Gale Training

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Stacey Knibloe: Alright. Hello! Good afternoon, everybody. I'm Stacey Knibloe with Gale, your trainer for Vermont Online Library. Thanks for joining our supporting secondary students throughout the school year

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Stacey Knibloe: with Gale and Vermont Online library resources. Glad to have you here today, and I'm also happy to be joined by April Shaw from the Vermont, Vermont Department of Libraries, April. Do you want to say Hello? I always seem to put you on the spot for this.

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April Shaw: Yes, I'd love to. Hi everyone. I'm April Shaw. I'm the librarian of government services

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April Shaw: and also head of Interlibrary Loan, and myself and Joshua Muse are the go to contacts for any

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April Shaw: Vermont specific questions on links or accessing these resources.

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April Shaw: And I'm really excited to have Stacy here presenting this because she's fantastic.

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Stacey Knibloe: Thank you. I'm glad to be here, so let me share my agenda, which I usually keep pretty simple because I like this to be your session. But of course, we're going to focus on the resources available for secondary students, and how you can put those to work both in the library and the classroom

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Stacey Knibloe: with secondary age students, and along the way, just sharing best practices, maybe highlighting some new content that you maybe didn't realize the Gale resources. Had I also want to or will be sharing

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Stacey Knibloe: some handy tools from our support site? We've kind of had an explosion of materials geared at student activities and classroom activities through our support site this year, and I want to show off a few of those and let you know where you can find all of that. So you've got some ready to go materials.

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Stacey Knibloe: and then, as we always do, we'll wrap up with Gale support. So

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Stacey Knibloe: after today, where do you go for questions, and as we're going through, ask them. Let me know the things you want to see out of the session this afternoon. But then, when you have questions later, we want you to know where to go. So feel free to use that chat. And QA. Throughout the session today, and then know that you'll receive a follow up email from me tomorrow. That gives links and

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Stacey Knibloe: all of our contact info and lots of handy stuff. So there will be, of course, a chance after today to get questions answered and help you with anything you may need. So

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Stacey Knibloe: I am going to go off video now, just because I don't want it to block a portion of the screen for the folks who tune into the recording later. So they don't miss anything. So just want to come on and say Hello, and I'm going to pop back on here at the end.

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Stacey Knibloe: Alrighty. So let's talk 1st about what's available. And

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Stacey Knibloe: really, I wanted to share just this kind of almost Mega slide here for Vermont Online Library. This I. This is

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Stacey Knibloe: the collection of resources that come to you through Gale all in one place, all on one page here. And what I love about the Vermont Online Library is how equitable it is. Everybody has access to these, and you have

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Stacey Knibloe: something for everybody. So certainly, again, we're going to focus on what secondary age students may use. But you've got resources here for the small business owner, the person researching a new prescription. Maybe they've been prescribed there. You've got something for the lady who's looking to change her oil in her car

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Stacey Knibloe: again. There's a little something for everybody here. So and if it's something you don't know much about via the Public Library, you can access. Gale presents Udemy, which has courses for just about everything under the sun. So you want to learn a new language. You want to practice some. Yoga, you want to create your own video game.

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Stacey Knibloe: It's got everything. So

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Stacey Knibloe: it really is a wealth of content available to you. So for me. It's always so much fun to train with our Vermont libraries, because you do have so much available to you. So

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Stacey Knibloe: let's talk about, though what to use when with your secondary age students. So this will be again content. That's available to everybody but I would. You know.

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Stacey Knibloe: I'm going to point you in the right direction, for secondary student needs but a lot of these resources I would use with folks of other ages, too, and I'll give you a little guidance.

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Stacey Knibloe: here as well. So

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Stacey Knibloe: you do have. Everyone has access to Gale In Context elementary. So I mentioned this because it's got that lower reading level. So if you work with middle school students who maybe aren't quite at the reading level of a middle schooler yet, or they are maybe working with English not being their 1st language, and you need maybe, simpler text.

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Stacey Knibloe: Know that you do all have access to Gale In Context elementary. The interface is a little more colorful icon driven bigger buttons, things like that. So it does look like it's for a younger kid. But you can always pull content out of our databases maybe pull it into a Google Doc, or just print out the Pdf. Or something like that.

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Stacey Knibloe: and hand that over to a student as well. So they don't, you know. Kind of use that kid looking database if you want to avoid that.

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Stacey Knibloe: We are, going to of course. Take a look, though, at Gale In Context middle school. So, starting with our youngest secondary age students, we have a resource dedicated to

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Stacey Knibloe: you know what's being covered in middle school classrooms. So, looking at their state curriculum, looking at a national curriculum, hearing from our teachers, our librarians, about what's being taught in those classrooms, and how can we support them with Gale In Context, middle school?

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Stacey Knibloe: And then, of course, we have a companion to that for our high school students. So Gale In Context, high school is going to jump up a level in terms of reading level. It's also going to jump up in terms of the number of sources with Gale In Context, elementary and middle school. We, we, you know, of course, want to provide them enough resources. We don't want to also overwhelm them with content. So

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Stacey Knibloe: you will see smaller. Hit counts in both of those databases. And then when you move up to Gale In Context high School, we are, going to I think it at least doubles from Gale In Context middle school the amount of content that's there. So

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Stacey Knibloe: having said that though I do want to make clear, these are not stair steps, not everything that's in elementary is in middle school. There is going to be some overlap between these 3.

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Stacey Knibloe: Maybe you know, some newspaper sources. Things like that, you know, probably a little reference content between middle school and high school, and so on. But they are unique collection. So they have, you know, content. That is only available there as well.

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Stacey Knibloe: So we're going to take a look at Gale In Context, middle school and high school to get started. And then we're going to start taking a look at some of these more specialty topic databases. So these align a bit more with rather than an audience with a with a topic area.

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Stacey Knibloe: So Gale In Context, biography well named. It's all about people over 600,000 biographical entries looking at people from today from the past from the Us. From around the world. It is a really expansive resource. And of course, when you know who you're after.

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Stacey Knibloe: that's an easy database to pop into and find biographical information. But it's also got a search where, if you don't know who you're after, if you are looking for, maybe a student has to pick a

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Stacey Knibloe: opera singer to do a report on. You can search by occupation, nationality, ethnicity. We've got some different characteristics, so you can kind of produce a pick list for students which is really handy.

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Stacey Knibloe: Then we have the ever popular Gale In Context opposing viewpoints. So this takes a look at social issues, current events, and what's happening in the world and provides viewpoints. And this is a resource that is multi-curricular.

