Duration: 30 Minutes
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Thank you again everyone for joining.
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My name is Amber Winters and I am a senior training
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consultant here at Gale. And today we're
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going to be talking about how you can teach ethnic
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studies with your gale in context resources.
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And first off today, I want to talk about some of the
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different supporting content pieces that
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are going to help you as you start to build your curriculum
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for your classes. And I want to point out today
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since we're talking about scale and context
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as a whole, as opposed to just one or two of the
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resources I have kept this a bit
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more broad, talking more about content types
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and content buckets as opposed
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to very specific examples of content.
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So you'll be able to kind of explore the specifics
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on your own. But I'm going to give you the foundational
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framework to be able to do that.
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After that, we're going to talk a bit about different
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strategies and tools that you can use in your classroom
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classroom. So not only finding the content
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but different ways that you can leverage it to best support
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your students and we will have some time at the
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very end of the session for any questions you have
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and I have some contact information as well.
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So again, since this is going to be a bit more
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of a broad session covering all of the in context,
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resources, if you're interested in your
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particular collection and want to dive in a little
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bit more on how it relates to your school and
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your curriculum.
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At the end of the session, I'll give you information
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for your customer success manager and they can dive
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in and be a little more specific. So
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kind of moving forward.
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And again, if you have questions as we move through
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the session, feel free to put them into the Q and A
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I do have it up and monitoring it and I should be
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able to get everything answered. A if
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not, it'll be answered at the very end of the session
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here. So
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first, I just want to mention all of Gale in context.
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So you see here, we have a lot of resources and a lot of
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different subjects. And I
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personally didn't think that's great for an ethnic
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studies class because we are able to bring you a holistic
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approach to ethnic studies. So
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you will find kind of your standard, but you would expect
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things like your social studies resources, your
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current events resources.
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But we also have some great content for ethnic
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studies in our new Gale and con context
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literature. So if you're planning on
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studying authors from different ethnic
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groups or studying different topics
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or concepts that are really applicable
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to whatever you're studying. You may want to take a look
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at your gale and context literature resource.
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You'll find great content.
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We also have two science resources that may
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be a part of your collection. If they are,
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don't count them out for your ethnic studies
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classes because we do have a lot of great topic
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pages in those resources that
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cover health care discrepancies,
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how different environmental um topics
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are impacting different ethnic groups. So
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those are available for you as well if they're in your collection
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and we do have our three cross curricular resources
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that most likely a lot of you currently have
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access to slide scale in context, elementary
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middle school and high school.
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And those really give an overarching,
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look at your curriculum
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and overarching, look at all of the topics we have available.
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And I'd like to see the these cross curricular
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are more broad but just a little bit more shallow.
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And as you get into these content, subject
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specific resources, they're going to get deeper.
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So their focus will be narrowed down, let's
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say, just to us history and you'll be able to
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dig a lot deeper.
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So I do sometimes get questions which resource
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should I start on? If you do have
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the whole collection, of course, sometimes it is a little bit
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overwhelming.
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So I do suggest if you're a little bit overwhelmed
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as we're starting through the session, maybe you're trying to follow
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along in your own resources. It's sometimes
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beneficial to start off with a cross curricular
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resource. So if you're in the middle school
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environment gale in context, middle school
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and start your searching and your learning just
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in that cross curricular. So you're going to get kind of
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that base surface level of content. And
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as you start to move forward, you may see
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that you need to dive a little bit bigger. Maybe you need
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some biographies on individuals
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that aren't quite covering these cross curricular
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resources, then you can dive deeper
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into something like biography or us or world
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history. So
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of course, how you approach these resources in your
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classroom is completely up to you.
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But just a suggestion, a lot of times that cross
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curricular starting point is a really nice way to
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get to that.
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Now, when we're specifically talking about ethnic
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studies, we really cover four main topics
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or main main categories that are going to support
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your class. The first is going to be history
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as expected. Of course, ethnic studies
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doesn't just start with where we are. everything
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that's impacting an ethnic group started previously
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started in the history. So we've got a huge collection
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of history materials that are going to help you out
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followed, of course by cultures and religions.
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So in addition to just the cultural
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experiences of the different ethnic
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groups. We also cover their religions, all
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of the different religions of the world. You'll find some
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great content here as well.
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People, we have a huge
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collection of biographies that are going to supplement
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your learning. So as you're starting to go through different
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ethnic groups and kind of teach about
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different areas, different people, we've
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got the support of different biographies and primary
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sources for you.
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And finally, our current events, especially
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if you have access to Gael and context,
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opposing viewpoints or Gael and context
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global issues, you'll find a huge amount of current
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event content, things like newspapers
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and magazines that are going to really bring the
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outside world into your classroom. You're
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getting beyond the standard curriculum and
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your students are really starting to see how this is actually
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playing out around them, what different groups
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are going through, how they can be supported,
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how everyone can kind of interact together.
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So it's a really nice piece to have all of that current event
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content.
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So let's just dive a little bit deeper into those
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four categories. So first up is history
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and we've got content all the way from ancient
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history to more contemporary history, both
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in the US and the world. So we'll have
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information on things like politics and key
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events that have kind of come
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and go as well as different social movements.
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So you'll find things in here like Ancient Africa.
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If you're really starting from
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the very basic and are planning to move forward,
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you'll also find
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different
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acts laws, things like
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that court cases related
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to different ethnic groups. So you'll be able to pull that
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content forward for your students. We
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also have information on different groups
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and parties that have been created kind of moving
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through. So again, as you're moving forward
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in your timeline, we'll be able to pull that content
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for you as well.
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And we have different movements in here, which I
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personally think is a really great feature and we
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have information on different movements and a lot of
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our different resources particularly
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our cross curricular resources gall
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in context, us history, as well as
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galling context, opposing move, opposing
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viewpoints.
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you'll find great overviews about different
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movements. Again, to really kind of solidify
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what students are learning about, to understand
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the experiences of these different ethnic
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groups and how they're
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related to society and how society
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is related to them
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moving forward from history. We do have information
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both on cultures and religions.
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What's really nice is we have what we call topic
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pages, we'll dig into a little bit more, but
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we have topic pages on specific groups
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you'll see here. We have a topic page just for Japanese
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individuals, kind of giving a little bit of a background.
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We also have it on different countries.
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So as you start to work through different groups, if, if
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you want to talk about generally
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the home countries they come from. We do
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have some great topic pages created for those
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as well. You'll see we include quick facts here
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and kind of pull forward a little bit more after
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religions we've also chosen to highlight
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here. You'll see, we've got Buddha Buddhism listed
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to give again that nice background for students.
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And finally, we do also have quite a bit of holiday
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information, which I think is a really nice feature.
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So not only are we learning about you
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know, the history of individuals and kind of the current
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events around individuals, we get to learn specifically
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about their culture, you'll see, have pulled forward
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here. So be able to kind of learn
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what they do during this holiday, what the holiday
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day is celebrating
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and really engage more
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deeply than just kind of getting the basic
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facts.
