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Gmail: 90 Tools And Tips To Make You A Gmail Pro
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/09/gmail-90-tools-and-tips-to-make-you-a-gmail-pro/
Gmail: 90 Tools And Tips To Make You A Gmail Pro
Google Mail is without doubt one of the most popular online email services. What makes it so interesting is not only the functionality that it provides out of the box but also its extensibility.
The following article contains all the tools and tips needed to make you a Gmail pro. It contains the best Firefox extensions, Greasemonkey scripts, desktop tools as well as how tos and other tips that will increase the functionality of Gmail immensely.

How to use Gmail : Free online course
http://alison.com/courses/How-to-use-Gmail
How to use Gmail : Free online course
This course uses the Web-based e-mail service from Google™ called Gmail™, (Google Mail in the UK and Germany), to introduce you to the basics of e-mail.
Gmail is an e-mail service which is accessed directly via the Web, and is not dependent on your using software loaded on your own personal computer. (e.g. Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird).

Overwhelmed by your inbox? (MS Office Online)
http://tinyurl.com/5corlt
Overwhelmed by your inbox? (MS Office Online)
Learn how Search Folders can help you sort, organize, and find your e-mail with minimal effort.

Stopping email madness
http://tinyurl.com/6736qm
Stopping email madness
A training department is developing a white paper intended to explore the consequences of drastically reducing the amount of email traffic generated by employees.
If you want to "clean up" your email and improve workforce productivity, Paul Pease (paul@thepeasegroup.com) suggests following a few simple guidelines and "holding people accountable –- especially management and executives, who need to lead by example."

Xackmail
http://xackmail.com/
Xackmail is a real-time online email backup.
It's a 1-click backup and a 1-click restore solution so there are no complex setup or selection of emails and accounts

Flurry
http://www.flurry.com/
Flurry enables you to receive all of your personal email and news on your cell phone, for free.

SpinVox : See your voicemail as text
http://www.spinvox.com/
SpinVox converts your voicemails into text messages and sends them straight to your mobile phone or email.

Springdoo
http://www.springdoo.com/
Springdoo is a free service that lets you talk your emails. Anyone can now easily send talking emails in their own voice, without typing. You can Springdoo using your computer and a microphone, or any telephone.
Try Springdoo now!
Springdoo allows you to easily record audio message onto our secure servers, so you and / or other people can replay the message over the Internet.
Springdoo is a free solution designed for everyone. You do not need any special software or services to record and / or play a Springdoo. Springdoo uses streaming file technology, so there are no file attachments to send in emails and / or download.
Springdoo is primarily a talking email solution, allowing you to quickly and easily create and send talking email. You can create a Springdoo (a talking email) using your computer and a microphone, or any telephone such as your land line, mobile / cell or even a pay phone. web 2.0

Free Online Course Materials : How to Use Email
http://www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/english/trainers_topics.shtml
Free Online Course Materials : How to Use Email | Internet and E-mail Basics - General | Learning Internet Basics: Some Useful Guides and Tutorials |

See the PenPals area on Shambles
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/penpals/
See the PenPals area on Shambles for some suggestions on how email might be used with students and in schools.

Writing for Online Communication: Email
http://m.fasfind.com/wwwtools/m/2653.cfm?x=0&rid=2653
Writing for Online Communication: Email
In this edition of WWWTools for Education we look at writing for online communication, with a special emphasis on email.
Online Communication | Writing Online Web Site | Electronic Mail | Activities for Learning and Writing Online | Teaching Online | Netiquette | Language, Usability, and Learning | The Basic Psychological Features of E-Mail Communication | 12 Steps for E-Mail Addicts | International Email Classroom Connections | Analyzing E-mail Communication of Prospective Learners | The Email Page |

How to use e-mails with ESL/EFL/ESOL students
http://www.englishlanguagespacestation.com/how_to_use_e-mails%20with%20students.htm
How to use e-mails (email) with ESL/EFL/ESOL students.

How good an Internet Ranger are you?
http://www.internetrangers.co.uk/challenges.html
How good an Internet Ranger are you?
5 guides for you to work through with your new 'pupils' (your Gran, your Mum, your Dad or anyone you are helping to get online). The guides provide simple step-by-step instructions to mastering the basic skills needed for happy surfing.
Surfing the Internet | Using email | Using a search engine |

The E-Mail ABCs
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech185.shtml
The E-Mail ABCs
Most of today's students grew up with e-mail. Many believe that e-mail is a totally different kind of medium, unfettered by the rules that govern letter writing. Most classroom teachers didn't grow up using e-mail. They believe that e-mail should adhere to the same rules of grammar and style as snail mail. Who's right?
Let's take a look at the ABCs of e-mail etiquette. Included: Twenty-six tips for composing and sending e-mail.

