The SchoolCounselor.com e-Newsletter is an electronic publication designed to advance counselors' level of technological literacy, application, and integration. You will find practical solutions and answers to technology related problems, especially as they apply to your job as counselor. If you would like to share a tip or trick, or if you would like to ask a question, e-mail Russ Sabella at newsletter@schoolcounselor.com
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter #152 is Now Available
The SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter, curated by Professor Sabella, is designed to advance counselors’ level of technological literacy, application, and integration. You will find practical solutions and answers to technology related problems, especially as they apply to your job as counselor. If you would like to share a tip or trick, or if you would like to ask a question, e-mail Russ Sabella at news@schoolcounselor.com. Check out the latest issue (November 24, 2015) at http://schoolcounselor.com/enews-152/
Monday, July 20, 2015
eNews #150
The SchoolCounselor.com eNews #150 (July 20, 2015) is now available online at http://schoolcounselor.com/enews150/.
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Resources, Tools, and Tips from Russ Sabella ...
– Keeping Kids Out of High Tech Trouble. This blog supports Dr. Russell Sabella's work on educating children, parents, educators and other stakeholders about the responsible use of technology. Included in these pages you will find helpful resources, lesson plans, links, and more.
– SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter. The SchoolCounselor.com e-Newsletter is an electronic publication designed to advance counselors' level of technological literacy, application, and integration. You will find practical solutions and answers to technology related problems, especially as they apply to your job as counselor.
– Must See Videos. When I see a video that would be useful, inspiring, enlightening among counselors, I post it here.
– Twitter. Postings about all things counseling, life, humor, and more.
– Pinterest. Lots of resources for counselors, parents, and others.
http://pinterest.com/rsabella/ – YouTube Playlists. A variety of videos including counseling theory, consultation, inspiration, counselors in action, and much more.
http://bit.ly/Sabella-Playlist
Sunday, May 17, 2015
SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter #149
SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter #149
Date of Publication: May 18, 2015
Welcome to SchoolCounselor.com, an electronic newsletter designed to advance counselors' level of technological literacy, application, and integration. You will find practical solutions and answers to technology related problems, especially as they apply to your job as counselor. If you would like to share a tip or trick, or if you would like to ask a question, e-mail Russ Sabella at news@schoolcounselor.com
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New videos have been added since the last issue:
Postings from Russ Sabella ...
– Keeping Kids Out of High Tech Trouble. This blog supports Dr. Russell Sabella's work on educating children, parents, educators and other stake holders about the responsible use of technology. Included in these pages you will find helpful resources, lesson plans, links, and more. Russ's most recent book and workshops are primary resources for meeting this mission.
– SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter. The SchoolCounselor.com e-Newsletter is an electronic publication designed to advance counselors' level of technological literacy, application, and integration. You will find practical solutions and answers to technology related problems, especially as they apply to your job as counselor.
– Must See Videos. When I see a video that would be useful, inspiring, enlightening among counselors, I post it here.
– Twitter. Postings about all thinks counseling, life, humor, and more.
– Pinterest. Lots of resources for counselors, parents, and others.
– YouTube. Counseling related playlists and more.
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Un-Google Link
Sometimes you want the direct link that a Google search result is point to, this tool really does the trick. Paste a URL to extract the actual link from the Google search engine link.
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Google Doc Keyboard Shortcuts
Among the many shortcuts specific to Google Docs, these are a few that I tend to use over and again.
Insert or edit link Ctrl + K
Open link Alt + Enter
Word count Ctrl + Shift + C
Center align Ctrl + Shift + E
Bulleted list Ctrl + Shift + 8
Move paragraph up/down Alt + Shift + Up/down arrow
Insert comment Ctrl + Alt + M
You can find them all at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/179738?hl=en or check out these “cheat sheet”:
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10 Tips for Folders in Google Drive | Teacher Tech
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How to Add Video to a PowerPoint Presentation - YouTube
You may want to add video to a PowerPoint presentation which is easy enough but you might also want to make adjustments such as to the volume, trimming the video, adding bookmarks or getting it to loop.
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The Time Elapsed Analysis & Reporting System (T.E.A.R.S.) is a Microsoft Excel add-in that automatically calculates the total amount of time that you have spent in different aspects of your work. After exporting your calendar data from Microsoft Outlook to Excel, this add-in extracts elapsed time, sums up the number of hours in each category, and then produces both a table and a chart. If you ever wondered where your time goes, you will want to use T.E.A.R.S. to learn more.
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Google Trick: Site:
Get results from certain sites or domains. So, if you want to quickly find the Ethical Standards and other pages related to ethics on the ASCA webpage, put the following into Google search:
Also, this one lets Google flip a coin for you when you don’t have one on hand, good one for doing classroom activities: Search for “flip a coin” or “heads or tails.”
