A.  NAVIGATING ABCs:  

If you live far from campus or find transportation difficult, you can call the campus store and they wil ship your books to you. There is a small charge that just covers the UPS or Fed Ex cost.

Course Activities: These will take place on Blackboard.  All activities, including tests, class discussion, and assignments, and paper submissions occur through Blackboard. 

Course Content: can be found both linked to Blackboard and on our course website (see the list of web addresses below).  All course content ultimately resides on the course website.

Email: You can contact me at bduncan@millersville.edu either directly or using the e-mail function on Blackboard. Remember to always identify yourself by providing your name and the name or number of the course you are taking. (I unfortunately am not possessed of either a crystal ball or 'E-Mail ESP.') Similarly, it would be just lovely if you put your name, the course it's for, the assignment, and a paper title on any papers you submit. You can email other students in the class using Blackboard’s email function. 

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THE DETAILS:

1.   COURSE WEBSITES:  The content material for your course can be found by adding the course number to my homepage address.  The sites are password protected to protect the site and maintain student confidentiality.  All my learning and advisement areas have the same logon and password: logon = open, password = sesame

My homepage address is htttp://muweb.millersville.edu/~bduncan 

1.1     ENGL220 Introduction to Language Study = http://mustang.millersville.edu/~bduncan/220/

1.2     ENGL221 Introduction to Linguistic Analysis = http://mustang.millersville.edu/~bduncan/221/

1.3     ENGL316 Business Writing = http://mustang.millersville.edu/~bduncan/316

1.4     ENGL337 Women Writers of the Middle Ages = http://mustang.millersville.edu/~bduncan/337/

1.5     ENGL402/602: Middle English = http://mustang.millersville.edu/~bduncan/402/

1.6     ENGL403/603 Chaucer = http://mustang.millersville.edu/~bduncan/403

1.7     ENGL465 Neurolinguistics = http://muweb.millersville.edu/~bduncan/465

1.8     ENGL676 Business Writing for Managers and Executives =http://muweb.millersville.edu/~bduncan/676

For a more detailed discussion of your Course Website, click here.

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  2.    BLACKBOARD:  http://muweb.millersville.edu/~wms/bb/index.php This is your class’s work and communications hub.

Directions for Blackboard functions: You will want to become familiar with the workings of the various Blackboard functionalities ASAP.  To encourage that, I have tried to use all of them in the first two weeks of class, a time when awkwardness and even mistakes won’t count toward your grade.  (If you have not used Blackboard before and need fuller directions for logging on the first time, scroll down to B.  Made It Work 1.0. below)

2.1     Haven’t used Blackboard before?  Find your user name and password: http://muweb.millersville.edu/~wms/id/bbhelp/bb6popup-uname-pword.htm

2.2    Should you have problems with Blackboard, call Millersville Blackboard Support Center at 1-866-334-9174.   

2.3      A word  about Blackboard’s functionality: Many of you prefer browsers like Firefox (I do myself), but Blackboard was designed for Explorer, and works best with Microsoft’s Explorer 4+.  Web browser functionality is most likely to become an issue with quizzes, tests, and questionaires.  Before taking them, make sure clear the cache and turn off any pop-up blocker you might have, as the software utilizes that feature.

2.4    Explorer can be downloaded free from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default 

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B.  MAKE IT WORK!  Unless you register late, you will be able to access this material the first day or two of class.  Try both sites out to insure that you can get into them.

1.  BLACKBOARD FUNCTIONALITIES

 Starting out:  After you log on to Blackboard, you’ll see a menu that includes

1.1 This is the default information shown when you log on, and always the top menu item. Notice that there are tabs that let you choose how far back you want to check for information. If you don't immediately see what you need, click on "View All."

My Grades, mail you might have, etc., listed under your name on the left.  You can check those right away if you like.  On the right, you can choose the course you wish to enter from among those in which you are enrolled that have Blackboard functionality (221 could be the only one, or there could be several).  Click on your course and you’ll find a menu bar to your left and any new announcements I have provided on the main portion of the screen.  You can choose to read those or select from among a longer range of announcements.

1.2      You will find course management information such as the syllabus, my office location and hours, schedule of assignments due, a campus map, and this document there. 

