David,
   
  I am interested in utilizing the voicemail to email service. As an administrator at my school I would use it most often to communicate with my staff, however I can see where it could be a valuable administrative tool for use with students. As an example, if we had an instructor call in sick for one of the evening classes we could send a message to those students effected by the teacher's absence and save them the trouble to driving to the school to find out the class was cancelled for the day.
   
  Dave Williams
  Assistant Principal
  Beaumont Adult School

"David J. Rosen" <djrosen at comcast.net> wrote:
    Technology colleagues,
  

  Suppose there were a free service that enabled you -- from a cell phone or a land line -- to send up to a 30-second voice message to yourself, or to anyone you had listed in an address book that you had created for this purpose.  Suppose your students could send messages this way, too, from their phones. Suppose when you called the toll-free number (U.S. and Canada only) it said "Hi (your name), who do you want to send a message to? " Suppose you then said the person's name (or "me" for sending yourself reminders). Then, suppose you spoke your brief message. Then, in a few minutes, suppose the message were sent to an e-mail address (as a translated text message, with a "real voice" audio option) or as an SMS text message. Suppose, also, that you could set up a group of people, and whenever you wanted to, you could send them all one voice/text/email message. (Suppose this group were all the students in your class, or all the instructors at your program, who have either a
 land line or cell phone.)
  

  Such a free service exists. (There may be more than one, but I only know of one.) If you would like to know what it is, here's the catch: you have to email me (djrosen at comcast.net) at least one idea of how you would use this with students. Then I will email you the URL for the free service.  I am not promoting this service particularly (although I do think it could be useful.) What I am trying to do is to use the collective intelligence, imagination and experience of subscribers on this list to collect ideas about how to use such a technology. I will compile whatever I get and send a summary back to this list.
  

  If you want to know the Web address, send me -- not the Technology list -- your idea(s) about how to use this service with your basic literacy, ESOL, ABE, ASE, or college transition students, students -- in a face-to-face or on-line setting.
  

  David J. Rosen
  djrosen at comcast.net
  


    




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