Duration: 30 Minutes
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Welcome everyone. Thank you again for joining
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our Gale 101 session. Today is
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going to be looking at Gale In Context: U.S. History
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My name is Amber Winters
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and I'm a senior training consultant here with Gale.
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So for our session today, we have kind of
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four main sections we're going to go through first,
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we'll have a quick resource overview
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just for anyone who's really new to the resource,
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what you can expect to find. Then we'll take
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a look at some of the key content types that are
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going to be available for you.
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Excuse me, for you and for
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your user. Sorry, we have a question
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pop up here.
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Looks like we have a question about
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that picture. So that picture
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is the March on Washington.
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Um So yeah, again, we'll go over
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the key content, the different content types you're going to
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find within the resource, then we're
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actually going to walk through the platform.
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So you'll see how we can search how we can browse
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all of the filters we have available as well as
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some of the different document tools and features.
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So things like highlights and notes using
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the citation tool. We're going to take a look at all of that
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today. And then at the end of the session,
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I do have some wrap up information for you. I
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said questions here as well, but I should
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be able to answer questions as we move along today.
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So as you think of questions, go ahead and pop
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those into the Q and A, it's already open and
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I'll be able to answer them. But again, if there's any
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complicated questions that I think need to
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wait until the end of the session for a better explanation,
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we will have time for that.
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So let's go ahead and get started with gel and context us
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history. So this resource is really designed
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for secondary level students
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and up. So we're talking upper
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middle school, high school students as well as
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undergrads. Even adults can
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jump into this resource to find information, you know,
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if they um
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just learning something new about history and just want
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to learn a little bit more. This is a great place for them to go.
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Um I've pulled out a screenshot here. I actually
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got myself lost in a little bit of a rabbit hole learning
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about the interstate highway system. So it
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is actually a nice resource for adults as well. Anyone
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who's joining from a public library, this
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is a great place to send people if they're just looking for
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some more historical information
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and a few of the key subject areas found within
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this resource are going to include peoples and cultures,
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events in decades, court cases,
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political constructs and movements, as well as
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wars and conflicts. And this resource
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spans from the colonialization
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of North America all the way to
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more contemporary history. So things like 911
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and things similar to that. So it's really
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spanning the whole
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kind of United States history. You
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will find content
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In addition to all of those subject area
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content, we have some great tools that are
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going to help your users as well as well.
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So highlights and notes are going to be available. All
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of our information is translatable.
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So your users can choose whatever language they prefer.
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We also have a read speaker that will read the text
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out loud to them. So if you have struggling readers,
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they can have anything within the resource,
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read aloud to them, even captions on images
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will be read to them.
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We also have integrations with Google and Microsoft.
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So if users want to save content for later or
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maybe share out with their peers or with their colleagues,
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they can do that as well.
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And we'll take a look at all of those ones we get in the resource.
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But first, let's talk about some of the different content types
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you're going to find here. And these are broad categories
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that I'm going to go over. they get a much more
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intricate and much more intricate
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as you kind of dig in. But just
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some broad categories. The first is what a lot
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of people are going to expect reference articles.
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That's where you're going to get an overview of the
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information you're going to get just the facts
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of whatever topic you're learning about. Again,
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I pulled a screenshot of the Interstate
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Highway Act, which was surprisingly interesting.
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So anyone digging into the resource,
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you might want to take a look at that topic page.
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Um
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But they're going to get the facts. So if you have students
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who are maybe just starting off learning about a
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topic, it's a great way to get them started,
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direct them to the reference articles and they're going to get
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those bits of information that they'll need
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to start digging in more. Start
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maybe critically thinking about different points of view
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about historical events and things like that.
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We also have some great multimedia content
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in the forms of videos and images as well as
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audio files like podcasts. So
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these are really nice for any of your learners who just prefer
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to get knowledge
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other, other ways than text. They can
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listen to things. They can take a look at images.
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You see, I've pulled forward here. We have a lot of great
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political cartoons found
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under our image section. So these are also really
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nice to pull out. If I have any teachers on the line,
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you know, for a quick bell ringer,
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you know, while you're doing your attendance, you pull up this
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kind of interesting little
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political, political cartoon and just
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have them think about it, have them talk about
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it, you know, what does exactly does this mean? What are you seeing
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in the cartoon? What do you think that the
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author is trying to say?
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And we also have a huge primary source collections.
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And so right now we're at just over
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5000 unique primary
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sources that are going to help your students
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or your users. So these
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could be helpful to supplement a class,
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class lesson that you're going to be doing.
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Of course, these are going to be great for projects
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if you're at the public library, this is great for
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homework help as well.
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Something that's really nice within those resources.
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This is these will actually be labeled as
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primary sources as well, which
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I think is a subtle but important thing
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because of course, for students trying to understand
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the difference between a primary
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source and a secondary source is sometimes
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difficult. So what we've done is we've pulled them out
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into their own separate kind of content bucket
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and we've labeled them primary sources. So
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students know when they click into it. OK?
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You know, this was written during that time,
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it's a primary source.
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We also have some really nice case overviews
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that are going to go over some of the key
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cases in US history and
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it's going to give some main ideas about those
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cases as well as a kind of a cultural
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background. So your students are going to
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understand what was going on in society
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around, you know, Miranda V Arizona
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or whatever court case they're looking at. So not just
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getting, you know, a transcript of the court case,
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they may get that as well, but they're also getting context
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and they're getting background so they can better understand
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what the world was like, what the US was like
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while this court case was going on,
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we include biographies in here as well.
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So if you're looking for people instead of events,
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you'll find again all the way from
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colonialization to more
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contemporary history, you'll find individuals
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here in this resource to support whatever
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learning you're looking for.
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And finally, we have some timelines built in
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here too and you'll see these are pretty
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pretty visual. We have timelines
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around surrounding people as well
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as events. You'll see this one is about the Affordable
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Care Act. So definitely a more contemporary
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piece of history, but they just provide
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quick little bits of information about the
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person or about the event to kind of
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give a quick background. A nice simple thing
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to see. This is great for them to include maybe in a project
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as well. You know, if they're looking for something visual,
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they can tack in there that this is a great
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thing for them to use. It's ready to go for them within
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the resource.
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Now, I wanna just take a look and kind of click
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through everything so you can see how we have everything
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organized before I do. I haven't seen any questions
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come up in the Q and A but I do just wanna
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pause. Does anyone have any questions for me before
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we really roll into the resource?
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OK.