1.3       (See also 2.0 and 3.0 below) Inside Coursework, go to each week or unit's work under for detailed instructions on readings, chat, written assignments, etc. These sections are the gateway to each unit’s work and contains specific instructions and content oriented material to help you with the assignments.  This is where you will be guided through your day to day activities.  They are laid out in folders by date and week.  When first starting out, for example, choose the folder labeled Week 1 or Unit 1,and work through the readings, activities such as group chat, tests or quizzes, and writing assignments shown there. 

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1.4   This is the main tool for group discussion and peer review.  

1.4.1  Before chatting on the Discussion Board, please read Peer Review and Chat Guidelines.  In general, maintain high standards of integrity, including good manners, taste, and humor.  You can and should employ vigorous intellectual discussion, energetically opposing ideas and proposing your own without ever attacking the person who shared those notions. 

1.4.2   How to access the Discussion Board: There are two ways. 
A. Click on the button from the menu bar to the left of your Blackboard Course and choose the correct assignment.

B. Choose 'Course materials' within Blackboard for your course.

     1.Click on the appropriate week's work.

     2. Find the icon of a book with world on it and click on the purple title right next to it.

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1.4.2.1  To read the work of your peers: Click on the student’s work, read, and then click on when appropriate, appending your general comments and documents (preferably as Word documents). If you plan to peer review the item, post a message claiming it so that other students won't be working on it as third or further readers, which would waste their time.

To post your own work on the Discusson board: First, make sure to save the work as a .doc or .rtf document.  The filename must not have any control characters in it.  In general, that means that you shouldn't use anything that isn't alphanumeric. 
Example: 
      myname-assignment1.rtf is fine.
      myname-assignment#1.rtf is illegal and will not transmit.

1. Choose the proper Discussion Board.

2. Click on

3. This will take you  to a new page that looks like this simplified example:

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1.4.3    To make comments on someone else’s entry:  To read a document attached to someone else’s work, look for “attachment” at the top of the entry.  To respond to a person’s document or discussion, from within the other person’s discussion entry, click ‘Reply’ and follow the directions above.

a. Choose the pull down menu ‘Insert’

b. Choose ‘Comment' and type in the resultant box, which most usually occurs in the right margin, but might occur at the bottom of the page.

c. Append the document with your specific comments appended directly to the text.

d. Remember that you are being graded on your comments and that the discussion board is monitored.  Some things to remember:

1.4.4     To read comments: 

a. Choose the pull-down menu View

b. Choose Print or Reading layout

1.4.5     To respond to peer review: The proper response to all feedback is a simple, "Thank you."  Never become argumentative or defensive.  You may disagree, and do not have to take the person’s advice, but it is useful to get a sense of how other people respond to your texts.  The final responsibility for the document as submitted to me is entirely yours.

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1.5      This is where you will go to send me your written work.  The due date will be listed in the syllabus and inside the Coursework unit.  Be very careful to keep track of due dates and times, as the assignment will disappear from your view after the due date is past.

 To submit written work to me: 

Submit only on Blackboard: You may only submit from within Blackboard. DO NOT EMAIL YOUR PAPERS TO ME. Submit directly at the "Submit Assignments" button or within each unit at ‘Course Materials’

Format: Save your paper as either a Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) document. Remember that my computer cannot read Works and has problems with Word Perfect. Be careful not to put control characters into your filename. Use only letters and numbers.  For example, lastname-assignment2.rtf is fine, but  lastname-assignment#2.rtf will not transmit.

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Layout and design: Refer to Writing a Paper for Me for specific details on layout, disign, citing sources, etc. Your paper should clearly show the following information:

1. Your name, submission date, course title and/or number, and the title of the assignment are all clearly visible on the document you have written.
2. Make sure you have a title, and that the paper is paginated.  
3. If there are multiple pages, repeat that data as a running header.