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And our people here are kind of obvious,
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but we've got a huge collection of biographies. I
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do like to point out though that it's both historical
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and contemporary figures. So it's the kind
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of the historical that you would expect to see.
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But we've also started pulling it into kind
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of current again to try to bring the real
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world into your classroom. So
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you'll find those standing bear
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Frida callow things like that. But then
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you'll also start to see individuals like Lizzo
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and Elan Omar as well. So we're trying
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to pull all of this forward. You'll see they are
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a, a wide variety of individuals. You'll find
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people all the way from music
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and politics to authors and writing
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to
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scientists. If you're planning on highlighting
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key scientists in different ethnic groups,
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you'll find a huge collection of scientific
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biographies as well. So really
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a broad range of biographies available
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to you
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and finally, current events, I really like to highlight
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our news and magazines that are found in a lot of our
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resources that they're updated
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daily. You'll notice if you do start to kind of click
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through on your own, you're going to find a, a lot
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of the news and magazine content that's going to pop
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up. As the most current is going
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to be, you know, last month, last
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week, we really try to keep it as up to date
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as possible. So you can bring that content to
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your students. So you're going to find information
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and current trends in society. So like Islamophobia,
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you'll also find if there is something that we've chosen
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to highlight here, missing and murdered indigenous
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women and girls is a, a big topic
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of interest that a lot of individuals are studying.
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So we've chosen to pull that information forward
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to make it really kind of
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simple and easy for you and your students to find.
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We also have things like multiracial America,
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which is a much more broad topic, but
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something that is also discussed frequently
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and you'll find things like migrant workers as well.
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So again, there are current events that are kind
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of happening but also just current trends
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in America and in society as a whole.
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Now, within all of those different topics in
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those buckets, we have a few different content types
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that I want to point out to you as you start to kind of
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clip clicking through the resource and finding
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content.
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The first being our topic overviews and these
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are found in all of the in context, resources.
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These are going to give a nice background
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about whatever topic, whatever group of individuals,
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whatever event you're going to be looking at and you're going
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to be teaching your students.
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It's really nice for you. If it's something you haven't looked
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at in a while, but it's also great to forward along to
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students. They'll be able to get that that
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base before they dive deeper into
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their studies.
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We've also got a huge collection of primary
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sources,
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which I find extremely beneficial
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for our our students is to kind of start to click
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through. So if you're looking from, for primary
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sources from various eras, you'll find
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that in the resources as well. We've got
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a large collection of course within gale and context
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us history. But we also have them included
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in Gale in context: high school
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Gale In Context: Middle School Gale In Context: Elementary.
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so you do have primary sources for all levels
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and for all grades available to you as well.
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Our multimedia content is huge.
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I know sometimes when we think about online
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resources like this, we think about text,
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we think about, you know, reference articles, newspapers
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and things like that, but we've got a huge
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collection of images, videos
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podcasts that really kind of
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bring that extra layer for your students. So if
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you have struggling readers or maybe
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you're just trying to spice up a little bit, you notice you have
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kind of a text heavy units
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or lesson that's coming up. We can kind
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of help you spice that up a little bit. We've got a huge
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multimedia collection that's listed within our resources
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as well.
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And finally, I did already mention it, but
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our biographies are found throughout the entire
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in context suite. So even if you don't have access
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to Gale and context biography, you'll
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be able to find biographies on key individuals
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in whatever subject you've clicked into. So
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be it science, environmental studies,
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US history, you'll find individuals
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in all of those resources to support you as
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you kind of teach through your students.
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Now, I will pause quickly. I've talked
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quite a bit and I wanna make sure there aren't any questions
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that have come up just about the different content
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types that we have available.
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OK? I don't see any questions. So
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I want to move forward now and talk about the organization
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of our resources specifically
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today, I want to talk about topic pages. These
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pages are perfectly
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designed to give to students at the beginning
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of a lesson or the beginning of a unit
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just to keep them organized, whatever they're
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learning about. You see, I've pulled forward today,
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the Black Lives Matter topic page on
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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints.
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But what we've done is we've made this really simple
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kind of one stop shop for information.
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So at the very top of these topic pages,
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we include a topic overview.
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That's just a basic starting point. You know, this
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is what we're going to be studying here are some key facts.
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But then underneath it, we've pulled forward
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all of the different content onto this nice
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on this page button here.
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So this is great for students who are maybe
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looking for. Remember I mentioned our podcast, if they're
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looking for an audio file, they can just
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click directly into there. So it's saving them
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the search instead of running a search for Black
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Lives Matter and then kind of weeding through the
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results that way they land on this topic
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page and we've, we did it for them, we've
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organized it for them so they can kind of point
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and click through and find information they need.
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And then on the bottom of that page, we
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have the content bucket. So each of these different
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content, content types are pulled
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down below here. So your students can see
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kind of the top three results
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listed
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and generally they are organized by relevancy.
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So they'll be able to see those top three relevancy.
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We have a quick question
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here that I'm just going to read through earlier in the
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presentation, you showed a page on the Chinese Exclusion
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Act. Does that page include current
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events covering a api discrimination
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happening today?
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Um
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So I believe that image that I showed was from
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context us history. So that is more
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focused in the past. But I will
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say within a lot of our resources, we actually
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have Asian American and Pacific
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Islander topic pages
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that are going to cover the culture, the history kind
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of current events. And I'm actually, I've got one of those
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ready to go that I want to show you anonymous and attending. So
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thanks for asking right now. Um
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We'll take a look and you'll be able to see what's kind of currently
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going on.
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Jumping ahead of me. I already know where I'm going with this.
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I love it.
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Um So let's go ahead and move forward here.
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So just a couple ideas for using top
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topic pages in your classroom and then we're going
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to dive in to actually see how they function
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first. They're really great activity
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starting point. So if you're planning
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on starting talking about, let's say discrimination
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against a api individuals,
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you can start off on a topic page and you can
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actually build different activities right, directly
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from that start that, topic
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page. So things like scavenger hunts
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and escape, escape rooms are great ways to get
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students actively engaged in the content
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without really feeling like researching.
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You know, you're not telling them to start searching
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for and find some information.
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you're giving them activities that they can do
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and they hit this one landing point. So
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you're not having to kind of direct them to different places
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and help them work through different
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maybe more advanced searches. They're
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landing in one spot and they're just pointing and
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clicking and finding the content they need.
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In addition, they're really great bellringer fuel
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again. Perfect landing point. And you can
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have your students find me a picture
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that you want to analyze or look at one of our overviews
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and answer some critical thinking questions and
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that's something they can do on their own while you're taking attendance
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or while you're doing whatever you need to do before getting started.
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They can just find that info and it's ready
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to go for them. Nice and simple. Right on the topic
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page.
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Finally, it's great as a review. Of
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course, once you are ready to move on, they can
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just take another quick look at the overview
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and we also have a related topic section
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found on our topic pages as well.
