Index of Link and Accent files for download and use by members of the Department of Elementary Schools

Dear Catholic Elementary School Educator,

The department is pleased to offer you the latest issue of LINK: A Sharing Between Catholic Educators and Parents and National Catholic Educators ACCENT. You can expect that the index below will be updated on or about the 20th of each month with the issue for the following month. We will send an e-mail to the ELEMEMBR mailing list when this page has been updated. Link and Accent are benefits of your membership in the department. As such, there will be no hyperlink from the department pages to this page and we will hide this page from our website search engine. While this page will always be here, we are protecting its access for you the member and we recommend you add this page to your "favorites' list for future use.

If you are not regularly receiving LINK and ACCENT or the two department newsletters, then the following information may be of use to you.

• Many use free email accounts, e.g., @juno.com or @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com, and you should be aware that these accounts have very small mailboxes and they fill very quickly. If your mailbox is full at the time department mail is transmitted, then your email account rejects our mail. Recommend you clear your mail boxes regularly so that you receive your mail, not just NCEA mail but mail from everyone else.
• A larger challenge is the filtering software that may be in use by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or by your local computer network. In an effort to reduce objectionable mail, security rules established by your organization may reject mail 'relayed mail' from the NCEA mail list server. Member email systems should be configured to accept mail from the ncea.org domain address that is relayed by or received from "listserver.americaneagle.com ([216.183.224.236])". Additionally, it should accept mail from ncea@americaneagle.com - a send only email address (it cannot receive mail) maintained to match sending server and message address names. Your security software may interpret the disparity between the sending address, e.g. nceaelem@ncea.org, and the mail list server as objectionable mail and reject it. See your technical support folks for advice.

Unfortunately NCEA can be on no assistance to you in either of these two cases.

Here are some tips on how you may use the files:

1. You can download the newsletter exactly as it is. Make printed copies of it and distribute these to each family. If you choose this option, I recommend that you choose the printer friendly version for reproduction purposes. This is the way LINK had been distributed for the last 18 years.
2. You can e-mail the newsletter Internet URLs to the members of your school community on your school e-mail list.
3. You can incorporate sections of it into your regular newsletter. If you do this, please indicate that the material was first published by NCEA.
4. If you have any difficulty retrieving the files, this web page will provide troubleshooting assistance: http://www.ncea.org/departments/elementary/newsletters/troubleshoot-accent.asp. Two of the more common problems are the rejection of our messages because your mailbox is full or because your school or Internet mail host mail servers uses mail filtering software that rejects our mail. Our new mailing list software has dealt with some of those issues but we continue to encounter full mailboxes or member e-mail addresses that have been changed without notifying us.

If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader loaded to your PC, you may obtain a copy from Adobe for either PC or Macintosh and at no cost. Go to: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html It is necessary to download Acrobat Reader only one time and when installed on your computer, you need not download it again. If you encounter any difficulty when installing the reader to your computer, this link, http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/topissuesacr.htm provides useful troubleshooting information that will help you through the installation process. Our newsletters will be compatible with Acrobat Reader versions 6.0 and higher.

You should ensure that your web browser is a modern browser and that your e-mailsoftware can receive and properly display HTML formatted messages.

LINK

Link March 2006
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Link February 2006
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Link January 2006
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Link December 2005
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Link November 2005
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Link October 2005
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LINK September 2005
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ACCENT

Accent March 2006
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Accent February 2006
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Accent January 2006
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Accent December 2005
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Accent November 2005
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Accent October 2005
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Accent September 2005
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