A Fixer
A fixer has the illusion of being causal
a server knows s/he is being used in the service
of something greater,
essentially unknown.
We fix something specific.
We serve always something:
Wholeness and the mystery of life.
Fixing and helping are the work of the ego.
Serving is the work of the soul.
When you help, you see life as weak.
When you fix you see life as broken
When you serve you see life as whole.
Fixing and helping may cure. Service heals.
When I help, I feel satisfaction.
When I serve, I feel gratitude.
Fixing is a form of judgment.
Serving is a form of connection.
- Unknown
Top 5 Training Topics
for School Counselors
http://www.schoolcounselor.com/top5training.htm
Also see
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/508472/Top%206%20MAIN.pdf
Must See Videos
A few selected videos added since the last issue.
http://www.schoolcounselor.com/videos/
(Click on the Youtube logo
on the bottom right corner to watch in full screen; also
know that if you can’t see the video, your network is
probably blocking YouTube).
The Lost Generation
A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This
video reads the exact opposite backwards as forward. Not
only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact
opposite. This is only a 1 minute, 44 second video and
it is brilliant. Read as you listen…forward and
backward. This is a video that was submitted in a
contest by a 20-year old. The contest was titled "u @
50" by AARP. This video won second place. When they
showed it, everyone in the room was awe-struck and broke
into spontaneous applause. So simple and yet so
brilliant. Take a minute and watch it.
http://www.schoolcounselor.com/videos/2010/01/lost-generation.html
Amazing Sand Art and
Storytelling
This one, I believe, can easily be incorporated
into the classroom in so many ways (academic, social,
emotional, personal, career, etc.). The video shows the
winner of " Ukraine 's Got Talent," Kseniya Simonova,
24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand
table showing how ordinary people were affected by the
German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which
admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch. The
images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the
audience to tears and she won the top prize.
http://bit.ly/7D0n8J
Redefining Respect in
America Event
The National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC)
hosted an engaging panel discussion at the National
Press Club with the goal of staring a national
discussion around respect, online aggression, and their
links to crime prevention. The event, Redefining Respect
in America, featured speakers Deborah Norville (Inside
Edition anchor and author of The Power of Respect),
Rosalind Wiseman (author of Queen Bees and Wannabes);
Rachel Simmons (author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden
Culture of Aggression in Girls); Christopher Moessner
(Senior Vice President, Research, Stewart and Partners);
and Dr. Sameer Hinduja (Co-Director, Cyberbullying
Research Center, Florida Atlantic University).
This too would make for a
wonderful classroom discussion.
http://bit.ly/8eYH09
Think Before You Speak
This video, produced by a student (Ashley Cole), can
easily be used as part of a classroom lesson/discussion.
Ashley did an amazing job ..
http://www.schoolcounselor.com/videos/2010/01/think-before-you-speak.html
You can also see more at
http://www.thinkb4youspeak.com/
New
Resources
GuardingKids.com:
A Practical Guide to Keeping Kids out of High-tech
Trouble is now in the Kindle Store
http://bit.ly/5AscZw
School Counselors
Website: Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
http://www.scribd.com/full/25909385?access_key=key-2mevhq09v2ed06f02dn4
New Resources on
GuardingKids.com
– My PowerPoint and Related Files to be used with
Elementary School Students (195 Mb). I've used this (and
the middle/secondary one below) successfully in a class
assembly style format.
— Update: Copy of my comprehensive PowerPoint (for Adult
Audiences) regarding Guarding Kids (67 Mb; PDF)
– My PowerPoint and Related Files to be used with Middle
and Secondary School Students (574 Mb)
– Table of comprehensive cyberbullying curriculum
resources.
TIPS AND
TRICKS
School Counselors have been asking me about how to take
advantage of Smartboard technology so I put the question
out on several forums. Here are some responses:
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Karen Phillips wrote: I used
http://www.angriesout.com/index.htm#kids
for an anger management group when I was in the
elementary setting. There are some interactive
activities that were great and led to further
discussion. I recently used our Smartboard in
the computer lab for a career lesson for 7th
graders. I utilized
http://www.vaview.org/ as a
springboard for introducing career clusters and
career exploration; I've also used it for a 5th
grade career lesson. The stopbullyingnow lesson
I presented went over well with 5th graders and
it offers loads of further options for
discussion. I love the smartboard! It really
helps getting the kids up and moving and
everyone wants to get involved. |
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Clare Simon wrote: I have used the US Dept. of
Health & Human Services' website
www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/
with 2nd graders. The webisodes and games were
interactive, informative and fun for the
students. |
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Tim Gillian uses
http://www.coderedrover.org
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Jetable
To avoid spam, jetable.org provides you with a
temporary email address. As soon as it is created, all
the emails sent to this address are forwarded to your
actual email address. Your antispam address will be
deactivated after the lifespan you selected comes to its
end.
http://www.jetable.org/
BTW, you can also easily accomplish sort of the same
thing if you have a Gmail account:
http://lifehacker.com/144397/instant-disposable-gmail-addresses
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Osun.org
although you can already do this with Google’s
advanced search options, this site does make it quick
and simple to search out documents of the PPT, DOC, and
PDF type.
