Gale Training

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Thank you again everyone for joining

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today. We're going to talk about how you can prepare

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for the presidential election with the Gale in Context

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Suite. My name is Amber Winters and I

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am a senior training consultant here at Gale

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and our agen agenda today. First, I want

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to talk about the resources specifically

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though what resources are going to help you as you're

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working with your public library patrons

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or your students, as you're starting to, to

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help them learn about the election as

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well as some different topics kind of around

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the election. So we'll talk about the resources.

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We'll take a deeper look at what to use when

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I have some suggestions that might be helpful for

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you, especially if you have a lot of the

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gal and context resources. I know sometimes

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it can be a little overwhelming. So we're going

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to walk through those to give you some idea of what

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you may want to use to direct your students or patrons

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to. then we'll take a look at the different

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tools and features within the resource. We're actually going

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to go in live. So you can take a look at

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some of the sharing options we have available as

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well as some of the different accessibility tools

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that are really going to make this content super easy

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for all of your users to access.

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And then at the very end of the session, we'll have some

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contact information to wrap up. If

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I wasn't able to hit any questions as I moved

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through the session today, we'll get those at the end of the

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session as well.

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Yeah, that's what we have today. So let's go ahead and get

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started. It sounds like it's a little bit full, but I

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think we can make it through it in the 30 minutes

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we have today. So

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these are all of the gal and context resources.

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Now, just as a warning, you may have access

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to one or two of these, you may have

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access to all of them. You may have access to one,

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but each of these are their own separate

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individual resources. So just be aware

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that the things I'm going through today, you may

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not have access to just yet. You may let's

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say only have access to gill in context, high school

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as opposed to having, you know, all three

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of our core in context. So just be aware

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that your collection might look different than these.

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But these are the in context resources

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that are currently available

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when we're talking about preparing for the le

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the election and teaching students and library

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patrons about the election

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I have chosen to pull out six

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different options here today. So the

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first three are our core

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In Context resources we like to call them,

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but they're for elementary level students,

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middle school, as well as high school.

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And these are cross curricular and super broad.

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So these are kind of giving that very base

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bit of knowledge for your users.

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Moving on from those three, we also

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have three additional that are

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really going to help with a lot of the different topics

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around elections. So Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

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that's going to be

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our pro-con current events

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platform

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Gale In Context: U.S. History, as you can expect

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focused on us history and then

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Gale In Context: Biography houses a lot of great biographies

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both on historical and contemporary figures.

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So depending on what you need your users to get

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access to these six resources

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are the ones that I suggest.

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Of course, you may have

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Gale In Context: Environmental Studies and maybe want to kind

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of dive in

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to some of the environmental issues that are being talked

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about around the election.

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That's certainly an option as well. But we're going to focus

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on these six top here

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today. So

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within each of these resources, we have

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topic pages that are really going to guide your

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users to content. So I really

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want to highlight those because they're a great way to get

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started. You're going to find these topic

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pages on individuals on topics

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related to the election, on

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the processes related to an election.

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All that good stuff and what's nice is they look

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the same throughout each resource. You'll see. I've pulled

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forward a few different ones here. the one

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that looks different is Gale In Context: Elementary.

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Here on this left hand side, we have,

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changed up the look a little bit, of course to support

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younger age students. But

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on all of our platforms, these topic pages

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have topic overviews at the very top that

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are going to provide context for whatever students

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or your patrons are learning about.

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And they're also going to organize all of the content

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we have in the resource into these nice content

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buckets down here towards the bottom.

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So instead of your users just running a basic

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search and pulling content that way, if

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their topic has a topic page, we have already

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organized it for them. So if they

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just need to take a look at, let's say a viewpoint

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within gal in context, opposing viewpoints, you'll

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see we have a viewpoints bucket so they can click here

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and then we've filtered down the results to 36

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results for them and you'll see this topic

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page is for inflation. So

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if they were to have just run a basic search for inflation,

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most likely they'd get a lot of information that's

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maybe not related to what they're looking for.

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Since inflation has quite a few different meanings.

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But on this topic page, we've organized it for them.