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So if you are kind of wrapping up and you're wanting
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to move forward sometimes that related
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topic is going to help your students move forward
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and find another topic of interest that they can
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keep learning about.
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So, let's go ahead and take a look.
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There are a few different ways we can find
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the real, almost timed
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out but didn't there are a few different ways we
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can find topic pages here. So I'm going
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to cover that as opposed to a standard, just
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search
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walkthrough because I'm sure you're all familiar
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with how searching works. Of course.
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So we're just going to take a look at finding topic
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pages. So the first way to do that is just to scroll
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down on the home page. I've chosen to click into
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ga and context high school today, but
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it works the same for all of your other context, resources.
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So if you're working through us, history or
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biography,
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you'll get the same look. It's slightly different
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in Gale and context elementary just because we've
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toned it down a little bit for the young kids. But,
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we still have the topic page layout within
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Gale and context elementary.
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But if I scroll to the very bottom of the page here,
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you'll see, I have my option to browse different topics
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and you'll see we have some different, oops,
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I did get signed out. Give me a second here.
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Sorry about that.
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It didn't click through in time.
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There we go.
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So you see, we have some different categories available
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here and we can click into all of the categories.
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So, if I want to take a look at world cultures and religion,
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now I'll be able to see all of the topic pages.
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We have CRE created related
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to that specific category
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and these aren't every topic we
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have in the resource, as you could imagine. We
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aren't able to create topic pages for every
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idea or every
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everything that can be found in the resource.
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We build topic pages about the most
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searched, the most used and the most studied
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topics. So if you're kind
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of clicking through and don't find exactly what you're looking
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for in our topic pages, or maybe your students have
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something very specific,
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maybe less studied in mine, then they'll
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run their basic search and they'll pull content that
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way. But a lot of the key topics
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that are being studied will be found
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on these topic pages. So again, we can
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browse
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the very top here. I can choose
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to nar out all my topics. I can view all of
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them if I hit view all, take
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a second to load. there's
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a lot here,
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of course. So another way to find our topic pages
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is to start running a search when I
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do that. Anything that has a topic page. So let's
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take a look at Asian American and Pacific
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Islanders
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as I start to type through here. Anything
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with this predictive text that's bolded
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is a topic page.
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So you'll see, we actually have two within gallon context
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high school. We have one specifically
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just Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
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and we have one that's about Asian American
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Pacific Islander Heritage Month. So we've pulled
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forward content specifically
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related to the month as opposed to the,
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the culture and the individuals as a whole.
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So let's click on the first one here
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and now we're pulled here to our topic page.
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And these again, look the same in all of our resources
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except for Galan context. Elementary does look
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slightly different for our young kids.
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But as I start to scroll down now on my
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topic page at the very top here, I have my
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overview so we can hit read more
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and we can actually send this right out to kids if we want
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to, if we want to give them a background before we get
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started,
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you'll see on all of our overviews. We also
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have critical thinking questions. So another Great
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Bell Ringer idea, if you want students to start
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taking a look at this, maybe, you know, answer these
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three critical thinking questions and we're gonna talk about them
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in 10, 15 minutes just to
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get them kind of started in their learning
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and jumping back to the topic page here.
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Underneath this overview.
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Again, you'll see all of the different bits of content
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we have here. So you'll see specifically
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within Galan context, high School. We've got a reference works
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video, we've got some academic journals. So
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if you're teaching a more advanced
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group of students, we have our academic
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journals listed here as well, primary sources,
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all that great stuff listed here
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scrolling down. Now they'll be able to see all of that
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content and can kind of click into whatever they're
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interested in.
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And then at the very bottom, as I mentioned before,
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let's scroll down there,
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we have our related topics.
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So as you start to move forward, if you're
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planning another lesson, maybe specifically
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related to Vietnamese Americans,
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we can click directly there and move that research
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forward again on another topic page.
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This one you'll see it looks a little bit different because it's about
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individuals. So we give some quick facts
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on the overview,
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but we can click back and forth right on the topic
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page. So I really don't have to search
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very much. I can pull this forward
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and be ready to go.
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And another great feature. If you are ever planning
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on using topic pages with your students,
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I'd like to point out our get link button up top
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here. When I hit this
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get link, it gives me a persistent URL back to
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this topic page. So if you want to share
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it with them, they can just click in right here.
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They'll be taken right to this page. So they won't need
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to search through on their own. They won't need to browse through on
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their own. You can really make sure every student
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is getting to exactly where they need to be to start
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the class or to start the lesson or
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whatever they're planning on doing.
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We also have integration with the Google classroom as
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well. So if you're using Google classroom, you can actually
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send this topic page over there as
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well. I'm not going to go through it all the way today.
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Oh, not at all because I'm not signed in.
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We're not gonna spend the time but you'll be able
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to make an announcement activity, all that good
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stuff and it will link specifically to this topic
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page. So again, I love
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these, when we're talking about
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specific topics that are studied
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frequently, they'll be found here and they'll
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be ready for you to use nice and clean and
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organized.
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Now, in addition to our topic pages, I do just
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want to go over a few tools that are going to
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be helpful specifically to your students. So
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once you have all of this great content found
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on a topic page or just of course, run
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through a search. If you're trying to find content that way,
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we've got some tools that are going to help your students
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learn quite a bit.
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We just got a couple of things pop up here in the
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Q and A
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um
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A question on the images
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that show it up a little bit
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strange on your screen. Um an an Satan.
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If you want to send me an email directly, I can
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um reach out to you to see exactly what you mean
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about the images looking strange.
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Um Could certainly just be
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a, a look on the screen but
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send me an email response to the email
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I sent later and I'll be able to take a look at that with you.
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And we have another question when you copy paste the
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get link, does it require a student to log
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in before accessing it? That's a really great question.
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So the page that you're taken to. So the topic
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page, they won't need to authenticate.
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So they'll be able to see the topic page when
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they decide to move forward with their learning.
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So if they decide to click into one of the
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articles or a video or something like that,
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at that point, they'll need to authenticate however
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they normally do to get into your resource. So if
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they use a password they'll be prompted
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for a password.
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Um
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If you're using a signing in with Microsoft
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or something like that, you'll be required to sign at that point,
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but they will be able to see the topic page itself
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without signing in
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and we're getting close to the end of our time. So I do
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want to show you these tools. So once your students
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have this content in their hands, either
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they found it themselves or you will be able to pull it for
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them. They can
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start to access that content. As I mentioned, get link,
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it's found on documents here as well.
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But they also have the option to share and save
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content in other ways here as well. You'll see they can
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send over to their Google or their Microsoft drive.
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If they want to hold on to this piece of content for
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a later time, maybe they're using it in a project
[00:23:06.640]
and they want to save it. That's the way to do
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it, send over to their drives. They could also email
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it, download it or print it.