Also see SlideFinder at
http://www.slidefinder.net/
which is a special search engine just for Microsoft
PowerPoints. Here are the direct results for the
keyphrase “school
counseling.”
You can click on the thumbnails to see more of the
presentation or click on the down arrow to download. So
far, no registration required.
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BibMe is a free
automatic bibliography generator that supports MLA, APA,
Chicago, and Turabian formatting. BibMe leverages
databases provided by Amazon, FindArticles, Yahoo! News,
and CiteULike to quickly and accurately AutoFill
citation information for you. BibMe will then format the
citation information according to the rules and
guidelines of the style guides. If you prefer, you can
enter your citation information manually. BibMe also
contains a quick citation guide to show students the
correct syntax for citing in various formats.
http://www.bibme.org/
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How to Completely Erase
a Hard Drive
If you want to donate your computer and
really
want to erase all data from the hard drive ... (NOTE:
Make sure to backup all your stuff first because once
it’s gone – it’s gone!). Sometimes simply deleting files
isn't good enough. In this how-to video segment, PC
World explains a number of simple techniques for
permanently and securely removing sensitive data from
old drives before recycling or disposing of them.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/157126/how_to_completely_erase_a_hard_drive.html?tk=nl_wbx_t_crawl2
I also recommend:
http://www.wizard-industries.com/sure-delete/
http://eraser.heidi.ie/
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PDFmyURL
Source: Komando.co
You can turn your documents into PDF files using free
software. There's also PDFmyURL. As its name suggests,
it turns Web pages into PDF files. PDFmyURL does a good
job of keeping a page's formatting. And there's no
software to install. So, you can use it on any machine
with a Web browser. To use PDFmyURL, just enter a Web
page address and click a button. You'll be prompted to
download your PDF file. You can also specify advanced
options if you need.
http://pdfmyurl.com/
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Search Engine for Movie
Clips
This could be helpful when doing guidance or
consulting.
http://movieclips.com/
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Google Reader Lets You
Monitor Page Changes Without RSS
http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/google-reader-lets-you-monitor-page-changes-without-rss/
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The 10 Commandments of
PowerPoint
http://www.the20life.com/2009/05/11/the-10-commandments-of-powerpoint/
WORTHY
WEBSITES AND SOFTWARE
VCD Menu Lite is
a free Video CD / DVD menu and title page generation
program for Windows. Add this utility to your video
toolkit and quickly produce simple but attractive menus
as front-ends for your VCD / SVCD / DVD movie and
slideshow presentations. Pick your colors, type in
titles and menu captions, grab the frames from your
movie clips, then export to a JPG image. Use a VCD/DVD
authoring program to convert your menu image into an
MPEG still.
http://www.briggsoft.com/vmlite.htm
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Momondo is a search
engine for flights
We're not a travel agency, and we don't sell
flight tickets. We simply google flights across sites to
make it easy for you to save time and money.
http://www.momondo.com/
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Google Docs Template
Gallery
http://docs.google.com/templates?hl=en
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chi.mp stands for
Content Hub & Identity Management Platform. Use your
chi.mp site to collect, promote and connect the elements
of your digital life in one place. This includes
displaying your contact information, biography, blogs,
messaging tools, websites and outside services such as
Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.
http://chi.mp/
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TweakNow PowerPack
is a free fully-integrated suite of utilities
that let you fine-tune every aspect of your computer's
operating system and Web browser.
http://www.tweaknow.com/powerPack.php
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Gadwin PrintScreen
is an easy to use utility that allows you to capture any
portion of the screen, save it to a file, copy it to
Windows clipboard, print it or e-mail it to a recipient
of your choice.
http://www.gadwin.com/download/index.htm#PrintScreen
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sprixi: Search Engine
for Creative Commons and Public Domain Images
Free images to choose and use!
http://www.sprixi.com/
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CaringBridge
helps you stay connected with loved ones during a
serious health event. CaringBridge makes family
communication simple during a difficult time. Their free
patient websites help loved ones share information and
support throughout serious health events, care and
recovery.
http://www.caringbridge.org/
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TeuxDeux is a
simple, designy, browser-based to-do app. Watch the
video demo online, pretty cool.
