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Lets Talk About Email!

• Instructor Robert Griffiths
• Spring 2010
• (original presentation developed by Jill Bond)

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What is Email?

• electronic mail
• email or e-mail

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Who Can Use Email?

• Anybody!

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Where Can You Use Email?

• You can use email on any computer that has
  Internet access.
• Your home (if you have Internet access)
• City College libraries
• San Francisco public libraries
• City College computer labs

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Web-based Email

• We will use only free, web-based email in this
  class.
• Examples Gmail (Google), Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.
• Web-based means
• You do not have to have special software.
• You do not have to pay for it.
• You can check your email from any computer that
  has Internet access.

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Email Addresses

• robert.d.griffiths.ccsf_at_gmail.com

user ID, username or login name (no spaces, no
capital letters)
domain name (no spaces, no capital letters)
_at_ at (We say at.) Press the SHIFT key and the
key with 2 on it.
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Vocabulary forCreating an Email Account

• email (e-mail) noun, verb, adjective
• I will send you an email today. (noun)
• I will email you today. (verb)
• Lets set up a new email account for you today.
  (adj.)
• account noun
• Lets set up a new email account for you today.
• set up phrasal verb
• Lets set up a new email account today.
• sign up (for) phrasal verb
• We will sign up for a new email account today.

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More Vocabulary forCreating an Email Account

• user ID, username, login name noun
• My user ID is robert.d.griffiths.ccsf.
• My login name is robert.d.griffiths.ccsf.
• My username is robert.d.griffiths.ccsf.
• password noun
• My password is secret.

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More Vocabulary forCreating an Email Account

• security question - noun
• She will not forget her security question.

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Vocabulary forUsing an Email Account

• sign in (to), log in (to)- phrasal verb
• I am signing in to my email account.
• I am logging in to my email account.
• sign out (of), log out (of) - phrasal verb
• Please sign out of your email account.
• Please log out of your email account.
• check (email) verb
• Students check their email at the beginning of
  every class.

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More Vocabulary forUsing an Email Account

• compose verb
• She is composing a new email.
• recipient noun
• I sent Lee an email. Lee is the recipient of my
  email.
• sender noun
• Rebecca sent Lee an email. Rebecca is the sender.

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More Vocabulary forUsing an Email Account

• send verb
• Please send Jorge an email today.
• reply noun, verb
• Please send a reply to Yuan soon. (noun)
• Please reply to Yuans email soon. (verb)
• forward verb
• I will forward this email to my friend.

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More Vocabulary forUsing an Email Account

• cc - verb
• Please cc your teacher.
• bcc - verb
• He will bcc his parents.

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More Vocabulary forUsing an Email Account

• bulk, spam noun
• No one likes to receive spam in their email
  account.
• No one likes to receive bulk in their email
  account.