Making Instructional Videos in our Digital Studio

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Have a look into the digital studio, and find out how it can be used for faculty to create instructional video modules.

1.    Introduction

The Digital Studio provides the space and facility for faculty to create video modules (around 3-5 minutes) to support teaching and learning.

2.    Studio Setup Scenarios

Click to view a short video about RITS here

3.    Start to Learn

The production process includes five easy steps that focus on identifying learning objectives, instructional design techniques, and storyboarding to diminish lengthy post-production workflows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information, email us at shanghai.library@nyu.edu to arrange a personal consultation.

Canva: Design Made Simple

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Canva is a great piece of software for you to create graphics, presentations, flyers, posters and so on.

1. Setting Up

Canva is a great online graphic design platform you can use to create graphics that look nice, and the best thing is, it’s really simple and user-friendly. Go to www.canva.com and you’ll get access to it.

To begin with, Canva first offers you a bunch of sizes, with generic ones like a square to more specific ones, like a Facebook header or a Pinterest graphic. And if that wasn’t what you wanted, you could also go with your own custom dimensions.

2. Creating

So after choosing what you need, and you’ll reach the page as shown below. There’s a column on the left, in which there are different sections: LAYOUTS, ELEMENTS, TEXT, etc.

If all that blank space is intimidating you, never fear, because you got LAYOUTS! There are lots of options that you can use to build your design upon. Just you click on one of them, and the design will be imported into your work area. And you can simply edit it—change the font, change the color scheme, move elements around, and so on. And if you find something in the ELEMENTS tab that you like, just drag it on to what you’re working on.

You don’t need to go through a hard learning process to make something nice in Canva, and the layouts are a great starting point. And if you know your way around designing things, you can also use Canva. You can easily upload your own photos or icons, and Canva’s library of elements and shapes make designing from scratch much easier.

3. Downloading

All your works are automatically saved on the website. Once you finish designing and want to download your work, simply click Download at top right corner and then you can choose whatever format you want. NOTICE that you can download your work for free ONLY when ALL elements you used are labeled with “FREE” in Canva’s library. Otherwise you’ll have to pay accordingly.

Enough said, now you can be your own designer and create your work with Canva!

Welcome to a New Semester

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Dear NYU Shanghai Community,

Welcome and welcome back!  At the start of the school year, I would like to introduce the exciting changes and additions to the library.

Browsable DVD Collection: Our carefully curated DVD collection is now open for browsing during library hours in the Course Reserve Room.

 

 

 

DVD Viewing Room: This new room is equipped with iMacs and Blueray players for you to use our DVD collection for leisure and research purposes.

 

 

Curiosity Lab: The library will start to host our series of research and technology workshops in this new, collaborative teaching and learning space inside the library.

 

 

Expanded Chinese Language Leisure Collection: Through a collaboration with the Pudong Public Library, we now have 500 new leisure titles ready for circulating. Each year, we will bring in new titles to the collection.

 

I welcome you to visit us to check out the new spaces and collections. Hope the changes will further enrich your teaching and learning experience at NYUSH.

Xiaojing Zu
Library Director

RITS Teaching & Learning Series for faculty

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RITS will offer a series of workshops for faculty covering NYU Classes, Digital Studio, Data, Innovation & Emerging Tech as well as GIS & Digital Mapping Technologies. Workshops will run on Tues, Wed, Thur through September at Room 400A. Please feel free to join us and enhance your teaching and learning experience at NYU Shanghai. We look forward to seeing you! Please choose the options here to indicate which workshops you may be interested.

 
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Systems Outage 7/28

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Update: Libraries Systems Maintenance Complete. Access to electronic resources should have been restored.

Please be advised,  due to planned maintenance from 7am Thursday, July 28th  to 12am Friday, July 29th, access to NYU Libraries electronic resources may be unavailable.  During the outage, please contact us should you need library assistance.  We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Silent Study During Finals

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During the stressful period of finals, the entire Library and Academic Commons Area will be reserved for Silent Study in responding to students need for solo study.

Discussions and food will NOT be allowed starting from May 11th.

There will also be a coloring station behind the circulation desk to help you relieve stress.

Thanks and good luck!

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Affordable Course Content (ACC) and Open Educational Resources (OER)

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At the end of April, the Library had the privilege of hosting April Hathcock, Scholarly Communications Librarian at Bobst Library in NY as she visited NYU Shanghai. April generously shared her expertise in copyright, publishing, and scholarly communications. In addition to speaking to our students, faculty and staff on issues in copyright and publishing in academia, April introduced faculty and staff to Affordable Course Content (ACC) and Open Educational Resources (OER) in two workshops. April has had a very active role in the Support for ACC and OER Committee in NY, helping faculty understand OER/ACC and identify resources and strategies for their existing and new courses.

In these workshops, April explained the difference between Affordable Course Content and Open Educational Resources, and what NYU Libraries can do to support faculty who are interested in using these materials in their own instruction:

  • Affordable Course Content or ACC is course material that is provided to students for their learning at little to no cost.
  • Open Educational Resources or OER are materials that are created for public use, reuse, and modification. The OER movement is part of a broader effort in international higher education to make learning materials more affordable and accessible for students.
  • Besides helping students saving thousands of RMB, using ACC and OER may make textbooks and readings readily available for students before a semester starts, and could make the learning experience more interactive.

April also demonstrated several multi-disciplinary open textbook repositories that provide access to open textbooks and other educational resources, including: The Open Textbook Library and OpenStax. Both are reputable OER sources which contain open access peer-reviewed academic textbooks.

To learn more about ACC and OER, please visit this research guide on the topic: http://guides.nyu.edu/OER. For faculty and staff who were unable to attend these workshops, the Library is happy to meet with you one-on-one to discuss these resources. E-mail shanghai.library@nyu.edu to talk to a librarian.

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Database Trials

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NYU Shanghai Library users now have trial online access to the following databases. Please send your feedback, evaluation, comments, and questions to shanghai.library@nyu.edu.

Financial Times
Trail from now through April 30th, 2017

The Financial Times (FT.com) is the online edition of the daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news internationally.

North-China Daily News & Herald Newspapers and Hong Lists
Trail from now through May 17th, 2017

The CNBKSY Database is a database of both English- and Chinese-language newspapers of the 19th and early 20th centuries from the collections of The Shanghai Library.

The Newspapers listed below are available for trial:

  • The North-China Herald: Founded in 1850, it was the first English newspaper published in Shanghai.
  • The North-China Daily News: Originally a supplement to The North-China Herald, the News later increased in importance, while the Herald became its supplement.
  • The North-China Desk Hong List: Provides both general and detailed information about various firms, enterprises and agencies (foreign agencies in particular) in Shanghai and other major cities around China．

Macroeconomic and Real Estate Database
Trail from now through June 10, 2017

Macroeconomic and Real Estate Database is developed by the National Information Center and hosted via China Real Estate Information Website, a professional real estate website that keeps track of current development and trends of China’s real estate industry.

The database consists of literature information, regulations & policies, statistics, housing transactions, land market, market quotes, etc.