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No questions, no problem. We'll go ahead
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and get started here. So this is the home page of Gill
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in Context us history. If you're familiar
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with any of the other in context resources,
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you'll notice it looks nearly identical,
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of course, with different pictures since it's different subjects.
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But we've kept all of the in context resources
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almost identical in their,
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their pathways and their workflows. So
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right here on the home page, if I scroll down, you see,
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we pull forward some different topics of interest
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and these generally change monthly depending on
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what's going on.
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A lot of times we may highlights you know,
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an observance. So, um Hispanic
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Heritage Month or something like that, you'll find something
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pulled up here as well. Um Again,
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I looked at the Interstate Highway system one recently,
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um but it'll change monthly kind
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of again, just depending on what's going down
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underneath that.
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We have this browse topics section
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here and all of these topics that are listed
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are actually topic,
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sometimes called portal pages that we've
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created for your users. And what we
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do is we make this nice organized page that
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has an overview, overview of whatever topic
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they're going to be learning about.
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And then it has content buckets with all of the different
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results related to that topic. So
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our reference articles are pulled out separately.
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Our primary sources are images and
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it organizes it for them. So
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for any teachers on the line, I really
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recommend if you can find the topic page for
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what you want your students to look at, have
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them go there first before they even start running
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searches or anything like that. Have
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them start at that nice clean landing
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point and start their research from there
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a lot of times it's more effective.
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because of course, students sometimes struggle to build
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their own search terms to, to build um
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productive and effective search terms. So
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we try to help them along with that with
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these prebuilt topic pages. But you'll see,
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we have them organized here.
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We have some African American perspectives. We've pulled
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out our biographies are in a separate section.
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Government documents. If you're looking for information
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on court cases, they have their own section as well.
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Something I also like to point out that's a little
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bit hidden at the very bottom here, we also have state
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portals. So if you want
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some history specific to your state, maybe you're doing a project
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specific to your state,
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you can actually click into the state's option
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and you can click directly into the topic
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page or the portal page for your
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state. And
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you'll see, I can browse really all
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the topics if I want to. And here you'll see. There's a lot
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though. So these are all
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topic pages that students will be able to click into
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and this isn't the only content
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we have. There are of course, going to be topics
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that aren't studied as much that we don't have
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fully developed topic pages about. So
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if they're looking for something a little bit more obscure,
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they may not find this prebuilt topic page,
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but they can run a search and they'll still pull information
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for whatever that topic is.
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Now, I'm going to go ahead and jump back to home here
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because there's another great way to find topic pages
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again, which is a great place for students
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to start. If I start to type, let's
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say I want to learn about the Black Power movement
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today. When
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I start to type here, you see, I have a few
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different drop down options.
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The 1st 1234, being
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bolded. So when your students start to search
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any of these predictive texts that
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come back, bolded, these are going to be
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topic pages for them. So if they
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were to run a search for one of these or to click into
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one of these, they're not going to get just that
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basic search results page. They're going to
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get that topic page feel. So let's
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do that. Let's click into Black Power Movement here.
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Yeah. And now here we are on our topic page.
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So a few things I want to point out at the very top
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is our overview. Again, this is giving them
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the background. This is like their starting point
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for their research. If this is something new,
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this is where they may want to go to kind of get their footing
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or if this is, you know, the wrap up of
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the unit and they're just trying to remember what they learned at the very
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beginning of the unit, which happens.
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This overview again is a really nice summary
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just to remind them, you know, this is what happened.
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This is what we took a look at.
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they can click the blue read more button here
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and it from
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bits of information here. So you'll see this is oh yeah,
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at the very bottom, this one's got some critical thinking questions.
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And I will say these are great to share again as
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a bell ringer or maybe on a discussion
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board. You know, if you want to just have students discuss
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something quickly, you can just steal these
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critical thinking questions from us. We definitely
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want you to use them wherever and
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you post them wherever you want them to go. You can share with the
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full document even and have students read through
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and then answer those critical thinking questions.
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I'm going to go back here to my topic page
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and I can do that by using the back button in the browser
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or I can select Black
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Power Movement right here in my little breadcrumb trail.
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So let's go that way.
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So scrolling down under the overview.
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Now, if your students are ready
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to kind of dig into the information
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a little bit more you'll see in this gray bar
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here, we show all of the different content types
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that we have available for this resource. So you'll
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or for this topic. So you see if we got
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quite a bit of reference, we've got some videos,
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some academic journals for our higher level users,
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biographies, audio files, some case
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overviews, primary sources, magazines,
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images and news here.
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And then you'll see I can scroll down. And
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now I'm starting to see the first three in each
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of those categories here. So my first three reference
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articles are found primary sources.
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You see, I can just scroll down and take a look at all of these content
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buckets really quickly. And this is going to help
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me narrow down my results, you know. So I'm not just
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getting a huge list of,
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you know, thousands of articles
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and videos and things kind of all just bundled together.
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These are all pulled out separately. So if they want a video,
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they can just scroll and boom, click just into
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their videos that are related to this resource
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and the very bottom of our topic page here,
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I also want to point out we include related topics.
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So this is a really nice way for users to kind
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of move forward with their research. You know, they read
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through learning about the Black Power movement,
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maybe they want to learn more about Malcolm X. Of course,
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he's mentioned frequently, I'm sure within this
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topic page. So he has his own topic page
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as well. So they can jump in to learn more
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about him. Maybe they want to take a broader
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look at the civil rights movement, they can
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do that as well using these related topics.
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So realistically,
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your users can actually click all the way through this
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resource without even running a search. You
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know, if they're following the
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pathway by using these different related topics,
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you know, they don't have to worry about building search terms
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if they struggle with that.
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Now, let's go ahead and scroll up here
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and I'm going to just click into my reference content
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and we're going to pull forward all 100
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and 12 articles that I have related
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to the Black Power Movement. And as you
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would imagine, that's a lot for students to look through
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it is sorted by relevance,
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but I have some great filters on this right
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hand side here that's going to help me out. So
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of course, I'm not gonna read through 100 and 12
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reference articles, I can narrow
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it down, I can narrow it down based on subjects.
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So to get a little bit more specific than Black
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Power movement.
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If I wanna see how students were involved
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with the movement, you'll see, I click into that here.
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Scrolling down again. As I mentioned, Malcolm
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X is mentioned frequently. If I want to learn
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a bit about racial violence around this time,
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I can start to narrow it down using the subjects option.
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I can also search within my results here if I want
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to do that. So if I have something very specific in mind,
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I can run a search right here within my
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results.
