[00:00:05.309] Hello and welcome everyone today. [00:00:07.610] Our Gale 101 session is focused on [00:00:09.800] Gale In Context: Global Issues. [00:00:12.118] My name is Amber Winters and I'm a senior training [00:00:14.519] consultant here with Gale. [00:00:16.969] So our agenda for today. First, we'll just [00:00:19.190] overview the resource. So what you can expect [00:00:21.339] to find, how we've organized it, things like that, [00:00:23.870] then we'll talk about some of the key content you'll [00:00:25.908] find within the resource as well. So really the goodies [00:00:28.539] that your users are going to need to succeed, [00:00:31.158] we'll spend the majority of the time actually walking through [00:00:33.319] the platform. So you can get a feel of the different [00:00:35.380] workflows, how some of the different [00:00:37.429] tools and organizational features [00:00:39.679] look. And then at the very end of the session, [00:00:42.009] I will have some wrap up information with [00:00:44.079] some contact for you. [00:00:45.649] If you have questions as we move through the session, [00:00:48.020] feel free to put them into the Q and A at any [00:00:50.039] time. But I have included time [00:00:52.149] here at the end as well. So if you don't think [00:00:54.158] of your question until the end of the session, or [00:00:56.560] if that Q and A gets a little bit bogged down. [00:00:58.679] I'll make sure to have everything answered at [00:01:00.990] the very latest by the end of the session. But again, [00:01:03.240] feel free to ask questions at any time. [00:01:07.150] So let's go ahead and get started. Oops, you'll have to excuse [00:01:09.510] my header here. It looks like I mistyped. [00:01:12.278] So we're talking about [00:01:14.349] Gale In Context: Global Issues [00:01:16.359] And this resource is really developed for secondary [00:01:18.849] and up users. So we're talking your upper [00:01:20.989] upper level middle school students [00:01:23.000] or maybe your eighth grade students as [00:01:25.189] well as high school and undergraduate students. [00:01:27.230] And this is also fairly commonly used [00:01:29.308] for adult learners as well. So if I [00:01:31.329] have any public library patrons on the line [00:01:34.010] with users interested in kind [00:01:36.088] of what's going on in the world, this is a great resource [00:01:38.370] for them as well. So you can really think of it kind [00:01:40.808] of high school on up through adults, [00:01:43.308] including undergraduate students and people like [00:01:45.400] that. Some of our subject [00:01:47.719] areas that we've chosen to highlight include things like [00:01:49.849] business and economy, conflict and diplomacy. [00:01:52.819] We have full curated topic pages [00:01:55.099] about countries and territories. So [00:01:57.370] if you have maybe students coming in doing a project [00:01:59.849] about [00:02:01.000] China or Russia or [00:02:03.219] a different foreign [00:02:05.319] country, we do have information that's been specifically [00:02:07.689] curated for them as well. You [00:02:09.819] also find information on health and science, [00:02:12.368] society and culture as well as politics [00:02:14.379] and government. So this is really a focused [00:02:16.838] current events resource [00:02:19.050] that we have chosen to create specifically [00:02:21.389] with global viewpoints [00:02:23.599] in mind. So as opposed to seeing everything [00:02:25.949] very American centric and learning about, you [00:02:27.990] know, global climate change [00:02:30.429] from the American point of view. [00:02:32.508] With this resource, we're providing information about global [00:02:34.819] climate change from the view of [00:02:36.860] different countries. [00:02:38.429] So this is really giving kind of [00:02:40.449] that next step in understanding what's going, [00:02:42.538] what's going on around the globe, not just [00:02:44.770] within the United States [00:02:47.689] and within this platform, just like all of our other [00:02:49.729] in context platforms, we have some great tools [00:02:51.899] and features that are going to help your users as they start [00:02:54.088] to navigate the resource. So if they [00:02:56.159] find something important, we have highlighted notes that they [00:02:58.288] can use within the platform. If they need [00:03:00.599] to translate our articles, they'll be able to [00:03:02.610] translate, have the article read aloud [00:03:04.639] to them. We have some different text manipulation [00:03:07.028] options that will really enhance the accessibility [00:03:09.439] for them and make the text as clear [00:03:11.599] as possible. We also have a great [00:03:13.729] citation generator for all of our materials. [00:03:16.360] So if you do have students or [00:03:18.524] undergrads, researchers coming [00:03:20.594] in and need to have citations created. We [00:03:22.633] have a built in citation generator in the platform [00:03:25.104] for them. Great way to get some buy in. If [00:03:27.344] you are struggling to get students [00:03:29.444] in the resource, telling them that they don't need [00:03:31.485] to build their own citations anymore. Great [00:03:33.645] way to get them engaged. [00:03:35.429] And we also have integration with [00:03:37.500] both Google and Microsoft. So [00:03:39.528] your users, no matter if they're using Google or Microsoft [00:03:41.949] will be able to send content over to their drives [00:03:44.419] and save it for later. So if they're planning on using [00:03:46.669] it for a project, or maybe if this is [00:03:48.879] an adult public library patron coming in [00:03:50.909] and they're