E-MAIL PROJECTS > Le courrier électronique permet une communication globale et immédiate, redonne aux étudiants le plaisir de l'écriture - qu'il s'agisse de l'écriture épistolaire avec d'autres jeunes, ou de projets d'écriture rattachés à une activité prévue par l'enseignant. Bernard Moro. 28 Novembre 2000 : Le ministre de l'Education Nationale, Jack Lang et le président de La Poste Claude Bourmaud signent un accord permettant à tous les élèves et leurs enseignants de bénéficier d'une adresse électronique gratuite et à vie! Cet accord devrait prendre effet à compter du 3 janvier 2001 et concerner l'ensemble des établissements dépendants directement de l'Education Nationale : écoles primaires, collèges et lycées. Ce dispositif se mettra en place tout au long de l'année 2001. Cette boite aux lettres sera normalisée sous la forme suivante : prenom.nom@laposte.net et reposera sur les principes fondamentaux de "gratuité, neutralité politique, religieuse et commerciale, la protection de la vie privée et la liberté individuelle". Cette démarche s'inscrit dans la volonté de rendre Internet accessible à la majorité des Français. Notons également que la création de cette adresse citoyenne constitue une première mondiale.. Source "Des relations entre Pentagone et chercheurs des universités américaines aux groupes de discussion, l'essor d'Internet s'explique surtout par les formidables possibilités de communication entre des êtres qui ignoraient tout de leur existence réciproque. La correspondance scolaire, elle, est loin d'être une nouveauté." Qu'apporte Internet à cette pratique ? Quelles démarches de projet, quelle intégration pédagogique ? El colega Juan del Rey du Collège Sévigné (93220-Gagny) propose d'utiles et intéressantes réponses, à partir d'expériences vécues.

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� Sur Internet on peut demander son chemin, non à une machine ou à un fichier d'aide, mais à des humains présents sur le réseau. Supposons qu'un groupe-classe cherche quelque information, nom, titre de livre, série d'interviews sur tel sujet. Ils n'ont rien pu trouver parce que leur besoin est difficile à formuler, les systèmes ne comprennent pas ce qu'ils veulent. Ils peuvent alors se rendre sur un de ces forums où se retrouvent des gens qui partagent les mêmes préoccupations, recherches ou réflexions, et poser leur question soigneusement formulée à la cantonnade. Puis ils quittent le forum et se déconnectent. Le lendemain, ils vont consulter leur boîte aux lettres. Des gens auront laissé des messages. Deux, trois réponses. Certaines seront l'aboutissement de leur recherche, d'autres seront des indications qui permettront de mieux définir leurs critères. En d'autres termes, au plaisir de chercher s'ajoute celui de communiquer, et nous sortons ici du questionnement didactique habituel où le professeur pose de fausses questions dont il connaît par avance les réponses. Il ne s'agit pas de sci-fiction pédagogique, mais de séances parfaitement réalisables, avec un ordinateur, un modem, un abonnement à un fournisseur d'accès, une ligne téléphonique directe. Ces approches n'enlèvent rien à nos préoccupations didactiques de base, qui consistent à faire effectuer sans cesse à l'apprenant un va-et-vient entre activités très balisées, au niveau d'assistance élevée, où lui sont proposées des méthodologies transférables, et activités d'autonomie, où il va tester ses techniques, transférer ses savoir-faire... - d'après Bernard Moro � Technology Has Opened my students' minds to a resource well beyond any library... Michelle Bodner describes a year of successful exchanges between her class and another in Australia.

