GRUNDTVIG PROJECT

Learning in Later Life: Students to Senior Citizens: ICT and Inter-Generation Communication

 

 

LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE

 

Title:    Using an email           Level: Beginners        Prepared by: Monique Epstein and Leopold Braunstein

                                                                                               

Subject: Electronic mail                                                       

Technology/Equipment/Supplies needed:

 

GMAIL (Google mail facility)

Any browser

Topic: Creating an email and learning how to use it

Lesson Length:  2 lessons of   2 hours  each = 4 hours 

One week interval between 2 lessons

Notes:  maximum 4 students for one teacher (eventually 8 with 2 teachers)

Each student has a computer

 

Task/Objectives:

 

The objective is to create an email address under gmail for all the students in the class and learning , between the students, to send and receive mails, to keep down the mail address  in the address book, to attaché files (pictures) and to transfer mails

Description of Activity/Activities

 

This activity corresponds to one of the subjects taught in the basic computer course.

But it can only be given after some first lessons about computer hardware /environment and text processing

 

2 first hours : 

First there is a  short general theoretical explanation of “what is a mail address” and that, besides “gmail” you could use “yahoo” or hotmail” or others – and also the difference between webmail and popmail.

Go to gmail.com

Create a mail address under GMAIL

Write down passsword

Send a mail to another student in the class, fill the object and text fields

In the meantime the students receive mails from the others so they learn how to open a received message and to reply!

                       

2 next hours :

Learn how to fill and use the address book  for keeping all the  mail addresses of the other students

Go on the web to find some nice pictures, keep them on the computer and send them as attached files.

Then learn how to get pictures sent from other students as attached.

   Finally learn how to transfer a mail.

 

Verification (steps to check for student understanding):

 

First repeat as much as possible, that is send several mails.

Between the 2 lessons, students are supposed to give their emails to the family or to friends, so that they will get some mails.

In general students are very happy to create a mail address and eager to get mail from other peole.

 

 

Resources:

For each lesson, we give   a printed explanation of the different actions 

So that students can train at home

Students are engaged in:

 

                              X independent activities

                               cooperative learning

                                X  peer tutoring

                               visuals

                               simulations

                               pairing

                               hands-on

                               whole group instruction

                               others

Author Notes:

 

The difference between webmail and popmail is quite difficult to understand for newcomers but also for people who already have their own mail from their provider.

POPMAIL:

-POP mail downloads messages off of the server on to the machine where the email is being opened.

-You won't be able to view POP (downloaded) messages from any other machine.

-POP mail has no quota. The only limitation is the hard drive size.

 

WEBMAIL (or IMAP):

-The WEBMAIL messages are stored on your personal email account on the mail server of you mail provider.

-You can access your email from any computer using a web browser

-WEBMAIL has a limited quota -

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It is always important that seniors take notes about the lesson!

Few theory and   a lot of practice!