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And what's nice is if I did click into reference and I realized,
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you know, this is actually not what I want. I want a primary
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source. You'll see at the top of the page
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here, I can click into primary sources
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and I'm taking a look at the primary sources we have
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available. You'll see, it looks like we have a few speeches,
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an essay, a manifesto
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quite a few speeches and I can click
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into any of these and start to take a look at these primary sources.
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Instead,
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you see it was nice. We do give a little background
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before our primary source. So again, we're
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providing students with context about what
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they're going to be learning about and then they'll
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see the primary source itself down below
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here.
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I'm gonna jump back here
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and click back into my reference articles
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because I do want to show you a nice little feature
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here that we have
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in this resource and a few of our other in context
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resources and it's this level documents
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option listed here under our filters.
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So a lot of our reference works, what we've
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decided to do is build
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two versions of the same article
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at different levels. So if you're working
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in a classroom where you have students who are at
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two very different levels and you need to differentiate
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what's being provided for them.
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This level documents option is a really nice
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way to do that.
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And not all of our documents are leveled because this
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is something we actually have to do by hand.
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So it's um
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it's something we're continuously adding to the resource.
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But as you could imagine,
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it does take some time.
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But what this is is when I click into
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my level documents option here, you'll see, I
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have two articles with the same title
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and it's giving me the lexile measures here
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and sometimes a little bit easier to see is
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the content level icons listed here as well.
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So our content levels range from level
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one, which is going to be like your elementary
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school information, you're most
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likely not going to find anything level one within this
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resource all the way up to level five,
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which is going to be your high school,
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your undergrad things like that.
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So we have these just quick little
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quick little flags that are gonna let you know right
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next to the lexile. So you'll see this
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is a higher level art article article,
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this level five and a lower level article,
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this level four, that's going to be the same topic
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though. So let me just click into one here.
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I'll click into this top one
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and again, you'll see this has kind of the same
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layout as that overview. We took a look at earlier.
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This one's got some main ideas pulled out
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and critical thinking questions pulled out here as, wow.
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And since this is leveled, I can actually change
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what level I'm looking at while I'm on the document
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you see on the left hand side here, we list our reading
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levels. So again, I clicked into the higher
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leveled article the first time.
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If I now want to look at the lower level one, I can
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click that
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and you'll see it actually looks almost identical.
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Of course, the difference is going to be
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the vocabulary, um, the
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sentence structure and things like that.
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But what we've tried to do is make
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them look as similar as possible, especially
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if you're going to be giving them to students who are, you
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know, sitting right next to each other because as
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we know, students get embarrassed if they have to be handed a lower
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level piece of text. So
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unless someone's looking really closely you're
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most likely going to be the only person who knows
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what version of the document students are going to get.
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But regardless of the version they get, they'll get
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the same information, of course, to set
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those different levels to make it really accessible
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for them. Now,
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since we're on a document, let's go ahead and look at some of
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the different document tools we have available
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here and I just will pause for a second. I haven't
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seen any questions, but I do want to remind
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everyone if you do have a question that Q
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and A box is open.
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OK. Now let's go ahead and take a look here.
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So our first tool that I like to point out
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this is really great to get buy in from students
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who are doing projects and who are
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tired of writing out their own citations after
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they Google and find a document on Google.
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right? Within the platform, we have our citation
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tool built into our toolbar here
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and we have citations for every single
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piece of content within this resource. So if it's
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an article, if it's an image, if
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it's a video, a primary source, literally
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anything they're going to find here is going
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to have a citation attached to it. So
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again, if you're trying to get buy in from students,
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all they have to do is select it and copy
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and paste it to wherever they want it to go,
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you know, put in their work cited and they're
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done, they don't have to worry about building their own citation.
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It's a really nice feature we have here and you
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can see we have options for Mlaap, a Chicago
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or Harvard.
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And if they don't want to copy and paste, they can also
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export. So if they're using, you know, easy bever
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noodle tools or if they want to send it over
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to their drive, they can do that here as well.
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And our citations are also found at
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the very bottom of all of our
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entries here, you'll see our source citation.
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So if they miss it in the toolbar here,
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hopefully they'll remember. It's at the very bottom of the page.
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Again, they can choose whatever edition
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whatever citation version
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they need,
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copy and paste it or download it, it's
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ready to go for them.
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Now, moving on from that citation button, we
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also have our send to option.
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Well, we have a question. Is there a topic page
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for National History Day projects?
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You know, I'm not sure, but
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let me go through all of these tools
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and then I'll search for it.
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I think there is, but I don't want
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you to quote me on that. So let me go through
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these document tools and I will take a look, see if
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we can find a topic page for National
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History Day projects. Yeah.
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Um OK. So
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kind of moving on from citations here, we also
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have this nice send to option.
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So if I find an article or an image
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or whatever that I think is interesting that I want
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to save for later, I can hit that send to button.
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I can send over to one of my drives, either Google
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or Microsoft or I can email it to
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myself. What's really nice is if I send
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over to one of these drives here, it's
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going to stay in my drive permanently. So
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if I send it over at the beginning of the semester
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and I want to use it to study for my final at the end,
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it's still going to be in my drive waiting for me.
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I can also download or print
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it if I prefer those methods. And
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these tools are also found right here.
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We kind of duplicated where they're
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located to make sure your students see it. So they do
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the same thing. You'll see. We have our drives,
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email, download or print,
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so they'll find it up top or down below.
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Next step. We also have this really nice get
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link.
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So if this is maybe something you
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as an educator or as a librarian want to share
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out with your users, you can use this, get
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link, copy and paste it in social media
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post on your discussion
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board and the syllabus
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wherever you wanted to go, it's a persistent URL
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that's not going to break. So you
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can post it wherever you want it, you don't need to worry
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about it breaking and you know, having everyone reach
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out to you because you can't access whatever you
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found, you can use this, get link and really
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post it wherever you want it to go.
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Now, scrolling down here, we have some
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kind of text manipulation and accessibility
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tools that you're going to find down here on
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the left side of the page underneath
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the title of the article itself here, you'll
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see this is where we can find our translation, you can
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translate both the article as well
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as the interface language. So translating
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the interface language is going to change all
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of the buttons your students are pressing as well as the
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search bar and any any other navigation
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um bits of information into
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whatever language they prefer.
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Next to that, they can also decrease or increase
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the font size as needed
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right next to that, we have some different display options.
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So again, really trying to enhance the accessibility
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for your students,
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they can really go in and
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choose exactly what they prefer to see
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and how they prefer to see it.
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And when they do change these
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options here that these actually follow them along
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throughout the session.
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So
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when they click into a new article, they're not going to have to do
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this every single time we wanna make sure
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they can access the information really easily.