Smart E-mailing and IMing too! (Lesson Plan)
http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/lesson_plans/68_06.asp
Smart E-mailing and IMing too! (Lesson Plan)
Students consider the challenges of using E-mail and IM, discussing ways of handling them safely and responsibly.

Handling E-mail and IM too! (Lesson Plan)
http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/lesson_plans/45_05.asp
Handling E-mail and IM too!
Students consider the positive uses of E-mail and IM and identify safety strategies for responsibly managing unsolicited messages.

Using email in schools
http://safety.ngfl.gov.uk/schools/document.php3?D=d54
Using email in schools
Email can be an extremely valuable tool in an educational context, encouraging the development of communication skills, and transforming the learning process by opening up possibilities that, conventionally, would be impossible to achieve. However, there are a number of issues for consideration when using email in the school such as the management implications of implementing email, and acceptable use of email by pupils. Other issues, such as bullying by email, are emerging which schools also need to be concerned with.
Management issues of implementing email in schools | Models of implementation | Developing home/school links for email use | Examples of good practice |

Policy: Acceptable Use of email AUP
http://safety.ngfl.gov.uk/schools/document.php3?D=d56
Policy: Acceptable Use of email AUP

E-mail 101: The Dos and Don'ts
http://www.customresearchpapers.us/swc/writing-essentials/e-mail-101.php
E-mail 101: The Dos and Don'ts

Electronic mail or email
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/ict/datacomm/1emailrev1.shtml
Electronic mail or email is a means of sending messages, text, and computer files between computers via the telephone network. Because the telephone network covers the whole word, email enables you to communicate world wide.
Email and webmail | Features of email | Benefits and concerns of using email | Sample question | Sample answers | Glossary |

2Email
http://www.2simple.com/2Email/
Now young children can email in a safe environment.
2Email simulates a real email experience yet it doesn? require the internet! Embracing reading, composing, attaching, sending and receiving email, 2Email gives Keystage 1 children the full email experience.
Comes with a free activity guide book.

What is an email project?
http://tinyurl.com/85dsz
What is an email project? An email project involves electronic communication between two or more partners. The partners could be individuals, groups, classes or schools who are studying the same topic. The reasons for using email for communication should be explicit to all of those involved. Common reasons include enabling the partners to .....

GMail Drive
http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
GMail Drive
GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium.
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

Outlook 2003 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup
http://www.tinyurl.com/oh4l
Outlook 2003 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup
Backing up your Microsoft Outlook information is quicker and easier with the Personal Folders Backup feature. Personal Folders Backup creates backup copies of your .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2000 and later versions, making it easy to keep all of your Outlook folders safely backed up.

The E-Mail ABCs!
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/tech185.shtml
The E-Mail ABCs!
Most of today's students grew up with e-mail. Many believe that e-mail is a totally different kind of medium, unfettered by the rules that govern letter writing. Most classroom teachers didn't grow up using e-mail. They believe that e-mail should adhere to the same rules of grammar and style as snail mail. Who's right?
Let's take a look at the ABCs of e-mail etiquette. Included: Twenty-six tips for composing and sending e-mail.

SPF: Sender Policy Framework
http://spf.pobox.com/
SPF: Sender Policy Framework
The Anti-Forgery solution That's making the world a Safer place for email.
SPF fights return-path address forgery and makes it easier to identify spoofs.

ePALS - KS2
http://www.ictadvice.org.uk/index.php?section=tl&cat=001001006&rid=4339
ePALS - KS2
This is a website for teachers wishing to set up email pen pals for their pupils.
A Year 3 teacher used the ePALS website to find a school to communicate with using email. She looked in the ?ind Classrooms?part of the site and searched for an English-speaking class of children aged 8-9 to match the age of her own pupils.

Path of an Email
http://www.unav.es/malofiej/entries/17/cat17/krt/html/epath/epath.swf
Path of an Email
Where does an email go when you send it? It doesn't just go straight to the person you send it to! Try out this activity and you'll find out more.

