1. In this activity, you will prepare a short e-mail to send to colleagues introducing yourself to everyone else but the most important part of this activity appears at the end when you answer messages from others.

Please send mail to your group. In this mail you should tell the other educators in your group:

• who you are
• which school you are from
• which province you are from

You may possibly include other information that you consider important such as:

• what subjects you teach
• whether you have children
• what your interests are
• what you hope to gain from the course
• what access you have to computers (one computer in the staffroom, a computer lab with 20 machines, computers in your classroom)
• or any other interesting piece of information about yourself or your school. (You may want to send photographs of yourself, your school and the surrounding area to your group)

When you have sent your mail you will receive many messages coming back to you. Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with some general 'netiquette' rules governing use of e-mail. 

2. While you are waiting for these messages to arrive, please read the following article on online learning communities.
   
   
3. This is now the most important part of this activity - please answer the mail you receive.   

Please note that 60 minutes is allocated to spend replying to the members of your group. Put into practice some of the things you have read about in the article on online learning communities.

We hope that you will enjoy the module. Please remember that:

• the tutor is your partner
• your group is your learning community, 
• please interact with them by writing to them regularly and
• write to them whenever you are directed to do so throughout the activities.

You may proceed to the first activity in your module when you are satisfied that you have "met" most of your group.