researching a specific topic and [00:03:53.080] just want to save that information for later. Maybe [00:03:55.319] they can't read it all right now in one setting, or [00:03:57.618] maybe they want to save it and share it with their family [00:03:59.699] or with a colleague, They'll be [00:04:01.729] able to send over to their drives and really have that nice [00:04:03.879] effective connection. [00:04:07.580] Now, I first want to highlight [00:04:09.740] our topic pages that we have created within [00:04:11.919] our resource and every in context [00:04:14.118] resource has topic pages. What [00:04:16.319] we do is we find the most studied, [00:04:18.358] most searched, most used topics within [00:04:20.399] each of our resources. And we make these [00:04:22.528] nice curated pages focused on [00:04:24.678] those topics very top. We'll [00:04:26.814] have an overview of the resource followed [00:04:29.004] by different content buckets with [00:04:31.225] our search results related to that resource [00:04:33.903] and within Gale In Context: Global Issues, [00:04:35.983] we actually have a nice feature [00:04:38.004] that our country and territory topic [00:04:40.225] pages. So instead of having a topic page [00:04:42.494] focused on say [00:04:44.345] climate change, again, I'll use that as an example. [00:04:46.595] You'll see we have them focused on places [00:04:48.673] like Morocco. [00:04:50.389] So we've chosen to highlight these [00:04:53.059] these countries in those territories to make [00:04:55.100] it easier for your users to study one specific [00:04:57.269] area. So if maybe they're not necessarily [00:04:59.600] interested in just one topic, but they want to know [00:05:01.980] everything that's going on in Russia, [00:05:04.459] let's say they'll be able to pull up these country [00:05:06.629] and territory topic pages [00:05:08.939] to find that information. And you'll see, we [00:05:11.059] do include the overview at the top here. [00:05:13.588] We provided some quick facts here on [00:05:15.678] this right hand side of the page. [00:05:18.209] So this is great for students again [00:05:20.278] who are coming in, who may need these kind of facts [00:05:22.379] for a report they're doing, you'll see we [00:05:24.709] have information on, you know, the life expectancy, [00:05:27.040] the type of government they're going to find within this country [00:05:29.189] or this territory. So this is a nice [00:05:31.480] kind of clean way to get some quick facts before [00:05:33.509] they really dive into the research, research. [00:05:36.189] And then again, at the bottom of each of these [00:05:38.259] habit pages, you'll see here, all of [00:05:40.290] our relevant content is organized [00:05:42.379] for your users. So again, if they [00:05:44.420] have a project or just have an interest in a specific [00:05:46.928] country, having them jump over to [00:05:48.980] these topic pages as opposed to searching [00:05:51.238] through the platform is a great way for them [00:05:53.358] to kind of access a lot of content with [00:05:55.428] not a lot of work, which is always [00:05:57.608] something that's going to be appealing for your users to [00:06:00.238] to access with as few clicks as possible. [00:06:02.778] So, we're going to take a look at a lot of different [00:06:04.939] topic pages. Today, we'll take a look at how to find [00:06:07.100] these country and territory, topic pages [00:06:09.369] and then we'll look at some other topic pages as [00:06:11.459] well. But before [00:06:13.699] we jump into the resource, I want to go over quickly, [00:06:16.069] just, some of the different key content [00:06:18.548] types you're going to find within this resource. So if you start [00:06:20.769] to get questions from your patrons and from your students, [00:06:23.428] ask you exactly what you're going to find, [00:06:25.850] I wanna kind of highlight some of the key things. [00:06:27.939] So the first thing maybe kind [00:06:29.970] of expected since this is a, a current events [00:06:32.350] platform is going to be our viewpoint [00:06:34.879] essays. So we're really providing procon [00:06:37.600] information about the hottest habits [00:06:39.838] that are going on [00:06:41.000] around the globe. [00:06:42.410] And what's great is these viewpoint essays [00:06:44.649] that we have loaded up within [00:06:46.759] our resource here aren't labeled as [00:06:48.790] procon essays. [00:06:51.709] So if you have users coming in, they kind of have [00:06:53.850] to read through this and build their own [00:06:56.019] understanding of what this piece of text [00:06:58.160] is saying, you know, is this piece of text pro [00:07:00.639] this topic, is it con this topic? [00:07:03.369] It's really having them kind of engage their critical [00:07:05.689] thinking skills and really dig into what [00:07:07.750] the author is saying. So these again [00:07:10.000] are viewpoint essays. So they are opinion pieces [00:07:12.048] that they are a large chunk of this resource [00:07:14.149] is just helping your users understand [00:07:16.678] where different people are coming from, related [00:07:18.869] to different topics. [00:07:21.759] We also include reference articles. So these are going [00:07:23.910] to be more of your facts. So [00:07:26.069] those viewpoint essays are giving opinions. But [00:07:28.250] if they need just the facts about a topic, [00:07:30.959] re reference articles are going to be a [00:07:32.970] great way for them to access that information. [00:07:35.389] This reference articles are a nice starting point [00:07:37.670] too, especially if you have someone coming [00:07:39.730] in just learning about a