Gale Training

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Ok. Hi, everybody and

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welcome to the webinar for vol.

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It's supporting elementary students

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throughout the school year using the

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Vermont Online Library resources.

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I'm April Shaw and I'm the librarian

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of Government Services at the Vermont

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Department of Libraries.

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And I'm very excited to have

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this webinar as part of the

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services for school librarians.

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And here today is Hannah

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with the gale training group.

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And thanks Hannah.

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Thank you so much, April. Hello everyone.

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Thank you for watching this session

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on again, supporting your elementary school

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students using gale. I'm filling

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in for your amazing Vermont online

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Library trainer Stacy Niblo today.

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And I'm excited to work with you all and show you how

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this can be used um with your elementary school students.

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So just a quick agenda of what we're gonna

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cover in this brief session. First view,

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what's available through your Vermont online

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library, some best practices

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for incorporating all of these awesome gale tools

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with your students. And then finally,

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um our support site information. Um

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This is where you can find all of the really awesome

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premade materials that we have for you.

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Um So many awesome activities to use

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with students in um tandem

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with your gal online resources.

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So, um definitely excited to share those

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with you today.

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But first off, you know, if you, if you haven't

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used G and Context elementary before,

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it's such an excellent resource

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for a lot of different reasons. Um

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It's great to guide students into,

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you know, research into exploring

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content on their own. Um Great

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place to really provide some student choice

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and voice for them to research topics that

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they're interested in. But it's also

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a great place for teachers

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and librarians to find curriculum support,

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you know, more than half of the, you know, English

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language, arts standard across the country, focus

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on informational texts and naturally

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what gail is all about, there are all kinds of different

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informational texts in different

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formats. So students can read reference

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materials, periodicals, newspapers,

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magazines. Um they can even

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um learn about these different topics using,

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you know, videos or images or ebooks.

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There's so many different ways for them to

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gain their knowledge. Um which really just

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I think diversifies it and get students

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more engaged and interested.

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We're aligned to support your curriculum standards

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and gale and context elementary is really

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cross curricular. So you're going to find content

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here for science, social studies,

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English, the arts, um

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health, all kinds of different

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subjects. So

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not a whole lot of math here. Um but

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definitely content to support students

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and all of those different curricular areas

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and maybe more than anything, it's

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a safe place to find answers instead of

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sending students out into the world

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wide web,

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having them search within Gale, we know that

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they're going to, you know, only get content

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that's trustworthy and reliable.

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Um It's a great place to practice research

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skills so that when they go to those next

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levels of middle school and high school and

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even college, they're going to be prepared.

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Um I learned that 98%

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of colleges and universities have at least one Gael

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product. So it's never too early to

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start thinking about that. And using resources

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like Gale with your elementary school students is

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just going to set them up for success on down

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the line.

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So as we go, I want you to keep these tools in mind.

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These are present across all of your gallery

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sources.

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Every piece of content is aligned to

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a Exile level. So when working with elementary

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school students, we're typically gonna be looking

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at a one or a two for lower

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or upper, upper elementary. But we

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all know those students who are reading on a little bit

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higher reading level and maybe want to be challenged

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a little bit more. Um They could use a level

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three

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more of a middle school exile level

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and this is present on everything

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that you access in Gale. So whether you're looking

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at a video um today's

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issue of a newspaper or some of our awesome

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reference content, it's all gonna have that lexile

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level, we

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also have terms to uh

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tools to support accessibility. And

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those include the ability to translate

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into over 50 different languages.

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You can increase and reduce your font

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size.

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You can adjust the display. This includes

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things like line letter word spacing,

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different fonts, background color,

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and you can have content read aloud to you.

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And we take it a step further in that

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if you translate into one of these

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30 languages over here,

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um you can have that content

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read aloud to you in

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that language. So if I have a Spanish

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speaking student, I can translate my content

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into Spanish and then have it read aloud

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to them in Spanish. And I'll show you what that sounds

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like. We

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also have some other helpful tools you can use

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the get link, you can share the Google classroom

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if you use Google classroom.

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Um The highlights and notes tool is one of my

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favorites. I taught English

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for 10 years before I joined Gale. And

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I just love annotation and teaching students

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how to think about what they're reading.

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And it's a great place like I said previously

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to develop those research skills with um

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different topic pager pages and

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citation tools. Again, getting

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students used to those those very important,

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you know, like literacy and understanding skills

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at a very young age.

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But enough of me talking, let's explore.

