Tech-Neill-ogy #89 - 13 April 2025

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

Author

Jeffrey Neill
April 14, 2025

Welcome to Tech-Neill-ogy #89!

After hosting the International ACAC Americas Regional Forum on April 4-6 (read more here), this past week was a bit calmer (read more here). Apologies for no newsletter last week! With the conference behind us, it feels like we are in the home stretch to graduation. IB and AP exams start soon, Easter is next week, and May 1 deposit deadlines are around the corner.

That all being said, there is a lot going on in the AI world. In particular, I encourage all of you to take a look at some of the upcoming webinars and events in the Bulletin Board section below. That’s all for now. Enjoy the newsletter!

AI Can Help You Choose A College

AI can help you up your game, filter out distractions, and dig deeper into what matters.

www.forbes.com/sites/brennanbarnard/2025/04/05/ai-can-help-you-choose-a-college

The AI effort gap

It can take seven years to get a PhD. And a month to write a useful business plan or a year to write a book. And yet, when AI shows up, our mistake is thinking that if we can’t find useful br…

seths.blog/2025/04/the-ai-effort-gap

AI Prompt Spectrum - AI Literacy Institute

The AI Prompt Spectrum goes from loose to tight and adds concreteness to the concept of Generative AI prompting with visual elements and a splash of art.

ailiteracy.institute/ai-prompt-spectrum

Prompt Model Acronyms

Here are 9 ChatGPT-4o prompt engineering frameworks you can use with an infographic.

www.linkedin.com/posts/matt-pogla_most-people-dont-know-how-to-use-chatgpt-activity-7315674938982449152-zNx5

The CREST Prompt Framework - AI Literacy Institute

The CREST Prompt Framework is designed to be an easy-to-remember guide to crafting instructions or ‘prompts’ for generative AI tools such as ChatGPT.

ailiteracy.institute/crest-prompt-framework

https://edficacy.co/ - Tell them Jeff sent you!

Roam

Roam is an AI-powered virtual headquarters designed to enhance productivity, collaboration, and spontaneous communication for distributed teams. It offers features such as real-time office maps, AI-generated meeting summaries, screen annotations, and integration with tools like Zoom, Figma, and Google Meet. With its intelligent agents and low-latency infrastructure, Roam replicates the feel of an in-person workspace in a seamless digital environment.

ro.am

Clockwise: AI Powered Time Management Calendar

Clockwise uses powerful AI to optimize teams' calendars to create more time in everyone’s day. It's a new way of working that gives us flexibility and focus. Get started free.

www.getclockwise.com

World’s #1 Noise Cancelling App and AI Meeting Assistant

Krisp cancels background noise, records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings and calls.

krisp.ai

purposewrite

Write faster, better, and smarter with purposewrite's AI-driven tools. Experience the future of content creation today.

purposewrite.com

Vocao.ai – Empowering Millions to Speak with Confidence

Join the waitlist for Vocao.ai, the first AI language tutor focused on real-world conversation practice. Get ready to speak confidently in any language with practical, voice-to-voice guidance.

vocao.ai

I stumbled upon this one this week, and it kicked out some really interesting content. Take a look and try it out. 

Help me stay ahead in high school college counseling and university undergraduate admissions by identifying the most important trends, emerging technologies, and key thought leaders. Provide a curated list of must-read blogs, podcasts, newsletters, and influencers to follow. Suggest engaging ways to deepen my expertise, such as case studies, hands-on projects, or networking with experts. Also, include unconventional methods like reverse engineering industry success stories or analyzing market shifts through historical patterns. Bonus: Give me a ‘challenge of the week’ to apply my knowledge in a real-world scenario!

Here is the “challenge of the week” that it spit out: 

🧩 Challenge of the Week

🎯 Challenge: Build a Test-Optional Evaluation Rubric for Your Office

📌 Task: Design a framework your counseling team can use to evaluate students for likely admission without test scores.

Include:
	•	Academic rigor and trend
	•	Contextual GPA benchmarks (by school or region)
	•	Extracurricular impact
	•	Personal characteristics (leadership, resilience)
	•	Institutional alignment

Bonus: Compare your rubric against how 5 of your top U.S. university partners describe their holistic review in admissions (use their websites or ask your reps directly).

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

iVisa

Say goodbye to your visa processing worries and say hello to effortless travel! With iVisa, you can be sure of a smooth journey. Give iVisa a go. You’ll only regret not using it before.

HTTP://share.ivisa.com/6G3rVP

AI Through the Ages: A Brief History and Opportunity for Institutional Impact — AI in College Admissions

2pm ET / 11am PT Join us for a dynamic and insightful journey through the history of Artificial Intelligence—from its origins in the 1940s to today’s cutting-edge advancements. This session will demystify AI, clarifying what it is (and what it isn’t) and assess AI's impact on enrollment management.

www.edhub.ai/events/ai-through-the-ages-a-brief-history-and-opportunity-for-institutional-impact

Empowering Students to Use AI Ethically in College Admissions — AI in College Admissions

11am ET / 8am PT As AI becomes an integral part of education and the college application process, how can educators guide students toward ethical and effective use? This expert panel will share real-world experiences, challenges, and success stories from working with students and AI. Attendees will

www.edhub.ai/events/empowering-students-to-use-ai-ethically-in-college-admissions

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

For this week’s non-tech article, take a look at this piece on calming our “monkey minds”:

How to Tame Your Monkey Mind

Struggling with constant mental chatter as a leader? This post explores how “monkey mind” impacts leadership effectiveness and shares three practical strategies to quiet your thoughts, boost mindfulness, and lead with greater clarity and intention.

eblingroup.com/blog/how-to-tame-your-monkey-mind

Consider this: “between 51% and 83% of these leaders have what is technically known as monkey mind. In other words, their level of mental chatter is so high that their thoughts are like a troop of monkeys swinging from vine to vine.”

Enjoy your week! Happy counseling!

Jeff