by Jeff Ream | May 30, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling technology series, dropbox, geek, google docs, jeffrey ream, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek, tips, warnings
…//www.ezanalyze.com/) Camtasia Video Production Software ($300; http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html) Expensive, but easy to use and pretty powerful. I will be looking for more economical alternatives) What Do We Need? What Do Our Students’ Need? A good counseling program is always evaluating the needs of their students and attempting to respond and prevent any negative results while increasing positive outcomes. When looking at technology, we…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 10, 2012 | 21st century skills, activity, counseling, free, geek, interview, job hunt, portfolio, pro-d, professional development, school counselor, teachers, technology, thecounselinggeek, tips, tutorial, video blog
…echnology courses was to develop a professional portfolio utilizing a high-tech tool. I used PowerPoint to build an easy to navigate and professional looking “program” that will allow interviewers, principals, and other stakeholders to view all my qualifications (resume, cover letter, transcripts) and showcase my technological skills at the same time. Yesterday, I made a new portfolio for my counseling career. I have an interview in a few days and…
by Jeff Ream | Jan 18, 2014 | counseling, Counseling Tech, Naviance, research, Review
…. Much to my pleasure – his last district used it and he used to be in the tech industry (score!). The fall of my first year (first year paid counseling job as well), I wrote and was awarded a grant to bring in Naviance district wide. The grant funded us for a year (basically the startup costs and year one student fees) and I am grateful to the district for picking up the costs for at least 3 more years. I am the person in charge of Naviance for t…
by Jeff Ream | Apr 2, 2014 | 21st century skills, ASCA14, Counseling Tech, Featured, professional development, technology, tutorial, video blog, YouTube
…you usually need to use your laptop and it has an unflattering angle): Logitech C920 1080p Webcam A USB microphone to provide clear and clean recording: The Blue Yeti Microphone A “pop filter” if you want to get a little more serious: Auphonix Pop Filter with Arm Another great reason why you want to use YouTube is that it helps with your search engine optimization or SEO, which determines the order that your website appears on Google, Bing, or Yah…
by Jeff Ream | Sep 5, 2021 | Counseling Tech, Featured, free, Presentation, technology, tips, tools, YouTube
…eamCam or the Logitech BRIO. Decent webcams will cost about $100-$175. Logitech C920x Logitech StreamCam Logitech BRIO UltraHD 3. A Tripod This will hold your external webcam (you only need this if you got the webcam). This is more open to budget and needs. Tripods can be very cheap to expensive. If you just need it to hold the cameral and won’t be doing things like panning – grab a cheap Amazon Basics tripod and be good. If you think you may be d…
by Jeff Ream | Mar 30, 2019 | automation, Featured, free, google docs, teachers, tips, tutorial, video blog
…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….
by Jeff Ream | Mar 11, 2018 | Featured, counseling, Counseling Tech, free, school counselor, technology, tips
…ics for my blog, for The School Counselor Shop and for my other gig as the tech chair at The California Association of School Counselors. Almost all of the on-screen graphics at our 1500 person conference was also created with Canva. So it is very versatile. I encourage you to give it a shot and see what it can do for you. Feel free to give it a go with the free trial and be sure to check out the education specific section to see if you qualify fo…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 5, 2018 | counseling, Featured, free, school counselor, teachers, technology, tips
…There are many ways to go about getting registrations in both high and low tech modes. We have chosen to use Eventbrite for each year we’ve hosted the Case Study. Eventbrite is a powerful event registration tool often used for things like concerts, but for our purposes (as of this writing) – it is also a FREE and pretty simple way to manage your registrations. For a full walkthrough on Eventbrite – please check out this other post on my blog: I di…
by Jeff Ream | Aug 8, 2017 | Featured, #scchat, Back to School, counseling, learning, professional development, school counselor, social networking, tips, tools
…MakeUseOf is a website that posts a dozen or so articles a day about using technology in a new way. Not all of the articles will apply and it is not school counselor specific, but that is the beauty of the site. It lets us be creative and find ways to use mainstream technology within our own programs. One of my more recent favorite posts: Google Forms can do anything with these awesome add-ons Thanks for reading! Of course, I hope you enjoy readin…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 12, 2017 | Featured, 21st century skills, counseling, Counseling Tech, free, school counselor, teachers, technology, tips, tools
…(or add a name field to the survey). We use Google Apps so we can have our tech folks match emails to names for the data end of things. We also limit it to users on our domain so students do need to submit with their school accounts and limit responses to 1. Distribution Since we used a digital survey, we sent it out via Google Classroom and email to students. Teachers asked students to complete the survey in our advisory classes too. On our first…
