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I teach 7-8th grade resource students. My 7th-grade students come over to our building with very little knowledge of Gmail. They have an address and an account set up by the school, but our elementary wasn't a 1 to 1 school like our 7-12 building.
Some of the first activities I do with the youngsters is simply is help them learn how to even compose an email. Some of the tutorials I've watched here reminded me how to do several things I learned a few years ago, but I'd never revisited and as the saying goes, if you don't use it you lose it. For example, I helped my students produce a signature on their emails. Organizing my inbox/folders has become a must for me and learning to use the labels/folders correctly has been great for me and I am now going to help my students do the same with emails from teachers, principals, parents/coaches, etc. I especially like that we can set it up to have them automatically saved into the folders by entering some of those addresses. I plan to help my students set that up, as well as doing that myself instead of trying to remember to move them individually to a student/parent folder. While this may take a little time for the setup process, I do believe it will save time in the long run.
I also plan to spend some time looking more into the canned responses. There are times that I copy and paste emails, but then spend a lot of time combing through them to make sure I've used the correct pronouns or have removed names completely.
I was also a plus to learn about the undo sent email option. I occasionally when typing fast or trying to type standing up will somehow hit send in mid-sentence or word. Nice to know I can undo that instead of having to start another email apologizing for the premature sending of an email. (and why does it always seem to happen when emailing 'that' parent or an administrator?!?!)
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