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Stacey Knibloe: Absolutely, it can hit almost every classroom, because not only is it, of course, going to give them tools that they're studying for things they're studying, but also, just, you know, building up different skills, critical thinking skills, writing skills, if they're, you know, need to write persuasively things like that. So

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Stacey Knibloe: this is a resource we find is popular

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Stacey Knibloe: throughout secondary age studies

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Stacey Knibloe: and gallon Context. Science, as you can imagine, is going to focus on science. It's going to hit, you know. Of course, the major areas like biology, chemistry, earth science, and so on. It's also going to hit technology so it can be great for any tech classes you may have. And it is

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Stacey Knibloe: able to stay ahead. You know, your textbook isn't always able to keep up with what's happening in science. But when you're working with Gale In Context resources. Those are updated all the time. So we're covering the newest things, and certainly with the periodicals. You're getting very recent news on all those topics, too.

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Stacey Knibloe: And then Gale In Context history. When we're looking back maybe a bit. We have a lot of great content here to help support your social studies classes. It can also help out round out. Maybe things in Ela classes. If you're reading a book, maybe that, you know, like Slaughterhouse 5 takes place in a particular time period. You can learn more about that time period.

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Stacey Knibloe: But of course it's going to cover all the Major. You know us milestones, and certainly world news that that we're involved in as well, and it is my favorite database for primary sources. So I found a few to share with you today.

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Stacey Knibloe: You also have access to a great group of mainly periodical, pro

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Stacey Knibloe: sorry periodical focused resources, so mainly magazines, journals, newspapers, news wires, things like that.

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Stacey Knibloe: Whenever you see Gale, one file as part of a database name that's going to mean it's focusing on periodicals.

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Stacey Knibloe: So with the in Context, databases, we build those around these topic pages with the periodical databases. You're working more with kind of a search and retrieve search results set rather than the topic pages. We'll get used to in Context. So it is a different type of research. And students use different skills. But it's skills that will serve them well. So they may

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Stacey Knibloe: take advantage of a few of these here on the left, in high school academic. One file select is going to be mainly academic and scholarly publication, so it can be great support with Ap. Studies or ap courses. You know college prep. Things like that.

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Stacey Knibloe: It'd be a great resource, for you know, professional development, too, for folks who work at school or in the public library or college library.

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Stacey Knibloe: You have Gale, one file or sorry Gale general, one file, which is our general interest periodical database. So the things you pick up at the newsstand at the grocery store on the

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Stacey Knibloe: magazine shelves in the library.

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Stacey Knibloe: along with lots of others. There are thousands and thousands of sources there

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Stacey Knibloe: and then. More specifically, we've got Gale, one file high school edition, which is going to be publications, we find, are used most often in high schools or by high school students, you know, maybe part of the Ya. Library magazine shelf.

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Stacey Knibloe: It is kind of a

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Stacey Knibloe: well, they're all curated. I don't mean to apply that. They're not. But this is one specifically dedicated to that high school audience.

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Stacey Knibloe: so that can almost be a good starting point to get them familiar with searching and periodicals, and they can kind of move up to the bigger

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Stacey Knibloe: or more scholarly databases as needed.

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Stacey Knibloe: You have a resource dedicated to newspapers and newswires and Gale one file news. So those are papers from across the Us. And around the world.

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Stacey Knibloe: You've got Gale, one file educators reference complete. If that Erc is a little familiar. We did that on purpose. If anybody remembers using Eric when they were in college. So you find education journals similar idea. Here we have created a collection that's aimed at education. So again, another great professional development resource, if you are in a school.

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Stacey Knibloe: But I would say, this is great if you're in the public libraries as well or academic, and are interested in education.

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Stacey Knibloe: and then we have our smaller Gale, one file collections. There are about 25 of these, and they focus on particular subject areas, and mostly the publications that are in them are coming out of the bigger one. File resources like the news database or general, one file or academic, one file select

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Stacey Knibloe: and focusing on a subject area. So say Gale, one Gale, one file, agriculture, Gale, one file, hospitality and tourism.

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Stacey Knibloe: They just take a subset almost of what's in those other resources and give you a dedicated space to research. So I like those. They can especially be nice in the school settings because they are targeted. It could be less overwhelming to search a database with a couple 100 sources versus one, like General one file where you've got, I think we're at 11,000 or so sources in general. One file. So

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Stacey Knibloe: these are again dedicated for periodical resources. So you'll use them, I think, often as supplements to what's in Gale 1 5 or sorry Gale in Context, resources.

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Stacey Knibloe: And then we also have one. That kind of lives outside of both of those collections. And that's Gale presents Peterson's test and career prep. And this is a 3rd party product for us. At Gale we work partner with Peterson's to provide this in libraries, and of course, if you've, you know, used any of those Peterson sources like the test prep books or the, you know, career guides and scholarship

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Stacey Knibloe: and college books.

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Stacey Knibloe: That's just we've taken those and you've got them in a really great kind of interactive task oriented tool here in Peterson's test and career prep, so can help folks write a resume. But if we're thinking about sorry, secondary age students, something they could use to take the career assessment, maybe see what they're going to be, you know.

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Stacey Knibloe: Well suited for find out what maybe education or other preparation is required. What the job outlook is, if we've got, say, high school students and they're interested in getting a job can help them create a resume letter

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Stacey Knibloe: or sorry a resume and a cover letter. Certainly, if they're headed for college or career, there's prep for that as well can certainly search for colleges and find ways to pay for it.

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Stacey Knibloe: Career related tests. If someone's maybe thinking about the postal exam or firefighter exam or they want to be a real estate agent or something like that. You've got a lot of college and career related. Test prep there so they can prep for the sat the act as well.

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Stacey Knibloe: So lots of good stuff spread out amongst these resources. And now that I've kind of gone through those ones that are aimed at secondary students. I do want to pop into them. But this is the point where I'm going to ask you if there's a database you're particularly interested in. Do let me know in the chat or the Q. And a. So I can make sure we spend time in it. So I've got a few things I'll do in each of these resources. But again, this is your session, so let me know if there's something in particular you want to see.

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Stacey Knibloe: and with that I'll go ahead and start exploring, and just I'll keep an eye on that chat. And QA. So we can.

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Stacey Knibloe: again, address your needs in the session.

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Stacey Knibloe: So the resources are always accessible right through the Vermont Online library portal. It's got a nice redesign with lots of support and direction from April and Josh, and to what we wanted to see on this page. We recently updated you to the autumn image in the banner there switch from our summer view so

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Stacey Knibloe: thrilled to share the new portal with you. You can, of course, always link to these resources from your library website, too, but they've done a really nice job here on the portal kind of getting folks to the resources thereafter.

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Stacey Knibloe: It does use Geo authentication. So you're able to like click on a database and land right in it. However, I'm coming to you from Western New York, so I've done a little fancy footwork here, and I'm going to jump into the resource from another place.

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Stacey Knibloe: And I'm going to start with kind of the 1st resource you might use with secondary students, Gale In Context middle school and work with those middle schoolers.