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Let's go back to default settings. Today
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right next to our display options. We also have our
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listen tool. I'm going to pause it today
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because I'm not sharing my computer audio with you.
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But when they hit that and they'll hit play, it'll
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read through the,
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oh, they
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can just hit that listen button and it'll pop up
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this little box and it'll just hit play and it'll read that
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through for them.
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And you'll see, we've got a little hamburger icon here
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that gives us some different settings options.
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So we can change um
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how the text is being read. You'll see right now
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when I hit play, it's going to read the full sentence,
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highlight the full sentence and then highlight each
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word as it's reading through that word.
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We can change that at any time. On
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the left hand side here, you'll see if we can change, scrolling
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all that good stuff right here. Nice and simple.
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And one last tool I wanna show
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you before we take a look to see if we can find National History
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Day. And the resource is our highlights
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and notes tool.
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So as I'm scrolling through here, if I find something that
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I think is particularly important, maybe
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it's a quote that I wanna use in a project.
[00:24:10.608]
Maybe it's just something I find interesting.
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I can click and drag to highlight over a piece of text.
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I can choose the color and I can add a note here
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and I can do this as much or as
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little as I want
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and these are going to be session based. So these
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are going to be really helpful for your students,
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right? As they're kind of annotating and talking to
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the text. But if they want to save it,
[00:24:38.838]
if they want to hold on to it for later, they will
[00:24:40.910]
need to get it out of the platform so they
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can do that any of the way as I mentioned before, send
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to their drives, download print, email
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it to themselves. Once they get
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it off the platform, these highlights are going to stay on
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this document for them. If they are signed
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off due to an activity or they just close out of their browser
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and go somewhere else, any highlights
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they took are gone. So
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this is great. If students are planning on saving
[00:25:02.578]
documents and using them later, they can highlight
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important pieces and just have
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that to themselves.
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And all of our highlights and notes are actually stored
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in a separate place as well. You'll see, I have my highlights
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and notes button up top here with the little three
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next to it.
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If I click into this and select view all highlights
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and notes,
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I'm actually going to see, excuse
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me, all of the highlights
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and notes that I've taken throughout the session
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you'll see here. It shows me what article I was
[00:25:33.150]
in. It shows me the color I used
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the actual text I highlighted. If I added
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a note, it's showing that here and
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I can also add and edit notes on this page
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as well.
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I can label these highlight colors. So
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if I highlighted things specifically for different
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bits of research or, you
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know, if I highlighted all of the interesting quotes
[00:25:51.709]
in pink and maybe I highlighted the main points
[00:25:53.739]
of the article in yellow, I can label
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those here
[00:25:57.750]
to remind myself and I can actually
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send this out to my drive or download
[00:26:02.608]
it or print it as well.
[00:26:04.479]
Yeah, maybe
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they went through, you know, five or six articles
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and just like highlighted a whole lot of information.
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This might be a nice way for them to keep all of that
[00:26:28.489]
information in one spot. And then
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again, if they need to click into the article,
[00:26:33.509]
they'll just go to that document wherever it's located.
[00:26:35.608]
If it's in there. Um
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If it's in their onedrive, if it's in their Google Drive,
[00:26:39.549]
it's downloaded, they can just click back
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into this
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and had taken them right back here to the document
[00:26:45.578]
they were on
[00:26:46.660]
and again. So this is the same session
[00:26:48.709]
I didn't sign off or anything like that.
[00:26:50.750]
I have all my highlighted highlights
[00:26:52.858]
still listed here. Ready to go.
[00:26:57.529]
Now, I'm going to take a look, see if we can find any National
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History Day project information
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before I do though. Are there any questions about
[00:27:04.640]
any of these tools that we went over any of the features
[00:27:06.959]
we're going to find within the resource.
[00:27:13.868]
Ok. I don't see you. So let's go ahead
[00:27:16.049]
and take a look at that question we had earlier.
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Um, I'm not sure if we have anything for
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National history, but let's just start typing
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in
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yeah, looks like we have a topic page
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for National History Day. Let's go ahead and click
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in and see what it's all about.
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Yep. So this is our topic page here. You'll see. We
[00:27:37.318]
have an overview. Let's scroll down
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here and see some of the bits of information here.
[00:27:41.559]
Looks like we've got reference materials, biographies,
[00:27:45.059]
all that good stuff. And this is really going to be
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kind of a starting point. So this is gonna be getting
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them started.
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What's nice you'll see here on this left hand side
[00:27:53.828]
is we have some links to different primary
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sources. So these are going to be housed on
[00:27:58.068]
other vendors platforms. So
[00:28:00.078]
individual vendors that we work with,
[00:28:02.170]
who instead of uploading into our resource,
[00:28:04.500]
want everyone to access through their, their web
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page. We find those primary sources here as
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well. So, yes,
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Regina, we do have a National History Day
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topic page. You can just run a search, start
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searching for national and it's going to pop up in the predictive
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text.
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Ok.
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Well, let's go ahead and jump back here to my slides
[00:28:29.549]
then for some quick wrap up information
[00:28:31.939]
before I let you go for the day. if
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you have any questions, once the session is done
[00:28:36.439]
that you didn't think to ask, feel free to reach out
[00:28:38.529]
to me again. My name is Amber Winters
[00:28:40.618]
and my email is just [email protected]
[00:28:42.719]
If you wanna talk more
[00:28:44.868]
specifically about how you can use this resource
[00:28:47.180]
with your learning community, um You know, you want
[00:28:49.209]
some ideas maybe on integrating it into your curriculum,
[00:28:52.068]
you a public library, you know, if you have
[00:28:54.380]
a program going on
[00:28:56.598]
and you really want help with you
[00:28:58.630]
can reach out to your customer success manager. If
[00:29:00.769]
you don't know who that is, just send a quick email to
[00:29:02.989]
[email protected]
[00:29:04.640]
and we'll forward you to the correct
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person.
[00:29:07.739]
If right now you don't have access to Gale In Context: U.S. History
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and you want it, you can reach
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out to your sales consultant. If you don't know who
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that is, you can go to support.gale.com/repfinder
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and you'll be able to pull up the correct
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individual.
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And we also have our great support site available
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to you. So um recorded
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webinars like this one will be available on the support
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site. You're going to find lesson plans and activities,
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marketing materials like flyers and social
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media posts. Really anything you need
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to get the resource into the
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hands of your users. So don't re invent
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the wheel if you need something like that,
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go to our support site support.gale.com
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and most likely you'll be able to find what you need.