topic or maybe just learning [00:07:41.879] about a country. [00:07:43.189] taking a look at these reference articles before [00:07:45.769] digging into viewpoint essays and things like [00:07:47.829] that is a great way to get them. kind [00:07:50.059] of really settled in what they're learning about. [00:07:53.319] We also include a huge collection of multimedia [00:07:55.528] content. So this is great for [00:07:57.709] users who prefer not to read. Of course, [00:07:59.778] a lot of people prefer to get their information [00:08:01.988] via video or maybe a podcast [00:08:04.720] or even images, they'll find those in here. [00:08:07.108] This is also great for any teachers that I have on [00:08:09.189] the line who maybe need a quick [00:08:11.278] bell ringer or something like that. They can just [00:08:13.600] find a nice video. Usually our videos are under [00:08:15.730] around five minutes so they can find [00:08:17.920] a nice quick video about whatever students [00:08:20.019] are going to be learning about, share it with them [00:08:22.119] and they can watch and kind of explore [00:08:24.699] to [00:08:25.720] start their lessons. [00:08:29.170] In addition, we have some great statistics in [00:08:31.178] here as well. So for anyone [00:08:33.460] working to teach students how to read charts [00:08:35.918] and graphs and all that good stuff, you'll [00:08:38.168] find a lot of that within gal and context [00:08:40.178] global issues and we, we try to provide [00:08:42.320] as much information as possible you'll see under [00:08:44.639] the sta statistic. [00:08:47.149] A lot of times we'll have a little explanation [00:08:49.250] of what this statistic is showing. So [00:08:51.259] if you're looking for statistics to integrate [00:08:53.340] into your classroom, this is a great place [00:08:55.379] for you to look as well as for your users. [00:08:57.960] Anyone from the public library, if you're [00:09:00.048] looking for contents, maybe to share [00:09:02.288] on social media, you're looking for just a a quick [00:09:04.808] interesting stat you wanna share out to get some [00:09:06.849] interest. This is a great place for you to take [00:09:09.009] a look as well within global issues. [00:09:12.070] We also have academic journals within this [00:09:14.119] resource. So anyone working [00:09:16.200] with maybe high school aged older [00:09:18.379] high school students, you know, 11th 12th graders [00:09:20.500] or for those working with academics [00:09:23.090] who are coming in looking for maybe homework [00:09:25.340] help or project help. We do have [00:09:27.349] academic journals listed in this resource as [00:09:29.450] well. So if they're ready to take a step up [00:09:31.570] from kind of the general reference information, [00:09:34.048] they can do that within gale and context [00:09:36.070] global issues. [00:09:38.288] And finally, we have a nice collection of news [00:09:40.538] and magazines as well. So if you want to make [00:09:42.639] sure that this content [00:09:44.808] is being related to what's currently going on. [00:09:46.940] You want users not only to understand the topic [00:09:49.320] but also how it's just impacting society [00:09:51.859] and how society is impacting the topic. [00:09:54.695] Our news and magazines section is going to be [00:09:56.815] a great place for you to go and it [00:09:58.875] is updated continuously. So as we get [00:10:00.974] new information, we're putting [00:10:03.033] it within this resource. And what's great about Gale and context [00:10:05.344] global issues is we have a lot [00:10:07.375] of publications that are [00:10:09.705] not um [00:10:11.479] American publications. So we're getting publications [00:10:14.219] from the actual countries where these [00:10:16.269] topics and these issues are being brought up and [00:10:18.330] are being fought over or discussed. [00:10:20.369] So when we click through this resource, you're going [00:10:22.529] to see a lot of the publications that [00:10:24.719] we navigate to are from different countries. [00:10:26.889] You'll see this one here. [00:10:28.590] When I clicked into this, it shows me [00:10:30.690] what the publisher is and you'll see. This publication is [00:10:32.700] actually from Nigeria, which makes sense [00:10:34.830] because this is about Nigeria [00:10:37.359] as well as a few other countries. So [00:10:39.639] a really nice feature of this resource is to get [00:10:42.279] an authentic view of what's going on [00:10:44.629] throughout the globe from other people's [00:10:46.658] eyes, not from the United States. [00:10:51.928] So let's go ahead and jump in the resource so we can all [00:10:53.960] take a look. I haven't seen any questions pop [00:10:56.210] up in the Q and A. But while I flip my screen [00:10:58.519] over. Are there any questions at all about [00:11:00.960] kind of that brief overview? [00:11:06.489] OK. I don't see any. So [00:11:08.509] let's go ahead and explore gil [00:11:10.548] and context global issues then. [00:11:12.509] So this is our home page here. If you are [00:11:14.570] familiar with any other in context resource, [00:11:17.019] this is laid out the exact same [00:11:19.038] for you. We wanna make sure you have the most [00:11:21.058] consistent experience [00:11:23.099] possible. So scrolling down on this home page, [00:11:25.658] we pull out some different issues of interest. [00:11:28.058] These generally change monthly depending on [00:11:30.070] what's going on. If something you know, big happens [00:11:32.379] in the world that we want to highlight, it might change sooner [00:11:34.639] than a month. But generally [00:11:37.139] they change