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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 OneFileProvides 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) Newsstandprovides 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.

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.

A student is researching climate control but would like resources in their native

language – Spanish.

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 SupportWidgets, 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