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And finally, I would like to shout
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out our tech support team. If you ever need any technical
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support, you can reach out to them just by
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sending an email to [email protected]
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they'll be able to help
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you out with any sort of tech thing that you need
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to address.
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Ok? Now, I don't see any more questions
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coming in, so I'll go ahead and end our session today.
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Um I appreciate everyone for being on the line.
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Hopefully we'll see you all in future Gale
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101 and other Gale webinars.
Welcome everyone. Thank you again for joining
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our Gale 101 session. Today is
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going to be looking at Gale In Context: U.S. History
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My name is Amber Winters
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and I'm a senior training consultant here with Gale.
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So for our session today, we have kind of
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four main sections we're going to go through first,
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we'll have a quick resource overview
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just for anyone who's really new to the resource,
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what you can expect to find. Then we'll take
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a look at some of the key content types that are
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going to be available for you.
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Excuse me, for you and for
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your user. Sorry, we have a question
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pop up here.
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Looks like we have a question about
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that picture. So that picture
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is the March on Washington.
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Um So yeah, again, we'll go over
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the key content, the different content types you're going to
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find within the resource, then we're
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actually going to walk through the platform.
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So you'll see how we can search how we can browse
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all of the filters we have available as well as
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some of the different document tools and features.
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So things like highlights and notes using
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the citation tool. We're going to take a look at all of that
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today. And then at the end of the session,
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I do have some wrap up information for you. I
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said questions here as well, but I should
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be able to answer questions as we move along today.
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So as you think of questions, go ahead and pop
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those into the Q and A, it's already open and
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I'll be able to answer them. But again, if there's any
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complicated questions that I think need to
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wait until the end of the session for a better explanation,
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we will have time for that.
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So let's go ahead and get started with gel and context us
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history. So this resource is really designed
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for secondary level students
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and up. So we're talking upper
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middle school, high school students as well as
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undergrads. Even adults can
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jump into this resource to find information, you know,
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if they um
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just learning something new about history and just want
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to learn a little bit more. This is a great place for them to go.
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Um I've pulled out a screenshot here. I actually
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got myself lost in a little bit of a rabbit hole learning
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about the interstate highway system. So it
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is actually a nice resource for adults as well. Anyone
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who's joining from a public library, this
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is a great place to send people if they're just looking for
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some more historical information
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and a few of the key subject areas found within
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this resource are going to include peoples and cultures,
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events in decades, court cases,
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political constructs and movements, as well as
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wars and conflicts. And this resource
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spans from the colonialization
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of North America all the way to
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more contemporary history. So things like 911
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and things similar to that. So it's really
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spanning the whole
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kind of United States history. You
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will find content
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In addition to all of those subject area
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content, we have some great tools that are
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going to help your users as well as well.
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So highlights and notes are going to be available. All
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of our information is translatable.
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So your users can choose whatever language they prefer.
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We also have a read speaker that will read the text
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out loud to them. So if you have struggling readers,
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they can have anything within the resource,
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read aloud to them, even captions on images
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will be read to them.
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We also have integrations with Google and Microsoft.
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So if users want to save content for later or
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maybe share out with their peers or with their colleagues,
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they can do that as well.
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And we'll take a look at all of those ones we get in the resource.
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But first, let's talk about some of the different content types
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you're going to find here. And these are broad categories
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that I'm going to go over. they get a much more
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intricate and much more intricate
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as you kind of dig in. But just
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some broad categories. The first is what a lot
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of people are going to expect reference articles.
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That's where you're going to get an overview of the
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information you're going to get just the facts
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of whatever topic you're learning about. Again,
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I pulled a screenshot of the Interstate
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Highway Act, which was surprisingly interesting.
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So anyone digging into the resource,
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you might want to take a look at that topic page.
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Um
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But they're going to get the facts. So if you have students
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who are maybe just starting off learning about a
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topic, it's a great way to get them started,
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direct them to the reference articles and they're going to get
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those bits of information that they'll need
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to start digging in more. Start
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maybe critically thinking about different points of view
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about historical events and things like that.
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We also have some great multimedia content
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in the forms of videos and images as well as
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audio files like podcasts. So
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these are really nice for any of your learners who just prefer
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to get knowledge
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other, other ways than text. They can
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listen to things. They can take a look at images.
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You see, I've pulled forward here. We have a lot of great
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political cartoons found
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under our image section. So these are also really
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nice to pull out. If I have any teachers on the line,
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you know, for a quick bell ringer,
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you know, while you're doing your attendance, you pull up this
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kind of interesting little
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political, political cartoon and just
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have them think about it, have them talk about
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it, you know, what does exactly does this mean? What are you seeing
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in the cartoon? What do you think that the
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author is trying to say?
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And we also have a huge primary source collections.
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And so right now we're at just over
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5000 unique primary
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sources that are going to help your students
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or your users. So these
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could be helpful to supplement a class,
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class lesson that you're going to be doing.
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Of course, these are going to be great for projects
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if you're at the public library, this is great for
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homework help as well.
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Something that's really nice within those resources.
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This is these will actually be labeled as
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primary sources as well, which
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I think is a subtle but important thing
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because of course, for students trying to understand
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the difference between a primary
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source and a secondary source is sometimes
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difficult. So what we've done is we've pulled them out
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into their own separate kind of content bucket
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and we've labeled them primary sources. So
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students know when they click into it. OK?
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You know, this was written during that time,
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it's a primary source.
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We also have some really nice case overviews
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that are going to go over some of the key
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cases in US history and
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it's going to give some main ideas about those
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cases as well as a kind of a cultural
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background. So your students are going to
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understand what was going on in society
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around, you know, Miranda V Arizona
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or whatever court case they're looking at. So not just
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getting, you know, a transcript of the court case,
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they may get that as well, but they're also getting context
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and they're getting background so they can better understand
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what the world was like, what the US was like
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while this court case was going on,
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we include biographies in here as well.
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So if you're looking for people instead of events,
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you'll find again all the way from
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colonialization to more
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contemporary history, you'll find individuals
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here in this resource to support whatever
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learning you're looking for.
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And finally, we have some timelines built in
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here too and you'll see these are pretty
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pretty visual. We have timelines
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around surrounding people as well
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as events. You'll see this one is about the Affordable
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Care Act. So definitely a more contemporary
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piece of history, but they just provide
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quick little bits of information about the
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person or about the event to kind of
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give a quick background. A nice simple thing
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to see. This is great for them to include maybe in a project
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as well. You know, if they're looking for something visual,
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they can tack in there that this is a great
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thing for them to use. It's ready to go for them within
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the resource.
