ebrary @ Rod Library

5 Cloud Services

Brian Chen did a great job in providing a comparison table for five cloud services: iCloud, Google, Amazon loudDrive, Windows Live, and Dropbox. You will find what you need to know about how each service works here.

Inspirational blogs

I discovered these two blogs recently, all have lots of useful resources and tools. Check them out!

What I learned today

The author Nicole Engard had published articles about library intranet 2.0. Her blog contains links to lots of open sources and is published everyday!

Rose Colored Glasses: Random Thoughts on Instructional Design

The author JoAnn Gonzalez-Major is a senior educational technologist at Dartmouth College. Her blog is inspirational; I also like her research guides about tools for teaching and learning which can be viewed here.

Flowchart Workshop

Do you know what is a flowchart? Can you read the symbols on a flowchart? And do you know how to create a flowchart without hassles? If you have one or more NO in your answers, then you should come to the Flowchart workshop.

Workshop Objectives:

* Understand the meaning of flowchart
* Understanding the basic parts of the flowchart such as the
flowchart symbols and the flow lines connecting these symbols
* Able to use a free online diagram software to create flowcharts

Who should attend: Anyone who could be assigned to creating and analyzing flowchart

Sign up in the Staff Lounge today!

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The workshop was completed yesterday June 8th. Six staff signed up but eight showed up. It was a successful workshop as at the end, Robin said that she thought it would be so hard to create flowchart! "You are such a great teacher!" She said. That made my day :-)

ABCD Objectives Model

Students often have difficulties writing learning objectives. The ABCD model is an easy approach to guide the writing process.

ABCD model includes 4 distinct components:

A- audience (the learners of the instruction)
B- Behavior (the observable performance)
C- Condition (under what circumstance the learners will be assessed)
D- Degree (measurement of success)

Example: Given pictures of flowers (C: condition), 3rd graders (A: audience) will be able to identify which flower belongs to which season (B: behavior) with 90% accuracy (D: degree).

Now can you write up some objectives using the ABCD model?

MacBook Pro

In this video we go over some of the great features that come with our new MacBook Pro laptops.



It was a fun project! My student and I spent 2 hours using a MacBook Pro from downstairs. It took a while to refresh my memory about using iMovie.. couldn't believe it's been 4 years! Well, Mac is mac, no one can beat it for the quality of a multimedia project!

Google Animated Logo

Must see today's Google animated logo!



This animation is to celebrate Martha Graham's 117th birthday. Martha Graham is widely known as an early pioneer of modern dance. She danced 80 years of her life and passed away in 1991 when she was 96 years old.