Tech-Neill-ogy #106 - 24 August 2025

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

Welcome to Tech-Neill-ogy #106!

Another week down! I’ll be brief here as there’s not a lot to share. That said, lots of interesting things to share this week. I hope you enjoy the newsletter!

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Many of you are aware of my love of the VIA Character Strengths survey. Based on research, the VIA produces a rank ordering of your character strengths after completing a 15-minute survey of questions. Most of the research has been done on the “signature strengths,” which are an individual’s top five. We worked through the survey last week with our grade 9 students; this week we will follow up with them, employing some ChatGPT prompts as listed below:

Please, if you have any great prompts or ideas, please share! Send me a note at [email protected].

If you know of any upcoming events related to AI or tech and college counseling/admissions, please let me know! There’s been a growth in these events that I find difficult to stay on top of!

That’s it for this week. But before I leave you, here’s a noteworthy non-tech article from this past week:

Anyway, best wishes for a great week! Happy counseling!

Jeff