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Stacey Knibloe: So let me. Also, I'm just going to make sure make things a little bigger using that zoom tool. Our databases are mobile, responsive, and really just screen size responsive. I would say, too, if I close this window or not close it. But if I shrink this window down a bit.

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Stacey Knibloe: the database just responds to whatever size window I've got in front of me. So if I'm on my phone. If I am on a laptop, if I'm on a really big, wide screen, the database is going to adjust to whatever I'm using. So these are able to be used on any device, and of course, at any time

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Stacey Knibloe: but here on the homepage, you'll find in all of the Gale In Context databases. We start right out with a search so you can dive right in. And

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Stacey Knibloe: that's what I'm going to go ahead and do. So, considering we're in banned books week

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Stacey Knibloe: there's a portal I wanted to share. We have created a portal around Book Banning.

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Stacey Knibloe: and when I say Portal, if any of you use the Gale In Context, databases. I apologize. This might be a bit of a repeat or redundant for you, but

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Stacey Knibloe: the portals are built around a particular topic. We also call them a topic page. You might hear me use that interchangeably.

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Stacey Knibloe: and what we've done is taken that topic, and then just pull everything we have, for we start out with an overview

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Stacey Knibloe: and then give you a little preview. How many hits we have for each of these content types. And then they're here in their boxes.

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Stacey Knibloe: and you can

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Stacey Knibloe: pretty easily just scroll. See the types of sources we have.

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Stacey Knibloe: And I. I like our citations. We always give you a little bit of the article, so you can decide if you want to pop in there along with all of the tags that we give the article, of course, date. But then word, count the document type, the Lexile score

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Stacey Knibloe: and then the content level. So this will be a guide for reading levels. And with the Gale In Context databases. We use a 5 point scale, and they're across all of them. So content. Level 3, we'll see a lot of in Gale In Context middle school, because that's going to be a Lexile range targeted towards middle school reading levels

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Stacey Knibloe: for content level 4. Here the purple box is going to be more high school and the orange there content. Level 5 is going to maybe be a little higher reading level.

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Stacey Knibloe: You may be more academic or scholarly, but again, always, you know, you kind of know from the source CNN wire is, you know, probably going to be more of a high school reading level, I would guess, but our content levels get assigned based on the Lexile score which is assigned by an automated tool. So you are always the best judge. Your teachers, you know, to kind of where to point students. But it could be a handy guide as you're moving through the resource.

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Stacey Knibloe: And if we go ahead

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Stacey Knibloe: I'm going to grab this overview essay. So the overview essays that kick off the portal pages are and bear with me folks. I'm just going to my Zoom Bar keeps getting in my way. I'm just going to move that

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Stacey Knibloe: here we go the

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Stacey Knibloe: The topic overviews that pop up first.st Here might be a good replacement for a textbook entry, or something like that. Those just give a good overview of the topic.

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Stacey Knibloe: And often we're calling out fast facts or critical thinking questions or glossary. So the sidebars are really nice way to kind of augment the article itself.

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Stacey Knibloe: But we've got a great overview of book Banning kind of the history.

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Stacey Knibloe: the issues surrounding it. And then there we go. There's 1 of the words, no glossaries.

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Stacey Knibloe: and of course you always want to know where you're getting your content from right? So we know it comes from the Vermont Online Library. But who's supplying it? And again Gale is thrilled to be one of the providers. But we want the details right? Who is providing this and your source citation is always going to tell you so. You always know where it's coming from, you know, when it's coming from. And of course, students can use the source citation to get the style they need to cite in their paper.

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Stacey Knibloe: just copy and paste that right into the bibliography. So every student's favorite feature. But I always like to stress for our library staff that you know where this is coming from, and you can easily reach out to the publisher. If you've got questions about any of these sources, or where all this info is coming from so

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Stacey Knibloe: unlike doing a Google search where you may come across a random resource. You know Web Page, who wrote it? When did they write it. You don't have to worry about that with your Gale resources.

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Stacey Knibloe: Good. Look at that article, and here's where I want to pause and share a tool that we created. So I mentioned our support site has lots of student activities that are ready for ready to go for you to use in the library.

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Stacey Knibloe: Let me go ahead and

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Stacey Knibloe: pull that one over here. So I'll share links for how to find this info later. And in my follow up email. But here we go our banned books book review, graphic organizer.

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Stacey Knibloe: So basically, we've got

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Stacey Knibloe: a kid can kind of create their own book review of a banned book they've read, give it a rating and use the resource to maybe research why it was banned or challenged, and get them to think critically about that book so something you could print out and hand out to the students, although this is also an interactive. Pdf, so they could all just kind of fill in their answers here and then save that, or, of course, print that out as well. So there's lots of stuff like this where it's encouraging them

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Stacey Knibloe: again to think critically, and we hope, use the resources. So I'll share again a link to that later in my follow up email.

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Stacey Knibloe: All right. So back to the resource itself.

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Stacey Knibloe: Now, the other thing I wanted to point out we have. And I'm going to go ahead and use my little annotate tool here

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Stacey Knibloe: for many of the topic overviews

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Stacey Knibloe: leveled the articles. So Gale is a publisher, and a lot of our own content appears in these databases, so we can do what we like with it.

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Stacey Knibloe: And in this case we chose to write this article at 2 different reading levels. So I'm looking at the 1140 version of the article, the Alexa score of 1140.

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Stacey Knibloe: But there's an 8 90 as well. So if I need a reading level differentiation with the group of students I'm working with.

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Stacey Knibloe: I can pop over. Take a look at that 8 90 level article.

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Stacey Knibloe: You can see it'll be generally be a little shorter, maybe shorter paragraphs, shorter sentences. But we're still getting the same info. We're getting the history of Book Banning. We're talking about the different issues surrounding it. It's just written at a slightly lower reading level. So I can reach those kids who are maybe at that level. Or if I've got kids, I want to stretch a bit I can switch over to the 1111 70, I think, is Alexa score or the other.

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Stacey Knibloe: So you'll see this often with the topic overviews.

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Stacey Knibloe: and with the reference and biographies content types, because that's mostly where things we published at Gale go, we publish reference content. You won't see leveled content

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Stacey Knibloe: available for things like magazines or news. We show you the level it has, but we can't take their content and rewrite it at another reading level. So we aren't able to level sources that aren't our own. But again, that's where you know, being able to see the Lexa score, the Content Level can help guide you and find things at appropriate reading levels.

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Stacey Knibloe: So that is a little look at

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Stacey Knibloe: Gale In Context. Middle school. We've got a lot of these to look at. So I'm going to go ahead and pop into another resource.

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Stacey Knibloe: because we have

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Stacey Knibloe: common features throughout, so that citations tool I shared in middle school.

