Email

5 EMAIL SECRETS! There are many ways people choose to write e-mails, but some don't always work. Here are some secrets I have learned along the years that have helped me write e-mails that have been effective! 1. Put the name of the person you are writing to in the subject line. This will grab the readers attention and draws them in because of their name. 2. Make the first few sentences the best. Most people skip around an e-mail trying to find the important parts. If you have 3 solid sentences in the beginning they will most likely read the rest. 3.Keep the e-mail as short as possible. People do not like reading paragraphs of "fluff". Get to the point. 4. Ask for a return response and tell the person that you will follow up if they do not respond. This will show the person that you are waiting on a response and need feedback. 5. Proof Read. This should be obvious, but alot of mistakes are made when sending an e-mail. (Laura Goff) Email stands for electronic mail. It is a system of world-wide electronic communication in which user on a computer can compose a message at one location that can be sent over the world wide web and wind up at the recipient's location when the recipient logs in. You cannot send packages or actual objects over an email. Versature.com describes email as, “ Literally, electronic mail. E-mail is a way that a computer user connected to the Internet can communicate with other connected users through text. E-mail also allows users to send documents, images, sound clips and video between computers. Three general types of e-mail service are web mail, POP3 and IMAP. Versature's small business communications platform includes e-mail services with a wide variety of features” (Versature). Popular email sites are Gmail, Google Buzz, and Google Wave. Gmail is Google Mail. It is a free mail service through Google. Gmail allows each user/account to have 7 GB of free storage for free. For $5 a year a user can get up to 20 GB of storage. Many universities, such as Miami University, use Gmail for their school mail system. Google came out with a product to integrate with Gmail called, “Google Buzz”. Google Buzz let uses to share/send links and media and status updates to other Gmail users. This was a lot like Facebook and Twitter. The users of Gmail did not like Google Buzz and based off of the incredibly negative feedback of it, Google Buzz was shut down in 2011. Google also came out with a new aspect of Gmail called, “Google Wave”. Google wave allows multiple people to communicate more efficiently using text, photos, videos, maps and more. The people in the conversation are added to a wave to discuss with the others in the wave are already talking about; it is separated by subject of the wave. The users in the wave can respond whenever they want and they can edit the content of the wave. Participants can go back in a wave to see what has happened and when it took place. Teachers can set up a wave for a classroom and allow students to discuss lessons outside of class. They can ask question and make sure there is an understanding of what is taught at all times. The teacher can be on it as well to explain things to students if there is a misunderstanding of a lesson.



Google has come incredibly far to help people connect through Google. Gmail has many new aspects to it. People can mainly function in the work world and social world through Google products. Google is used in education more and more today. Teachers can use email to communicate with students or other teachers and they can create lesson plans thought Google mail. Email and services that are provided on email are creating a world of difference for teachers and education. They can do more now than they have ever been able to before and email/Gmail makes it even easier for teachers to be successful in the classroom.

-Jake Gordon Revised - Katie DePew Email systems are efficient through the use of google mail like stated above. Google mail allows individuals to use their email for not only email use but to also directly send google documents to others. Google emails also allows students to chat with each other through its email tool. Students and educators can have an instant conversation on their e-mail account. This is a direct link to how far the e-mail has come over time. These aspects completely transform the e-mail industry. While google is a popular email service, there are still many other providers that can aid teachers and educators. From experience, I have noticed that every school district creates their own POP 3 server in order for teachers to use a school domain. At various schools, educators use emails that are at the schools own personal server. For instance, at my old high school educators emails were susesmith@springboro.org. This allowed the school to email each other on their own server which I think is extremely useful and professional to any educational industry. Email allows our students and educators to have effective communication inside and outside of school. Students are able to use this server and domain to talk to professors. They can also utilize this direct link to communication through google like Jake stated above. Jessica Saponaro Google mail is a great way for students, professors, organizations, athletic teams, etc to communicate and share information over the internet. As Katie mentioned google mail offers more than just a way to communicate, you can send documents to others and all work on the document at the same time. It is becoming much more than simply electronic mail, google email allows users to create a public profile about oneself. This is similar to the idea of Facebook because one can add information about themselves and then invite their friends to see their public profile page. Also offered is the ability to create an online calendar, documents (presentations, spreadsheets, drawings, and forms), sites, google groups, and more. Google mail has truly made communication possible in such a variety of ways. This is a great tool for teachers to utilize because so much can be done. For instance, teachers can email students about instructions, send them a google document to fill out for a field trip, send them google presentations on information, etc so much can be done over google mail and it truly allows learning to be enhanced through the use of this technology. I learned a lot about the internet throughout this course and I have found that google mail has been my most useful source. Not only are we able to email our professors or peers for questions but we can also share documents and do projects over the internet together. Google mail offers so many options and they also provide insight on how to properly use these other options. I personally, I have learned a lot about google mail during this course and through writing this blog. Email is a great way to communicate with people and keep in touch with friends and family. However, I discovered google mail does much more than just provide a free email service, it provides communication to happen in a plethora of ways. Teachers can truly benefit from using google mail because there are so many options for students to explore through this site. Here is a link to Google products that can be used through google mail: http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/index.html

