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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?
9. What is wrong with spam?
10. What is a bounced
email? Write two reasons why an email 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 again.
You send an email from your home to a friend. How many computers does
it pass through? (Servers are computers)
Is the
electronic mail you send or receive at school, home or work
private?
Watch: For Your Eyes Only? (about 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:
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;-)
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:-0
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:-X
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{{{}}}
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Enter your favorite:
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O0o:-)
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Meet the
inventor of the Smilie :-)
What is the purpose
of using a smilie?
Explore
this ASCII Art lesson - http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
Create
an email sig line for yourself.
"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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