Outline of Activity Objectives Resources Pre-requisites Duration Students learn how to establish an e-mail account and create and send e-mail. Extension is available to create folders and send attachments and to discuss social ethical and legal issues. A range of other extensions are possible, including a focus on legal and ethical issues, or focusing the activity on forms of electronic communication that e-mail makes possible, for example, discussion forums. To link to suggestions on extensions, click here The objectives of this activity are the establishment and operation of an e-mail facility. For greater detail on this, click here This activity requires that a school
have the facility for Internet access and are willing to establish and maintain e-mail
accounts for their students. Yahoo has been chosen for this exercise, but any number of
free Internet e-mail accounts could be selected, all of which operate on a similar basis
and allow the same principles to be explored. To link to free e-mail accounts,
click
here A Lesson Plan is
available. To link to this lesson plan, click here
The activity takes the
form of either a single lesson where schools run 75 minute lessons or two lessons where
school operate on a 40 minute lesson. In the case of the latter, attention should be given
to the legal obligations and social contracts that form an ethical approach to use of
e-mail as a first priority. Students need to be able to use a word processor to complete the attachments component of this exercise. Some links to free Internet e-mail are listed below:
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