Here is a link to the public profile if anyone wants to create their own: https://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/index.html

Overall, email is a great way to communicate in and out of schools but also a great tool for furthering one's engagement in school activities and projects.


 * Revised by: Carlie Bowers**

As the others have said previously, Email is a very useful source in education. As a student I use it in daily communication with professors and other students. Without it life as a student would be much more difficult. All of the previous posts have talked about Google and all its useful attributes. I couldn't agree more. I use Googledocs everyday through my Google Email here at the University and it is so useful. It allows me to collaborate very well with others on group projects and it also allows me to save my documents elsewhere in case of a computer crash.

However, another very useful Email provider is **Hotmail** (also known as **Microsoft Hotmail** and **Windows Live Hotmail.**) This web Email service is a free service operated by Microsoft as a part of **Windows Live.** It was first launched as "Hotmail." Hotmail features ultimate storage, and integration of Microsoft's **Windows Live Messenger** which allows you to instant message with other people, a calendar (**Hotmail Calendar),** a file hosting server and a contacts platform to keep track of all of your contacts in which you will communicate with.


 * Hotmail** offers viewing and editing of **Microsoft Office Word, Excel,** and **PowerPoint** documents that are attached to Emails. The user is also able to open up these documents in their webrowser and save them to their **Windows Live SkyDrive** which is very similar to the Googledocs mentioned previously in this entry.

-Here is an example of what the **Hotmail** setup appears like: -One nice thing about **Hotmail (Windows Live Hotmail)** is that every **Windows** computer already has the software in the computer to run the **Windows Live** as the default Email provider. So for this purpose, if your school is widely known for having Windows computers it would be especially beneficial to use **Windows Live Hotmail**.

Overall Windows Live Hotmail has almost all of the same features as Google's Gmail server. When choosing a Email provider I would not lead you either way because they're both very efficient and would both be very useful in a schooling situation.

Email is such a useful tool. Email can be used in so many ways and with education the limits are endless. Gmail provided my Google is the best one in my opinion. As stated above by other contributors to this wiki Gmail offers a variety of amenities. Gmail is said to be spam free, have plenty of storage space, you can do searches off of it, and can make phone calls off of the internet, you can chat with people and have a priority inbox, its secure, you can use it on the go with a mobile phone or tablet, and best of all it it free. Gmail has so much to offer, and the best of all is that it is semi linked to Google documents. Google documents as you know has many education tools. The teacher can email students and vise versa, and the teacher can post documents on Google docs, for the students to see and use, and create their own documents.

- Revised by Andy Weiss (weissas)

As everyone else has said, email is a very important tool in a school system for communication reasons. Not only does this tool allow students to connect with instructors, but for instructors to communicate with parents. Parental involvement can be a big help for teachers and students alike. Now, instead of emails, a teacher and parent can share a Google doc of students' grades or advances in the classroom. This is also a way that instructors can communicate with each other immediately. I also like that whoever the document is shared with can make changes to the document. This is also true of a Google spreadsheet. All of these services are offered for free. Could this be the end of a traditional report card? -Revised by Jenna Harrison





Email is a way for people all over the globe to send virtual messages to each other electronically in only seconds. Like many other things, Google has delved into the world of email and created their own version of it.