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So they don't need to weed through with hundreds or thousands

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of results. They can look at these 36 viewpoints

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we have related to inflation.

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Now, let's go ahead and move forward a little bit here.

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I want to talk about some of the different kind of

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topic sections that these resources

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are best used for.

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So the first is going to be history if I have any

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teachers on the line and you want to kind

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of go into the background of elections

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within the United States, we have you covered

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here so we can cover history

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as well as people again, contemporary

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or historical people. If you're running any

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sort of research project or just lesson plan

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around that, we can pull that here

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processes around the election as well. So

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if you're teaching again all the way from elementary

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school up through high school and adult education,

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if you're teaching how the election works is a confusing

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process. As everyone's aware, these

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resources are going to be helpful because you'll get that

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nice leveled content depending on what resource

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you're in. So if they have public library

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individuals online, you have adult learners coming

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in who just don't quite know what's

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going on with the election. They want to make sure they can

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vote and they want to make sure they know how to vote.

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This is a nice place for them to go are in context,

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resources and finally current issues.

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So the topics that the

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presidential candidates are talking about, we

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want to make sure that your users are getting

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access to safe vetted and reliable

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content so they can build their own understanding

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of those issues and build their own opinions,

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not just opinions they hear from other people.

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This is a great place to do that as well. We have a lot of

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great current issue information

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within our resources.

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So let's have a little bit deeper, deeper

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into these election topics here and let's talk about

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what to use one.

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So first, I want to talk about strictly elementary

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students if I have any elementary teachers on the line

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or any public librarians who

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work with elementary kiddos for

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each of those topics I just mentioned,

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you're going to want to use

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Gale In Context: Elementary here.

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So it's going to have coverage for all of those key

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election topics all in one platform.

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So you're not trying to guide

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these young Children through multiple different platforms

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to find content. They're going to find it all here

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on this one nice landing page and we

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haven't designed it specifically for grades K

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five. So they're not going to find

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super mature content that might be a little

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bit over their heads or may be a little bit inappropriate.

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We've really kind of curated and made

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sure your, your users are only accessing the

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content that's appropriate for them and that's

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accessible to them.

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Some different content types are going to find within this resource

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that can be a bit helpful. Here are our biographies.

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So if you're looking for individuals, we have

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book articles which are technically reference,

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small reference works, we call them book articles

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to make them sound a little bit friendlier

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news and reports and maga news reports and magazines

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as well as multimedia content. So a lot

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of great pictures and videos. So not

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only are students getting kind of the the basics

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when they're getting the text information, but they also

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get some additional information

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through taking a look at all of the great images

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and videos we have on the platform here

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and we do have full, fully created

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social studies topic pages on this platform

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here. They can actually access the social

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studies topic section right from the home

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page and you'll see when they do access

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that they get this little kind of point and click

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wheel. I guess you could say where

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they can click into any of our different social studies

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topics and start to narrow down to what they're looking

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for. So we've got some great point and click

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functionality within gal and context elementary

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to make sure your younger users are able

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to access the information they need. If you take a look

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at this screenshot quickly here, excuse me.

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We have us history pulled out separately.

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And we also have government, civic, government,

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civics and rights listed here as well.

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So those are going to be two of the key

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sections. You'll most likely want to send your users

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over to.

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Now, moving forward to anyone above the

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elementary school level. When we start to talk about the other

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resources, the other five that I mentioned earlier,

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let's first start talking about voting and election,

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election history. So if you're taking

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a look about taking a look back at

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voting, your best bet is going to be

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Gale In Context: U.S. History. If

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you don't have Gale In Context: U.S. History right now,

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my alternate options for you are

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Gale In Context: Middle School and Gale In Context: High School

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And again, these are the cross curricular resources.

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So you'll find quite a bit of social studies and history

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within these resources. But you'll just

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find more depth within Gale In Context: U.S. History

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That's why that is your best bet here.

