Resumen
This article focuses on the innovative use of email for teaching. In recent years, email has become an important tool in both distance education and traditional classroom based teaching. However, email's potential for teaching has not been fully recognized by educators. When used properly, email performs many services for which people purchase more expensive and more complicated courseware applications. The system involves mainly 10 steps. The first and perhaps most important step in using email for teaching is to set up email usage guidelines for students to follow. The next step is to create folders in which to organize incoming and outgoing messages and course materials. Another step is to establish message rules in the email client that will automatically move an incoming message to its appropriate folder according to course, section, or assignment as indicated in the subject field of the message. After all rules and folders are set up and tested, a user manual is created for using the email system in this course. The entire email teaching system is constructed to use the message rules and templates that are available in most email clients.