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Once again, on using Outlook 2000 ... if you really want "bells and
whistles", you should use Outlook 2000. While the Exchange e-mail system is
informally divided between teachers using OWA and Office staff using Outlook
2000, they are just two paths to the same place. If anyone, teachers or
office staff want quick and dirty e-mail, use OWA. For anyone who wants
bells and whistles, use Outlook 2000.
Outlook 2000 is free and comes in with Office 2000 and some other paths. If
you can't find it anywhere else, try the HelpLine or call your Analyst at
IS.
What kind of bells and whistles am I referring to. Distribution lists
(address books), the ability to recall e-mails, the ability to see if a user
read your e-mail to them or deleted it without reading it. (These are
things that VAX users always had in their clunky old WordPerfect 5.1 e-mail
system), the ability to include votes (when you send an e-mail, you can
include buttons in the e-mail with choices like "Yes", "No", "Not in this
lifetime", etc, choices that you create yourself. Then all the receiver has
to do is click on one of the buttons and Outlook automatically and invisibly
sends back a reply message giving the response. There is also a Calendar
where you can markup your schedule and send it as an e-mail with the voting
like above to figure out when a group of people can meet. And, I definitely
can NOT leave out A SPELL CHECKER! (Who needs that? <grin>).
What is really neat about the features above is that everyone of them, I
learned about in Rick Henry's "MS OUTLOOK BASICS" class AFTER I thought that
I knew most of what Outlook 2000 could do. As some wise somebody once said,
"Its what you learn after you know it all that counts. Someone at IS had
sent me a 150 page document that I read through and picked up five or six
new features. I did Web searches for FAQ's and learned a lot more. So,
when I attended one of IS's Basic Outlook class, I hoped that I might pick
up one or two new tidbits. Everything that Rick Henry said had me jotting
down notes. I didn't even know about the features listed above until he
guided us through them.
And, Rick Henry is a phenomenal teacher. He emphasizes with the why high
students and the barely starting students without dragging out the class at
either a way high or way low level. He moves around the class seeing that
everyone is still with him and that no beginner has decided to turn off the
brain since they can't understand any of this. He uses break time and
before and after class time to deal with individual questions that wouldn't
benefit everyone else.
When I was back in the ordinary classroom, I always felt that I was on a
roll when the kids would keep asking questions that were actually the next
step in my lesson plans. This was happening all through the Outlook Basics
class. The class ended entirely too soon.
So, if you want to get as much as you can out of the new Exchange e-mail
accounts, consider using Outlook 2000 and taking Information Services's
great "MS OUTLOOK BASICS" classes. They are three hours long and worth
every minute of it.
-Wes
Call the HelpDesk at 252-0333 to sign up if interested
MS OUTLOOK BASICS 19-Mar 12:00PM-03:00PM
MS OUTLOOK BASICS 27-Mar 03:30PM-06:30PM
MS OUTLOOK BASICS 2-Apr 03:30PM-06:30PM
MS OUTLOOK BASICS 23-Apr 03:30PM-06:30PM
MS OUTLOOK BASICS 4-May 08:30AM-11:30AM
MS OUTLOOK BASICS 8-May 03:30PM-06:30PM
MS OUTLOOK BASICS 15-May 03:30PM-06:30PM
MS OUTLOOK, ADVANCED MAIL & CALENDAR 13-Feb 03:30PM-06:30PM
MS OUTLOOK, ADVANCED MAIL & CALENDAR 12-Mar 12:00PM-03:00PM
MS OUTLOOK, ADVANCED MAIL & CALENDAR 13-Mar 03:30PM-06:30PM
MS OUTLOOK, ADVANCED MAIL & CALENDAR 17-Apr 03:30PM-03:30PM
Notice my new e-mail address ...
wfelty@SeattleSchools.org
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