Gmail is just one of Google's many plays at revolutionizing the social media and social networking world. Gmail is a free electronic mail service that can hold more than 7400 Megabytes of information for free for a single user.

Access to Gmail also allows a user to use any of Google's other free products. The same Gmail account can be used for any Google application including their Google Chrome Web browser, a connection to an account with Youtube.com, the use of Google Docs (which is an application that allows a user to do just about everything that Microsoft Office software does, only with a Google account it is free), and even use of Google's "Pack" which includes several programs like Gmail on your desktop, Google Sketchup, Google Calendar (a free version of a program based off of iCal), and more.

As a Gmail user myself, schulepe79@gmail.com, I can say from my own experience with the application that email has never been easier nor has it ever been such a beneficial use of time.

Gmail allows a user with multiple Google accounts, like Miami University email accounts from “muohio.edu” to connect their accounts so that messages can be received and sent, along with accessed from a single account.

Gmail has also added some new features to the application recently including an instant messaging system, and a video messaging system. The contacts, which are very much like one’s friends on Facebook.com, are automatically updated on Gmail for the instant and video messaging systems when two Gmail, or Google Account users transverse by email more than once.

Gmail automatically stores a user’s sent and received messages, filters spam messages but still allows access to them, automatically saves message drafts so that computer crashes do not erase a user’s work, and even allows a user to create their own category of mail to automatically save messages as. From my own experience with Gmail, up to 550 recipients can receive a single message. In past systems like aol.com accounts or yahoo.com accounts, one might have been able to send a single message to maybe 100 recipients at a time if the message was relatively short.

To create your own free Gmail account, simply click this link [] And fill in the information, and you could begin using Google like you never have before.

In education, the Gmail application, due to its compatibility with all of Google’s other applications, could be a tremendous tool. If students even in Middle School (Junior High) were taught to use the applications that come along with Gmail, they could be learning extremely valuable skills like time managements and financing/budgeting, use of professional tools like Microsoft Word and Excel at an even younger age than my own generation has. It would be a leap forward in progress that could change the way we do school.

Revised by: Paul E. Schuler

 Email is a popular way to communicate around the world. People do not only have to communicate through phone anymore, but through email. Email can be used through aol, yahoo, google, facebook, tweet, and myspace. Some people can even use their phone to email. The various technology devices that allow email are cell phones, ipods, ipads, laptops, computers, and skype. These forms of communication have made it alot easier to do business or any type of projects around the world. Google documents is a great way to do projects. Instead of having everyone meet in person to do the projects, the group can share the document and work on the document all at the same time. On the right side of the document is a way of communication. Anyone can type in what they would like to do and then go on their way for the project.



Email is sending a message from one email address to another. This can also be done through social media such as facebook. When one person writes a message to another person it is considered to be an email through facebook. This can be a great way to see the person's picture before sending a message. Facebook is a great visual when it comes to messaging. Some people might argue that email is not the same as social media. However, some argue that it is the same as social media. This all comes down to opinions and preference. Here is an article about email being a social media. (Article states that email is the number one largest social media, not facebook) []

Here is a video on the statistics of email in 2010. This video has taught me how to appreciate email. Without email and other ways of communication, I would find myself hand writing all of my messages. Not only that, then we would be going back to the old way of paying bills. Without email, I would be spending alot of my time looking in books for my answers and printing out every piece of material tha I needed. Email has helped me save a lot of important documents in my email. After saving a lot of this important material, I have found that I was able to go back to it through my email. Without my email, I would probably be very disorganized. []

Revised: Ashley Brooks

=Yahoo! Mail=

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 * Yahoo! Mail** is the world's second largest e-mail service out in the world today. It is also an excellent resource for personal use and also academic use. One of the great things about Yahoo! Mail is that it provides unlimited storage space for all of your e-mails and messages without you having to constantly delete things that you want to save. Another aspect of this resource that is very efficient for academic reasons, is that it automatically files unwanted e-mails into a pre-created "Spam" folder. You can always read and review the mail that is put into this folder in case you really did want the message, but if it is all spam then it is easy to collectively delete all of the unwanted messages. Some other unique features about Yahoo! Mail are that it is accessible through mobile devices so that you can compose, send, and review e-mails from your mobile device. This feature is called **Yahoo! Go Mail.** Another feature is **[|Yahoo! PhotoMail]** which integrates **Yahoo! Photos** and **Yahoo! Classic** mail. This feature makes it simple to upload and share your photos via mail.

