by Jeff Ream | Jun 5, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, counseling technology series, google docs, jeffrey ream, school counselor, survey, technology, thecounselinggeek, tutorial, video blog
…s educators, and a quick tutorial on how to use each program within Google Docs. Google recently changed their Google Docs to Google Drive, which has a downloadable program that syncs a folder on your PC with all of your Google Docs files — this is not required to use Google Docs. This first post will cover the Document and Presentation functions of Google Docs. These three are going to most likely be your biggest focus (along with the Form & Spre…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 5, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling technology series, free, geek, google docs, school counselor, support, survey, teachers, technology, thecounselinggeek, tutorial, video blog
…pain. This is when it is time to use the gift that technology has given – Google Docs Forms. Forms is a in depth, yet simple and user-friendly method to survey students, teachers, parents, etc. and have the answers automatically entered into a table, ready to be analyzed. I have created a basic overview of Google Docs and the form feature, which I highly recommend watching before viewing this tutorial (especially if you are unfamiliar with Google…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 13, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, counseling technology series, free, geek, google docs, jeffrey ream, school counselor, survey, technology, thecounselinggeek, tutorial, video blog
…ck to the second part of the School Counseling Technology Series featuring Google Docs. This is the second video blog entry of the two part general overview and walkthrough of Google Docs. In this video, you will see the form function, spreadsheet function, and drawing function in action. In my opinion – the form feature is the most valuable tool from Google Docs, so pay attention and learn something new. It will boost your data gathering skills a…
by Jeff Ream | May 24, 2019 | Featured
…will pay more for it. The winery will then sell the excess off as another label or to another company to bottle it under their label (as TJ’s does). You may say that you actually LIKE the cheaper wine (if you’ve ever been to a blind wine tasting – you know how that usually goes), but from a marketing and branding perspective – if there are a few TJ’s selling a $50 label for $15 – it diminishes not only the demand, but makes you question why we ar…
by Jeff Ream | May 30, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling technology series, dropbox, geek, google docs, jeffrey ream, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek, tips, warnings
…this, but that is another topic and I may blog about it at another time. Google Docs (Recently Changed to Drive) – An Office In The Clouds Finally today, I want to briefly touch on our next focus – Google Documents (or Docs…now Drive). I will have a video blog going over the various tools, formats, and some problem areas that you can run into when using this in the next few days, however to get ready for that – I want to intro you to the idea of…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 12, 2012 | counseling, follow up, interview, portfolio, pro-d, professional development, support
…abel developer to integrate the background from my portfolio onto the disc label. I printed address labels with the title of the disc and my contact info to put on the jacket. I am pretty happy with the turn out. 3. Letters of Recommendation: I included the standard three letters in all of the packets so they could reference them if needed or see further evidence that supports my candidacy. 4. My Notepad: I always bring my schnazzy note pad to tak…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 21, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, counseling technology series, dropbox, free, geek, jeffrey ream, learning, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek, tutorial
…ything else you can think of) to anyone we share the link with. Also, like Google Docs — users can elect to have people visiting the shared folder full access (read/write) or read-only access through sharing of a link (not able to make changes to files or delete them). In order to start using Dropbox, you need to 1.) signup for the service online and 2.) download the installer which integrates Dropbox into your Windows/Mac/Linux system. It is also…
by Jeff Ream | Feb 17, 2016 | Counseling Tech, Featured, school counselor, technology, tips, tools
…Lots of educators are using it around the world. [adrotate group=”7″] 4 – Google Hangouts- Free Google Hangouts is also another must have for me. I use it to check in quickly with my colleagues (especially in the office) about questions and to hold non-time sensitive conversations. I like that I also use this (as do many Android users) as my default SMS app on my phone so all of my conversations are synced between my phone, tablet and laptop. You…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 6, 2015 | box.com, Counseling Tech, dropbox, Featured, google docs, technology, tips, warnings
…single revision the account made in the months in question (one plus about Google Docs is the ability to track changes!) and fixed the issues they created. It was a lot of work but ultimately, with hard copy backup documentation and double checking, were able to get accurate data back in place and move forward. Needless to say – it was a stressful and busy/tedious 6 hours of work for all of the admin in the building. What do I do about securing my…
by Jeff Ream | May 17, 2014 | Featured
…the tool is how action oriented it is. You can create categories and then label them as “decision” “action” “info” etc. This lets people reviewing minutes later have a much more streamlined approach to find out what needs to happen. From that, you can also assign specific people to tasks and give them a deadline all within the same line. At the end of the meeting, if you have added all members names and email addresses to the meeting, all you nee…
