Communicating with Teachers

Students use computers and related technologies to communicate with their teachers in at least three ways:

• Submit assignments to the teacher. Students may "hand in" their homework assignments to the teacher electronically. This can be done in several different ways:
  
  
  • Sending an e-mail to the teacher, with the assignment written into the e-mail. This usually works for a short assignment.
    
    
  • Sending an e-mail with an attachment. The attachment is a separate document (usually the assignment), which is attached to the e-mail, and which the teacher can open and read or print. For a step-by-step lesson in how to send an attachment to an e-mail message, please go to:
    http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/94attach.htm
    
    
  • Constructing a Web page, and sending the address of the Web page to the teacher. If you would like to know more about building a Web site, please go to:
    http://www.learnthenet.com/english/section/webpubl.html
    
    Or for more information:
    http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/columns/abcs_of_building_web_sites.html
    
    
• Receive feedback from the teacher. Students may also receive feedback on or evaluation of their assignments from their teacher electronically. In some cases, the teacher may send an e-mail to the student, giving feedback and suggestions about the assignment.
  
  Teachers can also send "written" feedback to the students electronically. The teacher can provide written comments in the student's paper by typing in those comments (sometimes in a different color), and sending the paper with the comments back to the student.
  
  
• Ask questions or make comments. Students can use computers to ask questions of the teacher, or to make comments to the teacher. This is usually done through e-mails. The e-mails are private, so teacher and student can communicate without other students "hearing" what is being said. Another good thing is that students can communicate with teachers at times other than class times.