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Yahoo! Mail has also created many extra features to make organizing your information easier and more effective. **[|Yahoo! Calendar]** allows you to add events and set reminders and alerts that will notify you of the events you need to remember. You can also organize your events by category, for example: work, school, fun, dates, anniversaries, etc. This can be a very easy way to organize your information electronically, especially because these features can be used on most mobile phones that have internet access. This makes it easy to access your calendar on the go.

Another unique feature about this web-based mail site is that it incorporates an instant messenger within the site. **[|Yahoo! Messenger]** allows you to chat with other Yahoo! Mail users if you want to send them a quick message instead of an entire e-mail. On the lefthand sidebar it shows which of your contacts are online and available to chat (indicated by a yellow dot, seen above) This facilitates making plans or asking quick questions without having to actually send an e-mail message.

E-mail is a very important tool in the world of teaching nowadays. It is an easy way for teachers and their students to keep in contact outside of class as well as teachers and parents. E-mail allows teachers to be more available to their students outside of the classroom, and this can be very important in building a strong relationship between the teacher and student. This way, students feel as if they can have personal contact with the person that they are learning from and inquire about things they want clarified in order to do what is expected of them.

Want to create an account? Just follow this link: []

Revised by: Halley Green

Email is an incredibly useful tool that has rapidly evolved over the past few years. One company that has survived the many different trends is **AoL**. **AoL** mail is been around since 1985, and in its prime had 30 million members worldwide. Its popularity has dropped significantly since then but today it still serves over three million paying customers and many more for free. Today **Aol** mail is free and has many different features. Each account is free and has unlimited storage, spell check, virus and spam protection. AoL also allows you to link together other accounts such as Hotmail and Gmail. Unfortunately commercial ads are displayed while you check your Email. Perhaps one of the most popular features is **AIM** or **AoL** instant messaging. This also you to chat with people on your email contacts list or other people whose screen name you know. You can send typed messages back and forth in real time. This allows you to coordinate events, catch up with friends and text through the Internet. For future users **Aol** is working on updating its system through Project Phoenix. When complete it will over several improved updates. Users will be able to combine up to five accounts, and will feature a Quick bar where emails, texts and instant message can be sent for one place. Also there will be a search feature that allows you to search for dates, attachments and address for your email. Currently Project Phoenix is incomplete and can only be accessed by invitation. Email is a very important tool that can be used in the education system. Email provides a link to parents that can be used to update them on their child’s progress, upcoming school events, and volunteer opportunities. Also email can be a useful tool communication throughout schools and districts. By using email teachers can plan more effectively with other teachers, and be informed on the events that happen through out the day. Also Email can be useful if there is ever a situation in a classroom where a teacher needs assistance but does not want to leave his or her students unattended. Revised by: Megan Williams

I believe that email is a great way to communicate with others. I just recently started to use email and i love it. Emailing is quick and easy. It is a easy and fast way for students and teachers to keep in touch with each other in a professional manner. Email also allows the students parents to stay in contact with the teacher. This allows the parents to be aware of what is going on in the classroom and keeps them up to date with the current events at the students school. I feel that email allows everyone to stay in contact in a professonial manner. The following link list the estimated number of users on different emailing groups such as hotmail, yahoo, and gmail. [] Moat of the big names such as these listed in the article are free to use and available to anyone, which also makes things easy for everyone to stay in contact. I persoanlly think that email is a great form on communication and will be more than willing to talk to any of my students or parents through email :) Revised by : Tiffany Allen