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And you're going to find info all the way from the beginning

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of the United States to the Voting Rights

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Act of 1965 and

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even more contemporary events. So this is a complete

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us history. So you're going to be, you

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know, start to contemporary, you're

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going to find information here

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specifically, you're going to find information on things

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like court cases and events surrounding

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elections. So if you're teaching about

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maybe the fights for the right to vote for

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women or racial and ethnic minority

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groups or people with disabilities. You'll

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be able to find that content here as well through different court

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cases and event overviews.

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Some different content types you want to take a look

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at within Gale In Context: U.S. History that can be helpful

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include our primary sources. We have everything

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from letters to speeches

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to

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personal diary

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entry is really anything you can think about as well

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as you know, flyers for

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the suffrage movement, things like that you'll find in our primary

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sources section. We also have court

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case overviews. If you're working with older

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students or adult adult learners, you'll find

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academic journals. We have both

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event and biographical timelines

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again, as well as multimedia materials.

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So things like videos, images

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as well as a lot of nice audio files.

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So things like podcasts you'll find within

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this platform as well.

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Moving on from there. If you're starting to teach

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about important people related to elections,

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both historical and current, your best

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bet of course is going to be Gale In Context: Biography,

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your alternate options. We do have biographies

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in Gale In Context, middle school, high school

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as well as U.S. history.

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But again, we'll have the most biographies

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with the most in depth information

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within Gale In Context: Biography, which is

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why it's your best bet for this for

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this topic here.

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Again, it is both historical and contemporary figures

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in politics and adjacent fields I like to

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mention adjacent fields as well because

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of course, we want to learn about the political

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figures who are,

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you know, running to be the president. But

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we also want to know about the people around them. We want to know

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about the vice president. Maybe we want to know about

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Congress people that have been brought up in

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different debates or things like that. We'll find

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that information within Gale In Context: Biography

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And we actually make topic pages that are person

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focused within Gale In Context: Biography. So you

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won't find topic pages about

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events or court cases or anything

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like that, you're just going to find topic pages

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about people and we've curated those

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to house all of the information we have about those people.

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So that would include any primary sources

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we have related to them or anything like that.

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So some content types you'll want to take a look

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at in Gale In Context: Biography. Of course, as I mentioned,

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biographies are going to be number one, primary

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sources are also going to be attached to individuals

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who are related to that source news

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and magazines to stay up to date. So if it is

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a more contemporary figure, you know, if it's one of our,

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our candidates for the presidency

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this year, you'll have news and magazines

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that are up to date with what's going on

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with them, what they're doing

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just to follow along

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because of course, we all know there's a lot going on.

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And then again, here, I've listed multimedia materials.

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I think I've listed this on every slide,

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but I do always just want to remind everyone that

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these resources are not just text

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based. These resources give you such

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great visuals and short videos. So

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if I have teachers on the line who are maybe just looking

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for a bell ringer or something quick to put

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in a discussion board post, Our videos

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are usually, you know, under five minutes

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and just a nice way to just grab attention

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and kind of get your students

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engaged

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moving forward one more time here. And we're talking

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about the election process. So when I say election

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process, I'm more talking about

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the facts about how an

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election works. So I'm talking about the electoral

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college, not necessarily

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the, the pro cons of things. We're just

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talking about if your students need to understand

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the elections in America,

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your resources, your best bet those are going to be

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your core in context, resources. So your

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Gale In Context: Middle School and your

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Gale In Context: High School.

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they will learn about the elections

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within Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, but

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that's where you're really going to get into the pro con

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side of things and they're going to get a lot of opinion

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pieces. So you want to make sure if

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you are right now, just interested in getting them

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the facts of how the step how the steps

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work. Your core and context is the way to

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go. If you are ready to introduce them to some

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different opinion pieces,

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you have Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints either

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as your alternate option or kind of your extension

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option.

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And in both of these resources, Gale In Context,

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middle school and high school, you'll find information on the electoral

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college on debates on primary

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elections. If you want to explain how those work

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as well as mail and ballots, which of course is a hot

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topic was the last election and I'm sure

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it will continue to be throughout this election.

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And we do have fully developed topic pages within

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Gale In Context. Most school and high school related

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to both voting and elections.

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So you can actually pull those topic pages up

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and share them out with your users if you want to instead

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of having them find the content, you can

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find it yourself and I'll show you how you can use our great get

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link feature and send it over to them to take

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a look at whenever they like.