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Stacey Knibloe: It's in high school. It's in opposing viewpoints. It's in general one file. It's in all of these resources. So just keep an eye out for it at the bottom of the page, same as within some of the tools out or all the tools. I'll show here in Gale In Context high school

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Stacey Knibloe: already, so we can see a similar homepage. We've got our search, we can dive right in. But something we had in Gale In Context, middle school, and in all of the Gale In Context. Databases are these browse home pages where you can get a sense of what's in the database again. They can also be a nice pick list. If students maybe have a choice in what they're doing their research into. So you know, maybe they're working on something for one of their social studies classes

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Stacey Knibloe: got a list here you can browse all the portal pages that are available.

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Stacey Knibloe: And again.

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Stacey Knibloe: with our resources, we are treating the age level we're with right? So there's actually

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Stacey Knibloe: a banning books portal here as well for a high school students. So if this is something we're talking about, maybe in a high school maybe any la class, or even the you know. Maybe a

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Stacey Knibloe: class around current events.

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Stacey Knibloe: We've got a portal here as well. But we'll just see again reading level wise. This is going to jump up. We'll have different sources.

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Stacey Knibloe: And one of my favorite things about the portal pages. If we're talking about banned books, you know, certainly browsing the images or looking at the articles. We can call out some of some books that we know have been challenged. Often.

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Stacey Knibloe: We also, though, are linking to a bunch. If I get to that, is that we can see again. High school kind of really jumps up the level of content you have here. So this is a longer page than we have before in middle school

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Stacey Knibloe: we also share related topics on all of these portal pages. So this is great for discovery. And why I really particularly wanted to show off the banned books, Portal, because we're showing you books that are often challenged. So if that is the challenge to have kids read a banned book, or at least just investigate what ones are getting challenged, and why? And the outcomes of different challenges.

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Stacey Knibloe: We've got a list prep a list right here to show us that

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Stacey Knibloe: right? And then you can jump into the content for that portal right? Because each of these suggestions is giving us a

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Stacey Knibloe: link to a portal. So mouse is often been challenged, so we can pop in and read more about that work. So again, starting out with an overview, we get some quick facts

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Stacey Knibloe: and then into the rest of our portal. So

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Stacey Knibloe: for this and for most literary works, you're going to see common

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Stacey Knibloe: types of documents. So looking at the themes and construction of a work, the historical Context, maybe finding some literary criticism.

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Stacey Knibloe: If we dig into the periodicals, you know, we might find interviews with the author. Author. Book reviews things like that. I love this kind of to me, particularly like an interview is going to be like a primary source. Hearing from the author themselves.

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Stacey Knibloe: I think, is always great to, you know, accompany any book you're reading, so

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Stacey Knibloe: we've got an interview here. Now, if this is something I want to take advantage of. Say, we are reading mouse in class, or you know, we're talking about challenge books, or whatever it may be. If this is something I want to use in my classroom, or maybe link off the library website. There are a few different ways for me to do that. And one is our.

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Stacey Knibloe: And again, I'm just going to use my annotate tool here.

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Stacey Knibloe: Our get link button.

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Stacey Knibloe: Get link is a persistent URL or Perl, where we give you

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Stacey Knibloe: an easy way to always get back to the same thing. It's just a URL,

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Stacey Knibloe: but it is again persistent. So whenever you hand out this, yeah, URL, whoever clicks it is going to come right here to this interview with art. Spiegelman.

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Stacey Knibloe: There is generally not going to be any prompt for you to log in or put in a password or library card number. The get link is supposed to kind of jump over all of that. It technology isn't always as perfect as we'd like it to be, and

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Stacey Knibloe: with different cookies and things. Sometimes it can get a little confused. But

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Stacey Knibloe: this is a great way to put people right where you want them. They kind of bypass finding this on their own, and you put them there in one click.

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Stacey Knibloe: So if I know one of my English teachers is reading this book. Or maybe we're doing this as a book club at the Public Library.

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Stacey Knibloe: I can just grab this URL and share it with the kids in my class or my book club. However, I normally would. Again, it's just a URL, so it can go on a website. If you use a learning management tool like canvas or Schoology. You could just pop it into an assignment. You can send it via email, you know, whatever you'd normally do with the URL. And it's going to drop people right where you want them. They land right in this article.

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Stacey Knibloe: So really handy way to get them to the content. You want to point out another way we might use. You know, this is for again reading level differentiation. I can use the different get links for those leveled articles and point the students I need to the one they need.

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Stacey Knibloe: So get. Link is a really powerful tool, and we'll talk about some others as well.

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Stacey Knibloe: just keeping an eye here on my list of things I want to show. We also just double check the chat and the Q. And A. Doesn't look like we've had anything pop up yet.

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Stacey Knibloe: So Galen, Context, high school and Gale In Context, middle school, like we said before, are multi curricular.

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Stacey Knibloe: So I often find they're a good jumping off point, if and if I'm researching something that is maybe more science driven or social studies driven, I can still start out here and get a good sampling of content. So let's say, I'm researching invasive species oops.

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Stacey Knibloe: We don't always have a portal page, and this is what it gets what you get when we don't, you go to more traditional results screen where we're still breaking things down by the different types of sources they're coming from and segmenting them.

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Stacey Knibloe: but they're then they're just kind of stacked on top of one another.

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Stacey Knibloe: Alright.

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Stacey Knibloe: so still pretty easy to use resolve, but not that same kind of layout that we see with the portals.

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Stacey Knibloe: Now, of course, I can go through and just kind of take check out these results and jump into the ones that look good to me. But I always like to point out, and a lot of our

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Stacey Knibloe: librarians who work with younger folks particularly love to show off the topic. Finder search. So after you've issued a search, or even before you've done a search, and you want to use it as your search

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Stacey Knibloe: topic. Finders also appear in the toolbar available from the homepage as well. What this is going to give us is a visual search result.

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Stacey Knibloe: and what it does is, take the highly ranked articles in our results list.

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Stacey Knibloe: and then look at the key terms that are used within them, and create almost this word map around those terms. So what do we talk about? When we talk about invasive species? We talk about plants, we talk about climate change, we talk about fire ants.

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Stacey Knibloe: There are some things here that are maybe a little more useful than others, others something like UPI that comes from the citation. I think that's United Press International. So there are a few of these that may not be quite as quite as useful as others. But we're also getting kind of a heat map here the ones in red and orange are, going to and you can see they've even got bigger tiles. They're going to have more articles attached to them.

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Stacey Knibloe: And as you click what it does for the bigger pieces is actually let you zoom in more specifically. So when we talk about invasive species. And we're talking about plans.

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Stacey Knibloe: We might use the term alien plants. Okay, national invasive species. These are all giving me ideas for searches, search terms. I can use later.

