by Jeff Ream | Nov 11, 2015 | 21st century skills, Counseling Tech, Featured, free, technology, tips, tools
…s for dealing with your inbox – we will save that for a future post – this post is focused on a free and easy tool that will take all of your non-essential, but still read-worthy emails and combine them in a simple and easy to use daily digest. Do you relate with the image below? I do and I am 30 – a child of the internet age. How times have changed! Another super-user approach for those of you using Gmail (at work or in your personal life). Sto…
by Jeff Ream | Nov 7, 2015 | Building A Better Blog Series, Featured, school counselor
…nd only have it send once a week. Another good thing about that is I could post 20 blog posts in a given week and subscribers will only get 1 email with all 20 posts or summaries of those posts on one day. Don’t overwhelm your readers if you are on a posting rampage. Once all the data you are pulling in is set – you now need to setup who you are sending it to. That is where you select your list and any segment (specific breakdown or portion of the…
by Jeff Ream | Oct 25, 2015 | Featured, Presentation, tips, tools
…mple 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 is “how did you design the background and make the presentatio…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 17, 2015 | Featured, Presentation, tips
…esentations for school counselors. Want to get all the new Counseling Geek posts straight to your inbox? Scroll down and complete the registration below with an email address and anytime a new post is published the week prior – you will get an email digest on the following Monday morning. “If you don’t know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.” Enlist the help of a trusted colleague or friend. Have them sit in yo…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 5, 2018 | counseling, Featured, free, school counselor, teachers, technology, tips
…ations. For a full walkthrough on Eventbrite – please check out this other post on my blog: I didn’t sign up to be an event coordinator… I am not quite sure about you, but when I got my Masters for school counseling – I didn’t realize how much event (and test) coordination would tag along with the job. I typically dread processing registrations, sign ups and getting info out to attendees for things like parent nights, test prep workshops, and most…
by Jeff Ream | Aug 5, 2016 | Featured, counseling, professional development, school counselor
…ivities to ensure our students are served and our jobs get done. I started post-secondary education as an Aerospace Engineering student and my brain has always been geared towards this type of thinking. This, I believe, makes my approach to school counseling a little different than some others. I love processes, I strive for order, and it may come to no surprise if you know me that I am an ISTJ personality type. Efficiency matters. Being one wit…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 12, 2015 | ASCA, Featured, School Counselor Community Scholarship
…rce for career development. Please be sure to see the last section of this post to ensure you order correctly and your portion will be counted towards the donation. A little about The Career Game: The Career Game is a multimedia program, and can be used with low tech workbooks, computers, online or all of the above. Self-Assessment Workbooks Internet Site • Software • Videos Here are some terrific career counseling techniques for elementary, middl…
by Jeff Ream | Sep 19, 2015 | counseling, Featured, free, school counselor, teachers, tools
…work_names=”true”] If you want to get all the latest updates straight to your inbox – fill out the form below or on the homepage for emails with new posts (only emails once a week if there is a new post the week before)….
by Jeff Ream | Apr 22, 2015 | Counseling Tech, Featured, free, tips, tools
…the world of professional school counseling, and share them with you. This post is no different and has saved me tons of time to dedicate to working with students with more pressing needs. Flipping The idea of flipping is not old, but yet not new either. We are not talking about acrobatics or burgers here – in education, the term flipping refers to the idea that students do the “boring” bits at home or outside of the classroom/office and we tackle…
by Jeff Ream | Aug 25, 2014 | activity, Building A Better Blog Series, Featured, school counselor
…des. If you are just joining the series, the other two posts of this three post series (at least three for the time being) can be found at the following links: #1 – The First Steps #2 – Making It Happen This post will be focusing on how to take your new blog from stock theme and clipart to custom theme and great images. We will also take a look at a few free resources for bloggers and a few more of my favorite WordPress plugins for school counseli…