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How to Remove Passwords from Adobe PDF Files
Google Chrome has a built-in PDF reader* and a PDF writer and we can combine the two features to remove the password from any PDF document. Check out how:
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Excel Tip Use Array and RANDBETWEEN To Pick A Random Winner In Excel - YouTube
I also love this site which is fun to use in class: http://wheeldecide.com/. This one is pretty cool and easy to use too: http://www.classtools.net/random-name-picker/
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YouCanBook.me is booking software that integrates with your Google Calendar.
Get a personalized scheduling page so your customers can book you online. A standard account is free as of this writing.
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Checky
How many times a day do you check your phone?
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Down For Everyone Or Just Me
Check if your website is down or up?
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Five Best Mobile Document Scanning Apps
Scanning receipts while you travel, notes on a whiteboard, or sketches on an envelope can be easy. The best apps for the job take a snapshot, can do text recognition, save your scan to the cloud for future reference on other devices, and more. This website gives us five of the best smartphone apps that get the job done. I personally use CamScanner and love it.
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OneTab (Chrome or Firefox Browsers)
Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.
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5 Smart 'Drinking Water' Apps for Your Phone
Your Smart Phone already manages most of your life, so why not let it handle your drinking water needs as well?
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GuardingKids.com: Kiddle: Visual Search Engine for Kids
Kiddle is a family friendly search engine enhanced by Google safe search, so you know you get quality results without any explicit content.
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Get OneNote 2013 on your PC for Free
Works on Windows 7 and Windows 8
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Dubsmash is a video messaging application for iOS and Android. Using the application, users can choose an audio recording of a well known quote from a list and record a video of themselves in which they dub the quote.
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Kahoot!
My students are loving this ... A Kahoot is a collection of questions on specific topics. Created by teachers, students, business-people and social users, they are asked in real-time, to an unlimited number of “players”, creating a social, fun and game-like learning environment.
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Personality Insights Demonstration
The Watson Personality Insights service uses linguistic analytics to extract a spectrum of cognitive and social characteristics from the text data that a person generates through blogs, tweets, forum posts, and more.
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Blabberize.com
Got a picture? Blabberize it!
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Snaptee is the first mobile app that enables you to create your own custom T-shirts with just a few taps on your smart phone.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Be Awesome with Excel and Using Data in your Work
Check out my new Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DataBootCamp. Stop by and give it a "Like" if you find it helpful.
Also ... the online Data Boot Camp for School Counselors is heating up. Users are telling me that they like the ability to do this on their computer, tablet, or even smartphone.
If you have not checked it out yet, here is a brief description:
This tutorial is designed to provide you with step-by-step instructions for learning tips, tricks, and shortcuts when dealing with data in your work as a school counselor, administrator, or other educator. Particular attention is given to using a popular spreadsheet program, Microsoft Excel™, which is designed to analyze, share, and manage information so that you can make more informed decisions in your work. As a result of learning more about data, you will also be better able to monitor student progress and communicate to other stake holders about how your school counseling program is making a positive difference in the lives of students.
Here you will find both written and detailed video instruction demonstrating data skills in a user-friendly manner. Also throughout this program, I’ve included many bonus articles, links, and tips.
Learn more at: http://www.mydatabootcamp.com/
Also ... the online Data Boot Camp for School Counselors is heating up. Users are telling me that they like the ability to do this on their computer, tablet, or even smartphone.
If you have not checked it out yet, here is a brief description:
This tutorial is designed to provide you with step-by-step instructions for learning tips, tricks, and shortcuts when dealing with data in your work as a school counselor, administrator, or other educator. Particular attention is given to using a popular spreadsheet program, Microsoft Excel™, which is designed to analyze, share, and manage information so that you can make more informed decisions in your work. As a result of learning more about data, you will also be better able to monitor student progress and communicate to other stake holders about how your school counseling program is making a positive difference in the lives of students.
Here you will find both written and detailed video instruction demonstrating data skills in a user-friendly manner. Also throughout this program, I’ve included many bonus articles, links, and tips.
Learn more at: http://www.mydatabootcamp.com/
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Google Form Template Gallery
Before you spend time creating a from, check to see if one already exists on the Google Forms template site. Here is a...
Posted by Data Boot Camp for School Counselors and Educators on Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
How You Can Free Up 5 Days Each Year
This guide was written to help the average
Outlook user be more productive and organized in MS Outlook. We do this by
focusing on just a few key functions that can greatly improve your workday. By
reducing the unnecessary clicks and steps most users start saving 8 - 13 mins a
day, which over a year, equals to freeing up a total of about 44 hours.
In the guide we also cover the following:
- How to setup and customize Outlook views.
- Freeing up time and automating the calendar.
- How to setup and organize your inbox.
- 30+ shortcuts everyone should use.
- How to find anything in Outlook
The guide also includes tips and tricks, walk-throughs, shortcuts, and other helpful information for optimizing Microsoft Outlook productivity. It is one of the most comprehensives resources of its kind available.
