by Jeff Ream | Nov 7, 2015 | Building A Better Blog Series, Featured, school counselor
…retty important. There are numerous templates available with MailChimp for free. I highly suggest keeping things simple and selecting a pre-formatted RSS template and customizing it to your needs. You can change things like colors, texts and other small details after selecting the template. Templates are the general layout of your email you are about to send. In our RSS email example – the template will be the layout each email is sent when you ad…
by Jeff Ream | May 13, 2015
…to the content. We reserve the right to moderate/remove any comment. Feel free to ask questions, disagree, provide alternate methods, or comment on the post as long as your comment’s content is not offensive, defamatory, abusive, or otherwise mean and inappropriate. Comment Privacy You may comment anonymously or under a name/username. The email address you use to submit a comment will not be displayed on our site and will not be sold or used to c…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 20, 2014 | 21st century skills, Counseling Tech, Featured, free, school counselor, technology, tools, video blog
…chnology! [Tweet “I betcha didn’t know you can map college apps & more for free! w/ Google Maps, you can! #scchat”] Google Maps is a free and easy way to map nearly anything and everything and host it on any website or link. This can be used for college admissions, but another awesome tool is to create maps of your local resources, community agencies, or tools that families can use for help. Please check out the video below and let me know what yo…
by Jeff Ream | Oct 3, 2014 | buy, Featured, free, School Counselor Shopping List
…Sore Throat & Cough, Maximum Strength Numbing, Instant Action, 16 Lozenges Freebie: Greeting Island Printable Birthday Cards This year I decided to do my best to send out birthday cards to all students throughout the year. I was able to print a list of student birthdays by month and spend about 5 minutes a day printing and writing a quick birthday note to the kids in them. For some – this is the only birthday card they will get and others – it is…
by Jeff Ream | Sep 1, 2014 | Featured, school counselor, technology
…a shot and go with the one I like best” approach (especially when they are free!). I think you may want to do the same and see which is best suited to your reading style. Follow by email: A little old fashioned but effective The third and last way to follow your favorite school counseling blogs is to sign up to follow by email. Most blogs will have an option to sign up to receive new posts in your email inbox when they are published. Best for peop…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 21, 2014 | Featured
…sh. I elected to move to this newer platform and WordPress from Blogger (a free platform) to take advantage of the higher customizability and scalability of the site tools. I also try to invest in my readers through things like gathering and personally donating to scholarship support for things like ASCA. Because of this – I have added some Amazon Affiliate ads to a few areas of the site. These ads are based on referrals. You click on one to go to…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 7, 2012 | 21st century skills, free, geek, identity theft, jeffrey ream, LastPass, school counselor, security, technology, thecounselinggeek, tips, tutorial, warnings
…right?) and offer my assistance should you have any problems or questions (free tech support?). Beginners Guide to LastPass [Lifehacker] Intermediate Guide to LastPass [Lifehacker] If you do decide to make the switch over, you should change your major passwords to randomly generated passwords and store them with LastPass to enhance your security. Keep yourself safe — it’s a dangerous world out there in cyberspace. Comment below if you have any que…
by Jeff Ream | 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
…aborative. How do I make it happen and find out more? In order to get your free educational licenses of Steam for Schools and Portal 2, you will need to apply for access. You can visit the Teach With Portals website and click the link in the top right corner to complete the application. You will need to provide the following information: The supervising teacher’s contact information Your organization’s name, address, phone The subject being taugh…
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
…colors that do not go together. Also, use a site like stock.xchng to find free, high-quality stock images to use as a background (and other images) for your portfolio. The packaged images in PowerPoint are tacky and overused so try to spruce it up (check out the categories of texture, light blurs, etc). You can also deselect the “advance slide on click” option to only let users click on hyperlinks, which is nice so they don’t click and accidental…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 8, 2013 | ASCA, ASCA 13, counseling, geek, jeffrey ream, RAMP, school counselor, support, teachers, thecounselinggeek, tips
…I also decided to call it the Counseling Advisory Team (CAT for short…feel free to steal the name – I am sure I probably did). Step One: Research One of the first things I needed to do when thinking of starting the CAT was to research successful and unsuccessful advisory teams. What did an advisory team do? Who sat on the team? What are some key goals and purposes that we should work towards? Some resources that I utilized when gathering my resear…
