How to make an email

Questions What is an email? How many people have an email address in this room? What is an email used for? To whom can you send an email to?

What is an email? An email is a sort of like a global communication center. That is accessed for the computer. It is a method of exchanging messages from person to person. Example: Who can give me an example of an email? Think of an email as tiny mail men delivering mail, but they are using computers as their delivery system.

What is an email used for? The answer is communication. It can be used to contact relatives across the world, even to send documents to jobs, send birthday cards, etc. Instead of writing a letter and placing it in the mail, and having to wait days until the recipient receives it. You can send an email and the person receiving it can get it in seconds!!!

How can I help? Almost all emails are free, but some require you to pay for them. Today I will: Show you how to make an email Help you to understand an email address Help you successfully create an email address. Help you to open your first email address.

Places to get email addresses There are many places where you can get email addresses. Some of which are: Google Yahoo Bing Hotmail MSN ETC What you need to understand is that these websites above the endings : .com-commercial, .net-network, or .org-organization

We are going to use google.com This is one of the easiest emails to understand To set up this email you must first got to www.google.com The next step is to look in the top left corner and find the word GMAIL

Next you should click on the words in blue create an account. Follow the instructions as they go. After filling out the information, click on next step. The last two steps should be kept private so, neither I or no one must know your password. After a few seconds your screen will look like this:

How to send an email? Each email is different, but they all have one thing in common. The compose button That is the ONLY way to send an email The from bar already has your name in it. This is simply saying who is sending the email. The To bar is the person who you want to send it to. Finally the subject bar: This is the main point of your email. Next you must go to the blank space and type.

Inbox Your inbox is where all the mail you receive will be sent. Think of it as your mail box. When a new mail arrives it will be come up in bold.

Sent mail This is to show you all the mail that you sent, who you sent it to, and when you sent it. It will show you the conversations that you had with the person you sent it to.

Drafts This is the email that you started to send but never finished. Think of it as saving all your progress so you can finish it later.

Spam This is the email that is suspicious. It may have a virus or have detected something that is not suitable for the computer. These types of mail may be deleted after 30 days so take them out if you think they are important.

Important These are emails that you found to be important, you did this by clicking the star next to it because it had some type of importance to you. After you click the star on the mail they end up here.

Contacts These are the people that you place into your contact folder. You put them their if they have some type of importance to you, you can also put in information about them such as: Their birthday Cell phone number Address Etc.