Tales of a Technology Omnivore

The need to contact parents and student in case of emergency has become more important over the last several years. The Virginia Tech tragedy brought this to national prominence where if school officials had an effective way to contact students and parents immediately, some of the devastation may have been averted. Recently at St. John’s University, another student gunman was caught with the potential damage avoided… and text messaging played a part in this. Here’s an amazing way schools can create their own emergency texting system for free using an amazing service called Teleflip.com.

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