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CITations #37November 17, 2000
No. 37
CITations is a report featuring information technology-related news of interest to UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members, graduate instructors and the staff who support them. CITations, published twice a month, is an electronic service of the ITS Center for Instructional Technology.
New Campus Discussion List for Blackboard's CourseInfo
Online Education Presentations
Continuing Education Seeking Courses for Fall 2001
Fall 2000 CIT Courseware Bulletin
Windows 2000 Directory Services Course
ITRC Tip: Opening an UNC-Chapel Hill Inbox Directly in Outlook 2000
ITRC Tip: Universal Access to Web Pages
CITations Tips Archive
Conference Announcements
2000 CITations Publication Schedule
How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to CITations
NEW CAMPUS DISCUSSION LIST FOR BLACKBOARD'S COURSEINFO
Blackboard's CourseInfo is UNC-Chapel Hill's campus-wide courseware solution. Currently, the Center for Instructional Technology administers two low-traffic mailing lists aimed at providing emergency announcements and news to all instructors using Blackboard's CourseInfo. If you would like to participate in the new, active discussion list on this topic, subscribe to bbdiscussion.
Bbdiscussion provides an interactive avenue for instructors and IT support staff across the University to:
--develop and evaluate uses of Blackboard/CourseInfo to support learning in classroom and distance education settings;
--share concerns or difficulties encountered by instructors and students;
--form support groups for planning discipline-specific and interdisciplinary programs; and
--discuss future software developments.
To subscribe to bbdiscussion, point your browser to http://listserv.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=bbdiscussion
For more information about CourseInfo, contact Suzanne Cadwell, CIT CourseInfo Specialist, at 962-7842 or scadwell@email.unc.edu
ONLINE EDUCATION PRESENTATIONS
The Office of the Provost and the Distance Education Policy Steering Committee invite you to hear two presentations by Sally Johnstone:
"Accreditation for Online Education: Is Your Online Education Program
Ready to Live with the National Guidelines?"
Tuesday, December 5 at 10:30 a.m.
Toy Lounge, 4th Floor, Dey Hall
"Institutional Strategies for Online Education"
Tuesday, December 5 at 2:30 p.m.
Toy Lounge, 4th Floor, Dey Hall
Johnstone is Director of the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunication of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) and project director for the draft of the Council of Regional Commissions' guidelines for online degree and certificate programs. The regional accrediting agencies have created these guidelines to guarantee that similar standards are developed across the country. Johnstone also serves on the Board of the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE), the U.S. Open University's Board of Governors, and the Advisory Panel for the Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education. She is currently working directly with the University of Alaska and the University of Arizona on their online planning efforts. Take advantage of Johnstone's expertise to shape your program and help guide UNC's online education policies.
-- Linda Carl, Office of the Provost
tel: 962-4008; email: linda_carl@unc.edu
CONTINUING EDUCATION SEEKING COURSES FOR FALL 2001
The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education is recruiting faculty to develop and teach web-based courses for our popular Carolina Course Online program. New courses open in the fall of 2001 and would continue beyond one semester. Faculty receive a stipend for developing and teaching an online course, as well as substantial assistance from instructional design staff to convert campus course materials or new courses into interactive, web-based instruction. Course proposals and faculty who teach these courses must be approved by the chair of the department offering them.
We are looking for lower and/or upper division courses that fulfill requirements and perspectives, or any popular course in which students have difficulty enrolling. Our mission for distance learning courses is to meet the needs and goals of the non-traditional student who cannot get to campus on a regular basis, but we also help departments and students on campus by alleviating the demand for popular, filled-to-capacity courses, and by administering and covering the costs of the program.
For details, please contact Judith Benowitz at 962-6302 or benowitz@email.unc.edu
FALL 2000 CIT COURSEWARE BULLETIN
The Center for Instructional Technology's Courseware Bulletin is an electronic service of UNC-Chapel Hill's Academic Technology and Networks. The Bulletin includes news, tips, and resources regarding Blackboard's CourseInfo and WebCT. The new publication schedule for the Bulletin will be summer, fall, and spring of each year.
Articles in the latest issue include:
Security Risk: Logging into CourseInfo from Library Catalog Computers
Make Your Blackboard CourseInfo Requests
Want to Reuse a CourseInfo Site: Request a Copy
Decided to Make a Customized Course Site?
Report on Blackboard's Plans for Version 6
New Campus Discussion List for Blackboard's CourseInfo
Interested in Face-to-Face Instructional Technology Groups?
Stay Tuned: Extra Support and New Web Site
To subscribe to the Courseware Bulletin, send email to listserv@unc.edu with the following message (substituting your own first and last names):
subscribe cwarebulletin firstname lastname
The Web version of the Fall 2000 issue is at
http://www.unc.edu/cit/cwbulletin/bulletin4.html
Back issues are available at http://www.unc.edu/cit/cwbulletin/
WINDOWS 2000 DIRECTORY SERVICES COURSE
The Carolina Technology Consultants (CTC) is pleased to offer the following course:
Course 1561 -- Designing a Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure, provided through Productivity Point International
This is a three-day course held on December 4-6, 2000. Course cost is $530.00 for CTC members and $830.00 for ATN and AIS employees. This course is on the Windows 2000 certification track.
