Technology-tips
We are both crafting and selecting some of the best technology videos and websites to help you become a 21st century counselor.
Blogs
- Utechtips–an awesome website full of technology tips for educators, by educators
- Lifehacker–a wonderful website that keeps the pulse on ways to make your life work better–not just technology and not just education
- Counselor 2.0 the website created to help counselors learn the skills to podcast, blog, wiki and more.
Podcasts worth listening too
- Naviance has been doing a wonderful job interviewing interesting people for their counselor podcast page. Aimed at Counselors, many episodes can be useful for families.
- Insidehigher ed has really launched a wonderful, rolicking spread aimed at admission professionals and anyone really into higher education.
- Shaun McElroy is developinga series of U-Cast podcast profiles of universities as well as special topics related to college admissions.
- Peterson’s serves up a dozen or so interesting podcasts from understanding your SAT scores to selective college admission.
- Oxford jumped on the 21st century bandwagon in a big way creating a wonderful series of podcasts covering their admission practices. Not to be outdone, Cambridge also has several great episodes. On the otherside of the pond, Yale university offers a very insightful look at selective college admissions–well theirs anyway. Applying to medical school from Leeds university should be essential listening to any student applying to the UK for Medical school.
- In a name that says it all, the Financial Aid Podcast.
- The Choronicle of Higher Education offers some of the most thought provoking content through both video and Audio.
- Open Culture is keeping track of all the wonderful universities making content free through their podcats–I like to call this test driving a university. Be sure to check out itunes U when you open itunes.
Videos worth watching
Using Naviance–Shaun McElroy has created a series of videos for using Naviance. Here is an example:
Want to get blogging? Sterling offers up a series of how to:
Become a better blogger is a useful website with lots of free how to information.
A great series about Admission Blogging can be found on Google Video
