Gale Training

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Thank you again everyone for joining

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today. We've got a 15 minutes to master

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a session specifically talking

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about how you can support financial literacy

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lessons with Gale In Context: Elementary.

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My name is Amber Winters and I'm your training consultant

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for the day.

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We've got a brief agenda here today. We're

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mainly going to be

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talking about topic trees and topic

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pages, specifically, the ones

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that are going to be related to financial literacy.

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So we'll go over what those are and what they

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look like briefly.

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But then we're going to kind of walk through the platform

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so you can see how your students and you as educators

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are going to find this content and really

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easily utilize it.

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And then at the very end of the session, I'll hit

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any questions that I'm not able to answer as

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we move along today. And I do have some

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wrap up contact information for you as well.

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So first I want to talk about the topic

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tree and how you're actually going to narrow down

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to financial literacy topics. So the

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topic tree starts on the home page. Anyone who's

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been on Galen Context Elementary,

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you've seen it. We've got these nice little kind of circle

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icons here that give different topics.

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So we have a full pathway that's going

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to guide your learners and your teachers

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to the financial literacy topics.

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And they're going to start by clicking the social studies

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button right on the home page. It's

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going to launch them into a few

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different options. They're going to click into money and

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economics. Once they click into

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that section, they're going to be pulled to a page that looks

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like this.

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I've kind of broken it up a little bit so it fits

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on the screen but they're going to see

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some pretty specific

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topic pages listed here about things like money

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and saving money.

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And we also pull forward some other topics

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kind of in this text format here as well. So

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we've included icons for some of the, the

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main most studied topics.

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Then moving forward, we've included um

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some that are a little bit less studied. So again,

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if you're looking just as a whole

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for financial literacy information,

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the best way to do that is to follow our topic

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tree. So starting in social studies,

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moving on to money and economics and

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then moving forward into selecting one of these

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topics.

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And once you or your educators or your

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students click into one of these topics here,

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they're going to be pulled into a topic page

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that we've pre created for them. So this

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is a really nice organized landing

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point for your students, if they're planning

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on kind of running through research on their own or

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for you as an educator. If you're trying to pull

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information, you see here, this topic page is

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about saving money. So if you're trying to pull

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maybe an image or a video related

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to saving money,

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you can then write on this topic page and you won't need to

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run searches or kind of, you know, weed

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through search results. We've got it all nice and organized

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here at the very top

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of all of our topic pages. We have just

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a brief overview that's kind of laying the foundation

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for whatever topic they're going to be studying.

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Underneath that. We do include some really nice quick

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facts and I do want to just point these out.

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These are great if you're just trying to get students

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to start thinking a little bit. if we

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talk about saving money, this one here people

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often save money in savings accounts.

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This is a great conversation starter. Why

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do people save money? What do you know about

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savings accounts? Why do you think you

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should put money in a bank as opposed to putting

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it under your mattress? This is a great

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way to start getting students engaged,

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engaged and critically thinking without

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even pulling any content. Yet. We're still just on

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this topic page.

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Then down below that, we have our organized content

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bucket. So this is where you're going to find all

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of the resources that are related to that topic.

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We've organized them based on content type.

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So as you start to scroll down, you'll see book articles

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which are really reference articles. We've just

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called them book articles to make them a little bit

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more inviting to students. But you'll

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find book articles and magazines.

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If you have ebooks related to whatever topic

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you're looking at, those are going to appear

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within gal and context elementary now as well.

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You'll also find great multimedia content like

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images and videos. So all of that's

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going to be loaded up here on this nice clean

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topic page for you and for your users.

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And we'll take a look. There's a lot of different ways you can actually share

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these topic pages. So if you want to

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share out before a lesson or at the end

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of a lesson, so they can review,

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you'll be able to do that to get students directly

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to this kind of a landing page.

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Now, I just want to spend the rest of the time looking

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at the resource. We've got 10 minutes and I want to use

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it all up. But before I do, are

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there any questions before I kind of switch

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over here?

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Ok. Well, I don't see any. So

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let's just go ahead and dive in and kind of see

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what this is going to look like for us. So this

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is the home page of gel and context elementary.

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I'm not going to be going over all of it today since

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we're specifically focused on financial

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literacy.

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But I do want to point out at the top here.

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You do have different options. If you want to do like

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a quick browse for a specific topic. Maybe

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you really want to look at your books.

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I can click into those.

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You'll be able to see all of the gil ebooks

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you currently have access to and you can search through books

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if you know, maybe you want to get a picture

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out to your students related to something

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financial. you can click into

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pictures here and again, you can search

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through that for whatever you're looking for. But

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today we're gonna stick with topics

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and we're going to browse down that way.

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So again, right on the home page. I'm going to scroll down

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here and this is the very top of our topic

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tree here. So you'll see, we have it broken up based

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on subject. Today. We're going to be

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looking at social studies. That's where we house all

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of our financial literacy information

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and moving on from social studies. We get another

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step down here to kind of narrow down a bit

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more. We're going to click into money and

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economics

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and now we've got the final step here

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of our topic tree. And I want to point out you'll see

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on this top left, we give this nice

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breadcrumb trail of where we've been. So we

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have it visually here. You'll see we started with social studies,

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then we move down to money and economics to get this.

