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CCSD School Counsellors ... a STEP into an exciting journey.

When it comes to connecting with technology we believe we are just beginning to understand the positive impacts in can have on you and your counselling program.


We are thrilled to share our journey with you.

Technology Tips and Tricks for School Counsellors

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

SCHOOL COUNSELLORS WE WANT TO HELP YOU GET MORE CONNECTED

BY SUSAN SPELLMAN CANN AND ERIN LUONG
CCSD School Counsellors ... a STEP into an exciting journey.

When it comes to connecting with technology we believe we are just beginning to understand the positive impacts in can have on you and your counselling program.


We are thrilled to share our journey with you.
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TIPS AND TRICKS THAT WILL HELP YOU

When you leave today you will learn at least ONE new technique or idea.
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SCHOOL COUNSELLING WITH TECHNOLOGY FROM THE HEART

This video is a jumping point for school counsellors to connect with technology

in your school,
in your community,
online,
in the world.

What YOU do does make a DIFFERENCE.

SCHOOL COUNSELLING CAN FEEL ISOLATING

Whether you are a school counsellor in a small rural community or you are the only school counsellor in your school it can feel quite isolating.

Reaching out can and will make a difference for you and your students.

SO LEARN TO DEVELOP

YOUR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK

TECHNOLOGY TOOLS TO ADD TO

YOUR TOOLBOX
Fill up as much or as little as you like,
but you can do it all online.
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TWITTER FOR SCHOOL COUNSELLORS

We LOVE twitter!

It is the best PD tool ever.
You can connect with school counsellors and other educators from all over the world.

Discuss the MYTH of EASY.

It gets EASY with practice.

Livebinder on twitter ideas and tips:
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=400453

I PAD APPS FOR SCHOOL COUNSELLORS

APPS are GREAT for YOU and STUDENTS.

You can use these in session and out of session (students fun homework)
Use as a disussion piece or use to do some great work that produces REAL change in students.

We will discuss educationally sound reasons to use APPS.

A few of our favourites:
HAIKU DECK
TOXIC THINKING
BREATHE 2 RELAX
ICOUNSELOR
on ANXIETY, ANGER etc.
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HAIKU DECK

A FAVORITE
Great for you to pick topics amd share with other school counsellors.

Fantastic for you to use to make for students to share important topics and then tweet to the students on your school account or if you have a school facebook account you can share there.

Just plain fun to use for YOU.

LIVEBINDERS

www.livebinders.com

Love this online tool.

They are 3 ring binder online.

Have several binders on many topics relative to school counsellors... OPEN to SHARING.

PINTEREST FOR SCHOOL COUNSELLORS

www.pinterest.com

A great visual tool for school counsellors to share ideas and websites.

SCOPE

SCHOOL COUNSELLOR ONLINE PROFESSIONAL EXCHANGE
http://sconlineprofessionalexchange.wikispaces.com

A fantastic site for new and seasoned school counsellors to share and get ideas and tools that will help them and students.

Look for constant updates and feel free to SHARE.

Thanks to @ecmmason for all her inspiration and dedication here.

GOOGLE + HANGOUTS

You don't know what you are missing if you haven't tried one of these.

Just beginning to explore how these will be helpful.

JUX.COM

www.sspellmancann.jux.com

LOVE LOVE LOVE jux for creating school counselling websites.

A visual way to connect with your school population.

Just plain fun to use.

BLOGS... A PART OF ETMOOC

BENEFITS FOR SCHOOL COUNSELLORS
Erin and I are absolutely excited to be a part of ETMOOC.

Check out the tweets on twitter #ETMOOC

Go to www.etmooc.org to find out more.

Check out our blogs .

Remember we are a work in progress and probably always will be.

www.sspellmancann.wordpress.com
www.erinluong.wordpress.org

SHARE, SHARE, SHARE ... this is the #ETMOOC philosophy.
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YOUR TURN TO

FOCUS ON ONE TECH TOOL THAT WOULD WORK FOR YOU
We are here to HELP you work on any tool you want to learn more about.

It is all about personal learning and using what you think will help you most TODAY.
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ERIN AND SUSAN ARE HERE TO HELP YOU

@EHORDYSKILUONG @SSPELLMANCANN
A special thanks to Dr. Erin Mason
(Counselor Educator Chicago)
and Alec Couros ( Uof R ETMOOC leader)
He is the tech guy who is inspiring us both.
@HAIKU DECK thanks for providing a great platform to share.

We are lifelong learners and LOVE to connect with other School Counsellors.

If you want to SHARE please contact us.
Maybe we can collaborate on a LIVEBINDER.

We'd love to collaborate with counsellors from across the WORLD on a LIVEBINDER someday!