Email+Assignment+5.1

 Email today is a very large part of our society as well as our educational system. Today, we use email and other social networking sites such as; Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other various sites to connect with one another and the world around us. This is much more accessible and commonly used than mail or the telephone. People tend to find the quickness and accessibility of the multiple social networking sites to be much easier to communicate with others, especially those who may live in various parts of the world. Email is something that I think has grown very quickly in its demand of popularity and I think that it will only continue to grow.  Email is an online and interactive mail tool in which you can communicate with people, companies, schools, etc. with virtual mail. Rather than sending a letter in the mail to someone, email allows you to type a message or to send attachments immediately, allowing the received to choose how quickly they would like to respond. It is a very efficient and quick process and much easier to use, as postage is not required and there is virtually no wait to send or receive your desired documents.  Multiple internet sites have their own types of email accounts. For example Yahoo has ymail, Zoomtown has their own email address, and even Miami has muohio addresses. Out of all of these the most popular web-search we tend to use, Google, also has their own email accounts set up known as gmail. With over 350 million users of gmail as of January 2012, gmail tends to be the most popular email used worldwide. What makes this website so popular you ask? Many claim that gmail is a much more secure email site, allowing one to prioritize their mail, avoid spam, chat/call friends, and it also includes a ton of space.  Email is a great communication tool and is a very large part of my very own everyday life. I use it multiple times a day in order to communicate with my teachers, peers, friends, family, and even my boss at work. I also use it to contact companies or to receive receipts or even information about sales and updates from stores and restaurants. It plays a very large role throughout each of my days, as I am always pursuing communication to either send something to people or to also be on the receiving end of things.  When I considered email as a part of my classroom, I realized that it will only grow to become an even bigger part of my life when I become a classroom teacher. As a teacher, I will strive to have the most effective communication possible with both my students and their parents, as well as in the community. This could be potentially very hard, as there could be communication struggles with parents not be able to have the time to come to the school for meetings or even talk on the phone, and there could even be language barrier issues. Email solves all of that! With email, I as a teacher can send weekly bulletins, questions, concerns, or in-class reminders to students or their parents in a quick and prompt manner and then they can read them whenever //they// have the time. Through doing this, I am giving them the freedom to read the notices at their leisure, so they are still involved in their children's lives without physically having to be in the classroom. Email can also be used to communicate with ELL students or parents who do not speak English as their native language. Because speaking with someone who does not speak English can be difficult or even stressful and translators are not always readily available, email provides a great way for teachers to still communicated with parents and allow some of those language barriers to be broken. This also decreases a lot of the stress and uneasiness that can come about for nonnative speakers who may feel uncomfortable talking to the teacher due to their communication struggles. An online translator could be used to type out a message or letter and could then be copy and pasted into an email. Through this a teacher could create a message in that persons native language and they could also type one back either in their native language and it could easily be translated or they could also use an online translating tool and respond back in English.  Email is something that I will always find very useful in the classroom as it allows me to open the lines of communication between the parents and the school, the students and the school, faculty and the school, and even the community and the school. It also allows everyone to feel involved in the classroom and in the children's lives, especially if they can physically be there to do so. Email will always be a very effective tool in my classroom and I will continue to use it to communicate educationally and personally throughout my school and personal life. As a result, I will be able to stay connected to people and the society that I live in as a result of the timely communication is provides.

Sites that I used for information:

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail