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From the MeL Team: Britannica School has been available in MeL for several years and now additional access is available with  Britannica School Insights , a free Chrome browser extension. Support information literacy skill development and ensure your students can bring a trusted research companion along with them on their Web searches. Best suited for middle and high school students, Britannica School Insights brings fact-checked Britannica School content to the top of search engine results. When Britannica School has highly relevant results, the results will populate in the top right corner of your search page. Additional benefits include: Supporting digital literacy skills development by surfacing trusted resources in parallel with regular Web search results. Maximizing Britannica School usage with a free extension that supports student research. Surfacing unique relationships – like related events and people – and uncommon insights – like related topics and unknown...

The latest MeL Minute from the Library of Michigan - Are you a Google Classroom educator/school/district? If so, your life just got a lot simpler. Now, you can easily share Britannica School articles, videos, and images directly to your Google Classroom! This step-by-step video ,  Britannica Digital Learning and Google Classroom ,  will get you on the path to sharing Britannica’s trusted and reliable content in no time. When sharing content to a Google Classroom, there is one additional step you need to take here in Michigan so that students will not get a login screen.  Because we use geo-location, you must instruct Google Classroom students to  first open any level of Britannica School , and then click on the link of the shared content.  For step-by-step instructions with screenshots, go to  http://bit.ly/ MeLBritannicaGoogle2018 .