          Example:

My name, date Course #, class hour Assignment identification Title of Paper Cover Letter or Cover Memo: When submitting your paper digitally on jBlackboard, the "Comments" section of the "Upload Assignment" form serves as your Cover Memo. Always provide your name, the course you are taking, the assignment, and the name of your paper. This may seem redundant, but I need to download your paper to the proper folder before I ever open it, so I need to know those things right away. Abstract: A short—generally 100 words or less—description of your research question, methodology, and findings. Introduction: Explains in a bit more detail what makes the paper worth reading, what it's thesis or research question is, and how you plan to proceed. Various sections of the paper's body: Subheadings guide the reader through the logical steps of your arguement. Conclusion: Don't over-sell your paper or claim that somehow you are a better person because your instructor required the assignment. Also, remember that all honest, carefullly done research is good research. It is often the case that student reseach is to brief, the sample too small, the knowledge base too slim to be conclusive. If that's the case, just say so and make suggestions for possible further research. Work Cited and (possibly) Bibliography: Your WC section includes ever source you actually cited within your paper. If you found materials you wish to bring to the attention of your reader, even though you didn't actually use them, then you add them to the WC group to create an even longer Bibliography. The paper must have a Works Cited section, and an additional Bibliography section is optional. Appendix. Opional. If you did primary research, you may wish to include a copy of your survey or other materials in the appendix. Glossary: Also optional. If you are introducing many terms you think your readers may not know, you may wish to define them here and refer readers to the section rather than making them search for the exact page on which you made the definition within the text. General management 1. Provide a running header w/ your name, short title, page # of ## 2. Provide section headings to clarify the logical progress of your paper for the reader. 3. Give credit to your sources: Remember to provide in text citation (either parenthetically or as a footnote or endnote) of the sources of either quoted or paraphrased material and also a Works Cited section with the full bibliographic information on each source. 4. You do not need a title page. They just take up space.

 

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Directions for Blackboard Submission:

• Click on the proper week or unit.
• Look for the icon of a checked clipboard
• Click on the assignment choice below:
        >> View/Complete Assignment: (Assignment title)
• That takes you to a submission page that has a section for your comments. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.

             Example:

Upload Assignment Assignment Information Name            Assignment 1 Instructions   Submit your first assignment here. Assignment Materials Comments            (Type in your identifying material here. Do not copy the assignment within the comments block.  Append it where you see ‘file to attach’ and a ‘Browse’ button.) (Attach your paper: Using the Browse button, find your document on your computer.  After double checking to insure that you saved it with a single word title as a .doc or .txt file with the file extension typed in, choose it.)      Attach local file:      Currently Attached Files:    (Use if you need it, but I prefer papers as all one file. I just end up putting them together myself otherwise.) Submit Click Save to stop working and continue working later. Click Submit to finish. Click Cancel to quit without saving changes.

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1.6        Quizzes, tests, and surveys can be found within each week’s folder or directly from the this button on the main page. 

1.6.1   Testing schedule:  Be careful to keep track of due dates and times, as you will not be permitted to enter the test either before it is assigned or after the completion date.  It will simply disappear from your view.

1.6.2    Timer:   In order to make the online tests equal to those in on site courses, they are usually timed.  A clock will show at the upper right side of the test.  If for any reason you should go a few moments over time, don’t quit and walk away.  Go ahead and submit.  The testing mechanism will simply inform me of how far you got in the time allotted and how much over time you were, leaving me to decide what to do about it.  

1.6.3    Completely finish submitting the test.  Make very sure that you complete and fully leave the test even if you get angry and frustrated with it..  If you quit informally, you will not only fail to receive a grade, but the machine will think you’re still taking it and hold it open (stuck).  You’ll not receive a grade (which defaults to a zero), and will need to contact me to ask to have it reset, which takes a really good (university level) excuse.

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1.6.4   What’s the difference between Tests, Quizzes, and Surveys?

  Quizzes and tests are exactly alike, and the same symbol is used for them on Blackboard. 

Quiz:  A minor exercise with very few points attached or one that can be taken simply for practice with no grade at all attached.

Test:  A major graded exercise such as the midterm or final.

  Surveys:  These are very different in intent and consequences.  They have two basic purposes, in that they allow me to focus your attention on certain issues and also provides me with various kinds of information about the class as a whole.

• Surveys are anonymous. 
• Surveys do not count for points beyond the fact that you may get some small participation credit for completing the required exercise.

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1.6.5 Prevent Browser and Submission Problems  
     Before you take a quiz or survey, make sure you have time to finish.  Then…

• Get out of Blackboard
• Clear the cache on your browser.
• Turn off any pop-up suppresser you have on your browser.
• Then, come back in fresh.