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And we also have links here as well. So

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I can jump back to the home page if I want or

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I can go back to social studies from here if I want

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as well. So it's a really clean way to find

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information that you're looking for.

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And I do want to point out at the top of our

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page here on our toolbar. You'll see, I have

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this get link button and this follows me along

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a lot. If you kind of watch as I click through,

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you're going to see this get link button frequently

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and this is going to provide a persistent URL

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to whatever page you're on.

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So this particular page that has all

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of our financial literacy topics included

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on, it is a really powerful page

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that you may want to send over to your educators if they're

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starting a unit and you're not quite sure

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exactly what they're going to need content wise,

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send them this link and they're going to see all

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of these topic pages ready to go and then they can kind of pick

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and choose exactly what they need.

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Let's go and scroll down here before I click into

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a topic page. I also want to point out this, I

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wonder question section and

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this changes as you start to navigate through the resource

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but we'll see here. Why do people use credit cards?

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So again, if you're planning a lesson,

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you want to get students thinking, get them started.

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Maybe you want just like a quick bell ringer activity.

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You know, you want to pop a question up and just

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have students talk about it for a little bit. This

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is a great way to go to try to find that information.

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So you'll see this one here. This I wonder

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is why do people use credit cards?

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I can click find out. Now you as an educator

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code. If you're planning on using this as a class,

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have it up on your white board

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or your smart board

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and then you can click find out together

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and you're going to be pulled forward. This is pulling specifically

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to the credit and credit cards topic page

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and they'll be able to explore and answer that question

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right here on this page

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and it does change periodically. So you'll be able

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to kind of click through that

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and you'll see we have another one at the very bottom here as

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well. What kinds of services do banks provide?

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So, I really recommend again if you're building

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your lessons and you're just looking for something quick,

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take a look at this page, you're going to find these

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Great Alwan questions that might

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get you thinking a little bit and get your students thinking.

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But let's go ahead and click into one of these topic pages

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so we can see how they're organized. I'm just

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gonna click into money. Like that's a pretty,

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a pretty basic topic

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that students are going to need to understand if we're talking about

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financial literacy. So again,

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on the topic page at the very top, we have

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our overview.

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Students can select, keep reading

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if they want to explore this, giving them

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just that quick background. You see, this is a pretty short

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article because the goal of our overview

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is really just to give them that

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basic basic foundation to start

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their learning. So they're gonna get the basic

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right here, that overview,

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they're going to scroll down again. They're going to get these

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nice little quick facts. So they might find

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something interesting here that they want to search

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or browse through

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underneath. We're going to have all of the

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different content types. So I will

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point out here we have a books option

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and yours if you're following along will

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probably look different than mine.

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This book section includes any

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elementary level gale

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e books you have access to. So if your

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learning community has a financial

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literacy collection for elementary school

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kids, it's going to appear now here

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within Gael and context elementary.

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So you may not see this at all. If you don't

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currently have access to any financial literacy

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ebooks related to money or you could see

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a couple here

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really depends on your collection, but that's actually

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a new feature we have within Gale and context Elementary

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is integrating those Gale Elementary

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ebooks. So you may see full ebooks here depending

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on your collection,

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scrolling down. You're going to see things like news

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and magazines. We've got a biography listed

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here, pictures and videos.

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I'm going to click into pictures here because I also want

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to point out a lot of times you'll find some really

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cool statistics and graphs

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and things like that that are going to help

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your students out. So

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you'll see we've got different graphs here talking

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about teens, clothes and money,

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excuse me,

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how parents spend their money. I think

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this is a great one. If you're trying to show

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kids, it's just how expensive they are

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just how much money their parents are spending on them.

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They can take a look at this. This

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is also great, this little kind of graphic here.

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If they want to see who's on us currency,

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you can pull that up and share it out really

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nice way to get access to this information.

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And as I mentioned before, our get link is

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still following me along. So if I do

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want to share this out somewhere,

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I can use get link and have a persistent

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URL, I can also send this image

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over to my drives. If I'm using

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Google or Microsoft drive, I can send them there.

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I can also email them

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and I could download or print this. So if

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I want to hold on to this image for whatever

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I'm planning on using it for. I can certainly

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do that.

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I do recommend I prefer the get link

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because that link is persistent. It's not going to break

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and you can copy and paste it wherever you want.

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You know, if you have your syllabus ready to go and you just

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want to include it there, you can do that

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if you have a project or an activity

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coming up and you want students to use this particular

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image

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post that, that link, your students can go online

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and get right in here to take a look at it.

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Let me jump back here to our topic page.

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Let me go back again because I wanna get out of my pictures.

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So again, we've got a video here

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and then at the very bottom, we have our related

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topics. So once students kind

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of get themselves situated with the idea

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of money, what it is, how it works,

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why we need it, how we use it.

