1. TECHNOLOGY SMACKDOWN!
Web 2.0 Resources for School Counselors
Technology Description/Highlights URL Price
Twitter is a powerhouse for marketing, communication, business, and even education,
Twitter www.twitter.com Free
letting people from around the world work together, share ideas, and gain exposure.
Share My Lesson is a place where educators can come together to create and share their
very best teaching resources. Developed by teachers for teachers, this free platform
Share My Lesson www.sharemylesson.com Free
gives access to high-quality teaching resources and provides an online community where
teachers can collaborate with, encourage and inspire each other.
This form will allow you to create custom notetaking sheets for any or all of your classes.
Cornell Method The custom sheets can be blank (Cornell Style), ruled, or graph style. They are output
http://www.eleven21.com/notetaker/ Free
PDF Generator with your name, the name of your class, and the date - that is, if you provide that
information.
Helps colleges and other advertisers reach their target audience of people ages 15-45
who are thinking about attending college. Prospective students visit the site for
My Footpath www.myfootpath.com Free
information about degree programs, scholarships and other funding sources, career
profiles, job searching, and college admissions.
Lets you organize and share images you find on the web or create yourself. Great for
Pinterest quick visual ideas on education and counseling topics. Good example www.pinterest.com Free
http://pinterest.com/wcpsscounseling/
A free text or email reminder service for educators. Students and parents can recieve text
Remind101 www.remind101.com Free
reminders but can't see your phone number and communication only goes one way.
Weebly is a great way to create an awesome website from scratch. All you need to know Free & Pro
Weebly www.weebly.com
is how to drag and drop the things you want and a great site appears in no time. Plans
A great website for collecting form and survey data. Wufoo is easy to use and creates Free <100
Wufoo www.wufoo.com
visually appealing forms with lots of options for exporting the results. entries/mth
Socrative is a free online student response system. Quick and easy to use, it's a great
Socrative www.socrative.com Free
way to get feedback from a group.
Jog The Web lets you present a series of websites without having to worry about typing in
Jog The Web the address each time. It lets you interact with each page and make notes about each www.jogtheweb.com Free
one.
Create a more user friendly link to give to people. Instead of
is.gd is.gd
https://sites.google.com/a/lhsd.k12.oh.us/logan-hocking-middle-school-
bit.ly bit.ly Free
counseling/middleschooltransition, or something equally long, you could create a URL to
tinyurl.com tinyurl.com
go to that same location: http://is.gd/UsPMro
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2. TECHNOLOGY SMACKDOWN!
Web 2.0 Resources for School Counselors
Technology Description/Highlights URL Price
Make your presentations ZOOM! You can upload any Microsoft Powerpoint presentation
Prezi or create one from scratch. It zooms, rotates, flips, etc. to make your presentation much prezi.com Free
more interesting!
Create a music video with your counseling department/teachers/students. It is amazing
VirtualDub www.virtualdub.org Free
how simple it can be to throw something together that will be a major hit!
LastPass is a password manager and form filler that's intrinsically Web-based, so you can
LastPass use it from any computer. Your data is fully encrypted and stored securely online. It's www.lastpass.com Free
awesome!
Free conversion between document, image, music, video, audio, eBook, compressed and
Zamzar CAD formats. No download or account required. (other options include www.zamzar.com Free
http://www.mediaconverter.org/ & http://www.online-convert.com/)
KeepVid
YouTube Download and save videos directly from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, Putfile and more. www.keepvid.com www.savevid.com/
Free
dowloader Simply copy and paste. youtubedownload.altervista.org/
SaveVid
Offers users the ability to upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint
SlideShare www.slideshare.net Free
presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios.
DropBox All of your files, when and where you need them! www.dropbox.com Free
DropItToMe Securely receive files from anyone to your DropBox. http://dropitto.me Free
ASCA has developed a social networking group for school counselors. Members are able
ASCA Scene to post files (lesson plans, sample forms and more), connect via message boards, see schoolcounselor.groupsite.com Free
what's coming up on the ASCA calendar, post blog messages, and much more!
http://docs.google.com
Google Docs allows you to create Word, Excel, Powerpoints, surveys, and much more
Google http://plus.google.com
online. Google Drive allows you to save anything virtually and access it anywhere. Free
Docs/Drive/Voice www.google.com/voice
Google Voice gives you a comprehensive telephony system for free!
http://drive.google.com
Allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and
Tube Chop http://www.tubechop.com/ Free
share it (or make it school appropriate!)
School Tube k-12 video site - content created by students & educators (like YouTube, but for school!) http://www.schooltube.com/ Free
Download and save videos directly from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, Putfile and more. free <40
Polleverywhere www.polleverywhere.com/
Simply copy and paste. responses
A free countdown timer, when a stopwatch just won't work or you would like project it (as http://www.online-
Countdown Timer Free
seen in this presentation). stopwatch.com/countdown-timer/
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3. TECHNOLOGY SMACKDOWN!
