Wish I could email group members

I spent sometime today working on adding the links to students’ profiles.  It went easier than I originally thought it would.  By this point we are up to 7 of the 16 group members have completed their Phase I, but still only 4 have completed Phase II.  It is very disappointing.  In a way I wish that I had the emails for each of the group members.  I would create a gmail group for their emails, and could send out reminders.  I would email everyone in the group weekly with updates and encouragement to respond.  I do not know if it would improve the amount of participation, but it definitely could not hurt anything. 

I have looked through the posts from the students who have completed Phase II so far, and I love the pictures that they are posting.  There are pictures of places that I would love to see one day, a few with attached descriptions to their pictures.  There are a few questions listed for everyone to answer, but not many people seem to be doing so.  I wonder if I did.  I cannot remember off the top of my head, so I will need to go back and check.  So far everyone seems to be posting pictures that have to do with either nature or history.  We may be able to pull a theme from that for our travel brochure, but I am going to wait to see and not jump the gun. 

I may have figured out what program I want to use for our travel brochure.  I came across this website www.empressr.com .  This is presentation software that is very similar to Powerpoint.  The main differences are that it is online and some of the transitions are different.    I am going to keep looking for another possible technology to use, but if I cannot find anything, I will use this one.