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Sort your emails and download some photos

In week 4 we are revising all our email skills and downloading some email attachments into our folders.

Here is a screenshot of an email.

Can you answer the following questions:

1. What is attached to the email?
2. Who is the sender?
3. Who received the email?
4. How many TABS are open?
5. How many new emails are in the Inbox?

Here is a screenshot of the same email received at Hotmail.

• Can you see any big differences? (Clue: Tabs?)
• Where can you go back to your Contacts?
• Where can you go back to your Inbox? 

Finally, have a look at the email in Gmail.

Are there any differences in the gmail screen?

• Where are the photo attachments?
• Where can you go back to Contacts?
• Where can you go back to your Inbox?
• Are there any TABS like in Yahoo?
• How many advertisements (ads) can you see?

Emailing and Mousing

Email skills we practised this week:

• signing IN to your email account;
• checking for new emails in your INBOX;
• adding a New Contact from those that you can see in an email;
• replying to an email.

Mousing Revision: the Clicky mouse Game 

Do you want to practise again? We found the link on the CNLC Talks wiki Learning on the WEB Page:  the game is at Webwise: Computer Basics - Clicky Mouse Game. It's quite hard isn't it?

What were the rules, again?

Green ball shape: single click

Yellow cube shape: double click

Red triangular shape: draw circle around it

  

Extend yourself - View an 'old but still good' video 

Video  - YAHOO email (Part 1)

The following video shows how to:

• move the Reading Pane away;
• change your Availability Status (for Chat) to Invisible;
• move the Applications away;
• use TABS for multi-tasking (moving between them and closing them);
• View an email;
• Add a Contact to your List of Contacts.

Has the YAHOO screen changed since Jill made this video??

Video  - YAHOO email (Part 2)

The video covers:

•     opening your Yahoo email,
•     changing the 'look' of your Inbox,
•     sorting emails by most recently received or by senders' names,
•     replying to an email,
•     sending an email that was saved to your Drafts folder.

The video is quite long so grab a cup of tea and click pause if you need a break;-)

My email was hacked!

Oh dear! Some of us were shocked the other day to find that someone had 'broken in' to some of our YAHOO email accounts and had sent an email to all of our contacts. How rude of them!

You can see one of those suspicious emails in this picture.

Can you see the link in the above email? Obviously the person who sent it from your email account wants your friend to click the link.

The best thing you can do at this stage is change your Password to make it stronger. Here are some pointers for making a stronger Password.

In Week 1 we practised making up new stronger passwords and some of us will have to actually change our Password. Please keep a copy of your Password so you don't forget it - these new stronger passwords are really hard to remember.

How do I change my Password?

Click on your name in the top left of the Yahoo screen, select Account Info, sign in again and click on Change your Password.

Why does YAHOO ask me for my mobile number? 

We also talked about how YAHOO is asking for your mobile phone number too nowadays - this will improve the security of your email account.

Practise

Practise signing IN and OUT of your email account a few times so that it becomes easier to do.