the bottom, and you also have the citation tool where you can just pull that citation out, or send it to easy bib or noodle tools. ! That those options are available within the resource.
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Tammi Burke: Alright, So let's jp in. If there's any questions. Please use that Q. A. Box. And I'm going to access scaling context environmental studies. Now, I did sign in with Google today, and if we have any K. Twelve folks on the line since i'm set up as a teacher. It automatically uh it automatically signs me in as a teacher, and it gives me the option to add information to my Google classroom. I can also sign in with Microsoft, and I have the ability
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Tammi Burke: to translate the navigational tool. So right at the very top you can see the little translate icon that we have there. We can translate the navigational tools on this platform around this resource to over thirty-four languages. Now this is separate. Then, translating the document. You have more even more options available. To translate the document. But these navigational tools. You can sit down as soon as you access the resource and translate it into a a language that works for your users.
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Tammi Burke: Basic search and advanced search are very intuitive and straightforward. I will let you know in all of your in context, resources, that topic Finder, that's that interactive, visual search option lives under advanced search. So in in context, you'll always find actually in all of your gale resources. You'll find it in advance. Search
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Tammi Burke: um. But in in context, it's no, it's not on the homepage or anywhere else like it is in some of the other resources. So just know that that's a good best practice to share. There's a tip right there is. If you want to utilize that right from the beginning you can click into advanced search and start that search option, and i'll share that with you after we go over this homepage. So you're going to find issues of interest scrolling here, and these are changed about once a month. You can see some of the topics here plastic pollution, recycling,
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Tammi Burke: and then we have composting are the three that we're highlighting this month
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Tammi Burke: below we have different subject categories. So this is different than your one file resources. Where, I do have to say academic and general. One file
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Tammi Burke: have some topic pages on the homepage, but this resources focused specifically on environmental studies. Um! It did come up prior to the start of the session. The comparison between uh
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Tammi Burke: one file, the gale, one file resource environmental studies as compared to this resource and that resource. You, don't have the topic pages, and it is focused more on periodical content. Where here you're going to find more than just the periodical content available. A lot of multimedia, as I mentioned in in my Powerpoint slides. But we do also have this great organization with these topic pages by subject category. So this helps your users drill down and find that content easily. They can look at topics like
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Tammi Burke: global change. The living world, which is one. We're going to go in today, populations and you can see we have fifty-nine different topic pages available under that subject of population. So what are topic pages? Well, let's go into we're actually going to go into the living world,
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Tammi Burke: and I am going to access ecosystems. But before I do as you can see here, we have a list of terms, and these subject. Terms are connected to topic pages which is a curated collection of information that's available,
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Tammi Burke: and it is organized in nice boxes by content type, and they all start with an image and an essay overview, so i'll share that with you before I do. I want to point out that from this point, if I wanted to jump to another subject like land and water use. I could do that from this. Drop down, menu. I don't always have to go back to the homepage. If I any time in any of my gale resources, I want to go back to the homepage. The quickest way is to click into the banner here, and that'll take you back to that homepage.
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Tammi Burke: We're going to go into ecosystems.
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Tammi Burke: And this is what I mean by topic Page, where you have this image and this essay overview. Now the essay overviews are written by folks at Gale. We have great content. Editors um! And you're going to find uh the content is being updated throughout the day every day. So if there's new topic, pages or and topic pages that do need to be updated, you'll see a little orange tag next to them once they have had some updates, and that means that this image and essay overview may have been updated. So Here we have
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Tammi Burke: the introduction, and you can see some just from this first document, and this is a great jumping off point for your users, because even from this first document you're gonna find interlinking available. So interlinking, i'll share with you additional related articles.
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Tammi Burke: So you can see where this research can take a deeper dive where you have articles that you can jump to on organisms as are related to ecosystem.
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Tammi Burke: So we do have this interlinking available
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Tammi Burke: within the resource on documents. Um, You also have the more like this panel where you'll find supplemental information again related to the article that we're on, or document that we're on. This article has article contents. If there are any images,
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Tammi Burke: I do have an image available, and then also related subjects, so I can jump to another subject like climate change from this topic. Page:
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Tammi Burke: All right, So let's talk through. I want to go back
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Tammi Burke: to the topic, page itself. We'll go into the tools to support accessibility in a moment. But I want to point out some of the unique content that you have. One of those is Case studies. So case studies is available in Gale In context environmental studies.
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Tammi Burke: You also are going to see conferences also available in Gale In context environmental studies, and these are sectioned out into content types. So they're really easily accessible by your users. And then you have reference and audio. You have biography sectioned out here magazines, which is similar. We have the magazines, newspapers, and academic journals, which is in that periodical content in one file. But in here we also have biographies and images and videos and websites and related topics. And these are going to take you to
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Tammi Burke: related topic pages.
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Tammi Burke: You have the ability to search within. Just Oh, my goodness, search within just these results on this topic page.
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Tammi Burke: Looking at the case studies, you can see some of the content that we have available. Some of these are peer-reviewed.
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Tammi Burke: As I scroll down, you can see reference. We have seven hundred and forty five different reference documents and images, biographies available videos, audio magazines, newspapers. There's my academic journals also in Academic journals If they're peer reviewed, I will see that in my summary
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Tammi Burke: any conferences, and we have one hundred and ninety-six conferences, and then at the very bottom, is the related topics. If we have any safe vetted websites those would be listed here, too,
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Tammi Burke: so That's what you're going to find on this nice curated topic page again. It's a curated collection of information on the subject of ecosystems that's available. Now, at this point if I wanted to share this, if I wanted to highlight this on my library website. Um, or if I wanted to share this with my students. If I'm. At an academic library,
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Tammi Burke: or also at the K twelve level, I can use the get link, tool and get Link provides a persistent Url back to this exact spot, so my users can click on this link, and it'll take them right back to the spot. I could also pull this entire topic page into Google classroom.
