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All of this took me by surprise the other day, as I heard about first on KCCI News in the morning. I knew the state was piloting software like this, but hadn't heard anything more on it until last week. Anyway, we have signed up, and I have my account created. Everything is done through the state's web portal, which is the same portal for parents and administrators. Once your account is created, you contact the state and they finish the setup. You can add alerts for the just the district, or break it down by school building. So, if you only had an issue at one building, you can let just those people signed up for those alerts know. To create a notification, you login, create alert and verify it. On my tests, only to a few contacts, the messages appear in under a minute. Once we have all of our people that need to send alerts signed up and setup, we will put out information on our website, newsletters and the Messenger. The state has even provided media releases and cut sheets with all of the information on it. For free, it looks pretty good. Jeremy ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Buenz, Tim Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 8:59 AM To: '[email protected]' Cc: Mike Haluska forward Subject: [info-tech] fyi-school alerts Hi, A new option to compete with OneNotify.com and SnowCap... Iowa School Alerts allows you to sign up and receive notifications when a school or school district closes, has a delayed start or an early dismissal. There are two ways to receive notifications: * E-mail alerts - Receive e-mail notices when a school or school district you are interested in delays starting or closes early. Do you have multiple e-mail addresses or more than one person who should be notified? Do you want to keep a watch on multiple school buildings or districts? No problem! With Iowa School Alerts you can have notifications sent to as many e-mail addresses or e-mail-enabled device addresses as you would like, for as many schools or districts as you like. * RSS Feed - Iowa School Alerts provides a Rich Site Summary (RSS) feed for websites that wish to give their site users a comprehensive list of notifications. This is a great way for the media, communities and school-related organizations to publish notifications on their own website. https://schoolalerts.iowa.gov/ --- Tim Buenz Director of Technology Jefferson-Scranton Comm. Schools 204 W. Madison Street Jefferson, IA 50129 (515)386-9256 Fax (515)386-3591 http://www.jscsd.org "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future" -John F. Kennedy
