1. E-mail 101 PRESENTED BY THE MONROE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

2. Introductions Austin Stroud Instructional designer at the library, and I also am an adjunct faculty member at Ivy Tech where I teach Library Technology, Intro to Microcomputers (Microsoft Office), and a First Year Seminar on how to be successful in college. Your experience: Have you used email before? If so, what websites have you used for email? What do you think of using email to communicate with friends, family, and co- workers?

3. What is E-mail? E-mail or email (both acceptable) stands for electronic mail. The difference between e-mail and traditional mail is that e-mail is much quicker. Once you send an e-mail to another person, they receive it instantly. This other person may not check their e-mail instantly, but it is a much more efficient and quick way to communicate with others than traditional postal mail.

4. History of E-mail Source: http://www.macworld.com/article/1167303/time line_a_brief_history_of_email.html http://www.macworld.com/article/1167303/time line_a_brief_history_of_email.html

5. Free E-mail Accounts Microsoft Hotmail/Windows Live (one in the same) http://www.hotmail.com or http://www.live.com (yourname@hotmail.com or yourname@live.com) http://www.hotmail.comhttp://www.live.comyourname@hotmail.comyourname@live.com Yahoo! Mail http://mail.yahoo.com (yourname@yahoo.com)http://mail.yahoo.comyourname@yahoo.com Gmail (Google-owned) http://www.gmail.com (yourname@gmail.com)http://www.gmail.comyourname@gmail.com AOL Mail http://webmail.aol.com (yourname@aol.com)http://webmail.aol.comyourname@aol.com There are many others, too, but these are some of the most common e- mail websites people utilize. If you attend college or work, you may also have a free e-mail account given to you there to utilize for school or work purposes (yourname@indiana.edu or yourname@ivytech.edu for some examples).yourname@indiana.eduyourname@ivytech.edu

6. Choose your Internet Browser Internet Explorer http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/products/ie/home/ Mozilla Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ Google Chrome https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/ Other – (Safari on a Mac, Opera, others?) Any computer that you use while in the library will have all three of these main Internet browsers on it.

7. G-mail Overview Source: https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about. html https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about. html

8. Getting to G-mail

9. Getting to G-mail (Continued)

10. Creating your E-mail Account

11. Initial Screen After Creating Account

12. Navigation Rundown Compose Inbox Starred Important Sent Mail Drafts Spam Circles Labels (Personal, Travel, …)

13. Email Tutorials http://www.gcflearnfree.org/emailbasics (Gmail and Outlook) http://www.gcflearnfree.org/emailbasics http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook-overview (Hotmail/Outlook.com) http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook-overview http://help.yahoo.com/tutorials/cg/ (Yahoo) http://help.yahoo.com/tutorials/cg/

14. Other E-mail Options On a smart phone: http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/ Outlook (work, home) – Can setup Outlook to work with Gmail: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77689