…ut being featured. Hope you enjoy. Welcome to my office You may read the blog when new posts come up – but you may not know much about me. I work full time as the (currently) only school counselor in Tahoe City, CA at North Tahoe High School. I say currently because we just posted openings for 3 school counselors in our district (YAYY!) and one to work with me at my site so I will get some help next year! Very exciting. I have been at my school…
…k you for supporting school counselors! We could not do it without your support. Please support our sponsors and say thank you! I will be featuring some of our great sponsors and their sites/programs in upcoming blog posts as a thank you to donating to helping counselors out. The blog author, Jeffrey Ream M.S, PPS, writes for The Counseling Geek. Connect with Jeff via email, Twitter, Google+, and Facebook….
…The dentist and doctors are also not the ones pestering the patients to make their appointments. Nor are they the ones following up, taking their appointment calls or playing phone tag. You don’t have to either. Taking your appointments to the next level Watch the following YouTube video blog I created to guide you through the background and features of the tool that I depend on to manage my appointments – ScheduleOnce. Please share, comment, and…
…out their counseling program will be valuable to all counselors out in the blog world. I hope to make this a semi-regular series on The Counseling Geek, but that will take help from all you counselors. If you would like to help me by volunteering to let me interview you, please email me, send me a Tweet, or message on Facebook, letting me know you want to interview. You do not have to be a tech guru or even know a huge amount about using technolog…
…e your school counseling websites both useful AND beautiful. Check out the video below to learn about how to quickly and easily setup a new website using Weebly.com. My school counseling website (nthscounseling.weebly.com) is built on Weebly and really didn’t take all that long. Other websites are available too if Weebly is not your bag of tricks. Wix.com is another great tool as is the free version of WordPress (this is a little more complex thou…
…Jeff at The Counseling Geek wants to wish all school counselors a Happy National School Counseling Week with a quick video!…
…Several School Counseling Players Coming Together for A Live ASCA 2014 Round Table Interview Below will be an embedded video of the live (and recorded prior to the event for your viewing pleasure) interview in preparation for ASCA 2014. The live video is available via YouTube. We hope you tune in here, via YouTube, or at other blogger’s embeded sites. Cheers! [adrotate group=”1″]…
……but not let those lucky peeps mess up your stuff! Check out the video to learn what my best suggestion for a work around is! Unfortunately, Google does not let us do this natively but through some strategic planning and instructions – we make it work. [adrotate group=”1″]…
…hlight the QR and then provide you with a set of options, much like in the video. To create your QR code, one handy site that I have bookmarked and utilize is Kaywa QR Code (http://qrcode.kaywa.com/). The basic functions of the site are free, but they do also sell upgraded features like analytics, dynamic QR codes, etc. For our purposes, getting the free stuff is good and will suffice. Once you have your link to your survey, document, signup, webs…
…gine) and have additional access to templates and attributes. On this very blog post – each image was created with canva. At school – I’ve used canva to create posters, images for our digital signage, student and parent handouts ,branding for our department and more. Companies and organizations spend a TON of money on marketing and we do not use the ideas very often in schools. While we do not have budgets to put a super bowl ad up (you can produc…
