Web+Presence

=Counselor's Corner=

===When resources are limited, it is important to be as efficient as possible. A high school guidance and counseling program is responsible for disseminating an enormous amount of ever-changing information, concerning a wide range of topics. I took it upon myself to create Walnut Grove High School's Guidance and Counseling web pages and have added to and maintained them throughout the past two years. Our online presence provides parents, faculty, and students easy access to this information from school or home. While there are a few documents here that we have created to share, the majority of what you will find is linked to the webpage(s) where the original information exists. Coming //straight from the horse's mouth//, we do not have to make constant changes to the information we provide; the providing agency makes those changes for us, so we are always posting the most up-to-date information available. This is a work in progress, by definition, and we can explore any number of future applications as we move forward. Since we use this tool to communicate different kinds of information and to provide various tools to our learning community, you will see different pages highlighted, for specific applications, on other pages in this wiki.===

You will find resources, addressing the following topics:

 * ===Study Skills===
 * ===Time Management===
 * ===Searching for Colleges===
 * ===PROBE Fairs===
 * ===Resumes===
 * ===Scholarships===
 * ===Financial Aid===
 * ===GA College 411===
 * ===HOPE===
 * ===Career Exploration/Planning===
 * ===Service Opportunities===
 * ===Selective Service===
 * ===College Testing===
 * ===Official Transcripts===
 * ===College Visits===
 * ===New Student Registration===
 * ===WCPS Information===
 * ===WCPS Course Selection Guide===

===In addition to the use of web pages and wikis to share information, I want to continue to explore ways to use technology to better communicate with all our stakeholders, as well as provide better teaching and learning opportunities for our faculty and students. I can see incorporating active blogs to discuss topics of interest, as well as provide a place for questions/answers for parents and students who may prefer communicating this way. I have also had some success collaborating with teachers, helping them to use web pages, wikis, and blogs, as well as other technology tools, to enrich their lessons and improve student participation. Technology will never take the place of meaningful human to human interaction, but technology does provide tools we can use to better our overall communication, sharing of information, and teaching and learning.===