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Stacey Knibloe: Right? So I can take this this information. I'm picking up and apply it elsewhere. Hey? Foreign plants? That might be another way that we refer to invasive species.

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Stacey Knibloe: and I'm getting some invasive species. So, kudzu, I can see, you know. Maybe that's a road I want to go down. So you're getting along with kind of a more interactive

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Stacey Knibloe: and frankly kind of fun way to work with your search results. You're getting all of these connections and kind of information you can take to further your research.

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Stacey Knibloe: So it is

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Stacey Knibloe: often a really great way to kick off research. So again, you can get this right from the home page. If I jump, let me jump back to the homepage of Gale In Context High School. You'll have it here at the bottom of the page and just start with topic finder.

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Stacey Knibloe: But the other neat thing. Let me bring back that original, invasive species. Search

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Stacey Knibloe: is. You've got all these filters over here on the right hand side of the screen, and I can apply those and then issue my topic finder. So let's see how this changes when I change my publication date right now we've got everything as far back as the database goes. We've got all the articles relating to invasive species.

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Stacey Knibloe: but if I want to set this, maybe just to the past year.

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Stacey Knibloe: and only look at more recent content. Certainly it's going to cut down my results. But then, if I go into the topic finder from here.

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Stacey Knibloe: we can see how that changes that word map.

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Stacey Knibloe: Well, and again, maybe I shouldn't use word map, but we can see the visual. Something like fish is playing a much bigger role here. Australia, climate change, and now has a bigger piece of the pie than it did before.

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Stacey Knibloe: Python has a bigger piece of the pie than it did before, so you can use all those filters and then issue your topics. Your topic finder as well.

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Stacey Knibloe: So this is one I particularly like again in high school, because we've got such a varied subject area here. It can really help you find new connections. I also really like it in the Gale, one file resources, and for a slightly different reason. There they can be a little overwhelming because of the number of hits they have when you think about again, General, one file having over 11,000 sources.

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Stacey Knibloe: and we've been adding content since the 19 eighties. Those are huge databases here where we're working with a bit more, you know, smaller collection, even though it's still pretty good size. It's not quite as overwhelming and topic finder serves a different use, but definitely handy in one file for those big search results sets

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Stacey Knibloe: alrighty. Let me go ahead and pop into an article here.

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Stacey Knibloe: Can tech tame pythons. Can advice to species spread scout snakes keep a biology biologist an edge excellent. Let's find out. I don't know why I picked something relating snakes. I'm not a fan, but here we go. We've got our article. Now. This is something again. Let's start talking about wanting to be able to share this, or as a student, maybe save this and use it as a source. For some, you know project I'm working on

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Stacey Knibloe: get link is more about sharing. But if I'm pulling something out just for myself, you've got tools here

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Stacey Knibloe: at the top of the article, and then they're also repeated up in the banner.

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Stacey Knibloe: For if we move down and don't see them there at the top anymore, but this just lets me pull this content out so I can send it to Google, or OneDrive or sorry Google drive or OneDrive.

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Stacey Knibloe: Oh, shoot! I apologize, folks. I don't think I'm logged into my Google account. I might have you trust me here. It's going to make me to do factor authentication and

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Stacey Knibloe: for me, it's a little bit of a headache during slows down our trading a little bit. What I'll do is, have you trust me that this sends it off and puts it in a folder named after the database you're using. And the article lives there as a Google Doc until I choose to get rid of it. It just lives in my folder. I can move it around. There's no digital rights management. It just pulls all of the article, including the images and that source citation at the bottom.

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Stacey Knibloe: This is a lengthy article and scroll all the way. I love having all those images, though it will pull all of that along with the source citation into that Google or Microsoft document that it creates.

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Stacey Knibloe: Oh, thank you, sharing, she promised. It does as well. So you can trust us.

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Stacey Knibloe: Now, you can also, not everybody uses cloud services. So we can also just email this, send it off. It can live in my email. We wouldn't send the images. In that case. Just we always worry about file size when we're sending something to someone's email and it getting blocked. So just the text goes when you email.

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Stacey Knibloe: But if I download the Pdf, or if I print the article, I'm going to get those images in that case.

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Stacey Knibloe: So you get a little nice clean print of that as well.

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Stacey Knibloe: Right? So you can pull this content and kind of take it with you.

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Stacey Knibloe: for learning more in the database.

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Stacey Knibloe: So and again, feature we'll have in all of those resources.

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Stacey Knibloe: So let's go ahead. And again, we're going to kind of keep moving and taking a look at a few more of these. So I'm going to go ahead and jump into Gale In Context opposing viewpoints.

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Stacey Knibloe: And we have

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Stacey Knibloe: again a resource that reaches across different curriculums so similar to middle school and high school. Those 2 resources. This one does as well, but it's got a particular aim right? It's sharing opposing viewpoints. So I do want to have you just kind of take a look at the

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Stacey Knibloe: At least the homepage here of some of the topics available. So

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Stacey Knibloe: again, all of our resources are being updated all the time, and you all often see a new or updated tag on these portal pages new if we have newly created that portal, but updated because we've gone in and not just because there are new magazine articles or news articles, but because we've updated added new viewpoints, added more reference content, more infographics.

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Stacey Knibloe: So these will stay up for those tags, I should say, will stay up for about a month, and then we take them down and give the update new tags to the to the new items.

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Stacey Knibloe: But we have recently created a portal for the Presidential election. So that was the one I wanted to highlight today, as we're talking about the election with students.

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Stacey Knibloe: you know. Certainly it's all about making a choice right? And the overview article you always get is going to be neutral when you're in this database. It's going to tell you who the candidates are, maybe share some of the things they said about policies and what they'll do in office. But it's not trying to sway your opinion it is. It is going to be neutral. So a good place to kind of start out before we take a look at essays that are going to be trying to sway our opinions.

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Stacey Knibloe: So those will be highlighted.

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Stacey Knibloe: At the top of the page. The viewpoint essays. Now they'll be balanced, but they do have a point of view. They do have an opinion. That's the whole point of them, right?

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Stacey Knibloe: And what we've done for these viewpoint essays is rather than I, you know, mentioned Gale's a publisher rather than us, writing kind of a essay pro, and then a con essay. We go out and get permission to republish articles that have already done that that have made their case. And again, they're going to be balanced.

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Stacey Knibloe: But we have

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Stacey Knibloe: kind of made that more real world choice rather than kind of writing something wrote for students, we're getting real world opinions

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Stacey Knibloe: and what you get if I go ahead and jump into one of these is, we add, an article commentary.

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Stacey Knibloe: So letting folks know where we got this article, who the author is even prompting with some critical thinking questions. So to think about as you're reading this viewpoint essay, that's, you know, trying to sway your opinion.

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Stacey Knibloe: and they'll all do that. So as we go through or

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Stacey Knibloe: I think we have one about. Yeah. You can see they're actually just putting in a bit of a search here.