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Seven Tips for Easy e-mail This e-mailing guide appeared on EnglishCLUB Progress The EFL/ESL Newsletter for Students and Teachers. The objective of all emails is to communicate. The writer needs the recipient to understand. So s/he should make it as easy as possible for the recipient to understand the message. The writer is writing the email, not the recipient, right? It is the writer's job to write it well, not the recipient's! But often the recipient has to spend a long time and work very hard to understand a message. (This is not just a question of language.) Basically, sending "bad" e-mails shows no respect for the recipient and is not polite.The writer does a little work and the recipient does a lot of work. So here are 7 tips on sending emails the best way possible, and making life easier for everyone. Tip 1. Subject, Cc: and Bcc: When you write an email, at the top is a box called "Subject:". The subject tells recipients what your message is about, without reading the whole message. It helps them organize their email. Always include a subject, something meaningful like "My Order No. 12345 For Furniture" or "Homework Assignment: Present Perfect". Don't just write "Your Email" or "Letter". Subjects like those are not very helpful. Also, if you include a subject and the recipient replies by clicking on "Reply", you subject is automatically added to the reply (with the expression "Re:", which means "about"). Two more boxes at the top of your email are "Cc:" (carbon copy) and "Bcc:" (blind carbon copy). Any email address you add to the Cc: box will receive a copy of the message, and the original person you are writing to (the To: box) will see the email address that you sent a copy to. Any email address you add to the Bcc: box will also receive a copy of the message, but this time the original person you are writing to will *not* see this. S/he will not even know that you sent a copy to someone. Tip 2. Use Attachments Only When Necessary Email messages can be in two different forms: - inline plain text - attachment Inline text is the normal text that you write in an email. An attachment is a file from your computer (for example a Word document or .gif image) that you "attach" or add to your email. When someone receives an email with inline (normal) text, they can read it immediately. When they receive an attachment, they have to "open" the attachment with the right program (for example Word or PaintShop). There are several problems with attachments, including: a. Recipients may not have the program for the attachment b. Attachments can contain viruses c. Some attachments can take a long time to download Many people do not like to receive attachments. Usually, it is better to send inline text. Only send an attachment when it is not possible to send the information as inline text and you are sure the receiver agrees. Tip 3. Use Plain Text, not HTML The normal text for email looks like typewriter text and is usually the Courier New typeface. In many email programs you can change this to another typeface, such as Arial or Times New Roman. That can be a *bad* idea. Some email programs cannot read this type of "HTML" text and convert your text into an attachment. So the recipient cannot read your message without opening the attachment. If you want to make life easy for *all* your recipients, use plain text. Tip 4. Keep Your Line Lengths Short Have you ever received an email that looked like this? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you for your email requesting more information about our products. The XYC Company specializes in supplying widgets to the world and I am sure that you will find our catalogue of interest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What went wrong? XYZ's email program and your email program did not treat lines in the same way. What is the answer? Keep your lines short, preferably 64 characters (letters) or shorter. That means that after 64 characters, you make a "hard carriage return" by pressing "Enter". This newsletter is written with a line length of 60 characters. Tip 5. Don't YELL! Do not write everything in CAPITAL LETTERS. In English, it is not polite to use a lot of capital letters. In fact, text written in capital letters is difficult to read. You never see a book written only in capital letters. Using all capital letters is called "yelling", which is the same as shouting. Why is it difficult to read capital letters? Look at this word: 1. ENGLISH (capital letters) 2. English (initial capital + small letters) In No.1 the word has no "shape"...it is a simple rectangle. In No.2 the word has a shape...it goes up and down. When we read, especially when we read fast, we read the shape of words. We do not read each individual letter. The shape of "ENGLISH" is exactly the same as the shape of "SPANISH". But the shape of "English" is not the same as the shape of "Spanish". For subjects, it's sometimes ok to use capitals. But if you must make one word in the text more important, don't do it with capitals. Use asterisks, like *this*. Tip 6. Be Careful With Abbreviations Examples of abbreviations are "btw" (by the way) and "damhik" (don't ask me how I know). Abbreviations are a good way to save work on typing if both correspondents understand the abbreviations. But if the recipient does not understand your abbreviation, you are not communicating successfully. For a list of email abbreviations, see e-breviations on englishclub.net Tip 7. Sign Your Email It's a good idea, and more polite, to put your name at the end of your emails. You can even add other information like address, telephone and fax, especially for business. You can create a "signature block" that you add to the end of all messages. Many email services such as EnglishCLUB Mail let you create an "auto-signature" that appears at the end of every email you send. Finally, to open a free email account with EnglishCLUB so that your email address is you@englishclub.com, just go to: http://www.englishclub.com/mail

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- Ten Commandments of electronic correspondence ('e-mail') 1. Thou shalt include a clear and specific subject line. 2. Thou shalt edit any quoted text down to the minimum thou needest. 3. Thou shalt read thine own message thrice before thou sendest it. 4. Thou shalt ponder how thy recipient might react to thy message. 5. Thou shalt check thy spelling and thy grammar. 6. Thou shalt not curse, flame, spam or USE ALL CAPS. 7. Thou shalt not forward any chain letter. 8. Thou shalt not use e-mail for any illegal or unethical purpose. 9. Thou shalt not rely on the privacy of e-mail, especially from work. 10.When in doubt, save thy message overnight and reread it in the light of the dawn. And, here's the Golden Rule: That which thou findest hateful to receive, sendest thou not unto others.-

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An English Internet E-mail Project In the past year we, the students and our teacher of "Rashish Junior High", have been a part of the internet e-mail project. We used e-mail to contact schools from around the world, which was a very interesting project. We have sent, as well as answered, surveys from the world and learned about different cultures from people, world wide. Each student, in this class, has a pen-pal from someplace in the world which he e-mailed him throughout the whole year. For example, most of the students contacted students from a school in Kentucky, USA. They e-mailed each other and they even sent us a class picture. We made a video that contains a few words from each student, so that they express themselves and say a few words about them. In conclusion, we enjoyed working with the e-mail this year and we would like to continue with this project for years to come. We learned a lot about cultures and people, worldwide. The students were thrilled to receive e-mail letters and wrote back to their pen-pal as soon as possible... - Lihi Barak, 8th grade, Rashish J.H. Israel, Mai 97.