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So whichever way they prefer is completely fine
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there. We also have some great text
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manipulation features and accessibility
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features that I like to point out for your students.
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We do have a translate capability so
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they can translate both the text, whoops
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both the text of the article
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as well as the platform itself. They can translate
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all of our tools and navigation to whatever language
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they need.
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They can also change how the text looks on
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the screen. You'll see they can change colors, they can
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change fonts and the line spacing
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to really make it as accessible as possible
[00:23:43.469]
for them. We want them to be successful in what
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they're reading.
[00:23:47.279]
And finally, we do have a listen option here so
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they can have this article read to them if they're still
[00:23:51.400]
struggling reading, even if they've kind of edited
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how their screen looks, we can
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read that text to them and it does actually read
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in whatever language your student has the text
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set too. So if they translated, let's say to Spanish,
[00:24:03.358]
before they got started reading and they hit
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that listen tool, it's going to read to them in Spanish.
[00:24:07.979]
So a nice little additional feature for
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them to help them really be able to kind of grasp
[00:24:12.500]
the content they're learning about.
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And finally, we have highlights and notes. So
[00:24:17.828]
after you get this content to students, if you
[00:24:19.920]
want them to kind of read through, talk to
[00:24:21.979]
the text, annotate all that good stuff,
[00:24:24.009]
they can do that right on our platform. They don't need to print
[00:24:26.269]
it out or anything like that. They can just click
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and drag over any piece of text just
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like they would normally highlight something
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and they get this nice little pop up and they get to choose
[00:24:34.719]
a color they want to highlight with and they can add notes
[00:24:36.989]
here so they can really annotate
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a full piece of text and they
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can save it to their drives, they can print it,
[00:24:43.289]
they can email it
[00:24:44.910]
and use it for later. It's all ready to go. So they'll be
[00:24:46.969]
able to find those key points and text
[00:24:48.989]
right here on this page without having to print it out without
[00:24:51.259]
having to hand everyone, you know
[00:24:53.539]
highlighters and try to get them back at the end of the
[00:24:55.650]
class. they can do it all online
[00:24:57.930]
right here. Nice and simple.
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And since we're coming to the end of our time,
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I'm not going to walk through the tools time.
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I suggest taking a look when you have the time, just
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click into any, any old article
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and you'll be able to take a look at all of those tools.
[00:25:12.439]
But I do want to mention some pre created materials
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we have on our support site. So I know
[00:25:17.059]
I gave you some ideas, but
[00:25:19.189]
you're busy if you just want something quick,
[00:25:21.400]
a quick activity to run, we
[00:25:23.430]
have premade content on our support site, which
[00:25:25.630]
is support dale dot com.
[00:25:27.410]
You'll find full activities here
[00:25:29.529]
like this, this one specifically related
[00:25:31.989]
to Arab Americans and it's a station activity
[00:25:34.250]
that you'll be able to set up for your class. We
[00:25:36.259]
have things kind of like trading cards or like baseball
[00:25:38.709]
cards. This one is about native American
[00:25:40.769]
authors, but we also have some related
[00:25:43.049]
to countries,
[00:25:44.689]
um
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different environmental things. We've got a huge
[00:25:49.299]
collection of these trading cards here as well. Well,
[00:25:51.598]
where students will be able to answer questions about the individuals
[00:25:54.469]
on the backs of the cars and kind of run through research.
[00:25:56.858]
That way, we've also got premade
[00:25:58.880]
scavenger hunts. So again, as I mentioned, landing
[00:26:01.118]
on a topic page and building on
[00:26:03.209]
a scavenger hunt is a great way to get your students
[00:26:05.430]
researching
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without feeling like they're researching while actually
[00:26:09.199]
engaging and a lot of our topic.
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sorry, a lot of our scavenger hearts are actually
[00:26:14.229]
already built off topic pages. You'll see this
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one here. We built for Native American
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Heritage Month and we're using the Native North
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Americans before European colonization
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topic page. And we actually direct students
[00:26:25.150]
right there. So before they even get started, that's where
[00:26:27.209]
they need to go and then these answers are
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directly related to the content they're going to
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find.
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In addition to that premade stuff, we also have templates
[00:26:36.838]
for you. So we have a template first Avenger hunts.
[00:26:38.939]
If you're planning on building your own with some different
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topic pages that you've found,
[00:26:42.699]
we also have a blank bingo card that you can
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edit online. So if you want to play some bingo
[00:26:47.059]
with your gale resources, you can do that.
[00:26:49.209]
We've got a nice claim, evidence reasoning
[00:26:51.358]
template. If you're planning on working
[00:26:53.500]
through pro con arguments or talking through debates
[00:26:55.890]
or anything like that,
[00:26:57.250]
we've also got a full escape room template
[00:26:59.689]
which really comes in handy. It's
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a big template. You'll be able to decide how
[00:27:03.828]
much of it you want to use, how little,
[00:27:06.259]
but it's completely editable by you. We've
[00:27:08.809]
built it out simply for you to kind of just
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plug in the content that you found and
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roll with it.
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Now, I have some wrap up information for you, as
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I mentioned in the beginning of the session. If you
[00:27:21.479]
want to dive deeper into a very specific
[00:27:23.500]
topic or maybe your collection to talk
[00:27:25.709]
about what your collection has available. You
[00:27:27.949]
can reach out to your customer success manager. If you
[00:27:30.049]
haven't talked to them yet, I suggest you do. They're
[00:27:32.078]
really great. A lot of them,
[00:27:34.500]
most of them I think are former teachers. So
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they've been in the classroom just like yourselves
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and they, they're ready to help to make sure that you can
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get this content to your students. If
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you don't know who your customer success manager is, just
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send an email to [email protected]
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you'll be forwarded
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to the correct individual if you want to talk
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about gale in context at all. Maybe resources
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you don't currently have access to, you can always
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reach out to your sales consultant.
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If you don't know who that is, you can go to
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support.gale.com/repfinder
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you put in your information and we'll direct you to the
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correct individual.
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And if you want to take a look at any of those activities
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that we have created or any
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webinars, tutorials, flyers.
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If you're planning on getting this information out to teachers,
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you can go on our support site, which again is support
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dot gale dot com under the
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training center, you'll find those pre-made activities,
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lesson plans, all that good stuff.
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And I do have a training session survey. So if
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you all have the time to take that. I would really
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appreciate it if we want to make sure that we're covering
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the information you're looking for when you join our session.
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So you can either scan my QR code
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here or it pops up in your browser once our
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session is done
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again. Thank you for being on the line. Hopefully
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we'll see you in future sessions and please
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have a great rest of your day.
Thank you again everyone for joining.
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My name is Amber Winters and I am a senior training
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consultant here at Gale. And today we're
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going to be talking about how you can teach ethnic
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studies with your gale in context resources.