Web 2.0 Resources for School Counselors
Technology Description/Highlights URL Price
No more sign up sheets! Create and organize signups of students, parents, volunteers,
Signup Genius http://www.signupgenius.com Free
room space, etc. online and free.
Simplifies the process of scheduling events, whether they’re board or team meetings,
Doodle dinners with friends, reunions, weekend trips, or anything else. (Also see http://www.doodle.com/ Free
http://www.when2meet.com/)
Allway Sync Synchronizes folders and files between computers and other storage devices. www.allaysync.com Free
The service allows users to communicate with peers by voice, video, and instant
Skype messaging over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free of www.skype.com/ Free
charge, while calls to landline telephones and mobile phones are charged.
Blogger A free blog publishing service owned by Google. www.blogger.com Free
This is the ultimate place to share your photos, videos, words, and more. It's like blogging
Jux https://jux.com/ Free
in HD!
Glogster is the leading global education platform for the creative expression of knowledge
and skills in the classroom and beyond. Glogster makes GLOGS - online multimedia
Glogster http://www.glogster.com/ Free
posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and
more.
Your three ring binder for the web. Collect your resources, organize them neatly and
Livebinder www.livebinders.com/ Free
easily. Make an impression!
Ever needed a quick easy way to shoot a video of your screen? Screencast-O-Matic lets
Screencast-O-Matic http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ Free
you create and edit how-to videos that you can post to Youtube or your website.
Wordle is an online tool for creating word clouds from passages of text. The more often a
Wordle word appears in the text, the larger will be on the cloud. Works great as a way to create http://www.wordle.net/ Free
interesting title pages for presentations.
Flash card creation with a twist. You can share your flash cards with others. Great for
StudyBlue http://www.studyblue.com Free
student study groups. StudyBlue has a website as well as IOS and Android apps.
These are short, art-inspired stories you make, share, read, and print. Read them like
Storybirds http://storybirds.com Free
books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards.
An interactive, visual, and dynamic resume. Allows you to also link to your traditional
Re.vu http://re.vu/
resume.
Greenshot This is a lightweight screenshot software tool for Windows. Very easy to use! http://getgreenshot.org/ Free
A great to-do list that syncs across all of your devices. Complete with deadlines, tags,
Producteev email reminders, ability to assign tasks to others, etc. A great way to keep track of all of www.producteev.com Free
those little things you are asked to do through the day.
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4. TECHNOLOGY SMACKDOWN!
Web 2.0 Resources for School Counselors
Technology Description/Highlights URL Price
Cool website where you can hire people for $5 to do almost anything. Great if you are
Fiverr trying to create something and need just a bit of technical help or artwork done and do not http://www.fiverr.com 5 Dollars
have the skills yourself.
Edmodo provides educators and students a secure place to connect and collaborate,
Edmodo share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class http://www.edmodo.com/ Free
discussions and notifications.
Create exemplary rubrics in a short amount of time (also a "star" family of other tools
RubiStar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ Free
available)
Stich.it is a service that lets you “stich” almost anything together on the Internet. That
means that you can quickly and seamlessly create a slideshow-like experience that can
Stich It http://stich.it/ Free
include Web pages, video, music, photos and more. All you need are links! (also see
www.bundlenut.com)
Easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It
Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ Free
lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself
Free (up to
Hoot Suite Manage social profiles in one location; schedule posts/tweets, analyze traffic http://hootsuite.com/ 5 SM
platforms)
Wall Wisher Blank, interactive "wall" that you can teach with, brainstorm, take notes, and more. http://wallwisher.com/ Free
Email Extractor lite. Extract email addresses from any text with this free utility. Simply
Email Extractor http://eel.surf7.net.my/ Free
copy, paste and start extracting.
Just for fun! A teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no
Cue Prompter http://cueprompter.com/ Free
extra software needed.
Free (pay
Just for fun! Printing out award certificates has never been easier! Just download, fill out
Certificate Street http://www.certificatestreet.com/ options
& print. Also see (http://www.poster-street.com/)
available)
Just for fun! Create wall-sized posters. Upload an image from your computer and choose
Block Posters www.blockposters.com Free
how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be once printed
www.pandora.com,
Music Options Just for fun! Play music in your office! www.iheartradio.com, Free
www.grooveshark.com
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5. TECHNOLOGY SMACKDOWN!
Web 2.0 Resources for School Counselors
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR PRESENTERS
Sara Williams - Unioto High School Counselor & OSCA President Elect - sarawilliams@ohioschoolcounselor.org
Jim Collins - Logan-Hocking Middle School Counselor & OSCA District 12 Director - district12@ohioschoolcounselor.org
Josh Packard - Ashland High School Counselor- jopackar@ashlandcityschools.org
Sarah Kolis - Berea High School Counselor- skolis@berea.k12.oh.us
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