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> One student who did not care about spelling errors was soon told by his e-friend in Italy, "Please spell your words correctly. I am looking them up in my dictionary and I can't find your misspelled words!" Natural consequences took over... Patti Weeg See Patti's fine e-mail project here. � Thèse australienne de Roger Ganderton: the use of electronic mail for international correspondence by 2nd language learners is of considerable interest to both teachers and researchers alike. � Réseau international Tandem : Etudiants et élèves s'apprennent réciproquement leurs langues par e-mail. � Christine Reymond (Aca Rouen) recommendsTandem they can provide individual pen-pals or put you in touch with a teacher so that your classes could correspond. All relevant info is on Christine's web page here. (Bravo Bravo ! le système Tandem, ça marche !!!! ������ Keypals & Penpals Page in Volterre.fr got School Zone's 5-star award + those 6 dots from us. Féllicitations, Linda ! � Pen-pals : let students find a friend, and practice English! � E-Mail for English Teachers - bringing Internet and Computer Learning Networks into the Language Classroom. � More pen-pal opportunities for Students. � The Global Classroom. � Schools in Touch! - if you are interested in contacting British and other schools for Internet interaction.

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- THOSE HOAXY VIRUS ALERTS... Voici une liste des faux virus dont l'annonce est toujours faite par courrier électronique ou via ICQ (ou autres systèmes). Ce ne sont pas des virus mais des canulars ! Below is a listing of known Virus Hoaxes, which have been spread via e-mail and over the internet. Actually, the real 'viruses' are those text warnings. These messages are to be considered hoaxes. Virus Hoax Listing: �A.I.D.S. Virus Hoax �AOL4Free Hoax �Baby New Year Hoax �Bud Frogs Screen Saver �BUDDYLST.ZIP Email Hoax �Deeyenda Hoax �Ghost.exe Hoax �Good Times Hoax �Irina Hoax �Join The Crew hoax �A Moment Of Silence Hoax �Penpal Hoax (Penpal Grettings) �Returned or Unable to Deliver Hoax �Valentine's Greetings Hoax �WIN A HOLIDAY - E-mail Hoax - ... Seul un fichier.EXE joint a un E-message pourrait déclencher un virus lors de son exécution ! "Les abominables VIRUS, genre "cheval de Troie" (Trojan Horse) que les propagateurs de ce style de message nous annoncent ne sont autres que les message eux-mêmes. Ils surchargent inutilement serveurs et boites aux lettres! Curieusement, ils sont bâtis sur le même modèle que les "chaînes malfaisantes" qui existaient bien avant Internet (et qui, désormais, s'y trouvent aussi!). Donc, pas de panique - à chaque alerte, vérifiez : Virus par ordre alphabétique: http://www.nai.com/vinfo/f_1.asp Faux virus (canulars) et leur présentation: http://www.nai.com/services/support/hoax/hoax.asp En français: les femmes afghanes, les Nokia gratuits, sauvez Brian et l'amazonie... et autres canulars http://www.hoaxbuster.com/ Tout savoir sur les faux virus: http://www.kumite.com http://www.symantec.com

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If your school or your class is encountering a problem trying to integrate the use of the Internet with the curricula, chances are some educators, somewhere out there on the Internet have all been there before. The Internet File is a collection of articles and posts from various sources on the Net which shows some of the problems educators have encountered in trying to harness the benefits of the Internet and how they have dealt with them. E-Mail for English Teachers : bringing the Internet and Computer Learning Networks into the Language Classroom. Alisa Glickman's homepage: utilizing the web, by combining e-mail with Internet material. Alisa has run this project on her classes for the past 2 years in Israel with encouraging results, a method equally effective for advanced and weak classes. Avec une seule connexion à Internet: it's possible to run a keypal project with only one internet connection, either in the school or at your home. Have the kids prepare their messages on disks, either at school, or at home and then you transfer the messages to a master disk and send the collection of messages to the teacher "on the other side". When you receive a collection of messages from "the other side" copy them all to the kids' disks. Have the kids read all the incoming messages, using scanning techniques (e.g. How many kids work after school? What are their names and what are their jobs? It's a bit slow, but a lot better than nothing. Read more about this at the CALL Counselor's Web-Site. -

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