1-2 E-mail Travels At Nearly Light Speed

  • Due No Due Date
  • Points 10
  • Submitting a text entry box, a website url, a media recording, or a file upload

In this lesson you will learn about how e-mail travels from computer to computer or device. You might be surprised to learn how e-mail travels and even more shocked to discover that messages do not travel all in one piece from Point A to Point B but get broken into small packets of information, travel in many directions through numerous e-mail servers, and then reassemble (in the correct order) so the person receiving the message can read it exactly as you wrote it.

Activity 1 

Look at the 3 diagrams showing how e-mail travels from your computer or iPad to a recipient. 

Diagram 1 - howemailworks-1.png Download howemailworks-1.png

Diagram 2 - howemailworks-2.png Download howemailworks-2.png

Diagram 3 - howemailworks-3.png Download howemailworks-3.png

Notice each diagram is different but they all illustrate the same information. 

Read the following instructions. Then Click on Submit Assignment and choose Text Entry. Complete your answer in the text entry box.

Explain which diagram you like best. What specific parts of the diagram did you find most helpful (colors, graphics, labels, etc)?

Activity 2

Here's a cool, short video that explains how e-mail works. It's always good to have a picture in your head and it will help you with the next part of this assignment so don't skip over it.

  Links to an external site.http://safari.sweetwaterschools.org/?g=ba3a8a15-382e-11e4-a128-782bcb619dab Links to an external site. Links to an external site.

YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/YBzLPmx3xTU

Now create your own diagram of how e-mail works.

For this activity you can use Educreations. Animate the slide so you can see the e-mail traveling from one computer to another. Click on Submit Assignment in Canvas when you are finished making your Educreations slides and upload your Educreations project.

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Rubric

1-2 Activity 1-2 (1)
1-2 Activity 1-2 (1)
Criteria Ratings Pts
Student was able to analyze 3 diagrams showing how e-mail travels, then explain which diagram he/she liked best with evidence for why the diagram was chosen.
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1 pts Student was able to analyze 3 diagrams showing how e-mail travels and provided an explanation of which diagram he/she liked best with evidence for why the diagram was chosen.
0.5 pts Student was able to analyze 3 diagrams showing how e-mail travels but only partially provided an explanation of which diagram he/she liked best with evidence for why the diagram was chosen.
0 pts Student was not able to analyze 3 diagrams showing how e-mail travels and provide an explanation of which diagram he/she liked best with evidence for why the diagram was chosen.
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1 pts
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Additional Comments
Student was able to distinguish similarities and differences between diagrams to support their analysis of what the diagrams say explicitly as well as make inferences drawn from the diagrams.
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1 pts Student was able to distinguish similarities and differences between diagrams to support their analysis of what the diagrams say explicitly as well as make inferences drawn from the diagrams.
0.5 pts Student was able to distinguish some similarities and differences between diagrams but had difficulty incorporating those into their explanation.
0 pts Student did not distinguish similarities or differences between diagrams in support of their analysis.
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1 pts
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Additional Comments
Student used precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
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3 pts Student used precise language and domain specific vocabulary to explain about the topic.
1.5 pts Student used some precise language and domain specific vocabulary to explain about the topic.
0 pts Student did not use precise language and domain specific vocabulary to explain the topic.
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3 pts
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Additional Comments
Student created a diagram of their own showing how e-mail works that reflects their understanding based on the video they watched and information they reviewed in 1-2 Activity 1
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5 pts Student created a diagram of their own showing how e-mail works that reflects their understanding based on the video they watched and information they reviewed in 1-2 Activity 1
2.5 pts Student created a diagram of their own showing how e-mail works. The diagram did not provide enough detail to demonstrate that the student has a thorough understanding of how e-mail works.
0 pts Student did not create a diagram showing how e-mail works.
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5 pts
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Total Points: 10 out of 10