internet etiquette
Bookmark Folder
Google Classroom
Email
- Right click on the Bookmark bar, click on Add Folder. Title new folder, English
- Open the Agenda page for your specific English class, bookmark the page, under the new English folder. Rename the title of the website the name of your class (i.e. Literary Perspectives)
- Throughout the school year, I will give you additional websites to bookmark. Please do not add bookmarks that are not given to you. This will keep the folder clean and easily accessible.
Google Classroom
- Submitting Work: We will not be completing any work in Google Classroom this year if at all possible. Instead Google Classroom will be a place to host your project rubrics. When you have completed a project, you will simply submit the rubric in Google Classroom, indicating to me that I can grade your work.
- Grades: Once I have read and commented on your writing, I will provide a grade in Google Classroom and return the document to you with comments for editing your project.
- Resubmitting Work: Once you have edited your project work based on my feedback, you may resubmit your work with a comment saying you have updated your project. DO NOT resubmit just so it says it is turned in. This doesn’t actually mean anything and does not affect your grade. If you resubmit without a comment, I will not regrade your work.
- Include a subject title. For example: Annotated Bibliography or Questions about Lab Report.
- Create an appropriate greeting: Hello Name, Good afternoon Name, Dear Name
- State the reason you are sending the email: I am emailing you…
- Always attach documents. Never copy and paste them into the email. In Gmail you need to click the icon that looks like a paperclip in order to attach a document. State that you have included an attachment and request a confirmation receipt: I have attached a copy of my Name Assignment. Please confirm that you have received and can open this attachment.
- Ask any questions you might have about future assignments. Be sure to provide specific details about the assignment. Ask a clear and concise question so your teacher will understand your needs.
- Thank the recipient of the email and bid farewell: Thank you very much, Thank you and have a wonderful day.
- Proofread your work. It is unprofessional to have incomplete sentences, no capitalization or punctuation. If you are writing a longer email, you may want to write in a Google document first. In this case, it is appropriate to copy and paste into your email.
- Do not use acronyms (LOL, btw) or avatars such as smiley faces.
- Use Internet format: do not indent paragraphs, use blog formatting, put a space between paragraphs
Activities
Professional Email
Send your English teacher a professional email introducing yourself using the format outlined above. In the body of the email answer the following questions about yourself:
Before you send the email, run through the email etiquette checklist:
Send your English teacher a professional email introducing yourself using the format outlined above. In the body of the email answer the following questions about yourself:
- What was the best part of your summer? Why?
- What is your favorite subject in school? What do you like about this subject?
- What subject do you worry about and believe you struggle with? What are those struggles?
- Tell your teacher one more interesting thing about yourself.
Before you send the email, run through the email etiquette checklist:
- Subject line
- Greetings
- No indented paragraphs
- Space between paragraphs
- Farewell
- Capitalized all proper names and first word of each sentence
- Reviewed spelling errors (this is going to your English teacher after all! )