Tennessee's Next Generation Tools

GETTING STARTED

Tennessee's Next Generation Tools CD is self-executing. Simply insert the CD into a CD-ROM drive operating from a Windows or Mac operating system and the opening page should appear within your default web browser. If your operating system is not set up to open files automatically from your CD-ROM drive:

1. Open Windows Explorer or Mac Finder, or Linux mounted CD drive to browse the contents of your CD-ROM drive;
2. Open index.html. The introductory page should start automatically using your computer's default web browser.

Note that this CD has been tested and found to function correctly on the following web browsers, running on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems:

► Netscape™ Navigator 4.78 and higher
► Microsoft™ Internet Explorer 5.5 and higher (for IE on Mac computers, be sure your browser's options are set to output pages using the "iso-8859-1" character set.)
► Apple™ Safari 2.0
► Mozilla Firefox 1.0 and above for Windows, Mac OS and Linux distributions.

For any of these web browsers, ensure that Javascript, which controls the navigational menus within this CD, is enabled.

USING MICROSOFT™ WORD DOCUMENTS

The Interactive Unit Builder, its components, and other documents in the Tennessee's Next Generation Tools CD are templates developed in Microsoft™ Word and PowerPoint. Microsoft™ Word 2000--or a similar word processing program with the ability to open Microsoft™ Word 2000 documents or higher (.doc format)--is required to utilize these templates.

For those without a copy of Microsoft™ Word or Microsoft™ PowerPoint, visit www.openoffice.org, where you can download a free, open-source suite of programs that can read, edit, and save the documents within this CD with some minor formatting variations. Openoffice.org is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

USING ADOBE ACROBAT™ DOCUMENTS

Many of the documents, document templates and resources provided on the Tennessee's Next Generation Tools CD require Adobe™ Acrobat Reader 7.0, which allows you to open and print Acrobat .pdf documents. Updates of this free software are available at the Adobe website: www.adobe.com/acrobat. If you are currently using an earlier version on Adobe Acrobat Reader, please install version 7.0 to ensure the full functionality of the .pdf documents within.

Acrobat .pdf, or Portable Document Format, is a feature-rich file type that works in most operating systems, prints exactly as it appears on your computer screen, and interacts with the user through form fields and prompts that are modeled on web pages.

It is important that these programs are installed before accessing the resources on this CD. On the introductory page, click on Install Adobe™ Reader, and follow that application's installation directions.

While Adobe™ Acrobat Reader does allow for full interactivity and functionality of Tennessee's Next Generation Tools CD, we highly recommend procuring a copy of Adobe™ Acrobat Standard 7.0, which better integrates reading, saving, and editing its documents.

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS

As we continue to develop and improve Tennessee's Next Generation Tools CD, we welcome any feedback or questions you may have about the its content or design for subsequent versions. Contact Jeffrey Hill at Jeffrey.R.Hill@gmail.com.