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What are School Counselors Doing with Technology? © 2005, Russell A. Sabella, Ph.D.

One way I use technology to reduce new student anxiety is through e-mail with the previous school teachers and/or counselors. New students are able to send e-mail from my office computer, and their teachers are often willing to deliver messages to friends they left behind who have no access to email. Linda McKinney erniemac@glasgow-ky.com Cumberland Trace Elem School 830 Cumberland Trace Rd Bowling Green KY 42103

I am currently using Microsoft Excel™ to create graphs showing the different colleges and the range of GPA, SAT scores and class ranks of our senior students who were accepted into them. These graphs will then be made available to our rising seniors so that they can make a realistic assessment of their own chances of admission into certain colleges by judging themselves against the previous senior class. I plan also to show these results on a PowerPoint presentation to our seniors and their parents on <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">college night. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Judith Mehl <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">RJMehl@aol.com <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">School Counselor <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Monacan High School <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Richmond,VA

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">We have used technology to maintain and establish a Student Service's website <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">www.openthedoortoyourfuture.com <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">. It has many links and information. We will be adding forms for <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">assessment of our school counseling programs so that the counselors can access the information they <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">need to complete online. Sandy <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sandy Cunningham <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Career Development Specialist <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Secondary and Career Education <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1318847626"><span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1318948261">561-752-1286 <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"> <span class="skype_pnh_dropart_span"> <span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">561-752-1286  <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting   <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"> <span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">561-752-1286   <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting  or PX 41286 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">561-434-7363 (fax) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">E-mail: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Cunninghams@mail.palmbeach.k12.fl.us

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">-Juniors conduct a review of a college using their website <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">-E-mail Seniors scholarship news <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">-Keep in touch with students and parents via e-mail <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">-Include permission slips and other important forms on our school's guidance dept website <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Laura L. Bisceglia <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Director of Guidance <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Seton Keough High School <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">1201 Caton Avenue <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Baltimore, MD 21227 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1318847626"><span class="skype_pnh_print_container_1318948261">(410) 646-4444 <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"> <span class="skype_pnh_dropart_span"> <span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">(410) 646-4444  <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting   <span class="skype_pnh_container"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting <span class="skype_pnh_highlighting_inactive_common"> <span class="skype_pnh_textarea_span"><span class="skype_pnh_text_span">(410) 646-4444   <span class="skype_pnh_mark">end_of_the_skype_highlighting  ext. 210 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">(443) 573-0107 FAX <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">http://www.setonkeough.com/guidance.htm <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">lbisceglia@setonkeough.com

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Hello, I am a counselor at Upper St. Clair High School in Pittsburgh, PA. I use <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">technology in a variety of ways, but the snazziest involves <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Microsoft Publisher <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">. I <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">use this program to do our monthly Counseling Department Newsletter. I also <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">use it to do various grade-level handbooks for the kids, so they get timely <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">information right when they need it. I do a "Senior Handbook" which details <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">every aspect of the college application procedure, a piece for juniors called <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">"The Campus Visit and Interview", and two customized pieces for upper- <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">("Becoming a Competitive College and Scholarship Applicant") and <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">under-classmen ("Becoming a Competitive HS Student and Future College <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Applicant"). All of the past issues of this year's newsletter are available on our <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">website: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">www.uscsd.k12.pa.u <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">s and click on Counseling. I think the other publications are still out <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">there, too.