How to Post to the Community (email vs. web vs. mobile)

[Google Earth Education]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for reaching out. You replied to me directly but I thought I'd respond publicly in case other community members have this same question! You asked:

How does one post a message to the Google Earth Community forum, I can't seem to do it from my Gmail account.

Thanks for bringing this up! Google Groups isn't the most intuitive to learn, so allow me to lay out the two ways you can participate in this forum:

Method #1) Post via email.
Send an email to earth-edu...@googlegroups.com. The subject of the email will be the title of your post, and the email body will be the body of the post. You may include photos, links, and attachments as well.

Method #2) Post via the web.
Visit the forum on the web (Short link: bit.ly/EarthEdu). Once here, click the New Topic button on the top of the page to post. Note: If the “New Topic” button does not appear on mobile view, we recommend using Method #1, or clicking the Desktop link in the footer to be switched to web view.

For reference, these instructions are listed in the Community Guidelines (page 2) along with helpful hints for how to update your email preferences, share resources, etc. Thanks again! 

~Lina, on behalf of the Google Earth Education Community

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 9:21 AM Bill Belsey <billb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Lina,

Thanks so much for sharing this!

On another note. how does one post a message to the Google Earth Community forum, I can't seem to do it from my Gmail account.

Thanks, in advance, for any help you might offer.

Sincerely,

Bill Belsey

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 4:15 PM 'Lina Raffaelli' via Google Earth Education Community <earth-edu...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi all, I stumbled across an awesome resource that I wanted to pass along. 

If you're looking for something to listen to on your drive home tonight (or while you're doing weekend chores), I recommend checking out the Google Teacher Tribe podcast, specifically episode 101 which features Google Earth and the new creation tools! 

You can stream it wherever you get podcasts, but if you visit the website there's also a great roundup of 10 activities to try with creation tools (Ditch that Textbook blog). The hosts start discussing Earth at the 10:00 mark. They discuss resources, use examples for literature, math, etc, and how to get started, and Happy listening! 

Hosts: @GTeacherTribe / Kasey Bell @ShakeUpLearning and Matt Miler @jmattmiller

"Google Earth is a storytelling tool. Any way that we want to tell stories (and in every classroom we have stories to tell), we can use this tool to support that. Whether we are creating new fictional stories, retelling historical adventures, going through a timeline...there's so many ways that we can jump in...Google Earth offers us so many ways to create, across subject areas, and across grade levels" - Kasey