1. Outlook Section 5

2. Objectives Student will learn e mails, Outlook

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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.net sam-brown@aol.com sam@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

6. 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 icon on your desktop or in the Start menu, otherwise select Start, All Programs, Outlook Express