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So I can type in these resources are gonna be a reference

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article. So again, those will give you the facts,

[00:13:55.960]
how things work, news and magazines,

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multimedia materials. Again, I'm pretty

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sure I put those everywhere and

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academic journals are found within

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Gale In Context: High School, as well as

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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints.

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You won't find academic journals in Gale In Context: Middle School,

[00:14:10.500]
however, because that's

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a resource we've designed for middle school students who

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are most likely not going to be looking at academic

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journals just yet. But if

[00:14:19.548]
they're using Gale In Context: High School, they'll see those

[00:14:21.710]
academic journals as well if they need

[00:14:23.779]
that more academic perspective.

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And our last kind of election

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topic is going to be current issues.

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And as the name suggests, your best bet

[00:14:34.798]
is going to be Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints.

[00:14:37.779]
If you don't have Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints,

[00:14:40.340]
the two alternates I've listed here are

[00:14:42.418]
Gale In Context: Middle School and Gale In Context: High School.

[00:14:44.479]
So again, those

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core in context resources,

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you notice these are alternates a lot within this

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within this presentation today. So

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if you don't have these more specialized

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resources, just now, you'll find

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a lot of great content within these core in context

[00:14:59.815]
resources. But again, best bet

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here is for Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

[00:15:04.134]
because it is those pro-con

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arguments, those opinion pieces that are

[00:15:08.364]
really providing additional context

[00:15:10.779]
to the issues that are being talked about. So

[00:15:13.269]
we'll find topic pages on the economy

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and inflation, global climate change

[00:15:17.798]
A I US borders Russia's

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invasion of Ukraine

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as well as everything that's going on in Israel

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as well.

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And some different content types you're going to find here

[00:15:29.330]
are going to include viewpoint essays which are

[00:15:31.500]
unique here to Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

[00:15:34.418]
and Gale In Context: Global Issues,

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but we'll stick with opposing viewpoints. So you'll

[00:15:38.700]
have these viewpoint essays. What I love about

[00:15:40.849]
these is they're not labeled pro-con.

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So these are giving a clear view

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of viewpoints. You know, they're arguing one

[00:15:47.889]
way or another, but we're not telling your

[00:15:49.899]
students or your users which way they're arguing,

[00:15:52.080]
they have to read through this kind of gain

[00:15:54.149]
an understanding of this person's opinion. If they're pro

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whatever, if they're con whatever, if they're

[00:15:58.719]
you know, on the fence about something, they have to

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kind of dig that out of the text.

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We're not providing them with that.

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In addition to that, we also have some great statistics

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and infographics found within Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

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Our infographics are actually

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interactive,

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so your students or users can hover over different

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pieces of graphs and charts and

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be told what that part of the graph or that chart means.

[00:16:22.489]
So it's a nice way to get them engaged. If

[00:16:24.619]
you're trying to get them reading charts and graphs.

[00:16:26.908]
I know sometimes that's one of the hardest things you can

[00:16:28.960]
do with students is try to get them to

[00:16:31.038]
understand how those are organized. So

[00:16:33.418]
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints has a next, a nice collection

[00:16:35.529]
that can help you out with that.

[00:16:37.119]
Again, you'll find news and magazines, multimedia

[00:16:39.750]
content and again, academic

[00:16:41.908]
journals within Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints.

[00:16:44.210]
So no matter if you're working with high school

[00:16:46.428]
students, adult students, undergraduate

[00:16:49.038]
or graduate students, they'll be able to find

[00:16:51.090]
content within Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

[00:16:53.389]
that's going to help them learn about current issues.

[00:16:58.940]
Now, I just want to take a look at one of our resources

[00:17:00.950]
so you can see some of the tools we have that are going

[00:17:02.989]
to help you and your students.

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Before I do, I know we haven't stopped for questions.

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So I do want to pause here. Are there any questions about

[00:17:09.529]
what to use when or about the

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Gale In Context resources in general?

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OK. I don't see anything. So let me

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jump over here. Da da

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da. Oops, almost

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close out of my session here.

