15 Minute Tech Tools for School Counselors: The Amazing 6 Part Video Miniseries
A FREE 15 Minute Tech Tools, six-part video tutorial miniseries for school counselors, teachers, and other educators.
Efficient Educators: Using autoCrat to take the tedium out of school counseling and teaching
I like to spend time teaching you new tech tools but also help you, school counselors and educators, use your time, expertise and energy efficiently. This video will help you learn how to use 100% free tools in Google Drive with Forms, Sheets, Docs and an Add-In called AutoCrat to create self-filling forms that can automatically share PDF copies with a set group of people to make for easy print outs, filing and more.
Useful and Beautiful: A Simple Guide to School Counseling Websites
Hop on just about any school counseling department’s website and take a look around. 9 times out of 10 – the website looks like it is straight from the turn of the millennium. It also happens to be about as useful. Luckily for you – there are some really easy and FREE tools out there to make your school counseling websites both useful AND beautiful. Check out the video below to learn about how to quickly and easily setup a new website using Weebly.com.
Living In The Cloud: Google Team Drives
I wanted to share a pretty recent feature added to many Google Apps for Education users and districts. Most people are pretty well-aware of the power of Google Drive, but in the last few weeks they actually added some functionality to the platform. This comes in the form of Google Team Drives. The name itself is pretty intuitive and self-explanatory – it allows you the share a common Drive space with your team.
Putting the You in YouTube: Taking It To The Next Level
How to use YouTube Live as a school counselor and educator. A wonderful, free way to increase participation in your events [VIDEO BLOG]
Top 5 in 2015: The Counseling Geek’s top posts in 2015
Top 5 in 2015: The Counseling Geek's top posts in 2015 My favorite and most read posts of 2015 - Happy New Year to you all! Thanks for a great year!! 2015 has been a stellar year for school counselors and myself! From presentations at several conferences, things going...
Remembering Why I Love LucidChart – An Acrostic
Remembering Why I Love Lucidchart - An Acrostic There is such a thing as a free, awesome, and easy to use flow chart maker and online diagram creator! Check out my Lucidchart videoblog.Visit the Lucidchart homepage. Graduation-College Comparison Chart NTHS Graduation...
Take Back Time with Gmail’s Canned Responses – School Counseling Video Blog
If your day is anything like my day in the school counseling office – you answer tons of emails. Many emails sound oddly similar too. I get many emails each day requesting meetings and appointments, a schedule change, a transcript, etc. I am sure you do too. Typing out each reply is a waste of time and finger stamina. Thank goodness someone at Google had that thought too and created a super simple but mega-powerful Gmail Labs tool – Canned Responses.
I created a 5 minute screen share video to quickly go from zero to canned response guru and taking minutes of your day back with each email.
Looking Back at 2014: A School Counselor’s Blog Post Year In Review
As the 2014 year wraps up, like most bloggers – I want to spend a little time reviewing some of my favorite posts of the year. If you just started following this blog – this is a great opportunity to catch up on what you missed out on earlier this year.
Video Blog: Using Google Maps to Show College Applications (Updated)
Check out the latest video blog from The Counseling Geek (www.thecounselinggeek.com) – Learn about how to use custom Google Maps to post things like college admissions, local community resources, and more! (Updated Nov. 2015)
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