Gale Training

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Hello and welcome everyone. Today's 15

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minutes to mastery session is introducing

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Gale to new teachers with premade support

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site materials. My name is Amber

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Winters and I am a senior training consultant

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here with Gale. So let's go ahead and just dive

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right in. So the main goal of our session

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today is to uncover the

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training materials we've already built for you for

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your staff. So we're going to do that by

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accessing support.gale.com,

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which is our support site. If you've not

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been there before, here's just a quick little

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overview for you. So first you're going to

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find product support on this resource. So

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if you need your direct URLs, icons,

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marc records, title lists really anything

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related to your products, you'll find that on

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this support site.

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The training center, we're going to find all of our on-demand

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materials. So you'll find webinars and tutorials,

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lesson plans, tip sheets as well

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as the professional development and training materials that

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we're going to take a look at today.

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We also include our marketing materials here.

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So if your focus is maybe not so much on

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running

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formal trainings, maybe you're more interested

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in getting flyers at the teachers, we have that information

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on our support site as well.

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And finally, we have our technical support on

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the support site. So

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this is really a well rounded

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resource, a well rounded website that I definitely

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recommend you bookmark and have handy. So anytime

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you need any sort of Gale support at all,

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support.gale.com is a great place for you to start.

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Today we're going to be starting specifically

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with the training center. So we're

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going to take look at the training materials we have

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to offer specifically again, those professional

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development materials that are going to help

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you run your own trainings, especially for new teachers.

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But of course, for teachers who maybe have

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not been in the resource recently or

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you know, if you're just coming back to school and you want to make

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sure everyone has a nice refresher. We're going

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to be looking at those materials today in our training

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center. So

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before we do, I just want you to keep three questions

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in mind once we start to navigate through the support

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site. So once you're kind of getting

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your training set up, you wanna make sure you have these

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three questions kind of answered for your training.

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So first, what resources are you going

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to be training on? Are you training on all of your Gale resources

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or are you training on a new one that you picked

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up this year or maybe just one that's going to be

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specific to a certain department

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or a certain new teacher, make sure you know what

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resources you're planning and training on because

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that's going to change how you navigate through our support

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site and find content. And you'll see that here in just

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a second. Also consider how in depth

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should your training be? Do you need to just

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review the basics? You know how to access?

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These are the tools, this is how you search,

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call it a day or are you going to start

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getting into more advanced applications? This

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is how you build lesson plans with Gale.

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this is how you get your students more engaged

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with Gale. This is how you develop bell Ringers with

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Gale.

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We have materials to support kind of each

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of those levels. So if you are right at the beginning with

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brand new teachers, we'll give you the

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basics. If you're training teachers who are a little

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more advanced, we'll give you that information as well.

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And then finally, what materials work best

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for my staff. What I really love about the support site

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is we've tried to make a real variety

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of materials available to you. So we

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have premade slide decks. You do not need to re invent

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those whatever you're training and we'll

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have a slide deck for that. They may prefer

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tip sheets. Maybe you want to run an activity with

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your new teachers to actually get them physically

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engaged in the resource. And clicking around on their own.

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We'll have that listed here as well. Maybe you

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don't have time for a formal sit

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down training session.

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You want a webinar to send over to your, your

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new teachers, you'll find that on the support site as

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well. So again,

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once you get ready to click into our support site, we have

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a lot of content on the support side. I will warn

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you now. So it's best to have these

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three questions answered to make sure you can target

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and find the exact information that you need on the

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support site.

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And that's all the talking I'm going to do about it. We're actually going

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to click and so you can take a look at how the

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sport site functions and where you need

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to go for these great professional development materials.

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So again, the support site is support.gale.com.

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I would love it if you bookmarked. It definitely helps

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me. But this is the home page here. So

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I first want to point out that you can actually enter

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your school or your district's location

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ID right here on the home page.

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If you don't know what your location idea is, you'll see.

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We have a find your location button,

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but we always recommend you do enter your

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location ID, just because that

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narrows down the content you're going to see to

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just the resources you have available.

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So if I were to click through this right now, I would see

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materials for every single gale resource

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we offer,

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as you can imagine there a lot. So I

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always recommend logging in with your location ID. If

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you can, again, you don't have to, you'll find

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all the information either way,

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I'm going to log in though.

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So now that I'm logged in, you'll see, it gives it for

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me, it tells me my name, but for you, it'll tell you

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your very name or your school district

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name. But now you'll see, appear that

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I'm signed in.

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So again, when we're looking for training materials

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for your staff, we're going to go to the training

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center which is listed here in our toolbar.

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And you'll see there are a few different ways that we can access

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content.

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The two that we're really going to focus on today

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is browsing by type and browsing by product.

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So I'm going to hit browse by product first

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and this is going to be helpful again if you're training

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your new staff on say one resource,

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maybe Gale In Context: High School.