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Tammi Burke: So Google classroom will pull. I can pull in everything from a topic page all the way down to an individual document, and I can organize it and make an announcement, or create an assignment and post it right in my classroom, and it pulls it in, and will give not only a a link, but a little bit of a a thumbnail to there, too available for, uh, to access the information.
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Tammi Burke: Okay, So we talked about some of the features, some of the content that you're going to see here. Um, the explorer panel. If we have text features, they're going to be available like if there's a vocabulary that's new or unique. Um, you're going to find that available, and then I want to talk a little bit more about the citations. Let's click into the case studies here. So i'm going to go into
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Tammi Burke: the entire Content type of case studies. I could still jump to if I wanted to jump to our video content. I could very easily do that or any of our images. We have sixty one images available.
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Tammi Burke: I could do that, too. But we're going to start with case studies today.
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Tammi Burke: Okay. So question came through. Do you pull into schoology as you would Google classroom, or do you use. Get link. That's a great question, Janet, and there's it's two. There's two answers to that. So if I wanted to pull in an entire topic page into schoology.
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Tammi Burke: Then what I would do is I would use the get link when it's a large amount of information. Um, it does. We do have to use the get link tool. But you can access Gale in context environmental studies, once it's set up right from schoology, it'll be in that global navigation on the left hand side. And then, when you're in an assignment and you want to embed an image, an individual image or video or um, if there's an an article, reference article or academic journal that you want to embed right into schoology.
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Tammi Burke: You can do that up at the very top. You have um the little link. Icon. It looks like a square with an arrow where all your other resources are, or, I should say, additional resources are available. When you go into create an assignment. You can click on that little icon, and your once your gale resources are set up, your this resource would pop up, you would click into it. Do your search, and then you can embed at the document level. There'll be a button that shows up where you can embed it right into schoology, so I can have
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Tammi Burke: um us, and I I don't know. I guess I didn't put that in my slide deck Um,
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Tammi Burke: I can have that available right within schoology where it embeds it right into my assignment. So there is some setup on the back side, and that's where your customer success managers can help. We do have a lot of documents available on learning management systems on the guilt support site, too. So if you want, I can model that at the end, if if you all have time to stick around, i'd be happy to show you what that looks like. So just let me know if that's something you're interested in.
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Tammi Burke: Okay. So looking at case studies, I can filter down my results, and i'm seeing a lot of these are a higher. Oh, goodness!
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Tammi Burke: There we go! I'm seeing these um are a little bit higher. Level that level five
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Tammi Burke: um We do have some level fours here, so case just understand that case. Studies are going to be a little bit higher level. What do I mean by higher level? Well, we have this filter. Your results option on the right hand side, and what I'm talking about is lexile and content level. So lexile measures you can multi select any lexile measures and content level is letting you know that a level four. I do want to point out that a level four. You can see the lexile measure it aligns to. So this would be more for our K. Twelve
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folks. But level fours are generally high School fives are our upper High school. Into that undergrad level
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Tammi Burke: level three, which I don't think we have a whole lot in here, because this is a resource that's designed for um students at the uh ninth, through twelfth grade, and also undergrad level, especially because of the great content that's available is at a higher level. Here I don't think we have a lot of level. Three is available. But you do have Gale In context Middle school from the Tennessee Electronic Library, and that's a great one to use for middle schoolers.
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Tammi Burke: All right. Let me know if there's any questions on that, and then you also have the ability to search within. So again I can search within my results, even if I filtered it down. So let's say I want to filter it down by subject, and I want just the marine ecosystems.
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Tammi Burke: I can even search and drill down even further by using my search within.
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Tammi Burke: So maybe i'm looking for a specific animal. And that ring ecosystems and a certain animal. Um, I could put that in here and filter down my content even further.
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Tammi Burke: So you can see, though, what I want to point out is it filtered everything down at once. So if I am looking just for marine ecosystems, I can quickly filter my results. Using that subject. I also have document types. Now we're in case study, so i'm not going to see as many document types as I may see um in, say reference uh, but you have document, type, options. I have publication titles I can multi select. If there's certain publication titles I always use in my classroom
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or in my course at the academic level, I could filter down, using that
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Tammi Burke: lexile measure as we already covered like cell content and search within.
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Tammi Burke: Okay, Now let's talk about this filtered content, because what I want to share with you. Again, if you're using a learning management system like schoology or canvas, or d two l. To name a few. This is where, again, it's a larger collection of information that you can use the get link tool for. And also, if you want to share this in your lesson plans, or you're doing any type of outreach with your students, your syllabus, and you have curated this collection on your own by just one click. I just clicked into a certain subject.
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Tammi Burke: I can use the get link tool and provide a persistent url exactly back to the spot,
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Tammi Burke: and it will take my users to all of this content. Not just case studies
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Tammi Burke: same idea with Google classroom. Wherever I can use get link. I can use Google classroom
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Tammi Burke: so I can share this filtered results, and you can see that could be really helpful if you are differentiating instruction. If we have any K. Twelve folks today that differentiating instruction,
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Tammi Burke: you can filter by that content level and really find and focus on content that's available for the students in your classroom.
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Tammi Burke: All right. Let me know if there's any questions on any of those tools again. These are shared tools and features. You may be really familiar with these already um across your other re resources. But Let's go into. I'm going to go into a video. Now, I'm going to remove this filter. Let's go into a video because I want to point out that with the videos
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Tammi Burke: Um and i'm going to filter to climate change.
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Tammi Burke: So with the videos you're going to find um transcripts that we have available. I'm not seeing the original one I had linked out. But you're going to see that we have transcripts and close captioning great tools available within the resource to support accessibility.
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Tammi Burke: It does start up right away, and then we also even have interlinking. Not only that, but you can see, even from the video content where we have this explorer panel. You can continue to explore further and use this more like this information, even from the video content.