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So this is your Vermont Online

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Library portal page

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and this is where you can access all of your

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different gale resources. And there are a few different

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ways that you can browse that content. You

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can view all of your resources by subject

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and view your resources specifically

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designed for K 12 students.

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And then all of your different ebooks, you can

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see your popular resources and some

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featured. And currently right now you are

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um featuring our

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um product of Gal and Context Elementary,

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which is what we're really here to talk about today.

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So you can access by clicking on this

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link and this is geo authenticated. So

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as long as you're in the state of Vermont, it should log

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you right in

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and then this is what you will see after

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you are logged in

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a really easy to use page

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uh specifically designed for those little learners

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in mind. So, you know, I've worked with many

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librarians that really just share

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how easy it is for students to use these

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tools. Um This can be

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accessed on a tablet or on

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a laptop depending on what your students are

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using. And you can see it's really

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bright and colorful and easy to kind of

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dive into these different topic areas

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with a click or a tap of your finger on a tablet

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and explore the different content.

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So if your students are using either Google

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or Microsoft, depending on how you set

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this up um with your sign on and things

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they can sign in or they may be automatically

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signed in

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and this just allows them to save content

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to their drive or you as as

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library staff, you can save content to your drive

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too. If you use Google

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classroom, you can export right here

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and then you have the option to translate your user

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interface. This doesn't translate the content

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that happens somewhere else. But this is a great

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um tool in terms of accessibility

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for English language learners. If they want

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their headings and menu items translated.

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And there are a few different ways that you can explore content.

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We have a basic search which works a lot like

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searching on an internet search engine

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and then you can dive a little bit deeper with the advanced

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search.

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We have some different categories to explore

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such as our curated topic pages,

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news content, pictures

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and videos.

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We have these, I wonder questions

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where students kind of dive deep into some

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really different kind of topics. Here, we have one

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on the common cold or Christopher

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Columbus or um Kwanzaa.

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So there's lots of different, a really kind

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of a grab bag of different subjects

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that students can explore. Um I see

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a lot of librarians using this as a way

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to kind of get students brains working as

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a warm up to dive kind of deeper into

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one of these subjects and explore and read a little

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bit. And

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then below, we have all of our topic pages

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curated and divided into these

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topic. These kind of subject areas.

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And you can see like I mentioned, we are cross curricular,

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so we have those featuring a lot of different

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subject areas.

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And I'm gonna go into the topic

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page on science.

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We know that gale and research data databases

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in general are a perfect pairing

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with the English language arts curriculum.

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But really, we have so much for science and

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social studies that I like to focus on those as

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well. So you'll see when

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I clicked into science, I'm getting all of these subcategories

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around that physical science. Earth science,

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whether in climate, space

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and then even influential figures in the

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field of science with scientists and inventors,

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I'm gonna drill a little bit deeper into the topic

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page on weather and climate.

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And then you'll see all of these different

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topic pages below ranging from

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blizzards to natural disasters,

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to weather forecasting. And

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then those I wonder questions actually follow

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us and these will become just

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questions that are relevant to the topic

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of weather. So that's another way to kind

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of guide your, um, I wonder questions

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to focus more specifically around the topic.

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We have some other weather and climate topics

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as well.

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I'm gonna go into the page on tornadoes.

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Now, when I say a topic page, this is what I mean.

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We get a nice little overview here

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of the subject of tornadoes as

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well as a photo.

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We get a cut a few quick facts

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about the subject of tornadoes.

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And then we have all of our different content types

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divided into these, what I like to call content

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buckets in the space below.

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So we have book articles, magazines,

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news, pictures,

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videos, and then those related

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topics.

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And you'll see all of those lexile levels that

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I mentioned here to the side.

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So when I choose to keep reading, this is gonna take

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me to a piece of reference content

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on tornadoes And you'll see, I have the um

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some levels up here, some different levels.

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A lot of this reference content, especially

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in the read more section is going to be available

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on two different lexile levels. I love

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that for students because you know, if

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you, you know, students may need a level one

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while some students in their class need a level two.

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And it's not like handing them a piece of paper where

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it looks so obviously different, being

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able to level it here on the computer, takes

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out that nonsense where a student may say, why does

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theirs look different? And they can really get

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their reading level that they need to be successful.

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Here in the top, we have a sidebar with some

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words to know

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another photo. And then we go down

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into our content

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including that awesome source

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citation at the bottom makes my English

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teacher heart so happy to see this even

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in an elementary school resource.

