Manda Cawthon

FRIT7233
Task Analysis and Script
Due: June 27, 2016

My screencast will show the teachers in my district how to use SIRS Discoverer. This is one of
the many resources that teachers have been introduced to through a one-day professional
learning session. Very little time was spent on each resource. My goal is to demonstrate how
SIRS Discoverer can be used in the classroom.

Task Analysis

1. Open the Google Chrome browser

2. Enter Galileo URL http://galileo.usg.edu
3. On Right side of screen, type password (password not required when logging in within
RCSS network, password outside of network changes periodically-pensive)
4. Click login
5. Scroll to bottom. Click on GALILEO Kids (Grades K-5)
6. Read the options presented on the screen.
7. Click on SIRS Discoverer.
8. Under Browse Subjects, click Science.
9. On left side of screen, click Lexile low to high (note other ways your search can be filtered)
10. On left side of screen, under Source Type, click magazines.
11. Click Seasons Change. Notice Lexile Measure, Publication information
12. Click Show PDF to view PDF version with teachers guide.
13. Click on Show Article to return to article.
14. Scroll to bottom to where it says Projectable Edition of the magazine is available here. Click
on the word here.
15. Click on Click here for directions to view directions for using projectable magazine.
16. Click bottom right corner of magazine to turn pages.
17. Click Discover tab at top of screen to return to SIRS Discoverer.
18. Click Advanced Search
19. Type Magnets into search field.
20. Source type- Click All
21. Grade Level- 1st Grade
22. Sort Results by- Lexile low to high
23. Click search button on bottom right corner
24. Scroll through results
Step Action on Screen
1 Title Slide
2 Title Slide
3 Home screen
Click on Google Chrome icon
4 Google Chrome home page
Type URL into address bar
http://www.galileo.usg.edu/
5 Now you are on the Galileo homepage.
Type in password
Click log in
6 Now your school will look like this. If you
Mouse over 5 options
Click Galileo Kids
7 Screen with 7 buttons for 7 different
apps.
Click on SIRS Discoverer
8 SIRS Discoverer homepage
Narration
Hi and welcome to this video tutorial on
how to access and use SIRS Discoverer.
SIRS Discoverer is a reference database
covering many curriculum and content
areas. It provides curated materials from
21,000 resources.
The first thing you will need to do is open
your web browser. I will be using Google
Chrome, so I will just move my cursor
down to the Google Chrome icon and click
to open my browser.
Once your browser is open you will need
to type in the URL for Galileo. Im going
up to the address bar and now I will type
galileo.usg.edu and hit my enter key.
On the right side of the screen you will
see a box to type in your password. If you
are a Richmond County School System
teacher and you are logging in from
school, you will not need to enter a
password. If you are accessing Galileo
from outside of the school system, you will
need the district password. The password
changes periodically, so you will need to
check with your media specialist to find
out what the current password is. I am not
at school, so I am going to enter the
current password. Then click log in.
scroll down to the bottom, you will see 5
choices: Galileo scholar, Galileo library,
Galileo High School, Galileo Teen, and
Galileo Kids. We are going to click on
Galileo Kids.
This next screen provides you with 7
options from which you can choose.
Today we are going to focus on SIRS
Discoverer. So that is what I am going to
click on.
We are not looking at the SIRS Discoverer
 homepage. Lets take a moment to look
around this page to see what is offered.
At the top you will notice a Search bar.
You can type in your topic here and then
you will be provided with a list of different
resources. Underneath you will see that is
says Browse by Subject. Below that you
will see this section that says Explore
Features. These features would be great
to explore later. Right now we are going to
go back up to Browse Subjects and Click
on Science

9 When you click on Science you will be

presented with a list of Science resources.
If you look on the left side of the screen
you will see that you can change how the
list is sorted. You also see the Source
Types and how many of each type are
provided. Below that you will see a
Subject Tree. We are going to start by
sorting our list by lexile level. I teach first
grade so I want to sort the list from low to
high. So I click on Lexile (low to high).

10 Click magazines (under Source Types) Now I only want to view magazine articles.
So I move over here to Source Types and
select magazines. You can see that there
are 1000 magazine articles.

11 No you can see a list of science magazine

articles in order from lower lexile levels to
higher lexile levels. Lets look at Seasons
Change. Looking at the description, I can
see publication and reading level
information. Click on the title, Seasons
Change.

Click article Seasons Change

12 What I really like about this is that you can

view the article here and you can click
here where it says See PDF for Teachers
Guide. Lets click PDF to view the
teachers guide. Pull the scroll bar down to
view all of the pages of the teachers
Click PDF guide. You can see that there are a lot of
Scroll through all pages of teachers activities included in this guide. On the left
guide side you can see the options for what you
can do with the teachers guide-you can
 download, print, email, export

13 Click Show Article Now we are going to return to the article.

Click Show Article.

14 Scroll to bottom Lets scroll back down to the bottom of the

Click Show Projectable Version article. We are going to click right here
where it says Projectable Edition of the
magazine is here.

15 Click click for instructions
Click click to close
Now you can project the magazine for
your whole class to view. If you look right
here under National Geographic Young
Explorers you see click for instructions.
Lets click to view the instructions. This is
useful information for making the most out
of using the projectable version. To close
the directions, click click to close.

16 Click bottom right corner of magazine to To turn the pages of the magazine, click
turn pages the bottom corner. You can see that now
we can view the entire magazine.

17 Click Discoverer tab Ok, return to the SIRS Discoverer by click

the Discoverer tab at the top.

18 Click Advanced Search I am now going to show you how to

search a particular subject. Move your
cursor to the top of the page and click on
Advanced Search

19 Type magnets into the search field In first grade we learn about magnets, so I
am going to search for resources about
Magnets. Type magnets into the search
field.

20 Move cursor to Source type: Click All I dont want to limit my resources to only
magazines, so I am going to select all for
source type.

21 Click checkbox next to 1st grade Since I teach first grade, I want to 1st
grade as my Grade Level

22 Scroll down to sort results by Finally, I am going to scroll down to where

Select Lexile (low to high) is says Sort Results by and I want to sort
my Lexile level from low to high

23 Click this search button to display your

results
Click
24 Scroll down screen You can see that our search resulted in 33
Point cursor at source types images and 9 websites. I could use any of
these to help teach my students about
magnets

25 No action This is how you can use SIRS Discoverer

to incorporate a variety of sources into
your lessons. I encourage you to continue
to explore the different search options
within this application.

26 credits *no narration