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Guidance Counseling and the Web
Martha Wiseman

While high school guidance counselors are better known for their listening skills than their technology skills, during the last twenty years computers and the web have totally altered the way a counselor does the job. Some of the changes are pretty obvious and elementary: word processing college recommendations instead of giving scrawled notes to a secretary to type; making a database of students' college/career plans so that they could be made aware of opportunities such as college representatives on campus, scholarships, career speakers, etc.; using voice mail instead of piles of illegible pink message slips. Other innovations are more specialized for this field....

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