1. Using Email
Electronic Mail

2. Learning Intention: You are learning how to use email
effectively (to your best ability)
Activity: Open and use your school email
I will be successful if:
•I understand what email is and that I have to use it sensibly & safely
•I can open my school email
•I can send an email
•I can reply and forward an email

3. What is email?
 Electronic Mail
A way of sending digital information to
one or more recipients (person receiving
the email)
 Can be sent using a computer or other
multimedia devices

4. Who has used email?
 What have you used email for?
 Who did you send an email to?
 What
type of email do you have e.g.
Hotmail, Virgin, BT, Gmail?

5. How email works
 Youhave to have an email account with
an email address…
jennyblogs@didcotgirls.oxon,sch,uk
Username @ symbol Email provider
This is an example of a school email address

6. How email works
 Theperson you want to send the email to
also has to have an email account and
an email address…
prettyprincess@hotmail.com

7. How email works
Hi
The email is sent to their
email service provider
fmullaney929
sends an email
to prettyprincess The email is sent through the
Internet to prettyprincess’
email service provider

8. Features of email
 What do you think email can do?
 Send messages
 Send attachments e.g. pictures
 Save draft (incomplete) messages
 Delete messages
 Display messages in order e.g. date
 Customize messages
 Save contact details

9. Task 1
 Log onto a computer
 Open your school email account
 Start  Email
 Have a look around – you have 5 minutes
End

10. Task 2
 You are going to use your email to…
Folders…
 Send/receive/open a message
 Reply to a message Inbox
Sent
 Forward a message Deleted
 Delete a message Draft
 Every
time that you select Send think
about what is happening to the message