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Email Lesson

Objectives:

• The students will (TSW) demonstrate the ability to use email including:
• Composing a message
• Replying to a message
• Changing passwords
• Creating an address book
• Use email for data collection and collaboration

Understanding email addresses:

• Review with students how our US Postal System works.
• What do they have to do when they want to send a letter to a relative?
• How does that letter get to where it was intended to go?
• Write/type out an example Postal address and review its parts.
  Explain that email addresses work in the same fashion as do Postal addresses but they are a little simpler and easier to use.
• Also explain that contrary to regular mail, there is no additional postage needed to send email to your neighbor down the street or a relative on the other side of the world. It also has the added bonus of taking minutes to arrive compared to days using the US Postal System.

Write/type the following and review its parts:
andyw@asu.edu

Email needs to be delivered to a permanent address, as does the Postal Service. The permanent address is the account in the computer that each student is going to receive. If you have a mailbox at a Postal Office, you have to drive there and then go to where your mailbox is, use a key to open the box and retrieve your mail. The same applies to email. You use a computer program to Telnet (drive over) to the computer where you account (mailbox) is located. Once there, you use a password (key) to open the account and so be able to retrieve your mail.

Task:
Students’ tasks for today are:

• Log-in and send an email to Andy and Ruvi (andyw@asu.edu, ruvi@asu.edu)
• Add Andy and Ruvi to address book
• Email Andy and Ruvi a site related to your Design Briefs.