Gale Training

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Hello, thank you for joining me today.

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We're looking at topic pages today in

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one of our 15 minutes to mastery classes.

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My name is Amber Winters and I am a senior

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training consultant here with Gale.

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So I first want to say, well,

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when we're talking about topic pages, these

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pages are going to be found within all of

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your in context resources. So whoever

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is on the line, no matter what your resource

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collection, these topic pages are going to be available

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and come in handy for you. I will

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say within Gale In Context: Elementary

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and Gale In Context: Literature, they look slightly

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different just based on at the

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age level. We're trying to reach

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as well as the content that's provided.

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So if you have one of those resources, you can certainly

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take a look after the session and you'll see how they're

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slightly different but

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the rest of the resources. So our other

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cross curricular resources like gel and context,

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middle school and high school. Our current event resources,

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our science resources and of course,

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our social studies resources all

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have the same topic page formatting.

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So we'll look at some examples

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here even if you don't have that resource,

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the example is going to be applicable for

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you still. So

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the goal of a topic page is to give your

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users. So your students, if I have any K 12

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individuals on the line or your patrons,

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if I have public librarians on the line, it's

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to give them a

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easy to reach landing point

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that's going to pull together all of the content we

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have in the resource about a specific

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topic. So you'll see here on the, on my

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screen, my screen, I've pulled forward

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sports medicine as a topic page.

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Uh So the goal is we want your users

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to spend more time with the content as

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opposed to looking for it. So we've built

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out these topic pages for some of the most

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searched and most studied terms

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within the resources. And at the top of

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the page, we give a brief overview. So that's

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going to give your users the background of whatever

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topic they're going to be diving into.

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Then underneath that you'll see this looks similar

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to what you would see if you just ran a search,

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you're going to see the difference content

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types, these different content buckets that we have

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content related to this topic for.

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So things like reference works, which

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are gonna be those articles,

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videos, academic journals.

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And then underneath that, we organize things

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a step further and pull out these different content

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buckets and show the first three

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results for each content bucket. So if

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they're looking for a reference article, they're going to pull

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those forward. You'll see on this, we

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have some featured content. If they're looking for,

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let's say an image, we're going to have an

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image pulled out, ready to go for them

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in a different content bucket. So

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it's

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like running a search without having to run a search.

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You know, we pull all of those search results forward for them

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when we organize it. So it's really just a nice

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point and click way to find content.

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Now, let's go ahead and look at those. Let's not

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only look at how they function

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but how we can find them within the resources.

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And since today is pi day, it's March

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14th. Anyone watching this recorded, we're

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gonna go with kind of a stem theme and

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we're gonna walk through how you can find these topic pages

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within Gale In Context: Science.

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And again, here I will mention

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how we're going to do this today. This process we're going

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to walk through today works the exact same

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for all of the other in context resources. So

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if you don't have Gil in context science, you have Gil

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in context high school. Totally

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cool. You'll use the same

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same method to get to topic

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pages.

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So let's go ahead and get started here. We're

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gonna start right on our home page. If

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I scroll down here we pull forward

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three topics of interest. These generally

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change monthly depending on what's going on.

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If a big current event happens and that

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might pull forward to a topic of interest.

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but they generally change monthly. So

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this is a good place for your users to start when they

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really have no idea what they want to learn about. And they

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may find something here.

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Then underneath that, we organize

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our topics into these different sections

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here. So of course, this is specifically

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focused on science because we're getting gal in context

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science.

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but you'll see here, we include topic pages

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for people. So we'll have biographies listed

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here. Of course, general topics

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on different technologies and things happening.

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We'll also have topic pages for

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current events or historical events if

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you're in one of our historical resources,

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so users can point and click this way if they want

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to. Let's say they're

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really into earth and environmental

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science. Let's say they can click

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in here

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and each of these topics listed. These are all

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topic pages that we've pre created for

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them. So they can kind of just click and

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scroll down to see if there's something they're interested

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in from

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here. You'll see they have the option to change

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the topic section as well. So maybe they

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decided that instead they want to

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look at physics and astronomy, they can

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bump to our list of those topic pages here

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as well.

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And we can also view all topic pages. So

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let's take a look at that. So you can see

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it's a pretty extension, extensive

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list of topic pages that we have within all

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of our resources. You'll see, I can really just kind of scroll

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and scroll.

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so they do have the option just to click and browse

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through that. Sorry, if you hear that thunder. It's,

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it's a little stormy here in, Southeast

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Michigan today.

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but they can kind of browse through and click

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into any of these topic pages that they find,

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interesting or helpful and

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they can also find topic pages by searching.

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So I'm going to jump back to home. So we have

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a nice clean landing point

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and I'm gonna search for artificial intelligence.

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I don't know about you guys, but I swear I hear

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about it every other second.

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so when I start typing

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out here, you'll see my predictive

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text gives me something that's bolded up top

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here. So anytime I see a bolded

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term in my predictive text, that's actually a topic

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page. So instead of just seeing a basic

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search result, if I click into this,

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it's going to pull me forward to that topic page.

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So let's do that and take a look.

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Here we go.

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So now we're on our topic page again at the very

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top. We're going to have our overview.

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This is a great place for you

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to send your your users to your students.

