Communicating%20Online

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Communicating Online

• Berea Middle School
• Mrs. Hunt-Barron
• 7th Grade
• ELA

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Multiple Electronic Means

• What are Online ways to communicate?
• Email
• IM

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Audience

• Always consider your audience in every type of
  writing and communicating.
• Should you use formal language
• Is slang and informal language appropriate?
• Many people today communicate via email. What
  are some rules for email etiquette?
• Think/Pair/Share list as many as you can in 2
  minutes

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Email Etiquette

• Think about your audience
• Do not use abbreviations for some audiences?
• Be brief and to the point
• Contractions are okay.
• Slang is not.
• Never use inappropriate or abusive language.

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More Email Etiquette

• Always use spell check
• Reread your email and think about how your
  audience will interpret the information.
• Be careful about sending and opening attachments
  from people you do not know. Why?

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More Netiquette

• Dont use emoticons (or little smiley faces)
• Dont type in all caps It implies youre
  yelling at the other person
• Only address friends, relatives and people close
  to you by their first names.
• Use Mr., Mrs., Dr., etc. for all others

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Netiquette Cont.

• Re. means reply and should only be used in
  replies
• Double check who you are replying to before
  sending especially when replying to a mailing
  list message.
• Clean up emails before forwarding them.
• Use italics to emphasize text
• Use bullet points for readability
• Punctuation matters

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Parts of a Business Letter

• The Heading
• Return address
• Date last line
• The Inside Address
• Address you are sending the letter to
• The Greeting
• Dear .. (always ends in a colon)

• The Body
• Skip a line between paragraphs
• The Complimentary Close
• Ends with a comma
• The Signature Line
• Type out name to be signed
• May include a second line for a title

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Example Which parts are also used in an email?

• Ms. Kathy Robbins
• 123 Internet Lane
• Clemson, SC 12345
• March 4, 2008
• Mrs. Hunt- Barron
• 1234 Dust Bowl Drive
• Berea, SC 23456
• Dear Mrs. Hunt-Barron
•  
• Body Paragraph 1 - I am writing with an
  interest in your unit on the Dust Bowl.
• Body Paragraph 2 - I would like to share some
  of the information that I have
• found on the internet regarding the Dust Bowl.
• Body Paragraph 3 Would you be willing to share
  the Dust Bowl movies form your
• classes on a wiki, so that I can learn more about
  this subject

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Common Parts of Email Account

• Inbox
• Drafts
• Sent
• Trash or Junk
• Deleted
• Compose or New
• Addresses or Contacts
• Folders
• Search

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Common Parts Email Message

• To
• Cc
• Subject

Greeting Body of email Closing Signature
Attach Browse Add
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Challenge for Today

• With a partner, answer the following question
  using the Internet
• What is the difference between a wiki, a blog,
  and a website?
• Type your answer in a word document, then
• Email Ms. Robbins one new netiquette rule you
  learned today.
• Krobbin_at_clemson.edu
• Attach your word document with the answer to the
  first question to the email.
• Remember Use the netiquette rules you learned
  today.
• When you are finished, work on your movie.