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and maybe it's a new resource to your school or maybe it's

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just, you know what your social

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studies department is focusing on this year and you have two

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new social studies teachers. This

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is a great way for you to access that content

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instead of navigating through everything we have available,

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you can first narrow down to your resource. So

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let's do that. Let's go to Gale In Context: High School.

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I'm going to actually search

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through my products here.

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And again, if I were if you were signed

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in, you'd only see the products you have access to.

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So we'll click into Gale In Context: High School.

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Now, at this point, I do want to point out if you

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didn't sign in with your location ID. If you

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decided just to navigate,

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you know, just click through without worrying about entering

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your location ID,

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you want to make sure in this little blue

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bar at the top here where it says view all materials

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use that drop down and click into

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school. And again, this

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step is only needed if you didn't sign in

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using your location ID.

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But when you do click into that school materials

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option, we actually organize the content

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for you and we hide any public

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library materials because we do have

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both public and academic library

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focused content here. And we don't want you to access

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that because it, you know, it's most likely not

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super applicable to what you're doing. So

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make sure if you didn't sign in using your location

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ID, in this blue bar, you

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make you select school materials,

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it defaults to school once you enter your location

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ID. So anyone who entered your local ID,

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your location ID, you're already ready to go here.

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But once I narrow down to school materials here,

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you see we've broken it up into different sections

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right here and again, these are just focused within

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Gale In Context: High School.

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So you see, first we have our get started option

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and that's the, the very, very basics.

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That's, you know, if you just purchase this resource and you need

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to kind of orient yourself, this may be the place

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for you to go. We have our 101 webinar.

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Again, the basics of the resource just getting

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you in the door and giving you the, the

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the the starting bits getting started.

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And then we also include the resource guide here.

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So just a text

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version of the webinar, if you prefer to read as opposed to

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watch a webinar,

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then under that, this is where you're

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really going to want to focus if you're training,

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your staff is is the train your staff section.

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We have a few, you'll see a few tip sheets

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here. But the things that I want to point out mostly

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today are going to be our slide decks.

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We have a slide deck for all your resources.

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So whatever resource you're planning on

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planning on training

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on, you can click into this training slide deck,

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you can download our powerpoint

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and it

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they are larger powerpoints, they will warn you. So it does

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take a second for it to download. But what's nice

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is it's just a regular old powerpoint for you. So

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you can use as many or as few slides as you

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want, you can edit the slides as needed.

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There we go.

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Take a quick look here,

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but it's all ready to go for you. We include information

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on learning management systems if you're using those

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and you'll see it goes through what content you're going

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to find

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different leveling options,

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tools that are available to you. And

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again, we have these for all of your resources. So

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this might be the first step for you. If you are

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planning on training, your staff is just

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having the slide deck ready to go.

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I'm gonna hit the back button here

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to get back to just the main Gale In Context: High School

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page.

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So in addition to that training slide deck,

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which I like to point out that's going to be under train your staff.

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We also have this nice gale training

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tool kit and this is almost like

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a micro version of the support site. I guess

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you could say let me click into our training tool

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kit here. What this is going to do is

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this is going to give you a step by step to

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train on this resource. So instead

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of going to the support site and first clicking into

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the webinar and then going back and clicking into

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the slide deck, we've actually linked them all

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here on this one page.

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So you can click directly to our webinar and

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then move on to the resource guide.

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If you're ready to get a little bit more advanced,

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you can go down here

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and get your deliver your own training information.

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And this is nice to forward along to your staff as well.

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So if you're not going to be the one training,

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uh you know, maybe you trained your social studies

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uh department head and now they're going to train

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the rest of the social studies teachers. This

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is a nice document to send over to them because, you

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know, it's only one page and it just links

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to a lot of really great materials.

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So when we're talking about training new teachers,

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those are going to be kind of the two main

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document types that you're going to want to

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have kind of handy. Is that again that training

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slide deck

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and then the training tool kit. And

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what's nice is you'll notice these have updated flags on

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them. So these are actually updated anytime

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we get any sort of enhancements or changes within

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any of the resources. So it's a nice

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way to make sure you're getting the most accurate and up

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to date information as well. You know, even if you've built your

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own slide decks in the past, if

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it's been a few years or even if it's just been a year,

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most likely we've had updates. Uh So

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we keep those updates current in our slide

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decks here on the support site,

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scrolling down under this train, your staff

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section. I do also just want to point out

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our continued learning section

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and this is where you're going to find more advanced information.

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So this may not be perfect for new

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teachers who are just starting to kind of get their footing. But

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I do want to point it out as they start to get a little

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bit more comfortable with gale, you can go even

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further. You'll see curating text sets,

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finding career, technical education content.

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It's a, it's a long list, so

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you do have that available here and then at the very bottom,

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we also include lessons and activities. So if

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you want something,

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kind of hands on in your training, you

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run through your slide deck, you teach them about gale.

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Maybe you want them to take a look at the scavenger

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hunts. We have available and maybe run through a scavenger

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hunt on their own.

