Smart Tech = Low Tech
Richi Kroupa (Japanese) stopped by with questions about how to provide class handouts to her students. Since SCC is between learning management systems, and this semester's D2L training will begin in late February the ideal solution was to create a web server account.
Many faculty have wserver accounts for websites managed through FrontPage or Dreamweaver or iWeb. Other faculty post content to the wserver and then link to these files from Blackboard or D2L.
In Richi's case, she will give the exact URLs to students for now and they can access the handouts any time.
One additional twist was to convert her Word documents to PDF (Acrobat) files and post them. It was easy to see why. In looking a the PDF version the browser automatically displayed the file in printable fashion - including the Japanese characters. The DOC or DOCX files would be best to download, just clicking the filename showed a 'character alphabet soup' instead of content.
Many faculty have wserver accounts for websites managed through FrontPage or Dreamweaver or iWeb. Other faculty post content to the wserver and then link to these files from Blackboard or D2L.
In Richi's case, she will give the exact URLs to students for now and they can access the handouts any time.
One additional twist was to convert her Word documents to PDF (Acrobat) files and post them. It was easy to see why. In looking a the PDF version the browser automatically displayed the file in printable fashion - including the Japanese characters. The DOC or DOCX files would be best to download, just clicking the filename showed a 'character alphabet soup' instead of content.
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