School Counseling Web 2.0 and Technology Smackdown
Web 2.0 refers to web applications that help people to communicate, collaborate, share, network, socialize, and deliver resources. We had such amazing success with the Smackdown at #ASCA13 and would like to continue adding to the list we started! Come back periodically to see what’s new! If you have a suggestion, email one of us and include your contact info.
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Julia Taylor, Ph.D. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Email: juliavtaylor@gmail.com Twitter: @juliavtaylor Website: www.juliavtaylor.com | Danielle R. Schultz, M.Ed., LPC, NCC Doctoral Candidate, Counselor Education and Supervision Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Twitter: @sch_counselor Website: www.schcounselor.com |
Erin Mason, Ph.D. DePaul University Associate Professor of Counseling Google: erinmasonphd@gmail.com Twitter: @ecmmason Website: www.scope4scs.com | Andrea J. Burston, M.A. JY Joyner Magnet Elem Wake County Public Schools, Raleigh, NC School Counselor Blog: http://jyjoynercounselor.blogspot.com/ Website: http://jyjoynercounselor.weebly.com/ Google: ajburston@gmail.com Twitter: @andreajburston |
Russell A. Sabella, Ph.D. Professor of Counseling College of Education Florida Gulf Coast University |
Sorted by Description.
All tools are FREE unless noted with “$”
Name | About/Description | URL |
Russ | 10 Best Free YouTube Video Downloaders For Windows YouTube Downloaders allow you to save your favorite videos to your local hard drive, allowing you to easily view them at a later time, even when you are not connected to the internet. Moreover, even if the video is taken down due to some reason, you can still watch it again, or show it to others, if available. | http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/best-free-youtube-video-downloaders/ |
Russ | 172 Best Android Apps Of 201. 2013 was yet another great year for Android and its app ecosystem, with developers really making best use of the power offered by the world’s most popular mobile operating system, resulting in many apps that left us spellbound | http://www.addictivetips.com/android/best-android-apps-of-2013/ |
Russ | AT&T Natural Voices® Text-to-Speech Demo. Insert text, convert to audio file, and download. Fun for presentations. | |
Russ | Addins. Check out a list of all my favorite add-ins and extensions for Chrome, Microsoft Office software, and more. | http://bit.ly/top-addins |
Russ | Amazon Cloud and Google Drive are both alternatives to Dropbox. Each of these services have advantages and disadvantages. The nice thing is that you can easily use all three! | http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000828861 |
Erin | Any.DO A to-do list app. | |
Erin | Animoto. Create professional video slideshows Turn your photos and video clips into video slideshows, quickly and easily. | |
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Russ | Ballotbin.com is a free service that allows you to conduct secure voting or surveys. You can view results in tables, charts and excel | |
Julia | Bibme. The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page. | http://www.bibme.org/ |
Danielle? | Bit.ly | |
Russ | Bit.ly. bitly allows you to easily save and share your favorite links from around the web. All the links you save will be accessible at any time in your bitmarks list, located underneath the ‘Your Stuff’ tab when logged in. You can also track the stats for any bitly link. | |
Danielle | Blogger. A free blog publishing service owned by Google. | |
Erin | Bloomz. is the easy to use, secure app that connects parents, teachers, and school administrators to build stronger communities around children. Bloomz helps teachers save time in their communication with Parents. Parents stay engaged with their school community, and on top of their child's world. And, schools can deeply connect and coordinate with their community, effectively increasing engagement, satisfaction and retention. | |
Jeff Ream | Camtasia - Video podcasting/blogging tool. Allows users to create videocasts of their PC screen and/or webcam. Lets users narrate and include picture in picture video. Great for tutorials, how-tos, and step by step processes. Think college apps, FAFSA, etc. ($179 w/ ed discount) | |
Erin | Classcraft. Transform any class into a role-playing game that fosters stronger student collaboration and encourages better behavior. | |
Erin | Class Dojo. ClassDojo’s mission is to reinvent classrooms by bringing teachers, students and parents closer together. Teachers use ClassDojo as a communication platform to encourage students, and get parents engaged too. Classrooms become positive places - which means there's no more ‘classroom management’. Just happier classrooms :) | |
Jeremy | CollegeweekLive - How do college fairs work? Colleges pay for an exhibit table, they usually have a laptop or projector with videos of their campus, and you can peruse extracurriculars and available majors. They have reps on-hand that you can ask about campus. Take that experience, plus the breakout interest sessions (via video on-demand), and put it online, free for students and schools, and available year-round. | |
Russ | Countdown timer. A Free Countdown Timer - When a Stopwatch just will not do! I also love http://e.ggtimer.com/ | |