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We have all of that on the support side here as well

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at the very bottom under find lessons and activities.

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So that's the first way to find training materials

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is by going in through product. Again, that's

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going to be most helpful if you're training on maybe

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one or two products. And you just want to

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really quickly grab that information

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if however you're training on a whole suite

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of products, you know, you, you get, you've been

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given two hours to train all of your products and it's

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gonna be a great time, but you don't have

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materials for that. Another great way

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to do that is to go back under training center

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and instead click into browse by type instead

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of product.

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So now when I browse by type here,

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you'll see. First, it prompts me to say what

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type of material I want. So

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our slide decks are of course going to be

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professional development materials. They're

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not activities or anything like that.

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And then our training tool kits are pulled out here

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separately as well. I do want to point that out.

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So if I'm just looking for a tool kit and I wanna share

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that one pager with, you know, whoever is gonna

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be train training staff, I can

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see all of my toolkits listed here.

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Again. Remember I changed

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my option in this drop down

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to school materials

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and I also sent it with my location ID. So I'm making

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sure I'm only seeing the content applicable to me

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and then you'll see I can scroll down. I can choose any of them.

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We have our in context here. If you have

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Literature Resource Center or National Geographic

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Kids or maybe the Petersons Resources

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or Ebooks, uh We have

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tool kits for all of those and they all look the exact same,

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which I personally think is really handy. So

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if I click into the Literature Resource center one,

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they may have some different content attached,

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you know, a different type of webinar, you'll see this one has

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a trading card activity attached.

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but they all have the same formatting. So

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we always give you the basics,

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the quick tips and kind of the next

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step of deliver your own training.

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And I forgot to mention these are all downloadable

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right up top here, download or print, whichever

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works best for you right up top.

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Now, let me jump back one more time here.

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I'm gonna go back to my different options

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because I do want to click into professional development materials

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here. The main content you'll find in this section

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is going to be those training slide decks.

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But you're also going to find things like

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a welcome sheet. So if you're just maybe

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kind of getting your new teachers interested with a quick,

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you know, like a one pager, we have

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a welcome sheet here for Gale In Context.

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If you have Gale In Context: For Educators, we

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have different activities designed for teachers.

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So we have a bingo, we have a tic tac toe

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activity. So if you do have a longer

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training coming up and you want to make sure that your teachers

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are staying engaged the bingo

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or the tic tac toe might be a nice place for you to click

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into. You can just click directly in

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and this one you'll see it's giving them tasks that they have

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to do and they have to complete a tic tac toe board

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and just a nice way to keep your teachers engaged

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and scrolling down again. You'll see all of our slide decks

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here looks like we've got a choice

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board activity here as well. So a nice

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collection of information to get you started

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and you'll notice that sometimes you see a view resources

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option here under this product that's showing

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you which product it's attached to.

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That means this resource is applicable for multiple

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products. So again, this is a Gale In Context

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welcome sheet. So it's including the whole suite.

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So you'll see, I have all of those listed here.

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One last mention I want to point

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out is we pull our recorded webinars

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and our shorter video tutorials out separately

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here as well. So if you're not going

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to do a formal sit down and you want to just share

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out a webinar with your teachers, you

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can click directly into recorded webinars

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and you'll find everything we have available.

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I suggest using this product search

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to make sure you find the resource you need

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and you'll see we can also narrow down by duration.

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So we have anywhere from our 15 minutes mastery

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sessions up to longer 60

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minute sessions,

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our Gale 101 sessions, which are going to be

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those um

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those getting started, webinars are 30 minutes.

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So those are sometimes a nice

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quick bit of information to hand out to your

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teachers.

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Now we are at our time. So I am going to jump

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back here. I've not seen questions come in,

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but I will pause for any questions

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that you all have. I know this was fairly self

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explanatory. But if you have any questions,

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the Q and A is already open for you

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and then moving forward. If you have questions that you don't

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think about today, feel free to reach out to me

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again. My name is Amber Winters. My email

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is just [email protected].

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If you want to get a little more specific about your

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learning community and your staff and maybe some

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different strategies that you can employ.

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Reach out to your customer success manager. If

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

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[email protected]

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we'll forward you to the correct person and then they can work

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more specifically with you. You know, if you're training

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world history teachers and you want help specifically

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for them, your customer success manager can help

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you out there. You can also

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reach out to your sales consultant with any questions about

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any gale resources you don't have access

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to that you want access to. If you don't know

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who your sales consultant is, support.gale.com/repfinder

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is going to take you to the correct individual.

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And again, one more time, I've listed our support

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site here. So all of the content we went through today

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is going to be found at support.gale.com

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under the training center.

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No, again, I've not seen questions come in. So I'm going

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to go ahead and end our session today. I appreciate

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everyone for being on the line for our short short

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session and hopefully we'll see you in future

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sessions. Bye bye now.