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Stacey Knibloe: I can see, we've got, you know, portal pages on electronic voting, the Presidential election prog process, midterm elections, electoral college.

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Stacey Knibloe: You're going to see the same thing over and over an overview essay. That kind of sets the stage and then viewpoint essays that have a point of view on the topic.

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Stacey Knibloe: And if we go back, I am. Going to go back to the home page here for a second and

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Stacey Knibloe: just get into the entire list of product pages or product portals.

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Stacey Knibloe: I'm sorry. Not Broadway topic portals.

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Stacey Knibloe: We have.

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Stacey Knibloe: you know, certainly the classics I back in. I think my 10th grade social studies class. We did a capital punishment debate. Right? That is, of course, still something we're talking about today. But we meet the moment to what are we talking about now? So things like certainly fake news on social media. We kind of keep scrolling here again we can see some of those new and updated tags.

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Stacey Knibloe: But we're taking on things that are important to students as well, so things that you know they may or not may, but they do have an effect on them, something you know, as simple as school dress codes things like that. So there are really a lot of things here to grab students interest.

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Stacey Knibloe: And again, this is why I like these as a pick list. If they get to pick what they're writing about and their point of view, then they've got a list here of different topics to go through, and there are a lot of different things here that certainly have. All of these probably have an impact on our life in some way. But there are some things that really speak to those secondary age students here.

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Stacey Knibloe: And if we pop in, I'm going to go ahead and go

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Stacey Knibloe: and to say, Internet activism.

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Stacey Knibloe: Hi.

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Stacey Knibloe: you'll see we don't label the viewpoints pro con opinion, a opinion. B, the title of that article is doing the heavy lifting there. It's telling you the opinion of the author.

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Stacey Knibloe: because not everything always breaks down into a pro con. You know, we have a portal on animal extinction. Nobody's really pro animal extinction. At least I don't think so. But there are different arguments about what to do about it right and how to address things so pro con doesn't always fit.

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Stacey Knibloe: but you will again find balance here. It's not going to be leaning, you know, 10 articles with one opinion and 2 with the opposing opinion. It is going to be balanced, but the title is telling you that opinion.

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Stacey Knibloe: The other thing we do

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Stacey Knibloe: is again with that article commentary. It's telling you that we got this from elsewhere. Right? We've added our commentary.

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Stacey Knibloe: You'll notice there's a difference in the source citations, too. We're citing that original source along with our own.

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Stacey Knibloe: So you can always find this where it was originally published as well, and take a look at it there. But because we've added our commentary to it. We need to cite our own source to our own, our work that we've done so.

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Stacey Knibloe: you know. Citation is always handy for citing your work, but it's telling, too. It's giving you some info there as well.

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Stacey Knibloe: So let me go ahead and take a look at

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Stacey Knibloe: a couple.

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Stacey Knibloe: Let me see.

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Stacey Knibloe: Yep, we covered that already so far. Sorry. I was just checking my outline here to make sure I'm not missing anything.

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Stacey Knibloe: So the other thing I like to show off. Let's see if I have one for Internet activism. No, looks like I don't. I want to share one of our. I'm going to go ahead and choose one of the

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Stacey Knibloe: biggies, because I know I'll have some there. With this database. One of the content types that you'll see here that you won't see elsewhere.

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Stacey Knibloe: You know, like reference we have in all of the resources, primary sources, magazines. We're going to see those all over. But in Gale In Context, opposing viewpoints, we've added infographics because and statistics. And see there, too.

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Stacey Knibloe: what I like about the infographics is they are

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Stacey Knibloe: interact. So you can kind of isolate a statistic or something like that.

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Stacey Knibloe: But I always like an interactive feature. We're going to take a look at some more later in science, in the science resource.

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Stacey Knibloe: Because, you know, students maybe aren't always look interested in looking at a block of text, and they can get a lot of data

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Stacey Knibloe: from statistics right? If they're trying to make their own argument. They've got hard numbers here. And again, we can, for example.

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Stacey Knibloe: we want to isolate

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Stacey Knibloe: those that are in favor of the death penalty for folks convicted of murder. We can see kind of track that

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Stacey Knibloe: more specifically just by dimming out that pose the oppose and the no opinion

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Stacey Knibloe: alright. And then, if I want the opposite, if I want to see it as opposed.

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Stacey Knibloe: I can isolate to that number and kind of just get a closer look. So the infographics again, having that interactive feature is really handy.

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Stacey Knibloe: alrighty, moving along

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Stacey Knibloe: again, continuing our look at some of these resources that are more subject specific. So Gale In Context science.

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Stacey Knibloe: And again, I'm going to have you take a peek at the

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Stacey Knibloe: portals some of the portals that are available here on the homepage. So this is a database. Again, it's going to hit all our major, you know, earth, science, chemistry, biology, and so on. But this resource also dives in on tech as well as health. So it's kind of touching on, not just the traditional.

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Stacey Knibloe: You know, science classes in a middle or high school, but the health and tech classes as well.

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Stacey Knibloe: So this can be great support for those, too.

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Stacey Knibloe: And we have

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Stacey Knibloe: some really cool

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Stacey Knibloe: content and Gale In Context science.

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Stacey Knibloe: So quick search here on predator and prey.

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Stacey Knibloe: You know, again, we're going to have reference content we're going to have. And again, I especially like this, science teachers are sometimes hard

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Stacey Knibloe: to get in the library when you're in a school setting and showing off all the periodicals they have access to. And the way that this keeps up with what's happening in science can be a real plus. So again, take advantage of that. Get Link. Send this off to your science teacher, and show them all the science magazine articles, and how recent they are.

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Stacey Knibloe: with just a link. But what I do want to show you here are our simulations. So we just have one for predator and prey. But these you'll find a lot of these. One of my other favorite ones to show off is skydivers, and how, if you change their positions

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Stacey Knibloe: the way that they're kind of

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Stacey Knibloe: the falling

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Stacey Knibloe: if they've got their arms out, if they're doing a dive and see how that changes their rate of speed. And when their parachute opens, so there's some really interesting ones here, but then mixing it up and trying to show some different ones. So we've got a predator and prey model here.

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Stacey Knibloe: And what this is going to look at. And again, this is interactive, like the statistics we had. But why is this not opening for me?

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Stacey Knibloe: Just refresh the page. We were experiencing some difficulties with the databases this morning, but that had

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Stacey Knibloe: there had cleared up pretty quickly.

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Stacey Knibloe: Not this day. You can see the simulation in the smaller view, but I always like to show the larger view of it. I don't know why the it's displaying so strange.

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Stacey Knibloe: Why is this, not

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Stacey Knibloe: giving me the full activity.

