Paper Letters to Digital Letters
As our world evolves so does our ways of communication with others. Going from letters that could take anywhere from 3 to 5 days to reach the receiver, we have technology to thank for creating a way to communicate in the form of emails that just take a few minutes to reach someone.
Email stands for electronic mail. Email addresses are made up of three parts:
Usernames = this is an individual's unique "handle" or name
The @ (at) symbol = hold down the shift key and press the "2" key to access @
The domain name = the webmail service or domain name of email hosting service
Some email services that are popular to use are Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo mail. I find that these email services have an easy to use interface and are user friendly to new email users.
My only experience of teaching someone how to create an email account had been my younger sibling. They had needed an email to connect their gaming information to. I chose rto show them how to create a email account with Gmail. Since this email account was going to be used as a personal account, we used the first 5 letters of the last name, the first 3 letters of the first name, and 3 zeros to make the username part of the email. For example, let's say the users name is Jason Smith, it would look like this [email protected].
From the teaching email activities I liked the idea of giving the learners blank wallet sized cards to write their email address, password, and website URL they will use to access the email service. Also from experience I can agree that having their email address and password written down to visually view is a faster way for users/learners to remember quicker.
