Get Safe Online
Get Safe Online: Stop Unwanted Email
Unwanted email messages, usually called spam, represent a large percentage of email traffic. This site describes the main types of spam, the security risks involved with some types of spam, and how to safely avoid spam.
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Overview: Email
This resource provides information about the uses and effectiveness of the email system. Includes information about writing emails, logistics, courtesies, and perspectives.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reading/writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts
Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Basic Skills
Intimidated by computers? New to email and the Internet? Curious about operating systems and online safety? We've got the information you need to better understand computers and how they work. This is a landing page that has multiple...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Email Basics
In this tutorial, learn how to use common email features and practice proper etiquette.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Gmail
In this tutorial, get an introduction to Gmail and learn how to manage, send, and respond to messages.
Learn My Way
Learn My Way: Using Email
In this online course, students will learn all about email accounts on the internet from how to set-up an email account to how to open, read, and send emails safely.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Email Clarifying Questions
At the end of this lesson, students will demonstrate the use of commas, clarifying questions, and a friendly letter format by sending an email. Email is part of student's lives, and it is part of the digital landscape they will need to...
Other
Gfi: Email Security
This site provides useful background information on email security issues. It will help you examine the security threats facing your email system and determine what kind of email security solution you need.
University of Southern California
Getting E Mail to Work for You: E Mail Attachments
Information on using E-mail applications, including attachments.
Other
Webfoot.com: A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email Page Layout
This website focuses on page layout and more specifically the length of paragraphs and lines as found in emails.
Other
Albury Local Internet: Internet Netiquette
A list of general do's and don'ts for Internet etiquette for e-mail and chat.
Other
A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email
Informative site offering a comprehensive definition of e-mail and its uses. Also covers formatting, page layout, gestures, formalities, intonations, and greeting and signatures used in e-mailing.
Other
Tips and Tricks for the Public Relations Clueless
Great practical advice for journalists working in the public relations field. Humor and personal detail make this one a fun read.
Other
The 101 Series: Setting Up a Web Based E Mail Account
This site from the 101 Series gives a step-by-step tutorial on setting up a web-based email account with Lycos, although other providers are listed.
Other
The 101 Series: E Mail
This site from the 101 Series describes the difference between a POP3 email account and a Web-based e-mail account. It also has further links to setting up a web-based e-mail account, email ettiquette, email lingo and spam.
Other
The 101 Series: E Mail Lingo
This site from the 101 Series covers many of the abbreviations and acronyms that have been developed to save typing and emoticons to clarify the tone of the text.
Other
A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email: Gestures
Another site giving advice to beginning email users; this one deals with gestures in emails, such as smileys, pause equivalents, and creative punctuation.
Other
Nonprofit: Don't Spread That Hoax!
This site is a well thought out presentation of why you might want to dig deeper before sending that "Urgent," sounding message and spreading a junk-mail virus.
Other
Internet Learning Tree: A Brief History of the Internet
An anecdotal history of the people and communities that brought about the internet.
Other
Technical Univ. Of Vienna: Helwig's Smiley Dictionary
This site has a list of some unusual smileys which tell a story.
Other
U Seek U Find: Tutorials N Surfing
Provides links to tutorials on many WWW topics including surfing, searching and email.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Audience, Purpose, Language in Electronic Messages
Lesson plan considers changes in writing style since the inception of e-mail and text messaging.
Letter Writing Guide
Business Email Writing
This user-friendly site for teachers and students provides some tips for writing business letters via email.