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An Innovation Grant funded by the Georgia Department of Education |
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Bill Jordan, Instructor |
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E-mail Basics: The Elvis Factor! |
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Objective: The purpose of this assignment is to get you ready
to use electronic mail, or e-mail. |
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Vocabulary: Some of the same words that you encountered in the
first lesson appear again!
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| Background Information: E-mail is still the most popular
use of the Internet. You can send a message to anyone on the Internet as
long as you know their e-mail address; however, if the person you want
to contact doesn't have an address, or you use the wrong address, you will
wind up singing the lyrics from Elvis Presley's famous song...return to
sender, address unknown, no such number, no such zone! So, you need to know the basics about e-mail addresses. It's pretty simple actually since there are usually only two parts seperated by the @ (which stands for at) symbol. A typical e-mail address would be jordanb@rose.net. The first part (jordanb) is the username. The second part (rose.net) is the domain name, or the address of the computer where you receive your e-mail. By the way, when you see a period in an address, you must include it or...you guessed it...Elvis! The period is actually referred to as a dot. So, when you tell someone your e-mail address, use the words "at" and "dot" in place of the two symbols.
Before Tim Berners-Lee developed the idea for the World Wide Web in
1990 and released the first browser software in 1991, e-mail was all text.
That's right, just the letters of the alphabet, the numbers 0-9, and some
punctuation marks were all you could send in a basic e-mail message. B-O-R-I-N-G!
With today's web browsers, you can even send multimedia like images and
sounds imbeded in your e-mail. Netscape has powerful e-mail capabilities
built right into the browser. |
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| Assignment: Before continuing to the next lesson, make sure
that you have a valid e-mail account with your Internet Service Provider
(ISP). In a safe place, write down the user name that was assigned to you
and your password. Shortly, I am going to ask you to think about some of the differences between the mail delivered to your house by the Post Office and the e-mail you receive. For one week, please keep track of the kinds of mail you receive at home. Count how many personal letters, magazines, advertisements, bills, books, etc. your family recieves in a week. We will collect that data on-line and compare it to the kinds of e-mail you receive. |
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| Competencies: What should you know and be able to do after completing
this assignment? You are at the last preparation stage before becoming
an expert e-mail user! You should be getting comfortable with terms like
the World Wide Web, the Internet, web browser, and e-mail. The background
knowledge you are gaining is the foundation for this course. Keep up the
good work! |
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Send comments to Bill Jordan Thomasville City Schools 915 East Jackson Street Thomasville, GA 31792 |
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