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These are the results of my posting asking for information on home to school dialers. I've passed the information along so don't know any more than what you read here. Your quick responses really impressed my director. Thanks to all of you, Sheryl Steinke Eugene, (OR) 4J Schools steinke@4j.lane.edu ******************* Our school just purchased Parent-tel from Data Networks Inc. 195 Foxleigh Building 2330 West Joppa Rd Lutherville, MD 21093 1-800-283-6387 We also reviewed a system that was not as expensive but equally as impressive Thomas Harris 250 Whitmoor Terrace Silver Spring MD 20901 ********************* In our district, several schools have Phone Master which is well-liked and seems to have lots of flexibility and capabilities. We were given Homework Hotline which at this point, I would rate as mediocre. It works, but there are limitations and problems. Joe Kmoch Washington High School kmoch@whscdp.whs.edu 2525 N. Sherman Blvd (414) 449-2765 (office) Milwaukee, WI 53210 (414) 444-9250 (fax) (414) 444-9760 (gen school phone) *********************** I recently found this ad in the latest copy of T.H.E. Journal. It might be worth requesting more information. SW DEVELOPS VOICE, FAX AND PHONE APPS. TeleCommand, an application development program for DOS PC's creates custom voice-processing or fax applications for use with the new low-cost voice/modem cards. Applications include voice mail with fax receive, fax-on-demand, interactive voice response and more. Some educational uses are telephone registration; education hotlines; and faxing class schedules, catalog or parent information. Included sample applications can be used as-is or modified. The program reads and writes dBase-format files and will run with other programs automatically. A voice/fax/modem add-in card is included in the Tele-Command package. ComArt International Lake Forest, CA phone 714-859-2000 From a school viewpoint, I found the "education hotlines" idea interesting. Enjoy the day, Leah Goolsby goolsbl@mail.firn.edu ******************* One of the computer magazines had an article on this last spring. I read it during the summer, and can't find the right one at the moment. I think it was Technology Today, but might have been T.H.E. Journal. It described a number of them. The info might hae been supplied by the manufacturers, because it did not evaluate or compare, just described the features of each one. You might be able to find the citation in Readers Guide. KMP_Tope@mec.ohio.gov Barbara Tope, Madison Plains Schools, London, Ohio ***************** We just got "The Homework Hotline" from Inter-Tel. You can call Roy Rachovltsky at (713) 867-7600 for info. We have had it about 1 1/2 weeks. We are still feeling our way. I don't believe it has the capability of family calling. When the parent calls, there is a menu so they do not have to hang up to call different teachers, just keep putting in codes. Yesterday was the first day we had it open for parent/students to call in. I believe there were over 2000 inquiries, not calls but different codes used. I even had 15 and I did not even put out a message. I may try some book talk messages, though. This had the capability of calling out and you can select different groups of students to call or it can call everyone. We have used that about 3 or 4 times last week to remind parents to come to PTA, for the Gifted students to turn in a permission slip, etc. Seems to work quite well that way. Hope this helps. Maggie McGraw William Slider Middle School mmcgraw@tenet.edu 11700 School Lane El Paso, TX 79936 (915) 857-4450