Instructor- Inform students that posyal mail is often referred to as “snail” mail to distinguish it from email.
70% of all Email is spam It could be offers for anything. INSTRUCTOR: If you have a personal story about spam, please share it here. Let participants know that we will be discussing Spam and scams in more depth later in the module.
Instructor - Talk about the importance of not sharing your password with others.
Instructor: let the students know that email addresses are not case sensitive, while passwords are.
Instructor: Make sure each student is able to get to gmail and find this button. If any student comes to a gmail account where a previous user is still logged in, show them how to log out. Talk about the importance of logging out of a public computer.
Instructor: Walk students through these steps. The handout is located at http://www.indianprairie.lib.il.us/images/stories/Computers/email/Your%20Account.pdf
Instructor: Walk through the handout ( http://www.indianprairie.lib.il.us/images/stories/Computers/email/Email Terms.pdf) and go over each term.
Instructor - let students walk through the steps
Instructor - let students walk through the steps
Instructor - let students walk through the steps
Instructor - Discuss the permanence of an email. It’s more difficult to “take back” things you regret saying when they are recorded via email.
Instructor: Walk through each method finding the spam folder and reporting spam.
“ .EXE” files are executable files that will run a program on your computer. Don’t ever give any personal info - SSN, Credit Card, bank accounts, phone number or address - as the result of an e-mail. Many thieves posing as your bank use this tactic. It is called phishing. Hoaxes – snopes.com
Descriptive subjects will make the recipient feel safer opening your E-mail. If you think something might be a virus do NOT open it – Create a new email and tell the people who sent it you thought it might be a virus aand ask them to reply to your email if it wasn’t and they still want you to get the information they originally sent you.