Along with the course documentation, each student will receive a written account of the status of Win 2K Directory Services (DS) here on campus. This document has been put together by several of the people involved in the most recent testing of DS on campus and will have specific information regarding where DS is and where it may be headed.
Registration deadline is Monday, November 20, 2000. To find out more about the course content and to register visit: http://www.unc.edu/ctc/course1561.html
If you have any questions, contact Elaine Tola, CTC Services Coordinator Academic Technology & Networks; tel: 962-9434; email: elaine_tola@unc.edu
For more information about joining the CTC, link to http://www.unc.edu/ctc/
ITRC TIP: OPENING AN UNC-Chapel Hill INBOX DIRECTLY IN OUTLOOK 2000
In Outlook 2000, you can select a "startup folder," but the choices are limited to Outlook's built-in folders. Outlook's built-in folders are:
To define a "startup folder," go to the TOOLS menu. Within the TOOLS menu, click on "Options" and then on the "Other" tab. Finally, click on the "Advanced Options" button and choose your "startup folder" from the options on the "Startup in this folder" drop-down list.
While choosing one of Outlook's built-in folders is easy, getting Outlook 2000 to open your UNC-Chapel Hill Inbox is a little more challenging. To configure Outlook 2000 to open directly to your UNC-Chapel Hill Inbox, follow these steps:
1. Make a shortcut on the desktop to the Outlook 2000 program. To do
so, right-click the desktop, select New, Shortcut, and browse to
(typically)
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Outlook.exe
(This path will be different if you installed Office 2000 into a
different folder or onto a drive other than the C: drive.)
2. Modify the shortcut by adding this to the end of the Target line:
/select "Outlook:\\imap.unc.edu\Inbox"
Note: there must be a blank space before and after /select
On a single line, the modified target line now reads:
"C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office\OUTLOOK.EXE" /select
"Outlook:\\imap.unc.edu\Inbox"
3. Save the shortcut by clicking OK.
4. Double-click the new icon to open your Inbox in Outlook 2000.
Thanks to Richard Milward in the Information Technology Response Center for making this ITRC Tip available to CITations readers.
For more computing assistance, contact the Information Technology
Response Center, Wilson Library, Suite 300
Walk-in Hrs: 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Phone: 962-HELP - 24 hours
Email: help@unc.edu
ITRC TIP: UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO WEB PAGES
As your department or organization redesigns its website, keep in mind that web pages meant for the general public should be accessible to persons with disabilities. How do your web pages stack up?
For example, can a blind person or someone with low vision get useful information from your website? Many people with vision impairments use a screen reader to surf the net. Screen readers "speak" the text on your web page, but cannot "read" images. If you use images on your web site, provide meaningful ALT text for the images, or consider using the LONGDESC attribute to provide more detailed information to use text to convey the same information conveyed by the image.
In addition to accommodating screen readers, you can use other strategies to make your web pages accessible to the widest-possible audience. One place to start is to analyze the accessibility of your web pages with "Bobby," a free online tool at http://cast.org/bobby/
Bobby checks over three million web pages per month to evaluate their disability access. The program asks 15 to 20 accessibility questions of each page. Then it provides a detailed report illustrating how closely the page meets Bobby's standards. Additional analysis of the site is provided, including measuring download time and browser compatibility.
More information about making web pages accessible can be found at:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/QuickTips/
Thanks to Jeanne Smythe, ATN Computer Policy Director, for making this tip available to CITations readers.
The Center for Instructional Technology offers consultations to faculty, teaching assistants, and staff for help in making their course or departmental web pages accessible. If you are interested in getting assistance with making your web pages accessible to all users, contact the CIT at 962-6042.
The ITRC, CBT, and Lyris tips published in CITations are archived on the Web so you can locate tips without having to search through all the back issues. The tips archive is at http://www.unc.edu/cit/citations/tips.html
Keep informed about technology conferences with the CIT's "Education Technology and Computer-Related Conferences" at http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-37.html and "Calendar of World-Wide Educational Technology-Related Conferences, Seminars, and Other Events." The calendar is on the Web at http://confcal.unc.edu:8086/
2000/2001 CITATIONS PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
December 1 & 15
January 12 & 26
February 9 & 23
March 9 & 23
April 6 & 20
May 11 & 25
CITations welcomes announcements from all UNC-Chapel Hill campus organizations involved in instructional and research technology. To have an announcement considered for publication in CITations, send email to Carolyn Kotlas, kotlas@email.unc.edu, or call 962-9287. The deadline for submissions is 11:00 a.m. the day before the publication date.
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