People live in extended family networks and family values have gained in popularity through the two thousand teen years. Groceries and other products can be ordered through Web 3.0 technologies and delivered through the transporter station in your own home. All food is raised, p;rocessed and packaged via robot workers.  Computers take care of making sure the homes, schools, businesses, etc are heated and cooled appropriately using solar powered energy. Water is purified by the home purification system created by Viasol, the solar energy company that provides the energy for your home. Everyone has home exercise equipment provided at government expense as a way to fight the obesity epidemic. Exercise is a part of daily routines like bathing, eating, reading, praying, and using your home computer systems. All homes have computers and access to free wireless service due to the government wanting to educate the masses through the internet.

 Students can come to school or school can come to them via wireless Web 3.0 technology. There are no textbooks, only computers that automatically update themselves every hour, bringing the newest information to students. Students are allowed to chose to learn whatever interests them (that is legal, moral, and ethical). Artificial intelligence is becoming more humanlike all the time and the computerized robots have taken over most of the jobs that used to be handled by the working class. Each student is provided a specialized robot at birth, that will stay with them, guide them, and take care of them throughout their life if they choose to keep them.  Starting in 2007, robots  learned to dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l882xbFywho&feature=related, play instruments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyPAIpXm-nU , and babysit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd50XV2tBu4&feature=related . Artificial intelligence in robots grew by leaps and bounds after that and the only limit was their imagination, which they developed in May, 2012.  This intelligence lead to a rapid development and use of Web 3.0 technology to assist humans.

Subject expert teachers are also computer technicians. Their job is to mentor the students who come into the school for class, provide academic and socialization assistance as needed, take care of the school network of computers, and make house calls to students at home who need their service. All teachers are able to access their students pocket computers to help them in mentoring and monitoring their students. Students move ahead at their own pace and do not have to keep up with others or be held back by others. Their computers give them immediate feedback on the work they do. They do not have homework, rather, they learn and use the knowledge obtained when they want to fulfill the requirement to advance. They receive payment for their schoolwork when they pass the steps necessary to advance a level. Careers are determined by what they are interested in and the quality of work they demonstrate. If they are not interested in something, they can take that content later or put it off indefinitely until they have a need for it. Students have choices about doing their school work alone or with groups set up in their content Wiki and Blog system. Students who demonstrate exceptional skills in group work will advance into junior leadership positions automatically when entering the work force. Students caught cheating will lose their internet access for a term not to exceed two years depending on the offense.

As Web 3.0 technology advanced after Jan, 2007, you see it developing more and more of its own capability to expand. Web 3.0 technology spread like a virus and no computer was safe from this virus. At the Seoul Digital Forum in May 2007, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, was asked to define Web 3.0.[2] He responded: “ If I were to guess what Web 3.0 is, I would tell you that it’s a different way of building applications… My prediction would be that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as applications which are pieced together. There are a number of characteristics: the applications are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the applications can run on any device, PC or mobile phone, the applications are very fast and they’re very customizable. Furthermore, the applications are distributed virally: literally by social networks, by email. You won’t go to the store and purchase them… That’s a very different application model than we’ve ever seen in computing. ” —Eric Schmidt

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Students who interact with guidance curriculum on Wikis and Blogs will retain more information than if they just sat and listed to a counselor lecture.   Learning would be measured by choices the students make as they apply guidance curriculum principles.  The students would create a learning community that would enrich their learning as they apply what they learned and write about the results of their choices,and the ideas they have about those results.   I would feel more comfortable as a guidance counselor if I knew that I was reaching all my staff, students and parents with the correct guidance information if we communicated with Web 2.0 technology tools instead of paper.  Web 2.0 tools facilitate a two-way communicationn in a much more user friendly way. 

Service Delivery from the Guidance Office is seeing big shifts:

Students in my middle schools are no longer just readers of or listens to information put out by guidance counselors. Within the password protected Blackboard site our District has set up for me for guidance curriculum, we have Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, Videocasts, Email, Homepages, Calendars, Discussion Boards, Questions forums, Guidance PowerPoints, Articles, etc. Our students are able to interact with the information we post and with each other as they share their thoughts, ideas, and suggestions for application of guidance curriculum. Because we have more than one middle school, we are able to put students in touch with students from other buildings within a safe internet system. As students learn that our site is a Read/Write site we are getting more and more participation.

 Right now I am doing a project with my 8th grade gifted students on Blackboard. We are using the message system, discussion board, Blogs, Wikis, course documents, etc to learn more about the 7 Habits and how they can be applied. I have three middle schools so my time in each building is limited. Being able to communicate with students through Blackboard enables me to better meet their needs. In the future, I can see doing group counseling through password protected Wikis or chat rooms within our system. 

When I first started learning about Web 2.0 technology in the classroom, my brain hurt and I thought this would be over my head. After only a few weeks of training, I see Web 2.0 tools helping me provide great  service my students more effectively. Using technology in the guidance office is a shift that my colleagues were originally surprised by and resistant to. Now after seeing what I am doing, they want a guidance page set up for our whole Guidance department so they can do what I am doing. The more students we reach out and help students and their families, the more other staff will see the usefulness of Web 2.0 technology in all areas of education.

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I agree with the authors of the Wikispace bcejan08pls  who stated, “Connectivism, a learning theory developed by Siemens, supports the students of today’s society.” My students are online daily making connectings to other students in our district through Web 2.0 social networking sites.  They share knowledge relating to the processes, products, and content of their learning.  Because of their sharing they are growing more than they could do alone.   No longer to students learn alone, they are living in a Web 2.0 technology age and to keep up, they must join communities of learning using Web 2.0 technology. 

Ideas for Guidance Podcasting include:

• Students telling their experiences and advice for transitioning to a new school or grade level.

• Guidance Counselors recording interviews with students about Time Management, Study Skills and Test Taking Strategies.

• Guidance Counselors recording the upcoming calendar of college speakers, standardized tests, or other guidance activities.

• Guidance Counselors giving strategies for dealing with stress, decision making, goal setting, implementing the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, and bullying.  bullying.   CAS007 - Bullying: Intervention Strategies for the Victim and Bully w/ Dr.  Walter B. Roberts.  Airdate 2/16/2006.   I would recommend using this Podcast in staff development or with students in small group or individual counseling as you work with the bullies, bystanders, or the targets.   

• Guidance Counselors recording presentations for students or parents who could not attend (this may need to be longer than the 5-10 minutes maximum-it depends on the content and who the presenter is).

 The easiest way to begin is to create a podcast or vodcast (video podcast) of  a presentation or topic you have already worked with for years.   Check out Podcasts for Educators, Schools and Colleges for help getting started.    The Counselor’s Podcast™, a service of the Naviance Network™, features leading voices from the  school counseling community speaking on topics of professional interest.  The CounselorAudioSourse.net is another great site for examples of  School Counselor Podcasting. 

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 Another great site that can help when working with photos is imageshack.us .  I downloaded my Leadership image onto my computer and converted it on this system to a URL so I could add it to this blog.  Images can be easily resized on this site to make them easier to upload on the web or for email.

 Look for my Flickr photo Leadership below:

Leadership is the process of directing one’s scattered forces into one powerful channel.   The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens helps teenagers organize themselves and focus on their goals in life.