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Stacey Knibloe: So I apologize. Folks, this is okay, I did test this earlier

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Stacey Knibloe: oops. Oh, is it because I oh, no, I just kicked myself all the way out of the resources. Hang on folks!

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Stacey Knibloe: Sloppy mouse! Work there! Bear with me just a second. I'll get us back in

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Stacey Knibloe: goodness, you'd think it was a Friday the way I

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Stacey Knibloe: and

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Stacey Knibloe: kicking myself today

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Stacey Knibloe: things do seem to be moving a little slowly.

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Stacey Knibloe: Bear with me close. I'm just going to have a quick look at our tech slack and see if

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Stacey Knibloe: we might be having some issues

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Stacey Knibloe: doing that.

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Stacey Knibloe: And I'm just going to try a different. Actually, I'm going to go ahead and grab my skydiving example. Just to try a different one and see if

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Stacey Knibloe: I run into the same issue. So again, here's my favorite skydiving, the scenario manager. There are actually several having to do with skydiving here, looking at force and energy and terminal velocity.

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Stacey Knibloe: But the scenario manager is the one I mentioned, where we can change

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Stacey Knibloe: the way our skydiver is falling. Basically. But I,

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Stacey Knibloe: yeah, we are getting kind of this slower

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Stacey Knibloe: load. Here.

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Stacey Knibloe: let me see if that

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Stacey Knibloe: never happens. When you're testing things out. I'm going to I'm going to give it a second, just in case it's

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Stacey Knibloe: let me make sure my zoom isn't interfering here.

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Stacey Knibloe: Okay, well, let me see how much I can show you here in this very narrow window that it has given me.

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Stacey Knibloe: What it's doing here is giving me 3 different skydivers, and what I can do is let me open up one of them. Oh, here we go. Okay, good.

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Stacey Knibloe: Alright. Just behaving a little slowly. I'll investigate that when we wrap up today and make sure we clear that up.

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Stacey Knibloe: But I've got 3 skydivers, and I can adjust the gravitational acceleration and the air density. Those are kind of preset for me. I can just adjust those with the sliders.

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Stacey Knibloe: But really with this

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Stacey Knibloe: interaction, and I'm sorry I figured we will. I'll give you a little.

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Stacey Knibloe: Well, no sorry. Never mind, we'll get to that in a second here for each of my 3 skydivers. I can change their position. So one falling, you know, maybe kind of spread eagle, one with feet 1st and one head down in a dive.

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Stacey Knibloe: I can make an adjustment here to their jump height, and when their parachute will open. But really, that's what I want to test is this position

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Stacey Knibloe: going to make a difference. So I'm going to leave everything else equal. But just change the position that they're falling in

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Stacey Knibloe: and

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Stacey Knibloe: go ahead and preview that

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Stacey Knibloe: we do get a little explanation of what we're working on here like we're talking about terminal velocity. We're talking about air resistance. So we get this kind of summary. But of course, what makes this most fun is we can have them jump and see how they're falling, so we could see that our head down diver was moving faster, and we've got the statistics over here on the left to

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Stacey Knibloe: to prove that. But we, you know, could easily see who was, going to you know, have the parachute open first, and then you can play around with those adjustments and run it again. You can reset and just change everything about the way it worked

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Stacey Knibloe: and change their options. So we've got a lot of these types of activities. You can do different things with, say, you know, Genes, and looking at alleles and things like that. I am going to investigate the slowness here, but it's a really cool feature of the science resource. But, like we've seen, we're going to have, you know, the pretty standard

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Stacey Knibloe: topic pages, you know, layout again, overview essays, periodicals to go along with all that content multimedia to go along with that topic. All of those are.

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Stacey Knibloe: When I was at the

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Stacey Knibloe: Public Library working the reference desk

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Stacey Knibloe: many, many years ago we didn't have an online database like this. We would run out of our science experiment books because kids would come in and check them out, and then we were kind of at a loss.

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Stacey Knibloe: So I wanted to point out the science, fair projects and experiments portal.

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Stacey Knibloe: because, along with, you know.

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Stacey Knibloe: you know, discussions around the scientific method and how to stay in that. We've actually got a content type dedicated to science experiments. And you can, if we come in and browse

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Stacey Knibloe: over here on the right, I can isolate by subject. So if I want science experiments having to do with plant growth.

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Stacey Knibloe: with temperature with just a click.

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Stacey Knibloe: I can see

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Stacey Knibloe: a few of those options and then pop in and get an explanation. Oh, here let me make things bigger again

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Stacey Knibloe: an explanation of the topic. And then, if you look over to the right in our explore panel, we've actually got 3 experiments

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Stacey Knibloe: having to do with. I apologize. I forgot what I selected. Acid rain. So how does acid rain affect brine, shrimp.

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Stacey Knibloe: purpose and hypothesis level of difficulty materials needed, budget timetable.

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Stacey Knibloe: And then those step-by-step instructions.

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Stacey Knibloe: So handy way to find the science experiment.

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Stacey Knibloe: Yeah, I think. Got something in the chat. Oh, okay, sorry folks. If I it appears I froze for a minute, glad to be back.

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Stacey Knibloe: So actually, maybe it's me. I wonder if I'm having Internet troubles today?

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Stacey Knibloe: So lots of good stuff here. So again, all I did to find that was, if you look for

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Stacey Knibloe: science, you'll in the search. Assist will give you our science, fair projects and experiments, Portal.

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Stacey Knibloe: You can find all of those under the experiments. They'll also come up with your topic, though, if you just search on DNA,

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Stacey Knibloe: you'll have a content type with science experiments and the DNA experience will be there. But this is just a way you can grab them all up at once.

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Stacey Knibloe: Okay, so into our lasting Context, resource, scale and Context, high school.

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Stacey Knibloe: Sorry, not high school Us. History. We already went into high school.

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Stacey Knibloe: So again.

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Stacey Knibloe: great portal page. I would show Portal pages, I would again kind of show this off to your teachers.

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Stacey Knibloe: I also, though, like to give a little plug for this resource in the public libraries for your adults who are interested in us. History. This is a great database to show off. It is.

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Stacey Knibloe: you know, just jam packed with content. And of course, I always like to show off primary documents. So I'm going to go ahead and do that. But

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Stacey Knibloe: it is just a wealth of information for anybody interested in us history. And you know certainly world history as well. You know, this is going to focus on us role. And whatever that may be, but

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Stacey Knibloe: it is just an amazing collection to be able to show off those folks who maybe come in and are always looking for historical fiction novels they can read more about. You know the setting and the time period of what they're reading.

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Stacey Knibloe: So lots of great stuff here. And I wanted to point out if you are in a school that participates in national history day and the competition that goes on there, we always pull content for whatever the topic is, this year's topic is turning points in history. So we've highlighted some turning points in history here portals that would that would tie in

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Stacey Knibloe: and then I we I believe we also keep the past years here as well. But we've got a portal dedicated to it. And actually, if I pop in.

