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CITations #94April 25, 2003
No. 94
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.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR ACCESSIBLE ELECTRONIC CONTENT WORKSHOP
Monday, April 28, at 5:00 p.m., is the new deadline for signing up for the workshop on creating web-based and other electronic content for learners with disabilities. (See http://www.unc.edu/cit/citations/citations93.html#1 for details.) To register, complete the form at http://www.unc.edu/webaccess/workshop-reg.html
For more information, contact Carolyn Kotlas at 962-9287 or kotlas@email.unc.edu.
Information Technology Services hopes to upgrade Blackboard, the University's chosen course management system, to version 6.0 for this Fall semester. ITS Center for Instructional Technology has a Blackboard 6.0 informational website at http://www.unc.edu/cit/bb/bb6information/ that discusses what is new, plans for implementation, and training opportunities.
More specifically, the site includes:
-- CIT's presentation, "Blackboard 6.0: Introduction and Implementation," in RealMedia streaming format, PowerPoint, and rich-text;
-- A summary of Blackboard 6.0's new features (in pdf format from the Blackboard company);
-- Question and answer documents that offer answers to approximately 80 UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and staff questions;
-- A document addressing faculty and staff concerns and suggestions about the implementation plan; and
-- Training session descriptions and information on how to register for them. (Training is available for those new to Blackboard and those who are experienced.)
For more information, questions, or feedback, contact Lori Mathis (tel: 962-8256; email: mathis@email.unc.edu) or Suzanne Cadwell (tel: 962-7842; email: scadwell@email.unc.edu).
CONGRATULATIONS TO 2003 IT AWARD WINNERS
The 2003 IT Awards Committee would like to congratulate the winners of this year's awards. These awards honor people who have given outstanding information technology support on campus.
Individual winners were:
Lewis Binkowski - School of Public Health
Andrew Brawn - ITS Center for Instructional Technology
James Britton - Kenan-Flagler Business School
Tom Cox - ITS Center for Instructional Technology
Stephen Joyce - Department of Physics & Astronomy
Chris Lee - The Family Support Network of North Carolina
Chris Newton - ITS Academic Systems
Byron Raines - The Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
Matthew Vaughn - R. B. House Undergraduate Library
Pamela Wimbush - School of Public Health
Craig Zimmer - ITS Administrative Information Systems (AIS)
Team winners were:
The "Technology Trio" in the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication: Fred Thomson, Robbie Foust, and Jason Simons
IT Team for the Partnership for Minority Advancement in the
Biomolecular Sciences: Michael Cato and Ramon Sotelo
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!
FACULTY MEMBER RECALLS EARLY DAYS OF THE WEB
"Web Turns 10 - But Was Mosaic Really First and Best Browser? No, No," an article by Paul Jones, appears in the latest issue of Local Tech Wire. Jones, director of UNC-Chapel Hill's ibiblio.org, provides a look back at the earliest days of the World Wide Web. The article is available online at http://www.localtechwire.com/article.cfm?u=3891.
Paul Jones is also Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and in the School of Information and Library Science.
Local Tech Wire is a free, online high tech- and biotech-focused news service covering Raleigh-Durham, the Triad, Charlotte, South Carolina, and Atlanta. For more information, see http://www.localtechwire.com/.
Visit http://help.unc.edu/tracs/ to view the current schedule of ATN computer training classes and to register online. You can also call 962-1160 to register.
New class:
Dreamweaver MX: Cascading Style Sheets and Design Principles
Prerequisite: Dreamweaver MX 2: Defining Sites and Advanced Design
UNC DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT UPDATE
The program for the UNC-Chapel Hill Scholarly Communication Working Group's May brown bag lunch meeting will be an update on the UNC Digital Library Project. Staff will cover the new developments that have taken place in the project since last year. For background information on the project, link to http://www.unc.edu/projects/diglib/.
When: Tuesday, May 13, noon - 1 p.m.
Where: 2nd Floor Conference Rooms, Davis Library
This is the Working Group's last 2002/03 brown bag lunch meeting program. Programs will resume in September. The Scholarly Communication Working Group is sponsored by the Odum Institute. For more information about the group, go to http://www.unc.edu/schol-com/.
ITRC TIP: MASKING KEYSTROKES IN ACCESS
When you prompt a user to enter a password, it's standard practice to mask the keystrokes of the password by displaying asterisks [*] instead of the letters and/or numbers. However, passwords aren't necessarily the only fields you'll ever need to mask on a form. Some users may request that you mask sensitive information such as account numbers or Social Security numbers.
Access XP makes it easy to mask these entries. Here is how:
1. Open your form in Design view.
2. Right-click on the control whose input you want to mask, and choose Properties. (The control is not the name, but the field area representing the place data will be input.)
3. Set the Input Mask property to Password and close the Properties dialog box to save your changes.
When a user enters text into that field, Access displays an asterisk for each key pressed.
For more computing assistance, contact the Information Technology
Response Center, Undergraduate Library.
Walk-in Hrs: 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Submit a help request on the Web:
https://www.unc.edu/ar-bin/websub/index.pl
Tel: 962-HELP -- 24 hours/7 days a week
Email:
help@unc.edu
ITRC website: http://www.unc.edu/atn/itrc/
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.
Stay 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 at http://confcal.unc.edu:8086/.
2003 CITATIONS PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
January 10 & 24
February 7 & 21
March 14 & 28
April 11 & 25
May 9 & 23
June 6 & 20
July 11 & 25
August 8 & 22
September 12 & 26
October 10 & 24
November 7 & 21
December 5 & 19
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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