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ICT student textbook
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The global digital library
In this activity, you will be introduced to methods of accessing, evaluating and organizing information from the internet.

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ICT Teacher Handbook

Check your readiness

You must be able to work with different applications - text editor, text processor, mind mapping tool, independently
You must be able to access, open, create and save files in your folder
You must have an understanding of the internet and be able to browse the web

What resources do you need

Computer lab with projector
Access to the internet
Handout for Firefox
Handout for Gmail

What digital skills will you learn

Login into email (and log out)
Sending an email to one person, sending email with attachment of a text document from your portfolio
Sending an email to the class group
Downloading attachment from an email and opening and studying it
Configuring your 'signature' on your email
Changing your password

Description of activity with detailed steps

Teacher led activity

Demonstration 1

Your teacher will demonstrate for you how to send an email: follow along as she does the following
1. Open the website where your mailserver is (this will mostly be www.gmail.com)
2. Login by providing your 'user id' and then 'your password'.
3. Compose an email and send to another student whose id you know. You can send it to your team member
4. Compose an email attaching a text resource you created in the previous activity (The global digital library), and in your mail briefly explain this resource and ask for your team member to give suggestions and feedback on your resource. Copy your teacher's email id (as the 'cc' id)

Demonstration 2

Your teacher will demonstrate for you how to send an email: follow along as she does the following
1. Receiving emails in your 'inbox'. You will get emails from your team members. Open and read them. Open the attachments also and read them
2. 'Reply-to' the sender of the mail and give your comments on the resource shared by

Demonstration 3

Your teacher will demonstrate for you how to send an email to the 'class group', by putting the 'class group id' in the 'To' bar.
This mail will go to all students. Reply to this mail with your comments and the reply will also go to all students in the class.

Student activities

Each student will work on sending and receiving email. If the number of students is more than the number of computers, this activity will be done by students taking turns on the computer.

Share the the topic you have researched about by an email sent to the 'class group'.Ask the class students to give you feedback on your topic/resource
You will get feedback from your classmates on your topic. Please read the feedback and make changes to your text document if you feel the feedback is useful. Send a thank-you mail to those students, explaining why you found the feedback useful. Save the feedback documents in the same folder, add the name of the student giving the feedback to the file name itself, for easy identification later.
You will also need to give feedback to your classmates on their resources. You can access resources on the topic, from the internet, to get ideas for your feedback also. In case you get useful web pages or images on the topic, which is not there in the resource emailed to you, you can share the webpage or web link with the student to include in her resource.

Portfolio

You would have many emails in your inbox, you can save an email which has useful comments in your folder.
Your text document with the modifications from the feedback given by your classmates
Your resource folder which should contain your concept map, text document with a summary of resources, images downloaded and web pages saved on the computer.

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 #Access to the internet
 #Handout for [[Learn Firefox|Firefox]]
+#Handout for [[Learn Gmail|Gmail]]
 ==={{font color|purple|What digital skills will you learn}}===
-#Accessing the internet, searching for information
+#Login into email (and log out)
-#Downloading information
+#Sending an email to one person, sending email with attachment of a text document from your portfolio
-#Evaluating the information and creating a personal digital library for self learning
+#Sending an email to the class group
-#Understand safe and ethical ways of using the internet
+#Downloading attachment from an email and opening and studying it
+#Configuring your 'signature' on your email
+#Changing your password
 ==={{font color|purple|Description of activity with detailed steps}}===
 ====Teacher led activity====
 '''Demonstration 1'''<br>
-#Your teacher will demonstrate for you how to access and organize information on the folder: follow along as she does the following
+#Your teacher will demonstrate for you how to send an email: follow along as she does the following
-##Use a search engine to search for information - discuss with your teachers what happens when we do not give good key words
+##Open the website where your mailserver is (this will mostly be www.gmail.com)
-##Open the pages returned on each search
+##Login by providing your 'user id' and then 'your password'.
-##She will demonstrate how to search for images, videos and text
+##Compose an email and send to another student whose id you know. You can send it to your team member
-##Download the resources accessed - the entire web page, image, videos, etc
+##Compose an email attaching a text resource you created in the previous activity (The global digital library), and in your mail briefly explain this resource and ask for your team member to give suggestions and feedback on your resource. Copy your teacher's email id (as the 'cc' id)
-##Your teacher will discuss with you how to legally download materials from the internet and how to use it appropriately.
 '''Demonstration 2'''<br>
-#Watch your teacher search for the following,  "giraffe", "evolution of giraffe", "miraculous evolution of giraffe"
+#Your teacher will demonstrate for you how to send an email: follow along as she does the following
-#Did you see any difference in the pages returned by the search?
+##Receiving emails in your 'inbox'. You will get emails from your team members. Open and read them. Open the attachments also and read them
-#Does this tell you anything about how a search engine works? How can you search more effectively?
+##'Reply-to' the sender of the mail and give your comments on the resource shared by
+'''Demonstration 3'''<br>
+#Your teacher will demonstrate for you how to send an email to the 'class group', by putting the 'class group id' in the 'To' bar.
+#This mail will go to all students. Reply to this mail with your comments and the reply will also go to all students in the class.
 ====Student activities====
-This is an activity to be done in groups.  If  adequate bandwidth internet access is available, individual activities may be done.
+Each student will work on sending and receiving email. If the number of students is more than the number of computers, this activity will be done by students taking turns on the computer.
-#Make a [[Learn Freeplane|mind map]] for the topic or issue you want to research about.
+#Share the the topic you have researched about by an email sent to the 'class group'.Ask the class students to give you feedback on your topic/resource
-#In groups, [[Learn Firefox|access the internet]] and download information relevant to your topic.
+#You will get feedback from your classmates on your topic. Please read the feedback and make changes to your text document if you feel the feedback is useful. Send a thank-you mail to those students, explaining why you found the feedback useful. Save the feedback documents in the same folder, add the name of the student giving the feedback to the file name itself, for easy identification later.
-#Organize your downloaded information into folders
+#You will also need to give feedback to your classmates on their resources. You can access resources on the topic, from the internet, to get ideas for your feedback also. In case you get useful web pages or images on the topic, which is not there in the resource emailed to you, you can share the webpage or web link with the student to include in her resource.
-#In a text document summarize what you have found on your topic. In your document, also give a ranking for your resources, based on the importance and relevance of the resource for your learning, and give the reasons for your ranking; this analysis of resource accessed is called meta data of a resource. You can also type in your own comments and ideas about the topic in the same text document.
 ==={{font color|purple|Portfolio}}===
-#You would have developed a concept map for the topic that you want to research onn
+#You would have many emails in your inbox, you can save an email which has useful comments in your folder.
-#Your text document summarizing your internet research, which should contain links to web pages you have accessed
+#Your text document with the modifications from the feedback given by your classmates
 #Your resource folder which should contain your concept map, text document with a summary of resources, images downloaded and web pages saved on the computer.