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Tammi Burke: I go back to my topic page
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Tammi Burke: and look at images. Now, I just cleared that filter because I went back to the topic page itself. So it cleared the filter, and is now, giving me everything I have available. So that's kind of a tip. If you want to clear everything off. If you don't, use the back button,
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Tammi Burke: don't use your cookies here. Um! Go back, and you or breadcrumb trail here. Um, go. Use your back button if you don't want to lose your filter.
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Tammi Burke: So just a little tip.
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Tammi Burke: Um. But you can see here the carbon-carbon cycle traces. So we have diagrams and also images available um within ecosystems. The effects of the population on an ecosystem. So we have a lot of great content available even in our images. It's very robust. Your in context. Resources have this great multimedia piece that you can bring into learning, or bring into your library to share with students, and they can utilize this for their research, for their projects, to supplement the
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Tammi Burke: curriculum all kinds of different tools that we have available here within the resource.
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Tammi Burke: Okay, So let's go into. We're going to go into.
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Tammi Burke: I'm going to go back to ecosystems. We're going to go actually into newspapers. We have ninety five thousand different articles available, and I just want to filter down to the past year,
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Tammi Burke: and that's how I can quickly do that. Another thing I like to do with my news and magazines is I sometimes like to sort by newest. It really depends, because sometimes relevance is,
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Tammi Burke: you know, we're defaulted to that. So I do feel like It's a great tool, but sometimes I like to just see what are the newest. I like to do that in images to um to see the newest images that have been added that are available. Um, but just know that you have that tool available. Here's an article on Stem, and let's choose this article
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Tammi Burke: here. This is a brief article, and when i'm at the document level. This is where I'm going to see these tools to to support accessibility. I have the translate option where I can translate the text into over forty languages.
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Tammi Burke: I have the ability to decrease or increase the font size. I have the ability to change the color behind the text to use the open dyslexic font to increase the line, letter and word spacing.
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Tammi Burke: And the nice thing is, if I make these selections in display options on my very first article throughout my session. It will stay
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Tammi Burke: exactly as I've selected, so every article I click into will look like this. So once I set it up the first time I can have that available throughout my entire session. As soon as I leave my session that information is cleared, or I can come back in here and go back to my default settings. I also have the listen. Listen, button, so I can listen to that text being read aloud to me.
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Tammi Burke: I can quickly send to Google Microsoft email, download or print if i'm scrolling down. And I get to this point and think, Yep, this is information that I want to keep. Um. This is a shorter article, but let's say it was on a longer one, my contextual toolbar sticking with me, and I have that ability to send to Google one drive email I have download and print available. I also have that get link tool. The citation is attached at the bottom, and I could change the format before I send it to. Let's say my Google drive.
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Tammi Burke: I could also choose to export it from this option at the bottom below my document, or I have the citation tool up here in my contextual toolbar, so I can quickly grab that citation or change it to Apa, and then send it to noodle tools or copy and paste it wherever I need my citations.
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Tammi Burke: Another tool I want to share with you, and that is highlights and notes,
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Tammi Burke: so I can highlight a chunk of text.
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Tammi Burke: Choose my color. Maybe this is for a project. Um
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Tammi Burke: and i'm making a note to myself
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and the paper,
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Tammi Burke: and i'm going to save that
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Tammi Burke: i'm going to go back to Ecosystem. I'm going to go back to news. I'm going to remove this filter. Now, i'm going to go into a reference document. Now let's go into a biography.
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Tammi Burke: Let's go into a biography. I'm gonna choose this first one.
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Tammi Burke: Our biographies do have some um text features available, and you will find that in our essay overviews, too, where you may find some text features available um for our users. So i'm gonna choose pink this time. And this is um. I don't know interesting information. Let's say,
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Tammi Burke: okay, Another great tool that is in the highlights and notes is the ability to highlight a word
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Tammi Burke: and click, define, and it gives me a page out of the Webster's Dictionary really helpful when you're talking about environmental studies, or maybe terms that aren't familiar. And I can um. This is going to save as long as i'm in the session. It's housing. It's holding on to this information. Now, my best practice is if I've marked up a document is to send it. Send it to Google drive one drive, email, download or print. So I have that entire document. It'll land in a folder titled Gale In context environmental studies.
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Tammi Burke: Now, what's happening on the back side. Throughout this session I have this highlights and notes area where I can. It's in the upper right hand corner. It always lives there. I can view all highlights and notes. Now I do to see this option. I have to have some highlighting on my article, so there's a tip.
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Tammi Burke: Now. Here are those two articles I was in the stem article, and the one on Ruth Patrick, where I have just highlighted a chunk of information. I added some notes. I could edit my notes if I wanted to.
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Tammi Burke: My bibliography is attached. I can change the format of that bibliography, but I can just send these digital notes to Google Microsoft email, download or print. I can also grab my citation. So here's my work cited page,
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Tammi Burke: all ready to go.
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Tammi Burke: I also can label. So I've used two colors, pink and purple, and I can label those colors. It'll create a legend. And when I send this to my Google drive, let's say it turns it into a Google Doc and I have these notes just like this. So it's. I used to call them digital note cards because there was a grid. Now. I call them digital notes, but that's exactly what they are. Their notes that you've sectioned from text. Now, again, best practice send the entire article. So you have it, because if your users forget to come in to
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Tammi Burke: highlights and notes and send this information somewhere, this will be lost. So it's always a best practice. If you've marked up a document, send it somewhere, So you have that entire document, and it's great to reference and come back to. I will say this, too, with your highlights and notes. Once you send it to let's say Google as an example.
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Um, the articles will be hyperlinked out from Google. So you could come back to that article. And if I was interested in this some article because I wanted to explore more, I needed more like this. I needed this information. That's a great way to utilize that tool.
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All right,
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Tammi Burke: Let me know if there are any questions. We covered all of the tools and features. Um, I would will say. Oh, I forgot to share with you topic, Finder. So let's go into advanced search. Um before I do. Let me share this with you.