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So I'm just going to use

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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints today to click through.

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But again, all of our in context resources

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function the same, the only difference

[00:17:34.969]
you'll see is Gale In Context: Elementary because

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we have changed up a little

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bit to make it easier for kiddos. But all of your

[00:17:41.259]
other in context, resources are going

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to function just like how we're going to walk through

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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints today.

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And the reason I chose opposing viewpoints

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may be a little bit obvious based on what's

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on the screen here.

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But we've just oops, see it did

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sign me out.

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Give me a second here, everyone. Sorry about that.

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That's what I get for leaving it sitting in my browser for

[00:18:04.009]
too long. Here we

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go. So the reason I chose Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

[00:18:08.229]
is we actually just launched

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a new topic page specifically for

[00:18:13.269]
this year's presidential election.

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And we've really kind of curated and made sure

[00:18:18.660]
that your users are getting

[00:18:20.809]
concise content that they need to make

[00:18:22.939]
sure they understand what's going on in this election.

[00:18:25.500]
And you'll see we've pulled it out into our issues

[00:18:27.578]
of interest right on the home page here and

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it's gonna stay here. So if you're planning on

[00:18:31.858]
sharing this out with your users, just,

[00:18:34.390]
you know, let them know it's right here for them

[00:18:36.400]
later on in the year, you know, after the election,

[00:18:38.729]
if maybe you want to take a look back, Isn't

[00:18:41.199]
that going to be the issues of interest? But it is going to

[00:18:43.250]
be listed here under our browse

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issue section.

[00:18:47.140]
This is where all of our topic pages are actually housed.

[00:18:49.509]
So if you're looking for a topic page

[00:18:51.709]
on voting or the electoral

[00:18:53.828]
college or something else related to the election,

[00:18:56.660]
you can click and browse through here, you'll

[00:18:58.670]
see, we have society and culture, we have law and

[00:19:00.699]
politics. Most

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likely you'll find content in both of those. If you're looking

[00:19:04.939]
for a topic related to the

[00:19:07.019]
election, maybe global climate change,

[00:19:09.130]
you'll see energy and environmentalism here

[00:19:11.809]
and you can also search. So if you have users

[00:19:13.818]
coming in and they're just looking for

[00:19:16.309]
whatever topic, you know, most of them are most

[00:19:18.400]
likely going to run a search.

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So I'm going to run a search here for

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the presidential election

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because we'll say that's what I'm most interested in.

[00:19:27.019]
When I do that here, you'll see these top

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entries are actually topic

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pages. You'll see they're called topic guides

[00:19:33.680]
here. But these are going to pull us to those curated

[00:19:36.059]
pages instead of just getting the basic search

[00:19:38.160]
results page. So even if your users

[00:19:40.299]
aren't pointing and clicking to different topic pages,

[00:19:42.858]
if they start running a search that

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has a related topic page,

[00:19:46.900]
we're going to pull that up for them here and they can click

[00:19:49.108]
right into it. So again, let's click

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into our presidential election of 2024.

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OK. There we go.

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And now this is our topic page here. So again,

[00:19:59.189]
at the very top, we're going to have our overview,

[00:20:01.759]
I can hit read more to read the entire thing.

[00:20:05.098]
You see, we have some critical thinking questions

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listed in here

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as well as some main ideas towards the top.

[00:20:11.160]
That's going to give a bit more background about this

[00:20:13.250]
election.

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Gonna hit my back button here.

[00:20:17.779]
Now scrolling down on the topic page again, we've

[00:20:19.828]
broken each type of

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content into these different content buckets

[00:20:24.250]
here and you'll see it's very precise.

[00:20:26.309]
We're not inundating them with huge amounts

[00:20:28.588]
of content. So you'll see they have 10

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feature viewpoints. We have some

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images, our news reports listed

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here. Academic works, multimedia

[00:20:37.390]
is broken up into videos, audio

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and magazines.

[00:20:41.118]
We also have one infographic, which

[00:20:43.189]
is that interactive statistic. And

[00:20:45.380]
then we have five other statistics that are not interactive

[00:20:48.140]
but are still a statistic

[00:20:51.309]
scrolling down. You'll start to see those listed here.

