Gale Training

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Hello, everyone. Welcome into our 15

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minutes to mastery session today, we're

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going to be talking about how your students

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can talk to the text with their Gale In Context

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resources. My name is Amber Winters

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and I am a training consultant here at

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Gale.

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So first, I do just want to point out that what we're going

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to talk about today is going to be available

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in all of the in context resources. Your learning

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community has access to. So that

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includes our three cross curricular resources.

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So these strategies will work at the

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elementary level all the way up to the high school

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level and it will also be found beneficial

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for the different subject specific resources

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we have including our social studies

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resources, our two current events,

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our science resources and our newer

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el A resource which is Galen context

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literature. Each of these resources

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has the same highlights and notes functionality

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that's going to allow your users to

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kind of go through that talking to the text

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process.

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And I do want to quickly talk about that highlights and

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notes tool because that's what your students are going to use

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as they're talking to the text within the resource.

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So it's a really nice and clean layout. Your

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students will be able to just click and drag over any

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piece of text that they want to remember

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they want to ask a question about whatever it

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is within their article and they'll get

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this nice pop up that's gonna let them choose a highlight

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color. And then here they can ask

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their question or make their comments or

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whatever they're trying to do. They'll be able to

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do that right here under this uh little

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text box and they'll be able to save that content.

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And once they do get all of that sorted out,

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we do save all of those highlights and notes for the

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duration of the session. So as long as they're signed

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in under our highlights and notes button

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up top here,

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you see your students get this nice clean organized

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page that's going to have everything they highlighted

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with the color they highlighted in.

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They're going to have a link back to whatever article

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they were looking at, they're going to have a bibliography.

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So this highlights a notes tool is really what we're featuring

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today when we're talking about getting your kids,

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you know, physically engaged with the text.

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So you're not printing it out and

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handing them highlighters and things like that. They're

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doing it on the platform itself, they're getting

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engaged without having to waste all that paper

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and all that time.

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So a few strategies for success. If you're planning

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on using these highlights and notes, the first

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as always model the tool, we'll take a look

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at the tool in a second and I'll model how to do

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it. But you definitely want to work

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as a group with your students. Pull up whatever

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article you want, whatever is interesting to you or to

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your students that day and show them how to

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use the highlights and notes tool. It is a fairly

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simple tool, but I always suggest

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just walk them through it first. So then they're not worried

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about making sure they,

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they're doing the proper

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proper walkthrough of the tool. And

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you also want to make sure they know where

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their highlights and notes are stored on the platform

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because once they're done talking to their texts

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and annotating the text, most likely

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they're gonna want to take those annotations with them

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either to keep future reference or maybe to

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send to you. If this is something that you're going to be graded,

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you're going to be grading. So make sure

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they know how to access that highlights and notes section

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before you get started as well.

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Once you have that ready to go and your students know how

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to find an article and how to highlight it.

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Have them choose different colors. So a lot

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of times when we physically talk to

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the text and you are writing on an actual physical

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piece of paper, we'll use different

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symbols and things like that to

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denote what we're writing. So we can really easily go

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back and look and say, OK, this is this symbol. This means

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I had a question here here, here and here.

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Obviously, we don't have symbols available

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within our resource. So the best way to do

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that virtually is to have them choose different

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highlight colors for different

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ideas. So maybe they're highlighting

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every, every bit that they have

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a question on in orange. And then

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if they're making comments that maybe their

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comments are going to be purple, um

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maybe they're highlighting an, an individual's

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opinion is an opinion piece and they're going to highlight

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any opinion in pink and then any

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evidence in green,

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the list goes on and on. But have your students

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choose colors before they get started. So

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that way they know this is how I'm going to keep myself

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organized.

