Notes to Teachers

• You may want to copy slide 15, the vocabulary list, and put it into an MS Word document as a separate handout.

• You may want to give students the Northstar assessment for Microsoft Word before these lessons.

• Certificates for assessments must be issued through

an approved proctoring site/agency.

Email – Part 1

Your teachers are:

Review

1. Did you do your homework? Was it too easy, too difficult or just right?

2. Turn to your partner and discuss the difference between:

an Internet providera web browsera search engine

3. Turn to your partner and talk about something you found useful in the websites we looked at in the last lesson.

Today’s Goals

1. Complete an assessment of using email2. Create an e-mail account3. Send an e-mail4. Open an e-mail5. Open an attachment6. Attach a document/picture7. Forward an email = send a message to a different

person8. Sign out9. Sign in

About you?

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

Popular e-mail service providers are:

• Yahoo• Gmail = google e-mail• Verizon• Cox

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.

www.google.com

Gmail can also be found from the google home page.

www. Google.com orwww.gmail.com

Steps: 1. Open www.google.com or type in

www.gmail.com2. Create a new gmail account: fill in the fields

and create a user name and a password. 3. You will need to give your cell phone number

to receive a code.4. Type in the letters you see.

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

Locate some vocabulary words on this page.

Your turn

1. Compose a message to me. You will need my e- mail address: britt.larry@gmail.com

2. I will reply to you. Open my response and reply.

3. Reply (send) your message to me. 4. I will send you an attachment.5. Open the attachment and read it. 6. Forward this email to a classmate or a friend.

Great job!

• Sign out

• Sign back in

• What do you say when someone asks you what your e-mail address is?

Your e-mail address is

___________________@gmail.com

Your user name is : ___________________Your password is: ____________________

Vocabulary1. Compose = write an email message2. Inbox = mailbox3. Send = 4. Reply/ reply all = answer or respond to one person or all people in that message5. Spam = junk email6. Forward= send a message to a different person than the sender7. Log in = access your account with user name and password8. Log out = sign out9. Folders = a system to organize your mail messages10. Trash = place to put emails you don’t want anymore11. Drafts = an unfinished email message12. Delete = erase13. Move = put in another folder14. Contacts = names and email addresses of people in your email account

Questions??

1. The lesson today was: • too easy• too difficult• just right

2. What was the most useful thing you learned today?

3. Will you come to the next class?4. Comments, suggestions???

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

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

Homework Assignment #1

1. Open up the resources for review.2. Watch the videos and/or read the texts.3. Make notes of some of things you want to

remember.4. Bring your notes to class to share with a

classmate.

Homework Assignment #2

1. Open up your email account.2. Send an email to your teacher or a classmate

and ask for a reply.