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Now, I wanna just take a look and kind of click
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through everything so you can see how we have everything
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organized before I do. I haven't seen any questions
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come up in the Q and A but I do just wanna
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pause. Does anyone have any questions for me before
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we really roll into the resource?
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OK.
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No questions, no problem. We'll go ahead
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and get started here. So this is the home page of Gill
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in Context us history. If you're familiar
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with any of the other in context resources,
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you'll notice it looks nearly identical,
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of course, with different pictures since it's different subjects.
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But we've kept all of the in context resources
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almost identical in their,
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their pathways and their workflows. So
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right here on the home page, if I scroll down, you see,
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we pull forward some different topics of interest
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and these generally change monthly depending on
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what's going on.
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A lot of times we may highlights you know,
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an observance. So, um Hispanic
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Heritage Month or something like that, you'll find something
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pulled up here as well. Um Again,
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I looked at the Interstate Highway system one recently,
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um but it'll change monthly kind
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of again, just depending on what's going down
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underneath that.
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We have this browse topics section
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here and all of these topics that are listed
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are actually topic,
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sometimes called portal pages that we've
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created for your users. And what we
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do is we make this nice organized page that
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has an overview, overview of whatever topic
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they're going to be learning about.
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And then it has content buckets with all of the different
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results related to that topic. So
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our reference articles are pulled out separately.
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Our primary sources are images and
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it organizes it for them. So
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for any teachers on the line, I really
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recommend if you can find the topic page for
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what you want your students to look at, have
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them go there first before they even start running
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searches or anything like that. Have
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them start at that nice clean landing
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point and start their research from there
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a lot of times it's more effective.
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because of course, students sometimes struggle to build
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their own search terms to, to build um
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productive and effective search terms. So
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we try to help them along with that with
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these prebuilt topic pages. But you'll see,
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we have them organized here.
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We have some African American perspectives. We've pulled
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out our biographies are in a separate section.
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Government documents. If you're looking for information
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on court cases, they have their own section as well.
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Something I also like to point out that's a little
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bit hidden at the very bottom here, we also have state
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portals. So if you want
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some history specific to your state, maybe you're doing a project
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specific to your state,
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you can actually click into the state's option
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and you can click directly into the topic
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page or the portal page for your
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state. And
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you'll see, I can browse really all
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the topics if I want to. And here you'll see. There's a lot
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though. So these are all
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topic pages that students will be able to click into
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and this isn't the only content
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we have. There are of course, going to be topics
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that aren't studied as much that we don't have
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fully developed topic pages about. So
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if they're looking for something a little bit more obscure,
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they may not find this prebuilt topic page,
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but they can run a search and they'll still pull information
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for whatever that topic is.
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Now, I'm going to go ahead and jump back to home here
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because there's another great way to find topic pages
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again, which is a great place for students
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to start. If I start to type, let's
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say I want to learn about the Black Power movement
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today. When
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I start to type here, you see, I have a few
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different drop down options.
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The 1st 1234, being
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bolded. So when your students start to search
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any of these predictive texts that
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come back, bolded, these are going to be
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topic pages for them. So if they
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were to run a search for one of these or to click into
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one of these, they're not going to get just that
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basic search results page. They're going to
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get that topic page feel. So let's
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do that. Let's click into Black Power Movement here.
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Yeah. And now here we are on our topic page.
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So a few things I want to point out at the very top
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is our overview. Again, this is giving them
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the background. This is like their starting point
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for their research. If this is something new,
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this is where they may want to go to kind of get their footing
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or if this is, you know, the wrap up of
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the unit and they're just trying to remember what they learned at the very
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beginning of the unit, which happens.
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This overview again is a really nice summary
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just to remind them, you know, this is what happened.
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This is what we took a look at.
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they can click the blue read more button here
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and it from
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bits of information here. So you'll see this is oh yeah,
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at the very bottom, this one's got some critical thinking questions.
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And I will say these are great to share again as
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a bell ringer or maybe on a discussion
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board. You know, if you want to just have students discuss
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something quickly, you can just steal these
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critical thinking questions from us. We definitely
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want you to use them wherever and
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you post them wherever you want them to go. You can share with the
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full document even and have students read through
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and then answer those critical thinking questions.
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I'm going to go back here to my topic page
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and I can do that by using the back button in the browser
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or I can select Black
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Power Movement right here in my little breadcrumb trail.
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So let's go that way.
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So scrolling down under the overview.
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Now, if your students are ready
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to kind of dig into the information
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a little bit more you'll see in this gray bar
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here, we show all of the different content types
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that we have available for this resource. So you'll
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or for this topic. So you see if we got
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quite a bit of reference, we've got some videos,
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some academic journals for our higher level users,
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biographies, audio files, some case
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overviews, primary sources, magazines,
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images and news here.
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And then you'll see I can scroll down. And
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now I'm starting to see the first three in each
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of those categories here. So my first three reference
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articles are found primary sources.
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You see, I can just scroll down and take a look at all of these content
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buckets really quickly. And this is going to help
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me narrow down my results, you know. So I'm not just
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getting a huge list of,
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you know, thousands of articles
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and videos and things kind of all just bundled together.
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These are all pulled out separately. So if they want a video,
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they can just scroll and boom, click just into
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their videos that are related to this resource
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and the very bottom of our topic page here,
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I also want to point out we include related topics.
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So this is a really nice way for users to kind
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of move forward with their research. You know, they read
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through learning about the Black Power movement,
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maybe they want to learn more about Malcolm X. Of course,
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he's mentioned frequently, I'm sure within this
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topic page. So he has his own topic page
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as well. So they can jump in to learn more
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about him. Maybe they want to take a broader
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look at the civil rights movement, they can
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do that as well using these related topics.
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So realistically,
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your users can actually click all the way through this
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resource without even running a search. You
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know, if they're following the
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pathway by using these different related topics,
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you know, they don't have to worry about building search terms
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if they struggle with that.
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Now, let's go ahead and scroll up here
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and I'm going to just click into my reference content
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and we're going to pull forward all 100
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and 12 articles that I have related
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to the Black Power Movement. And as you
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would imagine, that's a lot for students to look through
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it is sorted by relevance,
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but I have some great filters on this right
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hand side here that's going to help me out. So
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of course, I'm not gonna read through 100 and 12
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reference articles, I can narrow
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it down, I can narrow it down based on subjects.
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So to get a little bit more specific than Black
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Power movement.
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If I wanna see how students were involved
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with the movement, you'll see, I click into that here.
