ATL self-management: read and organize your emails

• Frans
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

ATL self-management: the importance of email management

The purpose of this activity is to make you aware of:

- the importance of reading your emails

- the importance of deleting non important emails once you have read them

Who do you usually communicate with by email?

Observe this mailbox. How many emails are there? 

How many emails were there in the mailbox in the previous slide? What do you think?

Open your mailbox. How many emails do you have in your mailbox? and how many unread emails? Type your answer:
number of emails:
number of unread emails:

What do you think of having unread emails in your mailbox? What is the consequence for you? for others?

Now type your teacher's email address ([e-mail]) and press the search function. How many emails appear? And how many unread emails?

Do a quick search on Internet. Give 2 pieces of information about the environmental cost of emails.

What can you do with the informative emails that you receive, such as "posted material on Google classroom"? Do you need to keep them once you have read them?

If you think you don't need to keep these emails, please delete them!

What did you learn from this activity?