For the password, visit our Username & Password page of the LC wiki.
If you click on "Staff Resources" before clicking on "Slaughter," there are many professional texts for teachers!
For students, please use this link directly to our school's page: http://galesites.com/portal/mckinney/j043907111
The GVRL is already linked to the Research Symbaloo that you can find on the LC wiki.
The book titles correlate to your curriculum very well! Below are a few examples.
Read aloud is available right on the article page.
Most of the articles, should be all, can be translated to Spanish or a long list of other languages. Once translated, the read aloud will be in the new language. We know it's never advised to fully trust a machine translation, however, hopefully some Spanish will be better than none for some students.
You view the text, view as a PDF, or save it to your online folder in the "More" tab.
When you have opened a page and are looking at an article, you can add a text tracking feature. Click on the play triangle, and the settings gear icon. Then, on the pop-up window, click the "on" button for Enhanced Text.
If you open in PDF, it will look more like a book, however you lose the read aloud function and other text feature functions. You could however download the MP3 and then have it read aloud with the text.
Soon, you will be able to download an article or a text to your Google Drive! You can download just the sections of a text that you highlight, and your notes if you choose, or you can download the entire article. Google will automatically build a folder that you'll have to locate on your drive. If you will save an article or more, to a temporary folder on Gale, you can save all of the articles to Google Drive at once.
You can highlight the text by clicking on highlight, then selecting the part of the text with your mouse. A tool bar will pop up and allow you to choose to highlight, and choose a color. You can also add notes and get citations.
If you download the PDF, you can read it offline.
You can search for texts by keyword using the search bar at the top. You might want to select a subject area, before searching, just to limit your results.
There is also a free app you can download on your iPads. It's called Access My Library.
Teaching Thought: Research projects should require research searching. We shouldn’t give students a project and then give them the one or two sources with the exact desired answers. GVRL allows students to search in a safe environment. Also, it's a good idea to get students in the habit of citing or at least making note of their sources.
The learning or project objective shouldn't necessarily be product focused. For example, find 20 facts on Columbus. Instead, make the objective be about researching skills. I can use GVRL to locate and read relevant facts about ________ .
Teaching Thought: Research projects should require research searching. We shouldn’t give students a project and then give them the one or two sources with the exact desired answers. GVRL allows students to search in a safe environment. Also, it's a good idea to get students in the habit of citing or at least making note of their sources.
The learning or project objective shouldn't necessarily be product focused. For example, find 20 facts on Columbus. Instead, make the objective be about researching skills. I can use GVRL to locate and read relevant facts about ________ .
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