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And you'll notice that when I toggle to the other level

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to a level two, my sidebar changes

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instead of words to know I'm getting some main

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ideas

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and again, my Alexa level has adjusted. So I'm

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getting a little bit longer sentences and things

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like that.

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Now, over here to the right, we have our accessibility

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tools

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like I said,

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we have the option to make our text smaller,

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to make it larger, to improve that readability.

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And then next to that, we have our display

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options. Now, I have started sharing this story

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because I was working with an elementary school librarian

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in Georgia a few months ago. And

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she shared with me that she was in a classroom

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with fourth grade students showing them

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how to use Gale and context elementary to

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prepare for uh doing a research

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project. And she was showing

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them all the different display options and how they

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could customize it to fit their needs and

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change the background color.

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And she showed this font which is the open

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dyslexic font. I'll make this a little bit bigger.

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So you can see.

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And she said she, you know, she changed

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the font to this open dyslexic font and a little

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girl raised her hand and said,

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how did you make the letter stop jumping around?

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She was suffering from dyslexia and had no idea.

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So I love to share that story

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um as something to really point out to your students

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because you may be surprised how many prefer

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this uh research is also showing.

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It's really good for students with a DH D

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and even English language learners, something

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about the shape of the thought causes them to slow

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down while reading. So I love to point out

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that display option

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and you can change some other settings here for

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your line letter and word spacing.

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Next to that, we have the option to translate

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and you'll see all of our over 50 different languages

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that you can translate to.

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I'm gonna choose one of our new languages,

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which is Ukrainian. That's one that we added

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recently.

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So you'll see now, my entire document

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has been translated into Ukrainian.

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And now since that is one of our read aloud

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languages as well, I can have this content

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read aloud to me in the language of Ukrainian.

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Sometimes it takes a second to load

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tornado

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o no

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tornados. Il

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Ne Spani

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storms do

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vit. So this is really

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a huge steps in, in terms of accessibility

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for English language, learners, the ability

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to not only read in their native language,

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but have it read aloud to them. It is

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really nice. So um I like

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to show that but there are also some settings you can

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adjust here in the subject menu and

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those translate as well. So

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if I'm translated into another language, those

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will translate.

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And when I go back to my original language of English,

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you'll see that

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um when I go to my settings, they're back

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in English. Um But there are some settings you

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can adjust here too in terms

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of uh you know how the colors are highlighted,

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how it appears on your screen, things like that.

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Now, one of the things that I love is the pop

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up button because that means I can

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select a certain piece of text that

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I want read aloud. Maybe I just want the main ideas,

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read aloud.

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But I also really love this specifically

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for elementary school students where they're

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still learning different vocabulary

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words. And the science of reading really focuses

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on that vocabulary acquisition.

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And part of that in terms of fluency

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means knowing how student uh how

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um different vocabulary words are pronounced.

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So with that pop up but button, you can

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click on a certain word, like let's say a student doesn't

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quite know how to pronounce the word ingredient.

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I can select that word and click on

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my listen button

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ingredient.

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And now I have not only that read a lot, but

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I know the correct pronunciation of that word.

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So that's a really nice um way to

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incorporate this.

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Now, you may have noticed when I highlighted that word

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that a that a toolbox popped

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up with our highlights and notes tool. And

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I said that that was one of my favorites because

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all I have to do is select a text

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highlight

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and make my notes in the space below.

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And this also works on a tablet. Students can

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just drag their hand across the text. They want to

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annotate.

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This is good to get students into the practice

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of annotation, but also good for you as library

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staff where you can annotate a

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text and kind of model this skill for

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your students or you can even do it

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together with a class project this

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up on the screen, do it on the board of the projector

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and kind of show them how this works and discuss

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pieces together.

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And if you're signed in with Google or

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Microsoft, when you share this

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to your um your Google drive

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or your Microsoft Onedrive, it will create

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a folder called gal and Context Elementary.

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And those save documents will include

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all of these highlights and their notes. So

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if you want students to um like turn these

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into you in terms of an assignment, they

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can send it to their drive and then share it with

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you from there

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and you can do that really easily

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up here at the top, send to

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and then select how you want to share your content.

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You can also download and print

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and one tool I really like to point out

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especially at the elementary school level where

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they're still learning how to use computers.

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Is this get link tool?

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So I'm gonna go back to my main page here

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on tornadoes

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because when I, when I use this get link tool,

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it generates what we call a persistent

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URL meaning it's never gonna break. Um

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You can post this. And even as we add

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and update new content, this link is always

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gonna take you to the right place.