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Of course, the step is pretty obvious, but allow time

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for reading. So give your students time to

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read through their article either individually

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if you want them just talking to the text by themselves

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or in a group. If you'd prefer a group setting, you

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can have them read through that way as well

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and have all of them just talk to the text

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on one computer. So have them all sharing

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a computer and, and marking up that individual

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document

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and then once all of that's done, they've read the full

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article and they're ready to go, you would want

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them to get the highlights and notes out of the

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platform form because their highlights and notes are

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session based. So if your user

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signs off or if you know they're signed off

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due activity, you know, they go to lunch and they come back and

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they're signed off, all of their highlights and notes

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are gone. So they're going to need to get the highlighted

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notes out of the platform and I will

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show you how they can do that in two different ways to hold

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on to that content.

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So let's go ahead and take a look at this. Now, I haven't seen

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any questions pop up, but as I'm switching

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my screen here, does anyone have any questions

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for me? OK,

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I don't see any. So I went ahead and just pulled

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up an article already. This is from Galen context

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high school. But again, all of our in context

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resources including Galen context elementary,

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use the same process as well. So this is going

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to work no matter which resource you're in.

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So I found my article here and now I'm going to start

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to look through and I'm just going to find bits that I think

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are important here and I'm just gonna click

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and drag over them. So maybe I have a question

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about this.

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Hopefully your students have much more

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engaged and better questions than me, but

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they can ask their question or make their comment, whatever

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it may be and they can choose their color.

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Ok. Maybe they don't quite

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know a word,

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systemic biases, maybe they're not

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quite sure. So maybe they'll highlight any

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words they don't know in yellow

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again, hopefully much better at

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not taking the me,

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but they'll be able to go through and they can highlight in whatever

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colors they want

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as many times as they want. So they'll be able

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to go through and mark up this full text

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here as much as they want.

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And I will mention especially um within

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this article and within a lot of articles you'll see

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things like critical thinking questions.

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So even though this isn't technically part of the article,

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these are nice to bring forward for your students

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as well, just as they're reading through, oftentimes,

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it's helpful for them to read through and you'll see they can

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even click and highlight over these questions.

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And they could answer them right here if they wanted to,

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you know, that could be something really simple for

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you to do kind of as a quick formative

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assessment, have them answer these critical

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thinking questions by highlighting them and typing

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out the answer

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and then they'll be able to send it over to you.

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So once your student has their texts,

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all um all written up,

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all noted up, they're good to go, they read the full

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article, they're going to want to hold on

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to this information and they can do that in a few different

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ways. If they want to keep the full

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article itself with the highlights

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included on there, they can do that by

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sending over to their drives, either Google or Microsoft,

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they could email it to themselves, they could download

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it to their desktop or they could print

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it. So either any of these options

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are going to hold on to those highlights and those notes

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for students, the highlights are going to appear

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in the text and then the notes will appear

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at the very bottom of the page. You'll have the actual

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notes they took with those highlights.

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We also have the option for students to

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just save the highlights and notes that they

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took. So again, that's found

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under our highlights and notes button up top

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here, you'll see. I've got this little highlights and notes

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icon. When

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I click it, it's going to show the text

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that I highlighted on this article as well

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as any notes that I took. If

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I hit my view, I'll highlight the notes button here.

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This is going to pull it forward in a little more

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detail. And what I love about this page

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is it's very clean for your students. So

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they're going to see exactly what they highlighted the

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full text of their highlight.

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They have their notes here, they can edit their notes.

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So I just wrote, what does this mean? Maybe

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I need to elaborate on that a little bit more.

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I can hit edit

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oops and

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save it right here. And that will change for me

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at the very bottom of the page. We also have a running

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bibliography. So if students are

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going to need this citation for something,

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if they save this page, they already have

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a citation premade for them. Which

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for me as a former teacher, I love the idea

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of not having to

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kind of walk students through how

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to cite each individual thing. They'll be able to

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pull their citations off of this page

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instead.

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And they also get links to the articles here

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on this page as well. So they'll get this persistent

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URL. So if they wanna go drop back

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into this article later on, they'll have access

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to it right here.

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And I mentioned previously that the best

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practice when they're using these highlights is to use

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different highlight colors for different things.

