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Technology Tip of the Week - June 27, 2006

Accessing Voice Mail from Off-Campus

Did you know that you can access your voice mail from off-campus. It's simple to do.

  1. Dial 825-1022
  2. Press the # key
  3. Enter your 4-digit phone extension
  4. Enter your password
  5. The system will announce if you have messages. To listen to a message press 5. If you wish to save this message press 7.
  6. To exit from the system, press 9 twice and hang up. All messages not marked to save will be deleted when you exit the system.

Changing Your Greeting

Suppose you are home sick or out on vacation and you want to change your voice mail greeting to let callers know that you are not available. You can do this from home too!

  1. Dial 825-1022
  2. Press the # key
  3. Enter your 4-digit phone extension
  4. Enter your password
  5. Press 4 and then 6 to record your new greeting
  6. Press # to save the new greeting

That's all there is to it! Just remember to change your greeting back to normal when you return.

For more help with this feature, please contact one of the IT Instructional Support team (Norm Grant, Gene Grande or Linda Beith). For more phone tips, see http://it.ccri.edu/Network/phonevmail.shtml.

Website of the Week

Social Software and Learning: An Opening Education report from Futurelab
By Martin Owen, Lyndsay Grant, Steve Sayers and Keri Facer
 

"In the educational arena, we are increasingly witnessing a change in the view of what education is for, with a growing emphasis on the need to support young people not only to acquire knowledge and information, but to develop the resources and skills necessary to engage with social and technical change, and to continue learning throughout the rest of their lives.

In the technological arena, we are witnessing the rapid proliferation of technologies which are less about ‘narrowcasting’ to individuals, than the creation of communities and resources in which individuals come together to learn, collaborate and build knowledge (social software).

It is the intersection of these two trends which, we believe, offers significant potential for the development of new approaches to education."....Read more at http://www.futurelab.org.uk/research/opening_education/social_software_01.htm

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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.

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