Problems:  There is a set procedure to follow if things go wrong while you are taking a test or quiz. If for any reason you quit before finishing, the grade becomes a lockout zero.  Clearly, you do not want your grade to remain there.  Here’s what to do:

A. Contact the Help Desk right away.  If Blackboard has crashed (very rare, but it has happened), the techs need to know in order to both verify your problem and fix it as soon as possible.  They then contact me (as should you) to corroborate the incident’s occurrence. Get a ticket number from them.  I'll want it.   They (and later, I) will want to know the following:

• What occurred,
• What its effect was,
• What time it occurred.

B. Then contact me, explaining the incident and giving me the ticket number.  The responsibility for informing me of the situation yours.  I will judge each case on its own merits.

C. Keep good records.  Reset is not automatic: In order to justify having the  test reset so that you can take it again, you will need to the Help Desk (and, eventually, me) exactly and in detail what occurred. 

D. Retesting:  In order to preserve the integrity of the original test, I will most usually provide an alternative make-up test in those very rare instances of crash.  As a new test takes time to create, that can throw off your own schedule. As you have more time to study, and I'm now in a hurry, the new test may be harder than the original. It certainly will be very different. Thus, it is in your best interest to do everything you can to finish the test cleanly.  This is particularly true at the very end of the semester, when you could be forced into an incomplete.  Still, don’t panic if a crash occurs.  Things can always be worked out.

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1.7   Use this email function to contact other class members and me either singly or in groups. You can, for example, use one email to contact all members of committe or study group. It is not a full substitute for your Millersville Email becuase it only covers current members of this one course. It delivers via your M'ville accounts. In general, I will contact you using this tool, so it is very important that you read your M'ville email regularly.

1.8 Files is a place where useful extra content materials are stored on Blackboard. They can usually also be found by way of our course homepage.

1.9       Once I have graded your work, I will send the grade and your materials back to you with my comments attached.  You will be able to access the graded paper (and thus my comments) and the grade by choosing the assignment again, or by going to on the menu bar and clicking "My Grades".

You will see both your grade and the graded paper, test, or what have you. For the length of the semester, they will always be there for you to review. If you are going to want them after the semester, download them to your own computer.

The marks on your paper: For me, this is a two step process.

• I use Microsoft Word's 'Comments' field to make specific comments in the margin next to the text.
• I add comments general to the paper as a whole at the bottom, just above your grade.

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2. THE COURSE WEBSITE.  The learning materials I have written or selected for you employ several software functionalities.  If you don’t have them on  your computer (you probably have most of them already), download software that will let you read documents from me from these sites:  Do let me know if you encounter a broken link. These materials are made available to you both from the full materials website and also piecemeal within each "Coursework" unit. If ou want to make connections between materials, plan and accomplish resarch, and enrich your reading, I would recommend that you go directly to the course website. (Forgotten the address? You'll find it here.)

2.1 Links to other sites:  Sometimes, you will encounter links to high quality materials available on other sites or temporarily saved from them to our own site for the semester (nonce use).  I make every effort to keep these current, but can’t always ensure their integrity.  Please let me know if there is a broken link or the link has suddenly become noxious (someone has put up something offensive on the other site).

2.2 Text files:  Most documents are made available as either Web (.htm/.html) or Word (.doc) files.  All web browsers have the ability to read html files.  Virtually all text processing software programs (Microsoft Word, Word Perfect) can read .doc files.  

2.3   PDF files:  Download the free Adobe reader if you do not already have it on your computer:  http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

2.4  Sound files:  I generally imbed sound files as both WAV and Real Audio to ensure that most web users can access them.

2.5  Images:  I try to keep these as small as possible to facilitate good load speed.   If you choose to share images with the class, please take that into consideratin yourself. Remember to cite your sources for them as well.

2.6    Powerpoints:  Download the free Powerpoint viewer at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en

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3.  LEARNING  You must be actively involved in the course, both reading and writing from day to day, and prepared to share your work.

3.1    Learning Area:  Course Materials.  After entering your Blackboard course, go to each week's work under "Course Materials" for detailed instructions on readings, chat, written assignments, etc.. "Course Materials" contains specific instructions and content oriented material to help you with the assignments.

