Thursday, December 8, 2011

EDUC 5000 - Week 15

In the last few months, our agency has changed email applications.  We have gone from using Groupwise to using MS Outlook Web Access.  Unfornately, a lot of us hate it, because we can't do some of the things that we could do before (like checking to see if a sent mail has been opened), and the number of emails that we can have is a lot smaller than we had.  Before, emails automatically dropped off after six months.  Now, we have a size limitation.  Anyway, my current project is to develop training for Outlook Web Access for the staff.  I started out by checking to see what is available online and found that Western Connecticut State University had posted something that I'm going to use as a basic outline.  I'm going to modify it to suit our needs, but I will, of course, give them credit for their document in the presentation.  After determining the best design, I started on the slides and ran into two issues.  I started the presentation on someone else's computer that had MS 2010.  There are a lot more design options and flexibility on that version of Powerpoint.  Unfortunately, that computer didn't have Jing (I really couldn't live without this program), so I emailed the presentation to my work computer to finish.  The next issue was with the presentation examples.  I want to use a generic email account to set up the examples, so that my work information isn't included.  I'm going to email Sonny to ask if this is possible, but it will be next week before I have an answer.  Since this will be a pretty time comsuming project (I've already spent about two hours on it today), the delay isn't a problem, as I can finish the presentation next week.