Outlook

Section 5

Objectives

Student will learn e mails, Outlook

Electronic communication

Al Ittihad Private School-Jumaira Module 7 “Web Browsing and communication”

Amira Mohammed Zedan

Forms of electronic communication include:

Short message service (SMS)

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

Instant messaging (IM)

E Mail To use email, you need both

an email address and a program to handle it

Advantages of using emails: Emails can be sent over the

Internet to anybody who has an email address

An email arrives almost instantaneously and at low cost anywhere in the world

The recipient picks it up when they are ready

Al Ittihad Private School-Jumaira Module 7 “Web Browsing and communication”

Amira Mohammed Zedan

Before using email, you should be familiar with netiquette ”network etiquette”

Netiquette “a set of rules governing how you should use email

1. Messages should be short, to the point and sent only to those who need them

2. When you reply always be sure that the subject is relevant to your reply

Email addresses An email address is similar

to a website address The format is always

username@domain_name The username is you and

the domain_name is either the Internet Service Provider (ISP) who gives access to the Internet, or a website address, for example:sam.brown@virgin.netsam-brown@aol.comsam@brownfamily.demon.co.uk

Al Ittihad Private School-Jumaira Module 7 “Web Browsing and communication”

Amira Mohammed Zedan

An email address has no spaces and is usually all in small letters

Every email address is unique

Using Outlook Express The Outlook Express

window lets you: compose messages send and receive emails reply to emails forward emails print emails keep contact names in an

Address book file old emails in folders.

Al Ittihad Private School-Jumaira Module 7 “Web Browsing and communication”

Amira Mohammed Zedan

Click the Outlook Express iconon your desktop or in the Start menu, otherwise select Start, All Programs, Outlook Express