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If you're a student of michelle's, please read this carefully:

Write me in English.
Title your message, e.g. type in the subject line "Talking People + (your group)".
Don't add me to your Mailing Lists.
Don't expose my email in emails you send to other people (collective emails should use the CCO -- hidden copy to -- to hide addresses). Likewise, don't send me other people's email addresses either. (It's not democratic or respectful to make public something which is private. People are free to voluntarily give their addresses to other people.)
Don't tag you email "High Priority" (Urgente). High Priority emails for me have to do with people's lives (and deaths), and fortunately you will never be in that position!

In other words: I will automatically dump/delete (destroy!) emails in Spanish, forwarded emails (whether funny, witty, inspiring, what not!), emails exposing people's addresses without their consent, emails not easily identified by reading the subject line (a security measure), high-priority emails...

What can you send me?

To tell me something personal, you should do so in class or in my Hora de Atención a las y los Estudiantes. If you use my personal email, you should know that even though I try to reply to all the emails I get, it's not an official means of communication so any info I give you using this means is non-official. For questions on exam dates or enrollment, use the School's Notice Board (Tablón de Anuncios) or visit the School's Offices (Secretaría).

Post on the TP Forums if you want to send me interesting information, ask questions about the English language, recommend interesting links and activities, share your ideas and feedback on Talking People...

You can send me contributions for TP, with the title "TP Contribution". Only send me your contribution after you've proofread it several times (i.e. Teachers should do things you cannot do, not things you can actually do!). Please, read the Guidelines for Contributions in our FAQ section.

About compositions (your homework). Compositions should be handed in in class, respecting their deadlines. If in class I agree for you to send me a composition via the Internet, use the eCampus, where you can upload your work. You can only send compositions by email if you want to publish them here, on TP (i.e., once they've been corrected and you've finished working on your List of Mistakes and made a new - clean - copy). Incidentally, a relevant tip: Don't hand in texts that you have not proofread thoroughly!

Potential problems. Supposing you respected my requirements...

If I don't answer a personal email after a week's time, please, write again, I might have "lost" your email among the hundreds of messages I get every day (mostly, spam).

If you send in a contribution and after a month I haven't published it, that could be normal - I've got too much on! - or I never got it! Then... please, write again, reminding me what you sent. Remember to use a title like "TP Contribution - reminder", or something similar.