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Scrolling down again. As I mentioned, Malcolm
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X is mentioned frequently. If I want to learn
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a bit about racial violence around this time,
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I can start to narrow it down using the subjects option.
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I can also search within my results here if I want
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to do that. So if I have something very specific in mind,
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I can run a search right here within my
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results.
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And what's nice is if I did click into reference and I realized,
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you know, this is actually not what I want. I want a primary
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source. You'll see at the top of the page
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here, I can click into primary sources
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and I'm taking a look at the primary sources we have
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available. You'll see, it looks like we have a few speeches,
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an essay, a manifesto
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quite a few speeches and I can click
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into any of these and start to take a look at these primary sources.
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Instead,
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you see it was nice. We do give a little background
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before our primary source. So again, we're
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providing students with context about what
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they're going to be learning about and then they'll
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see the primary source itself down below
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here.
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I'm gonna jump back here
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and click back into my reference articles
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because I do want to show you a nice little feature
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here that we have
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in this resource and a few of our other in context
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resources and it's this level documents
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option listed here under our filters.
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So a lot of our reference works, what we've
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decided to do is build
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two versions of the same article
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at different levels. So if you're working
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in a classroom where you have students who are at
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two very different levels and you need to differentiate
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what's being provided for them.
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This level documents option is a really nice
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way to do that.
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And not all of our documents are leveled because this
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is something we actually have to do by hand.
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So it's um
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it's something we're continuously adding to the resource.
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But as you could imagine,
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it does take some time.
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But what this is is when I click into
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my level documents option here, you'll see, I
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have two articles with the same title
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and it's giving me the lexile measures here
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and sometimes a little bit easier to see is
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the content level icons listed here as well.
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So our content levels range from level
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one, which is going to be like your elementary
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school information, you're most
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likely not going to find anything level one within this
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resource all the way up to level five,
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which is going to be your high school,
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your undergrad things like that.
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So we have these just quick little
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quick little flags that are gonna let you know right
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next to the lexile. So you'll see this
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is a higher level art article article,
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this level five and a lower level article,
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this level four, that's going to be the same topic
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though. So let me just click into one here.
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I'll click into this top one
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and again, you'll see this has kind of the same
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layout as that overview. We took a look at earlier.
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This one's got some main ideas pulled out
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and critical thinking questions pulled out here as, wow.
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And since this is leveled, I can actually change
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what level I'm looking at while I'm on the document
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you see on the left hand side here, we list our reading
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levels. So again, I clicked into the higher
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leveled article the first time.
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If I now want to look at the lower level one, I can
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click that
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and you'll see it actually looks almost identical.
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Of course, the difference is going to be
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the vocabulary, um, the
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sentence structure and things like that.
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But what we've tried to do is make
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them look as similar as possible, especially
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if you're going to be giving them to students who are, you
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know, sitting right next to each other because as
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we know, students get embarrassed if they have to be handed a lower
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level piece of text. So
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unless someone's looking really closely you're
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most likely going to be the only person who knows
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what version of the document students are going to get.
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But regardless of the version they get, they'll get
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the same information, of course, to set
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those different levels to make it really accessible
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for them. Now,
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since we're on a document, let's go ahead and look at some of
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the different document tools we have available
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here and I just will pause for a second. I haven't
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seen any questions, but I do want to remind
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everyone if you do have a question that Q
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and A box is open.
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OK. Now let's go ahead and take a look here.
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So our first tool that I like to point out
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this is really great to get buy in from students
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who are doing projects and who are
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tired of writing out their own citations after
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they Google and find a document on Google.
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right? Within the platform, we have our citation
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tool built into our toolbar here
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and we have citations for every single
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piece of content within this resource. So if it's
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an article, if it's an image, if
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it's a video, a primary source, literally
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anything they're going to find here is going
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to have a citation attached to it. So
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again, if you're trying to get buy in from students,
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all they have to do is select it and copy
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and paste it to wherever they want it to go,
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you know, put in their work cited and they're
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done, they don't have to worry about building their own citation.
[00:19:17.108]
It's a really nice feature we have here and you
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can see we have options for Mlaap, a Chicago
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or Harvard.
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And if they don't want to copy and paste, they can also
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export. So if they're using, you know, easy bever
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noodle tools or if they want to send it over
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to their drive, they can do that here as well.
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And our citations are also found at
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the very bottom of all of our
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entries here, you'll see our source citation.
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So if they miss it in the toolbar here,
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hopefully they'll remember. It's at the very bottom of the page.
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Again, they can choose whatever edition
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whatever citation version
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they need,
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copy and paste it or download it, it's
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ready to go for them.
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Now, moving on from that citation button, we
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also have our send to option.
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Well, we have a question. Is there a topic page
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for National History Day projects?
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You know, I'm not sure, but
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let me go through all of these tools
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and then I'll search for it.
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I think there is, but I don't want
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you to quote me on that. So let me go through
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these document tools and I will take a look, see if
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we can find a topic page for National
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History Day projects. Yeah.
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Um OK. So
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kind of moving on from citations here, we also
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have this nice send to option.
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So if I find an article or an image
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or whatever that I think is interesting that I want
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to save for later, I can hit that send to button.
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I can send over to one of my drives, either Google
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or Microsoft or I can email it to
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myself. What's really nice is if I send
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over to one of these drives here, it's
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going to stay in my drive permanently. So
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if I send it over at the beginning of the semester
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and I want to use it to study for my final at the end,
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it's still going to be in my drive waiting for me.
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I can also download or print
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it if I prefer those methods. And
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these tools are also found right here.
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We kind of duplicated where they're
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located to make sure your students see it. So they do
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the same thing. You'll see. We have our drives,
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email, download or print,
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so they'll find it up top or down below.
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Next step. We also have this really nice get
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link.
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So if this is maybe something you
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as an educator or as a librarian want to share
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out with your users, you can use this, get
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link, copy and paste it in social media
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post on your discussion
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board and the syllabus
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wherever you wanted to go, it's a persistent URL
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that's not going to break. So you
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can post it wherever you want it, you don't need to worry
[00:21:36.719]
about it breaking and you know, having everyone reach
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out to you because you can't access whatever you
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found, you can use this, get link and really
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post it wherever you want it to go.
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Now, scrolling down here, we have some
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kind of text manipulation and accessibility
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tools that you're going to find down here on
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the left side of the page underneath
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the title of the article itself here, you'll
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see this is where we can find our translation, you can
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translate both the article as well
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as the interface language. So translating
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the interface language is going to change all
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of the buttons your students are pressing as well as the
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search bar and any any other navigation
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um bits of information into
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whatever language they prefer.
