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