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And first off today, I want to talk about some of the
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different supporting content pieces that
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are going to help you as you start to build your curriculum
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for your classes. And I want to point out today
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since we're talking about scale and context
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as a whole, as opposed to just one or two of the
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resources I have kept this a bit
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more broad, talking more about content types
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and content buckets as opposed
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to very specific examples of content.
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So you'll be able to kind of explore the specifics
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on your own. But I'm going to give you the foundational
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framework to be able to do that.
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After that, we're going to talk a bit about different
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strategies and tools that you can use in your classroom
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classroom. So not only finding the content
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but different ways that you can leverage it to best support
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your students and we will have some time at the
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very end of the session for any questions you have
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and I have some contact information as well.
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So again, since this is going to be a bit more
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of a broad session covering all of the in context,
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resources, if you're interested in your
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particular collection and want to dive in a little
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bit more on how it relates to your school and
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your curriculum.
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At the end of the session, I'll give you information
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for your customer success manager and they can dive
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in and be a little more specific. So
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kind of moving forward.
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And again, if you have questions as we move through
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the session, feel free to put them into the Q and A
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I do have it up and monitoring it and I should be
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able to get everything answered. A if
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not, it'll be answered at the very end of the session
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here. So
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first, I just want to mention all of Gale in context.
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So you see here, we have a lot of resources and a lot of
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different subjects. And I
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personally didn't think that's great for an ethnic
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studies class because we are able to bring you a holistic
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approach to ethnic studies. So
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you will find kind of your standard, but you would expect
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things like your social studies resources, your
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current events resources.
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But we also have some great content for ethnic
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studies in our new Gale and con context
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literature. So if you're planning on
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studying authors from different ethnic
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groups or studying different topics
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or concepts that are really applicable
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to whatever you're studying. You may want to take a look
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at your gale and context literature resource.
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You'll find great content.
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We also have two science resources that may
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be a part of your collection. If they are,
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don't count them out for your ethnic studies
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classes because we do have a lot of great topic
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pages in those resources that
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cover health care discrepancies,
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how different environmental um topics
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are impacting different ethnic groups. So
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those are available for you as well if they're in your collection
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and we do have our three cross curricular resources
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that most likely a lot of you currently have
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access to slide scale in context, elementary
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middle school and high school.
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And those really give an overarching,
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look at your curriculum
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and overarching, look at all of the topics we have available.
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And I'd like to see the these cross curricular
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are more broad but just a little bit more shallow.
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And as you get into these content, subject
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specific resources, they're going to get deeper.
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So their focus will be narrowed down, let's
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say, just to us history and you'll be able to
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dig a lot deeper.
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So I do sometimes get questions which resource
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should I start on? If you do have
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the whole collection, of course, sometimes it is a little bit
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overwhelming.
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So I do suggest if you're a little bit overwhelmed
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as we're starting through the session, maybe you're trying to follow
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along in your own resources. It's sometimes
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beneficial to start off with a cross curricular
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resource. So if you're in the middle school
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environment gale in context, middle school
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and start your searching and your learning just
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in that cross curricular. So you're going to get kind of
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that base surface level of content. And
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as you start to move forward, you may see
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that you need to dive a little bit bigger. Maybe you need
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some biographies on individuals
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that aren't quite covering these cross curricular
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resources, then you can dive deeper
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into something like biography or us or world
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history. So
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of course, how you approach these resources in your
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classroom is completely up to you.
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But just a suggestion, a lot of times that cross
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curricular starting point is a really nice way to
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get to that.
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Now, when we're specifically talking about ethnic
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studies, we really cover four main topics
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or main main categories that are going to support
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your class. The first is going to be history
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as expected. Of course, ethnic studies
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doesn't just start with where we are. everything
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that's impacting an ethnic group started previously
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started in the history. So we've got a huge collection
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of history materials that are going to help you out
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followed, of course by cultures and religions.
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So in addition to just the cultural
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experiences of the different ethnic
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groups. We also cover their religions, all
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of the different religions of the world. You'll find some
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great content here as well.
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People, we have a huge
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collection of biographies that are going to supplement
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your learning. So as you're starting to go through different
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ethnic groups and kind of teach about
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different areas, different people, we've
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got the support of different biographies and primary
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sources for you.
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And finally, our current events, especially
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if you have access to Gael and context,
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opposing viewpoints or Gael and context
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global issues, you'll find a huge amount of current
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event content, things like newspapers
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and magazines that are going to really bring the
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outside world into your classroom. You're
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getting beyond the standard curriculum and
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your students are really starting to see how this is actually
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playing out around them, what different groups
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are going through, how they can be supported,
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how everyone can kind of interact together.
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So it's a really nice piece to have all of that current event
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content.
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So let's just dive a little bit deeper into those
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four categories. So first up is history
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and we've got content all the way from ancient
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history to more contemporary history, both
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in the US and the world. So we'll have
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information on things like politics and key
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events that have kind of come
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and go as well as different social movements.
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So you'll find things in here like Ancient Africa.
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If you're really starting from
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the very basic and are planning to move forward,
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you'll also find
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different
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acts laws, things like
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that court cases related
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to different ethnic groups. So you'll be able to pull that
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content forward for your students. We
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also have information on different groups
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and parties that have been created kind of moving
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through. So again, as you're moving forward
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in your timeline, we'll be able to pull that content
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for you as well.
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And we have different movements in here, which I
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personally think is a really great feature and we
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have information on different movements and a lot of
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our different resources particularly
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our cross curricular resources gall
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in context, us history, as well as
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galling context, opposing move, opposing
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viewpoints.
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you'll find great overviews about different
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movements. Again, to really kind of solidify
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what students are learning about, to understand
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the experiences of these different ethnic
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groups and how they're
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related to society and how society
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is related to them
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moving forward from history. We do have information
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both on cultures and religions.
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What's really nice is we have what we call topic
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pages, we'll dig into a little bit more, but
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we have topic pages on specific groups
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you'll see here. We have a topic page just for Japanese
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individuals, kind of giving a little bit of a background.
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We also have it on different countries.
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So as you start to work through different groups, if, if
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you want to talk about generally
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the home countries they come from. We do
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have some great topic pages created for those
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as well. You'll see we include quick facts here
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and kind of pull forward a little bit more after
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religions we've also chosen to highlight
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here. You'll see, we've got Buddha Buddhism listed
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to give again that nice background for students.
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And finally, we do also have quite a bit of holiday
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information, which I think is a really nice feature.
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So not only are we learning about you
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know, the history of individuals and kind of the current
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events around individuals, we get to learn specifically
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about their culture, you'll see, have pulled forward
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here. So be able to kind of learn
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what they do during this holiday, what the holiday
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day is celebrating
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and really engage more
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deeply than just kind of getting the basic
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facts.
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And our people here are kind of obvious,
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but we've got a huge collection of biographies. I
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do like to point out though that it's both historical
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and contemporary figures. So it's the kind
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of the historical that you would expect to see.
