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 | Sep 11, 2014 | counseling, Featured, Networking, school counselor
…ct with me via LinkedIn. For those thinking “…LinkedWHAT?” – I had a guest post a while back that covers a little you can read here and I have some plans to do a series of posts regarding LinkedIn and it’s benefits to School Counselors. But what I really want out of this post is for those school counselors and employees that do use LinkedIn to connect with other professionals – do you or would you connect via LinkedIn with parents of your students…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 13, 2016 | Featured
…ion, follow up and check in in one, easy to use management portal. In this post – I will show you a few different screenshots of the areas to note within Eventbrite, give some tips regarding use as a school counselor (or school counseling department) and I have also created a demo event (in about 10 minutes!) that you can view like you were a student or parent and go through the registration process to experience the use of Eventbrite. But wait…ho…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 31, 2014 | counseling, Counseling Tech, Featured, school counselor, video blog, year in review
…encourage you to go back into the archives and checkout some of the older posts. There are a lot of posts you may be interested in before 2014! I hope each of you had a great Holiday and I wish the best of 2015 on you. Without further ado – here are my favorite posts of 2014: Put the You in YouTube: A Guide to Getting Started on YouTube From morning school announcements to recording parent nights, the power of YouTube is unquestionable. As one of…
by Jeff Ream | Aug 5, 2014 | Branding, Building A Better Blog Series, Featured
…e you begin – head to settings and permalinks. Look at one of your Blogger posts and the URL. Most look like http://myblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/post-name-separated-with-spaces.html – you will want to mirror this on WordPress. You should go to the custom option and enter this: /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html The steps for moving blogger are similar but you will need to download a specific plugin when you click Blogger in the import menu. Follow…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 11, 2014 | #scchat, ASCA14, counseling, Featured
…forward to July 2015? If so – you are not alone. This phenomenon is called Post-ASCA Depression Syndrome (or PADS) and there is a cure. This cure is available in the form of #SCCHAT on Twitter. To get involved or get more info on this counselor saving tool – please contact your nearest Geek and visit http://scope4scs.org/scchat/ Suffer from Post-ASCA Depression? There is a cure! from TheCounselingGeek on Vimeo. Please join the online community thr…
by Jeff Ream | May 29, 2017 | Featured, counseling, Networking, school counselor, social networking, support, tips
…hnology side of the world and talk about something a little different.This post is more of an op-ed then a tech-centric blog post. I also hope to get you (and I) thinking critically about our approaches to student counseling. When we were in graduate school (or if you still are), we learned about Adler, Gestalt and CBT and more tools we can use and base our counseling identity in. However, to be perfectly honest – I hardly ever find myself thinkin…
by Jeff Ream | May 30, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling technology series, dropbox, geek, google docs, jeffrey ream, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek, tips, warnings
…This is typically very useful, but I will show you some flaws in the video post coming up. There are different types of documents you can create (from a word-style document, spreadsheet, and presentations to forms and tables). You are also able to upload files from your computer to the “cloud” for centralized backup and access. It is important to have your files backed up in one way or another, whether it is in the cloud or via RAID 5 data recover…
by Jeff Ream | May 13, 2015
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by Jeff Ream | Feb 26, 2014 | #scchat, ASCA, ASCA 2014, ASCA14, contest, counseling, free, fundraising, jeffrey ream, pro-d, professional development, scholarship, school counselor, School Counselor Community Scholarship, support
…year so keep those tech juices flowing and never stop exploring. I will be posting the resulting submitted projects and tools in an upcoming post after I have final confirmation of that being okay with each participant and get it all sorted out so please stay tuned. Once again, an extra big thank you to our sponsors and generous donors – none of this can happen without you. Please consider supporting this project again next year. Special Thanks to…
