by Jeff Ream | Aug 5, 2014 | Branding, Building A Better Blog Series, Featured
…last post, The First Steps in the Building A Better School Counseling Blog Series, we looked at some of the needed foundations for moving your free school counseling blog to one that allows you more freedom. In this post – we will look at what it looks like to actually pack up and move your old school counseling blog (whether on Blogger or WordPress.com). We will take a general overview and then focus on Blogger/WordPress.com. Moving is always a b…
by Jeff Ream | May 30, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling technology series, dropbox, geek, google docs, jeffrey ream, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek, tips, warnings
…eir basic software and hardware. I will also use most of these during this series: Drop Box (www.dropbox.com) A Google Account (www.google.com) Webcam (Logitech & Dynex are good brands, some laptops have them included) Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel are our main focus) LibreOffice is an Open Source (aka free) version of MS Office (http://www.libreoffice.org/) “Good” web browser (not Internet Explorer) – I recommend either Goog…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 6, 2015 | box.com, Counseling Tech, dropbox, Featured, google docs, technology, tips, warnings
…th great power comes great responsibility” rings very true with the use of technology. Because of the ability to do so many cool and useful things – an inherent risk of abuse is the flip side of the story. [Tweet “”Technology is great…except when it doesn’t work.” #scchat”] I love Dropbox and Google Drive. I would say that it goes beyond a love and into the realm of obsession when I talk about “the cloud”. Roughly 90% of the documents, spreadsheet…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 31, 2014 | counseling, Counseling Tech, Featured, school counselor, video blog, year in review
…ger (or would like to be!), these are must read posts. Check out the whole series here: Building A Better Blog Series Tech Tool Video: LucidChart I started using LucidChart towards the end of last year for some scheduling documents at my site. It was handy for showing progressions, processes, or steps to take. This video blog post is a helpful guide to getting started with some of the various ways you can use LucidChart in your School Counseling p…
by Jeff Ream | Aug 8, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, Counseling Tech, interview, Interview Series, learning, professional development, school counselor, tips
This is the second edition of TCG Interview Series and with this post, I debut the first video interview. I was privledged to get to sit down with Rebecca Lallier (@SchCslgByHeart), writer of School Counseling By Heart and a PSC for 17 years. Please check out her blog, follow her on Twitter, and send her some kudos for reaching out to help school counselors improve their tech skills. This interview was done using Skype and recorded with Camtasia….
by Jeff Ream | Sep 14, 2012 | 21st century skills, Interview Series, professional development, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek, video blog
…of my most used resources and also one of the biggest names in Counseling Technology to you via the next installment of The Counseling Geek’s Interview Series. I was incredibly honored the Dr. Erin Mason (@ecmmason) of DePaul University and SCOPE – the School Counselors’ Online Professional Exchange – was able to join me for a quick but very informative and innovate interview. For the last video interview with Rebecca Lallier of School Counseling…
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…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 28, 2014 | ASCA14, Branding, Featured, tips, tutorial
…are more limited. WordPress (where we will focus more of our time in this series) comes in two flavors – the free* WordPress.com and the more do-it-yourself and have full control WordPress.org. For another write up that goes into depth on both visit this article by diythemes. With the free* WordPress.com, you have basic usage of the WordPress platform – this would be considered similar to Blogger. We are wanting to Build A Better School Counselin…
by Jeff Ream | Apr 24, 2013 | 21st century skills, counseling, interview, Interview Series, jeffrey ream, job hunt, professional development, school counselor, teachers, thecounselinggeek, tips, tools
…w stage (which you can read more about in another episode of the Interview Series). Some Tips on Distinguishing Yourself Some of these may seem obvious, but I was thoroughly surprised by the applications and wide variety of information we received (or did not receive). Always, always, always submit a professional resume. I do not care if it is a job for $100,000 or $10, unless they specifically ask you not to turn in a resume — prepare one and sub…
by Jeff Ream | Aug 12, 2013 | Collaboration, interview, Interview Series, jeffrey ream, school counselor, thecounselinggeek
…back to one of my favorite features of The Counseling Geek – the interview series. This episode I talk with Megan Kelly, a recent counseling grad turned first year IB counselor extraordinaire, using the trusty Google Drive collaboration tool! I hope you enjoy the read and as always, remember you can leave comments and email me with any questions. You can also tweet or add Megan on Twitter using the @Megan_M_Kelly username. Jeff: Can you introduce…