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Tammi Burke: It also lives here. So from the topic pages once I click into any of the content types I could start topic, finder if I wanted to from this point, or as soon as I sit down. If i'm interested in doing a topic, finder, search, here's advanced search publication. Search is also available here. Topic Finder again, visual representation of my search results,
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Tammi Burke: and i'm going to do
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Tammi Burke: waste disposal
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Tammi Burke: Oops. I spell their own.
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Tammi Burke: There we go.
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Tammi Burke: Then you can see it says visual representation of your search results. You have the ability to use the tiles or the wheel. We have two options for visualization.
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You can see the tiles that we do have available, and underneath these tiles are additional tiles. So if I was looking for
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Tammi Burke: solid waste,
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Tammi Burke: and I wanted um reports and findings. I can interact and drill down with this content, or maybe garbage disposal. And here, on the right hand side, it's populating that information related to solid waste and garbage disposal.
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Tammi Burke: And then from here I can click into the article and access that information. So this is looking at top hits. I really love it for those keywords or or terms that maybe Students haven't necessarily thought about
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Tammi Burke: or your users coming into your public library that they hadn't thought about. Because this is a great resource to really look at. Environmental topics, renewable energy global warming, those types of topics where you're going to find authoritative content that's available in this great interactive tool like topic finder or just the resource itself organizing by these topic pages and subject categories really helps. It's very user friendly. So, any user at any age can utilize this information and find
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authoritative content available from the Tennessee electronic library. The
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Tammi Burke: All right. Let me know if there are any questions. I'm going to go back to my Powerpoint, because where can you go for additional support? I gave you the link in the chat. But I want to share with you what you're going to find on that Gale support site, and you are going to find all of your access. Url: So since this is a new resource, if you're looking for your access, urls the title list for this resource, Mark records. Icons Widgets contact, the ability to contact your customer success manager. All of that is available on the Gale support site
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Tammi Burke: in the training center. You're going to find tip sheets and tutorials. I've linked out a few here like Here's a tip sheet for environmental studies. We have a scavenger hunt on save the bees for environmental studies. And we have short little video tutorials. This one's covering accessibility for all learners. So, looking at those tools to support accessibility also any upcoming. Webinars recorded. Webinars are going to live there, including this one. We have training decks, so Powerpoints available for your resources. We have great marketing materials.
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Tammi Burke: So if you're looking to promote this new resource that you have from the Tennessee electronic library, we have bookmarks and posters and social media posts, all ready to go blog templates, email templates. all ready to go for you, even descriptions for the resources. So take a look at the support site. See what we have available. We want to make your lives a little bit easier. ! And adding this new resource and promoting it with your with your users in your library. If you have any additional questions, you'll receive my follow up email in about twenty-four hours
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Tammi Burke: and feel free to reach out to me your customer success managers. They're linked here. I also included it in the follow up email. But for those watching the recording you can send them a quick email. Let them know what site you're from, and they'll help you. And then Training Survey. There's A. Qr. Code. It should pop up since you're attending the live session.
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Tammi Burke: , but there's A. Qr. Code. So if you'd like to do it on your phone and take a quick picture of that Qr. Code feel free to do so. Love to get your feedback on the session, and also in that comments section. If you wanted to add , we could use some training on, you know, for for tell, we could use some training on
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Tammi Burke: Abc. Whatever it is. Let us know, because we are looking ahead. We have quite a few sessions planned for you for over the next two months, actually all the way into January. The next one is on
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Tammi Burke: uh November eighteenth, and we will be looking at the new titles that you have to your Gale ebook collection from the Tennessee Electronic Library, and then on December First, we'll talk about how you can customize your collections in gale ebook. So the next two sessions are focusing on gale ebooks, the titles that are available, and also tools and features, and then also the custom how to customize those collections.
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Tammi Burke: You have any additional questions. I'll stay on the line. But thank you all so much for your time Today I look forward to seeing you at future Sessions have a great rest of your day,
Tammi Burke: So welcome to your training session for the Tennessee Electronic Library today's session is on your new resource that just launched yesterday, and that is gale in context, environmental studies. My name is Tammi Burke. I'm your Gale trainer any questions that you have throughout the session. Please feel free to use that Q. A. Box.
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Tammi Burke: So we have a brief agenda before I go over the agenda, I want to talk about the focus of today's session, and it is on your newest scaling context, resource, gal and context. Environmental studies. It's a great resource to supplement secondary science instruction, and also at the academic level, those environmental studies courses that are happening in within your higher ed
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Tammi Burke: higher ed campuses those courses. This is a great resource to support that, too. We'll explore content tools and features, and i'll also share with you tips and tricks within the gale resource. So i'll start with an overview of Gale In context, environmental studies. We'll explore the content, features and workflow tools. And then any questions please feel free to ask throughout and use that Q. A. Box. I will share with you where you can go for additional training materials and also contact information. A folks that get
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Tammi Burke: to access your Tennessee electronic library resources. You can go to this site, and also you can use your direct urls to each resource. So if you have all of your digital resources from the Tennessee Electronic Library, plus your own on a library website. We have direct urls for you available on the gale support site and let me put that link.
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Tammi Burke: I got to remove the training. You'll find your training materials here, too, and marketing materials on this site. But let me put this link in the chat for you all, so that this is a really good one to bookmark
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Tammi Burke: on your computers.
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Tammi Burke: So let's talk about Gale In context, environmental studies, and what you're going to find within this resource you're going to find a premi resources so trusted reference, top periodicals, videos, images, audio files. We have case studies, academic journals and biographies available within this resource, and they are organized by topic pages. So you have some topic pages available that are organized on certain topics. But you have more than that
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Tammi Burke: available within this resource, and i'll talk through that a little bit more. So you can understand what I mean when we go live into the resource
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Tammi Burke: to support classroom and courses. We have frequently studied topics in K. Twelve and academic, including Earth systems, global change chemistry, pollution, and energy just to name a few
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Tammi Burke: and to enhance teaching and learning. We have the integration of Google and Microsoft and unlimited print download and email also highlights and notes is a great tool. , that is available within your in context. Resource.