monthly. [00:11:39.428] Scrolling down underneath that. [00:11:42.229] We also have the option for users to just [00:11:44.239] browse through some of the different issues we've chosen [00:11:46.529] to highlight within this resource and each [00:11:48.649] of these issues is actually a topic page. So [00:11:50.739] you'll see right now, we have 682 [00:11:53.658] topic pages within our platform. [00:11:57.178] And you'll see, excuse me, we have broken them [00:11:59.259] up by category here. So again, if we're looking [00:12:01.340] for conflicts, we'll [00:12:03.469] have that here. Maybe we want information [00:12:05.580] on health and medicine. We have that society and [00:12:07.619] culture. So they're nice and broken down. [00:12:10.950] And if we are looking for a topic pages related [00:12:13.379] to countries or territories, we have actually pulled those [00:12:15.558] out separately here as well. You see, [00:12:17.609] we have this countries and territories section. [00:12:20.149] And we have 200 topic pages here. [00:12:23.298] See if I start to scroll down, [00:12:26.979] we can just browse through and take a look at those. [00:12:29.599] What's great is I can also search for a country and [00:12:31.700] pull forward the topic pages. [00:12:34.538] So if I'm interested, let's say, in Greece, and I decided [00:12:36.928] just to run a basic search on Greece, [00:12:40.649] you see when I want, I run my search here. [00:12:43.058] I get this little predict predictive [00:12:45.479] text that has an image next to it. And [00:12:47.639] this is going to pull up the topic page [00:12:49.658] for Greece. [00:12:51.190] So another great way to access content, they can [00:12:53.298] just run their search for whatever country [00:12:55.538] or territory. [00:12:57.859] Now, before we run a search and actually [00:13:00.009] click into a topic page, I'm going to jump [00:13:02.099] back to our home page here [00:13:04.019] just so we all have a nice clean landing point [00:13:07.330] because I also want to show you if I scroll [00:13:09.599] back up top here, you'll see. I have this [00:13:11.629] browse map option. [00:13:14.519] I'm gonna click into this. Now, [00:13:16.389] it gives me this little map that I can hover over [00:13:18.590] and it's going to show me the difference. [00:13:20.869] We call them issues, but each issue is a topic [00:13:23.149] page. So the different topic pages we [00:13:25.229] have related to our different countries here. [00:13:28.250] So you'll see, Russia has seven topic pages [00:13:31.469] that are somehow related to them. So you'll see [00:13:33.950] just the standard Russia topic page. [00:13:36.399] If we want to get a little bit more specific, [00:13:38.558] the Russia Ukraine Conflict Space [00:13:40.719] Exploration. [00:13:42.168] so users can really go through and click through [00:13:44.210] this map. [00:13:45.719] Maybe. Now they want to take a look at China and you'll see all [00:13:47.798] of the topic pages related to China. [00:13:50.469] This is just kind of a secondary way for them [00:13:52.570] to access information. They can either go in [00:13:54.859] through a country's topic page or [00:13:57.048] they can click our browse map and [00:13:59.109] kind of click through and see some of the different [00:14:01.149] topic pages related to that country. [00:14:06.219] Now again, I'm going to jump back to home [00:14:08.330] one more time just by clicking on my yell and [00:14:10.349] contexts, global issues icon [00:14:13.408] or logo, I guess you would call it. [00:14:15.298] So now I'm going to click into [00:14:17.440] a topic page here. [00:14:19.428] So let's say your users have a topic in mind. [00:14:21.779] You know, they're not interested in browsing right now. They know [00:14:23.849] exactly what they need. [00:14:25.960] What's great is if they start their search and [00:14:28.219] whatever topic they're looking for actually has [00:14:30.359] a topic page, they can still navigate [00:14:32.500] to it. So I today [00:14:35.940] in here, um I'm going to look up global [00:14:38.239] water crisis, let's say that's something I'm [00:14:40.389] really interested in. So start to [00:14:42.479] type my search in and just like when I typed [00:14:44.509] in Greece for the country, when [00:14:46.719] I start to type in my topic, you'll see a lot of these predictive [00:14:49.129] text options here. Have [00:14:51.200] these little images next to them. So anytime [00:14:53.570] you see this predictive text with an image [00:14:55.869] next to it, that means we have a topic [00:14:58.219] page related to that topic. [00:15:00.359] Sometimes you'll see a predictive text that's just [00:15:02.779] a, you know, a, a phrase and [00:15:04.820] doesn't have these little images next to it. Those [00:15:07.080] are going to pull just the basic search results. So [00:15:09.940] if your users are maybe searching for something that's a little [00:15:12.000] more um specific or less [00:15:14.359] studied, we may not have a topic page develop [00:15:16.700] developed for them, then they'll just [00:15:18.729] run their basic search and they'll pull content that way. [00:15:22.250] But let's click into global water crisis here [00:15:25.879] and we'll take a look at this topic page. [00:15:29.080] So again, as I mentioned at the very [00:15:31.090] top, you're going to have your overview, this [00:15:33.219] is giving just the background [00:15:35.229] about whatever your topic is. So this isn't [00:15:37.250] getting into procon yet. This [00:15:39.440] is just giving you the foundation [00:15:42.200] you need to continue on with your research. You'll see [00:15:44.219] I