Tech-Neill-ogy #59 - 4 August 2024

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

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Jeffrey Neill
August 05, 2024

Welcome to Tech-Neill-ogy #59!

Well, back to work! Last week was busy with welcoming new faculty to campus and a bunch of other things. Read more here! Among the highlights, though, were a handful of webinars that bring the number of subscribers up to 923! Wow. Thanks for the support!

Two of the recordings, my conversation with Jon Boekenstedt and the College Board Summer Institute, are linked below. I’ll share the other one, my Friday Forum conversation with Cyndy McDonald next week.

Given the season, for my non-tech resource this week, I wanted to share this article about transitioning to a new school. It is worth a read whether you are transitioning to a new place or if you are welcoming new folks to your school.

In any case, enjoy this week’s newsletter!

Mark McGrath’s AI Resources

Retired school counselor Mark McGrath has done yeoman’s work in collecting and collating a number of wonderful resources on how to incorporate AI into counseling practices. Be sure to check out this comprehensive collection!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10MkA4ZQb_Gj-Rg_qMqE_clrSLtSvKpw3241I1G2PTBc/edit?pli=1#heading=h.8yvvtvstfngz

6 Effective Prompts for Using AI in College Counseling

Written by Claire Wilkins and Maggie Lucas, this is a terrific resource for college counselors to get up-and-running using AI! Take a look!

issuu.com/revolution-prep/docs/6_effective_prompts_for_using_ai_in_college_counse/1

AI is about to blow up the $3 billion college application industry

A young man approached a youthful group visiting Stanford University the other day and said his company uses artificial intelligence to help students apply to college. Were they interested?

apple.news/AweGVafrNRLGU0mwysmf-Dw

Recording: College Board Summer Institute

Everything counselors need to support students through the college admission process, now available on demand.

counselors.collegeboard.org/professional-learning/counselor-summer-institute

Chatbot vs Conversational AI: What's the Difference?

Find out the in-depth differences between chatbot vs conversational AI. Explore the various ways you can make the best use of them.

clickup.com/blog/chatbot-vs-conversational-ai

Edficacy: Ace SAT in less time

What Edficacy offers is an integrated study-prep service for SAT - personalised learning app + targeted tutoring to minimize study time and maximize score improvement.

edficacy.co

Email Meter – Email Analytics for Gmail and Microsoft 365

Email Meter is an email analytics tool for Gmail, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 that gives teams and companies visibility into their email communications.

www.emailmeter.com

jamie - AI Notetaker for Meeting Notes & Automated Action Items

jamie creates the best AI meeting notes and action items for you across any meeting platform and even offline. With jamie's privacy-first approach, there is no need for a virtual meeting bot or plugins.

www.meetjamie.ai

toby

live speech translation
on any video call

www.trytoby.com

EduWiz.AI

Improve your writing effortlessly with EduWiz.AI - the free AI Writer Assistant maker tool that helps you generate magical essays, paragraphs & paperwork in seconds.

eduwiz.ai

I got bored… 

Translate the following sentences into emojis. I will write a sentence, and you will convert it entirely into emojis. Ask me for the first sentence to translate.

This one came from the suggested prompts from one of the newsletters I read, and, at a weaker moment, I got bored and fell down the rabbit hole…

In any case, I’d be curious to hear others’ thoughts and questions about this amazing time-saving tool. Send me a note at [email protected].

Webinars & Live Events Page

Look here for upcoming webinars and other events (and recorded ones) by the College Essay Guy! New events are happening all the time…

www.collegeessayguy.com/webinars-live-events

Higher Education & Adult Educators Courses | UCLA Extension

Check out the upcoming Summer Series with a fantastic line-up of guests, including Jon Boeckenstedt, Akil Bello, Peter Van Buskirk, and Phil Moreno… all free!

www.uclaextension.edu/education/higher-education-adult-educators/courses

College Board Summer Institute

Everything counselors need to support students through the college admission process, now available for free and on demand. (This is not the Summer Institute for International Counselors! Instead, this is a separate online, free program.)

counselors.collegeboard.org/professional-learning/counselor-summer-institute

That’s it for this week, other than to share that I’ve returned to producing the checklist and cheatsheet. Check out August’s here! Enjoy the rest of the week!

Happy counseling,

Jeff