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So if I were to copy this and share this

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link with my students or maybe turn it into

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a QR code for them to scan with

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their tablets, it's gonna take them to whatever

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page I'm on at that time.

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So if I'm here on my tornadoes page,

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it's gonna take them to the page on tornadoes.

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If I click on a specific

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document, like maybe I want them to see

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this illustration of a tornado,

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I can use the get link tool and it will take

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them directly to this page.

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Now, I like to point out these illustrations because

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some of these are really nice kind of filled in assignments

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as well

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because yes, we have our traditional pictures

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here of tornadoes, but some of these

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um really vary including

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those illustrations.

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And oftentimes you'll find the illustrations

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are unlabeled or maybe you want

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to edit this and remove the labels

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and have students maybe come up to the board and label

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the different parts of a tornado and kind

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of create an assignment there from that.

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So there are lots of different image types, not

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what you would think and just, you know your traditional

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pictures of the subject.

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Also, I like to point out under the

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video section

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is that not only are these really engaging

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and you know how students get so excited

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when they get to watch a video in class.

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But every single one of our videos

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includes a transcript in the space below.

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So for those English language learners, or

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maybe just students that are more, you know, kind

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of visual learners and want to read

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and comprehend the content, they have

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the option to read what is being

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presented in the video,

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which also means that they have accessibility,

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um access to all of these different accessibility

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tools so they can still translate,

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they can have it read aloud, they can do

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all of those things. But with the content from

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the video without watching the video.

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So lots of different ways for students

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to gain and access this knowledge.

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I love all the different content types because

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we know not all students learn the same

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way. So giving them some variation

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is really, really nice.

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So I got to this tornadoes page by

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diving into the subject

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areas here below. But we also have

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a really easy to use basic

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search and you'll be surprised by some

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of the things you can basic search and find topic

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pages on. Um For example,

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maybe your students are really interested

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in Taylor Swift. This was a top search that we

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saw in um last year

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in Galen context. Elementary, we have

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a person guide for her. So they can

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still come here. Maybe they're just interested

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in reading about their favorite subjects,

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not necessarily like um class

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requirements. But they're just reading on their own

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time again, kind of following their student

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interest, giving them some choice in what they're reading.

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They can come here and get, they're getting all of these

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different content types, book articles, magazines,

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biography, news photos,

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some related subjects.

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But maybe they want to come and search

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um, about something else they're interested in.

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Like let's do Search for Minecraft.

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Um You'll see the popular video game.

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I don't have a topic guide

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or anything that shows up when I enter that search

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term. But I can still

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select Minecraft and perform

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a search. And I'm still getting all kinds

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of awesome information just because they

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don't have that topic guide with the nice overview

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and the quick facts. Um You can still

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conduct a search and get lots of great information.

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So if your students want to come here and read

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about their favorite game of Minecraft,

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they can still come and get some

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trustworthy, reliable

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content on a subject that they

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are interested in

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now. Certainly don't neglect our advanced

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search. I know before I work, I started

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working at Gale, I wasn't a huge fan of an advanced

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search because of the different operators

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and nesting and all of these different terms

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that kind of come along with it here.

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But one thing that I love is that

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our limiters

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are also made really easy with these different

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check boxes. So this is more

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for you as um library staff

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kind of sourcing content for your students.

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But I like to show the different

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um document types, especially because

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you can browse this content without having

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to enter any search terms actually. So

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I can go to my document type and there's this huge

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long list.

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But for elementary schoolers specifically,

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I love plays because you know, they're not

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too cool for school yet. We can get

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them kind of engaging and doing some

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fun things in the classroom in the library.

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So I love to pull up these plays because

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again,

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we can get them to do some fun stuff still.

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So these are all plays that have been published in

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magazines, but there are 900

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of them.

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And this is a great chance to incorporate

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some of our awesome filtering tools because

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900 is a lot to

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um kind of source through and

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browse and find what you're looking for. But

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we have these great filters over here

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on the side.

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You could look at um different publication

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titles, um dates,

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the content level. So if you're looking

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for something, let's say you're teaching fifth grade

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and you want something upper elementary,

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I can apply that filter and you'll see that cut

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my results in half.

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I can look at different subjects.

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But let's say that I am um

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talking in class, we are discussing the American

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revolution in class.

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I can get conduct a search within and

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it's gonna um search all of these

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different plays to find anything

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that mentions the subject of the American

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revolution.

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So it's a great way to find a play that kind of accompanies

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whatever subject you're teaching at the time.