http://teuxdeux.com/
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Seismic
Look
The new desktop client for Windows 7, Vista, and
XP streamlines Twitter into a series of easy-to-navigate
categories and extra large status updates. It also makes
it simple to use Twitter without having a Twitter
account.
http://seesmic.com/
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A New Year Resolutions
Template
This is a swell excel template if you want to
keep track of your goals or new year resolutions or just
manage a list. See it for yourself.
http://bit.ly/832qZP
Also see
Joe's Goals is a
simple yet powerful tool to make tracking your goals the
easiest part of accomplishing them. Use the simple
single page interface to setup daily goals and track
them with just a click. Watch your daily score to gage
your success and use negative goals (or vices) to
confront and overcome bad habits that finally need to
get the boot. Share your success with your friends and
family or post your personal score badge to your blog or
MySpace page. Add as many Goals as you want and update
them all from a single interface.
http://www.joesgoals.com/
and
habitforge
http://habitforge.com/
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Study Skills Assessment
and more from the Walla Walla Community College Website
http://bit.ly/7UTiNi
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Google Turns Google Docs
Into a Storage Device
Google has announced that Google Docs is set to
become more than just a place to make presentations,
spreadsheets, and documents. Over the next few weeks
Google will be rolling out the ability to upload all
file types to Google Docs. Individual files will have a
limit of 250MB, but you’ll have a total of 1GB of space
to store your files. If you need more space than that
it’ll cost you .25 per GB per year.
http://bit.ly/7ihkfD
Data Boot Camp for School Counselors
and Administrators - CD
Russell A. Sabella, Ph.D.
My newest CD is
designed to help you become more proficient in
using Microsoft Excel™ to make data an important
part of your comprehensive school counseling
program. From data-driven decision making, to
monitoring progress, to reporting the positive
impact you're having on kids -- this CD will
demystify how it's done.
With the Data Boot Camp for School Counselors
and Administrators, what you see and hear on the
videos is what you do. At your fingertips,
you'll have access to 30 videos and lots of
graphics, tips, tricks, and resourceful links.
This straightforward step-by-step approach makes
learning how to use Microsoft Excel™ (and a bit
of PowerPoint™) as easy and convenient as
watching television. Data Boot Camp will help
school counseling students, practitioners,
administrators, and counselor educators to more
easily unlock the power of data so you can more
effectively support student achievement.
The content on the CD is equivalent to a
full-day workshop in the computer lab!
Visit and learn more about the contents of the
CD and view a couple of sample videos (Remember,
these samples may take a few moments to load
because you are online. However, on the CD, this
is not an issue because the videos are all
located on the CD itself!).
http://www.schoolcounselor.com/store/data-bootcamp.htm
$18.95 (FREE shipping)
Now on sale for the remainder of January 2010
Only $10 and
still, free shipping
Please allow 5-7 working days to arrive
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JUST FOR FUN
YouTube: A doggy summer
http://bit.ly/2ji3jV
also see A doggy
Christmas surprise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUtPKbMwnRo
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11 Ways to Listen to
Music Online For Free from The 2.0 Life
http://bit.ly/7s6jtW
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Fun Photo Box
Free online service to create funny greeting
cards with your photos.
http://cards.funphotobox.com/
LoonaPix
Add photo effects or photo frames to your photos online.
LoonaPix.com is a photo processing online service, that
lets you make your photos funny and unique.
http://www.loonapix.com/
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Photovisi
Your own photo collage as wallpaper or print!
http://www.photovisi.com/
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Goby is a search
engine focused on exploring fun things to do with your
free time, from taking a unique vacation to creating
this weekend's adventure.
http://www.goby.com/
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Calculate duration
between two dates
This service calculates the duration, counting
the day count and the number of days, months and years
between two dates. Among other things, it can be used
find how many days old you are and the weekday you were
born.
http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html
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Beautiful World
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24718795/Beautiful-World
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Amazon.com 2009
Bestsellers
http://bit.ly/7i9YjE
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BallDroppings
looks fairly simple. You'll see a black screen. In the
upper left corner is a hole through which balls drop.
You can use your mouse to draw lines on the screen. A
line can be extended or moved using the handles on
either end. When a ball hits the line, it produces a
sound. By drawing several lines, you can create music!
Source:
http://www.komando.com/
http://balldroppings.com/js/
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FYI ..
Two months ago we let you know about Brian Leaf's 100
SAT/ACT workbook giveaway. Today he announced the winner
... Alicia K. Clement,
10-12th Grade Counselor at the Michigan Center Schools
in Michigan Center, MI! Congrats Alicia! Even if you did
not win, you can still download for free 40 pages of
Brian Leaf's "McGraw-Hill's Top 50 Skills for a Top
Score: SAT Critical Reading and Writing" at
http://www.brianleaf.com/index.php/SAT-Critical-Reading-and-Writing.html
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