Facebook
Possibilities:
- Set up a webpage for your counseling department
- Have students and parents "like" your page to receive updates on your counseling department
Twitter
Possibilities:
- Twitter page set up for your counseling department
- Students and parents could follow your Twitter page and receive updates on your counseling department
Weebly - free websites
Possibilities:
- Make your own website for free!
- Easy to use and design.
Prezi
Possibilities:
- Prezi is a modern power point.
- Has the ability to link directly to YouTube links
Wordle
Possibilities:
- Put several words together to make an inspirational message
- Can choose colors and themes
Naviance
Possibilities:
- Naviance allows students to search several different colleges, by looking through college’s acceptance standards and several other possibilities. Students can request transcripts, complete surveys and much more!
- For school districts it is a great way to keep track of students and their progress towards applying for colleges.
- There are many more great things on this website as well, and the possibilities are endless.
- This is a cost per student (around $2-3 per student)
Quizlet
Possibilities:
- You can use this website to allow students to post questions to your lessons
- You can also make flashcards of your different lessons
School Tube
Possibilities:
- Just like You Tube but typically not blocked by school internet filters
- Great to use to guidance lessons and group counseling!
Framework for 21st Century Skills
Possibilities:
- This website is a great resource for all things 21st Century Learning! There are overviews of what 21st Century Skills are and why they are needed. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills organization advocates for each child to have 21st Century readiness.
- This is a fabulous resource for educators who want to help students succeed in the 21st Century.
Know How 2 Go
Possibilities:
- Helps students middle school through high school seniors prepare and understand why college is important
- Goes over financial aid information
- Allows students to explore their interests
Reachout
Possibilities:
- A webpage devoted to teens helping teens
- A great website for student feel alone and want to be connected to other students going through the same types of situations as they are dealing with
Learning Styles
Possibilities:
A fabulous site for anyone to use! Ever wonder how you learn best? Have a student who struggles in learning or studying? Have them take this simple quiz on their learning style. The quiz is short and asks questions as participants answer “not like me”, “somewhat like me”, or “totally like me”. At the end of the quiz it totals up their answers and gives a percentage for each of their learning styles. This is a great indicator for students to realize they do not all fit into one learning style but have a variety of them. There is an explanation of each of the seven learning styles and what they mean and how they can use them to help them learn.
A fabulous site for anyone to use! Ever wonder how you learn best? Have a student who struggles in learning or studying? Have them take this simple quiz on their learning style. The quiz is short and asks questions as participants answer “not like me”, “somewhat like me”, or “totally like me”. At the end of the quiz it totals up their answers and gives a percentage for each of their learning styles. This is a great indicator for students to realize they do not all fit into one learning style but have a variety of them. There is an explanation of each of the seven learning styles and what they mean and how they can use them to help them learn.
Worry Wise Kids
Possibilities:
- A site that helps kids who worry or deal with anxiety
- Information and links for parents, teachers, and students
Test Drive Your Life
Possibilities:
Students choose a career and answer several questions about what they are interested in. Then they design a car with lots of options. Once their car is set, they get to “drive” and have all sorts of stops along the virtual road. There are signs telling them to exit to try out one of three jobs. These exits provide basic working conditions and other information about the job. There are also exits in which they are not supposed to take but can choose to and lose “points” for taking detours along the way to their goal. This is a useful and free website best suited for upper elementary and middle school students.
Students choose a career and answer several questions about what they are interested in. Then they design a car with lots of options. Once their car is set, they get to “drive” and have all sorts of stops along the virtual road. There are signs telling them to exit to try out one of three jobs. These exits provide basic working conditions and other information about the job. There are also exits in which they are not supposed to take but can choose to and lose “points” for taking detours along the way to their goal. This is a useful and free website best suited for upper elementary and middle school students.
Kids Against Bullying
Possibilities:
- A great anti-bullying website that is kid-friendly
- The site has games and a spot for kids to shard their stories
QR Generator
Possibilities:
- Free and easy to use website
- If you have recently designed a website or want to link a website quickly to other people just copy the link, go to this website and paste the link you want in the provided space, then hit enter. There will be a picture to download and that is your QR code! Easy as that! You can save this and put it into any document you need.
We Listen
Possibilities:
- A great website with different books you can project onto the board during a classroom lesson
- The books are interactive and elementary students love the interactive books
Twitter Tutorial
Possibilities:
- A tutorial that shows you the ends and outs of how to use twitter
My Next Move
Possibilities:
- O*NET Interest Profiler
- Helps explore career interests for all ages
Common Sense Media
Possibilities:
- Lists reviews and advise for all types of media for parents and educators
- Rates games, apps, movies and more
- Lesson plans for k-12 on internet safety and security, digital citizenship, research and information literacy