Investigate

Guiding Question:

How can we use the internet to communicate when disaster strikes a community?

Identify Hazards

The first step in emergency planning is to identify hazards the school may face. These fall into three main categories:

1. Natural events, such as severe weather, earthquakes and epidemics.
2. Technological events, including fire, explosion and power outages.
3. Human-caused events, such as terrorism, sabotage or a violent incident.

The past is often a good predictor of the future, so start by looking at the types of emergencies local schools have faced over the years.

Hardware:
Mobile phone:
A really helpful mobile phone is the Blackberry phone because what is good about all kinds of mobile phone not just blackberry is that if we are hit by a hurricane and experience a 9-day power/land line phone outage.


Computer:
Researchers have successfully tested a system that can replace a cellular tower's room full of communications hardware with a single desk-top style computer, making the technology affordable for small, rural communities.

Radio:
We can use the radio because if anyone or anybody who is listening to the new on the radio, of course they will announce that maybe a hurricane is on the way and that go to the shelter house. Then you can use the land line or the home phone that is more secure than the mobile phone which can be very dangerous.