June
2008
School e-mail addresses… not just for universities!0
One thing I noticed in my practicum that I haven’t mentioned is that when my Year Four students went to their computer labs, they were told to visit their e-mail addresses. At first, I thought “hotmail?”, but the school had its own e-mail system so the children had their own addresses, similar to that of me having my UTS e-mail.
It really interested me because I always thought it was strictly for university, but I can totally imagine it as being massively useful. From what I remember back when I used to attend primary school, news was spread through word of mouth or fliers, but now if a child missed any schedule changes or activities that will happen during the week, they can just pop open their e-mail and check! How convenient!
It’s kind of funny how even with such a nifty gizmo, it will never escape the horrors of spam. I found some of my students giggling over e-mails they were receiving with endless gibberish, and the teachers had to instruct them over how to clear and what was considered spam.
Hope they don’t get any Viagra e-mails! That would be hilariously difficult to explain.
