[DDN] Virginia Tech and emergency preparedness

[Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan]

 Thanks, Andy, for this posting. For resources in the aftermath:

>From THe Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
http://www.healthinschools.org The American Academy of Pediatrics is
calling attention to resources posted on its website that aim to help
teachers, students, physicians, children, and teens cope with disasters
such as the campus shooting at Virginia Tech University.
http://www.aap.org/featured/resourcepage.htm

Siobhan

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Subject: [DDN] Virginia Tech and emergency preparedness

Hi everyone,

I've just posted an essay on my PBS blog about the role of emergency
warning systems in on-campus emergency preparedness. As many of you
know, Virginia Tech had problems getting the word out to students and
faculty because of a delayed response and server crashes, so I talk
about text messaging solutions and how they're being used in some school
districts and universities just in case. Ironically, VT had been
considering such a system, according to a Roanoke Times article from
last September, but it hadn't moved forward in time.

http://tinyurl.com/yrfxcl

andy

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www.andycarvin.com
www.pbs.org/learningnow
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