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E-mail

 

Level of difficulty: Basic

As an educator with access to e-mail you have the potential to benefit from using e-mail in a number of ways. This activity will suggest a number of ways in which you can increase your communication with other learners and teachers. You can use these notes to help you create e-mail messages in order to contact other educators; you can receive e-mail, make appointments, customize your personal calendar, keep an address book for personal contacts. We use Microsoft Outlook for this.

 

Advantages of e-mail

 

Decide on your own use of e-mail and experiment with some ideas about linking to other educators. To do so you would typically do some of the following tasks:

 
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Note: It may take some time for you to receive a reply so these activities can take place over a period of time

Start Microsoft Outlook: Choose one of the following:

1. Contact a colleague about the possibility of an e-mail project between your two schools.

2. Contact an expert about your subject.

3. Invite your local newspaper to attend an event at your school.

4. Search the Internet for a mailing list group of teachers in your learning area.

5. Write to some of your learners to ask if they have anything to tell you about how their day went.

 

How to start Microsoft Outlook

 

How to send e-mail

 

How to receive e-mail

 

How to reply to e-mail

 

2 Create, send and receive e-mail: Send your examination paper to your Curriculum Implementer. How to attach a file
3 File messages: When you have received a number of messages you will need to create different folders in which to store them. How to file messages in folders
 

 

 

Related scenarios

Type an exam paper before sharing it with other educators

Create a concert programme before mailing it to the schools

If you do not have e-mail, mail merge a letter to a large number of parents

     
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