[00:20:55.098]
And then at the very bottom of the page, we also

[00:20:57.219]
have related topics here. So if we want

[00:20:59.259]
to move forward,

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oh, we have a quick question here in our Q and

[00:21:04.469]
A can one play audio of the text.

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Yes, we certainly can. Once I

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click into one of our documents,

[00:21:11.250]
I'll show you how we can do that. Yep.

[00:21:16.059]
So again, at the very bottom of the topic

[00:21:18.189]
pages here, we do have related

[00:21:20.380]
topics. So if we want to move forward a little bit,

[00:21:22.568]
maybe we want to know about the presidential election

[00:21:24.689]
process. We have that here.

[00:21:26.930]
We don't know what a two party system is. Maybe we

[00:21:29.009]
can click here to learn more about that. We have our voting

[00:21:31.410]
laws, voter registration. So this

[00:21:33.588]
is a nice way to access different types of

[00:21:35.608]
content as well. At the very bottom of all of our

[00:21:37.640]
topic pages, we're going to have related

[00:21:39.848]
topics so they can start to click into.

[00:21:43.959]
Now, I do want to show you before I click into

[00:21:46.140]
a text document so I can show you all of our accessibility

[00:21:48.608]
tools like the read speaker and things I

[00:21:50.640]
want to show you what our infographics look like because I think

[00:21:52.890]
these are really great to share out with

[00:21:54.900]
users, especially those who may struggle a little

[00:21:57.068]
bit with reading charts and graphs here. So

[00:21:59.309]
this one is us voters view of Joe

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Biden and Donald Trump abilities to serve as President

[00:22:04.144]
February 2024. So you see this one's a little

[00:22:06.493]
bit older since obviously, everyone knows that

[00:22:09.114]
Joe Biden is no longer in the running.

[00:22:11.233]
But I think it's still relevant to have that

[00:22:13.354]
background of how this election season

[00:22:15.614]
started because of course, this election

[00:22:17.654]
season started a lot differently than

[00:22:19.795]
it has in the past.

[00:22:21.660]
So if I scroll down here again,

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these are interactive so I can hover

[00:22:25.848]
over these to see what these different colors mean.

[00:22:27.989]
Of course, it is telling me. But if it's

[00:22:30.229]
hard for me to read this little graph here,

[00:22:32.289]
I can hover over and see, ok, 67%

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of people said yes,

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31% said no.

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And you'll see it kind of breaks it down for me.

[00:22:42.019]
So this one is asking has the fitness to serve

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35% say yes, 62%

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say, say no has the mental fitness

[00:22:50.338]
scrolling down looks like there's a another

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one listed here as well. So this is views

[00:22:54.539]
on Biden and Trump's personality and temperament.

[00:22:57.029]
So you can see, I can break it out

[00:22:59.049]
even further. So is ethical cares

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about average Americans has the kind of personality

[00:23:04.170]
and temperament to serve effectively.

[00:23:07.068]
And then again, I can see the percent that

[00:23:09.160]
say yes, the percent that say no for both Joe Biden

[00:23:11.818]
and Donald Trump.

[00:23:13.739]
And I will say as we get more statistics

[00:23:15.848]
and things like that moving forward, they will

[00:23:17.868]
be added to this topic page as well,

[00:23:20.130]
which is what I really love about these topic pages

[00:23:22.279]
is they're very dynamic. So as we

[00:23:24.328]
get new content, we're always uploading

[00:23:26.670]
and updating. So as things start to happen

[00:23:28.868]
in this election, there are, they'll

[00:23:31.088]
all appear here

[00:23:33.588]
and we have a question. Are users allowed to

[00:23:35.608]
download or copy paste, infographics

[00:23:38.140]
so they

[00:23:41.068]
can download the page but it

[00:23:43.078]
won't be interactive.

[00:23:44.979]
So we do have some tools here that will let

[00:23:47.000]
them send this information over to their drives

[00:23:49.618]
or email or download or print.

