by Jeff Ream | Feb 6, 2015 | books, counseling, Featured, library, school counselor, School Counselor Shopping List, shopping
…s or resources you recommend in the the comments for myself and readers to look into. Happy shopping! Mindfulness Skills for Kids & Teens: A Workbook for Clinicians & Clients with 154 Tools, Techniques, Activities & Worksheets – $23 Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety: A Workbook for Overcoming Anxiety at Home, at School, and Everywhere Else – $12 The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress – $12 The Mindful…
by Jeff Ream | Sep 9, 2014
Looking for a breakout or keynote speaker? I love to work with state school counselor associations, school districts, departments of education, and others to create engaging, knowledgeable, and relevant presentations to school counselors, counselor educators, district and state administrators, and other stakeholders. I enjoy public speaking and getting to meet a lot of new contacts through the experience, while sharing some of my knowledge. If yo…
by Jeff Ream | Sep 1, 2014 | Featured, school counselor, technology
…ol to help you save sites you want to read later and I love it! If you are looking for a clean, supported, and easy to use reader – give feedly a try! I believe you will be pleased with the experience. Bloglovin: Another popular reading tool If feedly is not quite for you – there are quite a few school counselors out there that use Bloglovin to follow their favorite school counseling bloggers. Using the same RSS feed as feedly, Bloglovin is a webs…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 28, 2014 | ASCA14, Branding, Featured, tips, tutorial
…g about FTP or other fancy acronyms. One note to make about pricing – when looking at the prices, most providers list their price (i.e. $3.95/month), but that is the price per month when you sign up and pay for 3 years in advance. The yearly rate you would pay would be closer to $7/month. In the Next Installment of Building a Better School Counseling Blog We will look at options you have to move from your old blog to your new site, importing your…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 21, 2014 | Featured
…rvices I would use, buy, have purchased, or are currently using. These ads look like this: [adrotate group=”1″] Supporting your favorite blogs and websites is easy! While those links are there for you to choose to use or not (I cannot ask you to click my links) – I tend to click (and disable adblockers) on banners for fellow bloggers, sites, or organizations I support because I want to say thank you for their services in a monetary way that costs…
by Jeff Ream | May 9, 2014 | ASCA14, Featured
…anyone planning on attending our presentation to pre-read these articles as we may be referencing bits and pieces that would be helpful to have some familiarity with. We hope you enjoy the articles and we look forward to hearing your thoughts and questions. Email me or comment below and we are glad to help! Spread The Word from ASCA School Counselor Vol. 51 No. 5 [adrotate group=”1″]…
by Jeff Ream | May 30, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling technology series, dropbox, geek, google docs, jeffrey ream, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek, tips, warnings
…m/camtasia.html) Expensive, but easy to use and pretty powerful. I will be looking for more economical alternatives) What Do We Need? What Do Our Students’ Need? A good counseling program is always evaluating the needs of their students and attempting to respond and prevent any negative results while increasing positive outcomes. When looking at technology, we must maintain that approach. Allow me to give an example: If I worked in an inner-city…
by Jeff Ream | May 31, 2012 | counseling, news, thecounselinggeek, update
…ing and did not provide the customization, traffic, and support that I was looking for. So thus…the new site and look. I am still in the process of tweaking it to my liking and updating for readability and user friendliness. If you are having any trouble viewing anything, commenting, reading, etc. — please email me. An update – I also just launched a Google Plus page (I still refuse to use Facebook…which I will talk about soon) so please feel free…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 1, 2012 | activity, ANFSCD, counseling, deals, free, jeffrey ream, school counselor, technology, tips
…e, so perhaps encourage them to create one for a male role model that they look up to. There are many designs that students can insert photos, text, or other creative things. I sent one to my father! *I will from time to time post And now for something completely different (ANFSCD) posts that may not be directly related to counseling, but have an application or I feel that may be of interest to those wanting to expand their understanding of techno…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 19, 2012 | activity, counseling, coursera, free, geek, jeffrey ream, learning, pro-d, professional development, school counselor, thecounselinggeek, tips
…then added more. This is how we grow. One last key thing to remember when looking at Pro-D is that you want a wide range of learning interests. Don’t focus on just one thing, that would be like working out just one bicep. Yeah, that bicep would be super buff, but the rest of you would end up weak. Unless you are a very focused specialist, you are going to need your whole brain to be worked and strengthened. So what? Now that you are counseling, t…
