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On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 15:45 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Rob Beard wrote: > > > Gordon Henderson wrote: > >> > >> My local school/client (Steiner in Dartington) doesn't go back until > >> Monday, but they're already setting up staff conferences and answering > >> machine messages just in-case... > >> > >> An intersting idea I had last year was to setup a service to schools, etc. > >> which would give them a self-funded messaging service - a new number for > >> each school which parents could call to get status, etc. initially aimed at > >> the swine flu thing, but could have been used for this too - however the > >> few schools I asked for opinions of weren't really intersted at the time, > >> so I never developed it. > >> > >> Gordon > >> > > That would be a really good idea, I was thinking "I wish the school had some > > sort of automated phone line which parents could call", in my case a few kids > > were saying the school was closed but I ended up taking the kids in anyway to > > make sure for myself (it's only a 10 minute walk anyway). If there was a > > number parents could call though to check things like school closures that > > would be ideal, especially considering I didn't hear about the school being > > kept open on the radio (one or two schools still open were mentioned on Radio > > Devon) and not everyone has access to the internet/e-mail/Facebook/Twitter, > > but most will probably be able to call a phone number. > > It's not that hard - I offered them a paid-for service using standard > geographic numbers, or for free (to the school) using a fixed-fee type > number to the caller - e.g. one of the 5p 0844 numbers, but got a rather > minimal response to it. > > > > Unfortunately the school web site doesn't cater for things like what > > happened today although I do see they have created a What's New section, > > with the last entry being 11th December 2009. > > it's not hard to keep a website updated, but I wonder how many are tied > into some IT project run by some quango or other... > > But dealing with schools - it's like wading through cold treacle - cf. > discussions we had here a few months back regarding servers, etc. so on > the whole, probably more bother than it's worth... > > Gordon > Do you mean like www.snowday.co.uk ? Phil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html