[00:23:52.150]
Um But it will go over static so they'll still get

[00:23:54.209]
the information but they won't be able to hover over

[00:23:56.380]
and get that information for them that way.

[00:24:05.279]
OK. Now let's click into an actual

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piece of text. We'll just click into the overview

[00:24:09.699]
here to work with some of our different tools.

[00:24:13.318]
So as I just quickly mentioned,

[00:24:15.630]
we do have tools to send information over

[00:24:18.150]
to different areas. So if I want to

[00:24:20.209]
send over to my Google or my Microsoft drives

[00:24:22.549]
to save this content for later, I can,

[00:24:24.799]
I can email, download or print,

[00:24:27.059]
I can also do that up top here. You'll see I have

[00:24:29.108]
sent to

[00:24:30.660]
which expands to being Google what driver,

[00:24:33.019]
email,

[00:24:34.719]
download and print right here.

[00:24:37.039]
And I also have this nice get link feature

[00:24:39.410]
and this is great for users who may want to

[00:24:41.489]
come back to the content. They just want to copy and paste

[00:24:43.739]
a link. But it also comes in handy for

[00:24:45.890]
you as educators as librarians.

[00:24:48.318]
If you found a piece of content, you think is going

[00:24:50.410]
to be really helpful for your users. You

[00:24:52.469]
can use this, get link, copy and paste it wherever

[00:24:54.670]
you want it to go. And they're going to be able

[00:24:56.789]
to access this piece of content directly

[00:24:58.959]
without having to worry about signing in.

[00:25:01.318]
Now, if they decide to move forward with their research,

[00:25:03.630]
you know, they want to click through and read some different articles on their

[00:25:05.729]
own. At that point, they will need to authenticate

[00:25:08.309]
however you do. So if they're automatically

[00:25:10.430]
authenticated through IP address or something like that,

[00:25:13.219]
they won't need to worry about it, but they'll

[00:25:15.229]
authenticate. However you normally authenticate, but

[00:25:17.309]
you can share this link out with them. So they

[00:25:19.348]
can get this little taste of the resource

[00:25:22.209]
without having to worry about sending out their password

[00:25:24.539]
too. So the scant link is a really nice feature

[00:25:27.868]
and this link is also available

[00:25:30.059]
for topic pages as well as search results pages.

[00:25:32.439]
So if you instead of sharing out this document,

[00:25:34.920]
if you want to share out the full presidential

[00:25:37.439]
election of 2024 topic page.

[00:25:39.779]
If I jump back very quickly here,

[00:25:42.180]
you'll see my gut link is at the same spot.

[00:25:44.420]
So now I'm linking to everything found

[00:25:46.519]
on this topic page. As opposed to just

[00:25:48.640]
the document I clicked into.

[00:25:52.670]
Now quickly, I wanna show you here our accessibility

[00:25:54.838]
tools because we did have a question about having

[00:25:56.939]
text read aloud and we can

[00:25:59.059]
do that here with this little listen button that's found under

[00:26:01.338]
the title here.

[00:26:03.000]
And I'm not sharing my audio. So I'm just going to pause this

[00:26:05.180]
because it won't play. But when I hit that button, you'll

[00:26:07.318]
see it pops, this pops up this little

[00:26:09.479]
listen feature and it's going to play automatically

[00:26:12.029]
and it does read through everything. So it'll read through the title,

[00:26:14.900]
the article itself. If there is an

[00:26:16.949]
image with a caption attached to it, it will

[00:26:19.029]
read through the caption for everyone

[00:26:21.390]
so that you be able to click that and listen.

[00:26:29.650]
And another question here, if a patron wants to share to

[00:26:31.699]
someone without a library card, could they access

[00:26:33.930]
the link or will it prompt a log in? So if

[00:26:36.068]
they use that link, anyone will be able to

[00:26:38.199]
add to access that

[00:26:40.400]
one link even without a login

[00:26:42.559]
bit of information. But if it is, they decide

[00:26:44.920]
to move further. So if I shared this link out,

[00:26:47.489]
anyone can access it.