Find the full Outlook guide here: http://www.avidian.com/resources/guide-to-using-outlook/
In the guide we also cover the following:
- How to setup and customize Outlook views.
- Freeing up time and automating the calendar.
- How to setup and organize your inbox.
- 30+ shortcuts everyone should use.
- How to find anything in Outlook
The guide also includes tips and tricks, walk-throughs, shortcuts, and other helpful information for optimizing Microsoft Outlook productivity. It is one of the most comprehensives resources of its kind available.
Find the full Outlook guide here: http://www.avidian.com/resources/guide-to-using-outlook/
Happy National School Counseling Week!
This has been a big couple of big weeks for school counselors. First, the National School Counselor of the Year Awards ceremony was, for the first time, hosted by the First Lady at the White House. Then, ASCA followed up with a black tie banquet at the very beautiful Union Station. This week, we celebrate school counseling as part of National School Counseling Week!
Throughout, school counselors, counselor educators, and others were all impacted by both the awesomeness of the events but even more importantly, the remarkable progress made by the profession, especially in the last 15 years. Of course, we are just getting started and have a long way to go in many areas, but these are milestones that truly should be celebrated.
Here are some links if you want to catch up and tune in:
ASCA:
http://schoolcounselor.org/school-counselors-members/about-asca-(1)/national-school-counseling-week
MAIN Link: http://schoolcounselor.org/school-counselors-members/awards/school-counselor-of-the-year-award
On Twitter:
https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23scoy15
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nscw15&src=typd
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/search/str/%23nscw15/keywords_top
https://www.facebook.com/search/str/%23scoy15/keywords_top
FLOTUS presentation on Youtube:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV_ZhFZ9n0U
Transcript: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/30/remarks-first-lady-presentation-school-counselor-year-award
Entertainment Tonight:
http://www.etonline.com/news/158971_michelle_obama_crowns_school_counselor_of_the_year/
Other:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/01/30/white-house-honors-2015-school-counselor-year
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/30/op-ed-first-lady-michelle-obama-usatodaycom-counselors-build-bridge-coll
http://www.whitehouse.gov/reach-higher
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elianne-ramos/interview-with-cory-notes_b_6595794.html
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Russell A. Sabella, Ph.D.
guardingkids@gmail.com
sabella@schoolcounselor.com
Russell A. Sabella, Ph.D.
guardingkids@gmail.com
sabella@schoolcounselor.com
Twitter: @rsabella
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Happy 16th Birthday to SchoolCounselor.com!
Today is SchoolCounselor.com's 16th Anniversary!
SchoolCounselor.com was created by Russell Sabella, Ph.D. for the purpose of advancing solution focused technological literacy among counselors and educators. This site contains a popular and free newsletter which focuses on technology issues, resources, and activities. As well, you will want to definitely check out our continually expanding counseling technology resources, handouts, interview questions, and more.
www.SchoolCounselor.com
Sabella@SchoolCounselor.com
Friday, January 16, 2015
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
School Counseling & Technology: Legal and Ethical Issues
Second posting:
Dear
SchoolCounselor.com eNewsletter subscriber,
From: Dr. Russ Sabella,
Florida Gulf Coast University
Dr. Madelyn Isaacs, Florida Gulf Coast University
Dr. Madelyn Isaacs, Florida Gulf Coast University
We are
researching legal and ethical issues as they relate to school counseling and
technology. Our goal is to identify and address these issues as part of a new
publication. We have already started this discussion with many school counselors
throughout the country who have told us about their challenges with one or more
of the following areas:
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Posting on social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google
Hangouts).
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Communicating with parents electronically (e.g., email,
skype, text messaging, etc.).
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Communicating with colleagues such as teachers, about
students, over electronic systems (such as email in particular).
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Storing or sharing student data/information securely,
especially in the cloud (e.g., Google Drive, Dropbox).
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Using personal computers, smartphones, tablets, or other
devices for work related tasks.
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Dealing with cyberbullying, online harassment, and
students’ digital reputation.
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Staying abreast of technology as it relates to competency.
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Delivering guidance lessons or other program activities
online.
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Keeping a work related website or blog not on a school
based server (e.g., Wordpress or Blogger).
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Liability for information published for school
purposes.
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Technology and assessment issues.
We are now
looking for more issues, examples, and specifics. If you can contribute, please
respond by answering the following questions and sending them to me at sabella@schoolcounselor.com:
1. How would you describe
the legal and/or ethical situation(s) related to technology that you have
experienced in the last three years?
2. How did you try to
and/or resolve the situation(s)?
3.
What other
questions do you have about legal and ethical issues with school counseling and
technology?
If you
prefer, we would be glad to contact you to further discuss via Phone, skype, or
Google Hangouts. Please provide us with that contact information.
We really
appreciate it!
Russ
Sabella, Ph.D.www.SchoolCounselor.com
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