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Tammi Burke: Talk a little bit more about environmental studies. It does provide students with comprehensive information, empowering learners to critically analyze and also understand important topics that affect people around the world,
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Tammi Burke: topics of study and events within Earth systems global change pollution populations, and so much more are available within this resource.
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Tammi Burke: Some tools I want you to keep in mind, and I will model these for you today,
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Tammi Burke: and that is how to share content. You have some different options available, like Get Link, which creates a persistent url back to any spot within the resource. You have the ability to share to Google classroom, but you also have the ability to share to learning management systems. So if you're using canvas or schoology, or d two l. We have that ability to share content, or embed content directly into an assignment, a page, or a discussion which is great for that single sign on capability.
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Tammi Burke: That does take a little bit of setup on on your end with our customer success managers. But we can work that out and help you with that process. There's a lot of options available. You also have the ability to share content by sending it, sending it to Google drive, sending it to Microsoft. One drive you can email, download or also print the information off.
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Tammi Burke: We have great tools to support accessibility, and these are shared tools and features across all of your gale resources. Where you have the ability to translate, you can change the font size. Listen to the text being read aloud and then change the display. Options, such as the font and the page color behind the text are also available
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Tammi Burke: to encourage analysis, highlights and notes to promote that deeper learning annotation. really helps students with their color coding. Or if you're working with teachers or professors, if they want to highlight information in an article and then share it with their their students. That's a great option to to use that tool
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Tammi Burke: and then to develop those research skills. We have topic pages within environmental studies, and that's unique in your in context resources as compared to your one file resources, you have these great topic pages available, and how they're organized with an essay and topic overview. You also have topic finder, which is a visual interactive tool and search option that's available. And then, citations. We have the citation tool where you can just pull the citation for the docent image video, whatever
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Tammi Burke: you're on, but it's also attached to every single item within this resource. So you're always going to find the citation at the bottom, and you also have the citation tool where you can just pull that citation out, or send it to easy bib or noodle tools. ! That those options are available within the resource.
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Tammi Burke: Alright, So let's jp in. If there's any questions. Please use that Q. A. Box. And I'm going to access scaling context environmental studies. Now, I did sign in with Google today, and if we have any K. Twelve folks on the line since i'm set up as a teacher. It automatically uh it automatically signs me in as a teacher, and it gives me the option to add information to my Google classroom. I can also sign in with Microsoft, and I have the ability
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Tammi Burke: to translate the navigational tool. So right at the very top you can see the little translate icon that we have there. We can translate the navigational tools on this platform around this resource to over thirty-four languages. Now this is separate. Then, translating the document. You have more even more options available. To translate the document. But these navigational tools. You can sit down as soon as you access the resource and translate it into a a language that works for your users.
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Tammi Burke: Basic search and advanced search are very intuitive and straightforward. I will let you know in all of your in context, resources, that topic Finder, that's that interactive, visual search option lives under advanced search. So in in context, you'll always find actually in all of your gale resources. You'll find it in advance. Search
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Tammi Burke: um. But in in context, it's no, it's not on the homepage or anywhere else like it is in some of the other resources. So just know that that's a good best practice to share. There's a tip right there is. If you want to utilize that right from the beginning you can click into advanced search and start that search option, and i'll share that with you after we go over this homepage. So you're going to find issues of interest scrolling here, and these are changed about once a month. You can see some of the topics here plastic pollution, recycling,
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Tammi Burke: and then we have composting are the three that we're highlighting this month
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Tammi Burke: below we have different subject categories. So this is different than your one file resources. Where, I do have to say academic and general. One file
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Tammi Burke: have some topic pages on the homepage, but this resources focused specifically on environmental studies. Um! It did come up prior to the start of the session. The comparison between uh
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Tammi Burke: one file, the gale, one file resource environmental studies as compared to this resource and that resource. You, don't have the topic pages, and it is focused more on periodical content. Where here you're going to find more than just the periodical content available. A lot of multimedia, as I mentioned in in my Powerpoint slides. But we do also have this great organization with these topic pages by subject category. So this helps your users drill down and find that content easily. They can look at topics like
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Tammi Burke: global change. The living world, which is one. We're going to go in today, populations and you can see we have fifty-nine different topic pages available under that subject of population. So what are topic pages? Well, let's go into we're actually going to go into the living world,
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Tammi Burke: and I am going to access ecosystems. But before I do as you can see here, we have a list of terms, and these subject. Terms are connected to topic pages which is a curated collection of information that's available,
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Tammi Burke: and it is organized in nice boxes by content type, and they all start with an image and an essay overview, so i'll share that with you before I do. I want to point out that from this point, if I wanted to jump to another subject like land and water use. I could do that from this. Drop down, menu. I don't always have to go back to the homepage. If I any time in any of my gale resources, I want to go back to the homepage. The quickest way is to click into the banner here, and that'll take you back to that homepage.
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Tammi Burke: We're going to go into ecosystems.
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Tammi Burke: And this is what I mean by topic Page, where you have this image and this essay overview. Now the essay overviews are written by folks at Gale. We have great content. Editors um! And you're going to find uh the content is being updated throughout the day every day. So if there's new topic, pages or and topic pages that do need to be updated, you'll see a little orange tag next to them once they have had some updates, and that means that this image and essay overview may have been updated. So Here we have
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Tammi Burke: the introduction, and you can see some just from this first document, and this is a great jumping off point for your users, because even from this first document you're gonna find interlinking available. So interlinking, i'll share with you additional related articles.
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Tammi Burke: So you can see where this research can take a deeper dive where you have articles that you can jump to on organisms as are related to ecosystem.
