Teaching to Email
This year, many of our learners are not yet familiar with using Chromebooks and Google For Education so we are needing to teach some basic skills in order for our tamariki to become confident and capable in using Google For Education tools to enhance their learning.
Today it was time to introduce students to their school email accounts. We use emails mainly for sharing, communicating and refining writing, reading and spelling skills.
We showed students how to access their accounts, how their Gmail inbox is set out and how to compose an email. Our focus was on finding someone's email address, where to find the compose icon, what to include in the subject line and how to start an email.
Students were shown how to access addresses for the two teachers and one teacher aide in our hub. Students then had time to write emails with the subject based on testing emails to each of our hub staff.
We touched on how to clear emails from the promotions and irrelevant messages that come through and will have another session to make sure inboxes are clear, organised and relevant to learning. When we do this task, we will also teach students how to unsubscribe to junk.
Tonight, our staff had some mahi kāika to reply to emails while checking to see what student's next steps might be such as using capital letters for the subject line and starting sentences. This has lots of teachable moments and also gives us an opportunity to connect and put smiles on our faces.
So tonight, my inbox looks like this:
One of our email conversations:
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