I'm checking my email. Of the dozens of email I receive daily, I love the morale boosters, those emails from teacher colleagues all over the world that reaffirm the good job I'm doing in the classroom. These emails reach out to me and ask my opinions about what is and is not working in my classroom. Before the day is over, I'll send out at least four emails to request valuable professional input and support.
Email is also useful for interschool communication.
I email my lesson plans for the upcoming week to my principal, as well as the minutes to the department meeting and a monthly technology update. I forward worthy educational Web site addresses and other tidbits of information to the teachers at my particular school. I'm not sure how I managed before I began to use the Web as an educational resource. I might as well have been living in the Dark Ages. Just now I have a minimum of three hundred dollars worth of free software sitting on my office floor, and most of the stuff will benefit my students.