Tech Tips Newsletter
3-20-06

Tech Tips - Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) in Email

Using the BCC feature of email is very useful when you need to send an email to a person or group of people without sharing their email addresses with others.  For example, this is useful when you are emailing class news out to parents, but you don't want all of the parents' email addresses showing for everyone to see. Put them all in the BCC field. Here's how:

• Open the message that you want to send.
• Look for the Options button on the toolbar. 
• Click on down arrow next to the word Options and select BCC.
• Then type the name or address of the recipients in the BCC field.

Question....  If someone clicks on Reply All, will they be able to see who received the initial email?

No.  I use this method when sending this newsletter.  Although it wouldn't matter if everyone saw the other email addresses this also prevents a recipient from accidentally sending a reply to everyone receiving the email.  In this case, if you click on Reply All, I'm the only one who gets the email message because I sent the email.

Web Resources

- Elementary Resource  
- High School Resource

• Interactive Tour of a Cell - This NSF website includes lots of biology resources, but the Tour of a Cell is a highlight. *  
  *Elementary teachers could use as a resource.

• MathCats - A highly interactive site geared to children ages 12 and under. It includes a math art gallery, Microworlds and Logo programming and math questions on a "magic chalkboard."

Week of March 20, 2006

Monday - BSHS
Tuesday - BSHS
Wednesday - Yates
Thursday - Yates
Friday - Immex Development at IAKSS