Subject: LTS Digest October 12, 2004 Issue
From: Helen L. Zuercher (hlz2@Lehigh.EDU)
Date: Tue Oct 12 2004 - 10:39:12 EDT
*LTS DIGEST -October 12, 2004 Lehigh Univ. Library and Technology Services* * * *CONTENTS:* *--LINDERMAN LIBRARY CLOSED OCTOBER 15^TH * *--LINDERMAN PROJECT FAQ* *--LEHIGH LAB NOTES* *--EIU VIEWSWIRE* *--USING MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD FOR MASS EMAILING* --*A NEW BLACKBOARD TOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE LEARNING* *--SERVICE PACK 2 FOR WINDOWS XP: POP-UP BLOCKERS* *--FALL 2004 LTS SEMINAR SCHEDULE* Subscription, archive and contact information is at the bottom of this digest. * * *LINDERMAN LIBRARY CLOSED OCTOBER 15TH* The Linderman Library will be closed all day on Friday, October 15th for a university event. It will reopen as usual at 10 am on Saturday, October 16th. If you need to make special advance arrangements for some specific materials, please contact Gail Kriebel at the Fairchild Martindale Library (gpk0, x83028). The Linderman Reading Room will also be closed during the day on October 14th but the remainder of the building will be open. *LINDERMAN PROJECT FAQ* Many details about the Linderman Project are available on the project web site at http://www.lehigh.edu/lts/linderman/faq.html . Most recently the Schematic Design Report, with preliminary building layouts, and the Linderman Transition FAQ have been added. The former is listed under "Publications" and the latter is under "FAQ". It is anticipated that Linderman Library will be closed to the public for about 18 months beginning at the end of the spring semester 2005 final exams in early May. Many plans have been made for making library materials available in other ways. Please address any questions to Sue Cady at x84645 or sac0@lehigh.edu <mailto:sac0@lehigh.edu> *LEHIGH LAB NOTES* Lehigh Lab Notes is published four times a year to provide articles that will help educators integrate instructional technology tools into teaching and can be found at http://www.lehigh.edu/~inllnote/ <http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Einllnote/> *EIU VIEWSWIRE* What is a country's economic or political situation? Is it worth the risk of starting or investing in a business overseas? ViewsWire may have the answers for the researcher. This recently added item covers over 200 plus countries and the six continents with quantitative and qualitative information. This database includes the major subject areas of Business, Economy, Finance, Politics, Regulations and Risk Wire (all major areas have subcategories). The researcher can search by topic or country. Also the search can be refined by using the subcategories for a given area or country. It is produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit that publishes The Economist magazine. The item is available on the Library's Database Finder's page at http://databases.lib.lehigh.edu/finder/ *USING MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD FOR MASS EMAILING* If you frequently send email to large lists of addresses taken from an Excel spreadsheet, you might remember an easy technique in Netscape 4.x that allowed you to do this without having to create an address book list. In Netscape 4.x, you could copy a column of email addresses and simply paste it into the email composition window. The recipient field would be automatically populated so that you didn't need to create a list manually. This feature was discontinued in later versions of Netscape, but is back by popular demand in Mozilla Thunderbird, a stand-alone email client. If you have a need for this feature, contact your computing consultant to request that Mozilla Thunderbird be installed on your computer. *A NEW BLACKBOARD TOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE LEARNING* Interested in online collaborative learning? We now have a new Blackboard tool, "Teams LX", that makes it easy for groups of students to create and jointly edit shared documents and websites within a Blackboard course. This is the first tool that we have found that actually allows students to add content to a course that is immediately available to everyone enrolled in the course. Each edit to a page is logged and is available for viewing for both the Instructor and team members. Comments about the pages can be added by team members, the Instructor, and even members of the course who are not on the team. Teams LX provides not only an online collaborative environment for a specific group of students, but also, optionally, provides an environment for the entire class to reflect and comment on the process. While the end result of a "Teams" project will be a final collaborative web page (or site), the built-in evaluation tool also provides the Instructor with information about individual contributions, as well as views of all the prior versions of the site. This multi-dimensional approach to assessment and evaluation of collaborative projects really provides unique and invaluable insights into the collaborative process. Teams LX is available now on our Blackboard system. Instructors can create and assign collaborative projects for their students by simply adding a "Teams Group Site" to any content area of a course. Go to the edit content area page either through the Control Panel, or toggle there from the course content page, by clicking on "EDIT VIEW" in the upper right portion of the page. Choose "Create Teams Groups Site" from the pull-down menu on the add content tool bar, then "GO". This will create a blank "home" page for the team. For additional information, please contact your Instructional Technology Consultant: http://www.lehigh.edu/lts/teams/it/support.shtml *SERVICE PACK 2 FOR WINDOWS XP: POP-UP BLOCKERS* The Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) upgrade adds a pop-up blocking feature to Internet Explorer. This feature, which is enabled by default, prevents some pop-up windows from displaying. A pop-up window is a new window that is spawned for some reason - a pop-up can be adware or spyware, but some pop-ups are desirable. Some useful Lehigh services, such as IMP email, the campus portal email, and some library databases use pop-ups. Pop-up blockers can prevent these features from working. To further confuse the issue, pop-up blockers are often part of add-on toolbars, such as the Google and Yahoo toolbars. After updating to service pack 2, some PCs may have multiple pop-up blockers enabled. This can be confusing. To learn more about pop-up blockers and Internet Explorer's pop-up blocking feature, click on this link: http://www.lehigh.edu/~inlts/help/spyware/iepblocker/ <http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Einlts/help/spyware/iepblocker/> *FALL 2004 LTS SEMINAR SCHEDULE* Don't forget to register for Fall Library and Technology Services (LTS) seminars. For registration information and a complete listing of the seminar series, visit http://www.lehigh.edu/lts/sems/seminars.html ******************************************************************** Send your comments or suggestions for future topics by replying directly to the list. 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