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Tammi Burke: So we do have this interlinking available
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Tammi Burke: within the resource on documents. Um, You also have the more like this panel where you'll find supplemental information again related to the article that we're on, or document that we're on. This article has article contents. If there are any images,
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Tammi Burke: I do have an image available, and then also related subjects, so I can jump to another subject like climate change from this topic. Page:
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Tammi Burke: All right, So let's talk through. I want to go back
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Tammi Burke: to the topic, page itself. We'll go into the tools to support accessibility in a moment. But I want to point out some of the unique content that you have. One of those is Case studies. So case studies is available in Gale In context environmental studies.
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Tammi Burke: You also are going to see conferences also available in Gale In context environmental studies, and these are sectioned out into content types. So they're really easily accessible by your users. And then you have reference and audio. You have biography sectioned out here magazines, which is similar. We have the magazines, newspapers, and academic journals, which is in that periodical content in one file. But in here we also have biographies and images and videos and websites and related topics. And these are going to take you to
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Tammi Burke: related topic pages.
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Tammi Burke: You have the ability to search within. Just Oh, my goodness, search within just these results on this topic page.
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Tammi Burke: Looking at the case studies, you can see some of the content that we have available. Some of these are peer-reviewed.
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Tammi Burke: As I scroll down, you can see reference. We have seven hundred and forty five different reference documents and images, biographies available videos, audio magazines, newspapers. There's my academic journals also in Academic journals If they're peer reviewed, I will see that in my summary
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Tammi Burke: any conferences, and we have one hundred and ninety-six conferences, and then at the very bottom, is the related topics. If we have any safe vetted websites those would be listed here, too,
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Tammi Burke: so That's what you're going to find on this nice curated topic page again. It's a curated collection of information on the subject of ecosystems that's available. Now, at this point if I wanted to share this, if I wanted to highlight this on my library website. Um, or if I wanted to share this with my students. If I'm. At an academic library,
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Tammi Burke: or also at the K twelve level, I can use the get link, tool and get Link provides a persistent Url back to this exact spot, so my users can click on this link, and it'll take them right back to the spot. I could also pull this entire topic page into Google classroom.
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Tammi Burke: So Google classroom will pull. I can pull in everything from a topic page all the way down to an individual document, and I can organize it and make an announcement, or create an assignment and post it right in my classroom, and it pulls it in, and will give not only a a link, but a little bit of a a thumbnail to there, too available for, uh, to access the information.
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Tammi Burke: Okay, So we talked about some of the features, some of the content that you're going to see here. Um, the explorer panel. If we have text features, they're going to be available like if there's a vocabulary that's new or unique. Um, you're going to find that available, and then I want to talk a little bit more about the citations. Let's click into the case studies here. So i'm going to go into
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Tammi Burke: the entire Content type of case studies. I could still jump to if I wanted to jump to our video content. I could very easily do that or any of our images. We have sixty one images available.
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Tammi Burke: I could do that, too. But we're going to start with case studies today.
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Tammi Burke: Okay. So question came through. Do you pull into schoology as you would Google classroom, or do you use. Get link. That's a great question, Janet, and there's it's two. There's two answers to that. So if I wanted to pull in an entire topic page into schoology.
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Tammi Burke: Then what I would do is I would use the get link when it's a large amount of information. Um, it does. We do have to use the get link tool. But you can access Gale in context environmental studies, once it's set up right from schoology, it'll be in that global navigation on the left hand side. And then, when you're in an assignment and you want to embed an image, an individual image or video or um, if there's an an article, reference article or academic journal that you want to embed right into schoology.
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Tammi Burke: You can do that up at the very top. You have um the little link. Icon. It looks like a square with an arrow where all your other resources are, or, I should say, additional resources are available. When you go into create an assignment. You can click on that little icon, and your once your gale resources are set up, your this resource would pop up, you would click into it. Do your search, and then you can embed at the document level. There'll be a button that shows up where you can embed it right into schoology, so I can have
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Tammi Burke: um us, and I I don't know. I guess I didn't put that in my slide deck Um,
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Tammi Burke: I can have that available right within schoology where it embeds it right into my assignment. So there is some setup on the back side, and that's where your customer success managers can help. We do have a lot of documents available on learning management systems on the guilt support site, too. So if you want, I can model that at the end, if if you all have time to stick around, i'd be happy to show you what that looks like. So just let me know if that's something you're interested in.
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Tammi Burke: Okay. So looking at case studies, I can filter down my results, and i'm seeing a lot of these are a higher. Oh, goodness!
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Tammi Burke: There we go! I'm seeing these um are a little bit higher. Level that level five
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Tammi Burke: um We do have some level fours here, so case just understand that case. Studies are going to be a little bit higher level. What do I mean by higher level? Well, we have this filter. Your results option on the right hand side, and what I'm talking about is lexile and content level. So lexile measures you can multi select any lexile measures and content level is letting you know that a level four. I do want to point out that a level four. You can see the lexile measure it aligns to. So this would be more for our K. Twelve
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folks. But level fours are generally high School fives are our upper High school. Into that undergrad level
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Tammi Burke: level three, which I don't think we have a whole lot in here, because this is a resource that's designed for um students at the uh ninth, through twelfth grade, and also undergrad level, especially because of the great content that's available is at a higher level. Here I don't think we have a lot of level. Three is available. But you do have Gale In context Middle school from the Tennessee Electronic Library, and that's a great one to use for middle schoolers.
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Tammi Burke: All right. Let me know if there's any questions on that, and then you also have the ability to search within. So again I can search within my results, even if I filtered it down. So let's say I want to filter it down by subject, and I want just the marine ecosystems.
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Tammi Burke: I can even search and drill down even further by using my search within.
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Tammi Burke: So maybe i'm looking for a specific animal. And that ring ecosystems and a certain animal. Um, I could put that in here and filter down my content even further.
