Email stands for electronic mail. It is primarily a means of communication.
Email is a written form of communication.You can also send other types of data via email - as attachments. For e.g., sounds, movies, images, word documents and excel spreadsheets.
There are notable advantages to using email as a tool for educational communication:
Email takes less than a few minutes to send anywhere in the world.
The email is stored for the person to read later on, at their convenience.
Email is inexpensive.
Email breaks down isolation for a teacher, allows constant inservice & networking.