@Email Internet Hunt by Cindy O'Hora
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Use "The First Email Message" article by Todd Campbell to answer the following three questions:

1. Who put the @ symbol in email addresses?

 

Why was it chosen?

 

Thomas Watson answered the first phone call. Who received the first email message?

 

2. List 3 advantages to using Bcc (Blind carbon copy) versus Carbon copy in email.

 

 

 

 

3. How does quoting help clarify a response in an email?

 

 

 

4. What symbol tells you the material is quoted?

5. What is an email sig line?

 

6. Write the first 4 commandments of email.

a.

 

 

b.

 

 

c.

 

 

d.

 

 

7. What are flames in email?

 

 

8. When is it okay to send an unsolicited attachment to someone? (I don't know what unsolicited means.)

 

9. What is wrong with spam?

 

 

 

10. What is a bounced email? Write two reasons why one might bounce.

 

 

 

11. Different computers use different operating systems. So you cannot easily run a Macintosh program in a PC, although Macs can run PC programming. How is it then that all computers can communicate via email?

 

How does the code work?

 

 

12. You send an email to your friend about meeting to work on a school group project. Describe the path the email takes from your computer to your friend's email software.

 

Watch How Email Works animation.
You send an email from your home to a friend. How many computers does it pass through? ( Servers are computers)

 

Extra: Is the electronic mail you send or receive at school, home or work private?

bullet Watch: For Your Eyes Only? no email privacy rights

Done Already? =:O

Emoticons - It can be a challenge to communicate via email. Our words do not always convey emotions well.
Enter smilies. Just a few keystrokes can distinguish a compliment from a criticism. Translate these smilies:

;-)

:-0

:-X

{{{}}}

Enter your favorite:

O0o:-)

Meet the inventor of the Smilie :-)

What is the purpose of using a smilie?

Explore this ASCII Art lesson - http://www.kersbergen.com/flump/howto.html

Offline: Create an email sig line for yourself.

Do the online Email crossword puzzle by Mrs. O. | Watch What is Digital? at Future Channels

bullet Small Pieces, Loosely Joined activity | bullet Food for thought - Did You Know 2.0? Are you 21st Century Literate?

bullet The Revoluntionaries | bullet Online Collaborations & Social Networking

Cyberinfrastructure - examines the convergence of three realities -- the spread of
the Internet, the shrinkage of computers, and the accumulation of databases

"A lie gets halfway around the world, before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill
Churchill did not even have email! :-)

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