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Technology Tip of the Week - February 19, 2007
Opening Links in a New Window
When you click on a link to a website that is included in an e-mail message it will open up within the confines of your e-mail frame. This situation often requires you to then use your scroll bars to read back and forth or up and down on the website. Very annoying! Using this week's tip will allow you to avoid this scenario by opening the website into a new window with a simple right-click.
To open a link included in an e-mail message in a whole new window:
- Open your e-mail message in Pipeline
- Move your cursor over the link to the website and press the right mouse button
- Left-click on the Open Page in New Window option
The website will now open in a separate window. This will make it possible to expand the window to full size for maximum access and also makes it much easier to print the content. Wasn't that easy? Note that this works on any hyperlink whether it is in web-based e-mail like Pipeline, on a WebCT page, or any website you visit. It will not work on links brought down into Outlook mail however.
For more help with these features, please contact one of the IT Instructional Support team (Norm Grant, Gene Grande or Linda Beith) or faculty mentors Tony Basilico or Kathy Beauchene.
Website of the Week
February is Black History Month and many faculty have created assignments around this theme. Our CCRI library is offering trial access to a wonderful set of resources just in time for this topic. Included in the list are: Black Drama; Black Thought and Culture; and Black Women Writers. Feel free to circulate these links to your students to access these treasures from: http://www.ccri.edu/lerc/lib.htm and while you are at it, check out the other database trials under the What's New link at http://www.ccri.edu/lerc/libnew.htm, including Rittenhouse databases on Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health. These subscription databases are being considered for purchase for next year by our RI HELIN consortium and our librarians would appreciate your input. Hurry though - the trials on these databases run out soon.
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These tips are provided by the Department of Information Technology
instructional support team. If you
have any questions on these tips, or wish to offer your own, please feel free to
contact Linda Beith at lbeith@ccri.edu. View an archive of past technology tips
at
http://it.ccri.edu/Training/Tips/tip_week.shtml.
