Email – Part 1

1. Email – Part 1 Your teachers are:

2. Review • Did you do your homework? Was it too easy, too difficult or just right? • Turn to your partner and discuss the difference between: an Internet provider a web browser a search engine 3. Turn to your partner and talk about something you remember and learned from the last lesson.

3. Today’s Goals • Complete an assessment of using email • Create an e-mail account • Send an e-mail • Open an e-mail • Open an attachment • Attach a document/picture • Forward an email = send a message to a different person • Sign out • Sign in

4. About you? • Who uses e-mail? • What does the ‘e’ in e-mail mean? • What are the benefits of using e-mail?

5. Popular e-mail service providers are: • Yahoo • Gmail = google e-mail • Verizon • Cox

6. An email address is different from a website address. • An email address ends with the name of the provider: mariaromano@yahoo.com This is a unique address. Email is available through the yahoo or google website. • If you chose to use google for email, your email address would mariaromano@gmail.com. • Gmail is part of the google website: www.google.com.

7. www.google.com Gmail can also be found from the google home page.

8. www. Google.com orwww.gmail.com Steps: • Open www.google.com or type in www.gmail.com • Create a new gmail account: fill in the fields and create a user name and a password. • You will need to give your cell phone number to receive a code. • Type in the letters you see.

9. 1. Click on “create an account”2. Fill in fields = empty boxes

10. Locate some vocabulary words on this page.

11. Your turn • Compose a message to me. You will need my e- mail address: britt.larry@gmail.com • I will reply to you. Open my response and reply. • Reply (send) your message to me. • I will send you an attachment. • Open the attachment and read it. • Forward this email toa classmateor a friend.

12. Great job! • Sign out • Sign back in • What do you say when someone asks you what your e-mail address is?

13. Your e-mail address is ___________________@gmail.com Your user name is : ___________________ Your password is: ____________________

14. Vocabulary • Compose = write an email message • Inbox = mailbox • Send = • Reply/ reply all = answer or respond to one person or all people in that message • Spam = junk email • Forward= send a message to a different person than the sender • Log in = access your account with user name and password • Log out = sign out • Folders = a system to organize your mail messages • Trash = place to put emails you don’t want anymore • Drafts = an unfinished email message • Delete = erase • Move = put in another folder • Contacts = names and email addresses of people in your email account

15. Questions?? • The lesson today was: • too easy • too difficult • just right • What was the most useful thing you learned today? • Will you come to the next class? • Comments, suggestions???

16. Time to take a class photo! We need it for the next class.

17. Resources for Review • www.gcflearnfree.org/emailbasics/email101/1 • www.gcflearnfree.org/gmail • digitallearn.org/learn/intro-email • digitallearn.org/learn/intro-email-part-2

18. Homework Assignment #1 1. Open up the resources for review. • Watch the videos and/or read the texts. • Make notes of some of things you want to remember. • Bring your notes to class to share with a classmate.

19. Homework Assignment #2 1. Open up your email account. 2. Send an email to your teacher or a classmate and ask for a reply.