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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. | ||
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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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1 | 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.
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How to start Microsoft Outlook
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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 |