Delicious is an easy, free tool to save, organize, and remember the links you find interesting on the web. | ||
Julia | Doodle. Doodle radically simplifies the process of scheduling events. | http://www.doodle.com/ |
Russ | Downloading from Youtube. Two sites, on for video and one for audio. These are great for downloading videos to your computer to show in class or wherever you may not have access online. Audio is terrific for listening to lectures or other content when online access is not an option. Both have bookmarklets! You may also want to check out this very lightweight video player to play those mp4s or just about anything else you got! | Video: http://keepvid.com/ Audio: http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ |
Danielle | DropBox. All of your files, when and where you need them! | |
Erin | Edmodo. The safest and easiest way for educators to connect and collaborate with students, parents, and each other. | |
Erin | Educreations. Do you remember your favorite teachers? We do. We remember how they made content come alive. They explained things in a way that made sense and stuck with us. We founded Educreations to build technology that multiplies the reach and impact of great teachers. We make creative tools that enable students and teachers to share ideas, collaborate, and learn new things. | |
Russ | Email Extractor lite. Extract email addresses from any text with this free utility. Simply copy, paste and start extracting. | |
Julia | Evernote. Save your ideas, things you like, things you hear, and things you see. Keep them all in one place and access them anywhere. | |
Andrea | Fabulous & Free Apps: Get a daily email on which apps and ebooks are available for free! | https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IzB1qv8znk01m1J2HPJkVki4jCmonX-H-OjwQxDbZpY/viewform |
Russ | Feedly is a news aggregator application for various Web browsers and mobile devices running iOS and Android. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize and share with others. | |
Danielle | Feedly. Organize, read, and share the content of your favorite sites. | www.feedly.com |
Jeff | Fiverr.com - Cool website where you can hire people for $5 to do almost anything. Great if you are trying to create something and need just a bit of technical help or artwork done and do not have the skills yourself. | |
Russ | Flashcards by Microsoft Education helps you to create flash cards to use in class or as homework. Easy to create your own or browse hundreds of others shared publicly. See other educational tools here. | http://flashcards.educationlabs.com/#/Home |
Danielle | Flipboard. Discover and share content in beautiful, simple, and meaningful ways. | |
Erin | Focus. Focus brings beautiful time-management to your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. It helps you beat procrastination and be more efficient by working in intervals (Focus sessions). Focus is specifically tailored to the needs of extremely busy people. Focus helps you to get and stay productive so that you can reach your goals. And the pleasing design ensures that you’ll have more fun while working! | http://www.focusapp.io/#focus-ios |
Erin | Futureme.org. Letters to the future. | |
Julia | Glogster. 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 posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. | |
GoAnimate is the fastest, easiest way to make a video! | ||
Erin | Google Alerts. Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your queries. | http://www.google.com/alerts |
Danielle | Google Drives - Forms. Create surveys you can share and embed into websites. | |
Erin | Google Hangout. Bring your conversations to life with photos, emoji, and even group video calls for free. | |
Russ | Google Keep. Quickly capture what’s on your mind and recall it easily wherever you are. Create a checklist, enter a voice note or snap a photo and annotate it. Everything you add is instantly available on all your devices – desktop and mobile. | |
Russ | Google Voice gives you a comprehensive telephone system for free! | |
Russ | Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows. | |
Other | Groove Shark. Embark on a mind-opening journey of incredible new music. With new releases, playlists, and videos, our Explore section will help you discover some awesome new jams. | |
Erin | Haiku Deck. Presentation software to set your story free. | |
Julia | IPADS IN THE CLASSROOM (Long list of iPad apps for the classroom) | |
Russ | 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/ |
Russ | LastPass is a free password manager and form filler. LastPass is also available for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. | |
Russ | Let Me Google That For You. Give people answers to questions they could look up themselves. | |
LibraryThing catalogs your books online, easily, quickly and for free. | ||
Julia | Livebinders. Your 3-ring binder for the web. Collect your resources; Organize them neatly and easily; Make an Impression. | |
Erin | Lomotif. The simplest way to add music to your moments. | |
Russ | MoodTurn.com is a free web service that provides ambient music and soothing landscapes to help you relax and avoid stress in your daily life. Also see free classical music for download here and a similar website here and here. | |
Erin | Nearpod. Bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations that teachers create and customize themselves. | |