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But we've also started pulling it into kind
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of current again to try to bring the real
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world into your classroom. So
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you'll find those standing bear
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Frida callow things like that. But then
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you'll also start to see individuals like Lizzo
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and Elan Omar as well. So we're trying
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to pull all of this forward. You'll see they are
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a, a wide variety of individuals. You'll find
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people all the way from music
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and politics to authors and writing
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to
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scientists. If you're planning on highlighting
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key scientists in different ethnic groups,
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you'll find a huge collection of scientific
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biographies as well. So really
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a broad range of biographies available
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to you
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and finally, current events, I really like to highlight
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our news and magazines that are found in a lot of our
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resources that they're updated
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daily. You'll notice if you do start to kind of click
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through on your own, you're going to find a, a lot
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of the news and magazine content that's going to pop
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up. As the most current is going
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to be, you know, last month, last
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week, we really try to keep it as up to date
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as possible. So you can bring that content to
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your students. So you're going to find information
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and current trends in society. So like Islamophobia,
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you'll also find if there is something that we've chosen
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to highlight here, missing and murdered indigenous
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women and girls is a, a big topic
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of interest that a lot of individuals are studying.
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So we've chosen to pull that information forward
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to make it really kind of
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simple and easy for you and your students to find.
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We also have things like multiracial America,
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which is a much more broad topic, but
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something that is also discussed frequently
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and you'll find things like migrant workers as well.
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So again, there are current events that are kind
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of happening but also just current trends
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in America and in society as a whole.
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Now, within all of those different topics in
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those buckets, we have a few different content types
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that I want to point out to you as you start to kind of
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clip clicking through the resource and finding
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content.
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The first being our topic overviews and these
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are found in all of the in context, resources.
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These are going to give a nice background
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about whatever topic, whatever group of individuals,
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whatever event you're going to be looking at and you're going
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to be teaching your students.
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It's really nice for you. If it's something you haven't looked
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at in a while, but it's also great to forward along to
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students. They'll be able to get that that
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base before they dive deeper into
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their studies.
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We've also got a huge collection of primary
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sources,
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which I find extremely beneficial
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for our our students is to kind of start to click
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through. So if you're looking from, for primary
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sources from various eras, you'll find
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that in the resources as well. We've got
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a large collection of course within gale and context
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us history. But we also have them included
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in Gale in context: high school
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Gale In Context: Middle School Gale In Context: Elementary.
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so you do have primary sources for all levels
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and for all grades available to you as well.
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Our multimedia content is huge.
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I know sometimes when we think about online
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resources like this, we think about text,
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we think about, you know, reference articles, newspapers
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and things like that, but we've got a huge
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collection of images, videos
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podcasts that really kind of
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bring that extra layer for your students. So if
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you have struggling readers or maybe
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you're just trying to spice up a little bit, you notice you have
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kind of a text heavy units
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or lesson that's coming up. We can kind
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of help you spice that up a little bit. We've got a huge
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multimedia collection that's listed within our resources
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as well.
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And finally, I did already mention it, but
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our biographies are found throughout the entire
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in context suite. So even if you don't have access
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to Gale and context biography, you'll
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be able to find biographies on key individuals
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in whatever subject you've clicked into. So
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be it science, environmental studies,
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US history, you'll find individuals
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in all of those resources to support you as
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you kind of teach through your students.
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Now, I will pause quickly. I've talked
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quite a bit and I wanna make sure there aren't any questions
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that have come up just about the different content
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types that we have available.
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OK? I don't see any questions. So
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I want to move forward now and talk about the organization
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of our resources specifically
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today, I want to talk about topic pages. These
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pages are perfectly
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designed to give to students at the beginning
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of a lesson or the beginning of a unit
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just to keep them organized, whatever they're
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learning about. You see, I've pulled forward today,
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the Black Lives Matter topic page on
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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints.
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But what we've done is we've made this really simple
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kind of one stop shop for information.
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So at the very top of these topic pages,
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we include a topic overview.
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That's just a basic starting point. You know, this
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is what we're going to be studying here are some key facts.
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But then underneath it, we've pulled forward
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all of the different content onto this nice
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on this page button here.
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So this is great for students who are maybe
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looking for. Remember I mentioned our podcast, if they're
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looking for an audio file, they can just
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click directly into there. So it's saving them
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the search instead of running a search for Black
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Lives Matter and then kind of weeding through the
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results that way they land on this topic
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page and we've, we did it for them, we've
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organized it for them so they can kind of point
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and click through and find information they need.
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And then on the bottom of that page, we
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have the content bucket. So each of these different
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content, content types are pulled
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down below here. So your students can see
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kind of the top three results
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listed
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and generally they are organized by relevancy.
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So they'll be able to see those top three relevancy.
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We have a quick question
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here that I'm just going to read through earlier in the
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presentation, you showed a page on the Chinese Exclusion
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Act. Does that page include current
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events covering a api discrimination
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happening today?
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Um
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So I believe that image that I showed was from
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context us history. So that is more
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focused in the past. But I will
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say within a lot of our resources, we actually
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have Asian American and Pacific
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Islander topic pages
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that are going to cover the culture, the history kind
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of current events. And I'm actually, I've got one of those
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ready to go that I want to show you anonymous and attending. So
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thanks for asking right now. Um
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We'll take a look and you'll be able to see what's kind of currently
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going on.
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Jumping ahead of me. I already know where I'm going with this.
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I love it.
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Um So let's go ahead and move forward here.
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So just a couple ideas for using top
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topic pages in your classroom and then we're going
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to dive in to actually see how they function
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first. They're really great activity
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starting point. So if you're planning
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on starting talking about, let's say discrimination
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against a api individuals,
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you can start off on a topic page and you can
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actually build different activities right, directly
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from that start that, topic
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page. So things like scavenger hunts
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and escape, escape rooms are great ways to get
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students actively engaged in the content
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without really feeling like researching.
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You know, you're not telling them to start searching
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for and find some information.
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you're giving them activities that they can do
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and they hit this one landing point. So
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you're not having to kind of direct them to different places
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and help them work through different
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maybe more advanced searches. They're
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landing in one spot and they're just pointing and
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clicking and finding the content they need.
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In addition, they're really great bellringer fuel
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again. Perfect landing point. And you can
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have your students find me a picture
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that you want to analyze or look at one of our overviews
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and answer some critical thinking questions and
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that's something they can do on their own while you're taking attendance
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or while you're doing whatever you need to do before getting started.
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They can just find that info and it's ready
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to go for them. Nice and simple. Right on the topic
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page.
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Finally, it's great as a review. Of
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course, once you are ready to move on, they can
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just take another quick look at the overview
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and we also have a related topic section
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found on our topic pages as well.
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So if you are kind of wrapping up and you're wanting
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to move forward sometimes that related
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topic is going to help your students move forward
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and find another topic of interest that they can
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keep learning about.
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So, let's go ahead and take a look.