How email works
http://www.ictadvice.org.uk/index.php?section=te&rid=3156&wn=1
How email works
This guide provides general information about how email works. A downloadable technical paper on the subject is also available
Electronic mail, or email, has perhaps proved to be the 'killer application' of the internet ?with more people using email services than browsing the web. Email is a cheap and efficient way to communicate across vast distances and as a result each day billions of emails are sent and received all over the world.

GoodContacts
http://www.goodcontacts.com/
Build, verify, and protect your valuable business contact details in Outlook/Outlook Express while ensuring complete privacy and security.
GoodContacts is the leader in providing self-propagating, peer-to-peer, information exchange solutions. The company's initial focus provides complete solutions for automatically verifying, maintaining and protecting a critical asset?usiness contact information.
Contacts are vital to a business. GoodContacts services ensure that information on which individuals and businesses depend remains valid and accurate when it's needed the most. By employing distributed, peer-to-peer technologies, contact information is always stored on an individual's local computer or server and never on the Web.

ePALS - online classroom community
http://www.epals.com/
Over 4.5 million students and teachers are building skills and enhancing learning with ePALS. Established in 1996, ePALS has 72,146 classroom profiles bringing people in 191 countries together as cross-cultural learning partners and friends.
ePALS is the world's largest online classroom community because of our easy-to-use tools, innovative projects and, most importantly, our members.
ePALS members connect with peers around the world, in ways that are both fun and educational. By engaging in projects and creating new friendships, ePALS can help young people learn more about their world.

Using e-mail in classroom projects at Key Stage 2
http://www.becta.org.uk/technology/infosheets/pdf/e-mailks2.pdf
This Becta (UK) information sheet gives some background on how good practice can be supported, and has links to some interesting case studies.
IT | ICT | using | email |

InterGuru's E-Mail Address Book Conversions
http://www.interguru.com/mailconv.htm
This service will convert e-mail address lists between Eudora alias files, Pine address books, Elm address files, Pegasus address files ( Europe and USA ) address files, databases and spreadsheets Compuserve, Spry, Lotus cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Internet Mail, ldif formatted file, Netscape address books Mac AOL, T-Online , and Claris Emailer.
Address Magic Personal Edition will make a much smoother conversion on Windows than the InterGuru service below. Because it focuses only on Windows (unlike my more generalized service), it can use special methods built into Windows. The result is that it supports all contact fields and it can work with complex environments like Outlook, Exchange Server, and Lotus Notes. The Enterprise Edition can also convert mailboxes from Netscape to Outlook.

Using email in teaching and learning
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/genre/email.htm
Writing for a purpose and for a different audience is very important for a child. The thought that another person, perhaps thousands of miles away, can be sent an electronic letter which can be received in less than a minute, is a very powerful experience for most people.
Underlying the idea of communicating information is the need to consider purpose and audience. For example, a children’s party invitation must include details of the date, time and place, but it must look fun and inviting. These elements will influence decisions about layout, typefaces, graphics, colours etc. Children will therefore need to analyse existing genres of writing in order to make appropriate choices when creating their own texts from different genre.
Look here to find out some activities involving the use of E-Mail in the classroom.
email | classroom | teaching |

Electronic Pen Pals and Online Projects
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/02/inservice.html
Besides being a great source of information, the Internet also serves as a wonderful communications device. Through it, your class can interact with others throughout the world. Two popular ways to do so are "e-pals" and online projects.
E-Pals
E-pals are pen pals, frequently from around the world, who connect through the Internet-sometimes in addition to pen and paper. Most commonly, e-pals use e-mail to write each other, although other electronic methods (such as voice, video, or chat) could also be used. Students will enjoy the exchange with peers, and the cross-cultural aspect of international e-pals can benefit them immensely.
Online Projects
Online projects afford students the opportunity to participate in meaningful collaborative learning activities with students from around the world. One of the first online projects was the Great Penny Toss, coordinated by Paul Reese from the Ralph Bunche School in Harlem, N.Y. In this math and probability project for sixth-graders, visitors to the site were invited to flip pennies and submit their results on a Web form.

Using E-mail to Improve the Writing Process
http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/sbeck/teacher_making_the_connection2.htm
Why Use E-Mail With Students? | With Whom Will They Correspond? | Who Can Be an E-Mail Mentor? | About What Will They Correspond? | Ten Nifty Ways Teachers Can Use E-Mail to Extend Learning | How Can I Manage the Issues of Writing and Responding? | Issues to Consider with the Other Teacher | Friendly Letter Storyboard | Who Am I? A Fact Gathering Form | Student Self-Assessment |