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Technology Tip of the Week - March 13, 2006
Find Anyone's CCRI E-Mail Address
Have you ever guessed at someone's CCRI e-mail address and hoped that the right person would receive your message? Did you know that every CCRI faculty, staff member and student has an e-mail address and that they are all included in a single, searchable database so you never have to guess again!
Here's how to locate a CCRI e-mail address in Pipeline.
Log in to your Pipeline account
Click on the e-mail icon
Click on the Compose button as if you were going to send a new message
Click on the grey Address button to the right of the To: field.
By default, Pipeline looks at your Personal Address book but you want to broaden the search to look at CCRI's entire e-mail address database. To switch to this database, click on the drop-down arrow next to Address Source and choose Campus Email Directory
Next to the Search For box, click on the drop-down arrow and choose Last Name in order to narrow your search and type in the last name of the person you are searching for in the next box (spelling counts!). Note: If you're not sure how to spell the whole name you can also type in the first letter of their last name followed by an asterisk * and this will bring up all the last names in the database that begin with this letter.
Click on the Search button to start the search (note that this may take a few seconds)
A list will appear with all the people with the last name you selected. Scroll down the list to locate the correct person. Notice under the Action column next to each name you will see three selections: To, CC (carbon copy) and BCC (blind carbon copy). Click on the link to the correct field, for example if you want the selected person's address to appear in the To: field in your mail message, click on the green "To" under Actions.
Click on OK. You will see the person's address appear in the To field of your new message. Then just type in your message and Send with a certainty that you have the right information to get your message to the right destination.
One consideration: It is possible for students, faculty or staff to choose to have their address hidden from a general search of the database. In these rare cases, their name and address will not appear in the search results. If that happens you will be forced to contact the person some other way to verify their address. For more help with this feature, please contact one of the faculty mentors - Tony Basilico (abasilico@ccri.edu) or Luis Malaret (lmalaret@ccri.edu) or one of the IT Instructional Support team (Norm Grant, Gene Grande or Linda Beith).
Article of the Week
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants: Some Thoughts from the Generation Gap by Timothy VanSlyke
This article provides a thoughtful rebuttal to some of the ideas advanced by Marc Prensky. In a two-part series entitled "Digital Immigrants, Digital Natives," Marc Prensky (2001a and 2001b) employed an analogy of native speakers and immigrants to describe the generation gap separating today's students (the "digital natives") from their teachers (the "digital immigrants"). The digital natives Prensky described are surrounded by digital media to such an extent that their very brain structures may be different from those of previous generations. The native/immigrant analogy is suggested to help us understand the differences between those who are comfortable with technology and those who are not; however, this author disagrees with many of the conclusions that Prensky draws from it. In this article, VanSlyke considers the implications of Prensky's analogy and whether it provides sufficient justification to radically change the way we view teaching and learning. View this article at: http://technologysource.org/article/digital_natives_digital_immigrants/
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instructional support team. If you
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