Promoting & Supporting Your School Counseling Program with Technology

1. Promoting & Supporting Your School Counseling Program with Technology WSCA 2012 Richard Cleveland and Robyn Cronin

2. Intro Who we are What we are going to do today?

3. The Amazing Robyn! Competition Time!

4. What Do You Want? What do you want to learn/address today? What is one thing you want to walk away knowing today?

5. The Digital Divide • Open Educational Resources (OERs) • PowerPoint presentations • Multimedia (movies, drawings, diagrams) • Working templates (Word, Adobe, Excel) • Literature from OERs looking at the definition of “the Digital Divide” • Migrating from access to usability

6. The Digital Divide • Prezi.com • Spiffy PowerPoint or bigger headache? • Our Structure for Today: • Exposure • Usability & Considerations

7. Why Technology? Plan, organize, collaborate, implement, and evaluate Create interactions Provide information Enable creativity Expand reach Provide channels for communication Produce results and convey data

8. Managing Obstacles How do we do this? Downside of technology Engaging students (mainstream as well as under/non-served populations) Not being left behind as other areas of education “advance”

9. What Do You Already Have? • What programs do you already have? • Isis, DUIS, eGrad, other district/state scheduling, records, etc. programs and software • What works / doesn’t work? • What is your criteria for what does/doesn’t work? How do we define this criteria? • Time? Training? Interface?

10. Exposure - Tasks • File sharing (i.e. Google Docs, Dropbox, WSCA Scene). • Don’t reinvent the wheel every time you create a document/PowerPoint/etc. Similarly, have access no matter where you are at in the building/district. One more – sharing with colleagues.

11. Exposure - Tasks • Online Calendar Tools • Microsoft Outlook • Google Calendar

12. Exposure - Tasks Microsoft Outlook Google Calendar Managed sharing with others Easy to Print & Post day, week, month Invites, Appt Confirmations through Email Embed links, docs, etc. Dittos Easy connections to social media applications Extends to networks outside district servers

13. Exposure - Tasks • Jazz up your creations! Use Fun fonts, clipart, animations, movies, etc. to revamp worksheets, PowerPoints, handouts, etc. Take it one step further and have students create these from scratch or from a template. Talk about the GLAD example as well as the STR final project example. Wordle.net

14. Exposure - Tasks • Jazz up your creations! • Fun fonts • Clipart, animations, movies, etc. • Students create from scratch or template • GLAD • STR final project • Wordle.net

15. Wordle.net

16. Exposure - Tasks • Fun Tools – Discovery Education (i.e. crossword puzzle maker, etc.), Sheppardsoftware.com, Starfall, etc.

17. Exposure - Tasks • Presentation Tools • “…the reports of PowerPoint’s death have been greatly exaggerated…” • PowerPoint, Prezi, Adobe Connect, GoToMeeting, etc.

18. Exposure - Tasks • Wireless Response Devices • Classroom guidance lessons • Small Group • “Game Show” Assemblies • Potential Benefits • Classroom management • Anonymity for Students • Differentiated Instruction – walking answers “backwards”

19. Exposure - Tasks • TurningPoint • Simple, sturdy hardware • Simple software interface • “Plays well with others..” – works with other MS applications • Poll Everywhere.com • Using cell phone texting • iPhone, iPad, Droid, etc.

20. How To Vote via Texting EXAMPLE

21. POLL EVERYWHERE.com

22. Exposure – Collaboration • Building/Department Website as one of your primary communication tools. • Site Review: Cottondale Elementary; Rye High School (#50) • Do you have one • Is it accessible, drawing people in? More than communication but engaging people. • Even if you have a district interface that you are required to use, often you can embed sites, wikis, etc. in the interface (i.e. Wix.com, Google, Twitter, Facebook, gadgets, widgets, etc.). • Reinvigorate – what exactly are people using/interacting with on your site? • Survey students, school/community members – what would like to see more of on your website?

23. Exposure – Collaboration • ASCA/WSCA Scene as a way to connect, share, and collaborate • The next step from file sharing at a static, one-stop shopping silo. • Post discussion threads and even choose to be notified when someone responds (i.e. Ask for a template and then get notification when people reply to your request).

24. Exposure – Collaboration • Pearltrees • Real time • Connectivity • Personalized network • AI • Collaboration

25. Exposure – Tasks & Collaboration Summary Questions?

26. LUNCH BREAK

27. Check-In & Formative Assessment How are we doing with what you wanted to learn/know? How does this align with what we have already discussed?

28. ACTIVITY • Participants break out by level (ES, MS, HS) • Discuss: • What/how are you seeing kids use technology? • What/how are you using technology? • What do you wish your school had? • What impact are you seeing at school?

29. ACTIVITY • Discuss: • What/how are you seeing kids use technology?

30. ACTIVITY • Discuss: • What/how are you using technology?

31. ACTIVITY • Discuss: • What do you wish your school had?

32. ACTIVITY • Discuss: • What impact are you seeing at school?

33. Usability & Considerations • Social media • Facebook – depends on district policy whether to have access/use at site. Instant notification but limited on what you can post (size, etc.).

34. Usability & Considerations • Social media • Twitter • mini-blogging (140 characters) • Expanding connectvitiy, but still limited • “Gateway” social-media • “Pointing” or linking

35. Usability & Considerations • Social media • Twitter – different than Facebook, this is mini-blogging. Again, while Twitter is expanding its connectedness (or connectability), it is still limited in how much you can share. Really, all you can do is mini-blog and point to cool things.

36. ACTIVITY • Social media • Case Study Scenario Activityre: Cyberbullying

37. ACTIVITY Case Study Scenario: • A 5th grade teacher has a Facebook profile and is very professional with her postings. While she does not seek out students or “friend” them, many students “friend” her upon finding her profile. The teacher approaches you concerned about postings one student has repeatedly written regarding another student. She is very concerned about the “victim” student, stating that while nothing has occurred in class, she has noticed the “victim” student presenting more depressed, quiet, and removed. She asks you what she should do.

38. CYBERBULLYING Tools of Trauma Policy Considerations Russ Sabella www.schoolcounselor.com • Exclusion • Flaming • Outing • Cyberstalking • Email • Harassment • IM/Texting • Websites • Impersonation • Voting/Polling • Cyberbullying Research Center • www.cyberbullying.us • Center for Safe & Responsible Internet Use • http://csriu.org • Not in Our School • www.niot.org

39. Usability & Considerations • Limitations/Considerations • Opportunity Gap related to the digital divide previously mentioned. • Old school vs. wired all the time with smart phones, iPads, etc. • Grants, money aspect. Provide some places to look, but also bounce back to them for ideas (i.e. district funds, PTA grants, etc.). Talk to vendors – Turning Point “deals” they keep sending me.

40. Usability & Considerations Summary Questions

41. Overall Review & Summary Exposure Usability & Considerations

42. Overall Review & Summary • Exposure • Usability & Considerations • Defining What Works for You and Your Needs • What’s Your Next Step?

43. Thank You & Questions Thank You Questions