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There are a few different ways we can find
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the real, almost timed
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out but didn't there are a few different ways we
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can find topic pages here. So I'm going
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to cover that as opposed to a standard, just
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search
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walkthrough because I'm sure you're all familiar
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with how searching works. Of course.
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So we're just going to take a look at finding topic
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pages. So the first way to do that is just to scroll
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down on the home page. I've chosen to click into
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ga and context high school today, but
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it works the same for all of your other context, resources.
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So if you're working through us, history or
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biography,
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you'll get the same look. It's slightly different
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in Gale and context elementary just because we've
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toned it down a little bit for the young kids. But,
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we still have the topic page layout within
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Gale and context elementary.
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But if I scroll to the very bottom of the page here,
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you'll see, I have my option to browse different topics
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and you'll see we have some different, oops,
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I did get signed out. Give me a second here.
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Sorry about that.
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It didn't click through in time.
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There we go.
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So you see, we have some different categories available
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here and we can click into all of the categories.
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So, if I want to take a look at world cultures and religion,
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now I'll be able to see all of the topic pages.
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We have CRE created related
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to that specific category
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and these aren't every topic we
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have in the resource, as you could imagine. We
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aren't able to create topic pages for every
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idea or every
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everything that can be found in the resource.
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We build topic pages about the most
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searched, the most used and the most studied
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topics. So if you're kind
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of clicking through and don't find exactly what you're looking
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for in our topic pages, or maybe your students have
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something very specific,
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maybe less studied in mine, then they'll
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run their basic search and they'll pull content that
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way. But a lot of the key topics
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that are being studied will be found
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on these topic pages. So again, we can
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browse
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the very top here. I can choose
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to nar out all my topics. I can view all of
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them if I hit view all, take
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a second to load. there's
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a lot here,
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of course. So another way to find our topic pages
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is to start running a search when I
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do that. Anything that has a topic page. So let's
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take a look at Asian American and Pacific
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Islanders
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as I start to type through here. Anything
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with this predictive text that's bolded
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is a topic page.
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So you'll see, we actually have two within gallon context
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high school. We have one specifically
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just Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
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and we have one that's about Asian American
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Pacific Islander Heritage Month. So we've pulled
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forward content specifically
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related to the month as opposed to the,
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the culture and the individuals as a whole.
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So let's click on the first one here
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and now we're pulled here to our topic page.
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And these again, look the same in all of our resources
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except for Galan context. Elementary does look
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slightly different for our young kids.
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But as I start to scroll down now on my
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topic page at the very top here, I have my
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overview so we can hit read more
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and we can actually send this right out to kids if we want
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to, if we want to give them a background before we get
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started,
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you'll see on all of our overviews. We also
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have critical thinking questions. So another Great
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Bell Ringer idea, if you want students to start
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taking a look at this, maybe, you know, answer these
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three critical thinking questions and we're gonna talk about them
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in 10, 15 minutes just to
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get them kind of started in their learning
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and jumping back to the topic page here.
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Underneath this overview.
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Again, you'll see all of the different bits of content
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we have here. So you'll see specifically
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within Galan context, high School. We've got a reference works
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video, we've got some academic journals. So
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if you're teaching a more advanced
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group of students, we have our academic
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journals listed here as well, primary sources,
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all that great stuff listed here
[00:19:29.259]
scrolling down. Now they'll be able to see all of that
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content and can kind of click into whatever they're
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interested in.
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And then at the very bottom, as I mentioned before,
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let's scroll down there,
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we have our related topics.
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So as you start to move forward, if you're
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planning another lesson, maybe specifically
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related to Vietnamese Americans,
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we can click directly there and move that research
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forward again on another topic page.
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This one you'll see it looks a little bit different because it's about
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individuals. So we give some quick facts
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on the overview,
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but we can click back and forth right on the topic
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page. So I really don't have to search
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very much. I can pull this forward
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and be ready to go.
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And another great feature. If you are ever planning
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on using topic pages with your students,
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I'd like to point out our get link button up top
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here. When I hit this
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get link, it gives me a persistent URL back to
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this topic page. So if you want to share
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it with them, they can just click in right here.
[00:20:21.640]
They'll be taken right to this page. So they won't need
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to search through on their own. They won't need to browse through on
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their own. You can really make sure every student
[00:20:27.779]
is getting to exactly where they need to be to start
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the class or to start the lesson or
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whatever they're planning on doing.
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We also have integration with the Google classroom as
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well. So if you're using Google classroom, you can actually
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send this topic page over there as
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well. I'm not going to go through it all the way today.
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Oh, not at all because I'm not signed in.
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We're not gonna spend the time but you'll be able
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to make an announcement activity, all that good
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stuff and it will link specifically to this topic
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page. So again, I love
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these, when we're talking about
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specific topics that are studied
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frequently, they'll be found here and they'll
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be ready for you to use nice and clean and
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organized.
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Now, in addition to our topic pages, I do just
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want to go over a few tools that are going to
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be helpful specifically to your students. So
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once you have all of this great content found
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on a topic page or just of course, run
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through a search. If you're trying to find content that way,
[00:21:21.500]
we've got some tools that are going to help your students
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learn quite a bit.
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We just got a couple of things pop up here in the
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Q and A
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um
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A question on the images
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that show it up a little bit
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strange on your screen. Um an an Satan.
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If you want to send me an email directly, I can
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um reach out to you to see exactly what you mean
[00:21:44.789]
about the images looking strange.
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Um Could certainly just be
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a, a look on the screen but
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send me an email response to the email
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I sent later and I'll be able to take a look at that with you.
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And we have another question when you copy paste the
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get link, does it require a student to log
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in before accessing it? That's a really great question.
[00:22:03.250]
So the page that you're taken to. So the topic
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page, they won't need to authenticate.
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So they'll be able to see the topic page when
[00:22:09.900]
they decide to move forward with their learning.
[00:22:12.009]
So if they decide to click into one of the
[00:22:14.088]
articles or a video or something like that,
[00:22:16.180]
at that point, they'll need to authenticate however
[00:22:18.559]
they normally do to get into your resource. So if
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they use a password they'll be prompted
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for a password.
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Um
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If you're using a signing in with Microsoft
[00:22:28.059]
or something like that, you'll be required to sign at that point,
[00:22:30.118]
but they will be able to see the topic page itself
[00:22:32.618]
without signing in
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and we're getting close to the end of our time. So I do
[00:22:42.219]
want to show you these tools. So once your students
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have this content in their hands, either
[00:22:46.439]
they found it themselves or you will be able to pull it for
[00:22:48.689]
them. They can
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start to access that content. As I mentioned, get link,
[00:22:53.019]
it's found on documents here as well.
[00:22:55.618]
But they also have the option to share and save
[00:22:57.719]
content in other ways here as well. You'll see they can
[00:22:59.880]
send over to their Google or their Microsoft drive.
[00:23:02.338]
If they want to hold on to this piece of content for
[00:23:04.509]
a later time, maybe they're using it in a project
[00:23:06.640]
and they want to save it. That's the way to do
[00:23:08.699]
it, send over to their drives. They could also email
[00:23:10.920]
it, download it or print it.