Email, also known as electronic mail, is a way of communicating through digital manners from an author to one or more recipients. Email serves accept, deliver, store, and forward messages.
 * Email characteristics:**
 * 1) message envelope
 * 2) message header (control information)
 * 3) message body

Emailing is an effective way for business' and other professionals to communicate. Email is actually considered a legal document. In 2007 and 2009, lawsuits established email as a document that could be used for evidence. It is easy, quick, cheap, and efficient. Teachers use email to communicate with parents of students. Communication between parents and teachers is very important for student success in the elementary and secondary levels. Interviews are usually the primary way of communicating but the secondary way is by email. This allows the parent-teacher communication to be quick and easy. Scheduling (setting up dates and times for meetings), discussing grades, health problems, student behavior, and student socialization are also huge aspects of why parents and teachers email. I believe parent-teacher communication improves student behavior and success. Emailing allows the teacher to immediately deal with issues (student behavior, grades, or socialization) rather than waiting till an interview can be scheduled. Emailing is very convenient, however, face-to-face is the best communication.


 * How to write a professional email**
 * 1) Fill in the subject line that means something important to your reader.
 * 2) Use professional greeting such as "Dear Mrs..." "Goodmorning Mr..." "To whom this may concern..."
 * 3) Put the main point in the opening sentence.
 * 4) Always specify what you're writing about. Be descriptive.
 * 5) NEVER use abbreviations or acronyms
 * 6) Be very polite and use your manners
 * 7) ALWAYS write "please" or "thank you"
 * 8) Add a signature block with contact information at end of email
 * 9) ALWAYS proofread and edit before sending
 * 10) ALWAYS reply promptly to emails


 * Different types of email services**
 * 1) [|Yahoo]
 * 2) [|Gmail]
 * 3) [|Hotmail]
 * 4) [|Xfinity]
 * 5) [|Aol]
 * 6) [|SBC Global]

(Brianna Harwood)

 I thought the best place to start with my google search would be with just a simple definition, and the first definition that came up was from //Dictionary.com// and defined it as, "A system for sending messages from one individual to another via telecommunications links between computers or terminals." I also learned from this that e-mail stands for "electronic mail".

 The next aspect of e-mail that I decided to learn about was its history. I found an article that was written by Ian Peter that can be found here http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html  Peter explains that e-mail was not invented by anyone; it evolved along with the internet. However, he did write that a man named Ray Tomlinson is known as its "inventor". He was the person that chose the @ sign to be used in e-mails and set up the e-mail address format "name-of-the-user@name-of-the computer". Peter also said that the first official e-mail site was most likely MAILBOX in 1965.

 Under the e-mail option in unit 5.1, there were three things listed. The first was gmail, so I decided to conduct my next google search on this. Even though others have already discusses gmail, I'd like to add a bit of its history and benefits. Google inc. was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. On their company website, I learned that gmail was added on April 1, 2004. I then decided to search "gmail facts" and a great resource came up, which is Google's "about gmail" page (http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about.html). This listed the top 10 reasons people should use gmail. They are less spam, message searches, grouped e-mails to easily view a conversation, it has a built-in chat, can be accessed on phones, has a ton of space, can be used to call telephones, it prioritizes peoples' inboxes, it is secure, and it is free.

 The second source listed under the e-mail option was Google Buzz. I learned that this no longer exists, but it was a form of social networking that Google had integrated into gmail. It seems that privacy issues were the reason it was discontinued. The third source was Google Wave, which is also no longer used.

 For the last part of this post, I wanted to brainstorm some ways that teachers could utilize e-mail in education. The main usage is obviously for communication purposes, whether this be between the teacher and the students, between school faculty and families, etc. Some other more creative uses are to have students e-mail an author or famous person to learn more about what they do. E-mail is also a great way to share files, videos, links, etc. electronically through attachments, which could be useful in and out of a classroom. Finally, students could use e-mail to work together on group projects.

 I've learned a lot about e-mail by doing this google search and by reading through what everyone else has posted about e-mails. I hope others add even more information about e-mail to this post! It is surprising how much I did not know about a tool I use everyday!

 ~ Revised by: Megan Plichta~