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Stacey Knibloe: It just fills you in a little bit about this this competition. And you can actually see the past years. I think, in this overview essay, we give the past year themes.

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Stacey Knibloe: And then, again, this year's turning points in history, so the portal itself will also give you some content relating to different turning points in history. So you can kind of again make this a little pick list

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Stacey Knibloe: and one of my favorite sources in this database, and you can see it here in the from field. From our 1st reference article is history and dispute.

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Stacey Knibloe: What this does is actually a little bit like opposing viewpoints. It asks a question, was us military intervention in Vietnam justified.

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Stacey Knibloe: and we start out with an overview. So just again giving background on this topic.

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Stacey Knibloe: And then, if you look again over on our explore panel in the article contents, we've got a viewpoint that says yes, Us. Military intervention in Vietnam was in keeping with us policy to contain Communism, and then a viewpoint that says, No Us. Military intervention and Vietnam did not serve Us. Interests and violated the precepts of the western concept of just of a just war.

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Stacey Knibloe: So head to head arguments. And again, like we do with our content.

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Stacey Knibloe: we asked experts to author these, so you'll see they're signed essays

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Stacey Knibloe: at the bottom. You can see who the author is there. So

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Stacey Knibloe: again, looking for real life, examples of disagreeing about an event in history. You know we have the facts for a lot of these issues, but the opinion on them, of course, is different. So

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Stacey Knibloe: the history and dispute, I think, is a really strong

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Stacey Knibloe: resource. So one of the suggested turning points in history was

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Stacey Knibloe: the Oregon Trail, and how we made our way across the country.

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Stacey Knibloe: And again, I like to highlight primary sources, and we're going to have the big ones. We're going to have. You know, the

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Stacey Knibloe: the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address.

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Stacey Knibloe: But I like these things that are smaller, more personal accounts, diary entries, things like that, because, again, like we do with our viewpoint essays. We give you Context for what you're about to read.

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Stacey Knibloe: and then you get in this case a woman's account or a bit of an account, anyway, of her trip across and through the Oregon Trail.

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Stacey Knibloe: and I always, you know it's the language sometimes is a little tricky, you know. It's certainly often written in a way that we don't speak now, but that's 1 of the things that it helps kids with comprehension, right understanding and reading through this, developing those critical thinking skills. And here she's talking about women's work on the Oregon Trail and their jobs. So being obligated to get the wood in the water in some cases make campfires unpack and pack up.

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Stacey Knibloe: and she goes on to say, if they are Missourians, they have to have the milking to contend to if they're fortunate enough to have cows.

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Stacey Knibloe: But she goes on to say, I am lucky in having a Yankee for a husband, so I am well waited on which you don't get any kind of opinions, I'm sure will vary. But just, you know, an interesting, interesting take.

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Stacey Knibloe: and you'll notice I highlighted that text as if I was going to copy it. It pops open our highlights and notes bar.

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Stacey Knibloe: and this lets me kind of mark up the article and give myself a little note. Right? I can continue doing that throughout the entry

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Stacey Knibloe: and marking up those pieces for what I find. Right? So if I'm again, maybe looking at women's work, make a little notification little note here

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Stacey Knibloe: to myself. Now

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Stacey Knibloe: I need to take this with me before I go. I need to print it. I need to download it. I need to send it to the cloud or to email

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Stacey Knibloe: because we clear this out when you leave the database to protect user privacy, we clear out your highlights and notes when you leave. So if I close out of the browser right now, and I haven't emailed this to myself or downloaded it or send it to my Google drive. It's gone. I'd have to recreate it. So you just want to make sure to do that

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Stacey Knibloe: 1st before you leave the database and grab up those highlights and notes.

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Stacey Knibloe: So, okay, that is, we're at our time limit. So those were the resources I wanted to. Oh, whoops! Sorry, folks, I've got my slides. Advance a little bit here

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Stacey Knibloe: again, though, just to give you a little look. I'm going to send you a link to all of these. But we've got lots of those Pre made learning materials. So that book review, graphic organizer that I shared. We've also got things like lesson plans.

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Stacey Knibloe: novel studies, graphic other graphic organizers, scavenger hunts, escape rooms.

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Stacey Knibloe: lots of good stuff to support you, and you can find it all right through our support.yale.com slash vol. Site.

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Stacey Knibloe: This is the specific website we've put together for support for Vermont online library libraries.

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Stacey Knibloe: And when you go to that page it's going to give you a drop box that lists all the libraries you select yours. And then it customizes the support site to your library so that you get pointed to the right customer success manager, so that you get pointed to the

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Stacey Knibloe: write materials for your type of institution. The site customizes. If you're a school, if you're a college, if you're a public library in what it shows you, and along with all the training materials I mentioned. We've also got tons of promotional materials, things like bookmarks and social media posts.

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Stacey Knibloe: And of course there's always tech support. So this is an excellent resource to take advantage of all those ready to go materials, so you don't have to recreate the wheel.

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Stacey Knibloe: But then, of course, you can always reach out to your Gale team if you're not sure where to start. Feel free to start with me again, Stacy, I'm your trainer. If I don't have the answer. I know where to go to get it, and of course you've got great support there at the Department of Libraries with April and Josh, so don't suffer in silence. Do reach out, you know, to your team and let us know what we can do for you.

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Stacey Knibloe: So any questions before we wrap up and let you all

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Stacey Knibloe: get on with the rest of your afternoon. I'm checking the chat and the QA. Again. You'll get an email from me. Tomorrow it'll have a link to the recording as well as all of this contact info and links for all that good stuff on the support site. So

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Stacey Knibloe: happy to follow up with you later, though.

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Stacey Knibloe: if you want to scoot.

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Stacey Knibloe: I'll just pause here for a minute and see if we have anything.

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Stacey Knibloe: April, anything to add.

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April Shaw: I have nothing to add. This was fantastic.

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Stacey Knibloe: Well, that's always good to hear. I'm glad

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Stacey Knibloe: alright. Well, I'm not seeing anything come in through the chat. And QA. And we want to go ahead. And again I apologize. Folks, I've run over a little bit. There's always more I could show you so I try to contain myself a bit, but time got the better of me a little bit today. But thank you all so much for tuning in, and hopefully we'll catch you on another session down the road. So

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Stacey Knibloe: oh, good! Getting some nice things in the chat. Oh, I'm glad to hear it. Excellent! Oh, good! Looking forward to those extra resources. Love to hear that.

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Stacey Knibloe: Alright! Thank you all you're welcome. I was glad to do this. Always love to show off this stuff.

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Stacey Knibloe: Alrighty, thanks, everybody. Have a great rest of your day.

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April Shaw: Thank you.