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Next to that, they can also decrease or increase
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the font size as needed
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right next to that, we have some different display options.
[00:22:24.368]
So again, really trying to enhance the accessibility
[00:22:27.029]
for your students,
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they can really go in and
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choose exactly what they prefer to see
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and how they prefer to see it.
[00:22:35.009]
And when they do change these
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options here that these actually follow them along
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throughout the session.
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So
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when they click into a new article, they're not going to have to do
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this every single time we wanna make sure
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they can access the information really easily.
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Let's go back to default settings. Today
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right next to our display options. We also have our
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listen tool. I'm going to pause it today
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because I'm not sharing my computer audio with you.
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But when they hit that and they'll hit play, it'll
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read through the,
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oh, they
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can just hit that listen button and it'll pop up
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this little box and it'll just hit play and it'll read that
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through for them.
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And you'll see, we've got a little hamburger icon here
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that gives us some different settings options.
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So we can change um
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how the text is being read. You'll see right now
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when I hit play, it's going to read the full sentence,
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highlight the full sentence and then highlight each
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word as it's reading through that word.
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We can change that at any time. On
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the left hand side here, you'll see if we can change, scrolling
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all that good stuff right here. Nice and simple.
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And one last tool I wanna show
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you before we take a look to see if we can find National History
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Day. And the resource is our highlights
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and notes tool.
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So as I'm scrolling through here, if I find something that
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I think is particularly important, maybe
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it's a quote that I wanna use in a project.
[00:24:10.608]
Maybe it's just something I find interesting.
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I can click and drag to highlight over a piece of text.
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I can choose the color and I can add a note here
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and I can do this as much or as
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little as I want
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and these are going to be session based. So these
[00:24:31.858]
are going to be really helpful for your students,
[00:24:34.750]
right? As they're kind of annotating and talking to
[00:24:36.809]
the text. But if they want to save it,
[00:24:38.838]
if they want to hold on to it for later, they will
[00:24:40.910]
need to get it out of the platform so they
[00:24:42.939]
can do that any of the way as I mentioned before, send
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to their drives, download print, email
[00:24:47.670]
it to themselves. Once they get
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it off the platform, these highlights are going to stay on
[00:24:51.759]
this document for them. If they are signed
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off due to an activity or they just close out of their browser
[00:24:56.199]
and go somewhere else, any highlights
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they took are gone. So
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this is great. If students are planning on saving
[00:25:02.578]
documents and using them later, they can highlight
[00:25:05.229]
important pieces and just have
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that to themselves.
[00:25:11.719]
And all of our highlights and notes are actually stored
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in a separate place as well. You'll see, I have my highlights
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and notes button up top here with the little three
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next to it.
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If I click into this and select view all highlights
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and notes,
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I'm actually going to see, excuse
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me, all of the highlights
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and notes that I've taken throughout the session
[00:25:31.009]
you'll see here. It shows me what article I was
[00:25:33.150]
in. It shows me the color I used
[00:25:35.489]
the actual text I highlighted. If I added
[00:25:37.529]
a note, it's showing that here and
[00:25:39.689]
I can also add and edit notes on this page
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as well.
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I can label these highlight colors. So
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if I highlighted things specifically for different
[00:25:47.559]
bits of research or, you
[00:25:49.660]
know, if I highlighted all of the interesting quotes
[00:25:51.709]
in pink and maybe I highlighted the main points
[00:25:53.739]
of the article in yellow, I can label
[00:25:55.900]
those here
[00:25:57.750]
to remind myself and I can actually
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send this out to my drive or download
[00:26:02.608]
it or print it as well.
[00:26:04.479]
Yeah, maybe
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they went through, you know, five or six articles
[00:26:23.358]
and just like highlighted a whole lot of information.
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This might be a nice way for them to keep all of that
[00:26:28.489]
information in one spot. And then
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again, if they need to click into the article,
[00:26:33.509]
they'll just go to that document wherever it's located.
[00:26:35.608]
If it's in there. Um
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If it's in their onedrive, if it's in their Google Drive,
[00:26:39.549]
it's downloaded, they can just click back
[00:26:41.608]
into this
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and had taken them right back here to the document
[00:26:45.578]
they were on
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and again. So this is the same session
[00:26:48.709]
I didn't sign off or anything like that.
[00:26:50.750]
I have all my highlighted highlights
[00:26:52.858]
still listed here. Ready to go.
[00:26:57.529]
Now, I'm going to take a look, see if we can find any National
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History Day project information
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before I do though. Are there any questions about
[00:27:04.640]
any of these tools that we went over any of the features
[00:27:06.959]
we're going to find within the resource.
[00:27:13.868]
Ok. I don't see you. So let's go ahead
[00:27:16.049]
and take a look at that question we had earlier.
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Um, I'm not sure if we have anything for
[00:27:21.009]
National history, but let's just start typing
[00:27:23.150]
in
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yeah, looks like we have a topic page
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for National History Day. Let's go ahead and click
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in and see what it's all about.
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Yep. So this is our topic page here. You'll see. We
[00:27:37.318]
have an overview. Let's scroll down
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here and see some of the bits of information here.
[00:27:41.559]
Looks like we've got reference materials, biographies,
[00:27:45.059]
all that good stuff. And this is really going to be
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kind of a starting point. So this is gonna be getting
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them started.
[00:27:51.588]
What's nice you'll see here on this left hand side
[00:27:53.828]
is we have some links to different primary
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sources. So these are going to be housed on
[00:27:58.068]
other vendors platforms. So
[00:28:00.078]
individual vendors that we work with,
[00:28:02.170]
who instead of uploading into our resource,
[00:28:04.500]
want everyone to access through their, their web
[00:28:06.630]
page. We find those primary sources here as
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well. So, yes,
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Regina, we do have a National History Day
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topic page. You can just run a search, start
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searching for national and it's going to pop up in the predictive
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text.
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Ok.
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Well, let's go ahead and jump back here to my slides
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then for some quick wrap up information
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before I let you go for the day. if
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you have any questions, once the session is done
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that you didn't think to ask, feel free to reach out
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to me again. My name is Amber Winters
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and my email is just [email protected]
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If you wanna talk more
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specifically about how you can use this resource
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And we also have our great support site available
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And finally, I would like to shout
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out our tech support team. If you ever need any technical
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to address.
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Ok? Now, I don't see any more questions
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coming in, so I'll go ahead and end our session today.
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Um I appreciate everyone for being on the line.
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Hopefully we'll see you all in future Gale
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101 and other Gale webinars.