[00:26:49.380]
But if I decided then to click back

[00:26:51.759]
into the topic page. Or if I decided to run

[00:26:53.890]
a search at that point, I would have

[00:26:56.059]
to authenticate at that point. It's considered

[00:26:58.068]
me doing my own research and I have to prove

[00:27:00.170]
that I should have access to this.

[00:27:10.689]
So in addition to our listen tool

[00:27:12.989]
to help with accessibility, we also have

[00:27:15.170]
a few different ways to change the display

[00:27:17.289]
here. So the first is going to be our translate option.

[00:27:19.890]
You'll see we have quite a few different languages

[00:27:22.318]
to translate into.

[00:27:23.779]
And we can also set an interface language

[00:27:26.078]
which is going to change the language of all

[00:27:28.239]
of the different tools and navigation

[00:27:30.299]
that you see around here. It's going to change to that language.

[00:27:33.689]
And if I did decide to translate this document,

[00:27:36.390]
let's say into Spanish and I hit the listen

[00:27:38.608]
button after I translated to Spanish,

[00:27:40.729]
it will read this to me in Spanish.

[00:27:43.309]
So it will read in whatever language I chose,

[00:27:45.390]
which again is a nice feature to help aid in that accessibility.

[00:27:49.348]
We can also increase or decrease the font

[00:27:51.368]
size as needed.

[00:27:53.588]
And we have these nice display options here

[00:27:55.640]
as well. So these displays, let me

[00:27:57.739]
change the color of the background of what

[00:27:59.799]
I'm reading. It also gives me different options

[00:28:02.068]
for different fonts here.

[00:28:03.959]
And we do have a dyslexia font. So if that's

[00:28:06.029]
helpful for your users, they can click right

[00:28:08.068]
here into the dyslexic font

[00:28:10.640]
and we can also change the line letter and word spacing

[00:28:12.769]
here. So you'll see this,

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we can make this really customized for your

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users. And what's nice is once they change

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this

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one time, so when they click

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into an article and they edit this and make it look how

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they want it to look, this is going to follow them

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along throughout the session. So they won't need to change

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it with each new article. Once they find

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something, make their edits, they'll be

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able to read like this for the full session,

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clicking back into the display options. We can also

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go back to our defaults

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right here at any time

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and we're back to where we started with the

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look here.

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Now, we've only got one minute left. So I wanna make sure

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I have time to give you all some wrap up information

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and answer any questions that I

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wasn't able to. So, if

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you have questions about those tools that I just briefly

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went over or anything else, we went over, go

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ahead and put those into the Q and A.

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And while you're doing that, I'm just going to give some wrap

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up information. So if you have any questions

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for me, once the session is done, feel free to

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reach out again. My name is Amber Winters.

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My email is just [email protected]

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if you want to talk a little bit further about

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your collection and how you can leverage it in your

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learning community. So if you want to get a little bit more specific

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to yourself and to your users,

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you can reach out to your customer success manager.

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They can give you a lot of great best practices in getting

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this information out. If you don't know who your

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customer success manager is currently,

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you can send an email to [email protected]

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and we'll forward you to

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the correct person. You can schedule a meeting with them.

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If you saw a resource here today that you

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don't have, but you're interested in, you can feel

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free to reach out to your sales consultant.

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Again, you can reach out to them directly or

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you can go to support.gale.com/repfinder,

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you'll put in your information and then we'll let you know who you

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should be reaching out to.

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And finally, if you need additional support information,

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additional webinars, if you want to take a look at our tip

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sheets, if you need a quick activity

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related to one of your gale resources, we

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have all of that pre created as well as marketing

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materials on our support site, which

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is just support.gale.com. So it's

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a great way to find some additional helpful information.

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Don't re invent the wheel if you're planning on

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marketing or getting this information out to your users,

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take a look at our support site first and I almost

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guarantee you'll find some helpful information for you there.

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Now, I haven't seen any additional questions come up

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and we have hit our time for the day.

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So I do appreciate everyone for being

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on the line. If you do think of questions, please

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feel free to reach out to anyone through any of the

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channels that I just told you about. Otherwise,

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hopefully we'll see you all in future sessions and

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please enjoy the rest of your day.