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Tammi Burke: So you can see, though, what I want to point out is it filtered everything down at once. So if I am looking just for marine ecosystems, I can quickly filter my results. Using that subject. I also have document types. Now we're in case study, so i'm not going to see as many document types as I may see um in, say reference uh, but you have document, type, options. I have publication titles I can multi select. If there's certain publication titles I always use in my classroom
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or in my course at the academic level, I could filter down, using that
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Tammi Burke: lexile measure as we already covered like cell content and search within.
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Tammi Burke: Okay, Now let's talk about this filtered content, because what I want to share with you. Again, if you're using a learning management system like schoology or canvas, or d two l. To name a few. This is where, again, it's a larger collection of information that you can use the get link tool for. And also, if you want to share this in your lesson plans, or you're doing any type of outreach with your students, your syllabus, and you have curated this collection on your own by just one click. I just clicked into a certain subject.
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Tammi Burke: I can use the get link tool and provide a persistent url exactly back to the spot,
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Tammi Burke: and it will take my users to all of this content. Not just case studies
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Tammi Burke: same idea with Google classroom. Wherever I can use get link. I can use Google classroom
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Tammi Burke: so I can share this filtered results, and you can see that could be really helpful if you are differentiating instruction. If we have any K. Twelve folks today that differentiating instruction,
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Tammi Burke: you can filter by that content level and really find and focus on content that's available for the students in your classroom.
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Tammi Burke: All right. Let me know if there's any questions on any of those tools again. These are shared tools and features. You may be really familiar with these already um across your other re resources. But Let's go into. I'm going to go into a video. Now, I'm going to remove this filter. Let's go into a video because I want to point out that with the videos
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Tammi Burke: Um and i'm going to filter to climate change.
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Tammi Burke: So with the videos you're going to find um transcripts that we have available. I'm not seeing the original one I had linked out. But you're going to see that we have transcripts and close captioning great tools available within the resource to support accessibility.
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Tammi Burke: It does start up right away, and then we also even have interlinking. Not only that, but you can see, even from the video content where we have this explorer panel. You can continue to explore further and use this more like this information, even from the video content.
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Tammi Burke: I go back to my topic page
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Tammi Burke: and look at images. Now, I just cleared that filter because I went back to the topic page itself. So it cleared the filter, and is now, giving me everything I have available. So that's kind of a tip. If you want to clear everything off. If you don't, use the back button,
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Tammi Burke: don't use your cookies here. Um! Go back, and you or breadcrumb trail here. Um, go. Use your back button if you don't want to lose your filter.
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Tammi Burke: So just a little tip.
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Tammi Burke: Um. But you can see here the carbon-carbon cycle traces. So we have diagrams and also images available um within ecosystems. The effects of the population on an ecosystem. So we have a lot of great content available even in our images. It's very robust. Your in context. Resources have this great multimedia piece that you can bring into learning, or bring into your library to share with students, and they can utilize this for their research, for their projects, to supplement the
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Tammi Burke: curriculum all kinds of different tools that we have available here within the resource.
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Tammi Burke: Okay, So let's go into. We're going to go into.
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Tammi Burke: I'm going to go back to ecosystems. We're going to go actually into newspapers. We have ninety five thousand different articles available, and I just want to filter down to the past year,
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Tammi Burke: and that's how I can quickly do that. Another thing I like to do with my news and magazines is I sometimes like to sort by newest. It really depends, because sometimes relevance is,
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Tammi Burke: you know, we're defaulted to that. So I do feel like It's a great tool, but sometimes I like to just see what are the newest. I like to do that in images to um to see the newest images that have been added that are available. Um, but just know that you have that tool available. Here's an article on Stem, and let's choose this article
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Tammi Burke: here. This is a brief article, and when i'm at the document level. This is where I'm going to see these tools to to support accessibility. I have the translate option where I can translate the text into over forty languages.
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Tammi Burke: I have the ability to decrease or increase the font size. I have the ability to change the color behind the text to use the open dyslexic font to increase the line, letter and word spacing.
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Tammi Burke: And the nice thing is, if I make these selections in display options on my very first article throughout my session. It will stay
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Tammi Burke: exactly as I've selected, so every article I click into will look like this. So once I set it up the first time I can have that available throughout my entire session. As soon as I leave my session that information is cleared, or I can come back in here and go back to my default settings. I also have the listen. Listen, button, so I can listen to that text being read aloud to me.
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Tammi Burke: I can quickly send to Google Microsoft email, download or print if i'm scrolling down. And I get to this point and think, Yep, this is information that I want to keep. Um. This is a shorter article, but let's say it was on a longer one, my contextual toolbar sticking with me, and I have that ability to send to Google one drive email I have download and print available. I also have that get link tool. The citation is attached at the bottom, and I could change the format before I send it to. Let's say my Google drive.
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Tammi Burke: I could also choose to export it from this option at the bottom below my document, or I have the citation tool up here in my contextual toolbar, so I can quickly grab that citation or change it to Apa, and then send it to noodle tools or copy and paste it wherever I need my citations.
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Tammi Burke: Another tool I want to share with you, and that is highlights and notes,
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Tammi Burke: so I can highlight a chunk of text.
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Tammi Burke: Choose my color. Maybe this is for a project. Um
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Tammi Burke: and i'm making a note to myself
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Tammi Burke: and i'm going to save that
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Tammi Burke: i'm going to go back to Ecosystem. I'm going to go back to news. I'm going to remove this filter. Now, i'm going to go into a reference document. Now let's go into a biography.
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Tammi Burke: Let's go into a biography. I'm gonna choose this first one.
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Tammi Burke: Our biographies do have some um text features available, and you will find that in our essay overviews, too, where you may find some text features available um for our users. So i'm gonna choose pink this time. And this is um. I don't know interesting information. Let's say,
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Tammi Burke: okay, Another great tool that is in the highlights and notes is the ability to highlight a word
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Tammi Burke: and click, define, and it gives me a page out of the Webster's Dictionary really helpful when you're talking about environmental studies, or maybe terms that aren't familiar. And I can um. This is going to save as long as i'm in the session. It's housing. It's holding on to this information. Now, my best practice is if I've marked up a document is to send it. Send it to Google drive one drive, email, download or print. So I have that entire document. It'll land in a folder titled Gale In context environmental studies.