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If they do decide to do that, they can actually label

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them on this page here as well. If I go

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up to my toolbar up top, you'll see. I have this labels

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button here

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and these are the colors I've used. It's only going to show

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me the colors that I've used. So I may

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have this big questions,

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comments, maybe let's say evidence

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is the last one

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so I can label these

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and you'll see. Now I have a highlight legend at the top

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here. And this is helpful for

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me going back so I can just skim through

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all the questions that I have in this article. Let

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me just look at all the purple. So this one and this one

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I know those are my questions. It's also helpful

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for you as an educator. Again, if you're planning

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on having your students submit something like this

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to you, you may want them to label this.

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So it's a lot easier for you to explore, you know, a lot

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easier for you to

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evaluate your students. If

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this is all ready to go and

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labeled for you.

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And with this page, again, it's only

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saved for the session. So if your students

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sign off, you know, again, they

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go to lunch and they signed off student activity or they just close

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out of the browser, this will disappear.

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So we have a few different options to get this out

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of the platform as well. With this, you'll see, I have

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my send to option which just

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like the article itself, lets me send

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over to Google Drive onedrive

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or I can email it.

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I can also download it again to my desktop

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or I can print it out. I

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realized I forgot to mention while

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I was on the article itself. But if

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I send over to Google Drive or onedrive,

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it does actually go over as a workable

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document, both the article as well as this highlights

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a notes page. So if your students choose

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to do that. Once they click back into their drive,

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they can actually edit their highlights and edit their

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notes there as well. So they can really take

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the full customization with them. If they do need

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to change it up, once they're off of the platform,

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they'll be able to do that within their drives.

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And it does say they're permanently in their drive.

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They don't need to worry about, you know, the article disappearing,

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you know, after 30 days, 90 days, it's

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always going to be in their drive in a dedicated

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folder. So they can always go back and take a look

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at what they were thinking previously.

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Maybe they've learned you know, new

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information. They want to compare that to what they thought

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previously. They're always going to have access

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to that under our highlights and notes section

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here. And

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I will also mention these highlights, notes work

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for any entry that is

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text based. So of course

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our basic reference articles, but

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also news reports and magazines.

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if you're in a resource that has primary sources,

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your students can talk to a primary source

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right here on this platform. So it's

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not just your standard reference articles, any

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article within this page can utilize these

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highlights and notes functionalities.

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So your students can really talk to talk to

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a wide variety of texts that we offer them

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within the resource.

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Now again, I've not seen any questions at all

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today. So I'm going to go

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ahead and jump back one more time here to my slides.

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And while I do again, I'll please ask that

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you enter in any questions you have into

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the Q and A and I'll make sure to answer those for

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you while you're doing that. I have

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some quick wrap up information for

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you. If you need more information about

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future webinars or about this

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webinar in particular, you can send me

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an email. again, my name

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is Amber Winters and it's just

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[email protected]

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If you want to talk a little bit about how this

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is going to be implemented

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specifically in your learning community, you wanna

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talk about how you can get engaged

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with it.

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You can reach out to your customer success manager.

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If you don't know who that is, just send an email

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to [email protected]

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and we'll forward you to the correct individual.

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If you want to talk about gaining access to any

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in context resource that you don't currently have access

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to reach out to your sales consultant,

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you don't know who that is. It's support.gale.com/repfinder

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you'll find that information there

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and we do have other pre-recorded webinars,

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training materials, short tutorials

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activities, less of plans, all that good stuff

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on our support site, which is support.gale.com.

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So if you're looking for additional training materials

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or even marketing materials or technical

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documents, take a look at that support

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site and you should be able to find what you need there

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and we have about two minutes left. So if you don't

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mind spending that two minutes to answer

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our survey, you'll see, I've got a QR code

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on my screen or you can go to

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bit.ly/galetrainingeval

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It would be greatly appreciated to make sure

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that we're always covering the content you

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need in these webinars.

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And again, I haven't seen any questions pop

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up, so I'm going to go ahead and end for the day

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and I do appreciate everyone being on the line

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and hopefully we'll see you all in future sessions.

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Bye bye now.