by Jeff Ream | Apr 30, 2020 | automation, Counseling Tech, counseling technology series, Featured, learning, professional development, school counselor, technology, tips, tools, video blog
…part series for your viewing pleasure. Ep 1: My distance set up and better Google Forms for School Counselors Ep 2: Keeping Counseling Interesting with Canva Ep 3: Saving Time with Screencasting Ep 4: Easy Website Creation with Weebly Ep 5: Managing Your Appointments Digitally Ep 6: Gmail Efficiency Hacks – Tricks for your Inbox I’ve got blog posts too! If you enjoyed the videos – several also have blog posts that are a great accompanyment to the…
by Jeff Ream | May 3, 2019
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by Jeff Ream | Mar 26, 2018 | Featured, school counselor, technology, tips
…ot needing to confirm appointments* It integrates with a lot of calendars (Google, Outlook, Office 365, and iCloud) Cost for teams is cheaper than ScheduleOnce. ($72/user per year with education discount at Premium level vs $189/user per year on similar plan level with SO. $90 at basic level with SO) Provides an easy way to embed into your websites. Feels to have a greater support of more advanced scheduling tools (for example, I use Zapier to sen…
by Jeff Ream | Mar 11, 2018 | Featured, counseling, Counseling Tech, free, school counselor, technology, tips
…n to master. There are also a TON of things to take inspiration from. Just google “graphic design inspiration” or head over to Pinterest (I even have a Graphic Design board). Do not outright copy a design, but you can model a new design after it. You can also check out a number of free stock image sites for legally available images to use in your presentations or designs. A few of my favorites include: Pixabay, Stockvault, and Pexels. With a littl…
by Jeff Ream | Aug 8, 2017 | Featured, #scchat, Back to School, counseling, learning, professional development, school counselor, social networking, tips, tools
…cles 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 reading The Counseling Geek as well. Please keep visiting…
by Jeff Ream | Feb 26, 2017
…Community Scholarship. I am also a life long learner. In addition to my Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies and Master of Science in Educational Counseling degrees – I have earned specialist certificates in School Counselor Leadership and College Admissions Counseling through ASCA. I am also a Google Certified Educator, take a hodgepodge of open courseware for fun (like neurobiology — fun right!) and have been a California School Counselor of the…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 17, 2016 | Featured, look back, Review
…) $152.76 Elegant themes premium WP theme $89.00 Fundraising Plugin $32.00 Google Apps & Domain Registration $14.95 Giveaways and misc. $50.00 SC|CS 2016 Fees (my donation) $200.00 Total Expenses $538.71 What’s coming in? The table below will show the income from advertising and affiliate networking: Income Source Amount Amazon Affiliate Links $45.68 Total Income $45.68 Total net for June 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016 is a loss of $493.63. Please note t…
by Jeff Ream | Mar 28, 2016 | Bits & Bytes, #scchat, Featured, school counselor, teachers
…annot possibly know it all? How can we as teachers and school counselors expect 14 to 18-year-old students to be willing to take on the new and exciting world of electromagnetism, while we are completely unwilling to take a risk and learn something like Twitter or Google Drive? It is time for us adults to man and woman up. I challenge you to try to match what you are asking your students to do. Having them research colleges? You too. Practice thei…
by Jeff Ream | Nov 7, 2015 | Building A Better Blog Series, Featured, school counselor
…the subject line, the reply to email and info about tracking features like Google Analytics. MailChimp uses something called Merge Codes to pull information from your list and/or your RSS feed to customize each email. Meaning – each email you send can be customized based on the information in your blog post or title. The merge codes are pre-built in but you should check out what each does and include them in your email. See the image below for an…
by Jeff Ream | Sep 19, 2015 | counseling, Featured, free, school counselor, teachers, tools
…off or consequence of either side of the equation. Additional Downloads: Google Doc – Editable Teacher/Parent 1 to2 Document Student 1 to 2 MS Publisher Editable File [/sociallocker] I hope you get some use out of the “1 to 2” program and that the downloads above are useful. If you run into any problems or cannot download anything – please do email me. This program, while HS focused, can easily be adapted to Middle School as well. I look forwa…
