eMail

Informal Email:

Emails sent to friends and family

Formal Email: 

Sent to teachers, colleagues, professionals, companies or people you don't know.

When using emailing a school environment you should be witting formal emails. All emails sent to teachers should be formal. The same rules and conventions apply to witting a letter apply to email.

Task:

What are your 5 top tips for writing a formal email? 

Is it really necessary to write formally when emailing teachers? Why?

In what other situations should a more formal email be used?

Microsoft Outlook is a very common email client. While most people know how to send basic emails, there are many other really useful tools buried within the software.

Do you know how to add a signature? Or retrieve sent email before the recipient opens it?

What to CC and BCC mean and when should you use them?

Task:

Create a "How to" tutorials using screen shots to explain what the following functions do and, of course, how to use them. 

Complete this in Word and submit this work on Compass

1. How and when to use CC and BCC

2. How to organise folders.

3. How to properly insert a hyperlink

4. How filter junk mail.

5. Insert an image into the body of the email.

Delve deeper....

Fine 3 more "hidden" tools that people might not know abort...

eg:

• Using templates

• Track email

• Retrieve sent email

• How to add a graphic or animation your signature

• Apps

Helpful links here and here

€møji

Emoji is therm used to describe communication used via sms, txt or email by using pictographs. Developed in Japan is it widely used all over the world. Click on the image bellow for an interesting article about how the world uses emoji.

Task: Send an email to your teacher explaining what you did over the weekend using nothing but Emoji.

Txtspk

Acronyms have always been an integral part of computer culture, and they have since spawned a new language on the Internet. Commonly thought of as a series of letters that make up a 'word' there is a distinction between acronyms and shorthand. 

The actual definition of an acronym and text shorthand is here. : 

source www.netlingo.com

Task:  What does the following txtspk mean?

Add 3-5 additional txtspk terms of your own. Keep it pg rated pls!