Wikilicious!

=//**Welcome to the world of Sarah Kern**//=

===**Over the course of the past week, I honed my technological skills. I can blog (see: GOTGUIDANCE? link below). I can access, create and edit a wiki space. I can embed a blog and a video into a wiki page. Additionally, I can create videos using animoto and blabberize.**===

===**Perhaps the most important lesson learned over this week is ACTIVEINSPIRE. Using this program, Shelley Stephenson and I created a flipchart to help high school seniors get started on their college essays. The flipchart can be accessed on the PROMETHEAN page of this wiki. Our new program makes excellent use of the ACTIVE EXPRESSIONS polling mechanism. They are by far my favorite tool used this week.**===


 * [|GOT GUIDANCE?] (a link to my blog on blogster.com.)

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[|Common Application] (an example of how to embed a link)

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__IDEAS FOR FUTURE GUIDANCE WIKI__
 * In order for all counselors to have instant access to important websites, presentations and flip charts, materials can be posted to a shared wiki. In doing so, counselors will have access to guidance materials on any computer in the building //without// having to log into the machine. This saves time and energy because teachers would not have to log off machines and counselors would not have to search their desktop for the appropriate program.**

Things to post to the wiki:
 * Essay Flip Chart
 * College Workshop Flip Chart
 * Possible scheduling presentation
 * Possible career workshop presentation
 * Our freshman meetings?


 * links to common websites: collegeboard, naviance, family connection, common application
 * Post Jing screencast tutorials (how to register for SATs, how to access family connection, how to do a college search)

__**//Ideas for a new flip chart//**__ [|video.mp4]
 * New type of junior meeting - in October, push into Junior classes for a few reasons: give out a timeline of events, tell about PSAT, advertise RCC College Night and give out an updated copy of transcripts/GPA.
 * Most classrooms have Pro. Boards, so a flipchart would be easy to create and would give each counselor an instant presentation in each class.

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