3.2    Written Work:  Remember that all written assignments must be typed, and will often be peer reviewed by members of the class, allowing you to revise materials before they are due to be graded by me.  I do not read or comment on rough drafts, as it constitutes ‘pre-grading.’

3.3   Mechanics:  This is an English course, which means that you can expect me to give pretty close attention to the quality of your writing.  As a result, do remember to go through several drafts, proofread, run spell check, and any other strategy you might have that works for you in order to write good clean intelligent prose.

3.4    Help with writing and revising your paper.  As you are likely to want various of those materials throughout the course and even beyond, bookmark the following sites.  They have a great deal of material on mechanics, layout and design, and other basic issues as well as more specialized information pertaining to various specific types of professional writing challenges.

•   Writing a Paper for Me Short Version  (pdf) http://muweb.millersville.edu/~bduncan/221/sendtostudents/Writing%20a%20Paper%20for%20Me.pdf
• Writing a Paper for Me Complete Version (html) http://muweb.millersville.edu/~bduncan/writing-papers/index.html
• The Owl Online Writing Center at Purdue http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
• Remember that WIN, The Chryst Writing Center is free and standing by to help.  See http://muweb.millersville.edu/~engl-win/ .

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4.  TEXT PROCESSORS AND PAPER SUBMISSION:  

4.1   Font:  My preferred standard for student papers is Times New Roman (serif font) 12 point font.  Unlike many other professors, I don’t care if you single or double space, as you’ll be submitting your papers electronically.   

4.2   File extension:  Send me papers saved in either Microsoft Word format (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf).  Make sure that you add those formatting extensions to the name as you save the file (e.g. duncan-paper2.rtf or duncan-paper2.doc). ALWAYS PROVIDE THE FILE EXTENSION IN THE NAME.Do not send me assignments written and saved as Works or Word Perfect documents. My machine can’t read them. That doesn’t mean that you can’t use Works or Word Perfect; it just means that you just need to save the file a bit differently.  If you can’t save your file as a Word file (.doc), then save as a rich text format (.rtf) file.  

4.2.1  Control characters:  Use only alphanumeric characters in your file names.  Make sure not to include control characters. 
Examples: The title " yourname-assignment1.rtf" would work, but
                            "yourname-assignment#1.rtf" would not transmit.

4.3   Title Page:  Do not add a separate title page to your paper.  It just kills extra trees.

4.4   Your information:  Set up a running header.  There, and also on the top of page 1 of your document, your paper should inform me of the following information:

4.4.1   Your name, the date of submission, and the course for which you are submitting the paper

4.4.2  The assignment (e.g., Paper 1, Annotated Bibliography), running pagination (Page # of ##)

4.4.3   Your paper’s title (e.g., “Best Practice Parenting Techniques to Support Language Acquisition in the First Two Years of Life”).  In your running header, you can use an abbreviated form of the title (e.g., “Best Practice”).

4.4.4    Section headings in bold to guide your reader through the paper (e.g. Introduction, Work Cited)

4.4.5   Be very careful to provide internal citation for both paraphrased or directly quoted material, and to follow up by providing the full bibliographical information in your Works Cited section.  For more information, see Writing a Paper for Me at http://muweb.millersville.edu/~bduncan/writing-papers/index.html. 

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4.5     Reading and making comments: 

• Reading my comments to you:  You'll probably will be happiest with Microsoft Word as your text processor.  I make my comments in the margins with that tool, and you'll want to be able to see them.  They're visible in print or reading layout.    
• The responsibility to format and transmit properly is yours. Remember
  • If I can’t read it, I can’t grade it. If I can't figure out who the paper is from, for what class, and what assignment, you have just wasted a lot of time.
  • Do not send me your paper via regular email. Email gets lost, can be deleted by mistake with the spam, and isn't in the grading slot on B'board.
• Your Peer Reviews: You'll want to use the same functionality when peer reviewing your classmates' work.  To make comments of your own for peer review, save your materials as .doc or .rtf files and send them with a very short title + the .doc or .rtf file extension (e.g., bduncan-paper1.doc)

5. A Word About Fonts:

Basic Font Design All western fonts are either serif or sans serif.  I prefer that you use a serif font for papers you submit to me.  What does that mean?

• Serifs are the small lines at the ends of characters in fonts that design them in.  Serif fonts include Times New Roman, Bookman, Century, Georgia m Lucida, New Century Schoolbook, and Palatino. This document was prepared in Times New Roman.
  
