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| Below is a lesson plan for the stages of establishing an e-mail
account and sending and receiving e-mail. It does not include
creating folders or using attachments. Overheads referred to are
screen dumps of the pages involved in creating an
account.
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Lesson
Questionnaire
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to E-mail main page
| Subject:
Computing Studies |
| Lesson
Topic: Setting up and using an e-mail account |
| Year:
Nine |
| Teaching
Focus: Developing Instructional Skills |
| Resources
/ Organisation:
Overheads x 5 Handouts x 1 |
| Objectives |
Content |
Strategies |
Pupil Activities |
| To guide
students through the establishment of an e-mail account and sending and receiving their
first e-mail |
Outline
project |
Start by
developing confidence in your students about their successful conclusion, provided they
take everything step by step. This last point is very important and should be reinforced. |
Q & A |
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Advise on Password / ID |
Show Overhead or data
projection or provide print-out of Entrance Site so that students can see where they will
be going, before they start. |
Q & A |
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Advise on Terms and
Conditions Instruct on security issues |
Discuss why these
conditions exist so that they are meaningful to students |
Discussion |
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Go to Welcome Page |
Use step by step
instruction and ensure that the overhead / data projection or print-out of Welcome
Page remains visible to students so that they can relate it to their own activities. |
Enter URL and Go
to start page. Hyperlink to application form and
commence filling in initial application. |
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Advise on Privacy
Conditions |
Instruct on Legal issues
related to privacy. The documents that are online at this stage of the process are so
extensive that it may be advisable to show a summary via Overhead / data projection or
provide a print-out. |
Discussion of privacy
issues |
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Change Forms at
Privacy Hyperlink. This first stage is the agreement stage, prior to completing
personal details. Continue to provide information on all following pages. |
Use step by step
instruction to guide through submission entry and provide positive reinforcement
throughout process. |
Q&A regarding what
Information is to be entered and information entry. |
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Submit Form and get to
Welcome to Yahoo! Mail page. |
Allow faster students to
assist others, so all students can reach this point together |
Q&A regarding what
Information is to be entered and information entry. Faster students can assist others |
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Access Welcome letter
and reply to this and then delete welcome letter. |
Show Overhead / data
projection or provide print-out of the ‘compose’ page. |
Open e-mail then delete,
begin to compose reply letter. |
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Handout Questionnaire |
Students will often be
keen to now e-mail, but this questionnaire allows reinforcement of e-mail protocol, prior
to students e-mailing and also allows teachers to spend some time ensuring that all
students have reached this point together. |
Complete questionnaire. |
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Guide students through
sending e-mail process |
Have students send an
e-mail to their neighbour. This facilitates each student being able to discuss anything
that goes wrong, eg: 'You sent it to the wrong address...that's not my student number',
etc. |
Students to compose and
send an e-mail to their neighbour. |
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Guide students through
process of receiving e-mail |
Show Overhead / data
projection or provide print-out of the ‘in-box’ screen. |
Students to check for
e-mail sent by their neighbours. |
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Guide students through
process of replying to e-mail |
Use step by step
instruction to guide through opening e-mail and make
use of overheads if necessary. |
Students to open e-mail
sent by their neighbours and then reply. |
| Conclusion:
Ensure
all students have sent an e-mail to you |
| Summary: Summarise
uses and protocols of Internet e-mail |
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