Russ | Next Up. Helps you keep track of time limits for each agenda item during a meeting. Also visit this page to learn how to do something similar in Microsoft Excel. | |
Russ | Online ebook converter. Online ebook converter that supports a variety of input formats like PDF, ePub, HTML, LIT, LRF, mobi and more. | |
Erin | Padlet. Welcome to the easiest way to create and collaborate in the world | https://padlet.com/ |
Bob Tyra | Piktochart. Drag-and-drop, point-and-click. No more frustrations over complicated design softwares, and no more expensive rates on hiring designers. The Piktochart’s editor gives you more room to think about designing and presenting your information. | http://piktochart.com/ |
Julia | Pinterest. A virtual pinboard where you can organize and share images and links to all the things you find on the web. | |
Russ | Pixlr Express. Fantastic online image editor. | |
Danielle | Places to download FREE books | |
Russ | Polleverywhere. The fastest way to create stylish real-time experiences for events using mobile devices (think of texting responses to a real time poll). Free for up to 40 respondents. | |
Danielle | Prezi. Make your presentations ZOOM! Say goodbye to PowerPoints! | |
Lindsey | Producteev- A great to-do list that syncs across all of your devices. Complete with deadlines, tags, email reminders, ability to assign tasks to others, etc. A great way to keep track of all of those little things you are asked to do through the day. Works both on desktops and as a mobile app. Also comes with task completion reports to get productivity data and best of all, FREE! | |
Erin | Quizlet. We believe learning is more powerful when it’s a shared experience—connecting with others learning the same thing. Quizlet is a place where everyone can share knowledge in any subject, at any level and gain confidence as a learner. All the content in Quizlet is created by our users and 87% share what they create or study. Quizlet was started 10 years ago when Andrew Sutherland created a tool to help him study for a high-school French vocabulary quiz. He aced the test, so his friends asked him if they could use the tool too. Quizlet has grown as a learning platform a lot since then…
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Russ | QuotesCover.com turns any ordinary saying texts into a beautiful typography art picture for use on Facebook, Google Plus, E-Cards, Wallpapers, and Prints. | http://quotescover.com/ |
Russ | QuotesCover.com turns any ordinary saying texts into a beautiful typography art picture for use on Facebook, Google Plus, E-Cards, Wallpapers, and Prints. | |
Russ | Remind101. A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. Free. | |
Russ | ScanWritr Is A Robust Document Scanner For Android With Annotation Features. | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vanaia.scanwritr |
Erin | Schoology. The only learning management system (LMS) that connects all the people, content, and systems that fuel education. | |
Erin | Screencast-o-matic. One click screen capture recording for Windows or Mac with no install for FREE! | |
Erin | SignUpGenius is a FREE online tool for creating and managing group sign up lists and forms. | |
Russ | SinJar. Do you have any bad habits? Or maybe you're working toward a goal? If so, SinJar is the app for you! If you're trying to quit eating so much junk food, or you're looking to exercise more, SinJar can help you keep track of your sins and goals. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sinjar/id457726323?ls=1&mt=8 |
Erin | Socrative. Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens. Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have instant insight into levels of understanding so you can use class time to better collaborate and grow as a community of learners. | http://www.socrative.com/ |
Danielle | Smore. Spread the word with a flyer. | www.smore.com |
Erin | Sprout Social. A management and engagement platform for social business. $ - monthly fee. | |
Andrea | Stichit. Simply copy-and-paste a set of links in our text box and click 'Stich It'. We'll convert those links into one short URL for you to share. It's that easy! Can I edit a stich after I’ve published it? Not yet, although they are working on it. | |
Danielle | Storify. Make the web tell a story. | www.storify.com |
Erin | Storybots. Award-Winning Curriculum. Our collection features four curriculum categories as developed with education experts. | http://www.storybots.com/welcome |
Russ | Suicide Safe: The Suicide Prevention App for Behavioral Health and Primary Care Providers | |
Andrea | Tablet & Desktop: Pulse News. Pulse takes your favorite websites, news feeds and blogs and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. | |
Danielle | Tagboard. The social media hub for hashtags. | |
Julia | TedX. Ideas worth spreading. | |
Danielle | TimelineJS. Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy and intuitive to use. | |
Erin | TweetArchivist. Tweet Archivist is a Twitter analytics tool to search, archive, analyze, visualize, save and export tweets based on a search term or hashtag. | |
Erin | TweetDeck. TweetDeck is an app that brings more flexibility and insight to power users. | |
Erin | Twitlonger. When you talk too much for Twitter. | |
Julia | Twitter. Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and news about what you find interesting. | |