can hit the blue, read more button [00:15:46.489] and we can see the full article. We try not to make these [00:15:48.700] articles too long, you know. So we've broken out [00:15:50.719] some main ideas that could certainly be beneficial [00:15:53.119] for your users. [00:15:55.210] And then at the very bottom, we also have some critical [00:15:57.229] thinking questions here, but just [00:15:59.399] a quick article to make sure your users are comfortable [00:16:01.879] with what they're learning about. [00:16:04.788] Now, if I jump back here to my [00:16:06.889] topic page again, [00:16:10.178] scrolling down, you'll see all of the different content [00:16:12.359] types we have available here. So again, you'll [00:16:14.599] find our viewpoint essays, [00:16:16.849] videos, audio, as well as [00:16:18.928] images. So all of our multimedia content [00:16:21.000] are pulled out into those three separate buckets [00:16:23.119] for organization. You'll find magazines [00:16:25.629] and news. Sometimes we'll have linked websites [00:16:28.269] which are external websites a lot of [00:16:30.320] times um [00:16:32.769] related to different, government [00:16:34.840] organizations or different, [00:16:37.048] nonprofits or things [00:16:39.219] like that, whatever is related to this topic. [00:16:41.619] A lot of time you'll find external website links [00:16:43.808] here. Again, we have our academic journals [00:16:46.019] listed as well. So if you're working with kind of higher [00:16:48.210] level learners, you'll have those [00:16:50.239] right here on the topic page as well. [00:16:53.580] And you see, once I start to scroll down here, all [00:16:55.668] of those contents are pulled out together into different [00:16:57.940] content buckets [00:16:59.779] and they show the first couple entries for each [00:17:02.009] content type. [00:17:03.788] And then at the very bottom, [00:17:05.858] we also here have related topics. [00:17:07.920] So if your users are ready to move forward [00:17:09.979] and are maybe just looking for a topic that's [00:17:12.059] similar to what they just learned about. This is [00:17:14.118] a great way for them to find that information. [00:17:16.140] So you'll see, maybe they're interested now in water pollution [00:17:18.739] or water rights, they'll be able to click directly [00:17:20.979] into those and continue their research forward [00:17:23.459] from here. [00:17:27.029] Now, I'm actually going to scroll back up and we're [00:17:29.059] going to look at [00:17:31.279] our viewpoint essays today here. [00:17:33.568] So clicking into my viewpoints, [00:17:39.500] you see, this starts to look more like a standard [00:17:41.858] search results page. You know, if you were to run a basic [00:17:43.989] search that this is kind of what you would expect to see. [00:17:47.598] What's great is at the top of the page here [00:17:49.670] if you know, I clicked in viewpoints. But no, I actually [00:17:51.779] want reference, I just want the facts. [00:17:54.088] I can click over into reference right up top [00:17:56.098] here. And [00:17:58.900] I can also use filters on this right hand [00:18:01.029] side to really kind of clean up what I'm [00:18:03.049] seeing, especially when we're talking about [00:18:05.189] global issues. Of course, as you can imagine, [00:18:07.309] we're going to get viewpoints from, [00:18:09.390] you know, a bunch of different countries, a bunch [00:18:11.489] of different areas. So we can start to [00:18:13.559] kind of narrow it down to make sure we're getting the information [00:18:16.029] we need. You see, I have the option to narrow [00:18:18.150] by subjects here. [00:18:20.009] So if I want to do that, I could narrow there, see, [00:18:22.309] maybe we're interested in El Nino, something [00:18:24.529] like that. [00:18:25.358] We can narrow down. [00:18:26.930] We can also narrow it down based on publication [00:18:29.309] title. [00:18:31.358] So you see a lot of these publications when they're outside [00:18:33.640] of the United States, even the [00:18:35.769] few that we have that are actually inside the United States, [00:18:37.969] you'll see we show where they're from. So if maybe [00:18:40.239] we're interested in Canada specifically, [00:18:42.750] I might want to narrow this down just to Canada. [00:18:45.838] You see, we've got some from Australia, Pakistan, [00:18:48.858] Sri Lanka, Yemen, [00:18:51.500] we have a lot. I'll just leave it at that [00:18:53.809] so we can narrow it down based on publication title [00:18:56.118] as well, which sometimes helps users [00:18:58.380] find a specific country or region [00:19:00.680] of interest. [00:19:03.380] Now, let's go ahead and click into one of these here. [00:19:06.219] Excuse me. [00:19:09.809] Let's just click into [00:19:12.920] the second one here. Response [00:19:14.969] to essay of South African water crisis [00:19:17.430] is disappointing. [00:19:19.130] So whenever we click into a viewpoint article [00:19:21.390] here towards the top, you're going to find [00:19:23.750] kind of an article commentary. So this is giving [00:19:25.789] a background, you know why the author wrote this, [00:19:27.989] what the author is saying, [00:19:29.578] giving you some questions to think [00:19:31.689] about as well, which is oftentimes helpful, [00:19:33.989] especially if you're working with student you [00:19:36.150] know, they're going to be reading this piece, you want them to understand [00:19:38.368] why they're reading it. And so we provide some nice [00:19:40.650] kind of just critical thinking questions [00:19:42.900] for them to get going with their learning. [00:19:45.559] And then underneath [00:19:46.838] is where you're going to find all of the text. And you see this one isn't [00:19:49.269] too long. Again, we try [00:19:51.348] to keep our viewpoints on the shorter side, we don't [00:19:53.459] want them to have to read a full novel to kind of understand [00:19:55.789] what a viewpoint is saying. So a lot of these [00:19:57.959] you'll see are generally going to be like shorter articles, [00:20:00.279] something you would expect to see [00:20:02.009] you know, in a newspaper or something like that. [00:20:05.750] And while we're on a document here, let's take a look at [00:20:07.799] some of the different tools we have available for your [00:20:09.890] users. So as I mentioned previously, the [00:20:11.930] first one I want to point out is our citation tool. [00:20:14.219] You'll see our button is up top here in our little [00:20:16.430] toolbar, [00:20:18.299] right? Select this, you'll see. I have the option [00:20:20.449] for citations in Mlaap, a Chicago [00:20:22.578] or Harvard. So I click any of those. [00:20:25.209] I want to change out to a pa I can do that here [00:20:27.578] and I can copy and paste this or [00:20:29.630] I can send it over to one of my drives. [00:20:31.739] If I'm using something like noodle tools, I can send it over [00:20:33.939] there and I can save this for later. [00:20:37.338] Our citation is also found at the very bottom of [00:20:39.439] the article you'll see here in this little gray box, [00:20:41.650] same citation and same tools [00:20:43.858] you can copy and paste it, you know, put it [00:20:45.910] right in your work cited. You [00:20:47.939] can send it over to your drives [00:20:49.920] and with senses. If you decide to save this article, [00:20:52.368] the citation follows it along as well. [00:20:54.559] So they'll always have access to a citation even [00:20:57.059] if they decided to, you know, pull this article into [00:20:59.489] their Google or their Microsoft drives. [00:21:02.969] And if they did want to do that, that's actually the next [00:21:05.088] button right next to citation is our send to button [00:21:07.519] clicking on this little paper airplane, [00:21:09.539] you see, gives the option to send to Google Drive [00:21:11.949] onedrive or I can email it to myself [00:21:14.269] or to others. [00:21:15.959] What's great is if I decided I did want to send [00:21:18.000] over, let's say to my Google Google Drive and I wasn't [00:21:20.309] already signed in. This would prompt me [00:21:22.328] to sign in [00:21:23.309] and then would just launch me right back here after [00:21:25.439] it sent it over. If I signed into [00:21:27.449] my pla to my Google Drive before [00:21:29.858] I clicked into this, it will just automatically [00:21:32.539] recognize that and send over to [00:21:34.549] my drive. [00:21:36.890] And when these articles go over to your drive, they're [00:21:38.900] there forever. So you don't need to worry about them, [00:21:40.920] you know, magically disappearing after three months or [00:21:42.949] something like that. [00:21:44.039] And we do create a folder for your users [00:21:46.209] as well. So the first time they send [00:21:48.318] something over from Gale In Context: Global Issues, [00:21:50.670] they're going to get a nice little folder [00:21:52.719] that says gal and context global issues. [00:21:55.229] And then anytime they send information over [00:21:57.439] after that first time, it's all going to [00:21:59.449] go into that one global [00:22:01.568] issues folder. [00:22:03.348] So we're really trying to organize for them. They're not going [00:22:05.430] to have 50 articles kind of randomly cluttering [00:22:08.000] their, their Google drives or their one drives. [00:22:10.309] If they're using Microsoft, it'll all funnel [00:22:12.469] into that one folder that we've made for them. [00:22:16.489] They also have the option to either download or [00:22:18.650] print this document as well. So if they want [00:22:20.769] a copy on their desktop or [00:22:23.189] if they want to print out and have an actual [00:22:25.529] physical hard copy, they have those options [00:22:27.789] here as well. [00:22:29.309] And each of these tools is also found [00:22:31.348] down here. You'll see my Google drive [00:22:33.549] icon, my onedrive email, download [00:22:35.949] and print and these again do the [00:22:38.029] same thing. [00:22:39.368] We just included them in two different places. So hopefully, [00:22:41.979] if your students maybe missed the download button up [00:22:44.019] top here, hopefully they'll see it down here [00:22:46.880] and vice versa. [00:22:49.299] Now, next to these sharing options, we also have [00:22:51.358] this get link button [00:22:53.009] and this link is going to provide a persistent bookmark [00:22:55.309] URL. So if you want to [00:22:57.449] share this out on social media, maybe put [00:22:59.640] it in a syllabus for your class, put it in a discussion [00:23:01.979] board or if your user just [00:23:04.009] wants to save it for themselves, they'll just [00:23:06.130] get link, copy and paste it wherever they want to [00:23:08.250] go and it will always be there for [00:23:10.289] them. They'll always be able to click into this, this link won't [00:23:12.449] break or anything like that. [00:23:14.170] And what's great is this get link feature actually [00:23:16.180] follows you along throughout most of the [00:23:18.279] session. So if you find a topic [00:23:20.410] page that you think is interesting, you want to share out [00:23:22.618] again, maybe on social media, maybe [00:23:24.858] in a discussion board, you can use this [00:23:26.920] get link to get a link to that topic