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So if you're working with students, just to get

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them started here, pull forward this overview,

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we can hit read more and they'll be able to get that

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full background here

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back on our topic page. When I start to scroll down

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again, you're going to see the different content buckets

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available here

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so they can just slowly scroll through and

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find things that interest them.

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And then at the very bottom of the page here,

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we also include related topics. And

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each of these are topic pages as well.

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So realistically, your users can actually point

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and click all the way through the resource and not even

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run a search. You know, they can take a look

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at artificial intelligence and maybe they see a lot

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about Alan Turing.

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and they're wondering who that guy is, how

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he's related to artificial intelligence. They can

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click right here into his topic page.

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He looks a little bit different. You'll see, we have quick

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facts at the top here. So this is about a person.

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We've pulled those quick facts out.

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But then underneath again, here we

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have all of our different content types listed

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really simply for your users.

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Now, if you do want users to use these topic

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pages as opposed to running basic

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searches and kind of weeding through search results.

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Another great way to find this content

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for them is to use the get link feature. So

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if you're pulling content, you're getting started

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on a unit. So let's jump back to

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artificial intelligence. You're getting started

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on a unit related to artificial intelligence.

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And instead of having your students just sign into

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whatever resource, you want them

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to come directly to this content.

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We have a great get link feature here

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at the top of this page. It's going to provide a persistent

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URL to this page. So if you

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yourself are finding content for your students,

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I recommend doing that, find a topic page

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that's going to be helpful that's related

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to whatever you're going to be learning about.

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Select get link and then you can put this link wherever

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you want it to go. Maybe you're starting an activity

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and you want students to explore this, maybe a scavenger

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hunt you've built

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and you want them to kind of pick through this topic page.

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You can just post this link there for that.

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You could put this in a discussion board.

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If you're planning on a project, you could have

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it set within a project

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syllabus.

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It's also great just to kind

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of have on hand whenever you need it, you can

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copy and paste this and it is a persistent you

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are out. So it won't break. You're always

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going to be taken right here to this topic page.

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And your users will be able to kind of click through

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and navigate however they want to.

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And they do have another option to browse through

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these topic pages. So again, they can browse

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through from the home page or they can

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search in the search bar and click on any bold

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predictive text that drops down for them

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or at any point as they walk through the resource,

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they'll always have access to this browse topics

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button here.

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This is going to pull forward that full list of

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topic pages just like as if I were

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to have clicked, view. All

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right here.

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So again, they'll be able to just point and click

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to find something less interesting to them.

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Now, that's what I have for everyone today. This is a nice

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short and sweet webinar just about how you can

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find your topic pages and

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how you can utilize them. And I do want

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to mention we have a lot of pre created scavenger

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hunts on our support site that utilize these topic

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pages.

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So if you're planning at all

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to kind of start integrating topic pages

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into your lessons, I would suggest taking a look

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at those. We're gonna go ahead and jump since

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we have the time today

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to our support site, which is support.g.com.

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And once we get ourselves loaded up here,

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I'm going to go under our training center.

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I go into my activities

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and when I click into one of these scavenger hunts,

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this is giving you a great way to use topic pages.

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So this one specifically is related to

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advertising

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but we build these out for you. So you can forward along to

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your students and then they're going to click through

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the different articles and different content

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types within this advertising topic page

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to fill out these answers. We've got a huge collection

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of these. So if you are trying to figure out

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how to best get topic pages

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into your activities into your lessons,

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you may wanna take a look at these scavenger hunts and see

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how we've done it for you and then you can

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kind of build your own off of that.

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So again, our topic pages,

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a key point here is just that they are the basic

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landing points for whatever

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topic that your students are looking for.

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It's a great place for them to start.

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Now again, I didn't go through all of your resources

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today. So if you have a specific resource and

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you wanna see what topic pages you have available,

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click into that resource, you'll use that same

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walkthrough that I just showed you and you'll be able to pull

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and find content there.

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If you have any questions about

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topic pages or some best practices and getting

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them, let's say to your teachers, to students,

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you can feel free to reach out. You do have

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access to a wonderful customer success

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manager who can talk best practices

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specific to you. So specific to whatever

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subject you're working with. If you don't know

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who your customer success manager is just

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send a quick email to Gail dot customer

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at sage.com and we'll forward you to

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the correct individual and you can start to get

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a little more specific about how you're going to use topic

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pages. Of course, you always have

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access to your sales consultant as well

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as well. If you want to talk about in context, resources,

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you can email them directly or go to

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support that gil.com/rinder

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and you'll be forwarded to correct person. That

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way again, we have pre created

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scavenger hunts that are going to utilize

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a lot of our topic pages and a variety of our

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resources. If you're interested in

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those, you can go to our support site, which is support

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dale.com and they're under our training

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materials section.

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And I've also included tech support here. So if

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you ever have a tech, related issue,

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you need to talk to someone, you can send an email

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to Gail dot Technical Support at

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engage.com and they'll be able to help you with any

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sort of tech issue or question

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that you have.

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Now again, I appreciate everyone for being on the

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line today. We've got three minutes left

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over. so if anyone has any

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questions about topic pages,

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what sort of topics are covered in topic pages?

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Feel free to put those questions

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in the Q and A.

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otherwise I appreciate you being

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on the line for a short session today and hopefully

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we'll see you in future 15 minutes

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to mastery sessions.