School Counseling Techonlogy Series: Using Google Docs Form for Surveys

School Counseling Techonlogy Series: Using Google Docs Form for Surveys

by | Jul 5, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling technology series, free, geek, google docs, school counselor, support, survey, teachers, technology, thecounselinggeek, tutorial, video blog

Gather Powerful Data to Drive Curriculum Using Google Docs FormsCounseling programs are driven by data and following the ASCA National Model. We want to make data based decisions in our programs, justify our processes, and let parents, administrators, and other...
The Portal to Learning: ‘Steam for Schools’ at your school

The Portal to Learning: ‘Steam for Schools’ at your school

by | Jun 26, 2012 | 21st century skills, activity, classroom tools, counseling, free, games, geek, learning, learning software, news, pro-d, professional development, school counselor, STEM, teachers, technology, thecounselinggeek, tips

Portal 2 is coming to the classroom:Valve, the creators of games like Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Portal, has launched it’s “STEAM for SCHOOLS” program and I think it is something to check out! Valve has adapted its...

Help Me – Help You!

by | Jun 21, 2012 | 21st century skills, ANFSCD, counseling, donate, free, fundraising, geek, jeffrey ream, learning, pro-d, professional development, school counselor, support, technology, thecounselinggeek

Fundraising For You!Update (7/30): We have raised $290 (as of 7/30/12) with $2610 to go to reach my goal. Remember, that all funds go towards YOU — the counselors/educators. If we reach the goal, we fund a Pro-D workshop for a district — if we fall short,...
School Counseling Technology Series: Dropbox

School Counseling Technology Series: Dropbox

by | Jun 21, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, counseling technology series, dropbox, free, geek, jeffrey ream, learning, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek, tutorial

Cloud-based file storage wünderkind!

I have been using Dropbox for almost two years now, in both my professional and personal life. I use it so much that I now rarely store any documents on my local “My Docuements” folder, but most everything goes into Dropbox. Started in 2007 by MIT graduates, it quickly gained a strong following. They run on the “Freemium” model, which grants new users a free allocation of 2GB of cloud based storage. Users are able to earn more storage by referring new users and through other, more fun events they stage throughout the year. Last year, they held a large scavenger hunt throughout the internet for prizes and free storage space. Overall, it is a strong model and many companies are starting to implement this structure.

Professional Development: The use it or lose it phenomenon.

Professional Development: The use it or lose it phenomenon.

by | Jun 19, 2012 | activity, counseling, coursera, free, geek, jeffrey ream, learning, pro-d, professional development, school counselor, thecounselinggeek, tips

How many times do we tell our students to keep pursuing their educations and use words like “lifelong learners”? I would venture a pretty safe guess of at least daily if not many times a day. This is sound advice and one that we should be working our hardest to plant in our students minds, but I feel that educators often conveniently remove themselves from this goal/requirement. Why should we get the free pass on continuing to enlarge our knowledge base? Why do we think that, when we have gotten our credentials, masters degrees, or doctorates, our brains are suddenly saturated and cannot hold any more information or else it will go into overload mode? It amazes me the lengths some (note: I say some, most people reading this blog are not of this group) educators will go to avoid having to continue learning. (More after the page break!)

School Counseling Technology Series: Google Docs Part 2

by | Jun 13, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, counseling technology series, free, geek, google docs, jeffrey ream, school counselor, survey, technology, thecounselinggeek, tutorial, video blog

Google Docs: Forms, Spreadsheets, and DrawingsWelcome back 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...

Security Bulletin – Keep Your Info…Yours (hint: Use LastPass)

by | Jun 7, 2012 | 21st century skills, free, geek, identity theft, jeffrey ream, LastPass, school counselor, security, technology, thecounselinggeek, tips, tutorial, warnings

Beating a Dead Horse?You have all probably heard about maintaining strong passwords and varying those passwords over your different sites. In light of the recent password leaks by eHarmony and LinkedIn, I think now is a great time to talk about why and how we can...

School Counseling Technology Series – Google Docs Part 1 (Video Blog)

by | Jun 5, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, counseling technology series, google docs, jeffrey ream, school counselor, survey, technology, thecounselinggeek, tutorial, video blog

This week’s entry in the School Counseling Technology Series will cover part one of the Google Docs tutorial I have planned for you. This is a (most likely) two part video blog covering the different aspects of Google Docs, how we can use these...