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So let's see, here is a play on the

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Boston tea party

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and this is a great way to teach students how to use

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that highlights and notes tool as well. Maybe

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um you want to highlight your specific

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role in the play,

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So you know, when to speak, things like

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that. Um There's just so many awesome

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different document types to

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incorporate with other students and get them engaged

[00:23:33.689]
with learning. That's why I say it's great for student

[00:23:36.078]
research and for them to read and find things

[00:23:38.180]
they're interested in. But it's also awesome

[00:23:40.588]
curriculum support, whether you're in the library

[00:23:42.910]
space or the classroom. So many interesting

[00:23:45.289]
things to get students engaged with learning

[00:23:47.568]
and reading all while doing it

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in a reliable and safe space.

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So I'm gonna go back to my main page

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and I wanted to show you just real quickly these other

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ways that you can browse as well. You can see

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all of our news content here

[00:24:05.368]
and you'll see these are coming from children's

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publishers.

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I know that sometimes these content levels

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are a little advanced. So be sure you

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screen before you um read

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with your students or um maybe just

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read it aloud to them.

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But I love these um fun facts

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um for the month

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because these are great. We see a lot of librarians

[00:24:28.769]
using this to kind of guide their um library

[00:24:31.160]
programming and find things to focus

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on in their library.

[00:24:38.150]
Like it's animal migration month,

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National honey month.

[00:24:42.130]
Um coming up, we have World Gorilla Day.

[00:24:44.368]
So some interesting things, maybe you want

[00:24:46.519]
to um encourage students to read

[00:24:48.670]
like the one and only Ivan in celebration

[00:24:51.328]
of World um Gorilla Day or something

[00:24:53.588]
like that. So some different ways to kind of

[00:24:55.750]
um pair your library with these fun facts.

[00:24:59.519]
And then you can browse all of our pictures

[00:25:01.539]
again, they show up in those topic pages.

[00:25:03.630]
You'll see all of those different kind of infographics

[00:25:06.608]
that I was mentioning.

[00:25:09.608]
So you can search through just all of the pictures

[00:25:16.598]
and this search works the exact

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same with the videos as well.

[00:25:22.328]
So you can very quickly find pictures or

[00:25:24.509]
videos if that's the type of content you're looking

[00:25:26.779]
to source.

[00:25:31.989]
So I encourage you to get in here, poke around

[00:25:34.059]
and explore all of the awesome content that we

[00:25:36.189]
have.

[00:25:38.068]
But I didn't want to leave you without a couple other

[00:25:40.318]
things to think about and consider.

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So this is gal and context elementary that

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I explored with you. Um But I also

[00:25:46.568]
wanted to um to encourage

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you to explore gal and context middle school.

[00:25:50.900]
It is designed for the um obviously

[00:25:53.108]
the elementary school classroom or the middle

[00:25:55.189]
school classroom,

[00:25:56.439]
but this is great to find content that maybe

[00:25:58.489]
you want to read aloud with students

[00:26:00.699]
or kind of, you know, source some different

[00:26:02.779]
content um from a more advanced

[00:26:05.410]
um database

[00:26:07.880]
and then also gale books and authors.

[00:26:10.189]
If you're looking for different books to recommend

[00:26:12.709]
for students, the one and only advent,

[00:26:14.680]
um maybe you're looking for um

[00:26:16.910]
different uh books to recommend

[00:26:18.979]
or a student comes in and they say the one and

[00:26:21.039]
only is uh one and only Ivan was my

[00:26:23.118]
favorite book ever. I want to read more books like

[00:26:25.150]
that. Um This is a place where you can find

[00:26:27.259]
some reader likes and just um different

[00:26:29.289]
ways to reckon and novels um to

[00:26:31.493]
students. So I encourage you to check this out.

[00:26:34.074]
And a fun fact. We have over 450

[00:26:36.505]
books. I have a librarian as

[00:26:38.535]
a main character. We all know that librarians

[00:26:40.973]
are superstars. So I love that we

[00:26:43.055]
feature this in so many different titles.

[00:26:47.739]
And then I really wanted to focus on

[00:26:49.979]
our Gale support site too because this is where you can

[00:26:52.130]
find all of those awesome premade

[00:26:54.529]
materials. These are print and go

[00:26:56.618]
easy for you to use in your library

[00:26:59.130]
or even things to share with your classroom

[00:27:01.150]
teachers to let them know that they have

[00:27:03.328]
access to all of this for free through Gale.

