Technology Update Page

Welcome to the Technology Update Page.  This page will be used by the communications group to keep you posted on technology issues affecting the organization.  Please visit this page as often as possible and hit the refresh button to make sure you stay up to date on issues affecting the organization.

1/20/99 --

An e-mail message was sent out to everyone yesterday with the memo template as an attachment.  If you did not receive this message, we do not have your correct e-mail message.  The personnel list is posted; please visit it and review the information for accuracy.   Staffing will be maintaining the personnel information, so please contact them if you find any errors or missing information.  Another test message will be sent out tonight.

Some members of the organization have been having troubles viewing the attachment sent with the e-mail message.  The attachment is a Word 97 document.  It can not be viewed using Pine.  When you use Pine, you are using telnet to talk to the server.  The blue window that you read your email in is not displaying information stored on your PC, it is information stored on you account on the server.  You need to download this information to your computer using FTP (File Transfer Protocol).   WS-FTP is a graphical FTP program available through Academic Technology and User Services.   They have on line documentation on how to download a file from your server account to your PC; click here to review it.  You will need to save the attachment first in Pine before using WS-FTP.  Using FTP is not the most user-friendly process, so we will be sending the Senior Manager a copy of any attachment we send to you and ask her to place it on the I drive in the CBE lab. 

The web page is up and ready for content.  We can post whatever you think would benefit the organization.   Here is a short non-inclusive list of what was presented today that could be posted:

Peer evalution page -- already done
XB Pledge
Reading Group Assignments
Reading Group Memo Format
Reading Group Memo Grading Scale

We also need to get in contact with the people in charge of maintaining the calendar (planning?), the minutes, and the grade recording (control?).  In order to post a document or information, it needs to be in Word 97 format and saved as HTML*, an Excel 97 spreadsheet, or a Power Point 97 presentation.   E-mail the document as an attachment to Richard Stewart with a copy also sent to Jonahkai Hancock and Aaron O'Callaghan.  In the message, explain what the document is; please be specific.   If you have another type of document/information you want posted, or if you have any other questions, use the comments link on the main banner to e-mail communications. 

*When you choose to Save As.. a document, at the bottom of the pop-up window a save as type line will appear.  If you click on the drop-down menu arrow, a variety of file formats will appear, choose HTML.   We also suggest renaming the document when you do this.  After you save it as HTML, review the format.  HTML does not support all of the formatting features available in Word 97.  Try to fix the page after you have saved it as HTML to look like you want it to (although we can do some doctoring when we get it). 

1/21/99 -- 

The e-mail links on this page have been tested using Internet Explorer 4 and Outlook.  If you are using Pine, they will not work.  If you are using another e-mail program, like Netscape or Microsoft Mail, then they should work.   For Netscape, you will have to define the mail preferences before it will work.   If you are having troubles with them, you can always send messages manually using the personnel list.  Sorry for any inconvenience. 

1/30/99 --

I have posted a page on how to Save As HTML, click here to visit.