A major upgrade to the College electrical system is scheduled for Fall Break. Many computer services will be down from Saturday, October 17th at 5:00 p.m. through Tuesday, October 20th at midnight. If the contractor completes the project ahead of schedule, services may be available earlier in the day on Tuesday, October 20th . Please review the information below concerning the availability of computer services at each campus during this upgrade.
A. AVAILABLE
Active Directory (login to desktop but some icons may not work) Note: Due to Login scripts trying to map drives to servers that are down, initial login will be slow)
internet service
wireless service
telephones local and long distance
E911
D2L access (Note: login to D2L from the homepage as myPellissippi will be down)
official College website (pstcc15)
B. UNAVAILABLE
College email, including webmail
Banner services
Off-campus access to library databases
Network drives (H drives, shared, etc.) Note:If you need to work on something that is located on your H drive during fall break, please move a copy to your C drive prior to the system going down.
Voicemail
Auto dialer
Rightfax
myPellissippi
Other – any other data services not listed explicitly as “available” will be down (THIS INCLUDES THIS BLOG SITE!!)
For your convenience, we will provide the project status on Pellissippi’s homepage during Fall Break.
If you have questions, please contact the Information Technology Support Center by sending e-mail to HELPDESK at pstcc.edu or by calling 694-6537.
The 4th Annual President’s Convocation was held earlier today. ETS broadcast the event to the distance learning classrooms as well as streamed it live. If you want to check out more about the Common Book and the corresponding events, you will want to visit the Common Book site.
Here is a slideshow of images from the day’s events. Enjoy!
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Or, if you want to just see the images individually…
In most “all-in-one” devices, the owner finds that they do “all” things okay but not all of them are that great.
Cell phones are fast becoming “all-in-ones” as well. And the cameras in most cell phones leave a lot to be desired. However, short of glamour photography, there are lots of uses for a camera that is in your pocket with images ready to be seen again. Some ideas for using camera phones:
Snapping a photo of a label of some food/drink you want to try again when you don’t have a way to write it down. Using a service like Evernote also can work with that to grab those labels and turn them into text.
Grabbing an image of the location of your car in a huge parking lot (like at an airport) so you can locate it upon return
Taking a picture of the hardware/plumbing/electrical problem or broken part before you head out to the hardware or supply store to get that part or solve that problem. Showing the photo to the staff often helps speed things up and save return trips.
Snapping a pic of a whiteboard, chalkboard or other screen after a productive work session or even of notes after a lecture
Grabbing a photo and sending it to someone of an item in a store to get an opinion or ask if they would like it for a gift
Just taking photos of your pets, kids, spouse, etc to have a virtual photo gallery always handy when you want the comfort of family around you.
What other uses for a cell phone camera do you have??
If you want to know more about Twitter, you can read what we said about it way back in the Fall of 2007 during our Web Wednesday talk on Microblogging.
With the end of the semester in view, we know it can be a mad dash to the finish. With so many things to remember, seemed like a good idea to take a quick tour through some personal organizer sites. This week, we visit:
FutureMe: Send yourself an email in the future. The future is 90 days or more, we learn in the video!
Remember the Milk: Create lists and events and organize them by categories, priority, due date or tags. Send in items via email and send them out via email, SMS, twitter and other ways.
DIYPlanner: If you are just paper-oriented (and it sure does have its advantages!), visit the templates at DIY planner to print out just the kind of organizer you have been looking for all these years.
Greetings from our new blogging home: Pellissippi State Blogs.
We have been hard at work trying to get all of these electrons toted and lifted to create this new multi-user and multi-blogging site. It is very exciting!!!
If you are curious about what is going on right now, you might want to look over a few pages:
On this Site Seeing tour, we pass through several sites that offer free multimedia resources. You might find these videos, audio, text, images and other options helpful in creating online courses, lecture presentations or other materials. You might also want to point your students to them for their use in creating presentations and projects.
Welcome to our third Site Seeing tour! This tour will take us to several sites that can help you work with Portable Document Format (PDF) files. We will look at:
CutePDF – www.cutepdf.com A program that installs a virtual printer on your PC so you can easily create PDF files by “printing” them from almost any program on your PC.
PDF Download – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636 An extension for the Firefox browser that gives you more options for dealing with PDFs and also makes it very easy to create a PDF file from a web page.
PDFtoWord – http://www.pdftoword.com/ Online service that will take a PDF that you uplooad and convert it to Word or RTF format.
PDFVue – http://www.pdfvue.com Online service that provides basic PDF editing, commenting, form building and markup of existing PDF files.
This Site Seeing Tour is just in time for Spring Break. We cover several travel related sites that might help you find a good deal, save some time, prepare the best itinerary or just share where you have been in the world. In this tour, we look at:
Kayak – www.kayak.com for finding flights, car and hotel from multiple sites in one search
Farecast – www.farecast.com for seeing trends in airfare prices over time so you will know when to buy
TripWiser – www.tripwiser.com for exploring other travelers’ itineraries, reviews, photos and plans so you can make your trip the best
TripIt – www.tripit.com for organizing your travel plans by forwarding your confirmation emails to one place to create a master itinerary you can view online and on mobile devices
Where I’ve Been – www.whereivebeen.com for sharing where you have been, where you have lived and where you want to go.