[00:27:05.759]
And it's a great thing to pair with those

[00:27:08.068]
um texts and resources that they're finding

[00:27:10.439]
in Gale.

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So we have some premade graphic organizers.

[00:27:16.939]
Um some different scavenger hunts.

[00:27:19.039]
I know that, um, this month is National Honey

[00:27:21.078]
Month and we have a whole unit built

[00:27:23.189]
out around National Honey Month, including

[00:27:25.219]
a scavenger hunt,

[00:27:28.250]
a guide on annotating text. This

[00:27:30.439]
is something really nice to share with teachers

[00:27:32.519]
so they can get students into the practice

[00:27:35.039]
of annotating. I specifically

[00:27:37.199]
like this middle page that serves as a

[00:27:39.219]
guide

[00:27:40.219]
um, to get students used to this practice. So

[00:27:42.519]
like they highlight um maybe

[00:27:44.838]
ye uh words in yellow that help them identify

[00:27:47.160]
the time period or green for words,

[00:27:49.219]
they don't know things like that. This is

[00:27:51.519]
um I think really great for the elementary school

[00:27:53.699]
level. We

[00:27:56.390]
have some different novel studies for

[00:27:58.469]
um the elementary level. We have um

[00:28:00.549]
one for Wonder and Percy Jackson

[00:28:02.890]
and the lightning thief that you may want to check out.

[00:28:05.068]
This is everything from before reading

[00:28:07.318]
to post reading

[00:28:10.180]
some premade escape rooms which are

[00:28:12.189]
a big hit. We have a couple of them for the

[00:28:14.299]
elementary level. Um one on

[00:28:16.390]
scientists and inventors and one

[00:28:18.400]
on the different parts of poetry. And

[00:28:21.130]
um if you want to make your own, there's also a diy

[00:28:23.328]
template and we have a webinar that will walk

[00:28:25.578]
you through the steps of making your own escape room.

[00:28:29.779]
We have some different lesson plans.

[00:28:32.009]
Um some which um obviously you can filter

[00:28:34.219]
by product and find just ones that are

[00:28:36.368]
relevant to gale and context elementary

[00:28:39.949]
trading cards

[00:28:43.209]
and so much more. And this is all available

[00:28:45.400]
on your GL support site.

[00:28:48.479]
And there is a page specifically made

[00:28:51.029]
for um, the Vermont online Library.

[00:28:53.568]
So it is support.g.com/vol

[00:28:56.699]
and this is where you can find all of those awesome

[00:28:58.809]
premade resources that I was talking about.

[00:29:00.900]
Here's that all about bees scavenger hunt

[00:29:03.029]
that I was talking about. Um, we have a lesson

[00:29:05.209]
plan with some stations, just lots

[00:29:07.279]
of different activity types. It's in no way, a

[00:29:09.469]
full curriculum, but it is

[00:29:11.680]
a great place to find some supplementary

[00:29:14.019]
materials and a great place to

[00:29:16.108]
um you know, inspire some in uh get

[00:29:18.118]
some inspiration too. If you're looking for

[00:29:20.170]
different um assignment types to

[00:29:22.250]
incorporate in your classroom with your

[00:29:24.259]
students, please check out our support site

[00:29:26.380]
because we have so much and it's premade

[00:29:28.559]
and free. Um

[00:29:31.209]
If you need to connect with us, I wanted

[00:29:33.269]
to give you um some uh contact

[00:29:35.660]
information. Again, I was your trainer today,

[00:29:37.989]
Hannah, but I am filling in for your

[00:29:40.009]
amazing full time trainer, Stacy

[00:29:42.029]
Niblo.

[00:29:43.029]
If you have any questions about

[00:29:45.088]
um usage or how

[00:29:47.118]
to promote resources within your school

[00:29:49.430]
or your district, you can reach out to your

[00:29:51.568]
customer success manager.

[00:29:54.920]
Again, just some contact information if

[00:29:56.949]
you have any questions.

[00:30:00.009]
And I wanna thank you all for viewing um, this

[00:30:02.108]
recording on um

[00:30:04.439]
your, again, your Vermont online library resources

[00:30:06.920]
support elementary school students. I

[00:30:09.259]
encourage you to check out our future training webinars

[00:30:11.588]
which are always published on your support

[00:30:13.660]
site. Um Thank you so much.

[00:30:15.799]
Please reach out if you have any questions

[00:30:18.250]
at all and have a fantastic school

[00:30:20.449]
year. Thank you all so much.