Andrea | USlide: Upload your presentations and use your smartphone as your remote | http://uslide.net |
Erin | Versal. In the classroom or the office, creating powerful, interactive online learning experiences has never been easier. | |
Russ | VideoNet.es is an online, paperless solution to video note-taking, that saves you the trouble of overusing notepad or Evernote while watching Coursera, Khan Academy, Udacity, edx or educational YouTube videos. Not having to first pause the video, restore notepad, and then write your thoughts can make learning even Computational Neuroscience a bit more breezy. | Source: addictivetips Direct link: http://www.videonot.es/ |
Danielle | Vine. The best way to see and share life in motion. | |
Erin | Virtual Hope Box. The Virtual Hope Box (VHB) is a smartphone application designed for use by patients and their behavioral health providers as an accessory to treatment. The VHB contains simple tools to help patients with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking. Patients and providers can work together to personalize the VHB content on the patient's own smartphone according to the patient's specific needs. The patient can then use the VHB away from clinic, continuing to add or change content as needed. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/virtual-hope-box/id825099621?mt=8 |
Erin | Voicethread. Conversations in the cloud. | |
Russ | Volumouse. Volumouse provides you a quick and easy way to control the sound volume on your system - simply by rolling the wheel of your wheel mouse. | |
Russ | We Transfer. Transfer large files (up to 2 Gb) available to others for 2 weeks. No registration. Also see www.Yousendit.com for HIPPA compliant transfers (up to 50 Mb free). Although not HIPPA compliant, see www.filedropper.com to transfer really, really big files (up to 5 Gb). These files The files are kept forever as long as they are being downloaded. If the files are not downloaded even once within 30 days consecutively they are removed. | |
Russ | WebAnywhere is a non-visual interface to the web that requires no new software to be downloaded or installed.It works right in the browser, which means you can access it from any computer, even locked-down public computer terminals. | |
Julia | Weebly. Named one of TIME's 50 Best Websites, Weebly has an easy, drag & drop interface to create your own website. It's free, powerful, and professional. | |
Russ | When2meet. An easy way to find common times to meet among group members. Also see http://www.doodle.com/ | |
Danielle | Wix. High quality websites for free. | www.wix.com |
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. | ||
Erin | Yapp. Create your own mobile app. For FREE. | |
Russ | Zamzar File Conversion. convert files from one format to another as well as download videos from popular sites . Also see Free File Converter which does not require you to enter an email address. | |
Erin | Zaption. Turn online videos into interactive learning experiences that engage students and deepen understanding. | |
Andrea | iPad: Bookcrawler. Easily inventory your school counselor books. (free & paid versions) | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-crawler-lite/id353868965?mt=8 |
Andrea | iPad: Sticky Notes. Online sticky notes for your iPad | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sticky-notes-for-ipad/id364899302?mt=8 |
Andrea | iPad: Cloud on. CloudOn was the first to bring Microsoft Office® to your iPad and link it with your Dropbox account. | |
Andrea | iPad: Dragon Dictation. Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard. | http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dragon-dictation/id341446764?mt=8 |
Other | iPad: Paper is where ideas begin. It’s the easiest and most beautiful way to create on iPad. Capture your ideas as sketches, diagrams, illustrations, notes or drawings and share them across the web. | http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-by-fiftythree/id506003812?mt=8 |
Andrea | iPad: Scribble Press. Get the story creation and sharing App that’s getting great reviews from parents, teachers and kids all around the world! $3.99 | http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scribble-press/id487300076?mt=8 |
Andrea | iPad: You Can Handle them All. Based on our best-selling book, You Can Handle Them All, this is the perfect app for any educator or parent who’s struggling to manage a student’s or child’s inappropriate behavior! $1.99 | http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/you-can-handle-them-all/id454556259?mt=8 |
Other | “All the tubes” schooltube.com, teachertube.com, snipit. | |
Rosemary Wood | Breathe2Relax is a portable stress management tool which provides detailed information on the effects of stress on the body and instructions and practice exercises to help users learn the stress management skill called diaphragmatic breathing.Breathing exercises have been documented to decrease the body’s ‘fight-or-flight’ (stress) response, and help with mood stabilization, anger control, and anxiety management. Breathe2Relax can be used as a stand-alone stress reduction tool, or can be used in tandem with clinical care directed by a healthcare worker. | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/breathe2relax/id425720246?mt=8 |
@FSabens | Calendly - Scheduling appointments and meetings is super easy with Calendly. | |