page as well. [00:23:29.160] So you not only link to contents, [00:23:31.469] you know, individual pieces, but you can also [00:23:33.660] link the topic pages as well as search results [00:23:35.989] pages. [00:23:37.439] A nice way for you to hold on to content using my [00:23:39.509] gut link. [00:23:42.578] Now, in addition to those tools, I do [00:23:44.789] want to show you [00:23:46.209] scroll down a little bit here, are different [00:23:48.449] accessibility tools that are going to help your users [00:23:51.269] really engage with this text as [00:23:53.328] best as they possibly can. So [00:23:55.400] you'll see those are found under the title here on this left [00:23:57.539] hand side of the screen. [00:23:59.439] The first one is our translate option. So you'll see [00:24:01.630] they have the ability to translate the [00:24:03.818] article into whatever language they need. [00:24:07.150] And they can also set an interface language [00:24:09.259] which is going to translate all of the [00:24:11.338] tools you see up top here [00:24:13.400] as well as the navigation, it's going to translate [00:24:15.469] all of that stuff into whatever language they [00:24:17.559] chose. So it's kind of like a two step [00:24:19.618] translation. The interface is going to translate [00:24:22.500] the navigation to make sure users can [00:24:24.890] click through the resource effectively. [00:24:27.098] And the article translation is going to translate [00:24:29.539] the stuff that you see in the middle of the [00:24:31.588] screen here. So it's going to translate that full article [00:24:33.848] for them [00:24:36.539] moving forward from translate. We also have the option [00:24:38.769] to increase or decrease the font size. [00:24:41.689] We have some additional display options here as [00:24:43.699] Well, you'll see I can change the color background. [00:24:47.279] Let me scroll down so you can see what that looks like here. [00:24:50.750] I can also change my font. You'll see, I have a few [00:24:52.868] different font options. We do have a dyslexia font. [00:24:55.390] So if you have users who find that's beneficial, [00:24:58.509] they can change over to their dyslexia font [00:25:00.729] here. And [00:25:02.799] I can also change my line letter and word spacing. [00:25:06.459] Again. We're really trying to make this as customizable [00:25:08.858] as possible to ensure that users [00:25:11.229] can access this information in the best way [00:25:13.250] for them. And what's great is once they set [00:25:15.259] this up for their first article, you know, they choose [00:25:17.269] their colors, all that good stuff, they hit [00:25:19.279] done. [00:25:20.140] This formatting is going to follow them along [00:25:22.390] throughout the session. [00:25:24.239] So as they click into new articles, click [00:25:26.390] into new contents, they won't need [00:25:28.509] to worry about setting that each and every time it's going [00:25:30.640] to follow them along as long as they stayed signed [00:25:32.930] into the resource. [00:25:34.959] I'm going to actually go back to my defaults though. [00:25:38.689] Here we go right [00:25:41.098] next to the display option. We also have our listen [00:25:43.368] tool right at the top of the page. So [00:25:45.439] if your users, I'm just going to pause this here. If [00:25:47.608] your users pref prefer to have the content [00:25:49.818] read to them as opposed to reading it themselves, [00:25:52.759] they'll hit this play and it will read through the entire article [00:25:55.160] for them even if there is an image with [00:25:57.209] a caption, it'll read the caption on that image [00:25:59.239] for them as well and it does read in the [00:26:01.338] language they've translated to. So if they [00:26:03.410] translated to Spanish first and [00:26:05.578] then wanted to have this article read to them, it [00:26:07.618] would read to them in Spanish. [00:26:12.269] Now, one final tool, I want to show you before [00:26:14.479] we end the day today, it's going to be [00:26:16.489] our highlights and notes tool. So if you're [00:26:18.650] working with students, let's say you really prefer [00:26:20.939] that they talk to the text as they're reading [00:26:23.098] pieces of content to really get a nice understanding. [00:26:25.670] They'll be able to do that on the platform right here. They can [00:26:27.739] just click and drag over something they think is important. [00:26:30.578] You'll see this little gray box opens up and I can [00:26:32.630] choose a color to highlight in, let's choose purple [00:26:34.750] today. If I want to add a note in [00:26:36.769] here, I could certainly do that. [00:26:40.289] Hopefully, notes are better than mine [00:26:42.199] and I can click and drag on anything I think is important. [00:26:45.250] This is also great for, you know, [00:26:47.279] public library, just general users who are coming [00:26:49.529] in who are reading longer articles [00:26:51.618] and want to, you know, retain little bits of [00:26:53.630] information, things that are important. Maybe [00:26:55.759] they're reading through and there's a great statistical bit [00:26:57.799] of information in one of these articles. They can [00:26:59.959] click and drag over it and highlight [00:27:02.009] that for themselves [00:27:04.660] and these highlights and notes are session based. [00:27:06.799] So once your user clicks [00:27:08.809] off the platform or is signed out due to [00:27:10.890] inactivity, these highlights aren't [00:27:13.150] saved anymore because we don't recognize them [00:27:15.170] as the same person getting off and back on [00:27:17.348] because we don't have named