E-mail can be sent and received at any time, from any computer that is connected to the Internet. Teachers can send and receive electronic letters. An e-mail message can reach millions of users instantaneously. Using e-mail you can send one letter to lots of different people with a click of the mouse. There are mailing lists to which you can subscribe and receive daily messages.
Users can send and receive files.
Lesson plans can be created using a word processing program and then attached to an e-mail message. In this fashion, the plans can be sent to a colleague across town or even in another part of the world. Ideas for Using E-mail in the Classroom Students compose a list of items that their families buy each week at the grocery store and they include the price of each item. The list is then sent to an e-mail partner school who at the same time sends out their grocery list. Once received, the grocery lists are read and the data analyzed.