by Jeff Ream | Jan 2, 2016 | #scchat, Counseling Tech, counseling technology series, Featured, free, Marketing, social networking, technology, tips, tools
…– you ARE doing it. To get started – check out a few of the free and easy tools to create websites out there: Weebly, Wix and WordPress.com are all great places to start. Weebly and Wix provide you with pretty dead simple, drag and drop webdesign tools (my professional portfolio is hosted on Wix). These are your Green runs (“Easy Way Down”) on the ski hill. WordPress.com (the free version) offers more customization but a little more complex appro…
by Jeff Ream | Sep 9, 2014
…ociation of School Counselors 2016 Annual Conference – Breakout – “10 Tech Tools for School Counselor Sanity” San Joaquin County Counselor Summit – Breakout – “10 Tech Tools for School Counselor Sanity” Missouri School Counselor Association Saturday Institute – Extended Keynote – “Banging Our Drum: The Vital Role of Advocacy in School Counseling” & “10 Tech Tools For School Counselor Sanity” Nevada School Counselor Association 2015 Annual Conferen…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 17, 2015 | Featured, Presentation, tips
…indset of our school sites. No matter if you are speaking to 10 parents, a classroom of 30 students, or 250+ school counselor colleagues, what we say and how we say it matters. However, no matter what words we use or message we are trying to convey — if we cannot deliver them in an effective way, they tend to fall on deaf ears. This first chapter of the Public Speaking: Tips for School Counselors series of posts will focus on how YOU can take easy…
by Jeff Ream | Feb 8, 2015 | #scchat, counseling, Featured, jeffrey ream, Presentation, pro-d, professional development, school counselor, thecounselinggeek
…ion focused on school counselor technology, we took a look at about 8 tech tools that help school counselors save time and be more efficient. Below are the slides from each presentation. How to NOT Be A Leader – Jeff Ream NVSCA 2015 Time Saving Tech Tools for School Counselor Sanity – Jeff Ream NVSCA 2015 I love getting to speak at different events. Please see my professional portfolio or my speaking page for info on past topics and events. Inform…
by Jeff Ream | Apr 11, 2014 | Counseling Tech, Featured, free, teachers, technology, tools, Uncategorized
PDF Tools: PDFMerge! and Compress PDF – Tools for School Counselors (And Teachers!) Many times, when I am working with PDF (Portable Document Format) files, I run into a few common issues. First is that I have a few different pages from different files that I want to put into one PDF file. Whether this is because I am pulling together a lesson plan from a few different resources or because I am using CutePDF (<- an extra tool for you!) to print…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 5, 2018 | counseling, Featured, free, school counselor, teachers, technology, tips
…of the headache of event planning away! With Eventbrite – there are a few tools that are useful to use before and after the event happens. Before – you can easily plan and send reminders, updates or info (like the digital copy of the case study to review in advance) straight from the platform. You also can export attendees in to an Excel file to create name tags (more later), ask specific questions of each registrant (like if they are a parent or…
by Jeff Ream | Oct 25, 2015 | Featured, Presentation, tips, tools
…ut an art form that can be learned. Read on to learn a few simple and free tools to help take your presentation to the next level. This post is designed to accompany a presentation from ASCA 2015 in Phoenix presented by Paul Smith, Stephanie Smith and I. Click the button below to head to the post containing the slides. Aesthetics are important – don’t deliver ugly presentations. One of the biggest things I get asked about regarding presentations i…
by Jeff Ream | Apr 30, 2020 | automation, Counseling Tech, counseling technology series, Featured, learning, professional development, school counselor, technology, tips, tools, video blog
…counselor. I want to share the complete box set of the FREE 15 Minute Tech Tools, six part video tutorial miniseries for school counselors, teachers and other educators. I know that most of us are usually busy, be it with work or life. I noticed a plethora (50 cent word right there) of professional development resource available (check out CASC/WSCA’s resource page if you haven’t yet: https://covid19k12counseling.org/), but many of them were at le…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 28, 2015 | #scchat, counseling, Counseling Tech, Featured, free, technology, thecounselinggeek, video blog, YouTube
…nt to meet with me. This video blog will show you some of the features and tools that you can use with the program. Highly suggested! https://www.thecounselinggeek.com/2015/11/school-counselor-appointment-management.html Public Speaking: Tips for School Counselors, Chapter 1 Public speaking (and classroom guidance) is scary for a LOT of people. I view it as a spectrum of fear rather than you are afraid or you are not. In this post – I share a few…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 4, 2012 | 21st century skills, article, geek, jeffrey ream, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek, tips
…tivity that provides templates (180+) which you can modify and use in your classroom. This is a paid service and I have not actually used it, but it would be worth checking out. They have very interesting tools like interactive flash cards and other on demand items that you can integrate into lessons and/or your class webpage. [Edudemic] The blog author, Jeffrey Ream M.S, PPS, writes for The Counseling Geek. Connect with Jeff via email, Twitter, G…
