Using email to Communicate with the Instructor

The most effective way to communicate with the instructor will be through email. I suggest that email communications with the instructor concentrate on matters that are specific to you. More general questions should be placed on the course Web-based discussion board. The instructor will monitor this board, but you may also receive answers and ideas from other students, often faster than from the instructor.

The instructor's email address is aingram@kent.edu

When you want to send assignments and materials to the instructor, the best way is usually to attach them to an email message. The exact procedures for this will depend on your email program and/or service. AOL is different from Outlook which is different from Hotmail, and so on. Here are some tips:

bulletLook for a button with a paper clip on it. That is often the icon for an attachment.
bulletWith many Web-based email services, attaching a file is often a two-step process. Make sure that you perform both steps.
bulletYou can attach only individual files. You cannot attach a folder. Therefore, if you want to send more than one file, you will have to attach each one individually.
bulletWhen you want to send a Web page for review and feedback, you often have to send both the page and any accompanying files, such as graphics. As you use the many features of FrontPage, the list of files that must be sent may become quite large. Therefore, your best bet is often to compress the entire folder containing your website into a single file. WinZip is an excellent program for doing this.
bulletAnother reason for zipping files that you send is that increasingly, many email programs try to incorporate HTML files (Web pages) into the message itself. This can interfere with saving and viewing the pages with a browser. Zipping can prevent this.

Obtain WinZip at http://www.winzip.com/ and elsewhere. There is a free version available.

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