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they can start to move forward here and you'll

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see some of these related topics. So again, they're

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not even running a search. So if

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your students are just exploring on their own,

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they don't have to worry about building their own search terms.

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Maybe now they're really interested in banking, you

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know, they know about money.

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What about banks? They can click directly into

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banks to see that information.

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Now I'm just going to quickly click into one

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of these articles here

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because I do want to show you just a few different features

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that are going to be really helpful for your classes.

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So the first is our leveling, a lot

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of our documents actually have leveled

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content that's leveled at two different reading

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levels. They're based on

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exile measures. So if you have students

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at varying

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reading levels with varying needs,

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a lot of times you're going to find documents with two

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different levels here. And when I clicked into

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this, you can see this is showing me what levels

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I have up top here, I've got a level two and a level

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three. If you're ever interested in

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what those levels indicate, you can hover over

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them. However, over

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this level three here, it's going to give you that lexile

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range. If I click into level two

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and hover over that, it's going to give me that range

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there as well.

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And you'll see I can easily tackle back and forth and this

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is going to give the same information.

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But of course, the level two is

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generally going to be a little bit shorter

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and have easier the vocabulary. That's how we get to

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that lower lexile range.

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But these are connected, you could toggle back and forth

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share, whichever level needs

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to be shared with certain students really

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easily, really simply

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if you want more detailed information about the article,

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you can hit this little eye button and it's going

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to give you a little bit more specific

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information. So you'll see here, you do get the lexile measure

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here as well as the length and all of that

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good stuff.

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And if you have struggling readers, we've got quite

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a few different tools that are going to help them out

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here. So the first is going to be our listen

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feature. So if you do assign something like this to your

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students who have trouble reading,

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they can have this full article read to them in whatever

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language they prefer. So if they need it in Spanish,

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if they need it in Arabic, if they need

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it in French, they'll be able to listen to that

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here. They can also change

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the font size here to make it bigger or

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smaller whatever they prefer.

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And I will click into display options because I also

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want to show you we have a dyslexia font

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here.

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So for your students who prefer to read that way,

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you'll see, I can change my text here

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to exactly what I need.

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And one final tool I want to point out today

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with about one minute left. is our translate

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option, which is a great feature for your students

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who are still learning English.

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You'll see they have the option to translate their article

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to quite a few different languages here.

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But they can also set the interface language

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here. This is another great feature. This

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is going to change all of the tools

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found within the platform. You, so you'll see, I just clicked

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set interface language.

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Let's go to Spanish here.

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So if you're going to be sharing this content with your

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Spanish speaking students and they're going

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to be navigating the platform on their own. And you want to

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make sure they can do that. If they

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change that interface language, you'll see all of my

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tools now

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are in whatever language

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I clicked into for this, I clicked Spanish.

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So as students start to click through here, they're

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going to see all of these buttons in whatever

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language I chose.

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So they'll really be, it'll be a lot

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easier for them to navigate as opposed to trying to

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use the English buttons and maybe not quite understanding

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where they're going.

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But let me change this back here to English.

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Here we go. And I will mention that

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translation of the platform does follow them along

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throughout the session. So if you're planning

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on having your students in this resource, learning about

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financial literacy, and you know, they're going

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to need to have that translated information,

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have them click up top here where it says English

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and they can translate the platform before they even start

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their research. Thats another great way to get them in the

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platform.

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And we're actually at our time already, if

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you can believe that um I'm going to flip

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back to my presentation just to give you some wrap up

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information. But while I do, does anyone have any

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questions about anything

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I may have glossed over quickly

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that you may want to take a deeper look at or anything

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like that.

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Go ahead and type the questions out in the Q and A. I've got it pulled

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up while you're doing that. I have some quick

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contact information if you have more questions,

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If you want to dive a little bit deeper into the

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financial information found within Galen context

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elementary, you can reach out to your customer

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success manager, they can kind of dig deeper with

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you. Maybe connect some dots

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when we're talking about how this is going to work specifically

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with your curriculum.

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If you don't know who your customer success manager is,

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just send a quick email to

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[email protected]

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we'll get you to the right person. You can really

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get personal with it and see

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exactly how it's going to work with your learning community

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specifically.

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If you don't have access to Gale In Context: Elementary

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right now, or if you don't have any financial

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literacy ebooks and you want to talk about those,

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you can reach out to your sales consultant. If you don't

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know who that is, just go to support.gale.com/repfinder

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it'll give you the correct

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individual, you'll be able to talk to them as well.

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They're great and they're ready to speak with you

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for sure.

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If you need additional support, additional

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training,

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you'll find all of our training materials on support.g.com,

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completely free to you. We've got pre

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created lesson plans and activities

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and webinars just like this one and shorter

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tutorials. So check it out

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if you need if you need some additional

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information

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and I do have a session survey here as well if you have

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the time to take it, I have a QR code

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here in this bottom, right? Or you can just go

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to bit dot Lee forward slash gale

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training eval. Hopefully we will see

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you in future sessions and please

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enjoy the rest of your day.