• Logistics
  • Planner Check
  • Piazza posts
• Technology at Penn State
• College Survival: email (with faculty & staff)
• Homework

Guest speaker:

Glenn Johnson
Instructional Designer
Department of Statistics

office: 328 Thomas Bldg
email: gfj100@psu.edu

• Use an honorific (i.e. Dr, Prof, Mr, Ms) for faculty, staff, and other professionals
  • Always for a one-time email
  • For an ongoing familiar relationship you can ask what they prefer
  • Being a bit more formal than needed is much better than possibly insulting someone on accident
• Be short and to the point
• Questions with a "?" get a reply
• Give them time to reply…at a day or 2 unless they say otherwise

• Required elements:
  • useful subject line (include course and section for class email like "PSU 016 sec 550")
    • Teaching is only about 1/3 of a Professor's job, so this will speed up the reply
  • identifiers (part of a regular signature?)
    • psu id (e.g. mdb268)
    • student number (e.g. 9-5720-9483)
• Suggested elements:
  • pay a little attention to spelling and grammar
  • questions with a "?" get a reply

• If you use gmail or some other email client, link it to your abc123@psu.edu email so that you can SEND replies from psu.edu email server
  • PSU has instructions to help
  • Use IMAP; here's a link (http://kb.its.psu.edu/node/2022)
• Make sure you know communication preferences for faculty
  • direct email
  • Canvas/Angel mail feature
  • something else
• Anything else?

• See Canvas: Time Management (Part 1)