[00:23:13.618]
So whichever way they prefer is completely fine
[00:23:15.719]
there. We also have some great text
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manipulation features and accessibility
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features that I like to point out for your students.
[00:23:22.239]
We do have a translate capability so
[00:23:24.338]
they can translate both the text, whoops
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both the text of the article
[00:23:29.430]
as well as the platform itself. They can translate
[00:23:31.729]
all of our tools and navigation to whatever language
[00:23:33.959]
they need.
[00:23:34.930]
They can also change how the text looks on
[00:23:37.009]
the screen. You'll see they can change colors, they can
[00:23:39.098]
change fonts and the line spacing
[00:23:41.368]
to really make it as accessible as possible
[00:23:43.469]
for them. We want them to be successful in what
[00:23:45.549]
they're reading.
[00:23:47.279]
And finally, we do have a listen option here so
[00:23:49.358]
they can have this article read to them if they're still
[00:23:51.400]
struggling reading, even if they've kind of edited
[00:23:54.029]
how their screen looks, we can
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read that text to them and it does actually read
[00:23:58.279]
in whatever language your student has the text
[00:24:00.459]
set too. So if they translated, let's say to Spanish,
[00:24:03.358]
before they got started reading and they hit
[00:24:05.568]
that listen tool, it's going to read to them in Spanish.
[00:24:07.979]
So a nice little additional feature for
[00:24:10.130]
them to help them really be able to kind of grasp
[00:24:12.500]
the content they're learning about.
[00:24:15.598]
And finally, we have highlights and notes. So
[00:24:17.828]
after you get this content to students, if you
[00:24:19.920]
want them to kind of read through, talk to
[00:24:21.979]
the text, annotate all that good stuff,
[00:24:24.009]
they can do that right on our platform. They don't need to print
[00:24:26.269]
it out or anything like that. They can just click
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and drag over any piece of text just
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like they would normally highlight something
[00:24:32.489]
and they get this nice little pop up and they get to choose
[00:24:34.719]
a color they want to highlight with and they can add notes
[00:24:36.989]
here so they can really annotate
[00:24:39.219]
a full piece of text and they
[00:24:41.269]
can save it to their drives, they can print it,
[00:24:43.289]
they can email it
[00:24:44.910]
and use it for later. It's all ready to go. So they'll be
[00:24:46.969]
able to find those key points and text
[00:24:48.989]
right here on this page without having to print it out without
[00:24:51.259]
having to hand everyone, you know
[00:24:53.539]
highlighters and try to get them back at the end of the
[00:24:55.650]
class. they can do it all online
[00:24:57.930]
right here. Nice and simple.
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And since we're coming to the end of our time,
[00:25:03.689]
I'm not going to walk through the tools time.
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I suggest taking a look when you have the time, just
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click into any, any old article
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and you'll be able to take a look at all of those tools.
[00:25:12.439]
But I do want to mention some pre created materials
[00:25:14.939]
we have on our support site. So I know
[00:25:17.059]
I gave you some ideas, but
[00:25:19.189]
you're busy if you just want something quick,
[00:25:21.400]
a quick activity to run, we
[00:25:23.430]
have premade content on our support site, which
[00:25:25.630]
is support dale dot com.
[00:25:27.410]
You'll find full activities here
[00:25:29.529]
like this, this one specifically related
[00:25:31.989]
to Arab Americans and it's a station activity
[00:25:34.250]
that you'll be able to set up for your class. We
[00:25:36.259]
have things kind of like trading cards or like baseball
[00:25:38.709]
cards. This one is about native American
[00:25:40.769]
authors, but we also have some related
[00:25:43.049]
to countries,
[00:25:44.689]
um
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different environmental things. We've got a huge
[00:25:49.299]
collection of these trading cards here as well. Well,
[00:25:51.598]
where students will be able to answer questions about the individuals
[00:25:54.469]
on the backs of the cars and kind of run through research.
[00:25:56.858]
That way, we've also got premade
[00:25:58.880]
scavenger hunts. So again, as I mentioned, landing
[00:26:01.118]
on a topic page and building on
[00:26:03.209]
a scavenger hunt is a great way to get your students
[00:26:05.430]
researching
[00:26:06.900]
without feeling like they're researching while actually
[00:26:09.199]
engaging and a lot of our topic.
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sorry, a lot of our scavenger hearts are actually
[00:26:14.229]
already built off topic pages. You'll see this
[00:26:16.358]
one here. We built for Native American
[00:26:18.618]
Heritage Month and we're using the Native North
[00:26:20.818]
Americans before European colonization
[00:26:22.900]
topic page. And we actually direct students
[00:26:25.150]
right there. So before they even get started, that's where
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they need to go and then these answers are
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directly related to the content they're going to
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find.
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In addition to that premade stuff, we also have templates
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for you. So we have a template first Avenger hunts.
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If you're planning on building your own with some different
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topic pages that you've found,
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we also have a blank bingo card that you can
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edit online. So if you want to play some bingo
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with your gale resources, you can do that.
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We've got a nice claim, evidence reasoning
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template. If you're planning on working
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through pro con arguments or talking through debates
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or anything like that,
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we've also got a full escape room template
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which really comes in handy. It's
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a big template. You'll be able to decide how
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much of it you want to use, how little,
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but it's completely editable by you. We've
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built it out simply for you to kind of just
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plug in the content that you found and
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roll with it.
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Now, I have some wrap up information for you, as
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I mentioned in the beginning of the session. If you
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want to dive deeper into a very specific
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topic or maybe your collection to talk
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about what your collection has available. You
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can reach out to your customer success manager. If you
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haven't talked to them yet, I suggest you do. They're
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really great. A lot of them,
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most of them I think are former teachers. So
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they've been in the classroom just like yourselves
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and they, they're ready to help to make sure that you can
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get this content to your students. If
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you don't know who your customer success manager is, just
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send an email to [email protected]
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you'll be forwarded
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to the correct individual if you want to talk
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about gale in context at all. Maybe resources
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you don't currently have access to, you can always
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reach out to your sales consultant.
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If you don't know who that is, you can go to
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support.gale.com/repfinder
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you put in your information and we'll direct you to the
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correct individual.
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And if you want to take a look at any of those activities
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that we have created or any
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webinars, tutorials, flyers.
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If you're planning on getting this information out to teachers,
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you can go on our support site, which again is support
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dot gale dot com under the
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training center, you'll find those pre-made activities,
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lesson plans, all that good stuff.
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And I do have a training session survey. So if
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you all have the time to take that. I would really
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appreciate it if we want to make sure that we're covering
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the information you're looking for when you join our session.
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So you can either scan my QR code
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here or it pops up in your browser once our
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session is done
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again. Thank you for being on the line. Hopefully
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we'll see you in future sessions and please
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have a great rest of your day.