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Tammi Burke: Now, what's happening on the back side. Throughout this session I have this highlights and notes area where I can. It's in the upper right hand corner. It always lives there. I can view all highlights and notes. Now I do to see this option. I have to have some highlighting on my article, so there's a tip.
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Tammi Burke: Now. Here are those two articles I was in the stem article, and the one on Ruth Patrick, where I have just highlighted a chunk of information. I added some notes. I could edit my notes if I wanted to.
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Tammi Burke: My bibliography is attached. I can change the format of that bibliography, but I can just send these digital notes to Google Microsoft email, download or print. I can also grab my citation. So here's my work cited page,
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Tammi Burke: all ready to go.
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Tammi Burke: I also can label. So I've used two colors, pink and purple, and I can label those colors. It'll create a legend. And when I send this to my Google drive, let's say it turns it into a Google Doc and I have these notes just like this. So it's. I used to call them digital note cards because there was a grid. Now. I call them digital notes, but that's exactly what they are. Their notes that you've sectioned from text. Now, again, best practice send the entire article. So you have it, because if your users forget to come in to
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Tammi Burke: highlights and notes and send this information somewhere, this will be lost. So it's always a best practice. If you've marked up a document, send it somewhere, So you have that entire document, and it's great to reference and come back to. I will say this, too, with your highlights and notes. Once you send it to let's say Google as an example.
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Um, the articles will be hyperlinked out from Google. So you could come back to that article. And if I was interested in this some article because I wanted to explore more, I needed more like this. I needed this information. That's a great way to utilize that tool.
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All right,
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Tammi Burke: Let me know if there are any questions. We covered all of the tools and features. Um, I would will say. Oh, I forgot to share with you topic, Finder. So let's go into advanced search. Um before I do. Let me share this with you.
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Tammi Burke: It also lives here. So from the topic pages once I click into any of the content types I could start topic, finder if I wanted to from this point, or as soon as I sit down. If i'm interested in doing a topic, finder, search, here's advanced search publication. Search is also available here. Topic Finder again, visual representation of my search results,
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Tammi Burke: and i'm going to do
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Tammi Burke: waste disposal
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Tammi Burke: Oops. I spell their own.
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Tammi Burke: There we go.
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Tammi Burke: Then you can see it says visual representation of your search results. You have the ability to use the tiles or the wheel. We have two options for visualization.
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You can see the tiles that we do have available, and underneath these tiles are additional tiles. So if I was looking for
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Tammi Burke: solid waste,
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Tammi Burke: and I wanted um reports and findings. I can interact and drill down with this content, or maybe garbage disposal. And here, on the right hand side, it's populating that information related to solid waste and garbage disposal.
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Tammi Burke: And then from here I can click into the article and access that information. So this is looking at top hits. I really love it for those keywords or or terms that maybe Students haven't necessarily thought about
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Tammi Burke: or your users coming into your public library that they hadn't thought about. Because this is a great resource to really look at. Environmental topics, renewable energy global warming, those types of topics where you're going to find authoritative content that's available in this great interactive tool like topic finder or just the resource itself organizing by these topic pages and subject categories really helps. It's very user friendly. So, any user at any age can utilize this information and find
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authoritative content available from the Tennessee electronic library. The
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Tammi Burke: All right. Let me know if there are any questions. I'm going to go back to my Powerpoint, because where can you go for additional support? I gave you the link in the chat. But I want to share with you what you're going to find on that Gale support site, and you are going to find all of your access. Url: So since this is a new resource, if you're looking for your access, urls the title list for this resource, Mark records. Icons Widgets contact, the ability to contact your customer success manager. All of that is available on the Gale support site
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Tammi Burke: in the training center. You're going to find tip sheets and tutorials. I've linked out a few here like Here's a tip sheet for environmental studies. We have a scavenger hunt on save the bees for environmental studies. And we have short little video tutorials. This one's covering accessibility for all learners. So, looking at those tools to support accessibility also any upcoming. Webinars recorded. Webinars are going to live there, including this one. We have training decks, so Powerpoints available for your resources. We have great marketing materials.
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Tammi Burke: So if you're looking to promote this new resource that you have from the Tennessee electronic library, we have bookmarks and posters and social media posts, all ready to go blog templates, email templates. all ready to go for you, even descriptions for the resources. So take a look at the support site. See what we have available. We want to make your lives a little bit easier. ! And adding this new resource and promoting it with your with your users in your library. If you have any additional questions, you'll receive my follow up email in about twenty-four hours
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Tammi Burke: and feel free to reach out to me your customer success managers. They're linked here. I also included it in the follow up email. But for those watching the recording you can send them a quick email. Let them know what site you're from, and they'll help you. And then Training Survey. There's A. Qr. Code. It should pop up since you're attending the live session.
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Tammi Burke: , but there's A. Qr. Code. So if you'd like to do it on your phone and take a quick picture of that Qr. Code feel free to do so. Love to get your feedback on the session, and also in that comments section. If you wanted to add , we could use some training on, you know, for for tell, we could use some training on
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Tammi Burke: Abc. Whatever it is. Let us know, because we are looking ahead. We have quite a few sessions planned for you for over the next two months, actually all the way into January. The next one is on
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Tammi Burke: uh November eighteenth, and we will be looking at the new titles that you have to your Gale ebook collection from the Tennessee Electronic Library, and then on December First, we'll talk about how you can customize your collections in gale ebook. So the next two sessions are focusing on gale ebooks, the titles that are available, and also tools and features, and then also the custom how to customize those collections.
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Tammi Burke: You have any additional questions. I'll stay on the line. But thank you all so much for your time Today I look forward to seeing you at future Sessions have a great rest of your day,