  
• Sans serif fonts lack those little ‘ears.’ According to most studies, sans serif fonts are more difficult to read. For this reason, they are used most often for short text components such as headlines or captions. They are popular among the science and math crowd, and work well for signage, posters, etc., but are miserable to read for long stretches of text.  Do not send me papers written in sans serif fonts (with the exception of phonetic transcription and other ‘special use needs). Popular sans serif fonts include Arial, Avant Garde, Comic Sans MS, Franklin Gothic Book, and Geneva.
  
  
• Unicode fonts are designed to provide all the characters needed for any human language.  That makes them large and clunky, but also a wonderful linguistic tool.  Your computer and Word probably have Lucida Sans Unicode (one of my own personal favorites) and Arial Unicode MS. If not, google them and use a free download.  They go in your fonts folder. Most computers and Word come with them already loaded these days, so check before you spend time searching the web and uploading fonts.
  
  
• Utilizing characters that aren’t on your keyboard:  Within Microsoft Word, choose the pulldown menu Insert and choose Symbol. Select the font you need, and pick the characters out (within Symbol upper left choose Font: (Lucida Sans Unicode, for example) Subset: IPA Extensions.
  
  
• Nonstandard fonts for medieval and/or linguistics materials often employ characters that are not in the Standard English alphabet.  As you write papers in one of my courses, you’ll often find yourself wanting to use characters that aren’t readily available on the average keyboard (ð, þ, Ð for example). You might even need an entirely different character set, like the full phonetic alphabet, Old Norse runes, or Chinese ideographs.  There are some fonts that are specifically designed to facilitate that.    They can be found in Microsoft Word by choosing the pulldown menu Insert and selecting Symbol.  There are several particularly good fonts that have more functionality than the ones you most likely use every day.  Most of the time, I use Unicode fonts.  The downside is that they are much larger (thus, a bit clunkier, slower to load) font sets than the everyday ones we use in America most of the time because they were specifically designed to contain just about every major character in every major living writing system on the planet.  
  
  
• Dead languages: When working with obsolete languages such as Mayan, Old Norse runes, or Egyptian hieroglyphics, for example, there are free fonts you can download.  For more information, try these sites (note on dead links:  these sites change occasionally, so if you find a dead site, do let me know so that I can adjust this handout):

    1.  Medieval Unicode Font Initiative at http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/mufi/
    2. Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources at http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html

• Phonetics characters for ENGL220 and ENGL221 (see also 4.3).  English only uses a small group of all the possible sounds used for languages around the globe.  Because writing in English is not always phonetic, we use special symbols when we discuss pronunciation.    Before you panic about dealing with phonetics in an online course, or take a look at all those weird symbols and wonder how you’ll learn them all, don’t worry.  The class does not have a prerequisite.  It’s my job to teach you what’s needed.  Useful sites: 
  • Understanding linguistic characters:  There are phonetic helps online that let you click on a symbol and hear it pronounced (here’s one:  http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/IPA.html). 
  • SIL Fonts (stands for Summer Institute for Linguistics)
  • Free International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) fonts for both PC and Mac at http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=SILEncoreFonts
  • Another nice font is Charis SIL http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=CharisSIL_download#8f26a879
  • The International Phonetic Alphabet can be found at
  • Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_for_English
  • A nice Canadian site that lets you explore:  http://web.uvic.ca/ling/coursework/phonlab/ipatut/index.html
  • The sounds of English:  http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm
    
    
• Not sure you have a font in Word, Word Perfect, etc., that will let you utilize phonetic alphabet symbols?  Pull down Insert and choose Symbol.  Choose a font on the left and under Subset at the right choose IPA Extensions.  See if you have Lucida Sans Unicode or Arial Unicode MS.  If you do, life will be easier.  If not, you might wish to download them.  Tuck them into your fonts folder, restart, and you’re good to go.  Other possibilities are Junicode, and the SIL fonts Doulos, Manuscript, and Sophia

Quick Fonts.  You can download fonts and get more explanations free at the following sites.

• 4Wells Phonetics Site http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm
• The Summer Institutes of Language has two good sites:
  • http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=encore-ipa
  • http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=FontDownloads#531d89a5