From 2015 SLS Fall Institute presentation

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Gale’s Secondary
Resources for
NOVELNY: The
Basics and More!
November 3, 2015

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Agenda
• Introductions
• Stacey Knibloe, Customer Education Consultant, Gale
• You! What do you want to learn about today?
• Access questions
• Overview of databases – OVIC, General/Academic OneFile, InfoTrac
Newsstand
• Lesson plan examples with live demo
• Google Integration
• Wrap-up/Support

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Opposing Viewpoints in Context
(OVIC) is the premier online resource
covering today’s hottest social issues,
from the Death Penalty to Immigration,
Legalizing Marijuana to Violent Video
Games. OVIC is cross-curricular and
supports science, social studies,
current events, and language arts
classes.

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Let’s see an example…
Compelling
question: How
bad was the
recent Great
Recession?
From New York State 9-12 Social Studies
Framework

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From Opposing Viewpoints In Context
• A viewpoint essay
which provides a
point of view on the
effect of the “Great
Recession” on
homelessness.
• Starts off with
questions to jump-
start the students
inquiry process and
encourage critical
thinking.

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From Opposing Viewpoints In Context
An interview
(primary document
with audio) for a
first hand account
of homelessness.

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• Kids InfoBits is like having two
databases in one to serve the diverse
needs of two groups of young students
— those in kindergarten through grade
two and the more research-savvy
students in grades three through five.
• Kids InfoBits meets the needs of
young students with simple, quick
access to curriculum-related
information on current events, arts,
sciences, health, people, government,
sports, history and more.

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Middle School Lesson Example

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General OneFile
General OneFile
Provides periodical and news
information through an
intuitive, user-friendly search
interface for researchers at all
levels.
• More than 7,800 full-text
titles and 3,600 refereed journals,
and hundreds of newspapers
• Audio, video, and images from a
variety of sources
• Access to a range of
sources created to fill subject-
specific curricular needs
• And much more

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Academic OneFile Academic OneFile provides
premier resource for peer-
reviewed, full-text journals and
reference sources.
• More than 14,000 titles, including
more than 9,000 peer-reviewed
journals and more than 6,000 in full
text
• Full text of The New York
Times from 1985 to present
• Thousands of podcasts and
transcripts from NPR, CNN and
CBC
• Thousands of videos
• Use for just about any topic
• Professional development tool!

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InfoTrac Newsstand (InfoTrac) Newsstand
provides access to more than
1,100 major U.S. regional,
national and local newspapers
as well as leading titles from
around the world.
• Updated daily (5x a day)
• Also includes thousands of
images, radio and TV
broadcasts and transcripts.

12. A 12th grader is creating
a multimedia
presentation on how
social media can have
an effect on elections.
They need video
content but can’t use
YouTube.

14. Gale to Google Path

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Gale to Google Path – Google Drive
• Integrates documents from Gale resources into Google Drive
• Imports Highlights & Notes, Citation
• Available in In Context, InfoTrac, GVRL, LRC now, coming to Kids
InfoBits December

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Gale to Google Path – Google Classroom
• Schools with Google Apps for Education can link to digital content
using the Share to Classroom icon.
• Create assignments and link students to the live resource or pull
content into Google Drive for sharing with students.

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Gale to Google Path – Chrome Apps
• Easy access into In Context Resources from Google Chrome

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When to use which when…
•Elementary School
•Middle School
•Animals
•Geography
•Biographies
•Careers
•Health
•High School
•Periodicals
•Multimedia
•Current events
•Humanities
•Sciences
•Arts
•Technology
•Some Middle
School
•High School
•Social Issues
•Economics
•Energy
•Culture
•Health/Medicine

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Technical Support
Widgets, links to holdings, MARC records, etc.
Help for usage statistics, database configuration, remote access, etc.
Available Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 9:00pm EST
Thank you for attending!
1-800-877-4253
www.gale.com/training
Don’t forget our training evaluation – it will open when you exit the webinar. Your trainer
today was: Stacey Knibloe