user accounts. So [00:27:19.449] if they do decide they want to highlight and [00:27:21.479] annotates while on the platform, [00:27:23.618] they want to make sure they get this document off [00:27:25.920] the platform before they sign off. They can [00:27:27.979] do that in any of the ways I mentioned before, they can [00:27:30.118] send it over to their drives, [00:27:32.289] they can download it or they can print it and it's going [00:27:34.509] to retain these highlights and any notes they took [00:27:36.719] for them for them as well. [00:27:40.000] We also store highlights and notes in one other [00:27:42.170] kind of a nice neat little place. If [00:27:44.250] you take a look at my toolbar up top here [00:27:46.469] on this very right hand side, I have a highlights and [00:27:48.578] notes button that has a three next to it. [00:27:50.799] If I click into this and then hit view [00:27:53.160] all highlights and notes, [00:27:56.279] this is going to show me just the [00:27:58.338] pieces that I highlighted. So you'll see. I [00:28:00.430] have my article here. [00:28:02.338] I have the bit of text that I highlighted [00:28:04.868] with the highlight color and then I have [00:28:07.000] any notes that I took and I can edit those notes here. [00:28:10.500] And what's great is as I'm on the same session. [00:28:12.650] So as I'm clicking through different documents, [00:28:14.848] maybe I highlight three or four documents, [00:28:17.328] they're each going to appear on this page, kind of [00:28:19.348] listed one after another [00:28:21.209] you'll see at the bottom. There's also a bibliography [00:28:23.328] that will continue to run as you're in through this session. [00:28:25.539] So we have everything [00:28:27.789] organized on this page as well and your users [00:28:29.989] can send this over to their drives or download [00:28:32.318] or print this as well. So if they decide they [00:28:34.390] don't want to save, you know, full articles [00:28:36.509] each time they read an article, they can just [00:28:38.750] highlight and take notes and then [00:28:40.910] send this bit of information over to [00:28:43.009] their drives instead of a full article. [00:28:45.920] And it does hold on to these direct links as [00:28:47.949] well. So if they click back into [00:28:50.009] this and realize they do want to actually read the [00:28:52.029] article, [00:28:53.809] they can click right back. [00:28:56.078] It's where they were. [00:29:01.108] And now we've come to the end of our time today. [00:29:03.299] I do want to make sure I've answered all [00:29:05.449] questions. I haven't seen any. But [00:29:07.500] please, if you have questions, put them into the Q [00:29:09.670] and A for me now and I'll be able to answer those [00:29:12.338] while you're typing. If anyone is typing, [00:29:14.549] I do want to give you some contact information [00:29:17.189] if you have any questions about our session today [00:29:19.539] or any other, you know, training related questions. [00:29:22.019] Feel free to reach out to me again. My name is [00:29:24.059] Amber Winters. My email is just [00:29:26.338] amber.winters@cengage.com [00:29:28.309] If you want to get a little bit more specific and [00:29:30.358] how you can use this with your learning community, [00:29:32.699] you can reach out to your customer success manager. [00:29:34.779] You can either reach out directly or if you don't [00:29:36.818] know who your customer success manager is, just [00:29:39.160] send an email to [00:29:41.709] gale.customersuccess@cengage.com and we'll forward you [00:29:43.739] to the correct person and you can really dive into [00:29:46.269] some best practices that are, that may be [00:29:48.299] beneficial for you and your learning community [00:29:50.660] specifically. [00:29:52.650] If right now, you don't have access to [00:29:54.759] Gale In Context: Global Issues. [00:29:56.868] but you, you want access, [00:29:58.949] you can reach out to your sales consultant again, either reach [00:30:01.160] out to them directly or you can go [00:30:03.588] to support.gale.com/repfinder [00:30:07.078] put in your information and we'll forward you to the correct [00:30:09.430] individuals [00:30:11.019] and you can also go to our support site for [00:30:13.150] any other support information that you need. [00:30:15.239] So if you need um maybe [00:30:17.250] another webinar to take a look at you want a tip sheet, [00:30:19.299] a resource guide, you want a student activity, [00:30:21.328] you want some marketing materials, all of [00:30:23.380] those are going to be found on our support site. So [00:30:25.410] again, that's support.gale.com [00:30:29.088] and it looks like we do have a quick question here in [00:30:31.180] the Q and A. So the question is, are [00:30:33.209] the viewpoint summaries written by staff or [00:30:35.449] A I generated? So they are all written by [00:30:37.630] people. [00:30:38.670] Uh Some are written by Gale. Gale is also [00:30:40.838] a publisher in addition to creating these uh these [00:30:43.358] resources. So you'll find some that are published [00:30:45.469] by Gale and you'll find some that are published [00:30:47.828] by our publishing partners as [00:30:49.838] well. But right now they are published and written by [00:30:52.250] uh by humans. [00:30:57.769] OK? No, I haven't seen any other questions. [00:31:00.328] So going to go ahead and end our session for [00:31:02.380] the day. If you do think of questions, please [00:31:04.400] feel free to reach out through any one of these channels. [00:31:06.900] Uh And hopefully we'll see you all in future sessions. [00:31:09.279] Please enjoy the rest of your day.